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"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.

The Department of English and American Studies congratulates Prof. Dr. Heike Paul on receiving the Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst, the state of Bavaria's highest award. The laudation honors her as one of the most important Americanists in Germany...

Explorations in Construction Grammar

From November 5 to November 20, 2021 Erlangen's Black History Weeks will take place as a series of individual events. This year's events place their focus on racism in art and culture...

If beginning your studies is already a challenging task by itself, it becomes even more difficult in times of COVD-19 and online learning. But there is no need to fall into despair just yet! There to help is Laura Krabes...

Over the course of this summer term, graduate seminars at Passau University, LMU Munich, and FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg have explored questions of structural racism in the context of the welfare state, higher education, and popular culture. The conference that will take place virtually on July 23/24, 20...

Der 11. September 2001: (K)eine Zeitenwende? Die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 liegen in diesem Jahr 20 Jahre zurück, ihre Folgen weltweit und damit auch für Deutschland sind bis heute präsent...

The departmental Library has reopened. Currently, the opening hours are: Monday to Friday, 10am-6pm (term) Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm (term break)