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Meet our upcoming #PicadorProf: Rachel Khong

We announce happily the Picador Guestprofessor for summer 2026.

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

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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

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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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PICADOR is creating Space

… for great authors, joint learning, avantgarde literature, creative writing, inspiring diversity, public reading.

OPENNESS AS A PROGRAM

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.

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