Teaching

Teaching
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Winter Term 2025/26

Introduction to American Literary History

Witch at Trial — Witches and Witchcraft

Gone With the Wind — Possibilities of Political Theater in the Neoliberal Age

Climate Change Theater Action 2025

Introduction to Literary Studies

Things

burning books — Book Burning - Banning Books

water — Climate Fi/action

Graffiti Wall Street Art — Poetry & Poetics

alien sign paking — Im/possible Futures: SF's Dystopia and Utopia

Alien Planet — Futurescapes: Science Fiction and the Politics of Tomorrow

Summer Term 2025

Langston Hughes — Harlem Renaissance

Early American Detectives

Octoroon — American Melodrama

Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Suspects

Beep Boop: Rebooting the Human

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City — City Poems

American War Cover Image — American War

Academic Writing

Bright yello graffito on tarmac, showing icons of a man, woman and two small children — Family Photography

Endings

Winter Term 2024/25

Book pages — Introduction to Literary Studies

Poster with United States history illustration — Introduction to American Literary History

Black and white photograph of a woman looking like a ghost — American Gothic Fiction

Beyond NoDAPL March on Washington, DC. Woman in red cloth coat as marchers set out from gathering near the Reflecting Pool of the US Capitol — Women’s Anti-Extractivist Speculative Fictions

robots — Im/Possible Futures

Coney Island beach and plastic palm tree — American Travel Literature

Witch at Trial — Witches and Witchcraft

naked woman on bed — The Body in Contemporary Poetry

Map of the World's Watersheds — Decolonize

woman sitting at a desk writing — Kolloquium für BA-Abschlussarbeit

Summer Term 2024

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City — City Poems

lady detective cover — Early American Detectives

claudia-mcneil-a-raisin-in-the-sun-1959 — The Black Radical Tradition in African American Theater

Benjamin Franklin 1767 — Life Writing

Painting "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer — American Realism

Mountainrange in Canada — Comprehending Canada

Museum of Innocence Istanbul 2019 — Things

girl sitting at a desk writing — Kolloquium für BA-Abschlussarbeit

Bright yello graffito on tarmac, showing icons of a man, woman and two small children — Family Photography

Advertising with wild animals — Literary Animal Studies

sail boot at sunset — Literature(s) of the Black Atlantic

US-Mexico Border — Notions of (In-)Security in American Literature

Sheets of blank white paper — Politics and Performances of Whiteness

Gendernauts Film Monika Treut Cover — Gendernauts - Feminismus und Kunstgeschichte

Winter Term 2023/24

Introduction to American Literary History

© Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons'

Reading Colson Whitehead

American Gothic Fiction

cover image white whale — Moby-Dick

American Short Story

Climate Change Theatre Action (StuFu)

storefront of supermarket — Neoliberalism and Modern American Literature

Planet in Space — Afrofuturism

Contemporary Slave Narratives

Introduction to Literary Studies

Summer Term 2023

Photo shows vintage camera equipment — African American Documentary (StuFu)

Painting "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer — American Realism

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City — City Poems

Bright yello graffito on tarmac, showing icons of a man, woman and two small children — Family Photography

Advertising with wild animals — Literary Animal Studies

A historical document, showing the list of signatures of the "Declaration of Sentiments" of the Women's Rights Convention from 1848 — Nineteenth-century American Women Writers

Historical fugitive slave ad — Slave Narratives

Graffiti at Wolfgang Borchert Theater in the port of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — Theater and Community

Person holding up a piece of paper that reads "Hello, my pronouns are" in rainbow colours — Queer Children's Literature

Winter Term 2022/23

Black and white photograph of a woman looking like a ghost — American Gothic Fiction

Measuring tape against yellow background — American Short Story

Book pages — Introduction to Literary Studies

Poster with United States history illustration — Introduction to American Literary History: Colonial Period to Antebellum (1500-1860)

Illustration Moby Dick — Moby-Dick

Historical book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin — Nineteenth-Century American Children's Classics

Shakespeare portrait in the style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portraits — Shakespeare Meets Star Wars: The Bard in American Popular Culture

Black and white photograph of an empty theater auditorium — Theater & the Afterlife of Slavery: Poetics and Politics of Recent Black Theater (2014-2020)

Summer Term 2022

Poem poster featuring Amanda Gorman — African-American Poetry

Historical book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin — Nineteenth-Century American Children's Classics

Lecture: The City in American Literature

Advertising with wild animals — Literary Animal Studies

Book page with text and photographs — Poem, Painting, Photograph: Reading the Contemporary Novel Through Its Intertexts

Winter Term 2021/22

Planet in Space — Afrofuturism

Historical fugitive slave ad — Contemporary Narratives of Slavery

Open book pages — Introduction to Literary Studies

Abstract black and white pattern — Post-millennial Fiction

Mural of a fish coming up for air — Stufu: Climate Change Theatre Action

Sun umbrellas with sky and seagulls — Travelogues

Poster with United States history illustration — Introduction to American Literary History: Colonial to Antebellum Period

National September 11 Memorial — Literature of 9/11

Historical book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin — Nineteenth-Century American Children's Classics

Sheets of blank white paper — Seeing Whiteness

Summer Term 2021

Class_Introduction — Introduction to Literatures in English

Class_Theater of Race_Pic — Theater of Race

writing — Academic Writing in English

City Lecture — Lecture: The City in American Literature

Class_HR Pic — Harlem Renaissance

Class-Climate Pic — Climate Fi/action

Class_JewishLit — Jewish Literature

Class Anti-Racism — Anti-Racism and Diversity Awareness

Uncle Tom Illu — 19th-Century American Children's Classics

Winter Term 2020/21

Cityscape at night — The City in American Literature

Historical poster Uncle Tom's Cabin — American Melodrama

Poster with United States history illustration — Introduction to American Literary History

Martin Luther King Memorial Washington D.C. — Literature and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Historical photograph of woman writing a letter — Academic Writing

Historical book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin — 19th Century American Children’s Classics

Teacher and primary school children at blackboard — Introduction to Literatures in English

Poster Benjamin Franklin autobiographical scenes — American Life Writing

Boston Common Tablet — Readings in Early American Literature