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The Essay Prize Competition 2025 has now concluded. (Drumroll, please.)

The Essay Prize Competition 2025 has now concluded. (Drumroll, please.)

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…

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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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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'."