We are excited to announce Phillip as the upcoming Picador Guestprofessor at the University of Leipzig in summer term 2025. He will teach a workshop on writing poetry about loss and grief as well as a literary seminar on surrealism, magical realism and floclore in US literature.
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
Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and writer. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. In the winter semester 2010/11, Handal held the Picador Professorship at the University of Leipzig.
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.
Thea, Student
