Teaching

Courses Taught / Lehrveranstaltungen

University of Siegen

• The Shoah in Comics
• American Literary History IV: Postmodernism and Contemporary Literature (Lecture)
• American Literary History III: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism (Lecture)
• American Literary History II: From the Early Republic to the Civil War (Lecture)
• American Literary History I: From Puritanism to the Revolution (Lecture)
• Populäre Serialität: Comics und Heftromane (mit Niels Werber)
• Graphic Narrative and Black Visual Culture
• Archives
• Native American Literature
• Graphic Women
• Superheroes and Visual Culture (Lecture series, with Joseph Imorde)
• Free Speech on Campus: An American Debate
• Teju Cole: Writing and Photography
• Contemporary Graphic Novels
• Early American Life Writing
• Political Speeches by Black Americans
• Graphic Narrative: Theory and Analysis
• Short Fiction by Southern Women Writers
• Beat Poetry
• Dramatizing Race and Ethnicty in Nineteenth-Century America
• Graphic Narratives of Black History
• The City Mystery Novel
• Musical Autobiographies
• American Cultural History II
• American Cultural History I
• Extra-Ordinarity: Superheroes in Visual Culture
• The U.S. Election
• Forschungskolloquium
• The Films of Michael Moore
• Lecture series "Serien" (with Niels Werber)
• African American Autobiography
• Gesellschaft in Serie: Superhelden (with Niels Werber)
• Disaster Drawn: War and Migration in Graphic Narrative
• Contemporary Black Film

Free University Berlin

• Transmedial Moby Dick

University of Göttingen

• The City in American Literature and Culture (Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century)
• Dramas of Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century America
• Early American Life Narratives (Proseminar)
• Political Literature and Literary Politics in the Early Republic (Proseminar)
• More Than a Fish Book: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (Proseminar)
• Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Proseminar)
• The Graphic Novel in North America and Great Britain (Proseminar)
• The Poetry of the Beat Generation (Proseminar)
• Performing Protest: A Student Symposium
• Theories of the Popular (Hauptseminar; mit Frank Kelleter und Andreas Jahn-Sudmann)
• Introduction to the Study of American Literature and Culture
• Introduction to American Cultural History I (Grundstudium)
• Introduction to American Cultural History II: Jazz and American Culture (Hauptstudium)
• American Literature and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Revolution (Tutorial)
• Realism, Naturalism, Early Modernism: U.S. Literature from the Civil War to the Armory Show" (Tutorial)
• U.S. Literature from the Armory Show to the Second World War (Tutorial)
• U.S. Literature from the Second World War to the Age of Hegemony (Tutorial)
• Doing Research and Composing Papers in American Studies (Tutorial)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Freshmen Composition: Personal Writing
• Freshmen Composition: Writing About Music
• Argumentative Writing: Writing About American Culture
• Literary Studies: Science Fiction (Tutorial)

Austin College, Texas

• German Conversation
• Richardson Summer Institute for Language Teachers