Year: 2023

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 usual types of classes and to be able to get up close and personal with the researcher both on the topic(s) of their research but also their experience in academia in their field and their country. We are excited to launch this project this semester and look forward to many more Researchers in Residence in the future. Kicking us off as our first guest is Kristin Mahoney.

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations has just been published by Routledge. In her study, Nadine Böhm-Schnitker establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies...

Das Kollegiat des Institutes Anglistik und Amerikanistik trauert um Prof. Dr. Arno Löffler, der – für uns völlig überraschend – am 17. Oktober 2023 im Alter von 83 Jahren verstarb.

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...