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: Summer Break: Aug. 5, Aug. 19, & Sep. 16, 3-4 pm; Oct. 4, 12 noon - 1 pm; Winter Term 2021/22 (while classes are in session): Thursdays, 3-4 pm; until further notice, all office hours via zoom (pls email me at least one 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: In the Winter term: Thursdays, 5-6 pm (beginning on Oct. 21)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/pisarz
pisarz@uni-leipzig.de
Professor for American Cultural History
Room 3505 | Phone: (0341) 97-37335
Office Hours: Winter 21/22: in person consultations are possible on Wednesday, 1.30-3 pm; Zoom consultations by appointment
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/stieglitz
olaf.stieglitz@uni-leipzig.de
Akademischer Assistent (Senior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3503 | Phone: (0341) 973 7337
Office Hours: During semester break: Mon, July 26, 3-5pm; Mon, Aug 23, 3-5pm; Thu, Sept 9, 3-5pm; and by appointment (via Zoom—please email me at least an hour before) / out of office from Aug 30 to Sept 7
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: Mon, 3-4pm
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: During the semester break: by appointment via Zoom (please contact me in advance so I can send you a link accordingly)
tobias.schlobach@uni-leipzig.de
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Junior Assistant Professor for American Literature)
Room 3502 | Phone: (0341) 973 7334
Office Hours: Semester Break: August 2 (noon-1 pm); September 27 (11 am-noon); via Zoom
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/schmieder
schmieder@uni-leipzig.de
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Lecturer for American Studies)
Room 3504 | Phone: (0341) 97-37332
Office Hours: on leave
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/herrmann/
smherrmann@uni-leipzig.de
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Lecturer for American Cultural History)
Room GWZ 3 5.01 | Phone: (0341) 973-7336
Office Hours: By Appointment
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: During the summer break: Jul 28 (1-3pm); Aug 16 (2-4pm); Sep 13 (1-3pm) (via Zoom; please email me at least an hour before)
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/ravizza
eleonora.ravizza@uni-leipzig.de
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Lecturer for American Studies)
Office Hours: via Zoom by appointment
https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/sommerfeld
stephanie.sommerfeld@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.
In this semester, we unfortunately do not have any adjunct faculty.
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
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
Secretary to the Chair of American Literature (Prof. Kanzler)
Room 3.506 | Phone: +49 (0)341 9737330
Office Hours: In-person office hours are cancelled. Please contact me via email at:
anne.bishop@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