English Studies RWTH

Official news and events from English and American Studies @RWTH.

Find our linguists at @LingRWTH, our Research Team ART CogLit at @ART_CogLit.

[English Studies RWTH @RWTHEnglish]

Welcome, Ralf! What a great addition to our team!

[ART CogLit @ART_CogLit]

From March we will have a new team member. Ralf Schneider, formerly Prof. at Bielefeld, will join @RWTHEnglish @ARTCogLit. Ralf is one of the leading researchers in Cognitive Literary Studies and Reader-response in Germany and beyond. We are very excited to have him on our team.

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Very happy for the chance to talk about the relevance of textual form and forms of knowledge in the context of character construction and literature as cultural ecology yesterday. Now very excited for today's papers and workshop!
#FormsatWork #CognitiveLiteraryStudies

[English Studies RWTH @RWTHEnglish]

We were so happy to have you, Bek! We will miss you and hope to continue to see you often. Have a fabulous start at @UniSalzburg! They are lucky to have you!

[Rebekah Wegener @rebekahwegener]

After 4 fantastic years @RWTH with the wonderful team @LingRWTH @RWTHEnglish I am delighted to be starting @UniSalzburg with @janapflaeging and the rest of the fabulous English Studies team.

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Also, big shout out to @caroline_kutsch who, unfortunately, is not pictured but who was central in organising this event and did so fantastically!

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

And that's it for (the official part of) our amazing @IgelSociety & @ART_CogLit training school. The biggest of thank yous to our wonderful trainers @MMKuijpers & @GerhardLauer as well as the organisers @SvenStrasen & Jan Alber. It was fab!

[Rebekah Wegener @rebekahwegener]

People should definitely consider signing up for the LinC Summer school @RWTHEnglish ... just saying :) https://t.co/B0xDOzbGcs

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Excited to learn about the framework for cultural models and literary characters of @SvenStrasen and @JuliaVaessen - complex topic, but so is literature! #PALA2018

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Some impressive live tweeting of our talk here as well.
Thank you so much, Mel!

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Multitasker extraordinaire @mysonabsalom kindly live tweeted @SvenStrasen 's and my talk earlier. You can follow it in this thread. #PALA2018

[Rebekah Wegener @rebekahwegener]

Laura Trienekens and Charlotte Rosenow talking about generational and media socialisation effects in literary text reading #esflc2018

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Today at @RWTHEnglish: Super interesting workshop on the connections between literary and political theory, organised together with our colleagues from the Department of Political Science #IPW

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Was way too immersed to tweet, but what a fascinating talk on the role of gestures in accessing readers' imagined spaces by @RWTHEnglish's very own Irene Mittelberg yesterday. Can't wait to explore this further! Thank you, Irene! #ALECS https://t.co/zMlYwHI7ov

[ART CogLit @ART_CogLit]

Tonight it will be Irene Mittelberg's (@RWTHEnglish) Turn at #ALECS - "Immersion and Viewpoint in the Description of Imagined Spaces". Irene is one of the world's leading researchers in the cognitive semiotics of gestures. This will be big fun! Join us at 6 in H11 of C.A.R.L.

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Today, it's my turn at #ALECS. The likes of @LyricSheffield and @turnermarkb are tough acts to follow, but I'll do my very best.

Want to hear me speak about characters and the role of cultural models for the future of cog. & emp. literary studies? Drop by! (18h, H11, CARL)

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

The fantastic @turnermarkb talking us through blending, stories and the potential of big data analysis with @redhenlab yesterday.
Thank you so much, Mark! This was great!
#ALECS

[English Studies RWTH @RWTHEnglish]

Super interesting workshop organised by our friends at @UoNEnglish, including such fabulous speakers as @PeterJStockwell & our very own @rebekahwegener! https://t.co/LDwwLHQp2b

[Peter Stockwell @PeterJStockwell]

Here’s the link:
https://t.co/Vovq9y8cxD

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

Why study English? A thread! @BarbaraBleiman, @Gm191 +I have put together ideas, building on momentum from @ProfKatyShaw ‘s great blog https://t.co/k52v5uIo0W @UnivEnglish @EnglishAssoc @NaweWriters @EngMediaCentre @NATEfeed @IES_London @RSLiterature #whystudyEnglish?(1/19)

[ART CogLit @ART_CogLit]

Great news: @IgelSociety, @RWTHEnglish and @ART_CogLit will organise the "IGEL Aachen Training School on the use of Empirical Methods in Literary Scholarship" between August 27th and August 30th, Watch this space for further details!

[English Studies RWTH @RWTHEnglish]

Yet another wonderful lecture as part of #ALECS! A big thank you to our fabulous guest Jo Gavins and the organisers @ART_CogLit! https://t.co/ufVQJo5OJu

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

Discussing how and if you can know that you have arrived at the position of the authorial audience with the brilliant @LyricSheffield after a fantastic talk. (Told you it would be fab!! 😉)

It was a pleasure to have you, Jo!
#ALECS

[Julia Vaeßen @JuliaVaessen]

"We cannot resist art because it is supernormal. Its exaggeration of the natural - the supernatural stimulus - creates a more outspoken reaction. We just have to start working on it." -- Willie van Peer at #ALECS