Courses
Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen
Winter Semester 2022:
- English Literary History IV: Wilde - Burns
- Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: Invisible Hands
- Irish Contemporary Drama: Margaretta D'Arcy, Marina Carr, Louise Lowe
- Plant Humanities: The Poet's Perspective
- Shakespeare -- Folio 1623: Canon Building
- English Literary History III: Blake -Hardy
- Poetry: Songs of Praise
- Shakespeare's King Lear - Generational Conflict as Tragedy
Winter Semester 2021:
- English Literary History II: Milton - Sterne
- Editing Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen
- George Eliot's Romola - Victorian Historicism
- Poetry and Movement: Embodied Reading
- The 2021 Booker Prize: Literature and the Market Place
- Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
- Lyriktheorien/ Theorising the Lyric (taught jointly with Katrin Becker and Jörg Döring)
- Nature Writing
- Reflecting on “The Troubles” – Anna Burns and Bernie McGill
- Literary History I: Beowulf to Shakespeare
- Hamlet
- Dekker’s "News From Graves-End" to Defoe’s "Journal of the Plague Year": Literary Reflections of Early Modern Pandemics
- Baroque Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
- The Poem - Criticism and Aesthetic Appreciation
Summer Semester 2020:
- English Literature IV: Wilde - Atwood
- "Love is not Love": Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
- Brexit Novels: A Survey
- Early Modern Reading Practices
Winter Semester 2019-2020:
- English Literature III: Blake - Hardy
- Character - Characterization - Configuration: The Poetics of Character in Prose, Drama, and Poetry
- Green Poems for a Blue Planet
- Living Poetry: Lesung, Slam, Vlog (taught jointly with Jörg Döring)
Summer Semester 2019:
- English Literature II: Milton - Sterne
- Early Modern Poetry - "Tottel's Miscellany"
- Joyce's Ulysses - Modernism, Urbanism, Aestheticism, Elitism
- Reading Literature in the Digital Age
- Shakespeare's Macbeth
Winter Semester 2018-2019:
- Literary History I: Beowulf - Shakespeare
- Plant Poetics
- Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale
Summer Semester 2018:
- Becketts 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 Semester 2017-2018:
- English Literature IV: Wilde - Mantel - Modernism - Contemporary
- Britain Today: Brexit
- Early Modern Revenge Plays
- Hamlet
- Reading Poetic Form
Summer Semester 2017:
- English Literature III: Blake - Hardy
- Contemporary Poetry
- Tristram Shandy
- What Plants Know - Flower Power
Winter Semester 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 Semester 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: