Courses

Selected teaching experience across recent courses, lecture courses, graduate seminars, colloquia, review courses, and undergraduate seminars.

Recent Courses
SoSe 2026

American Literature and Culture: A Literary and Cultural History of Dying, Mourning, and Commemorating

American Literature and Culture: Narrative in the Anthropocene: Exploring Climate Change Fiction

Introduction to British and Postcolonial Literary Studies

Introduction to American Literary Studies

WiSe 2025/26

American Foodways

U.S. Military Culture in Media and Monument

Introduction to American Cultures

English, American and Postcolonial Literature: Climate Change Theater Action: The Time Is Now

Introduction to Media Studies

American Literature and Culture After 1900

SoSe 2025

American Icons and Ideology: Exploring New York City and the American West

Introduction to American Literary Studies

Introduction to Postcolonial Literary Studies

American Literature and Culture After 1900

A Literary and Cultural History of Dying, Mourning, and Commemorating

Workshop Seminar M.A. Theses

Workshop Seminar B.A. Theses

WiSe 2024/25

American Literature: Versions of America on Stage

Introduction to American Cultures

American Cultures: Critical Issues in Education

English, American and Postcolonial Literature: Communicating the Climate Crisis

Introduction to Media Studies

Workshop Seminar M.A. Theses

SoSe 2024

Workshop Masterarbeiten

American Literature and Culture: Narrative in the Anthropocene: Exploring Climate Change Fiction

Workshop Bachelorarbeit Englisch

Introduction to British and Postcolonial Literary Studies

Introduction to American Literary Studies

American Literature and Culture: American Literature After 1900

WiSe 2023/24

Performing Cultural Identities: The Family in Contemporary American Drama

Introduction to American Cultures

American Cultures / Emotional Landscapes: Exploring the Power of Affect in American Public Life

Climate Change Theater Action: All Good Things Must Begin

Introduction to Media Studies

Workshop Seminar M.A. Theses

SoSe 2023

American Cultural Studies: (Hi)stories of the American West

Pandemic Patterns: The Cultural Semiotics of Medical Crisis

Introduction to American Literary Studies

Introduction to Postcolonial Literary Studies

A Literary and Cultural History of Dying, Mourning, and Commemorating

American Literature and Culture After 1900

Workshop Seminar B.A. Theses

Lecture Courses
PHV / UR

Lecture Courses

American Literature and Culture After 1900

A Literary and Cultural History of Death

A Survey of British and Postcolonial Literature and Culture

American Literature and Culture

Introduction to Media Studies

Introduction to American Literary Studies

Introduction to British and Postcolonial Literary Studies

Introduction to American Cultures

Death in America: A Literary and Cultural History

American Literary History

Introduction to American Studies

Modern Theories of Literature

Introduction to American Cultural Studies

Graduate Seminars
PHV / UR / FAU

Graduate Seminars

Epidemic! Outbreak Narratives

Pandemic Fictions

Biopolitics and Security Narratives in Transnational American Cultures

American Material Cultures

Eco/Biopolitics of Transnational American Culture

American Cultures of Memory

American Drama of the 20th and 21st Century

Women and Medicine in American Literature and Culture

The Rise of American Popular Print Culture

American Feelings: The Emotional Turn in American History

American Spaces: Building Many Americas or Uniting the States

Fundamentals: Approaches, Concepts, Theories

Fundamentals of American Studies

Visual Cultures of America

Undergraduate Seminars
PHV / UR / FAU

Undergraduate Seminars

Memorials Then and Now

Epidemics in US- and Global Contexts

Climate Change Literary Activism

The Environmental Imaginaries of Poetry, Fiction and Drama

Preserving American History, Memorializing Contested Events

American Public Art and Memory

British and Postcolonial Literature: Climate Change Literature in English

Researching Modern Fiction

American Literature II: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Death and Mourning in America

Youth in American Fiction

Fighting Images: America at War

21st-Century American Fiction

American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the End of the Nineteenth Century

Colloquium & Review Courses
UR

Colloquium

Recent Research in American Studies

UR

Review Courses

Review Course for Intermediate Exam (British and American Studies)

Review Course for Exam Candidates in British and American Studies

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