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Hit the road with us in the Game Design Club as we adapt Sinclair Lewis’s road trip novel Free Air (1919) into a tabletop adventure. Get creative and design the most mind- and tire-blowing journey across early 20th-century America you can think of.

The Game Design Club invites students to approach literature and games from a new interdisciplinary perspective. As a platform dedicated to breaking barriers between theory and creative practice, it aims to provide students with a unique…

The 4th edition of the Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, co-published by Prof. Dr. Timo Müller, newly conceptualizes the history of American literature. While chapters from Puritanism to Postmodernism, that are considered classics in American Literary Studies, were just marginally altered, others will be found drastically revised or even newly written. Detailed portraits of Indigenous and Latin American literature as well as African American and Asian American literature take into account the…

The ERC-funded research project "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility" is hosting a conference at the University of Konstanz. "Cultures of Automobility" will feature presentations by over 30 researchers from various countries and disciplines, with keynotes by Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbilt) and Stéphanie Ponsavady (Wesleyan).

We would like to invite you to the lecture "Literary Prestige and the Laureate Position in Cultural Space" by Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt (University Heidelberg). The lecture will take place on Thursday, July 11, from 5.00 to 6.30 p.m. in room H 303.

This lecture looks at literary prestige from the perspective of a new theory of value. It argues that today’s system of literary prizes has evolved from an older socio-institutional formation that I will call the “laureate position” in cultural…

There are over 700 illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe’s work that come from painters and artists from around the world. Based on his recently published book, The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe, Professor Magistrale’s lecture focuses on the early artists—starting with Manet and the French symbolists—and continues to trace the evolution of Poe illustration into modernism. The lecture features well-known art and artists as well as illustration that will, like Poe himself, create a highly visual…

We are proud to share the news with you that Dr. Dominik Steinhilber (American Studies) has won this year's University of Konstanz Award for Teaching Excellence. The LUKS Award (Lehrpreis der Universität Konstanz von Studierenden) recognizes university lecturers who serve as role models with outstanding teaching practices. The award is sponsored by The Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. The award ceremony will be held during the university's Dies Academicus on July 4th.

The CfP for the 33rd Annual CDE Conference on New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre is online.

04 June 2024, 11.45-13.15 G 421

If you will be writing your bachelor or master thesis this semester, you may like to participate in a writing centre workshop delivered as part of Prof. Christina Wald's Research and Exam Colloquium. All BASt, LKM and MEd/BEd English and Masterschule Literaturwissenschaft students who are actively working on their final thesis can take part. The workshop focuses both on developing your thesis structure as well as on time management and concludes with an invitation to participate in or form a new…