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

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

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)

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

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.

Tutorial for Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (Course B)

Dozent/in:

Leonard Bürger

Angaben:

Tutorien, 2 SWS

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 30.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 7.7.2022, Einzeltermin am 14.7.2022, Einzeltermin am 21.7.2022, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 4.8.2022, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/00.24
The FIRST SESSION takes place on April 28, 2022! Also, the session on June 30 will take place in another room or online.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Registration for this tutorial is NOT necessary. Everybody who signed up for the corresponding "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies" (Course B) is automatically registered for the tutorial.

Inhalt:

In the course of the semester, we will focus on the basics of prose, drama and poetry analysis. This tutorial further provides room for discussion, practice and exam preparation. Students are expected to show active participation, and to be able to apply the contents of the tutorial in the follow-up sessions with Dr. Nicole K. Konopka.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

Examenvorbereitung Staatsexamen Amerikanische Literatur (Repetitorium)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, OK8/02.04
Einzeltermin am 27.6.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U2/00.26
Sitzung am 27.6.2022: anderer Raum!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All teaching degrees requiring an exam preparation class for their state exam in literary studies (Examensübung Staatsexamen Literaturwissenschaft):

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Examensübung/Repetitorium 2 ECTS)
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of advanced module (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

Dieser Kurs richtet sich gezielt an Lehramtsstudierende, die sich auf das erste Staatsexamen in Amerikanischer Literatur vorbereiten. Studierende anderer Abschlüsse sind allerdings auch herzlich willkommen. Da die Staatsexamensprüfung auf Deutsch geschrieben, wird, ist die Unterrichtssprache des Repetitoriums ebenfalls Deutsch.

Das Repetitorium unterstützt Studierende in ihrer Vorbereitung auf die schriftliche Abschlussprüfung im ersten Staatsexamen. Neben allgemeinen Hinweisen zur schriftlichen Prüfung werden zentrale Inhalte der Literaturwissenschaft wiederholt und mithilfe potentieller Themen der schriftlichen Prüfung gemeinsam besprochen. Aktive Mitgestaltung der einzelnen Sitzungen ist absolut unerlässlich und wird gerne auch durch individuelle Konsultation unterstützt. Als Ergänzung zum Repetitorium wird der (ggf. erneute) Besuch der Vorlesung American Literature von Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt empfohlen.

Die konkreten Übungen werden gemeinsam mit den Studierenden und somit entsprechend ihrer jeweiligen Schwerpunkte in der ersten Sitzung festgelegt. Sämtliches Material wird über den VC bereitgestellt.

Wichtig: Bitte beachten Sie, dass das Repetitorium für Amerikanische Literatur nur jeweils im Sommersemester angeboten wird.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung BA/MA/LA (Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04
(14tägig)

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All degrees including a research seminar (Betreuungsübung) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• BA Medieval Studies (Intensivierungsmodul 5 ECTS, wenn die BA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)
• Lehramt GY (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Zulassungsarbeit)
• MA English and American Studies (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• MA Medieval Studies (Intensivierungsmodul 5 ECTS, wenn die MA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)
• alle alten Studiengänge (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Magisterarbeit)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of advanced module (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• only M.A. supervision: thesis defense (30 minutes)

Please contact the instructor beforehand to discuss your general idea and the possibility of thesis supervision!

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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 is designed for students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in American literature or culture, be it a "Magisterarbeit," "Zulassungsarbeit," "BA-Arbeit" or Master’s thesis. It offers continuous support during the process of preparing or writing the thesis, and provides an opportunity to share parts of it with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions; the syllabus and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus.

In the plenary sessions, we will discuss general criteria and formal aspects of a thesis – such as possible topics and research questions, theoretical approaches, and structural issues. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you will discuss the argument and structure of your thesis with me. For students who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies in the BA, MA and new teacher training programs, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung."

Please contact PD Dr. Zehelein well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

How to Write a Term Paper | Betreuungsübung B.A. Amerikanistik

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 6.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 20.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 3.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 24.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 8.7.2022, 12:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

"How to Write a Term Paper" in literary or cultural studies

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung 2 ECTS im Basismodul oder Aufbaumodul)
• Lehramtsstudiengänge Englisch: (Übung 2 ECTS im Basismodul oder Aufbaumodul)
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

"Thesis Supervision" in literary or cultural studies

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit) (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• B.A. Medieval Studies: (Intensivierungsmodul 2 ECTS, wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)

Please contact the instructor beforehand to discuss your general idea and the possibility of thesis supervision!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• only B.A. candidates: completion of respective advanced level module (Aufbaumodul)
• Only Studium Generale, exchange students, and B.A. candidates: final presentation in English

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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 aims to assist students in the Basismodul in writing their first term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. We will discuss general formal aspects and content related criteria of an academic paper, such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Primarily, however, we will practice how to choose a topic, how to develop a coherent structure, how to involve theoretical frameworks, and how to adhere to the MLA citation rules. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that are suitable for the list of references of your paper. Students have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where they will receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.

This course is also addressed at students in the Vertiefungsmodul who are preparing or working at a BA-thesis in American Literature or Culture. Therefore, this course provides the guidance sessions for the BA thesis (Betreuungsübung) for students in the BA programs who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies. It assists students in the preparation of their final paper, and gives them an opportunity to discuss their work with other students. BA-candidates will present parts of their final paper, offering it for discussion and feedback. If you are planning to attend this class, make sure that the instructor will also be your thesis advisor. Please contact Ms. Konopka well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Please note that this is a practical training course and not a lecture! You are expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.

Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Sessions: April 27, May 04, May 18, June 01, June 15, June 22, July 06, July 20

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Key Texts in Literary Theories Übung 1 ECTS)
• alle alten Studiengänge (Übung literary studies 1 ECTS)
• Studium Generale (Übung1 ECTS)

>> NOT Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ cultural 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/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

In this seminar, we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. Our reading includes key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and post-structuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo-)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory.

The course is intended to assist students in both finding their own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense." (V. B. Leitch).

This class is based not only on the reading, but also the in-depth analysis of theoretical writing. Therefore, students are expected to prepare diligently for each session by (1) reading the assigned text(s), (2) studying each text's background/context, and (3) establishing some basic understanding of the theory discussed in the respective text before coming to class! Only then will it be possible for us to engage in critical discussion during our sessions. In sum, it is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend all sessions and contribute to class discussions. Your input is mandatory and will be welcome!

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be available for students of this class one week BEFORE the first session.

The American West:ern: Exploring the Myth, the Place, the Genre

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, SP17/00.13

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies or cultural 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 and cultural 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/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

In this class, we will explore the ongoing fascination with the American Old West – in the US and abroad. Based on a wide range of source material, we will critically discuss cultural narratives such as the western frontier, manifest destiny, westward expansion, and American exceptionalism – as well as their corresponding counter-narratives.

To gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of cultural production and its socio-political, as well as artistic implications, we will work with literary text and, of course, Western movies, but also paintings, photography, music, episodes from TV series, and even life-style expressions such as architecture, fashion, and food. We will explore how all of those cultural expressions shaped and still shape our image of the American West and – by extension – our image of the United States of America.

ATTENTION: This is a READING class! Participants must be able to read and review quite a lot of material between the weekly sessions. The class is also designed to assist you with the reading list of the American Studies Section and aims to contribute to your understanding of key aspects of North American literature and culture. Most of the material will be provided via the Virtual Campus ahead of each session. Students are, however, required to purchase three novels (print or e-book) and finish reading the first one before the beginning of the semester (see below)!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

• Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902) – read before the first session!
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (1935)
• Rikke Villadsen, Cowboy (2020, graphic novel)

Make sure to order all of the books (print or e-book) well before the start of class, as some texts might take some time to be delivered!

In connection to this class, this term’s weekly media session will show classic examples of and modern takes on the Western movie. The Media Session takes place Wednesdays, 8-10 p.m. (sharp), in lecture hall U5/00.24. Attendance is optional, but highly recommended.

Ü 9/11 in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Simone Linz

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 4.6.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 18.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 2.7.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, MG1/02.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:
Master Module English and American Literature: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I + II: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I: Tutorial (2 ECTS)

Lehrämter:
RS: Zusatzmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)
GY: Aufbau-, Vertiefungs- und Wahlpflichtmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Britische und AmerikanischeKulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:
Master Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I + II: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture I: Tutorial (2 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies im Rahmen anderer MA:
Master Module oder Profile Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)

MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (Übung 2 ECTS)

B.A./M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Basismodul, Aufbaumodul: Übung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Lehrämter:
RS/BS: Zusatzmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)
GY: Wahlpflichtmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
WiPäd: Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 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 or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

Inhalt:

The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world forever. The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led to immediate responses to the event, including national and international reactions, hate crimes, and military responses to the events. In this seminar, we will look at what led up to the attacks, what happened on that fateful day, and how the press covered the attacks. We will look at how 9/11 is portrayed in literature, movies, and songs, and how the events have changed American popular culture to this day.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please read the following books before the start of the seminar:
Don DeLillo: Falling Man Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

V Early Modern Poetry

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 17:30, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature 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 Literature (Vorlesung) NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Kulturelle Bildung:
Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)
Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B per E-Mail bis 29. April 2022 an pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 15.03.2022, 10:00 29.04.2022, 23:59

Inhalt:

This lecture course traces the development of English poetry from the early sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Introducing the most important poets, periods, literary schools and movements, it also tries to challenge established systems of periodization and categorization. Close readings of individual poems will provide students with tools for their own interpretations.

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 English and American Literary Studies (Course B)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 30.6.2022, 16:00 - 17:30, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 4.8.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
The session on June 30 will take place in another room or online!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All degrees requiring an introductory seminar for their basic module in literary studies (Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft):

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies (seminar 2 ECTS)
• BSc. BWL (seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
• MA WiPäd (seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, course tutorial, library tutorial, final written exam
• 8 ECTS (module exam): active participation in the seminar, course tutorial, library tutorial, final written exam (see additional information below!)

The following applies ONLY to students whose Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft contains BOTH the Introduction to Literary Studies and a lecture (see module handbook):

As of now, 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.

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: April 19 May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, den Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!

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

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on 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 American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.

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 Introduction taught by members of the English Literature section uses literary examples from a primarily British context, and the one taught by members of the American Studies section uses 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.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010. (or a newer edition; Ebook welcome!)

All other readings will be provided via the VC!

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 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

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)

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.

Black dogs: Figurations of Mental Illness in Modern English Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

‘[T]o define true madness, / What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?’ As Polonius, the would-be sage of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1609) recognized, the true nature of mental illness is one of human society’s least fathomable riddles. By the early twentieth century, the asylum gates were rattling in strange new ways, even as the mystery remained essentially as intractable as ever. The development of modern psychiatry in the 1870s had challenged old models of disease classification; the fin-de-siècle emergence of psychoanalysis was drawing into question our innate morality and rationality; and a relentless process of urbanization seemed to be intensifying symptoms of such ‘modern’ disorders as schizophrenia and neurasthenia.

We start with a theoretical introduction to mental illness in modern literature on the basis of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness (1961). Our literary explorations will begin with a selection of Stevie Smith’s poems of mental illness. Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925) was not only one of the first literary texts to sound out the reverberations of shellshock in the years following the Great War, but also a searing critique of contemporary social attitudes towards mental illness. Samuel Beckett’s stage masterpiece, Waiting for Godot (1952), in turn, is an absurdist reflection of the madness of modernity itself in the wake of World War II. We then move into the 1960s, which saw a proliferation of literary treatments of mental illness. After discussing Doris Lessing’s devastating portrayal of female depression in her story ‘To Room 19’ (1963), we will read Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea of 1966: a subversive twist on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which probes the problematic relationship between colonialism, racial politics, and the exploitation of ‘madness’ as a clinical and social label. Finally, we close with a selection from A. S. Byatt’s 1987 collection, Sugar and Other Stories, including ‘The July Ghost’, a poignant reflection on the delicate links between mourning, loss, and mental illness.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).

A. S. Byatt, Sugar & Other Stories (London: Vintage, 1996).

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, new edn (London: Penguin, 2000).

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. with an Introduction and Notes by David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).

N.B.: Smith’s poems, Lessing’s short story, and extracts from Foucault’s History of Madness, will be made available on the Virtual Campus in the first week of the semester.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

Dystopias, Utopias, and ‘Other Places’ in Modern and Contemporary English and German Literature

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The Aufbaumodul will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words); the Ergänzungsmodul will be examined by an oral examination.

Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

In his landmark study of science fiction, Archaeologies of the Future (2007), the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson argued that the paradox of Utopia lies in the fact that it can never truly be represented. As a literal ‘no place’, it remains positively unimaginable from the damaged perspective of the present. Still, writers have never stopped trying – and as the twentieth century lurched through two world wars, it was utopia’s apparent opposite which came to exert a far stronger imaginative grip. Even after a turn away from optimistic projections in space and time, the distinction between ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’ has remained a profoundly ambiguous one; and as many have argued, their literary portrayals often tell us far more about the present than any supposed ‘future’.

This seminar takes these theoretical premises as a starting point for an exploration of various utopias, dystopias, and ‘other places’ in both English and German. We begin with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), a satire of consumption and capitalism, which suggests that Western society’s dreams and nightmares are closer to one another than we might think. We then turn to The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard (1962), the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth transformed beyond recognition by global warming. Following this, we will discuss either Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games (1988) or Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007). While the former takes us on an intergalactic journey to ‘the Culture’, a liberal techno-utopia, the latter is a dystopian meditation on humankind’s tendency to repeat the same fatal mistakes time and again. Andreas Eschbach’s Die Haarteppichknüpfer (1995) has us reflect on the nature of work, and its relation to ‘life’, through the lens of a radically different universe, an entirely ‘other’ place. And finally, Dietmar Dath’s epic political allegory, Die Abschaffung der Arten (2008), takes us forward in time to a world in which our own species is virtually extinct – and the kingdom of animals do battle against alien forms of AI.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World, with an Introduction by Martin Amis (London: Fourth Estate, 2014).

Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (London: Orbit, 2012).

Dietmar Dath, Die Abschaffung der Arten (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2008).

Andreas Eschbach, Die Haarteppichknüpfer (Köln: Lübbe, 2012).

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, with a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005).
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (London: Penguin, 2008).

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Dies ist ein reines Online-Seminar. Anmeldung erfolgt über die VHB!

Termine:

Zeit n.V., Online-Webinar
Der Kurs findet ausschließlich virtuell statt. Er steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> NOT open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module literary studies (Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. Registration:

• via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – April 29, 2022 (via vhb website!)
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022 (via email to the instructor!)

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist dauerhaft als Online-Kurs konzipiert. Sie steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern [https://www.vhb.org/startseite ] Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=27003

Inhalt:

This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.

Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

New Woman, New Earth : Ecofeminism and Natureculture in Contemporary American Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 24.6.2022, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (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/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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 1970s, ecofeminists have argued that the environment is a feminist issue, for they could trace important connections between the domination of women [or of any other oppressed group] and the domination of nature (Warren 1993). Accordingly, in Greta Gaard s words, ecofeminism s key argument is that the ideology which authorizes oppressions such as those based on race, class, gender, sexuality, physical abilities, and species is the same ideology which sanctions the oppression of nature (Gaard 1993). In this way, ecofeminism then calls for an end to all oppressions, for no attempt to liberate women and other minorities can succeed without an equal attempt to liberate nature (Gaard).

Ecofeminism, as a diverse and multi-directional movement, assumes that traditional categories such as nature, women, animals, and humans as well as dualistic dichotomies such as reason/emotion, mind/body, culture/nature, human/nature, human/animal, man/woman are all socially constructed. To expose and dismantle these hierarchical dichotomies, ecofeminism locates a need to theorize [the natural and the cultural] together, and analyze their complex relationships in terms of their indivisibility and thus their mutual effect on one another (Iovino and Oppermann 2012). Donna Haraway s concept of natureculture for instance, is one such theoretical attempt to encapsulate the complex entanglements of all seemingly separate patriarchal-hierarchical binaries as well as discursive practices and material phenomena.

In this course, we will first inspect the theoretical origins, frameworks, and directions of ecofeminism in the US and beyond through our readings and analyses of some of the most important theoretical works by ecofeminist scholars. Later, we will move on to how such ecofeminist re-conceptualizations of the environment, gender, species, justice, body, material & discourse, nature & culture, are dealt with in the literary works of contemporary American feminist writers. In our literary readings and analyses throughout the semester, we will thus engage with critical and non-binary perspectives when thinking about the social and environmental issues of our age, through an ecofeminist lens which acknowledges connections between the isms of domination and environmental destruction.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

• Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (1972)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
• Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982)
• Linda Hogan, Solar Storms (1994)

Please acquire and start reading these texts BEFORE the beginning of our class!
Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

“East Goes West”: Tracing Developments in Asian American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Aufbaumodul) for literary studies or cultural studies:

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

>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural 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/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

After U.S. public discourse during the late-19th and early-20th century vilified Asian – and especially Chinese – immigrants as “Yellow Peril,” Americans of Asian descent have more recently been (mis-)represented as a “Model Minority.” However, neither of these labels are self-chosen, nor do they communicate the vibrant and diverse literatures and cultures gathered under the label “Asian American,” coined during the activism of the 1960s. “Asian American” as an umbrella term covers people from many different countries and cultures of origin who moved to the United States during vastly different time periods and under varied circumstances, sometimes voluntary, in search of education or work opportunities, and sometimes seeking refuge from persecution or war. In addition, the term also applies to the second- or third-generation descendants of earlier (im-)migrants, whose experiences and (self-)positionings differ yet again.

This course aims to offer an introduction to a wide variety of Asian American literary and cultural texts and trace how these texts negotiate questions of ethnicity, citizenship, gender, and belonging in the United States from the assimilationist late-19th century to the transcultural 21st century. In doing so, it aims to help students to trace and tease out both the commonalities and the differences that emerge between and among these texts.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students are asked to buy and start reading the following texts BEFORE the beginning of class.

• Younghill Kang, East Goes West (1937)
• Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)
• Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (2011)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017)
• George Takei, They Called Us Enemy (2020)

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

Films

• The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Allegiance: A New Musical Inspired by a True Story (2012)

PS 9/11 in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Simone Linz

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 4.6.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 18.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 2.7.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, MG1/02.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

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.)

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

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world forever. The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led to immediate responses to the event, including national and international reactions, hate crimes, and military responses to the events. In this seminar, we will look at what led up to the attacks, what happened on that fateful day, and how the press covered the attacks. We will look at how 9/11 is portrayed in literature, movies, and songs, and how the events have changed American popular culture to this day.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please read the following books before the start of the seminar:
Don DeLillo: Falling Man Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

PS Migration and Identity

Dozent/in:

Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, OK8/02.04

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

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.)

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

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

Be it by choice or by force, emigrating from one’s country of origin and permanently settling in a new place is a highly complex process with far-reaching implications for individual biographies and identities as well as for communities and societies as a whole. While (mass) migration has become a particularly defining feature of our globalised world today and an increasingly diverse phenomenon, certain dynamics and characteristics of migratory experiences are relatively consistent over time and different national contexts. In this seminar we want to approach the interplay between migration and identity from a cultural studies perspective: We will fathom out the influence of aspects of gender, race and class and analyse their representation in a choice of primary texts and cultural artefacts. The students will advance their understanding further through the selected theoretical and secondary readings. In addition to addressing these issues on a general and theoretical level, we mainly want to use Irish emigration to the United States as a reference and example. With their long-standing and extensive history of migration, the emigrant and immigrant nation respectively are particularly well-suited to discuss aspects of migrant identity construction and the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Please purchase or borrow a copy of Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn (2009) and start reading it in preparation for the seminar, all other texts and materials will be made available on the VC at the beginning of term. Students of this seminar are also invited to attend the international, interdisciplinary conference on “Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration”, which will be held in Bamberg between 24 and 26 June 2022; attendance is not obligatory though.

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.

British Politics as Performance (Kompaktseminar)

Dozent/in:

Stefan Eick

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 30.4.2022, 14:00 - 20:00, KR12/02.05
Einzeltermin am 14.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 11.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 25.6.2022, 12:00 - 20:00, KR12/02.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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)
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.

Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
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 Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

The Vertiefungsmodule and Mastermodule will be examined by a term paper (3,500-4,500 and 4,500-6,000 words respectively); the Consolidation Modules will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .

Inhalt:

The spectacle of Brexit, the eccentricity of Boris Johnson, heated debates in the House of Commons: these are just a few examples of how British politics seems to be marked by a performative quality largely absent from the more sober and solemn workings of the German political system.

In this seminar, we are going to examine British performances of politics in both fiction and real life . We are going to look at specific examples of staging politics, and we will try to understand the reasons behind a theatrical bent that seems to put style over substance.

Preliminary content includes:

• Performative approaches to culture and politics.
• The British political system.
• The parliamentary tradition, the constitutional monarchy, and the unwritten constitution
• The Shakespearian political imaginary and the concept of the “good ruler”.
• Arthurian romance and its renaissance in the 19th century.
• The links between empiricism, “playful detachment” and “national character”.
• The tension between exceptionalism and declinism.
• The Royal Family as spectacle of the state.
• The rhetoric of Winston Churchill.
• The “Cambridge Five”: spy fiction and the performance of left-wing politics.
• Margaret Thatcher: style, vision, and the performance of neoliberal politics.
• New Labour, Cool Britannia – spin and delivery? Performing class and community in Tony Blair’s 1990s.
• Brexit and recent controversies.

Within these topics we will not only consider actual politics but also trace performances of politics in engaging works of literature and popular filmic representations of British politics such as The Crown (Netflix, 2016- ), House of Cards (British original, BBC, 1990), The Thick of It (BBC, 2005-2012), Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister (BBC, 1980-1984/1986-1988), Spitting Image (ITV, 1984-1996) and Brexit: The Uncivil War (Toby Haynes, 2019).

Empfohlene Literatur:

Julian Barnes, England, England [1998] (London: Vintage, 2008).
David Boyle, The Remains of the Way (Steyning: Real Press, 2017).
John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [1974] (London: Penguin, 2018).
Hannah Coler, Cambridge 5 Zeit der Verräter (Munich: Limes, 2017).
Michael Dobbs, House of Cards [1989] (London: Harper Collins, 1998).
Julian Mitchell, Another Country (Charlbury: Amber Lane, 1982).
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King [1859] (London: Penguin, 1983).

It is expected that you read The Remains of the Way for the first session, and Idylls of the King for the second session. The other texts should be read for the third and fourth session in a manner to be discussed at the start of the seminar. Students fluent in German should read Coler s Cambridge 5; students who are not should read Mitchell s play Another Country instead. Tasks, further material and extracts from Idylls of the King will be made available on the VC.

American Mother

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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 highlights iconic mothers in American socio-cultural and literary history. From Hannah Penn to Dr. Jill Biden, from Marmee (Little Women) to Shelley and Moira Pfefferman (Transparent), from Mrs. Elizabeth Freake via Florence Owens Thompson (a.k.a. "Migrant Mother") to Melissa Spitz' mom (You Have Nothing to Worry About) we will cover a broad variety of interesting and agenda-setting "real" and "fictional" mothers.

We will ask how concepts of motherhood and mothering have changed over the centuries, analyze how mothers have been (re)presented and what it needs to be(come) an American Mother.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read:

• Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
• Annie Weatherwax, All We Had
• Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

Home 2: at home in Germany and America

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 3.6.2022, 14:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 4.6.2022, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Blockveranstaltung, 16.6.2022-19.6.2022, Raum n.V.
Vorbesprechung: Freitag, 6.5.2022, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module and Master Thesis Module (Oberseminar) literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active involvement in the conference (June 16-19, 2022)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 - May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 - July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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 is part 2 of our investigation into the complex topic home, this time from a specifically transatlantic perspective: Germany vs USA. We will focus on how family and home as well as family as home have been and are conceptualized as well as lived in these two countries.

This class is a compact course, on June 3 and 4, and it also requires student attendance at the conference Family Ecologies (June 16-19) in Bamberg.

We meet for a first who is who and what is what on May 6, 4 pm. Attendance of this first meeting is absolutely mandatory!

Number of participants is limited to 15.

Empfohlene Literatur:

In preparation, please watch Unorthodox and buy and read: Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere and Christian Dittloff, Das Weiße Schloss.

Toni Morrison

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 21:00, U5/00.24
bi-weekly: April 25, May 09, May 16, May 30, June 13, June 27, July 11 + Guest Lecture (date tba)

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for LITERARY studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module and Master Thesis Module (Oberseminar) LITERARY studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

As one of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century, Pulitzer- and Nobel-Prize laureate Toni Morrison was both a supreme stylist and a storyteller deeply committed to African American cultures past and present. In her eleven novels, she developed a new literary idiom that enables multifaceted insights into some of the most conflicted chapters of American history, the vagaries of interpersonal relationships, and the powers of a transgressive imagination.

In this course, we will read four of Morrison’s novels to explore their main thematic and artistic concerns, including the legacies of slavery; the links between individual, family, and community, desire and violence, economy and ecology; and the relationship between literature and memory, aesthetics and politics. We will also discuss some of Morrison’s literary and cultural criticism, especially Playing in the Dark (1992) and “Mourning for Whiteness” (2016), flanked by several interviews.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Readings:

• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Beloved (1987)
• A Mercy (2008)

Students interested in this seminar are required to have read the first two novels BEFORE the semester start.

“Wild and free:” Dominant Nature Narratives Then and Now

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, MG2/01.10
bi-weekly: April 26, May 10, May 24, June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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:

Envisioning itself as nature’s nation, constructions of cultural identity in the U.S. have long been intertwined with shifting conceptions of nature. In this course, we will examine the origins of popular nature narratives, their evolution since colonial times, and their manifestations in the 21st century. How have race, gender, and class informed, complicated, and/ or subverted certain American nature ideals? We will analyze a variety of written and audio-visual texts by canonical and non-canonical writers and filmmakers to explore why the maxim of “wild and free” nature continues to be so alluring in the American imagination.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please start reading Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (2012) by Cheryl Strayed (ISBN: 978-1-78239-062-6). We will discuss this book in the first session on 26 April 2022. An additional reader will be made available in the first week of classes.

HS Jewish-American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, OK8/02.04

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

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)
Module Master's Thesis: Oberseminar (belegt/pass)

Erweiterungsbereich English an 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)

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
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: Oberseminar (belegt/pass)

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

Modulzuordnung Jüdische Studien und Judaistik (FlexNow-Anmeldung hier bitte über die Judaistik):
BA-Hauptfach Jüdische Studien:
A/H 1a+1b+1*(Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/H 1 (Jüdische Literatur, Kunst und Kultur)

BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 45:
A/N-45 1+1* (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/N-45 2a (Sprache und Literatur)

BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 30:
A/N-30 1+1* (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)

Kulturelle Bildung:
Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)
Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B per E-Mail bis 29. April 2022 an pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation
• term-paper according to the style-sheet

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 or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

This seminar surveys the literature and culture of the Jewish community in America from colonial times to the present. After critically examining the terms Jewish, Jewish literature and Jewish culture, the class provides a historical overview of the major phases of Jewish immigration to America. We will then study landmarks of Jewish-American literature in their respective cultural contexts. A particular focus will be on novels and short stories that deal with characteristic Jewish experiences of the last 120 years. Whether they concentrate on the problems of adapting to new physical, social and cultural surroundings in the wake of immigration, lament the disintegration of familial and religious securities, or reflect upon the horrors of persecution and annihilation, most of these works negotiate the meaning of Jewish identity in modern times. Further social and cultural issues addressed in the seminar include the branches of Judaism in America, Jewish politics and organizations, music and arts, the media and popular culture, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israel.