Courses

Research-Based Teaching and Learning

Erasmus Teaching Staff exchange with İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey (March 2012)

Summer term 2021 (Online Teaching)

10-76-4-Basismodul A-01 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-02 Key Topics in Literature: The Victorian Novel – Robert Louis Stevenson (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-03 Key Topics in Literature and Cultural History: Contemporary Crime Fiction (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-03 Literary London – London in Literature (BA E-SC second year students and MA E-SC students)

10-76-4-AP-01 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students and MA E-SC – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Winter term 2020/21 (Online Teaching)

10-76-1-BasismodulA-01 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-1-D1/WD1-02 Key Topics in Literature: The Victorian Novel – Charles Dickens (BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-1-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Cultural History: Shakespeare’s London (BA E-SC second year students)

10-M80-1-LIT-01 Literatures in English: Graphic Novels and Literary Fiction (Master of Education students – Year One)

10-M80-1-OrMo-01 Contemporary Travel Writing (MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

Guest lecture: Lecture Series “Mobile Sherlock. Transmedia and Transmedial Storytelling – The Case of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” in Studying English-Speaking Cultures – Topics, Theories and Methods (MA E-SC: Language, Text, Media)

Summer term 2020 (Online Teaching)

10-76-2-Basismodul A-1 Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D2-c-01 Key Topics in Literature: The Victorian Novel – Robert Louis Stevenson (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-02 Key Topics in Literature: Literary London – London in Literature (BA E-SC second year students and MA E-SC students)

10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-05 Contemporary Crime Fiction (BA E-SC second year students; MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

10-76-6-P-03 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students and MA E-SC – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Winter term 2019/20

10-76-1-BasismodulA-01 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-3-D-1b/c-WD-1b/c-01 Key Topics in Literature: The Victorian Novel – Charles Dickens (BA E-SC second year students)

10-M80-1-OrMo-06 Shakespeare’s London (BA E-SC second year students; MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

10-76-3-D1-a/b-WD-1a/b-01 Key Topics in Literature: Women and Fiction – Virginia Woolf (BA E-SC second year students)

10-M80-1-OrMo-05 Contemporary Travel Writing(MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

Summer term 2019

10-76-2-BA-01 Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-02 Key Topics in Literature: English Renaissance Drama – William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-01 Literary London – London in Literature (BA E-SC second year students and MA E-SC students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-03 Key Topics in Literature: Contemporary Crime Fiction(BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-6-AP-01 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Seven-Day Student Excursion to London with Katalina Kopka: 10-M80-4-Z-1 London in Literature – Literary London: A Literary and Cultural Journey across the Centuries (BA E-SC second year students; MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

Winter term 2018/19

10-76-1-BA-01 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-08 Key Topics in Literature: The Victorian Novel (BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-03 Shakespeare on Screen: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare Trilogy Maqbool (2003), Omkara (2006), and Haider (2014) (BA E-SC second year students; MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

10-E76-3-LIT-01 Literatures in English: Graphic Novels and Literary Fiction (Master of Education students – Year One)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Literature: Contemporary British Fiction (BA E-SC second year students)

Guest lecture: “Cultural History and Literatures: Contemporary Travel Writing as Counter-Narratives” in Lecture Series “Studying English-Speaking Cultures – Topics, Theories and Methods” (MA E-SC: Language, Text, Media)

Summer term 2018

10-76-2-BA-01 Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-01 Key Topics in Literature: Late Victorian Novelists – George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy(BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-18 Key Topics in Cultural History: Science and the Supernatural in post-2000 Crime Series (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-6-GS-03 eLearning: “Key Developments in Literary Histor(ies) and Literary Criticism in English” (General Studies)

10-M83-2-P2-2 Key Topics in Literature: Shakespeare’s London (BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-6-AP-01 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Winter term 2017/18

10-76-1-BA-01 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (two sessions – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Literature: English Renaissance Drama – Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson (BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-05 Key Topics in Cultural History: Transmedial and Transmedia Storytelling: The Case of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (BA E-SC second year students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-08 Key Topics in Literature: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson (BA E-SC second year students)

10-M83-3-V-1 Travel Writing: Text, Context, Criticism (BA E-SC second year students; MA E-SC students and MA TnL students)

10-76-6-GS-09 eLearning: “Key Developments in Literary Histor(ies) and Literary Criticism in English” (General Studies)

Summer term 2017

10-76-2-101-2 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (three groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

E-Learning Key Developments in Literary Histor(ies) and Literary Criticism in English (nine online lectures)

10-76-6-GS-01 Tutorial: Introduction to English Literatures (Part II) (BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-12 Key Topics in Literature: Science and the Supernatural in post-2000 Crime Series (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-4-D2/WD2-14 Key Topics in Literature: English Renaissance Drama – Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-6-AP-01 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Winter term 2016/17

10-76-2-101-1 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (three out of four groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

E-Learning Key Developments in Literary Histor(ies) and Literary Criticism in English (nine online lectures)

10-76-6-GS-04 Tutorial: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I) (BA E-SC First-year students)

10-M83-2-P3-1 Key Topics in Cultural History: Shakespeare on Screen (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TnL students)

10-M83-2-P1-3 Key Topics in Literature: Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts, Criticism (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TnL students)

10-76-3-D1/WD1-08 Key Topics in Literature: Transmedial and Transmedia Storytelling: The Case of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (BA E-SC Second-year students)

Summer term 2016

10-76-2-101-2 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (three groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-0-015-1 Fortnightly Lecture Series: Key Developments in Literary Theory (Poster) – General Studies, in conjunction with foundation module A

10-76-5-1 Tutorial: “Introduction to English Literatures (Part II) (BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D/WD-2-101-2a Key Topics in Literature: Shakespeare’s London – Literature Meets Culture (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TnL First-year students)

10-76-6-311-1 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students – Final Dissertation in English Literatures)

Winter term 2015/16

10-76-1-101-1 Foundation module A: “Introduction to English Literatures” (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (four groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-5-1 Tutorial sessions: “Introduction to English Literatures” (Part I) (BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-0-015-4 General Studies: “Literary Histor(ies) in English: Texts and Issues” (Ringvorlesung – Survey Course), in conjunction with foundation module A. Poster

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1b Key Topics in Literature: Key Topics in Literature: Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts, Criticism (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TNL First-year students)
10-76-2-D/WD-2-103-2a Key Topics in Cultural History: Media History and Media Aesthetics (BA E-SC Second-year students)

Summer term 2015

10-76-2-101-2 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part II – Literary Criticism and Literary Theory) (three groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

Guest lecture 1: Prof Stèphanie Nutting (Associate Professor at the College of Arts; Head of French Studies, University of Guelph, Canada) – International Guest Lecturer Program 2014/15

Title: “How Michel Tremblay put Québec on the World Stage” Host: Introduction to English Literatures Part II – Focus: Canada  (22nd June, 2015; 10:15 a. m. to 11:45 a. m. in SFG 2020)

BICQS Guest Lecture series 2014/15: Prof Paul D. Morris (Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) – International Guest Lecturer Program 2014/15

Title: “The History of Emily Montague and the Representation of Francophone Canada” (7th July, 2015; 10:15 a. m. to 11:45 a. m. in MZH 1090) Poster

10-76-0-015-1 Fortnightly Lecture Series: Key Developments in Literary Theory (Poster) – General Studies, in conjunction with foundation module A

10-76-5-1 Tutorial: “Introduction to English Literatures (Part II) (BA E-SC First-year students)

10-76-4-D/WD-2-103-2h Key Topics in Cultural History: Media History and Media Aesthetics (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-4-D/WD-2-101-2g Key Topics in Literature: Staging Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in Early Modern English Drama – The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Othello and The Tempest (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TnL First-year students)

10-76-6-311-5 Research Colloquium in English Literature (BA E-SC Third-year students – Final Dissertation in English Literature)

Winter term 2014/2015

10-76-1-101-1 Foundation module A: Introduction to English Literatures (Part I – Literary History and Principles of Literary Analyses) (three groups – BA E-SC First-year students)

Guest lecture 1: Prof Michael Hulse (University of Warwick, UK) “Half-Life” Michael Hulse will read from his poetry and discuss a life spent in writing, translating and editing. Poster

10-76-5-2 Fortnightly Lecture Series: Literary Histor(ies) in English – Texts and Issues (Poster); General Studies, in conjunction with foundation module A

Keith Knight “They Shoot Black People, Don’t They?: A Cartoonist’s Look at Police Brutality in the U.S.”

10-M83-2-P1-3 British and Turkish Women’s Life Writing: “Feminist Dialogues across Cultures” – The Chronicles and Memoirs of Halide Edip Adivar and Grace Ellison) – Component of Bremen University’s TURKEY WEEK (10 – 16 November 2014) Poster and Flyer (BA E-SC Second-year students and MA TnL First-year students) Invitation

Guest lecture 2: Dr Hülya Adak (Sabancı Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey) “Feminism a la Halide Edib: Critical Reflections on her fiction, activism and memoirs (1908-1940)”

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1g Key Topics in Literature: English Renaissance Drama – Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson (BA E-SC Second-year students)

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1c Key Topics in Literature: Fundamental Features in Filmic Storytelling (BA E-SC Second-year students)

Summer term 2014

10-76-2-101-2a Introduction to English Literatures (Part II)

10-76-2-101-2b Introduction to English Literatures (Part II)

10-76-2-101-2c Introduction to English Literatures (Part II)

10-76-4-D/WD-2-103-2h Key Topics in Cultural History: Media History and Media Aesthetics

10-76-4-D/WD-2-101-2h Key Topics in Literature: Contemporary Anglophone Crime Fiction and Film

10-76-4-D/WD-2-101-2i Key Topics in Literature: Literary London

10-76-0-015-1a Reading Literatures in English – 19th-Century British Classics – Part II

10-76-0-015-9 Reel Criminals: Analysing Contemporary Crime Movies

10-76-6-311-5 Begleitveranstaltung Literaturwissenschaft

Winter term 2013/14

10-76-1-101-1a Introduction to English Literatures (Part I)

10-76-1-101-1b Introduction to English Literatures (Part I)

10-76-1-101-1c Introduction to English Literatures (Part I)

10-M83-3-V-2 Key Topics in Literature: Transnational Criminal Investigations (MA TNL)

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1h Key Topics in Literature: Modernist Prose and Poetry 1900 – 1930

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1i Key Topics in Literature: Travel Writing – Writing Travel

10-76-5-03 Reading Literatures in English – 19th-Century British Classics – Part I

Summer term 2013

10-76-2-101-2a Introduction to English Literatures (Part II)

10-76-2-101-2b Introduction to English Literatures (Part II)

Guest lecture: PD Dr. Ian Watson “Romanticism and Revolution: The Truth behind the Daffodils”, 18th June 2013

Guest lecture: Dr. Salah el Moncef, Assistant Professor at the University of Nantes, France “The Wachowskis’ *Matrix Trilogy*: Triumph of Virtual Reason?”, 24th June 2013

Special Reading: Dr. Salah el Moncef, Assistant Professor at the University of Nantes, France; A reading of “Sleepwalking” by the author himself followed by Q&A session”, 25th June 2013

10-76-4-D/WD-2-101-2e Key Topics in Literature: Contemporary Crime Fiction and Film

10-M83-2-P3-1 Reading Cinematic (Self) Representations of the Orient (MA TNL)

10-76-6-311-1b Begleitveranstaltung Literaturwissenschaft

Winter term 2012/13

10-76-1-101-1b Introduction to English Literatures (Part I)

10-76-1-101-1a Introduction to English Literatures (Part I)

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1a Key Topics in Cultural History – Critical Media Studies

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1e Key Topics in Literature – Detective Fiction and Crime Novels 1840 – 1951

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1b Key Topics in Literature – Shakespeare’ s London: Literature meets Culture

10-76-2-D/WD-1-101-1d Key Topics in Literature – Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Genre and Gender

10-M83-2/3-V-1 Reading Travel Writing as a Transnational Genre

10-M83-2/3-V-2 Shaping Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in Early Modern English Drama

Summer term 2012

10-76-6-311-1b Begleitveranstaltung Literaturwissenschaft

10-76-4-250-3a Masculinity in Contemporary British and American Films

Guest lecture: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Starck, University of Koblenz-Landau “Masculinity and Beer Ads”, 17th July 2012

10-76-4-220-3c Orientalism in British and American Films

10-76-4-200-2b The Classical Detective Story in English

Guest lecture: PD Dr. Ian Watson “A Creative Writing Workshop with Dr. Watson”, 10th May 2012

Guest lecture: Dr. Michel Feith, Assistant Professor at the University of Nantes, France “The Gangster Film from Scarface to Touch of Evil”, 21st June 2012

10-76-4-200-2c The Romantic Imagination

Winter term 2011/12

10-76-3-250-3a Canadian Women Filmmakers

10-76-3-240-3a Critical Media Studies

10-GS-11-03 Istanbul Excursion – Cultural Encounters: Practice, Politics, Space and Heritage of the Ottoman Harem

10-76-3-200-1c Media Aesthetics

10-76-3-200-1d The History of the English Sonnet from Wyatt to Auden

10-76-3-200-1e Visiting the Harem: Women Travel Writing and Orientalism

10-76-3-210-3a Writing Men – Representing Masculinities

Summer term 2011

10-76-6-313-1c Begleitveranstaltung Kulturgeschichte

10-76-6-311-1c Begleitveranstaltung Literaturwissenschaft

10-76-6-315-2g Shakespeare’s London and Shakespeare’s Globe

10-76-4-200-2k Travel Writing

Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Elmar Schenkel, Leipzig University reading from two of his recent publications, 14th July 2011. Lesung mit Kommentaren – Ein Lächeln und zwei Fragezeichen. Reisetagebuch durch Indien (2000) und Das sibirische Pendel. Reisen in Russland (2005). Fachbereich 10, GW2 B2900. Invitation as part of the syllabus for “Travel Writing” (Bremen, Summer term 2011).

Winter term 2010/11

10-GS-02-01 Cinematic Shakespeare Adaptations

10-76-3-240-1 Dickens’ Little Dorrit on Screen: Poverty and Riches

10-76-1-103-1c Key Moments in the Cultural History of the English Speaking World

10-76-3-200-1k Science Fiction

10-76-3-200-1l Shakespeare’ s London

Summer term 2010

10-76-4-200-1l British and American Crime Fiction

10-76-4-200-1k Literary Modernism 1900 – 1930

10-76-4-210-3c Reading the Metropolis: Transcultural Flows in Contemporary British Film

10-76-4-230-3c Traditions of Violence in American Literature and Culture

Pre-2010:

The Detective Story in English (BA, Goldsmiths London 2007-09)

Key Issues, Big Stories: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory (BA,

Roehampton University London, 2008)

Crime Fiction (BA, Roehampton University London, 2008)

Detective Fiction in the 1920s (BA, Goldsmiths London, 2008, Lecture)

Studies in Literature 1900 – 1930 (MA, Goldsmiths London, 2007)

Crime Fiction (BA, Roehampton University London, 2006)

Visiting the Harem: Women Travel Writing and the Orient (PS, Leipzig, 2006)

Introduction to British Cultural Studies (PS, Leipzig, 1999/2000)