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Album released: “Now everybody—” Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon
On 8 May 2020, NYC band Visit released their album “Now everybody—” Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon./ Studies
Scans and loan during our closing
During the closing of our Seminar library, we offer a scan service of chapters or articles or post-delivery of books.
/ Research
Regula Hohl Trillini's latest book reviewed in 'Cambridge Quarterly'
Regula Hohl Trillini's Casual Shakespeare: Three Centuries of Verbal Echoes, a monograph based on her work on HyperHamlet, has just had a rave review: "There is clearly much to celebrate in this innovative contribution to Shakespeare...
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Ed Sanders: The Ups and Downs of Hippie 1967–1969: Three Years in the Universe
1960s countercultural figure Ed Sanders lectured on the ups and downs of Hippie at the conference "The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969" at the English Seminar in September 2019. The lecture—a combined reading, recitation, singing,...
Christian Hänggi’s “Pynchon’s Sound of Music” Published
The first monograph on all things musical in the work of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon was just published by Diaphanes.Upcoming Events
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Past Events
/ Informational event
Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English
/ Colloquium
CANCELLED: Complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexis in L2 development: An investigation of differences across modalities and contexts
Dr. Zeynep Köylü (Universität Basel)/ Public event
CANCELLED: "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981)
American documentary directed by Penelope Spheeris/ Guest lecture / Talk
CANCELLED
Prof. Dr. Rosamond Mitchell (University of Southampton)