Heike Paul is invited to give a key note at the “Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026: Feelings and Emotions”, held at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg February 19-20. The title of her talk is “Historical Fiction and Historical Revisionism in the Age of Polarization.”   For more information, see here .

Heike Paul is on a current events-panel at this year's Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)-conference to address "Academic Freedom under Attack: Transgenerational Perspectives on Contemporary Transatlantic American Studies." For more information, see here .

Heike Paul participates in the international conference "Victorian and American Myths in Video Games" at NOVA University Lisbon from...

Heike Paul participates in the DFG round table event "The Future of the English Major. Anglistik und Amerikanistik in Deutschland: Eine...

Ten years after the publication of Heike Paul's seminal introduction to American studies The Myths that Made America (transcript, 2014),...

Heike Paul is co-organizer of a joint workshop of the two research training groups "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics" (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and "Family Matters" (LMU Munich), which takes place in Munich from July 3-5, 2024. Under the heading "The Poetics and Politics of Family Feelings," presentations will discuss feelings that "shape, make, and unmake families," including keynotes by Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin), Rebecca Wanzo (St Louis), and Elisa