In context of the conference "Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging" held in Erlangen from September 20-22, 2023, Heike Paul - together with Sarah Marak - talk about the United States' National Christmas Tree as a tradition that has been in place for already 100 years. The full title of the talk is "'Rally Around the Christmas Tree' - The Sentimental Politics of a Civil Religious Holiday" and it will be given as part of a panel on "The People's

Heike Paul is participating in an international symposium titled “'You are beautiful, no matter what they say' - Senti­men­tal Ballads...

At this year's conference of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) which takes place in Rome July 10...

The current issue of the journal Amerikastudien/American Studies (vol. 68.2, 2023) (a special issue on Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Lyric...

The volume To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality , edited by Heike Paul together with Axelle Germanaz, Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes, and Sarah Marak, is out now! This volume, which is the second in transcript's "Global Sentimentality"-Series, edited by Heike Paul - examines in various articles, how the sentimental mode is employed in different discourses, cultural narratives, and cultural practices to both promote and challenge various forms of

At this year's conference of the Bavarian American Academy on "Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations," taking...