Dr. Nicole K. Konopka

Lehrveranstaltungen

Seminare im Basismodul

• Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
• Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Seminare im Aufbaumodul

• Promised Land America (inklusive Tagesausflug zur Austellung "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" im Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
• Journey of a Lifetime: Stories of German Migration in a Transatlantic Context (inklusive Tagesausflug zum Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim)
• The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture
• In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning Kurs über die Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern)
• More Than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture
• New Approaches to Old Favorites: Re-Reading North-American Children's and Young-Adult Book Classics (1860s-1960s)
• From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture
• From Benjamin Franklin to "The Girls Next Door": The Rags-to-Riches Narrative in American Culture
• The Good, the Bad, and the Sublime: German and American Romanticism (inklusive Unterricht im ETA Hoffmann Haus, Bamberg)
• From Gossip Girl to Dust Bowl Okie: The Representation of Social Class in American Literature and Culture
• Golder Door: Italian Perspectives on the USA and Vice Versa (inklusive Exkursion nach Rom)
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Shakespeare: Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies (mit Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug, Dr. Isolde Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer, Dr. Beatrix Hesse) - focus: "Shakespeare in the American High School" (Culture and Media)
• Contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture
• "Jetzt ist die Zeit und Stunde da, wir reisen nach Amerika!" German Immigrants in US-American and Canadian Literature and Culture (inklusive Exkursion nach Hamburg und Bremerhaven)
• Beloved Beast: Talking (about) Animals in German and American Literature and Culture
• Coming into Clover: Past and Present of Irish America (inklusive Exkursion nach Dublin)
• Across the Sea: Transatlantic Relationships between Germany and the USA (inklusive Studierendensymposium in Prag)
• Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug nach Neuschwanstein)
• Germans in the American Civil War (inklusive Tagesausflug zum Civil War Reenactment in Walldürn)
• Dudes, Machos, and Real Men: Masculinity in American Fiction
• Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism (inklusive Tagesausflug in den Landschaftspark Wilhelmsbad/Hanau und das Städelmuseum Frankfurt/Main)
• The Figure of the Outsider in German and American Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug zur Aufführung des Götz von Berlichingen im Rahmen der Burgfestspiele in Jagsthausen)
• The European Immigrant Autobiography: A Fragment of U.S. American History
• Eating Cultures: Food in a Largely American Con-Text
• A Different Point of View: Female Narratives in American Immigrant Literature

Übungen (alle Module)

• The Sea in North American and German Literature
• The American West:ern: Exploring the Myth, the Place, the Genre
• From Know-It-All to Clearly Clueless: Exploring the Narrator in US-American and Canadian Fiction
• Social Writing, Socialist Writing, So-called Writing? American Literature 1860–1910
• Reading the Frontier: Westward Expansion in American Literature and Culture
• Disturbing Paradigms: Mental Illness in U.S. American Literature and Culture
• Reading Age: Childhood and Youth in German and North-American Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug zum 17. Internationalen Comic-Salon Erlangen)
• Like Feathered Brushstrokes in the Sand: Reading Asian North American Fiction
• Tough Ladies: Women in American Fiction
• 13 Books That Shaped America
• Reading the American City
• Through the Eyes of the 'Monster': An-other History of America
• Reading Texts of the Westward Expansion: How the West Was Won
• Have a Little Faith: Religion in American Fiction
• From Rags to Riches: The American Dream in U.S. American Fiction
• Promised Land: Multicultural Perspectives on the United States of America

Übungen im Ergänzungs- und Vertiefungsmodul und Tutorien

• How to Write a Term Paper (BA/LA/MA)
• Key Texts of Literary Theory
• Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies
• Repetitorium "Amerikanische Literatur" (Examensübung für Lehrämter)
• Betreuungsübung "Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft" (BA)

Media Session

• Strange Ones: Tales of Magic, Myth, and Mischief (verschoben auf das WS 2024/25!)
• From The Big Sleep to Little Women: Voices of American Cinema (im Verbund mit dem Seminar "Masters of American Cinema: Decentering the Canon" von PD Dr. Georgiana Banita)
• Vampire Movies (inklusive Twilight Marathon)
• Circus Movies
• So Much More Than Red, White, and Blue: Movies with Colors in their Title 
• The American West
• Body Switch (zusammen mit Lorena Bickert)
• American Summer Camp Movies
• The Wild West on the Big Screen
• Looking Good! Beauty and American Cinema
• Celluloid Quest: Heroes, Heroines, and the American Cinema
• Shopping Films
• Hotel Films
• "And the Oscar® goes to…"
• American Icons
• Wild Ones/Mild Ones: Humans and Animals on Screen
• Tales of the Strange and Wonderful: Femininity on Screen
• The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism on Screen
• Famous Cinematic Quotations