Stefan Schubert's blog

Picador Professor Paul La Farge will teach two classes in the winter term of 2016/17:

Language, Identity and Society in American Science Fiction

Wednesdays, 3-5 pm, GWZ 3 5.15
 

My office hours next Monday (April 25) will have to be cancelled. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. If you have urgent matters to discuss, please contact me via e-mail instead.

The next regular office hours will take place on May 2, 3-4pm.

Picador Professor Justin Torres will teach two seminars in the summer term of 2016:

The View from the Margins: Outsider Fiction

Mondays, 3-5 pm, GWZ 3.515

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Justin Torres as the holder of the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature in the summer term of 2016.

This week, former Picador Professor Alexander Chee published his second novel, The Queen of the Night. During his stay as Picador Professor in Leipzig in the winter term of 2012/13, Chee worked extensively on this novel, from which he also presented excerpts at a public reading. Early reviews of his long-awaited novel have been very favorable.

Due to continued sickness, Anne Grob's “Teaching America” seminars on November 19 and November 26 will have to be cancelled.

The guest lectures in Anne Grob's “Ethnicity & Diversity” seminars will take place as scheduled.

American Political Dissent on the Internet, a Survey

Mondays, 11am-1pm, GWZ 3 5.15

American Studies Leipzig is honored to announce Linh Dinh as the holder of the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature in the winter term of 2015.

aspeers has 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.

The secretariat will have to remain closed from March 9 to March 17.