Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
Introduction to American and British Cultural Studies
Seminars (Advanced Module)
"Outliving systems of tyranny": Hemingway, Iberian Contemporaries, and the Spanish Civil War (together with Susen Halank (Roman Studies) and including an excursion to Spain in January 2025)
Promised Land America (including a day trip to see the exhibition "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" in Stuttgart)
Journey of a Lifetime: Stories of German Migration in a Transatlantic Context (including a day trip to the 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 class offered via 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 (including a session at the ETA Hoffmann Museum, Bamberg)
From Gossip Girl to Dust Bowl Okie: The Representation of Social Class in American Literature and Culture
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 (including a field trip to Hamburg and Bremerhaven)
Beloved Beast: Talking (about) Animals in German and American Literature and Culture
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
Practice Classes (Supplemental Module and Graduate Level) and Tutorials
How to Write a Term Paper (BA/LA/MA)
Key Texts in Literary Theory
Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies
State Exam Preparation "American Literature" (LA)
Betreuungsübung "American Studies" (BA)
Media Session
Strange Ones: Tales of Magic, Myth, and Mischief (postponed to the winter term 2024/25!)
From The Big Sleep to Little Women: Voices of American Cinema (in conjunction with the seminar "Masters of American Cinema: Decentering the Canon" by PD Dr. Georgiana Banita)
Vampire Movies (including a Twilight marathon)
Circus Movies
So Much More Than Red, White, and Blue: Movies with Colors in their Title
The American West
Body Switch (together with 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