English Studies

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02JUL 2025
Department
Guest Lecture by Alina Aulbur (Universität Siegen): “Frances Burney’s Evelina: Sentimental Subversion” (23.7.2025)
Alina Aulbur will give a guest lecture in Dr. Dennis Henneböhl’s seminar “The Sentimental Mode in the 18th Century”. The topic will be “Frances Burney’s Evelina: Sentimental Subversion”, discussing Burney’s engagement with the eighteenth-century literary tradition of sentimentalism in her first novel. The Institute for English and American Studies is excited to welcome Alina Aulbur, who is […]Alina Aulbur will give a guest lecture in Dr. Dennis Henneböhl’s seminar “The Sentimental Mode in the 18th Century”. The topic will be “Frances Burney’s Evelina: Sentimental Subversion”, discussing Burney’s engagement with the eighteenth-century literary tradition of sentimentalism in her first novel. The Institute for English and American Studies is excited to welcome Alina Aulbur, who is […]
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02JUN 2025
American Studies
Guest Lecture by Prof. Laura Wood (Texas Christian University): Remembering Ike’s Military and Foreign Policy (25.06.2025)
Date: June 25, 2025, 18:15-19:45 Location: Bismarckstr. 1, C 301 The former World War II Allied Supreme Commander and first NATO Commander, Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) brought extensive military and decision-making experience to the Oval Office in 1953. Ike sought to reduce U.S. defense spending and the size of the military while increasing the nation’s nuclear […]
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27MAY 2025
American Studies
“Reproductive Dystopia” — Guest Lecture by Prof. Alys Eve Weinbaum (University of Washington, Seattle), July 3, 2025
Date: July 3, 2025, 18:00 Location: KH 1.011 (Senatssaal Kollegienhaus), Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen Reproductive Dystopia is drawn from a book project of the same name that treats a bestselling genre of Anglophone literary fiction – the dystopian novel – and considers its cultural and political affordances. The project reveals that a significant subset of […]
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25MAY 2025
American Studies
Researcher in Residence 2025: Jack Halberstam (Columbia University in the City of New York)
The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Jack Halberstam as this semester’s Researcher in Residence. The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationally renowned researchers. The idea is to go beyond the regular formats for classes and to have the chance to get up close and personal […]The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Jack Halberstam as this semester’s Researcher in Residence. The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationally renowned researchers. The idea is to go beyond the regular formats for classes and to have the chance to get up close and personal […]
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24MAY 2025
Department
Tanya Yael Raab: Lesung (5. Juni 2025)
Datum: Donnerstag, 5. Juni, 18 Uhr (s.t.), Raum: Kaminzimmer (St Paul V, 00.003, Dutzendteichstraße 24, Nürnberg) Der Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft lädt gemeinsam mit dem Queer Staff Network zu einer Lesung mit anschließender Diskussion ein. “Shalom zusammen!” Mit diesen Worten begrüßt Tanya Yael Raab schon im Titel ihres im Frühjahr 2025 erschienenen Buches alle, die […]Datum: Donnerstag, 5. Juni, 18 Uhr (s.t.), Raum: Kaminzimmer (St Paul V, 00.003, Dutzendteichstraße 24, Nürnberg) Der Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft lädt gemeinsam mit dem Queer Staff Network zu einer Lesung mit anschließender Diskussion ein. “Shalom zusammen!” Mit diesen Worten begrüßt Tanya Yael Raab schon im Titel ihres im Frühjahr 2025 erschienenen Buches alle, die […]
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22MAY 2025
English Studies
Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz: “Fun, Fantasy and Caricature: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” (25.06.2025)
Date: June 25, 2025 Time: 10:15 – 11:45 Location: Room C301, Bismarckstr. 1 (as part of the “Textanalyseseminar”, Group 3, taught by Gerold Sedlmayr) On 7 November 1928, Virginia Woolf remarked about her latest novel Orlando: “I want fun. I want fantasy. I want (& this was serious) to give things their caricature value” (7 […]
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