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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Feel inspired by the #NobelPrize in Literature to explore #AnneCarson 's writings, or read about her in comparison to other authors of #CanadianLiterature ? Our collection offers a great starting point! (We got more but some books are already with eager readers!) #CanadianStudies #LiteraryStudies

Holding a stack of books by & on Anne Carson in front of a wall overgrown with green and red leaves and berries

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Fictions of Consent" by Urvashi Chakravarty looks how #slavery and fictions of race were crafted in the rhetorics & ideologies of servitude in Early Modern England #History #BritishHistory #EarlyModernHistory #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

Holding the book "Fictions of Consent" in front of an old brick wall

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week: 2 new books on the slavery & #antislavery in a transatlantic context Briget Bennett's book "Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic" traces the influence of the Moravians, Quakers in favour of (British) #abolitionism & highlights the work of women activists #History #BritishHistory

Holding the book "Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic" in front of an old brick wall

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Irish Digital Cultures" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays ed. by Deirdre Flynn & Dr Mary McGill on the question: how are #Irishness & Ireland represented online? #CulturalStudies #IrishStudies #MediaStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Queering 20th-century Irish Women's Writing" by naoise murphy collects Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen & Molly Keane - "uneasy Moderns" thru the lens of #QueerStudies & #PostcolonialStudies, unsettling narratives of progress #IrishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let's look at 3 new books in our collection in #IrishStudies! Molly Ferguson's "Banshees, Hags & Changelings" examines #folklore transformed into contemporary Irish literature by feminist writers who employ a range of folkloric figures #IrishLiterature #FeministLiterature #LiteraryStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And another book on the Nonhuman in #SpeculativeFiction "Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts" by David P. Rando applies the methodology of #AnimalStudies to the works of Octavia E. Butler, Philip K. Dick, K. Ishiguro, J. Winterson & J. M. Coetzee #sciencefiction #LiteraryStudies

Holding the book "Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts" in front of a wall with colourful graffiti of a jellyfish (top) and planet Earth seen from afar in space (bottom)

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rethinking #translation - that's the idea of Douglas Robinson's book "Translating the Nonhuman". How do humans and non-humans communicate in #sciencefiction ? Robinson looks at Delaney's "Babel-17", Elgin's "Native Tongue" & Chiang's "Story of your Life" #LiteraryStudies #TranslationStudies

Holding the book "Translating the Nonhuman" in front of a wall with colourful graffiti of a jellyfish (top) and planet Earth seen from afar in space (bottom)

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In "The Black Pack" Artel Great tells the story of 5 Black comedians - Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend & Arsenio Hall - and their work of using satire & Black humour to transform American comedy #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #MediaStudies #CulturalStudies #BlackPack

Holding the book "The Black Pack" in front of a black wall overgrown with leaves in green, yellow and red

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2 new books in our collection - on the topic of Black humour! "Sass: Black Women's Humor & Humanity" by J Finley looks at Black women comedians' usage of sass as a subversive means to speak back to authority #BlackStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #AmericanStudies #MediaStudies #GenderStudies

Holding the book "Sass" in front of a black wall overgrown with leaves in green, yellow and red

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still reeling from Dolly Parton, we're mourning another great loss: Tim Curry who gave his face & voice to so many great roles If you want to honour his life by learning more about his achievements, check out his #memoir "Vagabond" here: opac.sub.uni-goettin... #autobiography #memoirs #TimCurry

The book "Vagabond" by Tim Curry on a black-and-white background

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The Rose & the Briar - Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad" is a collection of essays on #ballads and what they tell us about America, edited by Wilentz & Marcus, incl an essay on #DollyParton 's "Down from Dover" by Eric Weisbard 🥀 #DollyParton #songwriting #AmericanStudies

The book "The Rose and the Briar" next to an articial, pink rose

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're saddened by the loss of #DollyParton - icon of music & film, supporter of children's literacy & science & so much more💔 Here's a rare book (only 1 other in German libraries!) from 1985 retelling her life for young readers: "Dolly Parton - Country Goin' to Town" by Susan Saunders & Rodney Pate

Holding the book "Dolly Parton - Country Goin' to Town" by Susan Saunders

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you're more of a dog person, we got "In Dogs We Trust" for you - the 1st anthology of #dogs in #AmericanLiterature - covering texts 1644-1954 (fiction, #poetry & nonfiction, mostly 19th & early 20th c), edited by Jacob F Rivers, III & Jeffrey Makala #NonHuman #DogsinLiterature #AmericanStudies

Holding the book "In Dogs We Trust" in front of a graffiti cat

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sadly, we missed this years intl Cat & Dog days 😿 (altho the #dogdays are still ongoing) Here are 2 new books in our collection, starting with "Catland" by Kathryn Hughes, detailing the life of British cat artist #LouisWain & the great cat mania of early 20th c #PopularCulture #BritishArt #kitsch

Holding the book "Catland" in front of a graffiti cat

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

3) "All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020" by Heidi Siegrist uses Southerness as a way to explore queerness of sexuality & place in texts by Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, Randall Kenan, Dorothy Allison & even George RR Martin #QueerLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Holding "All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020" by Heidi Siegrist in front of a wall overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

2) Dive headfirst into the lives of 2 Black lovers in the racist 1920s & their struggles for a better life in Jasmine Elizabeth Smith's blues-infused poetry collection "South Flight", winner of the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize #BlackWriters #AmericanLiterature #AmericanPoetry

Holding "South Flight" by Jasmine Elizabeth Smith in front of a wall overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

3 new arrivals on the Southern States of the USA! 🇺🇸 1) "The Weird South" by Melanie Benson Taylor analyses the duality of the weirdness of the #Anthropocene & the South in Postplantation #AmericanLiterature - tracing human responsibility, both for apocalypse & for deliverance #LiteraryStudies

Holding "The Weird South" by Melanie Benson Taylor in front of a wall overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #DisabilityStudies

Holding the book "The Disabled Detective" in front of a wall with bubble-gum coloured graffiti of pastel and colourful round shapes

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ? Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing w #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities

Holding the book "Divergent Writers" in front of a wall with bubble-gum coloured graffiti of pastel and colourful round shapes

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today starts the joint #conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development in Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison" by the German Association for #BritishStudies #AGF & the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum - w rep.s N. Fabian, S. Berger & M. Guderjan welcoming us #History

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia" #EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion

Holding Lisa Bischoff's book "British Novels and the European Union" in front of a black-and-white-scene of our library, with an "exit" sign above it, with colours changed so the sign is red instead of green

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Red, White and Gree-... um, #AmericanFlagBlue are the colours of the Stars & Stripes, the American flag. For the semiquincentennial of the foundation of the United States of America, find a selection of books from our collection, here at our very own #reflectingpool at the SUB Göttingen #America250

2 stacks of books themed on the American Revolution, American presidents and the Declaration of Independence pictured in front of the water pool (which looks a rich green due to algae) in front of the SUB Central Library building. The sky is a bright blue.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We are at the #Inklings #conference at TU Braunschweig on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic"! Yesterday, organisers Aylin Dilek Walder & Carsten Kullmann as well as Inklings Society president Armin Wallau welcomed us warmly to nicely air-conditioned rooms #FantasyLiterature #LiteraryStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A new addition to our #openaccess repository The Stacks - Vol. 42 of the Inklings Yearbook - on children in #fantasy literature & on fantasy for children! 📖 Follow the link to read & download for free s.gwdg.de/kzWLox #childrensliterature #EnglishLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies #RPG

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today is the 100th birthday of beat poet #AllenGinsberg Browse our collection to explore his writings like the famous "Howl", as well as biographical material & criticism of his writings & their relation to other arts (esp #photography & film) #BOTD #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry

stacks of books by and on Allen Ginsberg

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Beautiful, glamorous, tragic - #MarilynMonroe was #BOTD 100 years ago. Torn between her image of naive sex symbol and her wish to be taken seriously, "MM" continues to dazzle in her pictures and in the fictions & non-fiction texts written about her - not least because of her mysterious death at 36.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Day 3 of #DGfA2026: Chair Stefanie Schäfer opens the Workshop "Narratives of Human/Animal Kinship Relations on Turtle Island " and shares some reading recommendations which also make for great teaching material. #DGfA26 #IndigenousStudies #AnimalStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#DGfA2026 A view from the Schloss. And no, that's not a moat, just a very wet street after a thunderstorm. Starting now: Current events panel on the rise of book banning in the USA.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

1st keynote of day 2 of #DGfA2026 at beautiful Schloss Münster: Katharina Gerund, "Military Spouses Making Kin: Families, Friends, and Foremothers".

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School for whom: students of all levels (BA, MA, PhD) theme: "Resistance and Adaptation" where: Uni Flensburg when: 19-25 July, 2026 incl. intro class to Irish language ECTS-accredited! more info: www.uni-flensburg.de... #IrishStudies #CulturalStudies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Jetzt auf der #BiblioCon26: Treffen der Regional-FIDs, Raum 15. Come and join us (we'll be here until 4), we have snacks!

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice! #GAPS2026 #PostcolonialLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Laura Zander & Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in conversation

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The 1st #GAPS keynote, by Leila Neti, was a lively & fascinating insight into attempts at aestheticisation and/or critique of war & colonial violence in traditions traced back to 19th c #EnglishLiterature - from Trump's "banger memes" to recent #IndianFilm #RRR #PostcolonialStudies #FilmStudies

Leila Neti's slides defining her term of colonial maximalism, with an image from the movie RRR

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Today starts the 36th #GAPS #conference for #PostcolonialStudies - title: "Postcolonial Transfers - Translation, Transition, Transformation" in Osnabrück. Organisers Lucy Gasser & Laura Zander & Institute Director Peter Schneck & GAPS President Timo Müller welcome us at the halls of Osnabrück Castle

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In "Wise Women", Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne re-narrate a selection of European #folktales mostly from the British Isles on old hags, witches, grandmothers, fairy godmothers and other mature women, of middle age & beyond #MothersDay #Folklore #FairyTales #Witches

Holding the book "Wise Women" in front of a tree with dark red leaves

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature #mothersday #Ecofeminism

Holding the book "Ecocritical Menopause" in front of a tree in full bloom

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What does it (or can it) really mean to decide for or against #Motherhood in this day and age is the question Sheila Heti grapples with in her 2018 book of the same name #mothersday #CanadianLiterature #WomenWriters

Holding the book "Motherhood" by Sheila Heti in front of a tree in full bloom in pink

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This Sunday is #MothersDay in the US & Germany. Here's a 🧵 on books celebrating #womanhood across all ages - beyond #motherhood - starting w #Girlhood by Melissa Febos - texts at the intersection of #essay & #memoir about growing up as a girl under patriarchy #AmericanLiterature

The book "Girlhood" by Melissa Febos lying on a meadow sprinkled with daisies

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today in #newbooks in our #library - 2 new #biofiction novels on #AgathaChristie 👑 The Queen of Crime disappeared for 11 days in 1926. These 2 novels by Marie Benedict & Nina de Gramont fictionalise this real #mystery in different ways #AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature

"The Mystery of Mrs. Christie" & "The Christie Affair" - two books in front of a red brick wall

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ending today's set of books on the #MiddleAges chronologically, this essay collection edited by Daisy Black & Katharine Goodland traces continuities & transformations in early English plays from #medieval to #Renaissance drama #EnglishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #EarlyModernDrama

Holding the book "Medieval Afterlives -Transforming traditions in Shakespeare and early English drama" in front of a tree with white blossoms

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

Holding the book "Medieval Romance" by James F. Knapp & Peggy A. Knapp in front of a tree with white blossoms

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Robin Hood - what were the historical roots of his legends, and how can their success in the later #MiddleAges be explained? This collection, edited by Stephen H. Rigby, presents 16 essays that examine the myth with various angles & sources #History #folklore #RobinHood #EnglishHistory

Holding the book "Historians on Robin Hood" in front of a tree overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain" by Sara Harris analyses the understanding(s) & associations 12th c authors had of the complex history of Britain's languages, in context of social, political & linguistic changes #Linguistics #Medieval #MiddleAges #EnglishLanguage #LinguisticHistory

Holding the book "The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain" by Sara Harris in front of a tree overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

5 new arrivals on the #MiddleAges for the middle of the week! This book by Ian Cornelius attempts a reconstruction of #alliteration in #MedievalLiterature such as Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight or Piers Plowman #EnglishLiterature #metre #MedievalPoetry #LiteraryStudies

Holding the book "Reconstruction Alliterative Verse" by Ian Cornelius in front of a tree overgrown with ivy

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

You enter the old building. Bookshelves line the walls. A book called "Appendix N." edited by one Peter Bebergal catches your eye. It seems to collect 17 ancient scrolls by authors such as #HPLovecraft #LordDunsany & more, inspiring #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD lore Do you dare to open the book?

The book "Appendix N. - The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons" edited by Peter Bebergal on a white table, with colourful dice of varying numbers of sides scattered around it

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others #ReligiousStudies #buddhism #AmericanLiterature

Holding the book "American Koan" in front of cherry trees in full bloom

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