Summer Term 2021

PROF. SOYICA DIGGS COLBERT (Georgetown University)

"'To Be Young, Gifted and Black': Lorraine Hansberry and Nina Simone's Friendship"

16. Juni 2021

PROF. STACIE McCORMICK (Texas Christian University)

“Contemplating and Complicating Freedom in Contemporary Black Drama”

8. Juni 2021, 4.15 pm

Summer Term 2019

PROF. NASSIM BALESTRINI (University of Graz)

"'White holes' and Invisible Native American History: Being Located and Locating Oneself in
Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas"

10. Juli 2019

Winter Term 2018/19

PROF. MARTIN PUCHNER (Harvard University)

"Weltliteratur: Die kuriose Geschichte einer deutsch-amerikanischen Idee"

6. Februar 2019

PROF. ANNETTE J. SADDIK (American Studies Guest Professor 2018 / City University of New York)

"The Comic Grotesque in Tennessee Williams' Late Plays" 

December 18, 2018

BETTINA LOCKEMANN (Fotografin und Kunstwissenschaftlerin, Köln)

"Stadt und Land. Fotoprojekte aus dem amerikanischen Süden"

--in Kooperation mit der Kunstgeschichte--

27. November 2018

PROF. YAEL SCHACHER (Guest Professor, American Studies, KU/University of Texas at Austin, USA)

"A Peril or a Promise?: Flashpoints in the History of Asylum in the United States"

--in cooperation with the Zentrum für Flucht und Migration--

November 13, 2018

PROF. JÖRG DÜNNE (Humboldt Universität Berlin)

"Spaces/scapes. Ein Vorschlag zur Rekonzeptualisierung literarischer Räumlichkeiten"

31. Oktober 2018

Winter Term 2017/18

SABINE N. MEYER (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)

"The Discourse of Human Rights and the Native American Historical Novel of the 1990s"

January 10, 2018

Summer Term 2017

Prof. ERICA FRETWELL (SUNY Albany, NY, USA/FRIAS, University of Freiburg, Germany)

"Body Images: Phantom Limbs, Spirit Photography, and the Civil War"

June 14, 2017

JESSICA CONRAD (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA/University of Graz, Austria)

"Polluted Luxuries: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Literature"

May 17, 2017

Winter Term 2015/16

Prof. ANSELM HAVERKAMP (New York University/Gastdozent "Aisthesis. Historische Kunst- und Literaturdiskurse" KU Eichstätt)

"Undone by Death? Umrisse einer Poetik nach Darwin: Dante, Eliot, Kafka"

--im Rahmen des Fakultätskolloquiums der SLF und in Zusammenarbeit mit Aisthesis--

October 21, 2015

 Summer Term 2015

Prof. TOBIAS BÖS (University of Notre Dame, IN, USA)

„Der größte Schriftsteller unserer Zeit“ – Thomas Mann im Amerika der Zwischenkriegsjahre

--in Kooperation mit der Germanistik und den Europastudien--

June 9, 2015

Prof. LAURA MURPHY (Loyola University New Orleans, LA, USA)

"Will the New Frederick Douglass Please Stand Up: Modern Slavery and the New Slave Narrative"

June 2, 2015

Prof. HAL CRIMMEL (Weber State University, UT, USA)

"Writing Water in the American West"

May 5, 2015

Summer Term 2014

Prof. ED FOLSOM (The University of Iowa, IA, USA)

"'Whoever you are holding me now in hand': Walt Whitman's Invention of the Erotics of Reading" - Guest Lecture and Workshop

July 28, 2014

Prof. MICHAEL KIMMAGE (The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA)

"Monumental America"

June 17, 2014

Prof. TAYLOR HAGOOD (Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA)

"Disability, Identity, and the United States South"

May 20, 2014

Winter Term 2013/14

Prof. UDO HEBEL (President, University of Regensburg, Germany)

"American Visual Culture Studies, Interpictoriality, and the Power of Iconic American Pictures"

January 28, 2014

Prof. JULIA LEYDA (Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan/Free University Berlin, Germany)

"Breaking Bad, Social Media, and Fan-Generated Texts"

December 10, 2013

Prof. GEORGE BLAUSTEIN (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

"On the Genealogy of Jokes: Humor and History in Mark Twain"

November 28, 2013

Summer Term 2013

Prof. BILLY STRATTON (University of Denver, CO, USA)

"Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War"

July 3, 2013

Prof. MICHAEL WUTZ (Weber State University, Ogden, UT, USA)

“Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and the Archaeology of the Postcolonial”

June 5, 2013

Prof. KIRBY FARRELL (University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA)

“The Magic Circle and the Beyond: Psychic Topography and the Structure of Texts”

--in cooperation with English Literature--

June 4, 2013

Dr. JAN D. KUCHARZEWSKI (University of Hamburg, Germany)

“The Capacity for Wonder: Science and Fiction in the Novels of Richard Powers”

May 29, 2013

Prof. BARRETT WATTEN (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)

“dOCUMENTA 13 as Global Archive”

May 22, 2013

Prof. PHIL TIEMEYER (Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, USA)

“Plane Queer: What We Can Learn From the Male Flight Attendant”

May 15, 2013