Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozent/in:

N.N.

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 14.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 15.1.2023, 10:00 - 16:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 22.1.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 3.2.2023, 16:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 4.2.2023, 12:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 5.2.2023, 10:00 - 15:00, U7/01.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module: Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)

Inhalt:

This semester, as is usual for winter semesters, we will not work on a full-length play for a full performance but instead focus on honing our skills not limited to acting only and work on a variety of smaller and medium projects. These include working on individual scenes, producing short videos for our YouTube channel and doing Workshops. You do not need any prior knowledge of acting to participate, and you 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 be centred on video recording and editing as well as social media and advertising, as well as costume, hair and makeup design.
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 (to be added). 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.

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
Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, 10:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.11

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 19:30, U9/02.01
Einzeltermin am 12.1.2023, 18:00 - 19:00, U9/01.11
ab 9.1.2023

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. Henry VI, part III.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 12.10.2022, 9:30 - 11:00, U5/02.22

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
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2023, 12:15 - 13:45, U2/01.36

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:

Theresa Pietz

Angaben:

Tutorien, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2023, 14:00 - 16:00, KR12/00.16
The first session of this tutorial will take place on Oct. 24.

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.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All reading will be provided via the VC!

Betreuungsübung (MA, BA, LA)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/02.27

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. Houswitschka)
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!: 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 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". Please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss your topic and make individual appointments. Do not us my office hours for this.

British Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, 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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

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 19. April 2022 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

This lecture offers a survey of the most important developments pertaining to the British novel as a literary genre that evolved in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It introduces important precursors and influences, the political and social framework of and conditions for the development of the genre as well as narrative modes and subgenres (e. g. realist, sentimental, picaresque, comic, speculative, utopian, early feminist, Jacobin, Anti-Jacobin, Gothic, epistolary, historical novels). In addition, the lecture discusses central subjects and motifs in the novels of the period (e. g. liberty/liberalism, nation state, empire, colonialism, subjectivity, sensibility, happiness) as well as important narrative styles (e. g. satire and parody). It explains the relevance of the representation of literary characters’ and narrators’ class backgrounds, national, ethnic and gender identities and sexual orientations for the formation of the genre. In the course of the lecture, close readings of influential novels from the period will be provided.

Empfohlene Literatur:

tba

Fighting a "truth universally acknowledged"? 200 years of Jane Austen's works

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 4, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 14.1.2023-15.1.2023 Sa, So, Blockveranstaltung 28.1.2023-29.1.2023 Sa, So, 10:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)

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

1.2 Übung:

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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Among the canon of English writers of the 18th century, one name is sure to be mentioned by all scholars of English literature: Jane Austen. Moreover, Austen is still a household name outside of academia and her six novels are still widely read, enjoyed, criticised or actively rejected by modern-day readers. Despite the often overt gender-bias contemporaries levelled at female writers, Austen already enjoyed popularity in her own time. Two hundred years later, her popularity has not waned, but the reception of Austen s narratives and characters has certainly changed with the invention of film.
This block seminar will approach the works of Jane Austen from two different perspectives: We will look at all six of Austen s novels and assess her narratives through contemporary literary discourses. In particular, the situation of women in the Regency period considering female authors like Austen as well as the landed gentry women (single, married and widowed) Austen depicts will be centralised. On the two Saturday appointments, we will then look at exemplary filmic adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma to analyse how filmmakers of the 20th and predominantly 21st century have adapted and translated women s struggles to not only a new medium but also a new time, i.e. the time of the respective audience.
To this end, the works and films listed under Obligatory reading and Obligatory watching need to be read or watched until the beginning of the class to make sure all participants are on the same page. More material (predominantly secondary sources) will be made available on the VC shortly before the course. To gain access to the VC, all students who sign up for this class on FlexNow will receive an email plus a course plan before the course. Guest auditors are very welcome and asked to send an email to the lecturer to sign up for the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. 1811
---. Pride and Prejudice. 1813
---. Mansfield Park. 1814
---. Emma. 1815
---. Northanger Abbey. 1818
---. Persuasion. 1818

Obligatory watching:

• Clueless. Directed by Amy Heckerling. 1995.

• Emma. Directed by Autum de Wilde. 2020.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of Emma Approved (YouTube, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeXkf8LZ_8)

• Pride and Prejudice. Directed by Joe Wright. 2005.

• Austenland. Directed by Jerusha Hess and based on the novel by Shannon Hale (2007). 2013.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (YouTube; see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs)

Introduction to Modernism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / 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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Modernism is a very broad cultural and literary movement, or a mode of thinking if you will, that influenced all forms of art, and to an extent also philosophy and politics. The modernist movement may be seen as a reaction to the rapid pace of society, fast development and technological boom of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. With influences from the theories of Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche to later influencing art as one may see in the paintings of Monet and Renoir, to name a few, Modernism has its roots in Europe but spans the entire globe. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key modernist texts.
In order to do so, the course will first frame Modernism, that is to say, we shall study the movement in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Modernism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one.
The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Modernist poetry, with the works of T. S. Eliot, Richard Aldington and T. E. Hulme; the narratives of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce; and finally the Modernist drama of Samuel Beckett.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land (1922); Four Quartets (1941)
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Joyce, James. Ulysses (1920)
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (1952)
More to be added during the course

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/01.11
vom 18.10.2022 bis zum 7.2.2023

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).

The course is intended to assist students in both finding 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).

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.

Literary “-isms”: Artistic Movements and their Representation in Literature

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The aim of this course is to discuss and analyse the influences of artistic and philosophical movements on literary texts. For instance, throughout the course, students will be introduced to the seemingly meaningless world of Absurdism, to inquiries on human existence with Existentialism, to the emotional and subjective perspectives of Expressionism, to the subtlety of light and movement of Impressionism, to the accuracy and precision of Imagism, to a revolution of the human experience with the unconscious and dream-like realm of Surrealism, and to the dynamic physical and spiritual processes of Transcendentalism.

Empfohlene Literatur:

tba

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 21.1.2023, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18

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: 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 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.

Refugee Narratives and Documentaries

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
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)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

According to the most recent UNHCR report, more than 84 million forcibly displaced people are currently in the world. Given the most recent refugee crisis, it is more important to listen to and understand what obstacles refugees face: from leaving home to arriving in a new place to finding/creating a new home, and all the hostility they face in their pursuit of safety and refuge. Their journey to protection and safety is far from over. Therefore, refugee voices and narratives are vital to understanding the plight of refugees. In this course, we will be reading a selective of refugee narratives (poems, short stories, and novels) and watching a selection of documentaries on refugees. This class will introduce theoretical texts on the documentary form for the documentary part. We will discuss the documentary’s discursive relation to “truth” and its various methods of “realism”. In the narrative part, we will discuss the refugee narrative as a genre and how the refugees’ plight is represented in the selected poems, short stories, and novels.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

David Herd and Anna Pincus. Refugee Tales: Volume IV. Comma Press, 2021.
Gulwali Passarlay. The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee. Atlantic Books, 2015.

Obligatory watching:
Ai Weiwei. Human Flow. Participant Media, 2017.
David Fedele and Kumut Imesh. Revenir. David Fedele, 2018.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Flee. Vice Studios, 2021.

Research Seminar and Thesis supervision (MA, BA, LA)

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 5

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. Houswitschka)
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!: 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 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". Please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss your topic and make individual appointments. Do not us my office hours for this.

Supervision tutorial for BA theses in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

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.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Dozent/in:

Beatrix Hesse

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Webinar
Einzeltermin am 7.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/01.30

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 - 23.10.2022, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

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 06. Oktober 2022 an igor.baldoino(at)uni-bamberg.de

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04
Classes will take place biweekly.

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course 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!

From Moby-Dick to the Green New Deal: A Literary and Cultural History of American Energy

Dozent/in:

Georgiana Banita

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 8.2.2023, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional lecture (Vorlesung) for 2 or 4 ECTS in literary studies OR cultural studies:

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

>> NOT open for Consolidation Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• only Studium Generale: written test on pass/fail basis (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)
• only Erasmus/exchange students: graded written test (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

The shift from coal, oil, and natural gas to solar and wind energy is one of the defining events of our time. But it is not the first energy transition. Replacing the elemental power harnessed through windmills and the biomass energy of wood and whale oil with fossil fuels marked the earliest energetic transformation of society, not least in heavily carbonized America. The lecture charts the history of U.S. literature and culture around energy regimes to uncover connections between resources and cultural forms and to shed light on the evolution of aesthetic genres from the mid-19th century to the present.

We begin with the Romantic Period (Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman) and the tensions it staged between the celebration of nature and excitement about subsoil resources, growth, and new technology like the railroad and the steam engine. The full scope of the social change engendered by the fossil fuel economy didn t come fully into view until the Age of Realism (William Dean Howells) and Naturalism (Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck) as the rise of Big Business (and Standard Oil) began to take a toll on the value of the land and the individual. To explore echoes of energy in Modernism and after, we will read poems by Carl Sandburg and Elizabeth Bishop, reinterpret The Great Gatsby through the prism of environment and resources, and read post-OPEC-crisis postmodern novels (John Updike s The Rabbit Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy s The Road) as fictions of exhaustion in an era of Peak Oil, petro-melancholia (Stephanie LeMenager) and macro- as well as micro-economic downsizing.

Much of U.S. oil literature is place-bound, so it makes sense to explore it through the works of regionalist authors, too. The selection includes fictions by Texas writers (William Goyen, Larry McMurtry, Winifred Sanford) and Tom Cooper s The Marauders, set in post-BP-oil-spill Louisiana. For insights into racial, indigenous, and gendered perspectives on petroleum economies, we discuss Linda Hogan s novel Mean Spirit about the murders on the oil-rich Osage Reservation in the 1910s 1930s and learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 against the backdrop of the Oklahoma Oil Rush through Rilla Askew's novel Fire in Beulah, before concluding with the recent How Beautiful We Were (2021), a novel about the ravages wrought by a U.S. oil company in Africa, by Cameroonian-American writer Imbolo Mbue.

In the second part of the lecture, we survey classics of American cinema that screen the elation, drama, and downfall of what historian Lewis Mumford called carboniferous capitalism from Robert J. Flaherty s Louisiana Story (1948) and Douglas Sirk s melodrama Written on the Wind (1956) to George Stevens Western Giant (also 1956) and Paul Thomas Anderson s Neo-Western There Will Be Blood (2007). The final sessions are dedicated to iconic painters and photographers of American petro-landscapes, including Thomas Hart Benton (1889 1975), Ed Ruscha (1937 ), and Richard Misrach (1949 ). The closing session revolves around the politics and culture of decarbonization, more specifically the arts and letters of the post-carbon era, from wind power photography to science fiction of the post-oil age.

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 4.11.2022, Einzeltermin am 11.11.2022, Einzeltermin am 2.12.2022, Einzeltermin am 16.12.2022, Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 27.1.2023, 13:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Classes will take place biweekly.

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course 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.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Reading American Short Forms

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

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

“The Heart of a Woman” - Female Modernist Writers in the U.S.

Dozent/in:

Susen Halank

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.22
The following session will take place ONLINE: Thursday, November 17.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> NOT open for Consolidation Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course examines the highly influential and variable works of American women modernists who played an active part in the literary scene, and participated in literary discussions, contributing to a new literary culture in the early 20th century. Women writers provided an imaginative expression of women’s lives in general and in relation to important factors such as work, religion, or politics in particular. In this course we will first discuss the historical developments that shaped modernism in the US and Europe, and address overall literary developments, for instance, the influence of psychoanalysis and feminism on American literature and culture at the time.

We will then focus on major texts by leading women authors and discuss their shaping role in literary modernism – including modernist movements such as Imagism and the Harlem Renaissance, the salon culture led by female authors, and women’s contributions to literary criticism and theory. In particular, we will read poetry, drama, short stories, and novels by Marianne Moore, Gertrud Stein, H.D., Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Nella Larsen and others.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The final reading list of this course will be discussed and possibly altered together with the participants in the first week of the semester. Therefore, I invite you to read as much as you can throughout the summer break and contribute your reading suggestions in the first session. While the poetry, short stories, and one of the dramas will be made available on the VC along with secondary literature, please make sure to purchase and read the following works until the start of the semester:

• Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
• Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
• Sophie Treadwell, Machinal (1928)

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 10.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 11.4.2023, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/02.01

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): 12.10.2022, 10:00 - 23.10.2022, 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 3.11.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 16.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04

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

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: October 10 November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 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-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/
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:

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!

Fighting a "truth universally acknowledged"? 200 years of Jane Austen's works

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Blockseminar, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 14.1.2023-15.1.2023 Sa, So, Blockveranstaltung 28.1.2023-29.1.2023 Sa, So, 10:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)

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

1.2 Übung:

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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Among the canon of English writers of the 18th century, one name is sure to be mentioned by all scholars of English literature: Jane Austen. Moreover, Austen is still a household name outside of academia and her six novels are still widely read, enjoyed, criticised or actively rejected by modern-day readers. Despite the often overt gender-bias contemporaries levelled at female writers, Austen already enjoyed popularity in her own time. Two hundred years later, her popularity has not waned, but the reception of Austen s narratives and characters has certainly changed with the invention of film.
This block seminar will approach the works of Jane Austen from two different perspectives: We will look at all six of Austen s novels and assess her narratives through contemporary literary discourses. In particular, the situation of women in the Regency period considering female authors like Austen as well as the landed gentry women (single, married and widowed) Austen depicts will be centralised. On the two Saturday appointments, we will then look at exemplary filmic adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma to analyse how filmmakers of the 20th and predominantly 21st century have adapted and translated women s struggles to not only a new medium but also a new time, i.e. the time of the respective audience.
To this end, the works and films listed under Obligatory reading and Obligatory watching need to be read or watched until the beginning of the class to make sure all participants are on the same page. More material (predominantly secondary sources) will be made available on the VC shortly before the course. To gain access to the VC, all students who sign up for this class on FlexNow will receive an email plus a course plan before the course. Guest auditors are very welcome and asked to send an email to the lecturer to sign up for the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. 1811
---. Pride and Prejudice. 1813
---. Mansfield Park. 1814
---. Emma. 1815
---. Northanger Abbey. 1818
---. Persuasion. 1818

Obligatory watching:

• Clueless. Directed by Amy Heckerling. 1995.

• Emma. Directed by Autum de Wilde. 2020.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of Emma Approved (YouTube, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeXkf8LZ_8)

• Pride and Prejudice. Directed by Joe Wright. 2005.

• Austenland. Directed by Jerusha Hess and based on the novel by Shannon Hale (2007). 2013.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (YouTube; see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs)

Introduction to Modernism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / 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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Modernism is a very broad cultural and literary movement, or a mode of thinking if you will, that influenced all forms of art, and to an extent also philosophy and politics. The modernist movement may be seen as a reaction to the rapid pace of society, fast development and technological boom of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. With influences from the theories of Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche to later influencing art as one may see in the paintings of Monet and Renoir, to name a few, Modernism has its roots in Europe but spans the entire globe. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key modernist texts.
In order to do so, the course will first frame Modernism, that is to say, we shall study the movement in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Modernism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one.
The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Modernist poetry, with the works of T. S. Eliot, Richard Aldington and T. E. Hulme; the narratives of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce; and finally the Modernist drama of Samuel Beckett.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land (1922); Four Quartets (1941)
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Joyce, James. Ulysses (1920)
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (1952)
More to be added during the course

Reading Postmodern Drama

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

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): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others, which is essentially a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from recognising that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding; instead, it is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, always knowing that the outcome of one’s experience will necessarily be fallible and relative rather than certain and universal.

In this seminar, we will read and discuss postmodernism, in general, and postmodern drama, in particular. We will approach the plays from the perspective of a simultaneous inscription and subversion of the basic dramatic categories of character, language and reality. We will read between the lines and try to understand the double-coded nature of the postmodern plays. We may read plays by Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward, Samuel Beckett, Robert Wilson, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Tom Stoppard, debbie tucker green or Heiner Müller, to name but a few.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended Reading:
Mark Forties. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction. Routledge, 1997.
Nice Kaye. Postmodernism and Performance. Red Globe Press, 1994.

Twenty-first Century Migration Novels

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

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): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Migration, in all its facets, is one of the most discussed and debated topics of the current century; however, it is not something new, but an aged-old phenomenon and human beings have been migrating since the beginning of time. Although migration is a topic that encompasses us all in one way or the other, but the most distressing aspect of migration is how invisible the migrant can become in the everyday narrative. As a result, the voices of many undocumented migrants, immigrants, and refugees become slowly muffled or go unheard. That’s why it’s crucial to read writings by those coming from other places, foreign traditions, different religions, unfamiliar social and political structures, diverse ideologies and ways of living, and landscapes dissimilar from the host society or country. Refuting Edwidge Danticat, “these writers more than tell us. They show us. They pull us in and draw us out. They invite us into homes, families, souls,” this seminar will address aspects of migration as rendered in the most recent novels. In particular, it will investigate the link between migration and literature, immigrant experiences, immigrant narrative, leaving and arriving, nostalgia, the concept of home and the transitory nature of migrant identities as articulated in literary texts. The discussion will focus on cultural identities, reception and criticism of migrant identity, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living between two or more languages, societies and cultures.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

Abdulrazak Gurnah. By the Sea. Bloomsbury, 2001.
Aleksandar Hemon. Love and Obstacles. Picador, 2009.
Dina Nayeri. The Ungrateful Refugee. Catapult, 2019.
Jamil Jan Kochai. 99 Nights in Logar. Penguin Books, 2020.

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the British Cultural Imagination

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 01.08.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.11.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 12.12.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 27.01.2023 (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:

“Must Rhodes fall?” In recent years, British cultural politics has been preoccupied – on all sides – with the question of how to come to terms with the shameful and painful legacies of colonialism and Empire. Whether in the form of debates around the contemporary appropriateness of an Oxford statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes, or in the direct action that saw the statue of a slave trader unceremoniously dumped in Bristol Harbor in the summer of 2020: British society is now confronting, more consciously than ever before, its long and dark historical shadow.

This seminar examines that legacy from a wide variety of perspectives, drawn from a variety of historical eras. We will start with an overview of the current British debates around the memory of Empire. After a brief theoretical excursus through Frantz Fanon’s ground-breaking Black Skin, White Masks (1952), we’ll discuss Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative of 1789: the remarkable first-hand account of a journey from slavery to freedom. We turn next to Chinua Achebe’s devastating masterpiece, Things Fall Apart (1958), an unsparing portrait of the impact of colonialism on the Igbo Tribe in nineteenth-century Nigeria. Following this, we’ll be reading selection of poems by Derek Walcott, a Saint Lucian poet and playwright whose meditations on the personal and collective legacies of colonialism culminated in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Finally, we arrive (back) in the multicultural Britain of the twenty-first century, with Bernardine Evaristo’s globally acclaimed and multi-award-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other (2019).

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London: Penguin, 2017).

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2018).

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (London: Penguin, 2020).

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2008).

Derek Walcott, Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).

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.

Gender, Race, and Nationality: Transatlantic Literature and Culture from the 18th to the Early 20th Century

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) 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 Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (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/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

While U.S.-American Literature and Culture and British Literature and Culture are often researched, analyzed, and taught separately, literary and cultural texts have long travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. Accordingly, this seminar will provide an introduction to the field of Transatlantic Studies and investigate literary and cultural texts that journeyed from Great Britain to the United States and vice versa.

More specifically, by reading texts from different genres and periods, we will trace how questions of gender, race, and nationality are negotiated, adapted, and in some cases re-negotiated in transatlantic literature. Additionally, we will talk about the ways print culture and ideas surrounding authorship and copyright changed between the 18th and the early 20th century.

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

• Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393933994)
• Paula Bernat Bennett (ed.), Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (2001)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) – preferred edition: Penguin Classics (ISBN: 978-0140435849)
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393932423)

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

Girlhood in American Environmental Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> OPEN for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

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

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

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

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

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:

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 (Proseminar) 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:

• ONLY Bamberg University students: 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: October 10–31, 2022 (via vhb website!)
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01–31, 2023 (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)

More than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, SP17/00.13
Einzeltermin am 13.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) 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 Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (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/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

Studying U.S. American literature and culture would be incomplete without considering the wealth of POC perspectives. In this class we will discuss exemplary and marginal cultural artefacts of the past and present and the phenomena that are closely linked to the specific historical experiences of People of Color. Our classroom material will include mostly literary texts, but also music, film, painting, sculpture, food etc. As the title of the seminar suggests, we will employ several of our senses to deal with the topic, which may also include a field trip to an exhibition.

Since we will deal with one of the key issues of American Studies, the reading list of this class will be rather extensive and students are expected to come to class prepared for lively, critical discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most shorter reading (poems, speeches, short stories, secondary reading) will be provided via the VC. However, students are expected to acquire the following books (in print or as e-book) BEFORE the start of the semester and start reading the first two books (Jacobs and Hansberry) as soon as possible:

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - prefered edition: The Norton Critical Edition (ISBN 0393614565)
• Lorrain Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• Mark Long, Jim Demonakos (authors), and Nate Powell (illustrator), The Silence of Our Friends (2012)
• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (2018)

Additionally recommended reading:

• Kai Wright (ed.). The African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2009.
• Neil Irvin Painter. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: OUP, 2007.

PS Scottish Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

Dozent/in:

Mario Ebest

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 27.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 3.2.2023, Einzeltermin am 10.2.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, MG1/01.02
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.

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:
September 1 until October 21, 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:

In this seminar, we will familiarise ourselves with important Scottish poems and novels, all of which can be described as being part of the Scottish literary canon. At first, we will discuss the narrative poem “Tam o’ Shanter” (1791) by Robert Burns in terms of its effect of popularising Scottish folk tales. Further, lyrical works by Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean will be looked into: While MacDiarmid uses synthetic Scots in his “Eemis Stan” (1925), MacLean composed the original version of “Hallaig” (1954) in Gaelic. The cultural-linguistic implications of poems like these will be of special interest to our class.

Apart from lyrical works, novels will be in the focus of this seminar. James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) revolves around the controversial role Calvinism played in Scottish society and history. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) deals with another painful chapter of Scottish history: the Jacobite rising of 1745. Finally, Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989) will be analysed in depth – a novel which focusses on postmodern themes such as depression, trauma, and alienation.

If you would like to take part in this class, please read two out of the three novels before the seminar starts.

PS T.S. Eliot's Waste Land in Context

Dozent/in:

William Adamson

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 21.10.2022, Einzeltermin am 28.10.2022, Einzeltermin am 4.11.2022, Einzeltermin am 11.11.2022, 12:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2022, 19:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: 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

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:
September 1 until October 21, 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:

This year marks the 100^th anniversary of the publication of T.S. Eliot s The Waste Land, seen as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. This seminar will look specifically at the poem in its historical and cultural context (The Waste Land was unmistakably influenced by the upheaval of World War I (1914 18)), as well as against the literary background of the time, including Ezra Pound who heavily influenced the poem s final form. We will also discuss selected poems from Eliot s collection Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) by way of introduction.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Peter Ackroyd: T.S. Eliot: A Life
B. C. Southam: A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot.

Conceptions of Happiness in the British Novel

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 15.12.2022, Einzeltermin am 9.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/02.05
vom 27.10.2022 bis zum 9.2.2023

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)

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)

NOT open as an Oberseminar
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar discusses the significance of different, historically situated philosophical, political and economic concepts of happiness as important hermeneutic frames, genre-shaping forces and thematic focuses in selected novels from the 18th to the 21st century. We will explore happiness as a narrative structure with specific forms of emplotment, narrative affects and temporalities and examine the ways in which literary texts raise the question of happiness as an individualist, social and political concept. Furthermore, we will problematize in how far the novels represent happiness and unhappiness as opposites or (as suggested by Sara Ahmed in The Promise of Happiness) as dialectically connected concepts and states/modes of being.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will discuss the following texts (please buy or borrow):

Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Samuel Johnson: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
Mary Wollstonecraft: Maria: or, the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)
William Morris: News from Nowhere (or An Epoch of Rest) (1890)
J. M. Coetzee: Foe (1986)
Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)

All critical literature will be provided on virtual campus at the beginning of the term.

Shakespeare's The Tempest in Theory

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

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 as an Oberseminar
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest (1610/11) has provoked enthusiastic response from a particularly broad spectrum of various schools of critical theory. We will investigate readings of the play from the perspectives of New Criticism, Deconstruction, Gender and Queer Studies, New Historicism, Postcolonial Theory, Ecocriticism and Posthumanist Theory and discuss the ways in which such different approaches provide new insights about the text. The seminar offers an introduction to and discussion of the critical theories listed above but it focuses on their practical application, investigating and evaluating the productivity of the specific reading practices and methodologies they offer.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy / borrow the Arden edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. All critical literature will be provided on virtual campus at the beginning of the term.

The Posthuman and the Transhuman in Postwar English and American Literature

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 01.08.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.11.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 12.12.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 27.01.2023 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

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

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:

“Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. ‘More human than human’ is our motto.” Eldon Tyrell’s boast about the near indistinguishability from humans of his corporation’s latest line of ‘replicants’ sits at the heart of Blade Runner, the British director Ridley Scott’s iconic science fiction film of 1982. It’s a darkly ironic claim. Replicants are a bio-technological upgrade on their human creators: a truly posthuman form of being. But as Tyrell unwittingly reminds us, their post-humanity both embodies capitalism’s de-humanizing drive for ever-greater efficiency and productivity and reminds us of the very humanness we may have abandoned in the process.

In this seminar we will examine the contested concepts of ‘the post-human’ and ‘the trans-human’ through the lens of science fiction. In particular, we’ll be asking how these categories invite us to reconsider both ‘humanness’ and ‘the human’ itself. After laying our theoretical groundwork with the help of Stefan Herbrechter and Rosi Braidotti, we’ll turn to examine four science fiction classics. We begin with Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End (1953), the tale of a benevolent alien invasion with unintended consequences. Both Philip K. Dick’s Androids (1968) and Ridley Scott’s famous film adaptation ask what it is that makes us human, anyway; and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) extends the question into the murky realm of human cloning. Finally, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) fast-forwards us to a future in which humanity itself is battling the existential consequences of its own technological advance.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End (London: Pan, 1990).

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (London: Orion, 2007).

Ridley Scott (dir.), Blade Runner (1982); Denis Villeneuve (dir.), Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (New York: Anchor Books, 2003).

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).

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.

Suburbia

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) 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!
>> NOT open for students requiring an “Oberseminar” for their Master Thesis Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 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/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/)
• required only for Vertiefungsmodul: completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul) beforehand!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

Suburbia is a field which is extravagantly large, complex and contested. It might even be called by some “intellectual sprawl.” This is not surprising, since suburbia is a geographical and architectural phenomenon, but also part of an economic system, a politics, an ethic, and suburbia is a place of cultural creation, reflection and negotiation, a set of values and a way of life. And this is just the reason why it has become a symbolic minefield which the American everyman ogles rather skeptically from his picture window, simultaneously perceiving himself in the glasses’ reflection. We will look at the historical genesis of suburbia and its contemporary realities and zoom in on some cultural (re)presentations.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read: Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides (the novel!), T.C. Boyle, Tortilla Curtain. Course requirement: oral presentation.

Walt Whitman in American Culture

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, The first half of this Blockseminar is taught by one of the world’s most renowned Whitman scholars and most outstanding teachers, Ed Folsom (University of Iowa). Registration is open!

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 21.10.2022, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 28.10.2022, 14:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 29.10.2022, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 18.11.2022, 14:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 19.11.2022, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Course registration starts on August 15!!!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) 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 and cultural studies!
>> NOT open for students requiring an “Oberseminar” for their Master Thesis Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 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/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/ )
• required only for Vertiefungsmodul: completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul) beforehand!

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

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: August 15 – October 20, 2022 (Attention: EARLY registration!)
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact Prof. Dr. Gerhardt via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

In this course, we will read the work of one of America’s most innovative and influential poets, focusing on the ways in which his work responded to major developments in nineteenth-century American culture. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) sought to forge a living connection between a new kind of poetry and the massive changes he witnessed in the US as an evolving, conflict-ridden democracy. And indeed, throughout the various editions of Leaves of Grass (1855-92), his free-flowing lines, powerful imagery, and wide range of social, political, and sexual concerns challenged conventional notions of poetry more radically, and talked about American culture more openly and inclusively, than any other nineteenth-century poet.

In our seminar, we will begin with the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. What was so revolutionary about this slim book of 12 poems? Who is its author, does it contain poetry at all, what does its unusual format suggest? We will move on to discuss how some of Whitman’s most iconic poems think about key events and dynamics of his time, including race, slavery, and the Civil War, changing notions of gender and sexuality, the natural sciences and beginning environmentalism, and the fate of democracy. Throughout, we will link Whitman – who always hoped to be read across space and time – to our own cultural moment, considering the resonances of his vision for the 21st century.

Empfohlene Literatur:

You need to buy a critical edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, ideally this one:

• Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Collected Prose. Ed. Justin Kaplan. New York: Library of America, 1982 [or later editions].

(Alternatively, Leaves of Grass and other Writings, Norton Critical Edition, edited by Michael Moon, 2002; or the older but excellent Leaves of Grass, A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold Blodgett, will also work well.)

Women's Rights in the U.S.

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, MG2/01.10
Einzeltermin am 14.2.2023, 14:00 - 15:00, U5/01.17
Classes will take place biweekly. Some of the Tuesday evening time slots in alternate weeks will be used for film screenings.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) 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!
>> OPEN for students requiring an Oberseminar for their Master Thesis Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 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/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/ )
• required only for Vertiefungsmodul: completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul) beforehand!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

By overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the Supreme Court effectively ended bodily autonomy for more than half of the U.S. population. In their dissenting opinion, the liberal justices succinctly stated that young women today will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. In view of that historic decision, this course will explore the cultural evolution of women s rights in the U.S. While tracing texts from the American Revolution until now, we will pay particular attention to how the issue of women s rights intersects with other realms of inequality, specifically racism. In addition to several audio-visual texts, we will discuss writings from the traditional feminist canon as well as lesser-known examples by literary activists.

Classes will take place biweekly. Some of the Tuesday evening time slots in alternate weeks will be used for film screenings.
Seminar Sessions:

• 2022: Oct. 18+25; Nov. 08+22; Dec. 06
• 2023: Jan. 10+24; Feb. 07

Empfohlene Literatur:

A reader will be provided in the first week of classes.

“Daddy, is it you?” – American Father(hood)s

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) 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!
>> NOT open for students requiring an “Oberseminar” for their Master Thesis Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 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/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/ )
• required only for Vertiefungsmodul: completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul) beforehand!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

Fathers have long been banned to the side-lines of gender(ed) research to an extent that somewhat polemically inclined writers such as D. Blankenhorn diagnosed a Fatherless America (1995) psychologist Helen Smith has spoken about Men on Strike: why men are boycotting marriage, fatherhood, and the American Dream (2013), and Susan Faludi would write some 550 pages on Stiffed: The Roots of Modern Male Rage (1999/2019).

What does all of this mean? How come? And what, indeed, has happened to men and men as fathers from the Puritan head of household via the Victorian hegemonic male to today’s partner in parenting? In other words: how have changes in the American fabric as well as within normative expectations vis à vis the American family affected manhood and the role and function of the father and of fathering as a social practice? In how far do cultural representations and social practices conform or clash, and how are these discursively framed?

In multidisciplinary fashion we will explore concepts of (toxic) masculinity and patriarchy, male identity and various definitions of father(hood)s, and discuss a variety of cultural texts—short story, poem, (graphic) novel, painting, photograph and film.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read: Cormac McCarthy, The Road; Alison Bechdel, Fun Home; Noah Hawley, The Good Father. Course requirement: oral presentation.