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We cordially invite you to our upcoming Picador reading with current Picador Professor Hilary Leichter. The reading will take place on Friday, July 1 at 7 pm at Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst (Leipzig). More infos soon. 

Both of Hilary Leichter’s classes will take place in room 3515 (GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15, “Glaskasten”). You can find the room by going up to the fifth floor and walking down the hallway across the elevators, left of the letter boxes.

Janes Behr, student assistant for PR at Leipzig University, has written an article on current Picador Guest Professor Don Mee Choi’s stay at American Studies Leipzig. You can read the article here.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Hilary Leichter as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the summer term of 2022. (Photo Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff)

As part of her tenure in the summer term of 2022, Picador Professor Hilary Leichter will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig.

American Surrealism

Wednesdays, 11am-1pm, (classroom tba)

Current Picador guest professor Don Mee Choi has been named as one of the 2021 MacArthur Fellows. The MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called the MacArthur “Genius grants”) is awared annually to 20-30 people by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” It is considered oe the most prestigious awards for intellectual and artistic achievement in the United States.

As part of her tenure in the winter term of 2021/21, Picador Professor Don Mee Choi will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig.

Asian American Poetry

Tuesday, 3 - 5 pm, GWZ 3516

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Don Mee Choi as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2021/22.