Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

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We've been observing the climate of increasing hate, racism & disinformation on this site for a while, but it has now become truly unbearable. Until further notice, we'll therefore stop posting here. Find us on Bluesky & Mastodon (links in replies) 🦋🐘

Die Zeitschrift „kommunikation@gesellschaft“ plant in Zusammenarbeit mit dem #FID Media (@AdlrLink) eine Sonderausgabe zum Thema „#OpenAccess – kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlich gelesen“. Der #CfP ist noch bis zum 31.12.2024 geöffnet: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/a…

The #BavarianAmericanAcademy looks forward to welcoming Kimberly J. Brown (@dartmouth) to @amerikahaus on Thursday! Kimberly J. Brown will speak about "Antiblackness and the Politics of the Visual." 👉Further information & registration (free): amerikahaus.de/ausstellungen-…

... or if you prefer your reading to be digital, there's the Inklings-Jahrbuch (Yearbook of @Inklings_DE ) for you! The 2005 Yearbook on #GeorgeMacDonald is conveniently available in #OpenAccess in our very own online repository, The Stacks! thestacks.libaac.de/collections/6d…

It's the 200th birthday of #ScottishWriter George MacDonald, famous for his very influential Victorian fantasy texts! Find many of his primary works as well as lots of secondary #LiteraryStudies texts on him in our collection #BOTD #GeorgeMacDonald #FantasyLiterature

Wir verlassen X. In Hamburg sagt man Tschüss (zu Fake News, Hetze, Diskriminierung, Hatespeech & Verherrlichung von Gewalt). Der mit Musks Übernahme von Twitter eingeleitete Niedergang hat zuletzt einen nicht mehr zu tolerierenden Tiefpunkt erreicht: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=39327 #eXit

@Gregory_Mag12 ... and of course we have lots of other works of #LiteraryStudies, #FilmStudies & #AdaptationStudies on #TheWizardOfOz as a #PopCulture phenomenon, too! #AmericanStudies #CulturalStudies

@Gregory_Mag12 Our library also houses a copy of Maguire's doctoral thesis, on microfilm: it's called "Themes in English Language: Fantastic Literature for Children, 1938-1988". Find it here in our catalogue: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/… #ChildrensLiterature #EnglishLiterature #AmericanLiterature

The #WickedMovie has hit the cinemas, and we're ready for our trip to the land of Oz with the 4 books from the original "Wicked" book series by @Gregory_Mag12 - pictured here in different editions in our library 💚💗 #Adaptations #AdaptationStudies #AmericanLiterature #flatlay

Today is the birthday of #ChristinaRossetti, #JoanDidion & #HanifKureishi! Isn't it striking that both Didion & Kureishi have a book called the black / white album, respectively? If you prefer more colourful reads, here are our illustrated editions of Rossetti‘s "Goblin Market"

"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary #AmericanPoetry applying #AffectTheory, #QueerTheory, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective #Poetry #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" ✒ #LucyMaudMontgomery, Canadian author ("Anne of Green Gables") was #BOTD 30 November 1874. #Literature

#JobOpportunity: Die @UniFAU sucht im Bereich der #AmericanStudies (Lehrstuhl @Prof_Heike_Paul) eine Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben 📆 Deadline: 20.12.24 💡 Schwerpunkte: Cultural Studies, Kulturtheorie, Populärkulturforschung, Affect Studies 🔎 Details: jobs.fau.de/jobs/lehrkraft…

Today is Lucy Maud Montgomery's 150th #birthday - a great occasion to repost this thread from April with some gems of our collection related to Montgomery's children's classic, #AnneOfGreenGables #LucyMaudMontgomery #BOTD #AnneWithAnE

@TheBookerPrizes @SolstadDag223 ... and find "Orbital" here in our catalogue: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/… 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀

Greetings from outer space! To celebrate the @TheBookerPrizes win of @SolstadDag223's novel "Orbital", we took the book from our library to the Planetenweg (Planet Walk) in Göttingen, a series of monuments of the celestial bodies of our solar system! Look how tiny Earth is! 🌍

Get your abstracts in for "An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins”, The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference. This year we’re returning to Flann’s birthplace in Strabane 24-27th June 2025. parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/759/

#BritCult2024 ended on a high note with @Trillianapher's talk on See Red Women's Workshop with great political poster art & @dy_dilarayilmaz's talk on #sadgirl books as a social media phenomenon on the #bookmarket (#booktok), especially by #IrishWriters #IrishLiterature #BritCult