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Whitman Week in Chicago, June 24-29, 2013

Students are invited to apply for the 6th Whitman Week in Chicago - a complete credit-bearing seminar on one of America's most innovative and influential poets, taught by international specialists.
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American Guest Professor in Bamberg

In April 2013, American scholar and writer Tom Whalen will join our institute as international guest professor. He will teach 4 seminars (PS/ HS) on American literature and culture that are open to all students in our BA, MA and Lehramt programs.
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One Week in Paris: American Modernism in the French Capital

During a 5-day exursion, students explored the many connections between American Literature and Modernist Art in Paris during the 'Roaring Twenties.'
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Exploring Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau

Schloss Neuschwanstein and Canada - for the participants of the seminar “Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture” this connection became perfectly clear when they went on a field trip to Southern Bavaria to explore two castles of ‘mad’ king Ludwig II.
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Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Am 22.10.2012 hielt Christine Gerhardt, Inhaberin der Professur für Amerikanistik, ihre Antrittsvorlesung an der Universität Bamberg. Zum Vortrag "Disequilibrium Poetics: Migration und Ökologie in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur" und zum anschließenden Empfang erschienen zahlreiche Studierende und Kolleg/innen.
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Bibliothekstutorien im SoSe 2013

Informationen zu Inhalten, Terminen und Anmeldemodalitäten der verpflichtenden Bibliothekstutorien zu den "Introductions to English and American Literature" sowie zu den Seminaren im Aufbaumodul
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Erste Staatsprüfung (mündlich) an öffentlichen Schulen

Informationen für Studierende, die ihre erste Staatsprüfung ablegen wollen.
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Exkursionen im Rahmen der Professur für Amerikanistik

Februar 2013

During the Roaring Twenties, many American writers made their way to Paris to find inspiration and to work among the greatest artists of their generation. During an excursion to Paris, organized in connection with a seminar on the topic of American Modernism in Paris, we followed the footsteps of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes and many other American expatriates, trying to find out why the city was so special to them... details

Schloss Neuschwanstein and Canada - for the participants of the seminar "Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture" this connection became perfectly clear when they went on a field trip to Southern Bavaria to explore two castles of 'mad' king Ludwig II... details

Juni 2012

A Field Trip Back in Time: American Civil War Reenactment in Walldürn, Germany. "Germans in the American Civil War" – We couldn’t have imagined to what extent the course title would ring true... details

Januar 2012

German Romanticism near and in Frankfurt – participants of the class "Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism" went on a field trip to see and learn about artificial ruins, and encounter the works of various German Romantic painters up close... details

Oktober 2011

Studying Literature in a Museum – for the participants of the class "Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism" this became reality when the E.T.A. Hoffmann Haus in Bamberg opened its doors to us... details

Juli 2011

Watching a play about an outlaw like Robin Hood, Wilhelm Tell and Jesse James – for the partcipants of the class "The Figur of the Outsider in the USA and Germany" this became true when we travelled into the picturesque Jagst-valley to see a performance of Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen" on the hero's proverbial doorstep... details