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Allgemeines: Anglistisch-amerikanistische Institute

Universitäts- und Forschungsinstitute im deutschsprachigen Raum

[Aachen] Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Institut für Anglistik The Department of English at the RWTH has five department chairs. The department’s website offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and the department’s library. The site also offers information on conferences and student exchange programs.
Arbeitsstelle Minoritätenforschung im englischen Sprachraum The center ‚Arbeitsstelle Minoritätenforschung im englischen Sprachraum‘ coordinates research on minorities in Great Britain, North America and the Pacific. Through its conferences and seminars the center encourages scholars to exchange ideas. Besides the center helps to translate and publish texts which afterwards will appear in the „Osnabrücker Bilinguale Editionen von marginalisierten Autorinnen und Autoren“ (OBEMA).
[Augsburg] Universität Augsburg, Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, research, and links.
[Bamberg] Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Fakultät Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Anglistik The homepage of the department of English is divided into five sections which offer general information on the department, its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Basel] Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, exchange programs, facilities and services, and social activities as well as links to internet resources.
[Bayreuth] Universität Bayreuth, Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft The site offers detailed information about the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, and links.
[Berlin] Freie Universität Berlin; Institut für Englische Philologie The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Besides you will find a description of the DFG-project on Language Typology and many interesting links on literature and linguistics.
[Berlin] Freie Universität Berlin; John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees, and a good link collection.
[Berlin] Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institute of English and American Studies The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. The Institute has got an extra Department of American Studies.
[Berlin] Technische Universität Berlin; Department of English and American Literature The website of the Department of English and American literature at the TU Berlin offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, its drama group and its mediotheque. The website also has a collection of useful links for students of English. It is no longer possible for beginners to enrol since the department will be closed down for financial reasons.
[Bern] Universität Bern; Department of English The site offers very detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, descriptions of research interests, and reading lists. Furthermore there are links to professional organizations and societies, to electronic text archives, libraries, bookshops and to other English Departments at Swiss Universities.
[Bielefeld] Universität Bielefeld, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, English Studies The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Bochum] Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Englisches Seminar The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Furthermore there is a list of links referring to the courses of the last and the current semester.
[Bonn] Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie The Department of English, American and Celtic Studies (IAAK ) specializes in the language and literatures of Anglophone countries and in Celtic languages and literatures.
[Braunschweig] Technische Universität Braunschweig, Englisches Seminar The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, news, and a list of links.
[Bremen] Universität Bremen, Anglistik – Amerikanistik – Englisch The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, research, events, and a list of links.
[Chemnitz] Technische Universität Chemnitz, Department of English The Department of English is subdivided into several units: English Language and Linguistics, British and Commonwealth Literature, American Studies and British and American Cultural Studies. Besides there are also units specialising in teaching methodology. The sites of the different units offer basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Apart from the departmental information one gets a detailed description of the Chemnitz British Studies Project ‚National Identities in Britain‘ which wants to explore ways to overcome some of the short-comings of the study schemes at German universities and some of the problems of intra-disciplinary cooperation within English Studies.
[Darmstadt] TU Darmstadt, Department of Linguistics and Literature The Department of Linguistics and Literature website at the TU Darmstadt offers basic information on the department, including its address, staff, courses, library, programs, and degrees. The department’s library opac is accessible via a Web search engine.
[Dortmund] Universität Dortmund, Department of English and American Studies The Department of English and American Studies at the University of Dortmund website offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. The site has an event calendar, information on exchange programs, and the department’s student’s association.
[Dresden] Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Furthermore there is a site called ‚World of English‘ with many interesting links, e.g. a list of Universities and Colleges abroad.
[Duisburg] Gerhard-Mercator-Universität-GH Duisburg, FB 3: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees, and furthermore provides a collection of useful links for English and American Studies.
[Düsseldorf] Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Anglistisches Institut The website of the department of English offers detailed information about the department, including its units, staff, courses, programmes, degrees, materials, and links.
[Eichstätt] Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, the university library, and the Fachschaft English.
The Elizabethan theatre A lecture by Hilda D. Spear
[Erfurt] Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, and programs. Besides one gets an insight into the journal ‚Erfurt Electronic Studies in English‘ and into the work of the center for ‚Computing in the Humanities‘.
[Erlangen] Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, current projects, programs, and events.
[Essen] Universität GH Essen, Department of English The Department of English at the Uni GH Essen website offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, projects, and contains a number of well-annotated links (Virtual Ressources Centre). The site also contains information on the department’s centres (Virtual Language Centre), services, international contacts, and computers in the humanities projects.
[Frankfurt a. M.] Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.; Institut für England- und Amerikastudien The site offers genaral information on the department, its staff, courses, library, guest lectures, events, and has a few links.
[Freiburg] Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Englisches Seminar The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Besides there is a site referring to the German-American Institute / Carl-Schurz-Haus in Freiburg which is a binational cultural institution that offers library service and a program of lectures and seminars in various fields of American Studies.
[Freiburg] Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Institut für Fremdsprachen, Abteilung Englisch The Department of Foreign Languages at the PH Freiburg website offers general information on the department. A comprehensive link list on English studies is available for students of English.
[Geneve] Universite de Geneve, English Language and Literature The Department of English at the University of Geneva website offers only very basic information on the department, including its programs and facilities.
[Gießen] Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, English Department The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
Glottopedia: the free encyclopedia of linguistics Glottopedia is a freely editable encyclopedia for linguists by linguists that is currently being built up. It will contain dictionary articles on all technical terms of linguistics and is multilingual. In addition, there are survey articles, biographical articles and language articles, potentially on all linguists and all languages. For the time beiing (August 2009) it contains almost 3000 articles and is available both in English and German.
[Graz] Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, English Department The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, events, and projects.
[Graz] Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Department of American Studies The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, events, and student exchange programs.
[Greifswald] Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, happenings, and partner universities in Great Britain and the USA.
[Göttingen] Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie This site so far only offers information on the staff as well as short descriptions of the main research projects.
[Halle] Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The Department of English and American Studies at the University of Halle wesite offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, research projects, and publications. The site also offers a small collection of links, instructional materials for students, and information on the department’s mediatheque.
[Hamburg] Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, facilities, and projects.
[Hannover] Universität Hannover, English Department The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, facilities, and links.
[Heidelberg] Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Fach Englisch The site offers only general information on the department, its staff, courses, programmes, degrees, and links.
[Heidelberg] Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Anglistisches Seminar The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, projects, the department library, and links.
[Hildesheim] Universität Hildesheim, Englische Sprache und ihre Didaktik The Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Hildesheim website offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and research facilities.
[Innsbruck] Universität Innsbruck, Department of English Studies The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, and degrees. Furthermore very interesting projects are described like IODL (Innsbruck Open and Distance Learning), a project run by the Department of English, which is aiming at the development of new open and distance learning technologies and materials, or like ICAMET (Innsbruck Archive of Machine-readable English Texts), a collection of medieval texts.
[Innsbruck] Universität Innsbruck; Institut für Amerikastudien The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, and publications.
[Jena] Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees and studies abroad.
[Karlsruhe] Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe; Fakultät II; Institut für Fremdsprachen und Sprachlehrforschung; Englisch The Department of English at the PH Karlsruhe website offers only very basic information on the department, including its staff and programs. A reading list for students is available online.
[Kassel] Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel, Fachbereich 08, Anglistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its courses, programs, and degrees. There is a link called ‚Anglistik-Kompass Literaturwissenschaft‘ which provides an introductory bibliography.
[Kiel] Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Erziehungswiss. Fakultät, Englische Sprache und Literatur und ihre Didaktik The site offers very basic information on the department staff and courses.
[Kiel] Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Englisches Seminar The site offers very basic information on the department staff and courses. Furthermore there is a list of links including one to the ‚Zentrum für Amerikastudien‘ and several others to interesting sites concerning literatur, linguistics, and cultural studies.
[Klagenfurt] Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The Department of English and American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt website offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, events, theatre group, language lab, and research projects.
[Koblenz] Universität Koblenz-Landau; Abteilung Koblenz; Anglistik Online The English department website offers detailed information on the department, including its part and full time staff, courses of study, semester overviews, and requirements and degrees. The site also offers student information, including its student organisation, facilities, exchange programs, a bulletin board, and on working/studying opportunities abroad.
[Konstanz] Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, projects, and degrees. As a part of the department of literature the English department is standing in close contact with the other subjects.
[Köln] Fachhochschule Köln, Fachbereich Sprachen The Fachhochschule Köln is the only Fachhochschule in Germany offering translation and interpreting courses. The homepage of the seminar offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Köln] Universität Köln, Englisches Seminar The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees. Furthermore the site contains a bibliography of publications by the department staff and the searchable Women’s and Gender Studies Database.
[Köln] Universität Köln, Institut für Englische Sprache und ihre Didaktik The Department of English Language and Didactics at the University of Cologne website offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, and exchange programs.
[Landau] Universität Koblenz-Landau, Abteilung Landau, Institut für Anglistik The site offers only general information on the department, including its staff, programmes, courses, degrees, and links.
[Lausanne] L’Universite de Lausanne, English Department The English Department at the University of Lausanne website offers only very basic information on the department, including its staff and courses.
[Leipzig] Universität Leipzig, Institut für Amerikanistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, facilities, and links.
[Ludwigsburg] Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg; Fakultät II; Institut für Sprache; Abteilung Englisch The Department of English at the PH Ludwigsburg website offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, and programs. A comprehensive reading list for students is available on the page.
[Magdeburg] Universität Magdeburg, Institut für fremdsprachige Philologien, Anglistik The site offers basic information about the department, including staff, projects, courses, programs and degrees.
[Mainz] Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophonie (IAAA) The site offers basic information on the department, including its courses, programs, and degrees.
[Mainz] Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Department of English The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, projects, and links.
[Mainz/Germersheim] Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Scottish Studies Centre The Scottish Studies Centre is one of only two research departments outside the UK focussing on Scottish life and letters. As a centre for interdisciplinary research and teaching, with emphasis on the study of Scottish literature in its socio-cultural context, its main objective is to encourage an international approach in Scottish studies. The centre also offers courses for undergraduates and graduates (diploma) and supports research on post-graduate (Ph.D.) and post-doctoral levels. A Scottish Studies Newsletter is published biannually to inform about work in progress and forthcoming publications.
[Mannheim] Universität Mannheim, Lehrstühle Anglistik The English department is subdivided into five sections which cover the following fields of research: Middle English Literature, British and Commonwealth Literature, English Language and Linguistics, American Literature and Culture, and English for social sciences and economics. The sites of the different sections offer general information on the department, including its staff, courses, and projects.
[Marburg] Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, and degrees, and gives detailed information concerning studies abroad.
[München] Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Englische Philologie The Department of English is divided into five sections which cover the following fields of research: History of the Language and Medieval Literature, Modern Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and Literature since 1500. The site offers information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, libraries and media. Apart from the departmental library the Department is housing the Shakespeare Research Library which is specialized for studies on Shakespeare and the literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages and which collects all material relevant to the historical and present-day reception of Shakespeare in German-speaking countries.
[München] Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amerika Institut „The program at the Department of American Studies includes two independent subprograms, which are sometimes summarized under the vague title ‚Amerikanistik‘ (or ‚American Studies‘): American Cultural Studies and American Literature Studies. In both programs students can obtain the Master’s Degree and additionally the Ph.D. The ‚Amerika Institut‘ possesses one of the best libraries in its field. Both programs deal primarily with the United States, but sometimes include Canada and the Caribbean in its scope as well.“
[Münster] Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Englisches Seminar The Department of English at the University of Münster website offers a detailed overview of the activities of the English department, including its staff, courses, programs, research projects, conferences, institutions, and services. The site has an extensive collection of services for students of English.
[Münster] Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Aldous-Huxley-Forschungsstelle / Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies The Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies (CAHS) was approved of and founded as a research centre by the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (University of Münster) in spring 1998 and is part of the Department of English. It functions as a base and vehicle for the activities of the international Aldous Huxley Society (AHS). The CAHS critically edits the works of Aldous Huxley, based on the collation of the British and American editions of individual works, beginning with Island. It puzblishes a Huxley annual, in collaboration with Huxley scholars of international acclaim. The CAHS houses a special library, with a collection of manuscripts, typescripts, editions and works related to Huxley an dmaintains a data base of primary and secondary literature.
[Neuchatel] L’Universite de Neuchatel, Institute of English Studies The Institute of English Studies offers programs of study in English language and literature. At Neuchatel there is an excellent student / teacher ratio, which allows everyone to know each other on a first-name basis.
[Oldenburg] Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Anglistik The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Osnabrück] Universität Osnabrück, Anglistik/Amerikanistik/Englisch The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, degrees, and projects.
[Paderborn] Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn, Anglistik/Amerikanistik The site offers detailed information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Passau] Universität Passau; Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers information on the department, including the staff, courses, programs, and degrees.
[Potsdam] Universität Potsdam, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, degrees, and activities.
[Regensburg] Universität Regensburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The homepage of the Department of English and American studies provides entry to two different sections: the linguistic and the literature section. Both sites offer basic information on the departments, including their staff, courses, programs, degrees and research initiatives. Especially the research activities of the linguistic section seem to be interesting. Besides this section offers also information on ‚English World-Wide – A Journal of Varieties of English‘ which contains scholarly articles, research in progress, short annotated texts, bibliographies and reviews on regional and social variation in English around the world.
[Rostock] Universität Rostock, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik This site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programmes and degrees.
[Saarbrücken] Universität des Saarlandes, Anglistik The site offers information on the department, including its staff, courses, and degrees. Furthermore one gets a detailed description of an important departmental section – called ‚Arbeitsstelle für die institutionelle Vermittlung von Literatur‘ – which investigates the influence of literary institutions on the dissemination of translated literature.
[Saarbrücken] Universität des Saarlandes, Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur This site provides information on the Centre for Canadian and Anglo American Cultures (CCAC) and the Zentrum fuer Kanada- und Nordamerikastudien at Saarland University (NALK). The NALK informes about its lectures, tutorials, exchange programs, and staff. The CCAC offers information about different research projects of the centre, with special emphasis on the following topics: States of the Art, F. P. Grove, Cascadia, and Mediation.
[Salzburg] Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, and projects.
[Siegen] Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen, Anglistik The site offers general information on the department, including its staff, courses, projects and degrees.
[Stuttgart] Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Literaturwissenschaft, Abteilung Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, and programs.
[Trier] Trierer Centrum für Amerikastudien The TCAS is an academic center at the University of Trier devoted to interdisciplinary teaching and research on American literature and culture. It was officially opened in the summer semester of 2004.
[Trier] Universität Trier, Anglistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, and some interesting links concerning English Studies.
[Trier] Zentrum für Kanada-Studien The Canadian Studies Centre (ZKS) is one of the central institutions of the University of Trier. The ZKS supports interdisciplinary research and teaching in Canadian Studies, promotes scholarly Canadian Studies, and strengthens the scholarly and cultural relations between Canada and the German speaking countries. Founded in 1976, the ZKS currently comprises all six faculties of the University of Trier.
[Tübingen] Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie The site offers general information about the department, faculty members, research in progress, publications, and course descriptions. Furthermore there is a list of interesting links concerning English Studies on the Internet.
[Vechta] Universität Vechta, Institut für Anglistik The site offers basic information on the department, including staff and programmes.
[Wien] Universität Wien, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik The site offers basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, projects, and publications.
[Wuppertal] Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Anglistik/Amerikanistik This site offers information on the department, its staff, the courses, programs, and degrees, and provides a variety of links useful for people interested in English, e.g.: a list of electronic texts; all kind of linguistic information; sites which are interesting for teachers and researchers; information on geographical, cultural, and social aspects of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the USA; search engines; links to newspapers from all over the world; reference material and server addresses.
[Würzburg] Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut für Englische Philologie The homepage provides quite basic information on the department, including its staff, courses, programs, activities and degrees. Furthermore this site offers a variety of internet resources.
[Zürich] Universität Zürich, Englisches Seminar The site offers a detailed guide to English Studies at the University of Zurich, including information on the department, its staff, courses, programs, degrees, guidelines, and important addresses.

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