New Fulbright Professor at SINAS
2018-10-07
We are very happy to welcome the Distinguished Fulbright Professor in American Studies 2018/19 to SINAS.
Mark S. Weiner is Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar at the Rutgers University Law School in Newark, N.J. He is the author of four award-winning books about the relation between government and individual freedom, issues of race and American citizenship, and law and visual culture. An advocate for public legal education, he teaches constitutional law, free speech, history of the common law and church-state relations.
Professor Weiner will be teaching courses on American politics and constitutional law. He can be reached at marksweiner@worldsoflaw.com.
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"Impeachment inquiry opened against US president Joe Biden"
Professor Dag Blanck and US correspondent Roger Wilson discuss the impeachment inquiry against US president Joe Biden on P1 Morgon.
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Fulbright Chair 2023/24
SINAS is happy to welcome Professor Eric Weisbard, this year’s Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies!
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Book Launch: A History of the Surrealist Novel
Sunday 10 September, 18:00-19:30. This online event is organised by the International Society for the Study of Surrealism Virtual Events.
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"Race and ethnicity will play a major role in the 2024 US presidential election."
Opinion piece by Dag Blanck in Sydsvenskan
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Dag Blanck at Almedalen
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ERC Advanced Grant to Professor Ashleigh Harris
ERC Advanced Grant is intended for active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last ten years, and the averaget grant is 2,5 million EUR. Under the call 2022, 218 researchers from 20 countries will share 544 million EUR.
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Course Collaboration with Augustana College
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New book - Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement
Edited By Hazel Price, Dan McIntyre.
Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of the wide range of public engagement activities currently being undertaken in linguistics, as well as practically focused advice aimed at helping linguists to do public engagement well.
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Fulbright Professor 2022/23
SINAS welcomes Scott Laderman, the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies 2022/23.
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New PhD Thesis: Sally Anderson Boström - “Closed Place, Open Word”: Reading the Postplantation in Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange
This dissertation focuses on three authors who came of age in the 1980s, Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange, reading their novels set respectively on Trinidad, Hawai‘i, and the Sea Islands, as postplantation expressions.
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New PhD Thesis: Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson - Time of Turmoil: Reading and Media Combination in the American Young Adult Novels Cathy’s Book, Skeleton Creek, and Endgame
In an attempt both to retain interest in Young Adult fiction and to capitalize on the growing Internet usage among teens, many writers experiment with novel forms of storytelling that combined print fiction with other media. This study focuses on three such American Young-Adult novels to show a spectrum of experimental endeavors: Cathy’s Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233 (2006), Skeleton Creek: Ryan’s Journal (2009), and Endgame: The Calling (2014).
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New book - Erik Smitterberg: Syntactic Change in Late Modern English Studies on Colloquialization and Densification
Presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change.
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Fulbright Professor 2021/22
SINAS welcomes this year’s Fulbright Chair in American Studies Cathryn Halverson to Uppsala.
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New Book - Elsa Högberg (red.): Modernist Intimacies
Illuminates the new and unsettling forms of intimacy explored in modernist literature and art.
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New book - Michael Boyden (ed.): Climate and American Literature
Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. The volume, published by Cambridge University Press, traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today.
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Recorded Lecture: "The American Dilemma 2020: Nine Lessons for Healthy Democracies"
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Kronprinsessan fick USA-uppdatering
Kronprinsessan gav ett digitalt företräde för Dag Blanck, professor i nordamerikastudier vid Engelska institutionen.
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New doctoral thesis - Sindija Franzetti: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World: Five Contemporary American Case Studies
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New book - Sofia Ahlberg: Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis
Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of different crises currently affecting students – from climate change and systemic racism, to the global pandemic
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Information Regarding Spring Term 2021
Due to the pandemic situation, teaching at the English Department in the spring term 2021 will be conducted online. More information before the start of the course will be available on the course pages in the Student Portal as usual and will be provided by your teachers. Some practical information about online teaching is available here.
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Ny bok - Erik Åsard: Med lögnen som vapen - Donald Trump och den amerikanska drömmens kris
Erik Åsard, professor emeritus i Nordamerikastudier, utkommer med ännu en rykande aktuell bok om världens supermakt nummer ett.
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Important information about the autumn term schedule
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New doctoral thesis: Elisabeth Lutteman - Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama
"The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama."
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Pedagogical award to Christine Mackay Tircomnicu
We congratulate our colleague Christine Mackay Tircomnicu on receiving the Independent Pedagogical Award for 2020.
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New book - Ailbhe Ó Corráin, Fionntán de Brún & Maxim Fomin (eds.): Scotha cennderca cen on: A Festschrift for Séamus Mac Mathúna
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New book - Merja Kytö och Erik Smitterberg (eds). Late Modern English: Novel encounters
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Study Couselling Online
We provide study guidance online.
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New Doctoral Thesis: Erika Berglind Söderqvist. Evidential Marking in Spoken English: Linguistic Functions and Gender Variation
"This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality [...], hearsay evidentiality [...], or inferential evidentiality [...]. The aims of this thesis are to investigate whether there are quantitative differences between women and men in how often they mark evidentiality, and to analyze the functions of evidentiality in interaction in order to formulate an explanation of any gender differences."
The thesis will be publicly defended on 18 April 2020.
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Commentary on Demographic and Political Developments in the USA
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Study Counsellor's office hours
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New Book - Merja Kytö and Claudia Claridge (eds). Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives
Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation.
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New Book - Elsa Högberg: Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy
A "major new contribution to Woolf and modernist studies." – Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK
A "stunningly insightful and truly timely new work" – Jane Goldman, Reader in English, University of Glasgow, UK
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New Book - Ashleigh Harris: Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa
The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons. These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today.
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USA:s alla presidenter
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New podcast episode
A new episode of our podcast amerikaanalys is now out. Please check it out!
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Research Grant to Amanda Lagerkvist
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Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American Studies 2019/2020
SINAS is happy to announce the arrival of the 2019/2020 Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American Studies. This year´s incumbent is Dr Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue who is Associate Professor of English in Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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New Podcast: Amerikaanalys
The news noise about the United States is sometimes deafening. The new podcast Amerikaanalys (in Swedish) should appeal to those who really want to understand what is happening, and why, in American politics and social development. We discuss topics that do not really fit into the usual news flow. Together with a US-based journalist, researchers from Halmstad University and Uppsala University talk in depth about the complex and difficult issues.
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New Podcast: Amerikaanalys
The news noise about the United States is sometimes deafening. The new podcast Amerikaanalys (in Swedish) should appeal to those who really want to understand what is happening, and why, in American politics and social development. We discuss topics that do not really fit into the usual news flow. Together with a US-based journalist, researchers from Halmstad University and Uppsala University talk in depth about the complex and difficult issues.
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News from America
Welcome to News from America
A one-day seminar at Uppsala UniversityHow do Swedes get their information about the U.S.? What role do Swedish correspondents in the U.S. play? How does the news reporting shape our understanding of the United States? What role does the current president of the United States play for the Swedish (and general) news coverage of the U.S.? What has the changing media landscape of recent years meant? How does the news reporting relate the general Swedish image of the U.S.? And what does the intense focus on news from America mean for reporting from other parts of the world?
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Listen to the 2019 Fulbright Lecture
Listen to Professor Mark S. Weiner give this year's Fulbright Lecture titled "Understanding Trumpism: American Politics and Culture in an Age of Globalization." The lecture was held on 28 March 2019.
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Listen to the 2019 Fulbright Lecture
Listen to Professor Mark S. Weiner give this year's Fulbright Lecture entitled "Understanding Trumpism: American Politics and Culture in an Age of Globalization." The lecture was held on 28 March 2019.
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Merja Kytö awarded the Gustaf Adolf Medal
Professor Merja Kytö is awarded the Gustaf Adolf Medal for her outstanding research in English language history and for her contributions as head of the English Department 2011-2018.
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Merja Kytö awarded the Rettig Prize
Merja Kytö, professor at the Department of English, is awarded the Rettig Prize by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for her innovative work in syntax, pragmatics and corpus linguistics in early modern and modern English.
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New Doctoral Thesis: Leonard Driscoll. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
"This study examines the representation of archaeological artefacts in the fiction of a diverse body of writers, including Agatha Christie, Mary Butts, and Arthur Conan Doyle, while offering detailed analyses of the presence of archaeology in the works of Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard, and Virginia Woolf."
The thesis will be publicly defended on 16 February 2019 at 10:15 in Geijersalen, English Park Campus.
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What Happened? The United States After the Mid-Terms
Welcome to a panel discussion about the recent elections in the United States. How can we understand the outcome of the elections? What does this mean for the coming years?
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New Licentiate Thesis: Edward Long. For God's Sake: Casual Oaths and Selected Discourse Markers in Early Modern English, 1560-1760
The thesis will be publicly defended on 29 October 2018 at 15:15, room 7-1013, Engelska Parken.