(Post)-Subcultures in Britain

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 17:30, U5/02.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional Übung(2 or 4 ECTS) in culture in
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale
MA English and American Studies
MA Berufliche Bildung
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

Open for Consolidation Module Culture (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This tutorial discusses the critical concepts of ‘(post)subcultures’ and ‘youth cultures’ and gives an overview over different (post)subcultures and youth cultures in Britain in the past and present. It explores critical literature as well as films about ‘classical’ subcultures (punk, goth, reggae, rave), more recent post-subcultural and youth-cultural trends revolving around gender and ethnic diversity as well as digital (post)subcultures.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All material will be provided at the beginning of the term.

Afropolitanism and Afropolitan Literature: the New Voices of Africa

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, KR14/00.06

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)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In her article “Bye-Bye, Babar” (2005), Taiye Selasi coined the word “Afropolitans.” She argues for a new identity for Africans living in the global north. She defines them as Africans of the world, who are not attached to any specific African language, mother tongue, religion, or culture. So, Afropolitanism is the phenomenon of celebrating Africanness, which Simon Gikandi articulates as “a way of being African in the world.”
In this course, we will discuss the history and ideologies of Afropolitanism and how it has been reflected in Teju Cole, Chimamanda Adichie, Yaa Gyasi, and Taye Selasi’s writings. In addition, this course will provide the space to explore Afropolitanism in relation to African identities, cosmopolitanism, diaspora, migration, and transnationalism. Moreover, we will read and look at the texts of this new generation of writers as a critique of western global power.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Students are advised to buy and start reading the following books BEFORE the start of the semester.

Chimamanda Adichie, Americanah (2013)
Teju Cole, Open City (2011)
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016)
Taiya Selasi, Ghana Must Go (2013)

A list with secondary reading material will be provided during the semester.

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozent/in:

N.N.

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/01.18

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 U5/01.18. 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!

Directors: Amelie Biersack and Alicia Drefs

Betreuungsübung für Bachelorarbeiten, Masterarbeiten und Zulassungsarbeiten

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung

Termine:

Di, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/02.01

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow!: 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing for or working on a final thesis in English or American Literature. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of individual consultations and occasional plenary sessions. In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss more general topics, how to use theory, how to build an argument and also formal aspects and criteria of a thesis. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung".
Students who signed up for this course will be contacted by Prof. Röder in late April.

Contemporary Disability Autobiographies

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02

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)

open for Consolidation Module Literature(seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The last decades have seen an upsurge of autobiographical writing as well as of digital self-presentations by disabled writers. This seminar focuses on mostly British examples (five printed autobiographies, one blog and one video blog) from the 1980s to the present, which narrate life stories shaped by physical, sensory and neurodevelopmental disabilities. The course introduces ‘disability’ as a new intersectional category in literary and cultural studies as well as ‘disability autobiography’ as a new narrative genre that spreads across different media. We will explore how the texts respond to medical pre-inscriptions and mass media representations of disabled bodies, investigate intersections between the categories of disability, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity and discuss if (and how) the texts produce novel representations of diversity that challenge cultural stereotypes and medical categories.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will discuss the following texts (please acquire or borrow the printed texts listed below):

Christopher Nolan: Under the Eye of the Clock (1987, print; cerebral palsy)
Gohar Kordi: An Iranian Odyssey (1991, print; visual impairment)
Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day (2006, print; autism spectrum)
Jessica Thom: Welcome to Biscuit Land (2012, print; Tourette)
Jessica Thom: Touretteshero (2010-2022, blog; Tourette)
Francesca Martinez: What the ** Is Normal? (2014, print; cerebral palsy)
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (2011-2022, video blog; chronic illness, Deafness, visual impairment)

Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities III: From the 1960s to Today

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 30.6.2022, 6:00 - 8:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 1.7.2022, 20:00 - 23:30, 6:00 - 8:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 22.7.2022, 10:00 - 16:00, U5/02.17

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)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.03.2022, 10:00 07.05.2022, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Crime Fiction reaches large numbers of readers with heterogeneous interests. In other words, it provides something for everyone, yet in doing so it can either assert or scrutinise and thus re-negotiate gender and sexual normativity. As such, the genre itself is both assertive of perceived normativity and at the same time deviant from socially constructed roles and rules. A crime of any kind, after all, already provides a disruption of order and sets extraordinary events in motion. The exceptional situation a crime creates thus leaves room for all kinds of agents (for queerness or normativity) to revise order and normativity. Crime, sex and gender are intricately linked, be that through the characters, the target audience, or the crime itself. Probably no other genre provides such a broad spectrum of characters, ranging from the occasionally hyper-masculine hardboiled detective and the stereotypically feminine spinster sleuth to androgynous private eyes or gender-fluid police detectives.
Moreover, a scholarly focus on gender and sex in Crime Fiction has [ ] advanced understanding of the socially constructed nature of crime (2) as Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner write in the Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex and Crime (2014). Crime as a social construct inhabits a liminal position. Like gender, it crosses boundaries and is thus positioned on a perpetual threshold between what is read as order or normality and chaos or deviance. Crime Fiction provides the space to investigate this liminality and to open up stereotypical concepts of normativity in crime, gender and sexuality. Crime Fiction s relationship with sex and gender is thus fascinatingly complex and allows for a broad variety of critical angles on the topic.

This course is the third of a three-part Übung on crime fiction and gender. It specifically covers the second half of 20th-Century British crime fiction with a focus on the police procedural and the thriller. Besides, the class will also cover more "quirky" forms of contemporary crime fiction, such as animal crime novels. Please see below for the literature used in class (more literature to be announced and uploaded to the VC at the beginning of the semester). Students should be aware that this is a very reading- and discussion-intensive class and students should be prepared to participate in the in-class discussions.

This course also serves as a preparation for the international conference Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities (30 June to 2 July 2022). The conference itself it part of the class and students can choose which (or how many) panels they wish to attend to make up for the full class time. Students in this course will have the chance to participate in a poster exhibition on the topic of the conference, but are not required to. All of this will be explained in detail in the first session of class.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading (in reading order throughout the semester):

Ruth Rendell. From Doon with Death. 1964.
Tom Stoppard. The Real Inspector Hound. 1968.
Peter Lovesey. Wobble to Death. 1970.
P.D. James. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. 1972.
Ian Rankin. Knots and Crosses. 1987.
Val McDermid. The Mermaids Singing. 1995.
Ben Aaronovitch. The Rivers of London. 2011.
A.B. Greenfield. Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective. 2018.
S.J. Bennet. The Windsor Knot. 2020.

Displaced and on the move: Contemporary Literature on Displacement and Immigration

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

According to the World Migration Report 2020, international migrants make up 3.6% (281 million) of the world population. They make ‘significant sociocultural, civic-political and economic contributions in origin and destination countries and community’ (WMR, 2020). In speaking about migration, one cannot ignore the possible intensification of migrants’ feeling displaced and their effort to re-embed their lives in host localities. The concept of displacement evokes images of being cut off from social and physical worlds that one calls home, which generates differentiated accounts of dispossession, disruption, and dislocation. The possible response to displacement includes a variety of facets from a sense of exile, the development of a global consciousness, the formation of a hybrid identity, and finding a new place in the host localities.

This class will address aspects of displacement as rendered in literature. In particular, it will investigate the link between displacement and immigration, displacement and literature, immigrant experiences and the narrative of displacement, leaving and arriving, nostalgia and the transitory nature of immigrant identities as articulated in literary texts. Discussion will focus on the feeling of an in-betweenness, multi/trans-cultural identities, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living in between two or more languages, societies, and cultures.

The Interdisciplinary Conference on Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration, which will be taking place in Bamberg between 24 and 26 of June 2022, is an integral part of this seminar. Therefore, it requires a mandatory student attendance at the conference; however, students can choose which (or how many) panels they wish to attend.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Students are advised to buy and start reading the following books BEFORE the start of the semester.

Carter, Betsy. We Were Strangers Once (2017)
Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Gravel Heart (2017)
Hemon, Aleksandar. My Parents: An Introduction (2019)
Ibrahim, Djamila. Things Are Good Now (2018)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Displaced (2018)
Shukla, Nikesh. Ed. The Good Immigrant (2016)
Stanišić, Saša. Where You Come From (2019)

A list with further readings will be provided during the semester.

Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are highly important times for the development of English drama. While drama per se was partly forbidden in the Middle Ages or predominantly part of community or church fairs, the late 16th century saw the rise of commercial drama. Theatres were built to entertain and thereby make a profit and playwrights wrote to earn money. The most prominent name of this literary period is certainly William Shakespeare, but it must not be forgotten that Shakespeare was far from the only playwright of his time. This course will thus provide an overview of English drama in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and discuss six plays in more detail. During the semester, we will read and analyse plays by some of the periods’ best known authors, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and Ben Jonson, and in addition cover slightly lesser-known playwrights Elizabeth Cary and John Ford.

Over the course of the seminar, we will look at a variety of dramatic genres, ranging from Revenge Tragedy to City Comedy. We will trace the fast changes of dramatic conventions from the so called annus mirabilis 1587, which saw the creation of a new form of tragedy with the plays The Spanish Tragedy (Kyd) and Tamburlaine the Great, part I (Marlowe), to the end of the Jacobean period. Moreover, we will explore Elizabethan and Jacobean life and worldview, study drama theory and specifically focus on the development of theatre and its conventions. Since this course might be useful for those students doing Staatsexamen, there is room for guests and everybody interested in Renaissance theatre is very welcome. To be a guest auditor, please e-mail me so that you will get the necessary information on the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading list in reading order:

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. c.1587.
Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine I. c.1587.
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. c.1602.
Jonson, Ben. Volpone. 1605.
Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam. 1613.
Ford, John. ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. 1633.

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 22.7.2022, 14:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 29.7.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 11.10.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
ab 2.5.2022

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

WICHTIG: Dieser Kurs wird voraussichtlich in Präsenz unterrichtet. Ggf. notewendige kurzfristige Änderungen werden hier bekannt gegeben.

IMPORTANT: This course is planned as an in-person course. If necessary changes occur at short notice, we will publish these changes here.

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 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): 19.04.2022, 10:00 - 07.05.2022, 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!)

Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Literature and Culture, part II

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture 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)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQIA+ liberation. 
Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQIA+ literature, culture and history from antiquity to present days. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary gay, lesbian, trans and non-binary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster Maurice; with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s. 
Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

Empfohlene Literatur:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando (1928)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)
Livingston, Jennie. Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

More to be added during the course

Just Write

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Inhalt:

Just Write! is a literary magazine publishing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with a focus on writers who produce creative texts in English. Not only is Just Write! a publication, but it also acts as a platform where the University of Bamberg’s students with creative minds can come together and share their works with fellow students.

Interested to know more, then get in touch by simply writing an email to justwrite.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler, Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Narrating Space

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.6.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS und Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Why should you select a seminar on space in narrative texts when the rise of social media, of transitory, ahistorical places like Starbucks cafés and airports, of globalization and the time-space-compression brought about by modern travel and the internet all point into one direction: the end of space?

Proponents of the so-called Spatial Turn have, since the mid-1980s, insisted on the relevance of space as a theoretical category beyond (postmodern) geography, in the humanities and the social sciences. Instead of giving in to the disappearance of space, they have called for its re-definition: Space is a social construction relevant to [ ] the production of cultural phenomena (Warf/Arias 2009, 1). Spaces are performative, processual and multi-dimensional structures. They are political and ideological: producers of space decide who may belong and not belong; spaces reflect conceptions of self and other.

Up until the Spatial Turn, space had traditionally been a neglected category in narrative theory. Narratologists conceived of it as a mere backdrop to plot, prioritising time over space . If narrative is defined as a sequence of events, where events are changes of states which are brought about or endured by individual existents, then it is indispensable to note, however, that these existents have bodies that both occupy space and are situated in space (Ryan/Foote/Azaryahu 2016, 16). Cognitive narratology grants space an essential part [in] the mental act of narrative world (re)construction, since the imagination can only picture objects that present spatial extension (ibid.) Since the expansion of structuralist narratology into an array of postclassical and especially contextualist narratologies, scholarly interest in the narrativisation of space has been unbroken and has profited from the spatial concepts of, for example, Postcolonial, Refugee, Tourism and Gender Studies.

This seminar offers a survey of narratological approaches to the analysis of narrative space spanning from the work of Jurij Lotman to Marie-Laure Ryan. Students will be introduced to the spatial theories of Michel Foucault, Henry Lefebvre, Edward Soja as well as those developed within Gender, Postcolonial and Tourism Studies. The primary texts we will cover in class span a variety of genres, themes and narrative/narrated spaces: We will be interested in Charles Dickens s as well as post-7/7 London, the Yorkshire moors, the Africa of Mary Kingsley and Henry Morton Stanley, in borders and border-crossings, in houses which spread a feeling of at-homeness and labyrinthine Gothic houses preventing in its inhabitants any such feelings. We will travel to Cold-War Berlin and to the Caribbean, investigate the unnatural, i. e. physically impossible, spaces of postmodern and postcolonial writing and follow refugees through magic doors around the globe.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory reading:

Students need to read the following texts:
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910)
Gabriel Josipovici, Second Person Looking Out (1977), Mobius the Stripper (1974; short stories will be made available on VC)
Ian McEwan, The Innocent (1990)
Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (2009)
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (2017)

Excerpts from the following texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus:
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-9)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897)
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley s Lover (1928)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone (1997)
John Lanchester, Capital (2012)
Ali Smith, Autumn (2016)

Performing the East in Early Modern Drama

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

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

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)

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

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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar explores late 16th- and early 17th-century depictions of male and female characters and settings from the East, a cultural and imaginative space which comprised regions from the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa to East Asia and held great fascination for early modern dramatists and theatre audiences. According to recent critical studies, early modern English representations of the East and especially of Muslims and Islamic cultures were more ambiguous and fluid than in the period of Orientalism: they were characterised by a blend of fear, admiration, desire and imperial envy. Early modern drama contains stereotypical images and characters that still influence Western perspectives on the East (especially Islam), e. g. the cruel, aggressive or voluptuous male Turk/Muslim or the seductive (and in the case of Early modern drama strikingly powerful) woman of the East. In this seminar, we will discuss if the selected dramatic texts can be said to belong to a period ‘before Orientalism’ (as some scholars have suggested), not merely in historical but also in cultural and aesthetic terms. Furthermore, we will examine how this question is approached by film and stage directors in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will analyse the following plays:

Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great I/II (1578/1588)
William Shakespeare: Othello (1604)
William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
Robert Daborne: A Christian Turned Turk (1612)

The following films / stage productions will be discussed in class:

Othello (1995), dir. Oliver Parker (DVD)
Othello (2015), dir. Iqbal Khan (DVD)
Antony and Cleopatra (2018), dir. Iqbal Khan (DVD)

Please purchase or borrow copies of Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s plays (the Arden edition is recommended for Othello and Antony and Cleopatra and the New Mermaids edition for Tamburlaine I/II). A copy of Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk, the DVDs and all secondary literature for the course will be provided at the beginning of the term.

Postcolonial Novels and Novelists from South Asia

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/01.02

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)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This course will explore the postcolonial novels by writers of South Asian origin, which have been both written and published in the last two decades. We will examine literary dynamics of postcolonial South Asia and look at them as manifested in selected novels. The course will also discuss and explore themes such as identity, sexuality, nation-building, partition, exile and migration. We will also touch on critical issues relevant to the region and its Diasporas around the world.

Each participant is expected to give a short presentation on the major topics of one text and lead us into a discussion. The central part of each session, however, will be devoted to close readings and to situating the text concerning its historical, cultural, and social context.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Students are advised to buy and start reading the following books BEFORE the start of the semester.

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane (2003)
Anam, Tahmima. A Golden Age (2007)
Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West (2017)
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (2003)
Rahman, Mahmud. Killing the Water (2010)
Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows (2009)

A list with secondary literature will be provided during the semester.

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 9.7.2022, 9:00 - 16:00, 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: 01.03.2022, 10:00 07.05.2022, 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.

Reading Black British Women Writers

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, acknowledged the new group of writers: Black, female writers, who do not fall under the canonical scenario of the British literary culture. On the one hand, categorising this group of writers under the umbrella term “Black British Women Writers” because of their racial and sexual identity may often appear to be, what Salman Rushdie argued about the Commonwealth literature too, an “exclusive ghetto.” However, on the other hand, this categorisation enables a renewed discussion on re-imagining and re-contextualising the never old debates on race, sexuality, diversity, and identity. Moreover, the works of these writers also provoked a new debate and conversation about the concepts of nation, home, and belonging.

Suzanne Scafe, co-author of Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (1985), once said in an interview that writing by Black authors, in general, aspires to disrupt, intervene, and transform contemporary discourses of power, knowledge, and feeling. In line with Suzanne Scafe, this course will read and discuss writings by “Black British Women Writers” to see the disruption, intervention, and transformation it brings into our understanding of race and gender discourse of contemporary Great Britain. We will read and critically analyse works by authors like Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, and Zadie Smith in relation to race, gender, ethnicity, diversity, nationality, and identity.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Bedford, Simi. Yoruba Girl Dancing (1991)
Evaristo, Bernardine. Girl, Women, Other (2019)
green, debbie tucker. Hang (2015)
Kay, Jackie. Wish I Was Here (2006)
Levy, Andrea. Small Island (2004)
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth (2000)

A list with further readings will be provided during the semester.

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

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 (corona providing). 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/extracurriculare-aktivitaeten/shakespeare-reading-group/

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale. (first play to be read)
William Shakespeare. Henry VI, part II. (second play to be read)

Supervision tutorial for BA theses in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59

Inhalt:

This supervision tutorial is specifically designed to prepare students for their Bachelor's thesis 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:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

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:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:15 - 13:45, U2/00.25
ab 2.5.2022

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Inhalt:

WCIHTIG: Wie die Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) wird auch das dazugehörige Tutorium voraussichtlich in Präsenz unterrichtet. Das Tutorium beginnt erst in der zweiten Semesterwoche. Die Zugangsdaten zum VC-Kurs des Tutoriums werden im VC-Kurs der Introduction (A) veröffentlicht.
IMPORTANT: Like the course Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) this course is planned as an in-person course. 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.

Veranstaltungen Forschungsnetzwerk

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Arbeitsgemeinschaft

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 16.5.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2022, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 20.6.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 5.7.2022, 14:00 - 16:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 11.7.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18