Department of English and American Studies

News and Events

15.12.2025 18:00

Vienna Lit Book Group - 20th anniversary

All spots for the December Meeting ("The Turnglass" including Q&A with Gareth Rubin via Zoom) are booked, but you can register for the waiting list.

12.12.2025 17:00

In an exhibition space tactile paintings of crunchy leaves on the floor mirror some leaves outside of the window. Hung on the wall are two headphones and accompanying access copies of a sound artwork.

Workshop "Real life with the crippled leaves - Storytelling across time” with Ren Loren Britton

We invite you to a Poetry Workshop with trans*disciplinary artist-designer Ren Loren Britton. All welcome upon prior registration via marta.werbanowska@univie.ac.at.

10.12.2025

Call for applications - Tenure-Track Professorship

Apply for the Tenure-Track Professorship in Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Learning of English by December 10 on the jobportal.

10.12.2025 15:00

Defensio Matthias Mittendorfer "A functional approach to the prosody of information packaging"

Supervisor: Evelien Keizer. On-site in ROM2 (Romanistik Dept.) and online.

04.12.2025

Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember

Dr. Theresa Matzinger´s study, now published in the journal "PLOS One", suggests that the phonemic composition of words determines how well they are remembered.

01.12.2025

Research Grant from the 'Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien' for Tatiana Konrad

Tatiana Konrad’s project “Citizen Science for Environmental Awareness in Vienna” has received funding from the City of Vienna. Congratulations!