American Literature

In their contribution to IdeAs: Idées d’Amériques, Ilka Saal and Jade Thomas investigate the form and function of plays-within-plays in contemporary African American drama.

"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination," edited by Ilka Saal (Erfurt) and Bertram D. Ashe (U of Richmond) received an honorable mention at this year's MLA Prize as a "timely, inventive, and pathbreaking" publication.

We warmly congratulate our student Ciara Olzog and happily announce her paper as the winner of the Essay Prize for Papers in English and American Literatures 2022!

On 14 Dec, Prof. Ulla Haselstein (FU Berlin) will give a guest lecture on "Parodies of Adventure: Mark Twain and Robert Coover".