Nov 19 – Guest Lecture “Canada-US Borderlands: From Wallace Stegner to Thomas King” 🗓

Guest lecture as part of the lecture series “Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture” by Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst

Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner is a Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the American Studies department of the Saarland University (Universität des Saarlandes). She specialises North American Literature and Culture – e.g. Latinx Literature and Canadian Literature – as well as Body Studies, American Pop Culture, Gender Studies and Border Studies. Among her numerous publications are the book Narratives of Border Crossings: Literary Approaches and Negotiations (2021) which she edited, as well as the article “‘To Live in the Borderlands Means…’: The Transcultural Poetics of Lee Maracle” (2019), published in Le Canada: une culture de métissage/Transcultural Canada.

You can download the poster for the event here.