Hannah Michell is the new Picador Professor!
The winter semester 2025/26 is held by Hannah Michell. Get to know her better and check out the courses and events.
Next up: On «Speak. Risk. Move.»
What breaks first when courage meets fear? How can resistance live quietly, and still be heard? Current PicadorProf Hannah Michell invites us to explore the small, invisible acts that ripple far beyond themselves, the stories that refuse to be forgotten, and the risks of speaking out.
We often imagine activism as loud and visible — but stories are where power first takes hold: in what is remembered, and in what is erased. To write is to resist forgetting — to contest history itself.
This event reflects on how art does more than accompany activism — it transforms it, reshaping the narratives that define what we dare to imagine as possible.
When: November 25, 6 PM (Entrance: 5:30 PM)
Where: GfZK Leipzig
Admission free! Save your ticket soon!
Presented by Uni Leipzig, American Studies Leipzig, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Holtzbrinck Berlin, in cooperation with EDIT Magazine.
My time in Leipzig was so enriching and fascinating. The city is warm and welcoming and bursting with life. I loved working with the students at the university, and meeting the many remarkable scholars in the American Studies department.
Daniel Gumbiner, looking back at his semester in Leipzig
Guest Professor of Winter 2024/25
The vibrant arts community in Leipzig, and my wondrous students, and brilliant colleagues, were an endless source of energy and inspiration to me while I served as the Picador Guest Professor. It was deeply meaningful to get to work alongside some of Germany’s foremost American literature scholars in a place with such immense publishing, music, and design history.
Rita Bullwinkel about the Picador Guestprofessorship
Guest Professor of Summer 2024
I was a Picador Guest Professor in Literature in Leipzig (2010/2011). The position was very fulfilling and my creative writing students were dynamic, imaginative, and full of heart. Leipzig is wondrous.
Nathalie Handal in an interview with thebartleby.com
Guest Professor of Winter 2010/2011
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In 2006, Leipzig University, in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Holtzbrinck Berlin, initiated the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig aiming at conveying and critically reflecting on Anglo-American Literature. Public events are also offered in addition to the authors’ teaching activities as Picador Guest Professors. This takes place in collaboration with the creative arts and culture community of Leipzig.
Many of the questions we discussed were ones we had never thought about before for example the question of what our own “fundamental truth” is.
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