Updates & News

Updates & News

Dates and Events

Upcoming Conference

Together with the Department of German Studies, the Department of English and American Studies co-hosts the international conference “Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Literature.” It will take place from November 25 to 26, 2025. On the first day of the conference, a photo exhibition with works of Trui Hanoulle will open. The conference marks the opening of the "Koblenz Research Unit Body - Travel - Literature," which will continue and expand the work of the DFG-funded Research Network "Traveling Bodies."

Participation is free (we kindly ask you to register). Further information can be found on the conference webpage.

Kick-off: Three new research areas are funded by the federal research initiative of Rhineland-Palatinate

Three new interdisciplinary research projects are being funded by the federal state of RLP: „Selbstregulation interdisziplinär weiter:denken, Schlüsselkompetenz in sich verändernden Lern- und Lebenswelten“ (on self-regulation and how it can be promoted in different educational contexts), „Transition und Transgression: fluide Geschlechterbewegungen“ (about fluid constructions of gender and transitions between/ transgressions of fixed gender structures), and „Spielend Gesellschaft bilden – SpieGelBild“ (how games construct social structures and identities). We are happy that our department is part of two of these research projects: Professor Constanze Juchem-Grundmann works in the project on self-regulation and Professor Nicole Maruo-Schröder is part of the project on transitions and transgressions with regard to gender.

More information (in German) can be found here.

Next KL-Meeting
3 December 2025, 12.15 (F 144)

Next Meeting of the Leitungskollegium (LeiKo):
t.b.d.

Important Information – Exams

Exams in M 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 

Professor Dr. Michael Meyer will still read your term papers and take your oral exams if you attended one of his courses. Exams based on courses taken with PD Dr. Simone Broders, Dr. Jody Skinner and Maria Mothes will be graded by other examiners, depending on the topic area. 

Exams in M 4.1 (Mothes)

If you have taken the M4.1 course with Maria Mothes and have either not yet taken the M4 examination in the B.Ed. English or have not passed it yet, please contact Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (salthaus@uni-koblenz.de), who will review the essays.

Exams in M 4.2 (courses up until winter term 2023/2024), new examiner

If you have taken the M4.2 course in previous semesters with the lecturers Pleyer, Busch, Lensch or Axer and have either not yet taken the M4 examination in the B.Ed. English or have not yet passed it, please contact JProf Dr. Andreas Weilinghoff (weilinghoff@uni-koblenz.de), who will review the essays. If you have any questions, please contact the module coordinator for M4, Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (salthaus@uni-koblenz.de) at any time.

New Publications

Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermeyer, eds. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora – Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Soon available in our library.

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Announcements

November 2025

International Conference: "Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing"
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder & Prof. Dr. Uta Schaffers
When: November 25-26, 2025
Where: Campus

The conference will take place as part of the founding of the research unit Körper · Reise · Literatur / Body · Travel · Literature at the University of Koblenz. We invite papers that address the topic of the body and corporeality in travel writing. The focus should be on texts that are based on actual journeys and therefore feature an inscribed habitus of experience and 'authenticity'. For more information, please click here.