Wann: Do., 23.01.2025 (19:00 Uhr)
Wo: Filmhaus Nürnberg
Cathy Whitaker lebt mit ihrem Mann Frank und ihren Kindern Ende der 1950er Jahre in einer US-amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Mit Heim und Herd scheint das Leben perfekt zu sein. Doch hinter dem äußeren Schein läuft es weder privat noch berufl...
Date: Dec. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.Location: UB Ausstellungsraum (Schuhstraße 1a, Erlangen)
Kimberly Juanita Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College. In her research, ...
Post-Election Discussion with Elaine Roth
Date: Nov. 6, 2024, 10.15 a.m.
Location: A602 (Bismarckstraße 1, 91054 Erlangen)
Join us for a discussion about the U.S. election with Elaine Roth (Professor of Film Studies at Indiana University and Mercator Fellow).
Everyone is welcome!
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In collaboration with the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”, the Institute for English and American Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Vivian Liska will be visiting us at FAU. The director of Jewish Studies at the University...
Date: Oct. 10, 2024 (9 a.m.-6 p.m.)
Location: 00.15 PSG, Kochstraße 6a, 91054 Erlangen
When The Myths That Made America came out ten years ago, it had a wide-ranging impact as a new and timely introduction to the field of American Studies. With its systematic analyses of core foundational myths ...
Date: Oct. 9, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location: Wassersaal (Orangerie), Wasserturmstraße 3, Erlangen
Join us for a conversation with Richard Slotkin and Heike Paul on the the myths that have shaped American identity, their use in contemporary politics, and the current cultural and political divides in the...
Date: July 17, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location: Amerikahaus München (Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 Munich)
In this talk, Jessica J. Lee considers the role of contemporary nature writing in tackling the complexity of bearing witness to and understanding the Anthropocene. How can hybrid literary forms—fusing pro...
Date: 25.04.2024
Time: 12.30-14.00
Location: Ausstellungsraum, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg (Schuhstraße 1a, 91054 Erlangen)
"Indigeneity, ‘Americanity’, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Romance with Settler Colonial Capitalism" Donald E. Pease is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in ...
Unfortunately, the lecture has to be canceled due to illness.
Termin: 14. Mai 2024, 19:00 Uhr
Ort: Orangerie (Schlossgarten 1, Erlangen)
In this illustrated talk, Lynn Downey will explain what a dude ranch is, and talk about its 140-year history in the United States. Dude ranching is an impor...
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...
