American Literature

Looking for a teaching opportunity? The Professorship for American Literature is hiring a tutor for the lecture series "American Literary and Cultural History"in the fall term 2025.

We are delighted to announce the publication of EJAS's special issue on Laura E. Richards`s children`s poems and the poetics of nineteenth-century American nonsense, co-edited by Etti Gordon Ginzburg and Verena Laschinger. The research presented in…

The European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature convened at the University of Zagreb, Croatia on 8-9 November 2024 to discuss "The Whole Family" (1908), a collaborative novel by twelve authors, including William Dean Howells, Mary…

Submissions are now open for the 2024 Essay Prize. The prize is awarded for particularly well written student papers in American or British Literature.