Girlhood in American Environmental Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 7.11.2022, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> OPEN for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section ( Lehrstuhl ): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

Since the early 1990s, the number of images, texts, and discourses around girls and girlhood in popular American media, culture, and literature has increased significantly. This growing presence suggests a new, and remarkably broad cultural movement that aims to redefine and empower adolescent girls, since girlhood has historically been the other of feminism s womanhood (Day et al. 5), and the lives and struggles of girls in American society were largely, if not completely, ignored in feminist (and other emancipatory) discourses. But now, and especially in the wake of the major success of The Hunger Games (2008), there seems to be a new trend in American literature and beyond: novels with adolescent girl protagonists, who emerge as strong and divergent figures and take on crucial roles and responsibilities for the survival of their ecologically and socially devastated, if not post-apocalyptic, communities and landscapes.

In this course, we will discuss recent representations of adolescent girlhood, focusing on the entanglement of their in-between subject positions with ecological issues that have figure prominently in contemporary American environmental literature. In our readings, we will pay particular attention to the intersections of gender, age, race, class, and the environment, and explore how and why contemporary literary representations of adolescent girlhood and girls like Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Lauren Onamina, and Tally Youngblood are relevant for ecocritical studies today.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
• Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (2013)
• Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera (2019)

Please acquire a copy of these novels and start reading in this order before the semester starts! Further primary readings (excerpts from other novels and/or short stories) and secondary literature will be made available via the VC.

Recommended Movies (to accompany this course; please watch them before/during the semester):

• The Hunger Games (2012)
• Divergent (2014)
• The 5th Wave (2016)

Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.09
Classes will take place biweekly. The first session of this course will take place on Oct. 24.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Methods and Theories in Cultural Studies Übung 1 ECTS)
• alle alten Studiengänge (Übung literary studies 1 ECTS)
• Studium Generale (Übung1 ECTS)

>> NOT Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• oral exam (see website for details: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (‘Lehrstuhl’): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 – November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This course provides an overview of important approaches in the theory of culture. We will study key texts that have influenced the discipline of Cultural Studies in the Anglo-American world and beyond. Rather than being based on a lecture-style instruction, this class should be understood as a forum to discuss students’ positions toward the texts. A thorough preparation of the respective material is therefore imperative.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Reading American Short Forms

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 25.11.2022, 13:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 26.11.2022, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 20.1.2023, 13:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 21.1.2023, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA WiPäd
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (‘Lehrstuhl’): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 – November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This course offers a survey of key American short texts from diverse literary forms, periods, genres, and authors, selected from our own reading list of American literature at the Professur für Amerikanistik. In our close readings and critical analyses of these short texts, we will pay attention to how form and content come together as well as how issues of gender, race, class, age, species and environment are depicted in a condensed form. In this way, this course is meant to encourage you to interact with the American short form and the reading list, which will guide you throughout your studies.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All required readings will be selected from the Reading List of American Literature. Therefore please familiarize yourself with the list well before the semester starts: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/leseliste/

All required and further readings will be available on the Virtual Campus (VC).

Since most of the stories, poems and essays in the reading list can be found in the Heath or Norton Anthologies of American Literature, it is highly recommended that you buy one of these anthologies. As a cutting-edge collection of primary texts and scholarly introductions, such an anthology will serve as an invaluable resource throughout your studies and beyond.