It’s been an interesting couple of first days for me. After spending a week rather off the usual touristic places in NYC (my highlights: thrift shopping in Brooklyn and exploring freezing-cold and almost completely abandoned Coney Island) I have finally arrived in Geneva, NY — the place I will call home for the next 4 months or so. The journey upstate was exhausting and frustrating. The bus from NYC was delayed 1.5h, which meant that we missed the connecting bus in Binghamton, NY.

On January 20, American Studies Leipzig's Prof. Crister S.

Literature and Culture I (04-001-1001)

Lecture: American Literature: Beginnings to Present (Prof. Junker):

• January 31, 2018 (written exam, 90 minutes, between 1:00 – 3:00 pm), HS 2 (HSG)

Seminars (Schadewaldt, Becker, Schubert) and Tutorials (Prüßing, Burkhardt):

• Take-home essay due on February 14, 2018

Mitteldeutscher Verlag is offering a marketing internship over a duration of at least eight weeks, beginning on February 12, 2018.  The working language will be German.

For further details, please see the attached document.

Dear students,

Prof. Garrett's next office hours will be held on

10 January 2018, 4:30-6:00 PM

23 January 2018, 4:00-6:00 PM

@ GWZ, Room 3505

On November 30, 2017, current Picador Professor at the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University, Daniel Peña, read from his work and engaged in a discussion with Prof. Crister S. Garrett, and Dr. Jacob Schewe from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research about the increasing impact and dangers of climate change.

ASL's secretariat remains closed
December 21st - January 2nd.

Please excuse any inconvenience.

Office Hours for Dr. Herrmann have to be canceled on Monday, 4. December, due to the Digital Humanities Day in the University Library. For all urgent matters, you can find him at the Poster Slam in the UBL, right across the street.