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ASL invites all BA students who are interested in entering our MA American Studies 2020/21 program to attend our annual MA Townhall Meeting on January 20, 5pm, GWZ room 2.516.

For further information on our MA program, please consult our homepage at https://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/curriculum/degree_programs/ma.
 

ASL’s Stefan Schubert recently published his dissertation on Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture.

Please note that the  office of the ASL secretaries will be closed from Friday, Dec 20 until January 5.

Wishing you all a happy festive season and a wonderful New Year 2020!

Anne Keyselt and
Franziska Pfab 

Students in this semester’s Project Module are kindly reminded to check the schedule for poster presentations on Prof. Kanzler’s office door.

Faculty of American Studies Leipzig (ASL) and of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement” presented their work at this year’s conference of the American Studies Association in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Bachelor Courses

Literature and Culture I (04-001-1001)

Lecture: American Literature: Beginnings to Present (Prof. Katja Kanzler):

• February 1, 2020: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
• written exam, 90 minutes
• location: HS 1 (HSG) 

Seminars (Dr. Sophie Spieler, Hedwig Lieback, Caroline Lyle) and Tutorials (Heather Prüßing):

Bis zum 15. Januar 2020 können sich Studierende, die 2020/2021 an einer Partnerhochschule in den USA studieren möchten, bei Fulbright Germany für Reisestipendien bewerben.

Current Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins's public readings in Leipzig and Berlin both attracted large crowds. In Leipzig, she read from her essay collection This Will Be My Undoing and discussed her work with Senthuran Varatharajah and the audience. The reading took place on October 26 at the Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst as part of a literary festival co-organized by EDIT and the Literarischer Herbst.

Current Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins was recently interviewed for the print and online edition of die tageszeitung. While the interview focuses on her experiences as a black female writer, she also specifically talks about her tenure at ASL and the courses she teaches this semester.

The interview is available via the taz website.