American Mother

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read:

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

Examenvorbereitung Staatsexamen Amerikanische Literatur (Repetitorium)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

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

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung BA/MA/LA (Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Home 2: at home in Germany and America

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Number of participants is limited to 15.

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

"Thesis Supervision" in literary or cultural studies

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> NOT open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. Registration:

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

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (Course 3)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 12.5.2022, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/00.04
The class starts at 4 p.m. SHARP!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (seminar 6 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 5 or 6 ECTS)
• MA WiPäd (seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, final written exam
• 8 ECTS (module exam): active participation in the seminar, final written exam

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course 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.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (Course B)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

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

As of now, the final written exam of this Introduction to Literary Studies is also the module exam for the Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft. The exam will contain questions about both the content of the Introduction and the lecture (free choice: English or American Literature lecture). Students, therefore, are advised to take the introductory class either after attending the lecture OR in the same semester.

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on American literature.

We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction, and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introduction taught by members of the English Literature section uses literary examples from a primarily British context, and the one taught by members of the American Studies section uses primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you "specialize" in English or American literature, and you don't have to take your later courses in the same area.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

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

All other readings will be provided via the VC!

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

>> NOT Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Media Session “The American West”

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

Termine:

Mi, 20:00 - 22:30, U5/00.24
First Session: May 04, 2022

Inhalt:

The Media Session is designed as an extension of those classes of the American Studies Section that work with movies. However, we encourage all students to attend the movie sessions, because we show American classics as well as classics inspired by America.

This semester’s media session is dedicated to movies that classify as "Western". We will introduce the audience to cinematic classics - and some newcomers - about the American Old West, and learn about the evolution of this popular but also contested genre.

Please send an email to the instructors for the exact schedule!

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

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

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

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

Police Brutality in US History and Culture

Dozent/in:

Georgiana Banita

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 29.7.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional lecture (Vorlesung) for 2 or 4 ECTS in 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 (LECTURE)!

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:

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

Guest auditors: please contact Dr. Nicole K. Konopka via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

Recent cases of police violence against African Americans have drawn attention to structural racial bias in US law enforcement. But police brutality is not new, in fact violence and discriminatory treatment of minorities are inscribed in the DNA of American police forces.

The lecture sheds light on this longer history of maltreatment and gives a voice to its victims: from fugitive slaves, black citizens, and Mexican Americans to undocumented immigrants, striking workers, and anti-war protesters. Landmark moments include the creation of the slave patrols in the South and their seamless evolution into police departments, the Civil Rights Movement, the 1968 Chicago Convention riots, and the beating of Rodney King. Police brutality takes many forms; the focus of this lecture is on manual physical violence, from beatings to the chokehold, although it also reflects on how firearms have escalated the conflict even further.

Each week, an episode of police brutality will be analyzed in its historical context using archival material, and in its cultural impact through the lens of artistic reflections such as visual art by William H. Johnson, literary texts by James Ellroy, Colson Whitehead, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ann Petry, and Joyce Carol Oates, and films by Charlie Chaplin, William Friedkin, Ryan Coogler, Ava Du Vernay, and Spike Lee.

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

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

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

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

Toni Morrison

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Readings:

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

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

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

Dozent/in:

Leonard Bürger

Angaben:

Tutorien, 2 SWS

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

Films

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

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

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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