Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:15, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) 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 LITERARY studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

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

• Course (de)enrollment: March 1st – May 1st, 2023
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st – July 1st, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

While Emily Dickinson’s work had been seen as isolated and different from that by other 19th-century women poets in the first half of the 20th century, feminist scholars have for the past several decades focused on reading Dickinson’s poems in conjunction with those by other poets of her time, such as Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, Lydia Sigourney, or Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

In this seminar we will practice exactly such comparative close readings, supported by recent scholarship on 19th-century women’s poetry. We will talk about dominant genres, topics, and motifs the works of these poets have in common and will also tease out important differences between them.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students are asked to buy and start reading the following text BEFORE the beginning of class:

• R.W. Franklin (ed.), The Poems of Emily Dickinson (2005), ISBN: 978-0674018242

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (Course 5)

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Proseminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Nachhaltigkeit, The course starts at 9:55 a.m. sharp and ends at 12:10 p.m. (=3SWS)!

Termine:

Do, 9:55 - 12:10, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 4.5.2023, 9:55 - 12:10, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 27.7.2023, 9:55 - 12:10, U5/02.22

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:

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

• Course (de)enrollment: March 1st – May 1st, 2023
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st – July 1st, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course offers 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!