Bangladeshi Writing in English

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.

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
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): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

“Bangladeshi Writing in English” refers to a corpus of work of writers from Bangladesh and Bangladeshi diaspora who write in English but whose mother tongue is Bengali. This new corpus of writing, in recent times, has gained a renewed attention because of the significant success of writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora. Writers like Adib Khan (Australian-Bangladeshi) or that of Monica Ali (British-Bangladeshi) have come out as inspiration for many more to come in the scene of “Bangladeshi Writing in English.” However, one can trace the history of this particular corpus of writing back to the mid-19th century in then British India. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) or Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s feminist utopia Sultana’s Dream (1905) are only a few examples of early Bengali (now Bangladesh) writing in English.

This class will do a historical survey of “Bangladeshi Writing in English” from the mid-19th century until today. A specific focus will be given to the most recent trends of writers between the early and late 2000s from both Bangladesh and Bangladeshi diasporas. It will examine the literary dynamics of the “Bangladeshi Writing in English” as manifested in selective poems, novels and short stories, in conversation with themes of identity, sexuality, nation-building, exile and migration. The course also touches on critical issues relevant to the birth of a new nation called Bangladesh at the backdrop of the 1952 language movement.

Students will be provided with a list of texts from which they have to choose which texts they would like to discuss during the semester in the first class. However, there will be 2-3 set texts that will be announced on the same day that students should get hold of as soon as possible. As we will talk about a new text at least every other week, students should be prepared to do a considerable amount of reading during the term.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Suggested Reading:

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana’s Dream (1905)

Rabindranath Tagore, selected poems from Song Offerings (1913)

Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)

Rekha Waheed, The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage (2005)

Tahmima Anam, The Bones of Grace (2016)

Farah Guaznavi. Ed. Lifelines: New writings from Bangladesh (2019)

A more detailed syllabus will be announced in the first session of the class.

Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities II: From 1900 to 1960

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

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

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
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Crime Fiction reaches large numbers of readers with heterogeneous interests. In other words, it provides something for everyone, yet in doing so it can either assert or scrutinise and thus re-negotiate gender and sexual normativity. As such, the genre itself is both assertive of perceived normativity and at the same time deviant from socially constructed roles and rules. A crime of any kind, after all, already provides a disruption of order and sets extraordinary events in motion. The exceptional situation a crime creates thus leaves room for all kinds of agents (for queerness or normativity) to revise order and normativity. Crime, sex and gender are intricately linked, be that through the characters, the target audience, or the crime itself. Probably no other genre provides such a broad spectrum of characters, ranging from the occasionally hyper-masculine hardboiled detective and the stereotypically feminine spinster sleuth to androgynous private eyes or gender-fluid police detectives.
Moreover, a scholarly focus on gender and sex in Crime Fiction “has […] advanced understanding of the socially constructed nature of crime” (2) as Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner write in the Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex and Crime (2014). Crime as a social construct inhabits a liminal position. Like gender, it crosses boundaries and is thus positioned on a perpetual threshold between what is read as “order” or “normality” and “chaos” or “deviance.” Crime Fiction provides the space to investigate this liminality and to open up stereotypical concepts of normativity in crime, gender and sexuality. Crime Fiction’s relationship with sex and gender is thus fascinatingly complex and allows for a broad variety of critical angles on the topic.

This course is the second of a three-part “Übung” on crime fiction and gender. It specifically covers the beginnings of 20th-Century British crime fiction with a focus on the Golden Age of Crime Fiction and ends with the spy novel and the time of James Bond. Please see below for the literature used in class (more literature to be announced and uploaded to the VC at the beginning of the semester). Students should be aware that this is a very reading- and discussion-intensive class and students should be prepared to participate in the in-class discussions.

Part III (summer semester 2022) will then conclude this series of Übungen with gender and modern crime fiction from the 1960s to today.

This course also serves as a preparation for the international conference “Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities” (30 June to 2 July 2022). Students in this course will have the chance to participate in a poster exhibition on the topic of the conference, but are not required to.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading (in reading order throughout the semester):
Arthur Conan Doyle. "The Adventure of the Empty House." 1903 (short story)
G.K. Chesterton. "The Invisible Man." 1911 (short story)
Marie Bellow Lowndes. The Lodger. 1913 (novel)
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 1926 (novel)
Gladys Mitchell. Speedy Death. 1929 (novel)
Dorothy L. Sayers. Strong Poison. 1930 (novel)
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon. 1930 (novel)
Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. 1939 (novel)
Ian Fleming. From Russia with Love. 1957 (novel)

Integration and Assimilation: Clash of Cultures and Identity Crisis in The Namesake and Native Speaker

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

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

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
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Policies to integrate migrants in host society have significant impact on the psychological wellbeing of migrants. When integration strategies of immigrants and acculturation expectations of host societies do not correspond, the integration policies fail with negative outcomes. A culturally balanced society needs commitment and efforts form the migrants to integrate in host society. In parallel, the host society must set realistic expectations and be tolerant towards change in order to create decent intercultural relations. To understand the intercultural relations in The Namesakeand Native Speaker we will discuss and apply various hypotheses like the multiculturalism hypothesis, the integration hypothesis, and the contact hypothesis throughout this course.

In this course we will critically discuss theories related to migration and apply them to the stories and characters of the primary texts. We will explore how integration is distinct from assimilation. We will also review the distinctions between multiculturalism and interculturalism and how cultural clash leads to identity crisis.

It is highly recommended that the participants read the novels and refresh their knowledge of the literary terms before the start of the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. Fourth Estate, 2019.

Lee, Chang-rae. Native Speaker. Penguin Books, 2013.

Introduction to Romanticism

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.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
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: 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)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

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:

Romanticism is perhaps one of the most recognisable intellectual, artistic and literary movements in late 18th-century Europe. In the case of Britain, the movement certainly left a mark on the literature of the time. From England to Scotland and Wales, romanticism could be seen in poetry, novels and plays. The aims of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key romantic texts. In order to do so, the course will first put Romanticism into context, that is to say, we shall study Romanticism 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 the Gothic, Realism and the Age of Enlightenment. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Romanticism, 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 Romantic poetry, for instance with poems by Wordsworth, Burns and Shelley, and later novels by Scott, Austen and other authors.

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read DURING the semester

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

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, U9/01.11
ab 3.11.2021

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.

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, U9/01.11
ab 3.11.2021

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.

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, Raum n.V.

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: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 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.

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: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 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, Raum n.V.

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): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 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 2021 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

tba

Empfohlene Literatur:

tba

American Dystopia: From Classical to Feminist and Young Adult Dystopian Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Di, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 22.11.2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> NOT open for Consolidation Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022

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

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

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

Inhalt:

Dystopian accounts of non-existent places worse than the ones we live in are more popular today than ever before. But why? According to Tom Moylan in Scraps of the Untainted Sky, dystopian narrative is largely the product of the terrors of the twentieth century. A hundred years of exploitation, repression, state violence, war, genocide, disease, famine, ecocide provided more than enough fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination (xi). In this course, we will inspect the dystopian turn in contemporary American literature. We will examine dystopia s form, central themes and subject-matters and its relation to the prevailing and shifting cultural discourses. Indeed, with the terrifying worlds that it portrays, dystopia can voice our worst contemporary fears and anxieties, cast a critical eye on the pressing global issues, warn and frighten, and also fill us with hope for a change, or perhaps a better future.

Starting from the post-WW2 era, we will first examine the rise of the Classical Dystopia (which British titles like Orwell s 1984 and Huxley s Brave New World came to embody) through Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), followed by the Feminist Critical Dystopia, focusing on Margaret Atwood s The Handmaid s Tale (1985) and Octavia Butler s Parable of the Sower (1993), and end with today s popular Young Adult Dystopia, with Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (2008) as a key example.

In our readings, we will particularly pay attention to how gender, race, age, class and environmental issues are depicted in these texts. By the end of the semester, we will hopefully have a good grasp of the reasons behind dystopia s ever-increasing appeal for older and younger audiences and its relevance for our contemporary times.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid s Tale
• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Only the first novel, but I would highly recommend the entire trilogy if you have the time!)

Throughout this course, we will also briefly refer to several other titles and critical texts which are to be announced.

American Literature of the 19th Century

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional lecture (Vorlesung) for 2 or 4 ECTS in literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA Berufliche Bildung
• MA WiPäd
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies (LECTURE)!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)
• only Studium Generale: written test on pass/fail basis (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)
• only Erasmus/exchange students: graded written test (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This is a survey lecture aiming to introduce or help review major American developments, socio-cultural themes and literary genres, as well as a diverse choir of American literary voices of the "long 19th century."

Selected literary texts (to be found on VC) will be discussed together – seminar-like! – in class.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung BA/MA/LA (Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 16:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

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

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

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

From Know-It-All to Clearly Clueless: Exploring the Narrator in US-American and Canadian Fiction

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/01.33
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies! (ÜBUNG)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

No one likes a know-it-all – except perhaps when reading a story. Narrators often seem to know everything and share it with their eager audience – or do they? In this class will study models that describe the various options of how to tell a story, in order to understand how meaning is created and communicated.

We will discuss key texts on narrative typologies by Roland Barthes, Franz Karl Stanzel, Gérard Genetté, Mieke Bal, and Monika Fludernik, to understand the underlying models and principles those scholars observed and developed. We will also explore how narrative communication actually works in a wide variety of literary examples, most of which will be selected from the reading list of the American Studies department (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/leseliste/) and with reference to the "Staatsexamen" in Literary Studies.

The goal of this class is to develop a firm understanding of various models of narrative communication, while gaining a comprehensive insight into the development of North American literature and its socio-political and historical context.

Empfohlene Literatur:

While all shorter readings (essays, short stories, single chapters) will be provided via the VC (registered participants will be signed up for the VC course by the instructor in the first week of the semester!), the following novels will have to be purchased by each student in advance:

• Toni Morrison, A Mercy (2008)
• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (2018)

Make sure to read the novels before the first session of this class!

In addition, the following textbook is strongly recommended as companion reading to this class: Monika Fludernik, An Introduction to Narratology (2009).

How to Write a Term Paper (inkl. Betreuungsübung BA Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.22
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

How to Write a Term Paper in literary or cultural studies

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

Thesis supervision in literary or cultural studies

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

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

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

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

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

This course aims to assist students in 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 who are writing their BA-thesis with Dr. Konopka (American Studies). 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 Dr. 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! Everyone is expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!