Lichterfeld - Past Courses

Early Modern Studies 

My courses focus on Shakespeare & Adaptations, Shakespeare & Marginalisation, Shakespeare & Nature, and many other issues in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Shakespeare & Nature

  • MA Blue Shakespeare (WS 2026/27)
  • BA1 Shakespeare's Green Dream (SS 2024)
  • BA1 Shakespeare's Green Spaces (SS 2023)

Shakespeare, Politics & Marginalisation

  • BA3 Rulership & the Nation
  • MA Shakespeare and Marginalisation (MA Current Issues in Renaissance Studies, SS 2021)
  • BA 1 Shakespeare and Race (BA Issues in Literary and Cultural Studies, SS 2021)
  • BA 3 Shakespeare and Diversity (BA Renaissance Studies, WS 2020/2021)
  • BA 3 Political Shakespeare: Venice - Material Culture and the Other (SS 2017)
  • BA Mapping the Nation (SS 2022)
  • MA 2 Writings Politics on the Early Modern Stage (Current Issues in Ren. Studies, WS 2019/2020)
  • MA Shakespeare and War (MA Module: SS 2016)
  • BA 1 "the king is dead, long live...?" Power and Propaganda in Shakespeare (BA Issues: SS 2014)
  • MA Shakespeare. Law and History (SS 2013)
  • MA Transgression and Subversion of Power (WS 2010/2011)
  • BA Playing Politics: "Danger never dreamt of - that is the danger" (BA V2: WS 2009/2010)

Shakespeare, Theory & Adaptations

  • MA2 From Page to Stage, Field Trip to York International Shakespeare Festival (SS 2026)
  • MA2 From Page to Stage, Field Trip to Stratford-upon Avon (SS 2025)
  • BA Shakespeare & Generic Hybridity (SS 2026)
  • BA 3 Shakespeare and Time (Renaissance Studies, SS 2020 - fully online)
  • BA 3 Shakespeare and Space (Renaissance Studies, SS 2018)
  • MA Shakespeare Now (MA, Winter 2017/18)
  • BA 3 Shakespeare Adaptations in Film and Literature (WS 2012/2013)
  • BA Drama, Theatre, Film. Authority, Authenticity, Adaptations (SS 2011)
  • BA Drama Theory/ Dramentheorie (WS 2008/2009, joint teaching)

Death, Revenge & Illegitimacy

  • BA 3 Shakespeare's Bastards (WS 2014-15)
  • Eros & Thanatos in English Renaissance Drama (BA advanced module: WS 2013/2014)
  • Retribution and Revenge in the English Renaissance (MA Seminar: WS 2012/2013)
  • Revenge in English Renaissance Tragedy (Proseminar: WS 2006/2007)

Romances, Reading & Families

  • MA 2 Folio/Age - Wor(l)dbuilding (SS 2023)
  • BA 1 A Midsummernight's Dream (BA Issues, SS 2023) 
  • MA Liminality, Pasages, Transitions - Current Issues in Renaissance Studies (SS 2022)
  • MA Hurting, Healing, and Shakespeare (WS 2021/22)
  • Mapping the Romances: Myths and Fairy Tales (MA Module: WS 2015-16)
  • British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Mystery, Myth, and Magic (BA V: SS 2010)
  • Knights, Noblemen and Ladies in Distress: Heroes and Chivalry in all Ages and Genres (Wiss. Übung: WS 2008/2009)
  • Reading the Renaissance/ Lektürekurs Renaissance (Wiss. Übung: SS 2008)
  • Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Drama/ Väter und Töchter im Drama der Shakespearezeit (Proseminar: SS 2005)

Teaching Degree

  • M Ed Shakespeare for Teachers (Master of Education, Winter 2017/18)
  • M Ed Shakespeare and the Renaissance (Teaching Degree: SS 2016)

Modernism

  • BA1 Mrs Dalloway at 100 Years (SS 2025)
  • MA Who's fond of Virginia Woolf? Novels & Adaptations" (Literatures in Comparison, SS 2019)
  • MA Modernism (Literatures and Cultures 20th Century to the Present SS 2019)
  • BA1 The Hogarth Press 1917. Celebrating Modernism (BA Issues, SS 2017)
  • BA3 "For nothing was simply one thing". To the Lighthouse. Theory and Text (WS 2015/2016)
  • MA Modernism. Emotion. Subjectivity. (SS 2015)
  • BA3 Modernist Literatre (WS 2013/2014)
  • Virginia Woolf. Time, Space & Memory (BA Issues: SS 2012)
  • British Literatures and Cultures: The Sea (BA V: SS 2011)
  • Bloomsbury (Proseminar: SS 2006)
  • Modern Histories (Proseminar: SS 2007)

Water

  • Water, Longing and Identity (WS 2025/26)
  • Sea Creatures - Blue Humanties & Mythology (WS 2024/25)
  • We write in Water (WS 22/23)
  • Focus on Water (WS 22/23)
  • British Literatures and Cultures: The Sea (BA V: SS 2011)

Scotland & Ireland

  • Scottish Politics, Edinburgh and the Highlands (SS 2022)
  • National Identity - Scotland. A Case Study (WS 2021/22)
  • Scottish History and the Scots Language & Field Trip to Stirling, the Cairngorms and Edinburgh (Regional Studies, SS 2019)
  • Scottish Poetry & Field Trip to Edinburgh, the Cairngorms, and the Silver City Aberdeen (SS 2018)
  • Scottish Romanticism & Field Trip to Scotland's Cities and the West Coast (SS 2017)
  • Scottish Literature & Field Trip to Edinburgh (BA Optional module: SS 2015/ SS 2016)
  • Schottische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte (Proseminar: WS 2005/2006)

Topography, Literature & Further Field Trips

  • MA London in Time and Space (WS 2023/24)
  • MA Spatial Theory and the Metropolis (WS 2023/24)
  • Field Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (BA & MA students SS 2019)
  • Rhine Romanticism  (BA Advanced Module: WS 2016/17)
  • MA Exploring British Cultural History: Yorkshire Field Trip to Yorkshire (June 2014)
  • MA research module: Yorkshire Literature (SS 2014)
  • MA module: 'From Page to Stage' (SS 2010. 2011, 2012)
  • 'From Page to Stage': Field Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (MA module: SS 2010. 2011, 2012; Organisation Field Trip: SS 2009 - SS 2013)
  • Field Trip to Washington D.C. (SS 2012)
  • MA Advanced Module: "Slow let us trace the matchless vale of the Thames" -
  • Topography in Literature (SS 2010)
  • Field Trip to London (May 2010)
  • London in Literature (Proseminar: WS 2007/2008)

Further Courses & Introductions

  • Sports in Popular Culture (MA Module: Anglophone Media and Popular Culture, WS 2018/19)
  • The Novel/ Der Roman vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert (BA module: WS 2008/2009, joint teaching)
  • Doctors and Churchmen in Literature (BA seminar: WS 2011/2012)
  • BA thesis colloquium (SS 2013)
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (WS 2011/2012)
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (WS 2010/2011)
  • Englische Literaturen und Kulturen (SS 2009)
  • Grundkurs: Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft (SS 2006)