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Teaching Experience – University of Fribourg (2006-2025)
Fall 2006
- Lecture: American Literature, 1865-1914
- Seminar: Realism and Naturalism
- Proseminar: The Western
Spring 2007
- Lecture: American Literature, 1914-1945
- Seminar: American Expatriate Writers
- Proseminar: Modernist Identities in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Fall 2007
- Lecture: American Literature, 1945-Present
- Seminar: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
- Proseminar: Louise Erdrich
Spring 2008
- Lecture: Early American Literature through 1836
- Seminar: The Nation and the Self: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
- Proseminar: Arthur Miller, Selected Plays
Fall 2008
- Lecture: American Renaissance, 1836-1861
- Seminar: Wicked Books and Wicked Witches: Melville and Hawthorne
- Proseminar: Nature, Nation, Self: Emerson’s Essays
- Research Colloquium
Spring 2009
- Lecture: Machines, Gardens, Factories: American Literature in the late 19th Century
- Seminar: Studies in Determinism: Crane, Dreiser, Norris
- Proseminar: Willa Cather, Selected Novels
- Research Colloquium
Fall 2009
- Lecture: Transcontinental Hemingway
- Research Colloquium
Spring 2010
- Seminar: San Francisco in History, Literature, and Politics (co-taught with Dr. Catherine Bosshart)
- Research Colloquium
Fall 2010
- Lecture: American Poetry since the Age of Lowell
- Seminar: Derek Walcott: Periphery and Center
Spring 2011
- Lecture: American Fiction since 1960
- Seminar: John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy as Social History of the United States
Spring 2012
- First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History
- Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Studies
- Proseminar: The Western
- Research Colloquium
Fall 2012
- First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History
- Proseminar: American Essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Joan Didion
- Seminar: 20th-century American Poetry, Part One: from Masters & Robinson to Lowell & Bishop
Spring 2013
- Lecture: American Literature 1836 – 1914
- Proseminar: American Memoirs and Life Writing since 1989
- Seminar: Visions of the West: Wallace Stegner to Sherman Alexie
- Research Colloquium
Fall 2013
- Lecture: American Literature 1914 – 1945
- Proseminar: Literary Theory
- Seminar: 20th-century American Poetry, Part Two: From the mid-sixties to
the present
Spring 2014
- Research Sabbatical (Dean’s compensation)
Fall 2014
- First-Year Module Lecture: Introduction to Literary Studies
- Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Studies
- Seminar: The American South
Spring 2015
- First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History . Tradition and Innovation in American Drama (World Literature Part IV)
- Proseminar : Introduction to Literary Studies
- Seminar : Expatriate Autobiographie
Fall 2015
- Lecture: American Prose Fiction in the Third Millennium
- Proseminar: The Art of the Essay
- Seminar: Women’s Lives in Turn-of-the-Century Novels: Crane, Chopin, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather
Spring 2016
- Lecture: History of American Poetry: Whitman’s Legacy
- Proseminar: Freedom and Form in American Modernist Poems
- Seminar: Writing New York
Fall 2016
- Pre-semester: BA/MA seminar and excursion.
Creative Writing New York
- Lecture: Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain
- Proseminar: Fictions of Communities: Cisneros, Morrison, Boyden
Spring 2017
- Lecture: History of American Poetry: Dickinson’s Legacy
- Proseminar: Southern Literature and Poverty: Theroux, Faulkner, Ward
- Seminar: Robert Lowell – The Centennial Seminar
Spring 2018
- Lecture: A Survey of American Literature, Part II (Intro class)
- Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Study
- Seminar: Foundational Documents of American Democracy
- [University of Berne] Lecture: American Poetry and Culture
Fall 2018
- Lecture: Social Justice Debates in American Literature
- Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature I
- Seminar: Pathos and the American Tradition
Spring 2019
- Seminar: Women’s Lives in Naturalist Fiction: Crane, Chopin, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather
- Lecture: American AutobiographiesProseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature II
- [University of Berne] Lecture: American Realism and Naturalism
Fall 2019
- Lecture: Three American Epics: Song of Myself, The Waste Land, Omeros
- Proseminar: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Writer and Activist
- Seminar: Walt Whitman at 200: Leaves of Grass and Prose Works
Spring 2020
- Lecture: Fiction since 2015
- Proseminar: San Francisco and its literature
- Seminar: Visions of the American West
Fall 2020
- Lecture: American Drama
- Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature I
- Seminar: African American Women Poets
- [University of Berne] Lecture: American Drama
Spring 2021
- Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)
- Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature II
- Seminar: Music and the American Novel
Fall 2021
- Lecture: The Forgotten Nineteen-Thirties
- Proseminar: Democracy in America?
- Seminar: American Memoirs and Life Writing since 2000
Spring 2022
- Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)
- Proseminar: Rhetoric and Narrative in American Fiction
- Seminar: (with Prof. Julia Straub) Modernism Centennial: Poetry
Fall 2022
- Lecture: Six Great Debates in 19th-century America: Expansion,
Indigeneity, Slavery, Gender, War, Industrialization
- Proseminar: Contemporary North American Drama
- Seminar: American Modernism in Prose
Spring 2023
- Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)
- Proseminar: Scorn not the Sonnet!
- Seminar: Who Tells Your Story? Narrative, Authorship, Authority
Fall 2023
- Lecture: History of American Poetry
- Proseminar: American Essays—Art and Voice, Part One: Beginnings to 1950
- Seminar: Regionalism—the West and the South [with Dr. Aurélie Zurbrügg]
Spring 2024
- Lecture: Short Stories: A National Art Form
- Proseminar: American Essays—Art and Voice, Part Two: 1950 to the Present
- Seminar: Milton in America
Fall 2024
- Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)
- Proseminar: Violence and the American Novel
- Seminar: How to read American Poems (with Journée d’études with Prof. Ralph Müller)
Spring 2025
- Lecture: American Self-Deception and Self-Renewal
- Proseminar: Louise Erdrich
- Seminar: One Poem—One Novel—One Play
Teaching details from 1986-2006 not listed here.