"Little Fires Everywhere" in America Today

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
• LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) , Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

--> Open for Consolidation Module Culture!

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

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

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

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

Inhalt:

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

America, the 19th Century and the Short Form

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
• LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) , Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

--> Open for Consolidation Module Literature!

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

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

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

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

Inhalt:

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

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

2. FlexNow-Registration:

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

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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