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Guest Lecture: Brad Prager (Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Missouri) Brad Prager will give a guest lecture on the topic The Shoah on Screen, focusing on feature films and their role in the collective memory of the Holocaust. The I...

Guest Lecture: Andrea Schlosser (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, English and American Studies) Andrea Schlosser will give a guest lecture on the topic Transgenerational Memory in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, discussing the specifics of the graphic novel as a genre for representation of second-generation memory ...

The Department of English and American Studies can nominate one of our students for a year abroad at Kalamazoo College! If you are currently enrolled in the B.A. or teacher training program and you are interested in spending (up to) an academic year at an excellent US college, please see here for...

Ziel der Ringvorlesung ist es, in der interdisziplinären Zusammenschau der Environmental Humanities und der Environmental Sciences Prozesse des Klimawandels anhand der jeweils disziplinär eigenen Signifikanz von Wolken und Wolkenformationen aufzuzeigen. Die einzelnen Beiträge erläutern die unt...

Identität und gesellschaftliche Partizipation werden nach wie vor mit Arbeit und Beruf verknüpft. Darüber hinaus werden Berufe durch soziale Differenzierungen geprägt und modellieren in der praktischen beruflichen Arbeit zugleich gesellschaftliche Differenzsetzungen. Die interdiszip...

Dennis Henneböhl’s dissertation on nostalgia in Brexit Britain has just been published by Brill | Fink) as part of the series inter/media. The book shows that nostalgia not only played a decisive role in the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum – where it was most pointedly expressed in the infamou...

Join us for a very special performance of Shakespeare’s poignant narrative poem, The Rape of Lucrece (1594). Actress Elena Pellone will offer a dramatic performance of the poem at the Experimentiertheater, Bismarckstr. 1, on 7 November 2023. The performance starts at 4 pm and will be followed by a d...

Conference: Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging September 20-22, 2023 Alte Universitätsbibliothek, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg The conference is open to the public. Please register with an email to project-sentimental@fau.de. Please find the workshop program here.

While the topic of work is well established in cultural studies (e.g. Lillge), literary studies has been more resistant to explorations of one of life’s dominant realities. With our workshop, we wish to address this research lacuna and explore the representation of feminised forms of work in contemporary literature.

An alle Professor:innen, Mitarbeiter:innen und Student:innen des Instituts für Anglistik und Amerikanistik ergeht herzliche Einladung zur öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge: "Die Rückkehr der Wölfe nach Yellowstone: Zur transnationalen Kulturgeschichte eines Iconic Animal"