Department

The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Henk de Berg as this semester’s Researcher in Residence. 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. Henk de Berg will spend the week of July 8th through July 12th at FAU and host or participate in various teaching and discussion formats...

Prof. Dr. Vanessa Guignery (ENS Lyon) will give a guest lecture on Jonathan Coe and other contemporary writers. All interested students and members of staff are invited to attend the guest lecture. This is an event organised by the Chair of English Literary Studies and funded by DAAD. If you have an...

Unfortunately, this talk must be postponed: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Chair of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) will give a guest lecture on the topic Partition Novel as Trauma Fiction: A Postcolonial Reading in the seminar Anglophone Postcolonial Li...

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...

Podiumsdiskussion zur Gegenwart und Zukunft der Arbeitsteilung. Es diskutieren: Iuditha Balint (Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt, Dortmund), Sandra Fluhrer (Germanistik/Komparatistik – FAU), Claudia Lillge (Anglistik – FAU), Carmen Losmann (Autorin und Regisseur...

PD Dr. Sandra Fluhrer (Germanistik/Komparatistik – FAU): Die Magd. Der Vortag ist Teil der Ringvorlesung Sozialfiguren der Arbeit. Beruf, Diversität, Performanz des Interdisziplinären Zentrums Gender-Differenz-Diversität. 17.6.2024, 18:15-19:45 Uhr, Kollegienhaus, Raum: 1.019, Universitätsstr...

Heide Volkening (Germanistik – Universität Greifswald): Die Journalistin. Der Vortag ist Teil der Ringvorlesung Sozialfiguren der Arbeit. Beruf, Diversität, Performanz des Interdisziplinären Zentrums Gender-Differenz-Diversität. 27.5.2024, 18:15-19:45 Uhr, Kollegienhaus, Raum: 1.019, Universi...

Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 film The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, garnered international attention with its unique approach to depicting the Holocaust on screen. Winner of two Academy Awards (“Best International Feature” and “Best Sound”), the film is not concerned with showing the atrocities committed in Auschwitz, instead asking the viewer to reflect on the perpetrators’ everyday lives. In the framework of the seminar “Literary Representation of the Shoah” and in cooperation with the Casablanca Nürnberg, the Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies has organized a screening of the The Zone of Interest.

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...