ASL's Thorsten Burkhardt interviewed by mephisto 97.6
ASL's Thorsten Burkhardt was interviewed by Leipzig University student radio mephisto 97.6 on the occasion of Stephen King's 70th birthday. In the interview, Thorsten Burkhardt talked about the mass appeal of King's books and his impact on American popular culture in general.
The interview also addressed the new movie adaptation of King's IT and why this book holds such a prominent place in American horror fiction.
- Claudia Müller's blog
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Module Registration
The online course registration for Kernfach/Wahlfach/BAIT AND Wahlbereich students for the winter semester 2017/18 starts on 27 September (noon). For parallel courses, choose early to get the seat you want.
TOOL closes on October 5, 5 pm.
You must enroll via TOOL at: https://almaweb.uni-leipzig.de/einschreibung
For further information please consult our course catalog and the attached registration info sheet.
- Katja Schmieder's blog
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Apply Now - Study Trip to New York City with the Bosch Alumni Network
The Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association is currently looking for applicants for a study trip to New York City to learn about podcasting.
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 15, 2017.
- Christin Habermann's blog
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Picador Seminars by Daniel Pena in the Winter Term 2017/18
As part of his tenure in the winter term of 2017/18, Picador Professor Daniel Peña will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig. Please note that these courses will partly take place as block seminars, since they start slightly later and end sooner than the official semester dates. See below for further information, and if you have questions beyond that, please contact the professorship's coordinator, Stefan Schubert.
- Stefan Schubert's blog
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Next Picador Professor Daniel Pena
American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Daniel Peña as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. He will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2017/18.
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ASL Offers New BA Professional Skills Modules for Creative Writing
Starting with the winter term of 2017/18, ASL will offer two new professional skills modules (Schlüsselqualifikationsmodule) for creative writing, taught by the Picador Guest Professor for Literature. The new modules, "Creative Writing: Imagining America" (in the winter) and "Creative Writing: Envisioning America" (in the summer), will allow students to gain insights into the practices and deeper intricacies of creative writing as part of their regular curriculum.
- Stefan Schubert's blog
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Course Catalog Winter 2017/18
The course catalog for the upcoming semester (winter 2017/18) is available now.
Please be aware that these pages will be updated throughout the break and the semester.
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SHK/WHK Stellen für das SHRIMP Projekt zu vergeben
Das Lehr-Lernprojekt SHRIMP (Social Hypertext Reader & Interactive Mapping Platform) sucht zum Wintersemester 2017/18 Verstärkung für sein Team.
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The Unpopular Profession
This paper discusses a genre of essay writing that advises students not to pursue a career in academia and that has recently enjoyed increased popularity. Focusing on one such “Thesis Hatement,” it argues that these texts are marked by inner contradictions and that these contradictions are indicative of the cultural work they do. Emphatically rejecting academia, these texts typically fail to convince their audience and, in a curious split between denotation and pragmatics, open up a position from which to embrace a graduate career.
Herrmann, Sebastian M. “The Unpopular Profession? Graduate Studies in the Humanities and the Genre of the ‘Thesis Hatement.’” Unpopular Culture. Eds. Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2016. 313-36. Print.
To Tell a Story to the American People
Throughout the 2012 presidential election, ‘narrative’ stood out as a dominant paradigm in discussions of contemporary politics: Countless commentators asserted the importance of competing narratives, pointing out the extent to which electoral success depended on the president’s (and the contenders’) ability to tell compelling stories of themselves and of the nation. Put differently, then, one of the most dominant narratives of the 2012 election cycle was that of the importance of ‘narrative’ in politics.
Herrmann, Sebastian M. “‘To Tell a Story to the American People:’ Elections, Postmodernism, and Popular Narratology.” Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice. Ed. Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlmann. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 323-39. Print.