Faculty
Core Faculty, Affiliated Faculty, Guest Scholars, Staff, and Students: Together this is the Scholarly Team at the Institute for American Studies in Leipzig.
Institute Faculty at American Studies, Leipzig
American Studies Leipzig has a broad and diverse Core Faculty. We have specialists in literature, culture, history, politics, and international affairs. Faculty cooperate regularly to offer integrated teaching on broad and interesting topics (for example, citizenship and identity, consumption culture, literature and difference, immigration, globalization and American society, and many, many more subjects).

Professor and Chair for American Literature
Room 3507 | Phone: (0341) 97-37331
Office Hours: Starting in week of Oct. 26: Thur., 3-4 pm, via Zoom (pls email me at least an hour in advance)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/kanzler
katja.kanzler@uni-leipzig.de

Professor for American Studies and Minority Studies
Room GWZ 3 5.08 | Phone: (0341) 973 7343
Office Hours: Starting on October 26: Thursdays, 3-4 pm. Please contact me by email at least one hour before to request a callback.
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/pisarz
pisarz@uni-leipzig.de

Visiting Professor for American Cultural History
Room 3505 | Phone: (0341) 97-37335
Office Hours: Please email to make an apointment for a telephone call or a video chat
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/stieglitz
olaf.stieglitz@uni-leipzig.de

Akademischer Assistent (Senior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3503 | Phone: (0341) 97-37337
Office Hours: Thu 3-4, via Zoom
(pls email me ahead of time to request the link)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/herrmann/
smherrmann@uni-leipzig.de

Akademischer Assistent (Senior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3503 | Phone: (0341) 973 7337
Office Hours: Starting Oct 26: Mondays, 3-4pm, via Zoom (please email me at least an hour before)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/schubert
stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Junior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3502 | Phone: (0341) 973 7334
Office Hours: Thur, 3-4 pm (video conferencing), starting Oct 29
https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/schadewaldt
annika.schadewaldt@uni-leipzig.de

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Junior Assistant Professor for American Cultural History)
Room 3501 | Phone: (0341) 973 7336
Office Hours: Thursdays, 5-6pm and by appointment (via Zoom/telephone; please email me in advance and let me know how you prefer to be contacted)
tobias.schlobach@uni-leipzig.de

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Junior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3502 | Phone: (0341) 973 7334
Office Hours: Winter Semester: Thursday, 10-11am, via Zoom
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/schmieder
schmieder@uni-leipzig.de

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Lecturer for American Cultural History)
Room GWZ 3 5.01 | Phone: (0341) 973-7336
Office Hours: Thursdays 13:30-14:30. Please contact me via email at least one hour beforehand to request a callback.
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/pruessing
heather.pruessing@uni-leipzig.de

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Lecturer for American Studies)
Room 3 5.04 | Phone: (0341) 973 7332
Office Hours: Starting Oct 26: Mondays, 2-3pm, via Zoom (please email me beforehand to set an appointment)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/ravizza
eleonora.ravizza@uni-leipzig.de
Former Professors

Professor Emeritus for American Literature
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/koenen
koenen@uni-leipzig.de

Professor Emeritus for American Culture and History
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/keil

Professor for American Culture and History
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/garrett
Adjunct Faculty
The Institute’s strengths are further enhanced by strong cooperation with colleagues from throughout the University of Leipzig. These Affiliated Faculty help make American Studies a highly interdisciplinary program. Beside Core Faculty, and Affiliated Faculty, the Institute for American Studies has regular and distinguished international Guest Scholars.

Office Hours: Starting October 27: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00. Please email me at least one hour in advance to request a callback.
peter.hintz@studserv.uni-leipzig.de

Doctoral Candidate
Room 3311 | Phone:
Office Hours: by appointment
https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/users/mascha-lange
mascha.lange@uni-leipzig.de

Room GWZ 3 5.01 | Phone:
Office Hours: Fridays, 3 – 4 pm (remote office hours by appointment)
friedrich.opitz@uni-leipzig.de
Research Fellows
American Studies Leipzig also employs several scholars as research fellows to work on specific projects, typically on external funding such as the DFG CRCs.

Postdoctoral Fellow (SFB 1199: “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition”)
Room Nikolaistr. 6-10, Room 5.07 | Phone: 0341 973 77 52
https://steffenwoell.github.io
steffen.woell@uni-leipzig.de

Doctoral Fellow (SFB 1285: “Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”)
Room GWZ 3 3.11 | Phone: 0351 463 43851
Office Hours: currently on leave
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/users/krenz
anne.krenz@tu-dresden.de

Doctoral Fellow (SFB 1285: “Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”)
Room GWZ 3 3.11 | Phone: 0351 463 43852
Office Hours: by appointment
https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/users/schulze
katja.schulze@tu-dresden.de

Doctoral Fellow (SFB 1285: “Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”)
Room Room GWZ 3 3.11 | Phone: 0351 463 43852
Office Hours: by appointment
https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/users/wegner
gesine.wegner@tu-dresden.de

Associated Research Fellow
Office Hours: by appointment
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/usbeck
fusbeck@uni-leipzig.de
Staff
We also see the Staff at the Institute as an indispensable part of the Scholarly Team: Our dynamic staff provides key elements of the teaching environment - student support, technological infrastructure for learning, efficient communications, and much more.

Lead Librarian for American Studies
Room Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig | Phone: 0341 9730506
manns@ub.uni-leipzig.de

Institute Secretariat
Room 3.506 | Phone: +49 (0)341 9737330
Office Hours: In-person office hours are cancelled. Please contact me via email at: americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de
keyselt@uni-leipzig.de

Secretary to the Chair for American Literature
Room GWZ 3.506 | Phone: +49 (0) 341-97 37 330
Office Hours: In-person office hours upon prior arrangement by email; for a callback, please leave your phone number.
franziska.pfab@uni-leipzig.de