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Please note: While the module registration will generally take place as planned, individual modules and courses will be offered in a way that complies with the COVID-19 governmental regulations. Accordingly, please see our news items on the ASL website for the most recent information and contact your instructors.

The repeat exam for module 04-AME-1402 „Literatures and Cultures of the USA“ (Lehramt) will take place on Oct. 21 from 5 to 7 pm. It will be an e-exam taken on Moodle. More information will be provided later.

Dear ASL students,

We would like to draw your attention to an event hosted by Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Sachsen e. V. (DAIS): 4 Jahre “America First”: Die Transatlantischen Beziehungen Heute

When: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, at 4:00 pm
Where: Abilene Christian University - Leipzig Villa, Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 52, 04109 Leipzig

American Studies Leipzig is looking for a motivated student to help with a number of administrative tasks in the upcoming winter term. You are expected to work alongside and in support of the secretariat.

Your duties will include, among others:

• managing the backoffice of teaching projects
• assisting distant-teaching formats
• providing administrative support, e.g. for paperwork involving the university’s central administration

For a successful application, you should:

The ASL-based graduate journal aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 14 (2021) issue aims to showcase, without topical restrictions, outstanding academic work done on the MA level of American studies at European universities. The topical section will feature academic submissions organized around the theme of “Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism.”

Former Picador Professor Daniel Peña has sent us a brilliant audio essay on Reckonings and Revolution in 2020 in which he explores the possibilities for a revolution in the USA based on the peaceful revolution in Leipzig in 1989:
“Who better to save America from itself than the black and brown people who still buy in the idea of it.”

While the doors to the Bibliotheca Albertina had been closed for the sake of everyone’s health during the current COVID-19 situation, some rearrangements in the organization of the open access areas for British and American Studies took place.

ASL’s Eleonora Ravizza has recently published her dissertation titled Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture: Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television. The book was published by J.B. Metzler.

To help with social distancing procedures, we no longer offer in-person office hours for the foreseeable future. To receive a remote consultation, email the instructor you want to talk to at least 1 hour before the beginning of their office hours to request a callback. In that request, please include your telephone number. Some instructors might offer additional remote options (via Skype, Google Hangouts, or another solution) — please see below.