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This year marks 007's 60th silver screen anniversary, and on the occasion Nuremberg's Casablanca Filmkunsttheater is starting its James Bond film series with friendly assistance of the Department of English and American Studies...

Dr. Katharina Gerund is one of five laureates to receive this year's FAU teaching award...

In a great success for researchers at the Department of English and American Studies, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for two new research training groups: “Die Konstruktionsgrammatische Galaxis” and “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen.” The Con...

"Global Melodrama – Das Melodram im Weltkino" is a film series organized in cooperation with the Filmhaus Nürnberg. Starting May 20, the series features 10 films from classical Hollywood to contemporary melodrama. Introduced by renowned experts, the films will be shown in the original language versi...

In trauriger Anteilnahme verabschieden wir uns von unserem langjährigen Kollegen Prof. Dr. Dieter Meindl, der am 3. Februar 2022 leider verschieden ist. Viele von uns haben ihn als einen klugen, geistreichen und gelegentlich auch eigenwilligen Kollegen in Erinnerung, dessen Expertise im Bereich der ...

Taking an examination of US-American reeducation policies in Germany and Japan after World War II from a comparative and transnational perspective as its point of departure the conference broadens the focus beyond this specific geographical constellation and beyond the period of the immediate postwar to problematize and discuss the concept of “reeducation” in a broader sense.

Am 12.01.2022 findet ab 12 Uhr s.t. die Informationsveranstaltung für den Master „Ethik der Textkulturen“ in Erlangen per Zoom statt.