TEACHING

University of Fribourg

BA/MA Lectures

  • AS24   Literary Theory in Practice
  • FS24   Survey of English Literature Pt. II
  • AS23   Survey of English Literature Pt. I
  • FS23   Writing the 21st Century
  • AS22   Survey of English Literature
  • SS22    Revisiting the Victorians: Key Texts, Issues, Genres
  • AS21    Text and Image in Modern English Literature
  • FS21    Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Representation
  • AS20   Literature and Surveillance

MA Seminars

  • AS24   The Campus Novel: Education and Academia in Fiction
  • SS24    Decadence and Aestheticism
  • AS23   The (Man) Booker Prize 
  • FS23   Motherhood in Contemporary Literature
  • AS22   Modernist Centennial: Fiction 
  • SS22    Modernist Centennial: Poetry (with Prof. Thomas Austenfeld)
  • FS21    Dante’s Modern Afterlives
  • AS21    In Whose Name? Postcoloniality in Literature and Philosophy (with Emmanuel Alloa)
  • AS20   Literature and Memory

BA seminars

  • AS24   The Windrush Generation
  • SS24    Reading Dystopian Fictions
  • AS23   Romanticism
  • SS23    Gothic Fictions
  • AS22   London in Fiction
  • SS22    Modernist Women Writers
  • AS21    The 21st-century British Short Story
  • FS21    Fictions of the doppelgänger
  • AS20   Victorian Literature and Photography

University of Bern

BA/MA Lectures

  • SS20    BA/MA Lecture: Literature and Surveillance
  • SS20    BA lecture: Literary History (2 sessions)
  • AS18    BA Lecture: Introduction to Literature
  • SS17    BA/MA Lecture: Popular Culture: Theories, Media, Cases Studies
  • AS17    BA Lecture: Introduction to Literature
  • AS15    BA/MA Lecture: Transatlantic Literary Encounters, 1620-1900
  • AS14    BA Lecture: Introduction to Literature
  • AS10    BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary History
  • SS10    BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary History
  • AS09   BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary History
  • SS09    BA/MA Lecture: Autobiography
  • SS09    BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary HistorySS08    BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary History
  • SS08    BA Lecture: Theoretical Approaches to Literary History

MA Courses and Seminars

  • AS19    MA Seminar: African-American Literature
  • AS19    MA-Seminar: American Romanticism
  • SS19    MA Seminar: Rewriting the Black Atlantic
  • AS18    MA Seminar: American Travelers in Rome (incl. excursion)
  • AS18    MA Seminar: Canadian Literature: Key Texts and Issues
  • AS17    MA Workshop: Literary Reviewing
  • AS17    MA Seminar: American Gothic
  • SS17    MA Workshop: Exploring Microfiction
  • SS16    MA Seminar (together with Gabriele Rippl): American Modernisms
  • Including MA Excursion: Americans in Paris
  • SS15    MA Seminar: Literary Naturalism
  • AS14    MA Seminar: Approaches to Canadian Literature
  • SS14    MA Seminar: Afropolitan Diasporic Writers
  • SS14    MA Workshop: The Art of Reviewing Books
  • SS13    MA Workshop: Working with Periodicals
  • SS12    MA Seminar: American Literature and the Idea of Mobility
  • AS09   MA Seminar (with Gabriele Rippl): New York-New York: Visions of a City in American Literature

BA Courses and Seminars

  • SS20   BA Seminar: Fictions of Surveillance
  • SS20   BA Seminar: Analyzing Literature
  • AS19   BA Seminar: Nature in Early American Literature
  • SS19    BA Seminar: Literature, Photography, and the Real
  • SS19    BA Seminar: Reading American Realist Fiction
  • AS17    BA Seminar: The Early American Novel and the Nation
  • SS17    BA Seminar: Writing Skills
  • AS16    BA Seminar: Literature and Digital Media
  • SS16    BA Seminar: Literature, Culture, Ideology
  • AS15    BA Seminar: Introduction to Literature
  • SS15    BA Seminar: A Survey of American Drama
  • AS13    BA Seminar: British and American Literature, 1620-1800
  • AS13    BA Seminar: Introduction to Literature
  • SS13    BA Seminar: Dante and the Victorians
  • AS12    BA Seminar: Introduction to Literature
  • AS12    BA Seminar: American Autobiographies
  • SS12    BA Seminar: Drama, Baby! The Staging of Emotions in Literature and Film
  • AS11    BA Seminar: Introduction to Literature 
  • SS11    BA Seminar: The Early American Novel and the Nation
  • AS10    BA Seminar: Introduction to Literature 
  • AS09   BA Seminar: Introduction to Literatures in English
  • AS08   BA Seminar: Introduction to Literatures in English
  • AS08   BA Seminar: Transatlantic Negotiations: American and British Literature of the Seventeenth Century
  • SS08    BA Seminar: Literature and Memory
  • AS07   BA Seminar: Introduction to Literatures in English
  • AS07   BA Seminar: Gothic Fictions
  • SS07    BA Seminar: Literariness, Ideology and the Politics of Form
  • SS07    BA Seminar: Henry James
  • AS07   BA Seminar: American Modernisms

Research Modules

  • SS20   BA/MA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. Th. Claviez)
  • AS19   BA/MA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. G. Rippl)
  • SS19    MA/BA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. Th. Claviez)
  • AS18    BA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. Th. Claviez)
  • AS17    BA/MA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. G. Rippl)
  • SS17    BA/MA Colloquium (with Prof. Dr. Th. Claviez)

University of Basel

  • SS15    MA Seminar: Dante and the Victorians

University of Zürich

  • AS13    BA/MA Lecture: Transatlantic Negotiations: British and American Literature, 1620-1800.

University of Lausanne

  • AS14    MA Seminar: American Autobiographies
  • SS14    Explication de texte: Henry James
  • AS11    BA/MA Seminar: The Early American Novel and the Nation
  • SS12    BA/MA Seminar: The Staging of Emotions in Literature and Film

University of York

  • SS06    BA Seminar and Tutorials: Historical Approaches to Literature: Victorian Literature, 1837, 1901

University of Göttingen

  • SS04    BA Seminar: British Literature and Culture 1800-2000
  • SS04    BA Seminar: The Pre-Raphaelites

University of Constance

  • AS 2001 and 2002       Tutorial “Introduction to English and American Literary Studies”