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)
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
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
Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies
State Exam Preparation "American Literature" (LA)
Betreuungsübung "American Studies" (BA)
Media Session
Strange Ones: Tales of Magic, Myth, and Mischief (postponed to the winter term 2024/25!)
From The Big Sleep to Little Women: Voices of American Cinema (in conjunction with the seminar "Masters of American Cinema: Decentering the Canon" by PD Dr. Georgiana Banita)
Vampire Movies (including a Twilight marathon)
Circus Movies
So Much More Than Red, White, and Blue: Movies with Colors in their Title
The American West
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