News on the Department of English published by the University of Klagenfurt

Fulbright Visiting Professorship 2025: How cultural identity and environmental justice are connected

Dr. Claudia J. Ford is a professor of Environmental Studies at State University of New York, Potsdam, USA, and will be teaching at the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt next summer semester as part of a Fulbright Visiting Professorship. In this interview, she explains the knowledge objectives she will be pursuing in her two courses and why she finds Carinthia a particularly exciting location.

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Yiwarra Kuju: First Nations Australia exhibition opened at the University of Klagenfurt

On March 22, Ms Brittany Clarke, First Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Vienna, and her colleague Ms Elisabeth Jaquemar visited the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt, delivering Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition from the National Museum of Australia.

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English and American Studies: A passion for language and culture

Ateesha Sethia’s decision to study in Klagenfurt was a thoughtful one. After all, the student of English and American Studies, has seen over 50 countries and has lived in 7 of them before choosing to stay here. After growing up in a city of 15 million people, calling herself a “big-city-person”, she values Klagenfurt as a city that offers the best of both worlds – an abundance of nature and still, all the amenities of a big city. 

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Insights into KuWi teaching… 3 questions for Nursen Gömceli

What happens to feminism in the digital age? With her course, Nursen Gömceli offers students an opportunity to get insights into how digitalization has changed feminist activity in the 21st century. Students are engaged to find out how digital tools can be used to change things for the better. 

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