On April 14, ASL hosted the annual Regional Colloquium for American Studies. The Colloquium, which has been convening for 10 years, is bringing together colleagues and junior scholars from American Studies Chairs at the universities of Dresden, Halle, Erfurt, Jena, and Leipzig to discuss current PhD-projects in the field. At this year’s Colloquium, eight PhD-candidates presented their work-in-progress:
Esther Wetzel (Halle):
Sensing US-Empire: Embodiment and Identity in Women’s imperial Travel Writing, 1898-1914
Anja Lind (Dresden):
Anarcha-Feminist Solarities: A Literary Analysis of Energy Futures
Emma Weiher (Erfurt):
Resonant Prayer-Poems in the North American Literary Tradition
Andrin Albrecht (Jena):
Romantic Authorships and White Male Genius in the Wake of Moby-Dick
Pia Herzan (Erfurt):
Governed by Voluntariness: Voluntary Civic Engagement and Political Practice during the Yellow Fever Crises in Philadelphia’s Early Republic
Carolin Grzenia (Jena):
Mourning the More-Than-Human: Climate Grief in the Contemporary Memoir
Can Aydin (Dresden):
Nonnormative Sexualities and Indigenous Crossings
Lisa Patt (Erfurt):
Activism and Religious Nostalgia in the United States
