ASL Community

Student get-together with Picador professor Calvin Baker, Image Credit: Andreas Lamm.

Community

The concept of community is central to ASL. By community we mean openness, communication, and interaction with as little hierarchy as possible. Community is meant to encourage a vital learning culture and empower the pursuit of individual goals.

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Cooperations

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Cooperations

ASL regularly cooperates with a number of other institutions for teaching and research purposes, but also to reach out to the wider public in order to facilitate a broader dialog about the United States and its place in the world.

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Picador Professorship

Reading with Picador Professor Hilary Leichter in 2022, Image Credit: Andreas Lamm

Picador Guest Professorship for Literature

The Picador Professorship for Literature is unique in Germany. It brings leading young writers of English-language literature to Leipzig and Mitteldeutschland, thereby providing students with a chance to work with 'practitioners' of literature.

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Alumni/ASLAA

ASL Graduates of 2010, Image Credit: Andreas Lamm.

American Studies Leipzig Alumni Association

The years spent at university are like any other chapter in one’s life: unique, but integrated into a larger biography. Alumni associations like the ASLAA help graduates maintain the unique experiences of university and their personal meaning.

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Professional Paths

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Professional Paths

In order to get a better sense of what you can do with a degree in American Studies, here you can find a selection of what some American Studies alumni from Leipzig are doing today and how their studies have influenced their careers.

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ASL Faculty

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Research at ASL

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Conferences at ASL

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