Dr. Judith Rauscher

Current courses (Winter 2019/20)

• Seminar (Advanced Module): Terrible Laughter: The Grotesque in French & American Literature

Previous Courses

Seminars (Basic Module):

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

Seminars (Advanced Module):

• Motherhood and Fatherhood in African American Culture
• "Surveiller et Punir: Race and Biopolitics in French and American Culture" (with Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis)
• Race and Gender in German and American Literature and Culture (as a block seminar at the University of Bayreuth)
• Indian Nation: The Native American Struggle for Representation
• Queer/Denker_innen: LGBTQ Issues in German and American Literature and Culture
• One-Gender Worlds: Gender and Sexuality in American Science Fiction
• 20th Century American Poetry and the City
• American Modernism in Paris (including a field trip to Paris, France)

Seminars (Specialization Module and Graduate Level):

• Green Popular Culture and American Film (mit Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• The Challenges of Intersectionality: Race and Gender in German and American Literature & Culture (with Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• The Politics of American Poetry (with Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• Theories of Nature, Theories of Mobility: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies (with Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)

Excercise (Supplemental Module):

• Key Texts in Literary Theory

Language Classes:

• English Language Practice for Erasmus Students (Advanced, B1-B2)
• English Language Practice for Erasmus Students (Intermediate, A2-B1)