Lehrveranstaltungen
- World War I in Literature
- Jane Eyre across Media and Genres
- The Suffragette Movement
- Translation II
- PS: Fashion in Literature
- PS: Revenge Tragedy
- PS: British Radio Plays
- PS: Jean Rhys
- Translation II
- PS: Language in Drama: Applying various techniques of language analysis (literary and linguistic) to dramatic texts; Shakespeare’s Richard III, Sheridan’sThe School for Scandal, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Patrick Marber’s Closer
- PS: Women and the City: short stories by Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, H. G. Wells: Ann Veronica, Jean Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight, Beryl Bainbridge:The Dressmaker
- HS: Unreliable Narration: theories of unreliability; Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Grahame Greene: The Quiet American, Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day, Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
- 2x PS: Romantic Poetry
- CLC II: Advanced Translation
- Examenskolloquium
- PS: Dialogue Novels: Violet Hunt’s The Maiden’s Progress, Ivy-Compton-Burnett’sManservant and Maidservant, Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, Philip Roth’s Deception
- PS Adaptations: theories of adaptation, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in stage adaptations by Nick Dear and Patrick Sandford and the Kenneth Branagh film version
- 2x PS: British Poetry: poems by Shakespeare, Constable, Marvell, Gray, Wordsworth, Burns, Coleridge, Shelley, Swinburne, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Thomas, Auden, Larkin, Hughes
- 2x CLC II: Advanced Translation
- HS: George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Literary Criticism
- HS: Style in Fiction: Linguistic approaches to fictional texts; base text: Joyce’sUlysses
- HS: Shakespeare’s Comedies: As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew
- PS: British Drama on Stage (theatre excursion to London)
- 2x German-English Translation
- Examenskolloquium
- PS: Text and Discourse Analysis
- PS (Didactics): Storytelling in the EFL Classroom: various stories and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- PS: Medicine in Contemporary Fiction: Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman and short stories by Samuel Shem and Perri Klass
- 2x German-English Translation
- Examenskolloquium
- PS: The Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Gaskell’s Ruth, Eliot’sAdam Bede, Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Moore’s Esther Waters
- PS: British Poetry: survey of British poetry from Beowulf to the present
- PS (Didactics): Teaching Shorter Fiction at Sekundarstufe I: Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden, Morton Rhue: Give A Boy A Gun
- PS (Theatre excursion to London): British Drama on Stage
- PS: Introduction to Pragmatics
- 2x Translation German-English
- PS: Restoration Comedy: discussion of cultural background and plays by Congreve, Wycherley, Behn, Etherege, Sheridan
- PS: Introduction to English Text Linguistics
- 2x Texts and Genres (Text analysis): H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica, Harold Pinter’sBetrayal, poems by Donne, Marlowe, Eliot, Wordsworth
- 2x Translation German-English
Winter term 2008/9
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- PS/HS: Gender and Language (sociolinguistics)
- PS: Contemporary Canadian Women’s Short Stories: introduction of feminist literary theories; discussion of short stories by Atwood, Gallant, Munro, Urquhart, Shields, Richler, Little, Thien
- 2x CLC Advanced II: Translation German-English
- PS (Didactics): Teaching Shakespeare: focus on how to teach Macbeth in school
Summer term 2008
- 2x Literary Analysis: application of literary terms and concepts to the analysis of literary texts; poems by W. B. Yeats, Andrew Marvell, H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Peter Shaffer’s Equus
- PS: Victorian Poetry: poems by Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, the Rossettis, Hardy, Hopkins
- PS/HS: Shakespeare’s London (+ excursion to London): cultural studies course exploring London at the time of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- 2x CLC Advanced II: Translation German-English
- Introduction to Information and Communication Technologies: how to use the internet and the library catalogue effectively to do research; powerpoint; editing a text, presentation skills
Winter term 2007/8
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Literary Analysis: poems by W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Robert Burns, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- PS: Metaphysical Poetry: poems by Donne, Carew, Herbert, Vaughan
- PS (Didactics): Teaching Short Stories
- 2x CLC Advanced II: Translation German-English
Summer term 2007
- Literary Analysis: poems by P. B. Shelley, Alice Mynell, Wilfred Owen, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
- Introduction to Information and Communication Technologies
- PS: Thomas Hardy: discussion of The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- PS: Romantic Comedy: discussion of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,As You Like It, The Tempest
- 2x Translation German-English
- Theatre in London (Excursion): Shakespeare’s Othello, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo
Winter term 2006/7
- PS: Renaissance Drama by Women
- PS: Contemporary British Poetry and the City: poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, Roy Fisher, Philip Larkin, Peter Reading, Sinéad Morrissey
- 2x Translation German-English
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Teaching Literature: Didactics of teaching literary texts in the second-language classroom
Summer term 2006
- G3: Thomas Hardy: discussion of The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure
- HS/CS: City and Culture: Twentieth-Century Poetry
Winter term 2005/6
- G1: Introduction to Literary Studies
- G3: The Scientist As Hero: discussion of the presentation of science and scientists in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith
Summer term 2005
- G2: Introduction to Prose Fiction: discussion of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, book and film, with a strong narratological focus
- G3/CS: Women in the Urban Landscape: H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica, Roddy Doyle’sThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Fay Weldon’s “The Man with No Eyes”, Annabel Lyon’s “Run”
Winter term 2004/5 (University of Stuttgart)
- G1: Introduction to Literary Studies
- G2: Introduction to Drama: discussion of plays by Kyd, Shakespeare, Wilde, Osborne, Churchill
Summer term 2004 (University of Stuttgart)
- G3: Intertextuality: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, After Mrs Rochester
- 90 minute lecture on Jane Eyre
Winter term 2003/4 (University of Stuttgart)
- G1: Introduction to Literary Studies
- G2: Introduction to Drama: discussion of plays by Tourneur, Shakespeare, Congreve, O’Casey, Beckett, Osborne, Teale, Shaffer
- Translation German - English
Summer term 2003 (University of Stuttgart)
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- HS: Language Contact
- G3: George Eliot: discussion of Eliot’s early novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner; preparatory class for the intermediate exam
Winter term 2002/3 (University of Stuttgart)
- G1: Introduction to Literary Studies
- Essay Writing and Interpretation of Literary Texts: practice of close reading with text excerpts from various genres and periods of English literature; writing practice
- Reading seminar: Revenge Tragedy: Discussion of five Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies by Middleton, Tourneur, Kyd, Shakespeare, Marlowe
Summer term 2002 (University of Stuttgart)
- Essay Writing and Interpretation of Literary Texts
- G2: Introduction to Prose Fiction: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- G3: George Eliot
Winter term 2001/2 (University of Stuttgart)
- Essay Writing and Interpretation of Literary Texts
- G2: Introduction to Prose Fiction: texts: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervillesand Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Spring term 2001 (University of Aberdeen)
- Tutorial for Essentials of Language: Introduction to Language Studies
Winter term 2000 (University of Aberdeen)
- Tutorial for Language in Literature: Introduction to Language Studies
Winter term 1997/98 (University of Stuttgart)
- Tutorial for G3: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Richard III
Winter term 1996/97 (University of Stuttgart)
- Tutorial for a seminar entitled Motive der Moderne: Joseph Conrad und D.H. Lawrence
