Teaching

Winter 2022

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
  
• M.A. Seminar Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gothic: Tales of Darkness, Desire and Power from Graveyard Poetry to Kipling's Indian Short Stories
  
• M.A. Seminar Narrating Flight, Refugeeism and Asylum
  
• M.A. Research Colloquium
  
• B.A. Übung 19th-Century Australian Gothic
  
• B.A. Colloquium
  
  

Summer 2022

• M.A. Seminar Irish Literature and Culture
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium

Winter 2021

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar "Rule Britannia": The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A. Seminar Afrofuturism
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. Colloquium

Summer 2021

• M.A. Seminar Irish Literature and Culture
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Seminar The Empire Bites Back: Postcolonial Gothic
• B.A. Übung Afrofuturism
• B.A. Colloquium

Winter 2020

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A, Seminar “Rule Britannia”: The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A. Seminar: Literature and the Environment: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
• Gegenwartsliteratur und Philologie (Grundlagebnseminar des GRK 2291)
• M.A. Research Colloquium

Summer 2020

• M.A. Seminar Irish Literature and Culture
• M.A. Seminar Brexit: Literary and Cultural Responses
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium

Winter 2019

• M.A. Seminar Robinsonades: Anglophone Narratives of (Colonial) Adventure and Survival from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gothic: Tales of Darkness, Desire and Power from Graveyard Poetry to Kipling’s Indian Short stories
• M.A. Research Colloquium

Summer 2019

• M.A. Seminar and Exkursion: Austen to Inklings and Beyond: Exploring the Literary South-West
• M.A. Seminar Beckett and Beyond: British Drama from the 1950s to the Present
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium Researching British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Winter 2018

• M.A. Seminar Narrating Flight, Refugeeism and Asylum
• M.A. Seminar "Rule Britannia": The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theoris, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. Seminar Settler Colonial Narratives (Australia)

Summer 2018

• Sabbatical term

Winter 2017

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar Eighteenth-Century Feminisms: Astell to Wollstonecraft
• M.A. Seminar Literature and the Environment: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey

Summer 2017

• M.A. Seminar and Excursion: London Through the Centuries
• M.A. Seminar Contemporary British Drama
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium Researching Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Winter 2016

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar Rule Britannia: The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A. Seminar Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
• B.A. Seminar Settler Colonial Narratives (Australia)
• M.A. Research Colloquium

Summer 2016

• M.A. Seminar and Excursion: The Literary North-West
• M.A. Seminar Literature and Globalization
• M.A. Research Colloquium Postcolonial Feminisms
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium Researching British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Winter 2015

• M.A. Seminar Representing Poverty and Precarity in the Anglophone Postcolonial World
• M.A. Seminar Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Gothic: Tales of Darkness, Desire, and Power from Graveyard Poetry to Kipling’s Indian Short Stories
• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Research Colloquium Cosmopolitan/Global/Planetary Fictions: The Uses and Abuses of Comparative Approaches
• B.A. Seminar The Empire Bites Back: Postcolonial Gothic

Summer 2015

• M.A. Seminar and Excursion The Country House and Landscape Garden in English Literature and Culture
• M.A. Seminar Contemporary British Drama
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• B.A. VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Colloquium Researching British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Winter 2014/15

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar Rule Britannia: The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A. Seminar Literature and the Environment: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
• B.A. Seminar Fictions of Empire and Resistance: Africa
• OS/M.A. Research Colloquium

Summer 2014 

Sabbatical term

Winter 2013/14

• M.A. Seminar Contemporary South East Asian Cultures
• M.A. Seminar Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Gothic: Tales of Darkness, Desire, and Power from Graveyard Poetry to Kipling’s Indian Short Stories
• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Research Colloquium
• VL B.A. Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Seminar The Empire Bites Back: Postcolonial Gothic
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Summer 2013

• M.A. Seminar and Excursion London through the Centuries

• M.A. Research Colloquium

• VL B.A. Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Übung Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
• B.A. Colloquium Researching British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Winter 2012/13

• Salon17 Lecture Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity (Link)

• M.A. Seminar Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts

• M.A. Seminar Revising Settler Colonialism: Renegotiations of the Past in Contemporary Australian Fiction
• M.A. Seminar Literature and the Country House in 18th-Century England
• OS/M.A. Colloquium Global Narratives
• B.A. Seminar Robinsonades: Anglophone Narratives of (Colonial) Adventure and Survival from the 18th Century to the Present
• B.A. Workshop New Zealand (Medienblick article: Link, article about Nixon: Link, article about Jones: Link, article about Ihimaera: Link, article about Catton: Link)

Summer 2012

• VL B.A. Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• M.A. Seminar and Excursion Hard Times. Nineteenth-Century Industrial Britain
• OS/M.A. Colloquium "Against Diversity" and other Provocations
• M.A. Seminar Literature and Film from South Africa
• B.A. Seminar Reading the Caribbean
• B.A. Colloquium Researching British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Winter 2011/12

• VL M.A. Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
• M.A. Seminar Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces
• B.A. Seminar Migrant and Transcultural Writing: Focus on Australia and Canada
• OS/M.A. Koll. Body and Space in Colonial and Postcolonial Drama
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Summer 2011

• VL B.A. Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• HS/M.A. Seminar Rule Britannia: The Postcolonial Eighteenth Century
• M.A./B.A. Seminar and Excursion: Georgian Britain
• B.A. Koll. Researching Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
• OS Staging Colonial Spaces
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Winter 2010/11

• VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• B.A. Seminar: Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction
• HS/M.A. Seminar Robinsonades: Anglophone Narratives of (Colonial) Adventure and Survival from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
• OS Postcolonialism, Globalisation, and Transnationalism: The Case of Pico Iyer
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Summer 2010

• VL British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
• HS/M.A. Seminar Literature from South Africa
• HS Reading the Caribbean
• OS Postcolonial Film
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Winter 2009/10

• VL Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: A Survey
• HS 'Rule Britannia': The Sea in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
• OS: Race: Frantz Fanon to Whiteness Studies
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Summer 2009

Sabbatical term

Winter 2008/09

• VL The Long Eighteenth Century, Part II: British Literature, 1700-1800
• HS Literature from South Africa
• OS The Empire Writes Back
• Basismodul Englische und amerikanische Literaturen und Kulturen (B1)
• Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Summer 2008

• HS Anglophone Indian Literature
• HS Contemporary British Drama
• OS Postcolonial Translation
• Doktorandenkolloquium

Winter 2007/08

• VL Beckett and Beyond: British Theatre and Drama since the 1950s
• HS The Empire Bites Back: Postcolonial Gothic and Mudrooroo\'s Vampire-Trilogy
• HS Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
• Grundkurs Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• OS Fundamentalisms: Rushdie, Kureishi, Nagarkar

Summer 2007

• VL Gothic in Literature and Film: Tales of Darkness, Desire, and Power from Graveyard Poetry to Coppola\'s Dracula
• HS Contemporary Canadian Drama and Performance, Part Two
• PS East, West: Anglo-Indian Short Prose
• OS Orientalism Reconsidered

Winter 2006/07

• VL Postcolonial Literatures in English
• HS Contemporary Canadian Drama and Performance, Part One
• HS Deutsche Englandreisende im 18. Jahrhundert
• Grundkurs Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• OS Postcolonial Theory: Tricontinentalism

Summer 2006

• VL British Literature of the Eighteenth Century
• HS Postcolonial Transformations: Stories of Africa
• HS Re-siting Australian Identities: Aspects of Multiculturalism in Australian Literature
• OS Postcolonialism and Globalisation

Winter 2005/06

• VL A History of Australian Literature
• PS Short Stories from Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• HS Eighteenth-Century Orientalism
• HS British Drama of the 1990s: In-Yer-Face Theatre
• OS Postcolonial Theory
• Beiträge zur Ringvorlesung "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft": 1. Die neuen englischsprachigen Literaturen und Postcolonial Studies, 2. Literature intermedial

Summer 2005

Sabbatical term

Winter 2004/05

• VL Beckett and Beyond: British Theatre and Drama since the 1950s
• Grundkurs Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• HS South African Fiction after Apartheid
• HS Gender and Ecology in the Works of Margaret Atwood
• Beiträge zur Ringvorlesung "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft": 1. Die neuen englischsprachigen Literaturen und Postcolonial Studies, 2. Approaching Poetry

Summer 2004

• VL Postcolonial Literatures in English
• Grundkurs Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• HS Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
• HS The Booker Prize
• Beitrag zur Ringvorlesung "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft": Die neuen englischsprachigen Literaturen und Postcolonial Studies