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We are please to announce that this year's meeting of the European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will take place at the University of Zagreb, Croatia on 8-9 November 2024. The focus of our discussion will be "The Whole Family"…

The upcoming regional colloquy of American Studies in central Germany (Mitteldeutschland) is scheduled to take place at the University of Erfurt on 12 April 2024. We are looking forward to discussing exciting new research projects and…

Comprehending Canada is an online block seminar on Canada's national image, identity and branding, its political economy, the nation's history in regard to Native issues, Canada's relations with the US, and the varied representations of Canadian…

read Ilka Saal's latest publication “‘As American as Walt Disney:’ The Political Theater of the Federal Theater Project.” Federal Theater Project (1935-39): Context & Issues. Eds. Emeline Jouve and Géraldine Prévot. Sorbonne University Press, 2023.…

Read Verena Laschinger's Response to “Contemplating Women’s Imperial Service: Mabel Bent as Photographer, Travel Writer, and Collector” by Esther Wetzel

Read the new article by Saal, Ilka. „Intertextual Inquiry and Interpretive Creation: Pope.L’s Experimental Staging of William Wells Brown’s The Escape.” JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 11.2 (2023): 287-97.

"Family Photography", the new exhibition at Cafe Hilge, opened on November 24 and runs through January 5, 2024. Collaborators on the project are AWO's "Integrierte Familienhilfe" and "Kleeblatt", photographer Sylwia Mierzynska, and Verena Laschinger…

We warmly congratulate our student Jessica König and happily announce her paper on Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" as the winner of the Essay Prize for Papers in English and American Literatures 2023!

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.