Lehre

Sommer 2011    

• Academic Writing (2 Gruppen, S)
• American Drama (2 Gruppen, S)
• Early American Literature and Culture: From the Puritans to the Early Republic (2 Gruppen, S)

Winter 2011/12    

• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Reading Trauma: Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in the American Mind (S)
• Travelogues (S)

Sommer 2012  

• Postmodern Short Novels (S)
• Greed, Lust, and Murder Revisited: Adapting Hard-Boiled Fiction (S)
• Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot: Naturalism in Anglophone Literature (S)
• The Anglophone Novella, 1850 – today (S)

Winter 2012/13    

• Caring and Curing in England and America (S)
• Complexity and Quality: Aesthetics, Media Economies, and TV Seriality (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)

Sommer 2013    

• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Lacanian Readings (S)
• Shaken not Stirred: James Bond, Englishness, and Gender (S)

Winter 2013/14    

• Adventures in Theory: Reading Literature and Media (Group I + II, S)
• Founding a Nation, Finding an Identity: Early American Literatures (Group I + II, S)

Sommer 2014    

• American Presidents in Popular Culture (S)
• Body Horror, Sexuality and Gender Identity (S)
• Humour in Literature, Group I + II (S)

Winter 2014/15    

• Body Horror: Gender and Sexuality, Pt. II (S)
• Disparate Youths: Forms and Fictions of Upward Mobility, Group I + II (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)

Sommer 2015    

• Unreliable Narration, Group I + II (S)
• Writing Suburbia, 1945 - 2014, Group I + II (S)

Winter 2015/16    

• Representing Secrecy and Secret Services (S)
• Reassembling the Medical: 18th Century Medicine in a Transatlantic Perspective (S)
• The Campus Novel (S)

Sommer 2016    

• Contemporary American Poetry (S)
• Desire, Doom, and Disillusion: Naturalist Literatures (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Lincoln in American Literature and Culture (S)

Winter 2016/17    

• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Serial Agency: Television Series as an Actor-Network (S)
• The Contemporary American Short Story (S)
• The US Elections 2016 (S)

Sommer 2017    

• "The Necessity to Dance": Lyrics, Genre and Pop (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• On Trans: Queer Identities and Transgender Journeys (S)
• The Aesthetics of Fascism: Nostalgia, Ideology, and Contemporary Hollywood (S)

Winter 2017/18    

• Enlightenment, 18th Century Botany, and Letter-Writing (S)
• Contemporary American Drama (S)
• Scapegoating Postmodernism (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)

Sommer 2018    

• Ethnic Theatre in America (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Marxist Readings of Film (S)

Winter 2018/19            

• Poet, Novelist, Essayist: Margaret Atwood (S)
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)
• Contemporary Meme-Culture (S)

Sommer 2019            

• Theatre Workshop (S/Ü)
•                 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)

Winter 2019/20            

• American Romanticism in Art and Literature
•                 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (GK/Ü)