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

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

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.

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)

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 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 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.