Department

As part of the appointment process for the chair of English Studies: Literature and Culture, the candidates will hold their talks on April 22 and 23, 2021. These online lectures are open to FAU students and faculty. If you want to participate, please send an e-mail from your FAUmail address to phil-...

Due to COVID-19, most exams will take place as as online or take-home exams. The following exceptions apply:

FAU is hosting the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics” on 17-19 March 2021, organised by Prof. Dr. Judith Huber and the junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History”.

FAU has partnered up with the city of Nuremberg, CodeCamp:N, and NÜRNBERGER Versicherung for project WissensTurbo. Stated goal of the project is to help pupils who are struggling with (online) learning in times of COVID-19 by pairing them up with teaching degree students for online tutoring. For ...

Our departmental library has reopened. Currently, no more than 20 persons may visit the library at a time. If you plan to study at or work from the library for a longer period of time, you must register at the counter and fill out a contact tracing form.

Everyone is welcome to join us for a screening and discussion of these popular and critically acclaimed TV shows! The selected shows engage with the topic “law and order” in a broad sense:

This virtual lecture series brings together scholars from around the globe in a series of talks. Project fellow Mark Kelley (Florida International University) will kick off the series on November 12th, 2020 with a talk titled „Alone, Together: Feeling Through 19th-Century Sailors in Eras of Global Isolation.“

A slide show providing prospective students with an overview of the degree programs offered by our department is available here for download.