Past Teachings
SS 2000
Introduction to Gender Studies
American Women Authors of the 1950s and 60s (A. Sexton, S. Plath, M. Atwood The Edible Woman)
WS 2000/2001
Gender, Popular Culture and New Technologies
Contemporary Women Authors (M. Atwood The Handmaid's Tale, J. Winterson Written on the Body, T. Morrisson Sula)
SS 2001
Magic Realism (S. Rushdie Midnight's Children, J. Winterson The Passion)
Crossing Gender Boundaries in Theory and Practice: Transgender, Transsexual, Queer
SS 2002
Shakespeare on Stage and on Screen (The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream)
WS 2002/2003
Short Stories and Contemporary Criticism (J. Joyce, M. Atwood, A. Munro, J. Winterson, A. Carter)
SS 2003
British Children’s Classics (B. Potter Peter Rabbit, K. Grahame The Wind in the Willows, C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, R. Dahl Charly and the Chocolate Factory, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
WS 2004/2005
American Women Authors of the 1950s and 1960s (A. Sexton, S. Plath, M. Atwood The Edible Woman)
The Pre-Raphaelites: Poetry and Art
SS 2005
British Children’s Classics (L. Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, E. Nesbit Five Children and It, C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, P. Pullman The Golden Compass)
Religious Fundamentalism in the US
WS 2005/2006
The Gothic Tradition (H. Walpole The Castle of Otranto, M. Lewis The Monk, J. Austen Northanger Abbey, M. Shelley Frankenstein)
Vampires in Literature and Film (J. Polidori "The Vampyre", S. LeFanu "Carmilla", B. Stoker Dracula, A. Rice Interview with the Vampire, P.Z. Brite Lost Souls)
SS 2006
Contemporary Women Authors: Atwood, Morrison, Winterson (Oryx and Crake, Sula, Written on the Body)
Cyberpunk (Sterling Holy Fire, Gibson Neuromancer, Stephenson Snowcrash)
WS 2006/2007
American Women Authors of the 1950s and 1960s (A. Sexton, S. Plath, M. Atwood The Edible Woman)
Dystopias (G. Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four, M. Atwood The Handmaid's Tale, P. Auster In the Country of Last Things)
SS 2007
Contemporary Women Authors (M. Atwood Oryx and Crake, T. Morrison Sula, J. Winterson Written on the Body)
The Gothic Tradition (M. Lewis The Monk, J. Austen Northanger Abbey, M. Shelley Frankenstein)
WS 2007/2008
Fin de Siècle, Decadence and Aestheticism (O. Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, poetry)
2007/2008
British Children’s Classics (L. Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, E. Nesbit Five Children and It, C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, P. Pullman The Golden Compass)
SS 2008
Contemporary Women Authors (A. Munro "Family Furnishings", J. Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body, "Newton", A. Carter "Snow Child", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon")
Romanticism(s) (all the major poets and others)
Restoration Comedy (W. Wycherly, The Country Wife; G. Etherege, The Man of Mode; A. Behn, The Rover; W. Congreve, The Way of the World)
WS 2008/2009
Contemporary Women Authors: Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson ("The Bloody Chamber", "Snow Child", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "O'Brien's First Christmas", Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body)
Fin de Siècle, Decadence and Aestheticism: Oscar Wilde and Others (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salomé, poetry)
British Children's Classics (L. Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, E. Nesbit Five Children and It, C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, P. Pullman The Golden Compass)
Einführung in die englische Literaturwissenschaft (T. Stoppard Arcadia, J. Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, poetry)
SS 2009
Einführung in die englische Literaturwissenschaft (T. Stoppard Arcadia, J. Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, poetry)
Dystopias (G. Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four, A. Huxley Brave New World, M. Atwood The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake)
Vampires in Literature and Film (J. Polidori "The Vampyre", S. LeFanu "Carmilla", B. Stoker Dracula, P.Z. Brite Lost Souls)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Poetry and Art