News — Chair of North American Literature

Apr 09, 2019

New Venue: Literature(s) and the Epistemology of Difference

Please note that Prof. Junker's seminar on "Literature(s) and the Epistemology of Difference" was moved to a different venue. The class meets in WS48, room 103.

Nov 15, 2018

Source: American Studies

PD Dr. Carsten Junker to present paper at symposium on political humor at MLU Halle-Wittenberg

PD Dr. Carsten Junker will present a paper on “Satirizing Mr. Trump: Political Humor Between High and Popular Culture” at the symposium “Political Humor in Great Britain and the United States,” which will take place on November 17, 2018 at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. …

Sep 24, 2018

Source: American Studies

Upcoming Seventh Workshop-Conference: Weiter Sehen – The Handmaid’s Tale

For its seventh workshop-conference on November 2-3, 2018, the network ‘Weiter Sehen’ at the TU Dresden focuses on the series The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 -), based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name. As with the previous workshop-conferences, the group of researchers from cultural, …

Sep 24, 2018

Source: American Studies

PD Dr. Carsten Junker to co-chair panel at ASA’s Annual Meeting 2018

PD Dr. Carsten Junker, the institute’s new Deputy Head of North American Literature, and Dr. René Dietrich (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) will co-chair a panel at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), which is taking place on November 8-11, at Atlanta, …

Sep 10, 2018

Source: American Studies

Call for Papers – COPAS Anniversary Issue: “White Supremacy in the United States: Politics, Economies, Histories, Affects, and Poetics”

The online peer-reviewed journal Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), which is dedicated to publishing the work of early career researchers in American Studies in Germany and beyond, turns twenty in 2019. For its anniversary thematic issue, COPAS calls for papers that …

Sep 03, 2018

Source: American Studies

Lesung und Gespräch: Eliot Weinberger

Die New York Times nennt ihn „einen der größten lebenden Essayisten der Welt.“ Und tatsächlich verblüfft der 1949 in New York City geborene Eliot Weinberger mit dem enormen Wissensfundus, aus dem er für seine bislang 16 Bücher schöpfte: Ob die Träume der Wikinger, das Liebesleben der Maulwürfe, …

Aug 15, 2018

Source: American Studies

New Publication on HBO’s Westworld

A new volume on the series Westworld (HBO, 2016-) has been recently published. Edited by Prof. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay and Prof. Katja Kanzler, the volume is titled “Mensch, Maschine, Maschinenmenschen: Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Serie Westworld” and approaches the first season of …

Aug 15, 2018

Source: American Studies

Call for Papers: aspeers 12 (2019)

aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, published its new Call for Papers, which is open to European graduate students of American studies or related fields. As in the previous years, this years’ issue of aspeers (2019) will feature …

Jul 13, 2018

Source: American Studies

Workshop-Ankündigung: “Invektivität und kulturelle Differenz. Eine Forschungswerkstatt.”

Im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereiches 1285 “Invektivität. Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzung” veranstalten die Teilprojekte der Amerikanistik (Teilprojekt L) und der Soziologie (Teilprojekt R) am Freitag, den 20. Juli 2018, einen ganztägigen Workshop, welcher sich dem Begriff der …