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.

09.12.2025

ORF Interview - 250 years Jane Austen

An interview with Susanne Reichl on the occasion of Jane Austen´s 250th birthday will be featured by ORF kulturMONTAG on December 15.

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.