The course catalog for the winter semester 2018/19 is available now.

Please be aware that these pages will be updated throughout the break and the semester.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Sasha Pimentel as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2018/19.

As part of her tenure in the winter term of 2018/19, Picador Professor Sasha Pimentel will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig.

Contemporary Poetries That Sing from U.S. Histories and Ahistories

Wednesdays, 3-5pm, GWZ 3.5.15

Due to illness, the Secretariat remains closed on 29 and 30 August, 2018.

Anne Keyselt
ASL Secretariat

The 7th workshop conference of Weitersehen - Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung will take place on November 2nd and 3rd, in Dresden.

The topic and title of this year's workshop conference is: The Handmaid's Tale.

aspeers just published its new calls for papers. Embedded into the American Studies Leipzig MA program, aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level scholars of American studies in Europe.

On Tuesday, June 26, Picador Professor Rajesh Parameswaran met with a group of high school students as part of the "Picador at School" initiative.

Dear students.

The repeat exams for both

• the LC II exam (Modul 04-001-1007 Literature and Culture II) and
• the 1401-exam (Modul 04-AME-1401 Literaturen und Kulturen der USA)

will take place on October 11, 2018 between 1 - 3 pm (exam: 90 minutes) in HSG room HS 1.

Please make sure you are signed up for your respective repeat exam in AlmaWeb.

On Monday, June 25, 2018, ASL instructor Stefan Schubert successfully defended his doctoral thesis in front of a dissertation committee and an audience of about 30 people. This process is part of receiving a doctorate degree at Leipzig University's Philological Faculty.

Due to vacation, the Secretariat remains closed from 9 to 11 July, 2018.

Anne Keyselt
ASL Secretariat