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Deutschlandfunk conducted a live interview with American Studies Leipzig for the noon news hour on Wednesday, 24 January. The topic of the interview involved an analysis about the content and implications of President Bush’s State-of-the-Union Speech, an important date in the annual American political calendar.

Some 40-50 students from high schools around Saxony and the Mitteldeutschland region came to the American Studies Open House yesterday to talk about the program with students and faculty of American Studies Leipzig.

American Studies presents its B.A. and M.A. programs at “Tag der offenen Hochschultür”

Meet American Studies faculty and students, and learn about the B.A. and M.A. programs offered by the Institute at the “American Studies Open House,” January 11, 9-12 am, Beethovenstr. 15, room 2516.

Feel free to view pictures of last year’s American Studies Open House online.

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The Picador Professorship for Literature Invites You to Join the Seminar “Modern American Fiction”

This seminar offers students the unique opportunity to discuss a diverse selection of 20th-century US-American fictions in ways that unite literary scholarship with the viewpoint of a leading young writer working in the English language.

Aus Krankheitsgründen können die mündlichen Literaturabschlussprüfungen von Frau Prof. Koenen zu den ursprünglich geplanten Terminen (12. und 13. Februar 2007) nicht stattfinden. Alternativ werden Prüfungstermine bei Frau Dr. Kanzler vom 12. bis 14. Februar 2007 angeboten.

Studenten, die bereits einen Termin bei Frau Prof. Koenen vereinbart haben, werden dringend gebeten, sich im Sekretariat zu melden zwecks erneuter Terminabsprache.

For health-related reasons, Prof. Anne Koenen’s classes and office hours in
January have to be cancelled. Students in her classes should check their
Lehrbox-course-pages and their e-mail for any news.

Tristan Hughes, First Holder of the Picador Professorship for Literature, Arrives in Leipzig

On Wednesday, January 3rd, Tristan Hughes arrived in Leipzig as the first holder of the Picador Professorship for Literature. The acclaimed Canadian-Welsh author will stay in Leipzig for the current semester to teach literature from the perspective of a practicing writer who also holds a PhD in American Literature.

American Studies, Leipzig. 7 December 2006.

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American Studies, Leipzig. 3 December 2006.

Wechsel in den MA American Studies?

Im WS 2007/08 startet an der Uni Leipzig der M.A.-Studiengang American Studies. Er gehört damit nicht nur zu den ersten M.A.-Studiengängen dieser Fachrichtung in Deutschland überhaupt, er arbeitet auch mit einem einzigartigen Konzept amerikakundlicher Lehre, das sich durch seine Projektorientierung und Interdisziplinarität auszeichnet.