"My good God, the gentleman in bed is dead!" - Murderesses in Victorian Fiction

Dozent/in:

Lara Brändle

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 3.7.2024, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
NOT open for Consolidation Module

MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: Kulturwissenschaft oder Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)

Studium Generale: Übung only!

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Murder is the ultimate transgression. Both legally and socially, both in the nineteenth century and today. Since murder is a transgression, there is also an aspect of agency contained within the act of transgression. It is, therefore, no surprise that a woman killing caused significant discomfort to Victorian society: not only was committing murder a crime and a significant transgression of social and moral rules, but women who kill showed that women had agency and were capable of physical violence, thus contradicting Victorian concepts of women as the bearers of morality .

A trend that is then observable in the Victorian era is that women who had committed murder were twice as likely to be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, often simply with the explanation that because they killed, they must be mad. The deed was enough to convince juries of their insanity. We might connect this to said discomfort, a way to remove a woman s agency and explain away her agency. However, we must also consider another trend in nineteenth-century Britain: arguably, madness is both domesticated and becomes female in this century.

The transgression of women is, of course, also a topic observable in the fiction of the time. In this class, we will read four novels by prominent Victorian authors, Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, Lady Audley s Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Tess of the D Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy, and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. All these novels contain transgressive women who kill, attempt to kill, and/or commit suicide. We will look at how the discourse of criminality, madness, and femininity of the nineteenth century influenced these novels (and vice versa?). We will critically discuss their actions, their mental state, their motivations, and, most importantly, how their actions are framed by the novel. We will also pay close attention to the mode these novels are written in and how this influences how these women s actions are framed.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Texts covered in class include:

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. 1847.
Bram Stoker. Dracula. 1897.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret. 1862.
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 1891.

(Very) Recent Black British Women Writers

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 19.7.2024, 9:00 - 14:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)

M.A. English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft

MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Mastermodul I: Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)
Masterintensivierungsmodul II: Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)

MA Religionen verstehen/Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul (Seminar)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 11.03.24 10:00 - 22.04.24 23:59

Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

The small word very in the title of our seminar will set the tone for the entire semester: we will be interested in female Black British writing published since the Brexit referendum and set in a post-#MeToo, Black-Lives-Matter world. Our protagonists are over-educated, under-paid interns, mediocre social media influencers, unrecognised, aspiring journalists ready to fight for human rights and couch-surfers against their will in a London they cannot afford. The texts in our syllabus feature young female representatives of Generation Z, which will allow us to discuss such topics as job insecurity, the housing crisis and gentrification, mental health, social media consumption as well as the rising social antagonisms in British society. We will explore the intersections of the challenges faced by Generation Z with the specific challenges of the BAME heroines in novels by celebrated, prize-winning writers such as Bernardine Evaristo, Zadie Smith and Candice Carty-Williams. The genres covered in this class try to do justice to the diversity of topics, modes and styles of recent Black British female writing and will therefore range from (performance) poetry and the neo-Victorian thriller to the novel of development, from domestic noir, biography-slash-manifesto, feminist essay, (queer) short story to the refugee tale and the history play. The seminar will problematise canon formation, the mainstreaming of parts of Black British literature and discuss the effects of labelling ( BAME , Black British ) as well as the awarding of literary prizes to black writers.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory Reading
Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie (2019)
Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019)
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl Woman Other (2019)
Jo Hamya, Three Rooms (2021)
Winsome Pinnock, Rockets and Blue Lights (2022)

Poems, short stories and essays as well as excerpts from biographies will be made available on the VC.

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Laurin Drechsel, Lea Seeger

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 2.5.2024, Einzeltermin am 13.6.2024, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 22.6.2024, 10:00 - 17:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 23.6.2024, 10:00 - 18:00, U7/01.05
Blockveranstaltung 12.7.2024-14.7.2024 Mo-Fr, Sa, So, 6:00 - 23:00, U7/01.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

• Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)

Inhalt:

This summer semester, we are going to work on several short plays which we will perform at the end of the semester. The genres of those plays will be mixed, so there will be something for everyone! You do not need any prior knowledge of acting to participate, nor do not need to be a student of English everyone is welcome to join. If you are interested in drama but prefer not to act, we will find a spot for you in our backstage team, which will centre around costume, hair and makeup design, as well as social media and advertising. Feel free to simply drop by in the first session!

The class will take place in person on Mondays and Thursdays at 8 p.m in room U7/01.05. It is no problem if you can only make one of the weekly dates. If you would like to participate in the Drama Group, please write an email to buedg.englit@uni-bamberg.de for further information. We will then add you to our team on MS Teams and look forward to meeting you in the first week of the semester!

Early Modern Literature and Culture (Survey 1/4)

Dozent/in:

Susanne Gruß

Angaben:

Vorlesung, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (Vorlesung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 29.03.2024, 10:00-22.04.2023, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

How serious did early modern poets take their sonnets? Was Shakespeare really ‘the greatest playwright’ in the early modern period? Why do we have so many portraits of Elizabeth I? And were there Renaissance women writers?

This lecture – the first part of a four-part survey of English Literature and Culture – will hopefully provide you with answers to these questions (and more). We will cover the period from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, looking at important texts, authors, movements, and developments and place them in their historical and cultural contexts. Our starting point is the blossoming of (literary) culture at the court of Elizabeth I and the development of popular theatre. From there, we will move through Jacobean and Caroline England, the Civil War period, and the Restoration (of theatre). The lecture will focus in particular on theatrical cultures and drama, taking into consideration the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, or John Fletcher, to name but a few; genres such as (revenge) tragedy, (city) comedy, tragicomedy, the court masque, and restoration comedy; as well as collaborative approaches to writing and performing drama in the early modern period.

Empfohlene Literatur:

see syllabus (provided online and in session 01)

Fashion and Identity in British Culture

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Nachhaltigkeit, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
Einzeltermin am 7.5.2024, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 13.6.2024, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

M.A. English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft

MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Mastermodul I: Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar)
Masterintensivierungsmodul II: Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar)

MA Religionen verstehen/Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul (Seminar)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 11.03.24 10:00 - 22.04.24 23:59

Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Fashion has been an integral part of human culture and society for centuries. As the world evolves, so does the fashion industry. The importance of the fashion industry in today s world cannot be overstated, as it plays such a crucial role in multiple aspects of our lives, from individual expression to global economic growth. (Meet Your Wardrobe)
When looking at gender, national, age-based, or class-based identity, we find a plethora of building blocks that constitute who we are and how we express this multifaceted identity. One aspect of our identity and a very visible one at that is fashion. What we wear adds to who we are and who we present ourselves to be, but it also reveals facets of ourselves that we are not actively projecting. In turn, we read other people s fashion, on the street, on TV, in magazines, or in literature, and automatically draw conclusions about them. Just like we do now, people have read other people s fashions for centuries and people have equally based parts of their respective identities on their own fashion.
In this course, we will begin by looking at late 18th-century/Regency British fashion and identity, then move on to Victorian and Edwardian fashion and identities, and finally conclude with War and Interwar Britain, thus covering a period of roughly 150 years of British fashion history. In each period, we will look at normative and emerging gender identities, class and fashion, socio-political developments such as the Suffragette movement, the effect of new technologies on the fashion industry, and fashion and health. In so doing, we will analyse how fashion makes us strong, sick, funny, radical, healthy, self-conscious, individual and part of a group. In short, in this course we will use primary material such as newspaper clippings, literary excerpts, film stills, posters, and advertisements to sound out what fashion can do and what it has done in constituting English identities in the period indicated.
Guest auditors are very welcome. Please register in advance via kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

All materials for this class will be provided on the VC at the beginning of term. Please note: since no preparation in advance is necessary, this course will require you to read more during the semester.

Into the Heart of Darkness (of Literary & Cultural Theory)

Dozent/in:

Susanne Gruß

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.22
ab 22.4.2024

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
The class starts in the second week of term!

Inhalt:

Joseph Conrad s short novel Heart of Darkness (1899) is many things: a late Victorian text preoccupied with the crumbling of the British Empire; a proto-modernist novella experimenting with narrative voice and the depiction of consciousness; an investigation of race and racism; a subversive depiction of (British) masculinity. For this class, it serves as a starting point for discussions of literary and cultural theory. Using Heart of Darkness as a case study, we will explore how to make (productive) use of theory in literary analysis. Set approaches will include psychoanalysis, feminism, gender and queer studies, postcolonialism, and new historicism. By the end of term, you will get to choose at least two further approaches you are interested in Marxism? affect theory? ecocriticism? your choice!

Disclaimer: apart from Heart of Darkness, you will have to read theoretical and critical articles each week, so brace yourselves!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading:

• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) please buy the most recent Norton Critical Edition (ed. Paul B. Armstrong, ISBN 978-0-393-26486-9)

• Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (4th edition)

Additional mandatory reading will be made available online.

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 19.7.2024, 16:00 - 18:15, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 8.10.2024, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 6 or 8 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.04.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen zwei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Termin A finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.

3. Tutorials:

Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies A" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Dieses Tutorium wird von derselben Dozentin unterrichtet wie die Introduction selbst.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of predominantly English literary history.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introductions taught by members of the English Literature section use literary examples from a primarily British context, and those taught by members of the American Studies section use primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you specialize in English or American literature, and you don t have to take your later courses in the same area.

The following applies only to students whose Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft contains both the Introduction to Literary Studies and a lecture:
The final written exam of this Introduction to Literary Studies is also the module exam for the Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft. The exam will contain questions about both the content of the Introduction and the lecture (free choice: English or American Literature lecture). Students, therefore, are advised to take the introductory class either after attending the lecture OR in the same semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Fiction

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Masterintensivierungsmodul II: Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
MA Religionen verstehen/Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul (Übung)

Studium Generale

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

“Young adult literature has really flourished in the past few decades. Once dismissed as a ‘genre’ that was unrealistic, dumb-downed, and lacking in quality, YA literature is now widely hailed as relevant, diverse, innovative, and audacious. In fact, young adult works have grown in number and in quality so much so that their appeal reaches beyond its intended audience.” (Jennifer Deuell, “Why YA Lit is Important”, Richmond Public Library)

As Jennifer Deuell rightly summarised in her blog entry quotes above, YA literature matters. It matters because it reaches a large group of readers within and outside of the intended audience of the genre, which generally targets teenage readers, but is often read also by young adults in their early 20s. YA novels address the concerns and lived reality of teenagers and young adults and provides a shared platform for all readers, especially so in times of immediate and global exchange. The genre upvalues young people’s concerns and issues and acknowledges the difficulties alongside the joys of coming of age. Once issue that people of all ages, but especially teenagers and young adults often struggle with is their own sexuality. Growing up to become a mature person often entails learning to understand one’s own differentness.

This course specifically looks at queerness in YA fiction and highlights the increasing representation of the LGBTQIA+ community as well as the sorrows and joys of young LGBTQIA+ people, which are, effectively, the same as cis and hetero people’s concerns and then some – and being queer no longer tends to be a “problem”. On the contrary, contemporary LGBTQIA+ YA novels have moved away from centralising being in the closet and fearing exposure and judgement towards presenting queer young people with a host of other problems, ranging from mental illnesses (explicitly not connected to sexuality and gender identity!) via career paths in school and uni to the issues of second-generation immigrants having to defend their own (queer) identity against white cis heteronormativity.

This is a very reading intensive class that covers all the books below. Please be prepared for intense 90-minute discussions every week based on the respective book of the week.

Guest auditors are very welcome. Please register in advance via kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

The following books need to be read by the time indicated. Additional research material will be provided through the VC.

24 April: Becky Albertalli. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. 2015

15 May: Casey McQuiston. Red, White & Royal Blue. 2020

29 May: Adiba Jaigirdar. Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating. 2021

12 June: T.J. Klune. The House in the Cerulean Sea. 2020

26 June: Juno Dawson. Wonderland. 2020

10 July: Mackenzi Lee. The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy. 2018

MA English and American Studies Welcome Meeting

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Susan Brähler, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 10.4.2024, 9:30 - 10:30, U5/01.18

Inhalt:

In the meeting, you will be given all kinds of information relevant to your study success in Bamberg. You will also meet some of your professors and your academic advisor. Please note that not attending this meeting can lead to serious problems during the course of your studies!

Neo-Victorianism

Dozent/in:

Susanne Gruß

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
open for Consolidation Module (Literature)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Victorian London, Victorian fashion & interior design, the Victorians’ presumed conservatism, and the repercussions of British colonialism are still important elements of contemporary attempts to make sense of what it means to be British (or English). It is therefore no surprise that neo-Victorianism has become an established field in contemporary literary and cultural studies. The texts we will discuss in this class – four novels and a play – were written in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, but are set in the nineteenth century and at times also imitate a nineteenth-century style of writing. Some of them are based on ‘real’ Victorians (Henry James in Tóibín’s The Master, Queen Victoria I in Gupta’s The Empress) or rewrite nineteenth-century classics (Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, one of the first neo-Victorian texts, is a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre); and some of them spin their own tales (Waters’s Affinity and Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage). Most of them are decidedly ambivalent about Victorian mentalities and traditions despite the recognition that readers often wish to immerse themselves in a past they celebrate as nostalgic. The novels we will read cover diverse aspects: we will talk about rewriting, historiographic metafiction, mediums and spiritualism, (neo-)Victorian biography, pornography, and Empire. And if you cannot get enough, you can read Nisi Shawls steampunk Everfair for two bookclub-style meetings

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading:

• Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

• Sarah Waters, Affinity (1999)

• Colm Tóibín, The Master (2004)

• Belinda Starling, The Journal of Dora Damage (2007)

• Tanika Gupta, The Empress (2013)

add-on (book club, twice/term, dates tba): Nisi Shawl, Everfair (2016)

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 13.7.2024, 9:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) in literature (Focus on English literature)

Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 11.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" (students in teachers training) who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" (state exams) in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.

Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The course will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.

Revenge Tragedy

Dozent/in:

Susanne Gruß

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Inhalt:

A father goes mad when he tries to avenge the death of his son; a young woman is raped and mutilated; a mother is forced to eat a pie that contains the limbs of her sons; one mad revenger sprinkles his father’s grave with the blood of his opponent’s son; and another revenger uses the poisoned skull of his fiancée to kill her seducer. These are just some scenes from the plays we will discuss in this class, which might therefore necessitate a CN: revenge tragedy is not for the faint-hearted – these plays are gory and include rape scenes, depictions of madness, and gratuitous violence.

We will cover a range of (revenge) tragedies from the Elizabethan era through the Jacobean period, plays that are (in)famous for their imaginative killings and bloody catastrophes, excessive violence and gory details, their morbid atmosphere as well as their social criticism. In discussing these plays, we will look into early modern depictions of (sexual) violence and their dependence on generic developments (the revenge tragedy) and early modern discourses (anatomy, the anxiety about the stability of gender roles, the development of English law, the status of the English monarch). We will then analyse one ‘late’ example of the revenge mode and discuss what happens to a popular genre when it seems to have run out of steam.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading:

• Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1582-92) (in Four Revenge Tragedies, ed. K. Eisaman Maus, Oxford University Press)

• William Shakespeare & George Peele, Titus Andronicus (1594) (Arden edition)

• John Marston, Antonio’s Revenge (1600) (Revels Plays, Manchester University Press)

• Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)

• Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedy (c.1611) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 19:30, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits. Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.

Inhalt:

William Shakespeare's works are well known, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare per semester, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on. If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and sign up via e-mail to the lecturer to get access to Teams.
For more information on the Shakespeare Reading Group, please also see here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/aktivitaeten/shakespeare-reading-group/

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare. Pericles. (first play to be read)
William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen. (second play to be read)

Shakespeare's War of the Roses: The Lancaster Tetralogy

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
open for Consolidation Module (Literature)

MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Masterintensivierungsmodul II: Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
MA Religionen verstehen/Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul (Übung)

Studium Generale: Übung only!

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York (both branches of the House of Plantagenet) kept England busy in the middle of the fifteenth century. Nominally the wars started in 1455 when Richard of York captured Henry VI (Lancaster) and conquered the crown for his side of the family. It ended in 1487 with the victory of the later King Henry VII Tudor over the Yorkist Richard III. By this time, the Lancastrian line had no more male heirs and with the victory of Henry Tudor, the dynasty of the Plantagenets officially ended.

While countless literary texts have been produced that retell the wars from any and all imaginable perspectives, a few texts have proven to be perennially popular with readers. William Shakespeare’s Lancaster Tetralogy, including the plays Richard II (c. 1595), Henry IV, Part I (c. 1596), Henry IV, Part II (c. 1596-99) and Henry V (c. 1599), is one such cycle of plays that has significantly influenced the retrospective view of this conflict. Locating the inciting incident of the war in the forced abdication of Richard II in 1399, Shakespeare provides a thrilling and tragic backstory to this late-medieval family feud. This course is only going to look at one of the two Shakespeare tetralogies on the Wars of the Roses and concludes with Henry V’s victory over France at the Battle of Agincourt (1415), highlighting the crucial years before the official start of the war and presenting a dramatic version of the reasons leading up to it.

In this course, we will cover the four plays of the Lancaster Tetralogy and look at the way they present the Lancaster-York conflict that dominated the fifteenth century and ended in the victory of the House of Tudor. We will look at contemporary worldviews, political theories (such as Machiavellianism), the divine right of kings, love, war and usurpation and historiography in drama.

Guest auditors are very welcome. Please register in advance via Kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare.
• Richard II (c. 1595)
• Henry IV, Part I (c. 1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (c. 1596-99)
• Henry V (c. 1599)

I suggest using the Arden Shakespeare Third Series versions of the plays, which provide very good footnotes and appendices. More material will be provided on the VC.

Supervision tutorial for BA theses, MA theses and Zulassungsarbeiten in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien

Termine:

Di, 14:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Bachelorintensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft in der Anglistik geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Thesis, if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Masterintensivierungsmodul I: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft in der Anglistik geschrieben wird
Lehramt GY (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Zulassungsarbeit)
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow!: 11.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59

Inhalt:

This supervision tutorial is specifically designed to prepare students for their Bachelor's thesis, Master's thesis or Zulassungsarbeit (teaching degrees) in English Literature. The course covers legal requirements (registering the thesis), formal aspects (style sheet, etc.), discusses structural aspects and requirements of a final paper, and gives students the opportuntiy to discuss their individual papers with a lecturer and fellow students.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Open for Master students in English and American Studies with Bamberg as their home university including the Joint Programme (including visiting students within the Joint Programme).
This tutorial is coordinated through the VC course "Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies", see here: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=42647, and will be held entirely online via MS Teams.

Tutorium zu Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:15 - 13:45, U2/00.25
ab 22.4.2024

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.
To take this course, students need not sign up separately via FlexNow!.

Inhalt:

WCIHTIG: Das Tutorium beginnt erst in der zweiten Semesterwoche. Die Zugangsdaten zum VC-Kurs des Tutoriums werden im VC-Kurs der Introduction (A) veröffentlicht.
IMPORTANT: The tutorial starts in the second week of term. The access information for the VC course for this tutorial will be published on the VC course for Introduction (A).

This optional tutorial accompanies the seminar Introduction to English and American Studies (A) and it focuses on practical training in using the terminology discussed in the seminar. Students will be given the opportunity to practice writing mock-exam essays. Overall, the tutorial provides the practice to the Introduction's theory and we highly recommend students take both courses to adequately prepare for the exam, their future studies in literary studies and (eventually) their state exams.

Empfohlene Literatur:

In addition to the course book by Michael Meyer and the primary texts read in the "Introduction" class, this course will work with material published on the Virtual Campus.

Workshop Academic Infrastructure

Dozent/in:

Jolanda Hückl

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 10.4.2024, 11:00 - 15:00, U9/01.11

Inhalt:

This workshop provides you with the necessary information about the facilities of the University of Bamberg and the structure of the Institute of English and American Studies. You will learn how to find courses and register for exams and find out about course formats and requirements, and much more information relevant to your studies in Bamberg. We strongly recommend you take part in this workshop to make your start in Bamberg easier. Your tutor will also help you set up your individual study plan and register for the respective courses.

Workshop Academic Research

Dozent/in:

Amelie Biersack

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.7.2024, 10:00 - 11:00, U5/01.17

Inhalt:

This tutorial will cover the topic of how to write a term paper in English Literature. You will learn about the structure, research, and processes that are of importance in writing a good term paper through alternating parts of input and exercise. We will, for example, cover plagiarism, how to write a thesis, the bibliography section, and more. This course is aimed at both Master and Bachelor / teacher's degree students, and we especially recommended it if you have not written a term paper at Bamberg University before.