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Patricia Stuelke, associate professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique (Duke UP 2021), is our new Humboldt-fellow in American Studies. While at FAU, she joins the Global Sentimentality Project and is at work on a new bo...

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...