Welcome to the Chair of English Literature including the Literatures of the Middle Ages!

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“A poet is someone who stands on the door sill and sees the room before her as a sea whose waves she might dive through. … A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention.”
- Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

Upcoming Events

LitCult Colloquium

This colloquium provides a venue for current research projects in literary studies and cultural studies (including: media studies, American studies, Anglophone studies, medieval and early modern studies) at the English Department. In addition, we also feature a number of guest speakers from other departments of the University of Freiburg as well as external guests from other universities both national and international. Join us every Tuesdays 4:15 pm!

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Contemporary Literature Book Club

The Contemporary Literature Book Club is back! We meet once a month to discuss a work of contemporary English-language literature. Students, faculty and staff are always welcome to join us.

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Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen's Inaugural Lecture
“‘I love originality so much I keep copying it’: Wiederholung als Prinzip der Literatur”

Aula (KGI), Wednesday, October 23, 4:15 pm

We wish everyone an enjoyable winter term!

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in switch licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour… (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales)

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