Dr. Nicole K. Konopka
Current Courses (Winter 2020/21)
- Seminar (Basic Module): Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
- Practice Class (Basic Module): How to Write a Term Paper (Literary and Cultural Studies)
- Seminar (Advanced Module): In the Spotlight - A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning class - registration via VHB!)
- Seminar (Advanced Module): From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture
- Practice Class (Supplemental Module): Key Texts in Literary Theory
- Practice Class (Graduate Level): Betreuungsübung "American Studies" (BA)
Previous Courses
Seminars (Basic Module)
- Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
- Introduction to American and British Cultural Studies
Seminars (Advanced Module)
- The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture
- In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning Kurs über die VHB)
- 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
- Golden Door: Italian Perspectives on the USA and Vice Versa (including a field trip to Rome, Italy)
- 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)
- More Than Meets the Eye: A Survey of African-American Voices
- 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
- Coming into Clover: Past and Present of Irish America (including a field trip to Dublin, Ireland)
- Across the Sea: Transatlantic Relationships between Germany and the USA (including a student symposium in Prague, Czech Republic)
- Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture (including a day trip to the castle Neuschwanstein)
- Germans in the American Civil War (including a field trip to a Civil War reenactment in Walldürn, Germany)
- Dudes, Machos, and Real Men: Masculinity in American Fiction
- Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism (including a day trip to the English landscape gardens at Wilhelmsbad/Hanau and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main)
- The Figure of the Outsider in German and American Literature and Culture (including a daytrip to see the play "Götz von Berlichingen" at the Burgfestspiele 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
Reading Classes (all modules)
- 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
- Reading Age: Childhood and Youth in German and North-American Literature and Culture (including a daytrip to the 17th International 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
Practice Classes (Supplemental Module and Graduate Level) and Tutorials
- How to Write a Term Paper (BA/LA/MA)
- Key Texts in Literary Theory
- Exam Preparation "American Literature" (LA)
- Betreuungsübung "American Studies" (BA)
Media Session
- 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
- The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism on Screen
- Famous Cinematic Quotations