Contemporary Disability Autobiographies

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02

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)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The last decades have seen an upsurge of autobiographical writing as well as of digital self-presentations by disabled writers. This seminar focuses on mostly British examples (five printed autobiographies, one blog and one video blog) from the 1980s to the present, which narrate life stories shaped by physical, sensory and neurodevelopmental disabilities. The course introduces ‘disability’ as a new intersectional category in literary and cultural studies as well as ‘disability autobiography’ as a new narrative genre that spreads across different media. We will explore how the texts respond to medical pre-inscriptions and mass media representations of disabled bodies, investigate intersections between the categories of disability, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity and discuss if (and how) the texts produce novel representations of diversity that challenge cultural stereotypes and medical categories.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will discuss the following texts (please acquire or borrow the printed texts listed below):

Christopher Nolan: Under the Eye of the Clock (1987, print; cerebral palsy)
Gohar Kordi: An Iranian Odyssey (1991, print; visual impairment)
Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day (2006, print; autism spectrum)
Jessica Thom: Welcome to Biscuit Land (2012, print; Tourette)
Jessica Thom: Touretteshero (2010-2022, blog; Tourette)
Francesca Martinez: What the ** Is Normal? (2014, print; cerebral palsy)
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (2011-2022, video blog; chronic illness, Deafness, visual impairment)

Performing the East in Early Modern Drama

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität

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 for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar explores late 16th- and early 17th-century depictions of male and female characters and settings from the East, a cultural and imaginative space which comprised regions from the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa to East Asia and held great fascination for early modern dramatists and theatre audiences. According to recent critical studies, early modern English representations of the East and especially of Muslims and Islamic cultures were more ambiguous and fluid than in the period of Orientalism: they were characterised by a blend of fear, admiration, desire and imperial envy. Early modern drama contains stereotypical images and characters that still influence Western perspectives on the East (especially Islam), e. g. the cruel, aggressive or voluptuous male Turk/Muslim or the seductive (and in the case of Early modern drama strikingly powerful) woman of the East. In this seminar, we will discuss if the selected dramatic texts can be said to belong to a period ‘before Orientalism’ (as some scholars have suggested), not merely in historical but also in cultural and aesthetic terms. Furthermore, we will examine how this question is approached by film and stage directors in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will analyse the following plays:

Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great I/II (1578/1588)
William Shakespeare: Othello (1604)
William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
Robert Daborne: A Christian Turned Turk (1612)

The following films / stage productions will be discussed in class:

Othello (1995), dir. Oliver Parker (DVD)
Othello (2015), dir. Iqbal Khan (DVD)
Antony and Cleopatra (2018), dir. Iqbal Khan (DVD)

Please purchase or borrow copies of Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s plays (the Arden edition is recommended for Othello and Antony and Cleopatra and the New Mermaids edition for Tamburlaine I/II). A copy of Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk, the DVDs and all secondary literature for the course will be provided at the beginning of the term.

British Politics as Performance (Kompaktseminar)

Dozent/in:

Stefan Eick

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 30.4.2022, 14:00 - 20:00, KR12/02.05
Einzeltermin am 14.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 11.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 25.6.2022, 12:00 - 20:00, KR12/02.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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 (seminar); NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul.

Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. 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 Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

The Vertiefungsmodule and Mastermodule will be examined by a term paper (3,500-4,500 and 4,500-6,000 words respectively); the Consolidation Modules will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .

Inhalt:

The spectacle of Brexit, the eccentricity of Boris Johnson, heated debates in the House of Commons: these are just a few examples of how British politics seems to be marked by a performative quality largely absent from the more sober and solemn workings of the German political system.

In this seminar, we are going to examine British performances of politics in both fiction and real life . We are going to look at specific examples of staging politics, and we will try to understand the reasons behind a theatrical bent that seems to put style over substance.

Preliminary content includes:

• Performative approaches to culture and politics.
• The British political system.
• The parliamentary tradition, the constitutional monarchy, and the unwritten constitution
• The Shakespearian political imaginary and the concept of the “good ruler”.
• Arthurian romance and its renaissance in the 19th century.
• The links between empiricism, “playful detachment” and “national character”.
• The tension between exceptionalism and declinism.
• The Royal Family as spectacle of the state.
• The rhetoric of Winston Churchill.
• The “Cambridge Five”: spy fiction and the performance of left-wing politics.
• Margaret Thatcher: style, vision, and the performance of neoliberal politics.
• New Labour, Cool Britannia – spin and delivery? Performing class and community in Tony Blair’s 1990s.
• Brexit and recent controversies.

Within these topics we will not only consider actual politics but also trace performances of politics in engaging works of literature and popular filmic representations of British politics such as The Crown (Netflix, 2016- ), House of Cards (British original, BBC, 1990), The Thick of It (BBC, 2005-2012), Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister (BBC, 1980-1984/1986-1988), Spitting Image (ITV, 1984-1996) and Brexit: The Uncivil War (Toby Haynes, 2019).

Empfohlene Literatur:

Julian Barnes, England, England [1998] (London: Vintage, 2008).
David Boyle, The Remains of the Way (Steyning: Real Press, 2017).
John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [1974] (London: Penguin, 2018).
Hannah Coler, Cambridge 5 Zeit der Verräter (Munich: Limes, 2017).
Michael Dobbs, House of Cards [1989] (London: Harper Collins, 1998).
Julian Mitchell, Another Country (Charlbury: Amber Lane, 1982).
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King [1859] (London: Penguin, 1983).

It is expected that you read The Remains of the Way for the first session, and Idylls of the King for the second session. The other texts should be read for the third and fourth session in a manner to be discussed at the start of the seminar. Students fluent in German should read Coler s Cambridge 5; students who are not should read Mitchell s play Another Country instead. Tasks, further material and extracts from Idylls of the King will be made available on the VC.

American Mother

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural 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 and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• 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/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 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 highlights iconic mothers in American socio-cultural and literary history. From Hannah Penn to Dr. Jill Biden, from Marmee (Little Women) to Shelley and Moira Pfefferman (Transparent), from Mrs. Elizabeth Freake via Florence Owens Thompson (a.k.a. "Migrant Mother") to Melissa Spitz' mom (You Have Nothing to Worry About) we will cover a broad variety of interesting and agenda-setting "real" and "fictional" mothers.

We will ask how concepts of motherhood and mothering have changed over the centuries, analyze how mothers have been (re)presented and what it needs to be(come) an American Mother.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read:

• Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
• Annie Weatherwax, All We Had
• Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

Home 2: at home in Germany and America

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 3.6.2022, 14:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 4.6.2022, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Blockveranstaltung, 16.6.2022-19.6.2022, Raum n.V.
Vorbesprechung: Freitag, 6.5.2022, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural 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 and Master Thesis Module (Oberseminar) literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active involvement in the conference (June 16-19, 2022)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 - May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 - July 01, 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 part 2 of our investigation into the complex topic home, this time from a specifically transatlantic perspective: Germany vs USA. We will focus on how family and home as well as family as home have been and are conceptualized as well as lived in these two countries.

This class is a compact course, on June 3 and 4, and it also requires student attendance at the conference Family Ecologies (June 16-19) in Bamberg.

We meet for a first who is who and what is what on May 6, 4 pm. Attendance of this first meeting is absolutely mandatory!

Number of participants is limited to 15.

Empfohlene Literatur:

In preparation, please watch Unorthodox and buy and read: Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere and Christian Dittloff, Das Weiße Schloss.

Toni Morrison

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 21:00, U5/00.24
bi-weekly: April 25, May 09, May 16, May 30, June 13, June 27, July 11 + Guest Lecture (date tba)

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) 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 and Master Thesis Module (Oberseminar) LITERARY studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• 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/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 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:

As one of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century, Pulitzer- and Nobel-Prize laureate Toni Morrison was both a supreme stylist and a storyteller deeply committed to African American cultures past and present. In her eleven novels, she developed a new literary idiom that enables multifaceted insights into some of the most conflicted chapters of American history, the vagaries of interpersonal relationships, and the powers of a transgressive imagination.

In this course, we will read four of Morrison’s novels to explore their main thematic and artistic concerns, including the legacies of slavery; the links between individual, family, and community, desire and violence, economy and ecology; and the relationship between literature and memory, aesthetics and politics. We will also discuss some of Morrison’s literary and cultural criticism, especially Playing in the Dark (1992) and “Mourning for Whiteness” (2016), flanked by several interviews.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Readings:

• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Beloved (1987)
• A Mercy (2008)

Students interested in this seminar are required to have read the first two novels BEFORE the semester start.

“Wild and free:” Dominant Nature Narratives Then and Now

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, MG2/01.10
bi-weekly: April 26, May 10, May 24, June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Seminar im Vertiefungsmodul und Masterlevel) for literary studies or cultural 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 and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• 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/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 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:

Envisioning itself as nature’s nation, constructions of cultural identity in the U.S. have long been intertwined with shifting conceptions of nature. In this course, we will examine the origins of popular nature narratives, their evolution since colonial times, and their manifestations in the 21st century. How have race, gender, and class informed, complicated, and/ or subverted certain American nature ideals? We will analyze a variety of written and audio-visual texts by canonical and non-canonical writers and filmmakers to explore why the maxim of “wild and free” nature continues to be so alluring in the American imagination.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please start reading Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (2012) by Cheryl Strayed (ISBN: 978-1-78239-062-6). We will discuss this book in the first session on 26 April 2022. An additional reader will be made available in the first week of classes.

HS Jewish-American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, OK8/02.04

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

M.A. 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)
Module Master's Thesis: Oberseminar (belegt/pass)

Erweiterungsbereich English an American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
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: Oberseminar (belegt/pass)

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 (seminar) NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

Modulzuordnung Jüdische Studien und Judaistik (FlexNow-Anmeldung hier bitte über die Judaistik):
BA-Hauptfach Jüdische Studien:
A/H 1a+1b+1*(Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/H 1 (Jüdische Literatur, Kunst und Kultur)

BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 45:
A/N-45 1+1* (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/N-45 2a (Sprache und Literatur)

BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 30:
A/N-30 1+1* (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)

Kulturelle Bildung:
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 29. April 2022 an pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation
• term-paper according to the style-sheet

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
March 15 until April 29, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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

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Inhalt:

This seminar surveys the literature and culture of the Jewish community in America from colonial times to the present. After critically examining the terms Jewish, Jewish literature and Jewish culture, the class provides a historical overview of the major phases of Jewish immigration to America. We will then study landmarks of Jewish-American literature in their respective cultural contexts. A particular focus will be on novels and short stories that deal with characteristic Jewish experiences of the last 120 years. Whether they concentrate on the problems of adapting to new physical, social and cultural surroundings in the wake of immigration, lament the disintegration of familial and religious securities, or reflect upon the horrors of persecution and annihilation, most of these works negotiate the meaning of Jewish identity in modern times. Further social and cultural issues addressed in the seminar include the branches of Judaism in America, Jewish politics and organizations, music and arts, the media and popular culture, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israel.