Courses

Winter 2023/24:

• Memories, Identities, (Non-)Knowledge: Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels
• New Voices? - African-Irish poetry and Prose, Arts and Activism

Summer 2023:

• “Strange, Inartistic, Disagreeable” - The Brontë Sisters’ Novels
• Introduction to Irish Cinema

Winter 2022/2023:

• Re-Reading James Joyce’s Dubliners
• In Pursuit of (Non-)Knowledge: The Many Reincarnations of Frankenstein in Literature and Film

Sommer 2022:

• Irish Narratives of Community

Winter 2021/2022:

• Margaret Atwood: Aesthetics and (Power) Politics

Summer 2021:

• Taboo, Transgression and Transition in British Literature
• Innovation, Experiment and the Radicalism of Form: Contemporary Irish Novels

Winter 2020/21: 

• The Trouble With Women - Early Feminist Writings

Summer 2020:

• Turbulent Times of Transition: The Beginnings of the Irish Short Story

Winter 2019/20:

• Contemporary Irish Theatre

Summer 2012 – Summer 2019:

• Dublin/ers: Traveling through Time and Space (project Seminar plus excursion to Dublin) (Marburg)
• Ghost(ly) Stories: Narratives of the Uncanny and the Fantastic (Marburg)
• Performing Canada – Canadian Identities between Satire and (Re-)Negotiation (project seminar plus student conference, Marburg)
• «the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world»: The Writings of Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Laureate (Marburg)
• Centering the Margins – New Irish Fiction (Marburg)
• Contemporary Canadian Women Writers (Marburg)
• Irish Tales and the Beginning(s) of the Short Story in Ireland (Marburg)
• Into the Wild? – Canadian Narratives of Human (and) Nature (Marburg)
• Lonely Voices? – The Short Story as Ireland’s ‘National Genre’ (Siegen/Marburg)
• Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Critical Theory: Adaptations, Post-Colonial Responses and Parodies (Siegen/Marburg)
• The Irish Novel at the End of the 20th Century (Siegen)
• Under (Re-)Construction: Masculinity, AIDS and the Media (Siegen)
• Making History: British and Irish Literature (Siegen)
• Body and Gender Theories (Siegen)
• British Fin-de-Siècle Literature (Siegen)
• Aspects of Ireland: The Irish Short Story in the 20th Century (Siegen)
• Intertextuality, Intermediality and Metafiction in the Novels of Stephen King (Siegen)
• Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Series and Beyond: From Robert Browning to J. K. Rowling (Siegen)
• Classic Utopian and Dystopian Novels and Films (Siegen)
• Culture, Politics and Science in Dystopian Novels (Siegen)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Siegen, Summer 2013 – Winter 2015/16)
• Academic Writing (Braunschweig)