News

7. Dec 2025, 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm

Climate Change Theatre Action 2025: Jeder Kann ... Jetzt

In this event, organised by the students of the University of Erfurt in cooperation with Jeder Kann Galerie Erfurt, student performers are thematising the relevance of sustainable thinking in everyday life and art. The event consists of a…

Read more

The 2025 Essay Prize – Submissions Now Open!

Got a paper you’re especially proud of? Don’t keep it hidden on your hard drive – share it with us!

Read more

Call for Papers on Sui Sin Far

The 2025 meeting of the European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will take place at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The focus of the workshop is on reanimating interest in Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton and re-reading her work…

Read more

Tutor Position Available for the Lecture Series "American Literary and Cultural History"

Looking for a teaching opportunity? The Professorship for American Literature is hiring a tutor for the lecture series "American Literary and Cultural History"in the fall term 2025.

Read more

Out Now: Special issue on Laura E. Richards`s children`s poems

We are delighted to announce the publication of EJAS's special issue on Laura E. Richards`s children`s poems and the poetics of nineteenth-century American nonsense, co-edited by Etti Gordon Ginzburg and Verena Laschinger. The research presented in…

Read more

Study Group 2024 in Zagreb

The European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature convened at the University of Zagreb, Croatia on 8-9 November 2024 to discuss "The Whole Family" (1908), a collaborative novel by twelve authors, including William Dean Howells, Mary…

Read more

Submissions open for the 2024 Essay Prize

Submissions are now open for the 2024 Essay Prize. The prize is awarded for particularly well written student papers in American or British Literature.

Read more

Verena Laschinger presents at the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society

On Thursday June 6, 6pm CET, Verena Laschinger will be presenting in the series of online Freeman lectures ("An Hour with Mary E. Wilkins Freeman"). The talk is entitled "Unruly Analogy in Mary E. Wilkins` (Freeman) 'Understudies'."

Read more

Special Issue on "Theater & Community" Out by Ilka Saal and Johanna Hartmann

Just out! We are happy to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English on the topic of “Theater & Community”. The special issue has been co-edited by Prof. Ilka Saal (Erfurt) and Prof. Johanna Hartmann…

Read more

RSS Feed