Lehrveranstaltungen

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA 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 English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

--> Open for Consolidation Module Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de.

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

Inhalt:

We will employ Celeste Ng’s fiction bestseller (as well as the TV-series) as a launching pad to talk about a plethora of themes all highlighting facets of wide-ranging systemic inequality and white privilege (race and class) in the US, covering e.g. teenage pregnancy, abortion rights, surrogacy, safe haven laws and adoption, (single) motherhood and social segregation in planned communities, before the backdrop of (white) heteronormative nuclear family ideals and narratives of choice.
"The house" – in the novel the white upper-middle class family home, metaphorically America – is literally on fire, with little fires everywhere.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read: Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere. Further reading materials will be made available via the Virtual Campus.

"Searching for Our Mothers' Gardens": Deconstructing Motherhood in American Literature

Dozent/in:

Nermine Abdulhafiz

Angaben:

Übung/Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Der Kurs ist aktuell als reine Online-Lehrveranstaltung geplant. / The course is currently scheduled to take place entirely online.

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 6.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 20.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 4.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 18.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 15.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 12.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course.
Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

--> NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – October 30!, 2020 (first session: November 6th!)
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

This interdisciplinary course traces changing notions of motherhood in American literature and culture through different periods of time and across different races and ethnic communities, using a variety of approaches and cultural and literary theories. Motherhood has always been a contested terrain in American society. Together we will look into the complexities, contradictions, and socio-political aspects of the mothering experience as it has been constructed in various literary and other cultural texts. Is motherhood a universal experience, shared by the common lot of women? How do factors such as race, class, religion, sexuality shape and influence the mothering experience? Is there such thing as feminist mothering? Within the continuous debate of the public and private, where can we position motherhood? And how can we interpret motherhood as a politicized concept in light of racial discrimination, reproductive rights, immigration laws, and U.S. foreign policy? Furthermore, within the global capitalist market, we will look into how mothering is being commodified within the care industry.

Guided by these questions, our readings will explore various experiences of mothering within different ethnic groups in order to have not a single monolithic narrative, but a collage of diverse narratives that redefine and revolutionize the concept of motherhood.

Notes:

Participants are expected to read the primary novels, along with other reading materials, such as articles, poems, and short stories. It is important to do the assigned readings, attend classes regularly and engage in class discussions.
The course structure and other reading materials (apart from the novels) will be uploaded on the VC before the beginning of the semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings (Either hard copy or e-book):

Toni Morrison, Beloved
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid s Tale
Mona Simpson, My Hollywood
Susan Abulhawa, The Blue between Sky and Water

America, the 19th Century and the Short Form

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Inhalt:

This course looks at the oscillating genre of the short story, the historical development of the form, and its American socio-cultural context, with a specific focus on the 19th century. We will perform close readings of canonical works by (in)famous authors such as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Wharton, Chopin and Gilman.

Empfohlene Literatur:

W. Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (1819); "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
N. Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" (1835); "Wakefield" (1835)
E. A. Poe, "The Purloined Letter" (1844); "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
H. Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener" (1853)
L.M. Alcott, "A Modern Cinderella: Or, the Little Old Shoe" (1860)
M. Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
A. Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890)
C. Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
K. Chopin, "The Storm" (1898)
C.W. Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth" (1899)
E. Wharton, "The Other Two" (1904)
S.S. Far, "Mrs Spring Fragrance" (1912)

All texts – primary as well as secondary – will be provided via the VC (Virtual Campus).

American Journeys: Narratives of Travel and Displacement in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Lorena Bickert

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 27.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 11.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 8.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 22.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 5.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting
Einzeltermin am 19.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b) / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS

--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature or Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me, / The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." (from Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road")

"Some will survive. We are the land. […] Our journey – the one ahead – the one after this walking – will begin again from nothing. This is how we go. Always back to nothing." (from Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, p. 127)

The quotes above are a testimony to the diverse and complex journeys undertaken across American history. In this seminar, we will go on a literary and cultural journey that will take us from early American travel writing to the exploration of new “frontiers” in contemporary American science fiction. Our journey begins with the first accounts of the so-called New World. It encompasses African American voices in slave narratives of the nineteenth century, extends across the American West, and exposes the apocalyptic reality of Native American displacement in the name of American expansionism. We will move from Oklahoma to California during the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, finally, we will travel to Mars, exploring the “final frontier” of the American empire, while also challenging this notion of American exceptionalism from Indigenous perspectives.

The texts discussed in this seminar illustrate the multifaceted experiences of travel in the American context from multiple perspectives. Apart from our three key novels – John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars (1993), and Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996) – our readings include excerpts from various narratives, but also poetry and film. Thus, the journey of this seminar transcends not only geographical boundaries, but also moves across genres and beyond the written word. We will examine how American journeys are expressed in different literary traditions and genres like travel writing, slave narratives, Native American oral traditions, science fiction, or Indigenous futurisms. Together, we will analyze how those works are informed by questions of gender, race, identity, or mobility.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase the following works before classes start in November: (to be read by January)

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Penguin, 2014 [1939].
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. Del Rey, 2017 [1993].
Glancy, Diane. Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Mariner, 1998 [1996].

All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.

American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism)

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Vorlesung, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, Online-Meeting
The first session takes place via MS Teams on Nov 9th, 2020!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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)!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

This lecture provides an overview of American literary history from the 1880s until today, focusing on the characteristic features of realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism.

For each of these periods, the thematic, formal and stylistic elements of a wide range of novels, plays, short stories, poems, and essays will be discussed in the broader context of the United States' cultural and intellectual history. In order to understand how different groups of Americans have imagined their culture at specific moments in time, we will analyze texts that address the diversity of American experiences in terms of race, class, gender, region, and political conviction. We will also explore how literary texts have critically engaged with the past and with other cultures, charting new directions for the relationship between literature and culture. Overall, we will investigate to which degree processes of modernization and the ideal of democratization can be understood as one of American literature's major driving forces.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting
The first session will take place online on Nov 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of American Studies
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft / Übung Kulturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. FlexNow-Registration:

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

All participants: please contact lecturer before the beginning of the semester via e-mail to discuss the potential topic of your final thesis (BA-Arbeit/MA-Arbeit/Zulassungsarbeit)!

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

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."

From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS

--> Open for Ergänzungsmodul Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

This interdisciplinary course has been designed especially for American and Canadian exchange students and German students, inviting them to study each other’s cultures together. This semester, the focus will be representations of Germany and all things German in Canadian writing and culture, present and past.

The rich heritage and multiethnic present of Canada offer ample ground for studying issues such as identity, home, (post-)colonialism and transformation. Drawing extensively on two essay collections by German and Canadian scholars – Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture (2003) and Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture (2005) – we will, on the one hand, discover and discuss traces of Germany and Germans in a broad range of text by Canadian authors, such as Leonard Cohen, Rudy Wiebe, Jane Urquhart and Suzette Mayr. On the other hand, we will also discuss the image of Canada in the German context: Canada as the land of plenty – plenty of politeness, plenty of promise, and plenty of wildernesses. Ultimately, this class aims to broaden the participants' horizons with regard to their own national background as much as with regard to the corresponding 'other.'

One major framework of our class will be the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, where Canada is the (unfortunately due to Corona physically absent) guest of honor. Students who sign up for this class are required to follow the event closely (October 14-17, 2020), and are expected to be very well informed about what is published about the event and Canadian literature and culture in print and on social media up until the beginning of the semester. Make sure to consult a variety of sources (in German and in English!) to gain insight into as many perspectives as possible!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most texts, especially the essays from Refractions, will be provided via the Virtual Campus. Students are, however, required to purchase and start reading the following novels before the beginning of the semester: Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers (2001), Suzette Mayr’s The Widows (1998), and Rudy Wiebe’s Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006). Ebook-versions of the novels are welcome.

How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung BA

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, This is a bi-weekly class!

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course.
Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.

1. Module Allocation:

Please note that this course is open for international exchange students, but NOT M.A. students!

How to Write a Term Paper

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)
Lehramtsstudiengänge Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)

Betreuungsübung

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit): VERTIEFUNGSmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Betreuungsübung für 2 ECTS >>> Bitte kontaktieren Sie vorher unbedingt die Dozentin zwecks Themenabsprache!), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung für 2 ECTS), wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik

Participants of the "Betreuungsübung": please contact the lecturer before the beginning of the semester via e-mail to discuss the potential topic of your BA-Thesis (Literary or Cultural Studies)!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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.

In the Spotlight - Consultation

Dozent/in:: Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:: Nachbesprechung
Termine:: Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Meeting

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, ECTS: 6, 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. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt Englisch: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

active participation (individual tasks and group work)
term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 1. Oktober - 1. November 2020 (via vhb website!)
An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung: 1. Februar - 1. März 2021 (via email to the instructor)

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

Zum Online-Kurs auf dem Virtuellen Campus im Wintersemester 2020/21: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=26475 (will open on October 26, 2020)
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)

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Seminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Do, 9:55 - 12:10, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Berufliche Bildung
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BSc. BWL

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar and final written exam
2 ECTS (only BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end

3. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

This course offers an introduction to key themes and methods in American cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Thematically, we will explore issues such as religion and immigration, the frontier and regionalism, class and economic success, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, America as nature s nation; conceptually, the focus will be on equality and difference as utopian ideas that have shaped American culture from colonial times to the present.

The course is designed to provide you with basic skills in American cultural studies, with a strong emphasis on reading and discussing various texts in their cultural contexts. Our primary readings will include short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels as well as historical documents, essays, political speeches, photographs, popular songs, and films, while several theoretical essays will provide us with a language for discussing changing concepts of culture.

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (B)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Berufliche Bildung
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BSc. BWL

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, tutorial, and final written exam
2 ECTS (only BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end

3. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: October 27 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, den Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!

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

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 the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

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

Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 1, This is a bi-weekly class!

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 9, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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 Ergänzungsmodul CULTURE!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Native American Voices: Stories of Survival and Resistance

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: 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) / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: 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) / Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: 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) / Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

Attention: The course is NOT open for the Consolidation module!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first indigenous American writer to be named the United States Poet Laureate. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, currently serves as the official poet of the U.S., which marks a crucial step in formally recognizing the literary and cultural contributions of Native Americans. For over four hundred years, the fraught history of political, socio-economic, and cultural oppression has predominantly led to reductionist appropriations of indigenous stories by non-Natives in mainstream American culture. Since the so-called Native American Renaissance in the late 1960s, though, indigenous voices have become ever more prominent in America’s literary canon, to which Harjo’s Poet Laureate status is a testament.

In this seminar, we will discuss the longstanding tradition of indigenous storytelling and examine the stories of survival as well as resistance that Native American authors have chosen to tell about themselves and their communities. We will trace the complicated origins of indigenous literature and analyze how it questions, challenges, subverts, or conforms to the literary norms of ethnocentric white America. Through a study of selected works by major Native American writers, we will engage with the complex tapestry that indigenous storytellers have created in the 20th and 21st century. Readings in this course will include Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine, Joy Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, poetry by Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahonso, and prose by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, and Linda Hogan.

Students are kindly asked to purchase Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine (the newly revised edition or an earlier edition) and Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems (2017). A digital reader with all other texts (as PDFs) will be made available at the beginning of the course.

Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies" (B)

Dozent/in:: Leonard Bürger
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 10, 2020.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online tutorial.

Registered participants of the Introduction to English and American Literary Studies by Dr. Konopka (Course B) will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.
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.

Please note that the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session with Dr. Konopka!



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