Courses
Winter Term 2025-2026:
Summer Term 2025:
- Early Modern Bromances: Beaumont and Fletcher. The Coxcomb (1608)
- Empires of Illusion - The Spectre of Empire: Britain, Ireland, USA
- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Forms of Representation on the Early Modern Stage
- Societal Divisions in West Africa - The Intersection of Violence and Female Masculinities in Literature and Films
Winter Term 2024 - 2025:
- Barry Lyndon: 19th-Century Perspectives on Colonial Ireland
- English Literary History: Beowulf – Bacon
- Plant Poetry in Early Modern England
- Reading Poems: A Cognitive Approach
- Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida – discourse of reason / madness of discourse
Summer Term 2024:
- Death of the Trees: A Literary Perspective
- Hamlet
- Sebastian Barry's "Days Without End"
- The European Tradition of the Sonnet (together with Prof. Temelli)
- Forschungsfreisemester / Research Sabbatical
Summer Term 2023:
Winter Term 2022 - 2023:
Summer Term 2022:
Winter Term 2021 - 2022:
Summer Term 2021:
- Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
- Lyriktheorien/ Theorising the Lyric (together with Katrin Becker and Jörg Döring)
- Nature Writing
- Reflecting on “The Troubles” – Anna Burns and Bernie McGill
Summer Term 2020:
- Brexit Novels: A Survey
- Early Modern Reading Practices
- English Literature IV (Wilde - Atwood)
- Forschungskolloquium
- Love is not love" - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Winter Term 2019 - 2020:
Summer Term 2019:
Winter Term 2018 - 2019:
Summer Term 2018:
- Beckett's Late Plays
- Milton: Paradise Lost
- Reciting Poetry - Oral Literature
- Shakespeare's 'Pericles' - Migration and Compassion
- The Rise of the Meritocracy: 'Jude the Obscure' and 'Capital'
Winter Term 2017 - 2018:
- Britain Today: Brexit
- Early Modern Revenge Plays
- English Literature IV (Wilde - Mantel - Modernism - Contemporary)
- Hamlet
- Reading Poetic Form
Summer Term 2017:
- English Literature III: Blake - Hardy
- Contemporary Poetry
- Tristram Shandy
- What Plants Know - Flower Power
Winter Term 2016 - 2017:
- English Literature II: Milton - Sterne
- John Burnside: Perspective in Prose and Poetry
- The Aesthetics of Performance: Poetry and the Spoken Word
- Shakespeare Two Noble Kinsmen
- Britain Today
Summer Term 2016:
- English Literature I: Beowulf - Shakespeare
- It's the Economy, Stupid! Robinson Crusoe and the Rise of the Novel
- Shakespeare, Empire and Brexit
- Poetry: Concrete and Abstract
Each Semester: