Courses

Please note: you need to consult the online system BASIS Bonn to register for classes. The links below will lead you there directly.

 

Winter 2011/12

Claus Daufenbach:
Images of the City: London and New York in Literature and Culture (Übung)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Übung)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Übung)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Übung)
North American Literatures and Cultures (Übung)

Frank J. Kearful:
Allen Ginsberg (Seminar)
Doktoranden- und Habilitandenkolloquium

Christian Klöckner:
Black Aesthetics (Übung)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Übung)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Übung)
Tutorial: North American Literatures and Their Theories: The Poet(h)ics and Politics of Reading

Simone Knewitz:
North American Literatures and Cultures (Übung)
North American Literatures and Cultures (Übung)
The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (Übung)

Sabine Sielke:
"Black Power": Transdisciplinary Perspectives on African American Cultures (Seminar, with Christian Klöckner, Klaas Staal, Henrike Viehrig)
Colloquium for PhD Candidates and PostDocs
Colloquium at the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaft|Cultural Studies
North American Literatures and Their Theories: The Poet(h)ics and Politics of Reading (Vorlesung)
Research Colloquium
Science|Fiction (Seminar)

Klaas Staal:
Seminar on Finance and Decision
Research Colloquium on Economics

Henrike Viehrig:
North America in International Relations
Tutorial North America in International Relations

Eva-Sabine Zehelein:
North American Literatures and Cultures from Puritanism to Postmodernity and beyond (Vorlesung)
North American Literatures and Cultures (Übung)
Poverty in America (Seminar, with Simone Knewitz, Klaas Staal, Henrike Viehrig)


Please also see the courses offered by our collaborators at the
University of Colognes's Departments of American Literature and Culture and Anglo-American History

 

 

Earlier semesters


Summer 2011

Claus Daufenbach:
E. A. Poe: Prose and Poetry (Übung)
Kolloquium (with Marion Gymnich)
North American Literatures and Cultures I & II (Übung)

Frank J. Kearful:
Rita Dove (Seminar)

Christian Klöckner:
"In Peace I chanted Peace": War in American Poetry (Übung)
Research Colloquium North American Studies

Simone Knewitz:
Commerce vs. Culture? Intersections of Economics, Literature, and Culture
(Seminar; with Lars Metzger)
Research Colloquium North American Studies

Lars Metzger:
Commerce vs. Culture? Intersections of Economics, Literature, and Culture
(Seminar; with Simone Knewitz)

Andrew Pendakis:
Theories of Advertising (Seminar)
Representations of Capitalism in American Cinema (Übung)

Anne-Marie Scholz:
From Puritanism to Postmodernism (Vorlesung)
North American Literatures & Cultures III & IV (Übung)

Sabine Sielke:
American Pop: Processes and Practices of Popular Culture (Vorlesung)
Kolloquium|Oberseminar
Science|Fiction (Seminar)
The Female Intellectual: from Mary Wollstonecraft to Susan Sontag and Beyond (Seminar)

Jared Sonnicksen:
The American Constitution (Seminar)

Thomas Weiler:
The UN and Canada (Exkursion)

 

Winter 2010/11

Claus Daufenbach:
Gothic Literature
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
North American Literatures and Cultures II
North American Literatures and Cultures III

Frank J. Kearful:
Elizabeth Bishop

Christian Klöckner:
Rupture and Continuities - Transdiciplinary Perspectives on 9/11
Writing Terror(ism)

Simone Knewitz:
North American Literatures and Cultures I
Suburbia Revisited (with Eric Erbacher)
Tutorial for the Lecture on Adaptation as Reception

Lars Metzger:
Seminar on Finance and Decision

Andrew Pendakis:
Quebecois Cinema
Suburbia Revisited

Anne-Marie Scholz:
Adaptation as Reception: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Relation of Fiction and Hollywood Film (Lecture)
U.S. Family Affairs: Literary, Cinematic, and Historical Narratives of a Cultural Institution
Work and Identity in 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

Sabine Sielke:
no classes (sabbatical)

Jared Sonnicksen:
North American Government: The Political Systems of Canada and the United States
in Comparative Perspective (with Sandra Fischer)

Eva-Sabine Zehelein:
The UN and Canada (with Thomas Weiler)


Summer 2010

Claus Daufenbach:
American Poetry: From the Puritans to E. A. Poe
Transatlantic Exchanges in American Literature

Frank J. Kearful:
Robert Lowell

Christian Klöckner:
Research Colloquium in North American Studies (Group B)

Simone Knewitz:
Research Colloquium in North American Studies (Group A)

John Otto Magee:
German-American Business Integration: Managing Intercultural Differences

Lars Metzger:
Seminar in Economics (for students of North American Studies)

Andrew Pendakis:
Contemporary Canadian Political Philosophy
The Aesthetics of Accumulation: Cinema, Literature and Art as Political Economy

Sabine Sielke:
no classes (sabbatical)

Jared Sonnicksen:
Reading the American Constitution

Eva-Sabine Zehelein:
Capital Myths: Washington D.C. in History, Politics, Literature and Culture
Oberseminar
Picture America
"Staging Science": The Natural Sciences and/on the Theater Stage

 

 

 

 

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