English and American Studies Library

The English/American Studies Library is an important service facility for scholars and students of the of the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of American Studies. It is a public, scientific library with open access, i.e. the required media are freely accessible and can be taken from the shelves.

Collection focus English Studies

Medieval Studies, English Literature, Literary Theory, Intermediality, Cultural Studies, Old and Middle English, English for Specific Purposes, Ecolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition Research

Collection Focuses American Studies

American regional and cultural studies, American literature, theory and technology of literary adaptation, science fiction, age studies, cultural studies, film and media, popular culture, cyber culture

Most of the holdings of the Departmental Library of English and American Studies can be borrowed for 30 days.

Journals and books published before 1901 are not eligible for loan.

• 54 learning and workstations
• 6 PC workstations
• 1 multifunctional device (printing, copying, scanning) in front of the library

Current dates for individuals can be found on the guided tour dates page.

For group tour requests, please use our web forms.