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17MAR 2020
Department
Coronavirus Consequences
In the last couple of days, several measures have been adopted at FAU in response to the coronavirus threat. This post consolidates the most important aspects and specifies them further for the English and American Studies Department: Home Office All department employees have been asked to work from home. Because of this, office hours and […]
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17FEB 2020
Conferences
Conference: “Restoration Epistolarity”
Conference on “Restoration Epistolarity” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Erlangen, 27-28 March 2020 The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent […]Conference on “Restoration Epistolarity” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Erlangen, 27-28 March 2020 The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent […]
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03FEB 2020
American Studies
Two Accolades at Awards Ceremony
At this year’s dissertation awards ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, two English and American Studies alumni were honored for their excellent theses. Felix Geißler took home the Fritz und Maria Hofmann-Preis for his Zulassungsarbeit (teaching degree thesis) entitled “Holocaust Remembrance: Aspects of Memory in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, Rachel Seiffert’s […]At this year’s dissertation awards ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, two English and American Studies alumni were honored for their excellent theses. Felix Geißler took home the Fritz und Maria Hofmann-Preis for his Zulassungsarbeit (teaching degree thesis) entitled “Holocaust Remembrance: Aspects of Memory in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, Rachel Seiffert’s […]
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30JAN 2020
American Studies
Conference: Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen
Die Abschlusstagung des DFG-Netzwerks „Paragesellschaften“ soll aufzeigen, wie das Konzept der ‚Paragesellschaften‘ die Perspektive auf Fragen gesellschaftlicher Homogenität, Heterogenität und Diversität weitet und eine differenzierte Annährung an Phänomene ermöglicht, die in politisch-medialen Kontexten häufig anhand von essentialistischen und stigmatisierenden Begriffen wie „Parallelgesellschaft“ diskutiert werden. Indem strukturanaloge Phänomene wie gated communities oder Kommunen ebenfalls unter der Diskursfigur […]Die Abschlusstagung des DFG-Netzwerks „Paragesellschaften“ soll aufzeigen, wie das Konzept der ‚Paragesellschaften‘ die Perspektive auf Fragen gesellschaftlicher Homogenität, Heterogenität und Diversität weitet und eine differenzierte Annährung an Phänomene ermöglicht, die in politisch-medialen Kontexten häufig anhand von essentialistischen und stigmatisierenden Begriffen wie „Parallelgesellschaft“ diskutiert werden. Indem strukturanaloge Phänomene wie gated communities oder Kommunen ebenfalls unter der Diskursfigur […]
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17JAN 2020
American Studies
Out Now: Critical Terms in Futures Studies (ed. by Heike Paul)
This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese […]This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese […]
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30SEP 2019
American Studies
Heike Paul Is 2020 Thomas Mann Fellow
, chair of American Studies, has been selected by the Thomas Mann House Advisory Board as one of the twelve fellows for 2020. During her six-month stay at Thomas Mann’s former Los Angeles residence, she will investigate which narratives, practices, and iconographies in European-American cultural and political imaginaries give rise to what she calls “civic […]
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