News & Events 2020
17 November 2020Joining the American Studies Team in Winter 2020/21
Chang Liu received his M.A. in Intercultural Anglophone Studies from Bayreuth University, and then studied Sinology in Würzburg. He is currently working on his PhD at Heidelberg University, investigating the reception of American pop icon Madonna in China. Before coming to Germany, he lived in Beijing, serving as the musical affairs officer at the French Embassy. His research interests include the studies of waste and the environment, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, as well as popular culture and celebrities.
Chang Liu will teach an additional block seminar on “LGBTQIA in America” at UDE. Registration for this seminar in Modules VI, IX, Lit2, Lit2_BA, Y, and I is open until Nov 27.
Charlotte Piwek-Mengede studied German and English Literature, Language and Communication at the UDE before going on to pursue a Master’s degree in Creative Writing & Literature at University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She is currently a PhD student at UDE and is in the process of enrolling in a Cotutelle Degree at the Macquarie University in Sydney. The topic of her PhD thesis is “White Male Americanness in Travel Fiction: Hemingway, Kerouac & Lerner.”
Charlotte Piwek-Mengede teaches a seminar on “White Males Traveling: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.”
Before coming to Essen to pursue a doctoral degree, Ana Elisa Gomez Laris studied Comparative Literature and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, spending time abroad in Denmark and Switzerland. She identifies as an activist researcher, engaging where possible in endeavors uniting her academic and social interests. As such, knowledge transfer and the symbiotic relationship between academia and society play a pivotal role in her research approach. Prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Anglophone Studies, she worked as an assistant editor of the quarterly Amerikastudien / American Studies and as a research advisor at the University Medical Center Mainz. She calls Germany, Mexico, and the United States home.
17. November 2020Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht
Studentische Hilfskraft zur technischen Vorbereitung und administrativen Unterstützung bei der Durchführung der gemeinsamen Frühjahrsakademie RUDESA 2021: Grounding Transnational American Studies der Nordamerikastudienprogramme der Universität Duisburg-Essen und der Radboud University Nijmegen (8.-12. März 2021)
The U.S. Presidential Election 2020
Curated by junior scholars from the RuhrCenter of American Studies, this website provides in-depth information about the current political situation and its social-cultural and historical contexts en route to the 2020 election.
March 16-20, 2020 RUDESA 2020
While the 6th edition of the Spring Academy RUDESA was scheduled to take place in Nijmegen and in Essen, the onset of the global pandemic COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdown asked organizers, students, and speakers to shift quickly from an in-person format to a digital exchange. The topic for this year, “Grounding Failure,” connected the interest in commemorative practices and memory culture of the American Studies department at Radboud University Nijmegen with the research focus on cultural and literary mediations of failure at the Department of Anglophone Studies of the University Duisburg-Essen. With its shift to the digital, RUDESA concentrated on exploring the online representations of commemorative practices in Nijmegen ranging from The Liberation Museum to the Bombardment of Nijmegen, Commemoration of the Jewish Population, the Sunset March and the Oversteek Bridge, and official tourist information provided by the city. In his keynote lecture, “On Not Being a Modernist: Disability, Failure, and Performance in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men,” Gavin Jones (Stanford University) foregrounded the performative nature of failing. While his lecture focused on the literary depictions and functions of failure, the theoretical dimension of his talk provided the foundation for student projects about failure as a daily experience whether in commemorative practices, city planning and architecture, the system of higher education, the ideology of “a positive life,” or normative discourses of the body.
RUDESA was made possible with the kind support of the International Office, the Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, the Department of Anglophone Studies, and the Gastdozierendenprogramm of the UDE.
June 24, 2020Celebrate "La Fête nationale du Québec"!
Die Generaldelegierte von Québec für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz, Frau Elisa Valentin,
lädt herzlich dazu ein, den Nationalfeiertrag von Québec mit einem reichhaltigen digitalen Angebot zu feiern!
Besuchen Sie am 24. Juni 2020 diese besonderen Feierlichkeiten auf http://www.international.gouv.qc.ca/de/allemagne/fete-nationale
Verschiedene digitale Angebote stehen Ihnen dort zur Verfügung. Lernen Sie die neue Generaldelegierte kennen, tauchen Sie ein in Québecs Kultur und Kulinarik und erfahren Sie mehr über die Frankophonie.
January 30, 2020, 4 pm s.t.Interdisciplinary Research Seminar with Diane Negra (U College Dublin): “Terms of Intimacy in the Contemporary ‘Chick Flick’”
On January 30th, 2020, the Essener Kolleg für Geschlechterforschung will host an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar with Prof. Dr. Diane Negra of the University College Dublin and Maria Sulimma. The Research Seminar will introduce current research at the conjunction of media studies and gender studies. It features the lecture “Terms of Intimacy in the Contemporary ‘Chick Flick’” by Diane Negra and a response by Maria Sulimma.
It will take place from 4 pm (s.t.) to 6:30 pm in room R12 S06 H01. Please register beforehand at ekfg@uni-due.de by January 28th.
For more information and the schedule, please visit the event page of the Essener Kolleg für Geschlechterforschung: https://www.uni-due.de/ekfg/ekfg-fachgespraech_mit_prof._dr._diane_negra.php
Bewerbung bis 1. Juli VDAC-Stipendien in die USA zu vergeben
Der VDAC (Verband Deutsch-Amerikanischer Clubs) vergibt auch in diesem Jahr Stipendien für einen einjährigen Studienaufenthalt in den USA (auch in Verbindung mit einer Teaching Assistant Stelle im German Department der jeweiligen Uni). Bewerber können aus insgesamt 19 amerikanischen Universitäten wählen.
Infos zu Bewerbungsfrist, Unterlagen etc. unter www.vdac.de und über dafn.studentexchange@googlemail.com.