Annika Schadewaldt's blog

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming reading with current Picador professor Emily Nemens on Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 pm at Literaturhaus Leipzig. Professor Nemens will read from The Cactus League and talk about baseball and its impact on American society, celebrity and fan cultures, literature, and the Picador Guest Professorship.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Emily Nemens as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2022/23.

As part of her tenure in the winter term of 2022/23, Picador Professor Emily Nemens will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig.

Writing the Short Story

Wednesdays, 3:15-4:45

On July 1, 2022, current Picador Guest Professor Hilary Leichter gave a reading at GfZK in Leipzig. About 40 people attended the event at which Professor Leichter read several passages from her novel Temporary. As part of the event, Leichter was in conversation with Svenja Gräfen, author of Radikale Selbstfürsorge Jetzt!, speaking about the process of revision, writing about work and its discontents, and writing as work. 

Annika Schadewaldt’s office hours for this week have to be cancelled. If you were planning to stop by this week, please send a short email to reschedule.

We cordially invite you to our upcoming Picador reading with current Picador Professor Hilary Leichter. The reading will take place on Friday, July 1 at 7 pm at Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst (Leipzig). More infos soon. 

Annika Schadewaldt’s office hours on Thursday, May 19th will have to be cancelled. If you wanted to see Ms Schadewaldt in her office hours this week, please send her an email to reschedule for another time.

Both of Hilary Leichter’s classes will take place in room 3515 (GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15, “Glaskasten”). You can find the room by going up to the fifth floor and walking down the hallway across the elevators, left of the letter boxes.

Janes Behr, student assistant for PR at Leipzig University, has written an article on current Picador Guest Professor Don Mee Choi’s stay at American Studies Leipzig. You can read the article here.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Hilary Leichter as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the summer term of 2022. (Photo Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff)