{"id":579,"date":"2025-06-03T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso-stg.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:49:34","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Teaching Experience \u2013 University of Fribourg (2006-2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fall 2006<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • Lecture: American Literature, 1865-1914<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Seminar: Realism and Naturalism<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Proseminar: The Western<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Spring 2007<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    • Lecture: American Literature, 1914-1945<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Seminar: American Expatriate Writers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Proseminar: Modernist Identities in T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cThe Waste Land\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      Fall 2007<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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      • Lecture: American Literature, 1945-Present<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Seminar: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Proseminar: Louise Erdrich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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        Spring 2008<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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        • Lecture: Early American Literature through 1836<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Seminar: The Nation and the Self: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Proseminar: Arthur Miller, Selected Plays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          Fall 2008<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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          • Lecture: American Renaissance, 1836-1861<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Seminar: Wicked Books and Wicked Witches: Melville and Hawthorne<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Proseminar: Nature, Nation, Self: Emerson\u2019s Essays<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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            Spring 2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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            • Lecture: Machines, Gardens, Factories: American Literature in the late 19th<\/sup> Century<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Seminar: Studies in Determinism: Crane, Dreiser, Norris<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Proseminar: Willa Cather, Selected Novels<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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              Fall 2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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              • Lecture: Transcontinental Hemingway<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                Spring 2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                • Seminar: San Francisco in History, Literature, and Politics (co-taught with Dr. Catherine Bosshart)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                  Fall 2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                  • Lecture: American Poetry since the Age of Lowell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Seminar: Derek Walcott: Periphery and Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                    Spring 2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                    • Lecture: American Fiction since 1960<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Seminar: John Updike\u2019s Rabbit<\/em> Tetralogy as Social History of the United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                      Fall 2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                      • Research Sabbatical <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                        Spring 2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                        • First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Proseminar: The Western<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                          Fall 2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                          •  First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          • Proseminar: American Essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Joan Didion<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          • Seminar: 20th-century American Poetry, Part One: from Masters & Robinson to Lowell & Bishop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                            Spring 2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                            • Lecture: American Literature 1836 \u2013 1914<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • Proseminar: American Memoirs and Life Writing since 1989<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • Seminar: Visions of the West: Wallace Stegner to Sherman Alexie<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • Research Colloquium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                              Fall 2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                              • Lecture: American Literature 1914 \u2013 1945<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                              • Proseminar: Literary Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                              • Seminar: 20th-century American Poetry, Part Two: From the mid-sixties to 
                                the present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                Spring 2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                • Research Sabbatical (Dean\u2019s compensation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                  Fall 2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                  • First-Year Module Lecture: Introduction to Literary Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                  • Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                  • Seminar: The American South<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                    Spring 2015<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                    •  First-Year Module Lecture: An Overview of American Literary History . Tradition and Innovation in American Drama (World Literature Part IV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                    • Proseminar : Introduction to Literary Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                    • Seminar : Expatriate Autobiographie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                      Fall 2015<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                      • Lecture: American Prose Fiction in the Third Millennium<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                      • Proseminar: The Art of the Essay<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                      • Seminar: Women\u2019s Lives in Turn-of-the-Century Novels: Crane, Chopin, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                        Spring 2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                        • Lecture: History of American Poetry: Whitman\u2019s Legacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                        • Proseminar: Freedom and Form in American Modernist Poems<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                        • Seminar: Writing New York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                          Fall 2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                          • Pre-semester:  BA\/MA seminar and excursion. 
                                            Creative Writing New York<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                          • Lecture: Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                          • Proseminar:  Fictions of Communities: Cisneros, Morrison, Boyden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                            Spring 2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                            • Lecture: History of American Poetry: Dickinson\u2019s Legacy <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                            • Proseminar: Southern Literature and Poverty: Theroux, Faulkner, Ward  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                            • Seminar: Robert Lowell \u2013 The Centennial Seminar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                              Fall 2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                              • Research Sabbatical<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                Spring 2018<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                • Lecture: A Survey of American Literature, Part II (Intro class)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                • Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Study<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                • Seminar: Foundational Documents of American Democracy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                • [University of Berne] Lecture: American Poetry and Culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                  Fall 2018<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                  • Lecture: Social Justice Debates in American Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                  • Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature I<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                  • Seminar: Pathos and the American Tradition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                    Spring 2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                    • Seminar: Women\u2019s Lives in Naturalist Fiction: Crane, Chopin, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                    • Lecture: American AutobiographiesProseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature II<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                    • [University of Berne] Lecture: American Realism and Naturalism <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                      Fall 2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                      • Lecture: Three American Epics: Song of Myself, The Waste Land, Omeros<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                      • Proseminar: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \u2013 Writer and Activist<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                      • Seminar:  Walt Whitman at 200: Leaves of Grass<\/em> and Prose Works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                        Spring 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                        • Lecture: Fiction since 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                        • Proseminar: San Francisco and its literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                        • Seminar:  Visions of the American West<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                          Fall 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                          • Lecture: American Drama<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                          • Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature I<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                          • Seminar: African American Women Poets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                          • [University of Berne] Lecture: American Drama<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                            Spring 2021<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                            • Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                            • Proseminar: Becoming a Reader and Scholar of American Literature II<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                            • Seminar: Music and the American Novel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                              Fall 2021<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                              • Lecture: The Forgotten Nineteen-Thirties  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                              • Proseminar:  Democracy in America? <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                              • Seminar: American Memoirs and Life Writing since 2000   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                Spring 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                • Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                • Proseminar: Rhetoric and Narrative in American Fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                • Seminar: (with Prof. Julia Straub) Modernism Centennial: Poetry <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                  Fall 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                  • Lecture: Six Great Debates in 19th-century America: Expansion, 
                                                                    Indigeneity, Slavery, Gender, War, Industrialization<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                  • Proseminar: Contemporary North American Drama<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                  • Seminar: American Modernism in Prose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                    Spring 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                    • Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                    • Proseminar:  Scorn not the Sonnet!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                    • Seminar: Who Tells Your Story? Narrative, Authorship, Authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                      Fall 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                      • Lecture: History of American Poetry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • Proseminar: American Essays\u2014Art and Voice, Part One: Beginnings to 1950<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                      • Seminar: Regionalism\u2014the West and the South [with Dr. Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                        Spring 2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                        • Lecture: Short Stories: A National Art Form<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                        • Proseminar: American Essays\u2014Art and Voice, Part Two: 1950 to the Present<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                        • Seminar: Milton in America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                          Fall 2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                          • Lecture: Survey of American Literature (Intro module class)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                          • Proseminar: Violence and the American Novel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                          • Seminar: How to read American Poems  (with Journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes with Prof. Ralph M\u00fcller)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                            Spring 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                                                                            • Lecture: American Self-Deception and Self-Renewal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                            • Proseminar: Louise Erdrich<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                                                                            • Seminar: One Poem\u2014One Novel\u2014One Play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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