'Writers from elsewhere' II: Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc 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): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In his essay “‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does not Exist,” Salman Rushdie devises the idea of ‘writers from elsewhere’ referring to those contemporary novelists, poets and playwrights who, although often not born into the English language have chosen it as the medium of their expression. This new definition, in general, is a reaction to the idea of ‘Commonwealth Literature’ as formal and at times flattering appreciation of a diverse group of writers writing in English. According to Rushdie ‘Commonwealth Literature’, in a sense, also confines all these writers into ghettos together with the cultures from which they originate. Besides, literature written in English after the Second World War is too vast a territory to be measured with any precision if we stick to narrow definitions like ‘Commonwealth Literature’. Great Britain has provided the linguistic, literary and cultural context to what can broadly be called ‘writers from elsewhere’: Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Simi Bedford or Hanif Kureishi are some of the names that we all know. These novelists are notable examples of immigrant writers who have contributed to British fiction with their transnational outlook and alternative uses of English. In contrast to the aforementioned names, Abdulrazak Gurnah has not got enough attention in literary circle or in academic discourse, although his novels have been short listed for Booker Prize. Nevertheless, he remains a formidable talent whose work deserves more recognition than it has received to date, especially outside Britain where he resides and has received most fame.

This course will offer an in-depth look at Abdulrazak Gurnah’s writing from linguistic, historical and cultural perspectives. We will analyse key literary works of him and try to posit them within the new canon of ‘writers from elsewhere’. The primary objective of this course is to introduce Abdulrazak Gurnah to students. Also, creating a sense of awareness of his culturally induced writing style among students.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Memory of Departure (1987)
Paradise (1994)
By the Sea (2001)
The Last Gift (2011)
Gravel Heart (2017)

20th-Century British Drama, part III

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer  

Inhalt:

To conclude this three-part overview course of 20th-Century British Drama, this third part will now cover the 1990s and then move into the first two decades of the 21st century. Like the previous two courses, Drama III will be a very reading-intensive class. Each week, students will read a new play and discuss it in class. In so doing, we use a quantitative approach to postmodern British drama, allowing us to study plays comparatively and individually.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The following plays will be read in class and can be made available by the lecturer:
Terry Johnson. Hysteria. 1993.
Sarah Kane. Blasted. 1995.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and Fucking. 1996.
Patrick Marber. Closer. 1997.
Alan Bennett. The History Boys. 2004.
Tanika Gupta. Gladiator Games. 2005.
Bola Agbaje. Gone Too Far. 2007.
Polly Stenham. Tusk Tusk. 2009.
Nina Raine. Tribes. 2010.
debbie tucker green. hang. 2015.
Duncan Macmillan. Every Brilliant Thing. 2016.
Jez Butterworth. The Ferryman. 2017.

Betreuungsübung für Bachelorarbeiten

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

Inhalt:

All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course on the weekend before the beginning of class. You will receive further information on how this class is conducted via e-mail during the first week of classes.

Constructions of Femininity in 18th-Century Fiction

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: 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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The eighteenth century saw the rise of gender as a political category. “[C]learly defined gender roles were” thought to be “central to the stability of English society, and by extension, to England’s status as a world power” (Barker/Chalus 1). Men and women were conceived as ‘naturally’ different, with women being in need of close supervision. Gender roles were becoming increasingly more rigid and contrasting over the course of the century, which is reflected by an abundance of prescriptive texts elaborating on ideal male and female behaviour in a polite society. The Spectator deemed ‘the fair sex’ essential in upholding the moral order and stressed that it was vital to instruct women in “all the becoming Duties of Virginity, Marriage, and Widowhood” (March 1711). Next to periodicals like The Spectator, The Tatler, The Female Spectator and The Female Tatler, conduct books, salon discussions and the newly emergent genre of the novel were major vehicles in either fostering 18th-century ideals of a ‘decorative femininity’ or pushing the boundaries of what it meant to be an ideal woman at the time.

This class will offer a survey of literary representations of women in texts written during the Long 18th-Century, spanning from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, the first self-proclaimed ‘novelist’. We will not only be interested in texts written by female authors but also in constructions of femininity in the fictional texts and conduct books written by their male contemporaries. Students will be introduced to the impact of Enlightenment thought on gender roles as well as the cult of sensibility’s supposed threat to male authority. Our text selection will comprise a variety of genres: Gothic fiction, amatory novels, sentimental novels, the novel of manners, conduct books, feminist tracts, poetry, diaries and travel accounts. We will be interested in how female protagonists conform with, push the boundaries of or satirically and more or less radically transgress established gender codes. Topics will range from female sexuality and marriage, women and property to women and class and politics.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All primary texts will be made available on the VC. Students will be asked to read excerpts from the texts listed below in preparation for each session.

Conduct books (t. b. a.)
Travel accounts (t. b. a.)
Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87).
Phoebe Crackenthorpe, ed., The Female Tatler (1709-10; selection of articles).
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719), Anti-Pamela (1741); The Female Spectator (1744-46; selection of articles);
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722).
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740); Clarissa (1748).
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741).
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752).
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778).
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).
Poems by Charlotte Smith (t. b. a.).
Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (written 1800-03; publ. 1897 posthum.).
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801).
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Northanger Abbey (1817).

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten)

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: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" 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.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

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 Defence (4 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!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. 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 plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.
In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. 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". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.

History of the English Novel I

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact Igor Baldoino.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature
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

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 30. Oktober 2020 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The focus in the winter term will be on the origins and the history of the novel and the following novels in particular:
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe, Roxana (1724)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740)
Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741)
Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wilde (1743)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-8)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1761/62; 1766)
Tobias Smollett, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1761-2)
Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97)
William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)

Introduction to Realism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft /freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: 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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

What is “reality”? And should we still refer to it in singular form? Literary critics and scholars alike warn us that Realism is a notoriously treacherous concept, complex to be defined in a precise and unambiguous way, specially when isolated. This course will thus provide an overview of literary Realism in English Literature, but rather than define the movement we shall contextualise it. That is to say, we shall study Realism 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 and later Naturalism and Modernism. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Realism, from both an artistic and literary point of view as well as a philosophical one. Focus will be given to texts of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, namely novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens and a few other authors.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
More material WILL be added in class

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
ab 11.11.2020

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): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar 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.

The Rise of Islamic Feminism: Reading Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Bird Summons

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

A wave of feminist sentiment is mounting among the Muslim women who are seeking to reclaim Islam and the Quran for themselves. Islamic feminism demands equal rights for Muslim women in social, economic and political spheres both in the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. Islamic feminist writers emphasize on religious spirituality and gender equality based on the Islamic religious scripts: the Quran and Hadith. They have taken up the task of reinventing feminism from Islamic perspective and are trying to emphasize on the mutual interest of narrowing the distance between Islam and Western feminism.
There is a misconception among many Muslim women that they must choose between being religious as well as submissive to men and being rebellious distancing themselves from their religion. Islamic feminist writers are firstly challenging this misconception and advocating that a Muslim woman can be religious and at the same time can enjoy equal rights as men in both Islamic and non-Islamic societies. Secondly, they are confronting the stereotypes of Muslim women especially in non-Islamic cultures where the Muslim women are often seen as the oppressed who must be liberated from their cultural and religious subjugation.
Leila Aboulela in her books shows a realistic picture of the lives of Muslim women and establishes the evidence of why Muslim women choose Islam over Western freedom. Aboulela speaks for all the Muslim women, openly stating that her religious identity surpasses her national and geographic loyalties with her religion offering more stability than any other affiliation. In The Translator and Bird Summons she places Islamic faith at the center of her narration emphasizing the nonpolitical aspects of the religion. Her characters are not submissive and oppressed but rather confident and in control of their lives.
In this course we will critically analyze The Translator and Bird Summons and discuss how Islamic feminism is contributing to change the stereotypes of Muslim women.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Aboulela, Leila. Bird Summons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.

Aboulela, Leila. The Translator. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008.

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

Dozent/in:

Nermine Abdulhafiz

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

--> NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Notes:

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

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

American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism)

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature

• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale
• MA English and American Studies
• MA Berufliche Bildung
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

--> Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

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

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

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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."

How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung BA

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

1. Module Allocation:

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

How to Write a Term Paper

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

Betreuungsübung

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

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

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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 (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul CULTURE!

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

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

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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