(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.

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)

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.

Ü Übung Methoden und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaft / Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Diese Veranstaltung findet alle 14 Tage statt. Beginn ab der zweiten Semesterwoche, am 3. Mai 2022.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien Kulturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
March 15 until April 29, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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.