Courses
- Winter Semester 2018/19Hide
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Introductory Courses
41101: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies, Tabur
41104: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies, Mayer
41105: Englische/Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (Amerikanische Literatur), Mayer
41126: Schreiben und Präsentieren, Cortiel
Lectures
41125: Survey Lecture American Literary and Cultural History II: The Nineteenth Century, Cortiel
Proseminars
41122: Documents in American History: From the Early Republic to the Guilded Age, Horn
41134: American Short Stories, Tabur
41136: Transnational Fears: Gothic Fiction in England and the US, Horn
Advanced Seminars
41123: Deep Time - Transcultural Space: Reading American Cultures, Cortiel
41124: The Last Man - Narratives of Human Extinction, Cortiel
41128: Reading Contemporary Popular Film, Cortiel
51150: Language and Culture in the American South, Mühleisen
- Summer Semester 2018Hide
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Lectures
41101: Survey American Literary and Cultural History I: “Colonial Period and Early Republic,” Mayer
Proseminars
00980: The Challenges of Intersectionality: Race and Gender in German and American Literature and Culture, Rauscher
41104: The Beat Generation, Klestil
41105: “Uncle Sam Wants You:” War in American Literature and Culture, Spychala
Advanced Seminars
41109: Space, Place, Migration in the Contemporary American Novel, Mayer
41112: Women’s Writing in the late 19th Century, Horn
- Winter Semester 2017/18Hide
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Introductory Courses
Schreiben und Präsentieren The Craft of Research in the Humanities, Cortiel
Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies, Mayer
Englische/Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Amerikanische Literatur, Mayer
Lectures
Survey American Literary and Cultural History, Cortiel
Proseminars
Asia and the Alien: Techno-Orientalism in Contemporary American Popular Fiction, Gan
Narratives of Slavery in African American Literature, Klestil
Contemporary Science Fiction Television at the Frontier, Müller
The Global Spread of English: History, Varieties, Contexts, Mühleisen
Advanced Seminars
Beyoncé: Text, Music, Performance - Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cortiel and Knaus
Cultural Theories and Research Methods: Reading Contemporary Popular Film, Cortiel
Cultural and Literary Theory, Cortiel
Translation Theory: Language Variation and Postcolonial Translation, Mühleisen
American Drama After World War II: Arthur Miller, Mayer
- Summer Semester 2017Hide
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Lectures
41101: American Literature and Culture III: Modernism, MayerProseminare
Proseminars
41104: Edgar Allan Poe - Renaissance Man, Schmidt
41105: “The End of Something”: Narratives of Modernist Fragmentation, Schmidt
4114A: Contemporary American Diasporic Writing, Tabur
41146: Multiethnic American Short Stories, Tabur
Advanced Seminars
4110B: Reckless, O Soul: The Poetry of Walt Whitman, Cortiel
4117I: Englishes in North America, Bieswanger
41107: Cultural Theories and Research Methods - Reading Contemporary American Television, Cortiel
41108: Utopia and Apocalypse in America: Imagining the Future from Puritanism to Bernie Sanders, Cortiel
41109: “Globalism, Eco-collapse, and the (Post-)Human: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and David Brin’s Earth”, Mayer
41111: Southern Gothic, Schmidt
Research Seminars
41102: BA Research Seminar - Serial Storytelling: Science Fiction Television and Comics, Cortiel
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