ASL Secretariat will be closed Aug. 01 - Aug. 08. 2022.

Thanks you for your understanding. 

Office Hours during Semester Break Summer 2022

Prof. Dr Katja Kanzler - until further notice, all office hours via zoom (please email at least one hour in advance)

Tuesday, July 19, 2 – 3 pm
Tuesday, July 26, 2 – 3 pm

Thursday, Aug. 18, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Thursday, Sep. 15, 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Prof. Dr Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez - until further notice, all office hours via zoom (please email at least one hour in advance)

aspeers 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.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Emily Nemens as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2022/23.

As part of her tenure in the winter term of 2022/23, Picador Professor Emily Nemens will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig.

Writing the Short Story

Wednesdays, 3:15-4:45

On July 1, 2022, current Picador Guest Professor Hilary Leichter gave a reading at GfZK in Leipzig. About 40 people attended the event at which Professor Leichter read several passages from her novel Temporary. As part of the event, Leichter was in conversation with Svenja Gräfen, author of Radikale Selbstfürsorge Jetzt!, speaking about the process of revision, writing about work and its discontents, and writing as work. 

aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level scholars of American studies in Europe, has just published its latest issue. Now in its fifteenth year, aspeers is edited as part of ASL’s MA program and aims to showcase the excellent scholarship done in American studies already on the graduate level.

ASL is happy to announce that the edited collection Realität in Serie: Realitätsbehauptungen in zeitgenössischen Fernsehserien was recently published with Springer. Edited by ASL faculty Prof. Katja Kanzler and Dr. Stefan Schubert as well as former ASL faculty Dr.