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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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Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer (Universität Graz): "Mark Twain: The Man in White and His Autobiographies"
Thursday, 06.06.2013, 14:15–15:45 Uhr, U5/00.24
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as Mark Twain, is an internationally acclaimed and widely read author. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of his death in 2010, the first volume of his entire, uncensored autobiography was published. (Little is it known that parts of this autobiography had already been published according to an exact plan that Mark Twain had drafted before his death.) The complete autobiography of 2010 quickly became a New York Times bestseller and was translated into German in 2012. Twain's intention was to 'speak from the grave' and ensure that his reputation as a great author would be fueled years after his death.
In this talk, the concoction of Twain’s humor, ideas, opinions and anecdotes will be presented through excerpts from his autobiography. Questions of life story writing and image building will frame the reading from the text. Twain's claim to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment" means that we as readers are challenged to make connections and to establish structure in order to confront Twain’s "whole frank mind."
Roberta Maierhofer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University, New York. Her research focuses on American Literature and Cultural Studies, Feminist Literature and Research, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education and Age/Aging Studies. Roberta Maierhofer holds a master's and a doctoral degree from the University of Graz as well as an M.A. degree in comparative literature from SUNY Binghamton. She served as Vice Rector for International Relations of the University of Graz from 1999-2011. Since 2007, she has been directing the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz. In her publication, Salty Old Women: Gender and Aging in American Culture, she developed a theoretical approach to gender and aging (anocriticism), and she has published widely in the field of cultural gerontology.