Teaching & Advising
Teaching
For current courses please consult the ALMA platform.
Courses in the Past
Lectures
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction (Lecture)
- Current Research in Foreign Language Education (Lecture)
- Introduction to Literary Studies (with Professors of the English Department)(Lecture)
Seminars
- Teaching Narratives of Migration
- Teaching the Reading Skill
- Teaching about Green Matters
- Teaching the Writing Skill
- Political Education and the Teaching of English
- Participation through Language, Literature, and Culture
- The Ambiguity of Belonging (with Horst Tonn)
- Intercultural Encounters: The Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Intercultural Encounters: Time Travel and Literature
- Exploring Media in the Classroom
- Embracing Everyone: Inclusive Education and the Teaching of English
- Planning Literature Lessons
- Growing Up: Young Adult Literature and Foreign Language Learning
- Environmental Issues in the Teaching of EFL
- The Classics and Teaching EFL: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Play it Again: Film Literacy
- Teaching with Film (with Friderike Ulmer)
- Act it out! Teaching English with Drama & Plays
Other
- Colloquium for Thesis Writers (Bachelor/Master of Education, Lehramt)
- Research Colloquium
- Friday Focus Hour (virtual co-working space)
Advising of Theses and PhD Projects
I gladly supervise research projects and theses in my areas of expertise. Candidates are asked to join the Colloquium for Writers of Theses/Research Papers (please find appropriate course listings on the ALMA-platform). Preferred areas of knowledge include:
- the teaching of English & its premises, concepts, methods or relations to other disciplines
- intercultural and multiple literacies (inclusing teaching with different media formats)
- teaching in the context of inclusive education, heterogeneity, diversity, migration
- anthropocene, climate change and environmental issues in language teaching
- the (foreign) language skills (especially reading, writing)
Dissertations / PhD Projects / Second Books
- Daniel HACH on Queerness in TEFL (in progress)
- Stefanie LIANG on Asian American Literature(s) in EFL (in progress)
- Mario SCHADTLE on Digital Media (in progress)
- Jan Eric SCHNELLBACHER on Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (in progress)
- Dorothea SAGI on Biophilia (in progress)
(as reviewer/examiner)
- Kim Laura WEBER: "Raising Environmental Awareness via Literature: An Ecocritical Approach to Perception of Nature and the City in 19th Century and Contemporary British Poetry" (mit Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich, U Bonn, 2019)
- Nina LIEWALD: "Initiating a Dialogue ‚Through the Global Community on Your Bookshelf’: Narrative Representations of Islamic Fundamentalism in Selected Novels from the 1990s to the Present” (mit Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich, U Bonn, 2017)
- Wasinrat NUALSIRI: "Intercultural Dimensions of Teaching Ecocritical Literature in Thai Higher Education" (U of Southampton, 2016)
Master Theses & 'Zulassungsarbeiten'
- Theodora CHLEPCSOK: Digital Media in the EFL Classroom. (U Tübingen, 2022)
- Felix PAUCKNER: Evaluation of the Acquired Teaching Comptences in English Students During their Schulpraxissemester. (U Tübingen, 2022)
- Lucas GLÜCK: "Teaching English through Drama" (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Clarissa HEINZELMANN “Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Advanced EFL Classroom with the Musical Hamilton” (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Julia KRINGS: "The I in ICALL: Potential and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the Foreign Language Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Vivian MERKS: "Changing Perspectives: Literature of Migration in the EFL Class-room: Refugee Tales" (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Theresea MEYER: "The Social construction of Gender: A Content Analysis of Gender Representations in EFL Schoolbooks" (U Tübingen, 2021) Preisträgerin 2022 - Auszeichnung als herausragende Qualifkationsarbeit der Tübingen School of Education (TüSE)
- Alexandra SCHMIDT: "Digitalisation in the EFL-Classroom: A Critical Reflection" (U Tübingen, 2020)
- Carolin SIHLER: "Writing Short Screenplays in the EFL-Classroom: A Critical Reflection (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Christopher SCHÄTZLE: "Challenges of Adolescence: Diversity in School Life Exemplified with J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Annalena DÜRR: "Modern Feminist Artists: Analyzing Songs and Music Video Clips in the Advanced EFL Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Ilona UNTERWEGER: "Teaching Songs in the Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Philipp WÄSCHLE: "Teaching Indigeneity" (U Tübingen, 2018)
- Jasmin BENTELE: "A Review of Studies on the Role of the Native Language in Adult Second Language Acquisition" (U Tübingen, 2017)
- Sonja SAUTER: "Die Repräsentation von Gender in Englischschulbüchern des Gymnasiums" (U Tübingen, 2017)
- Daniel SCHÖNBAUER: "Reading and Teaching the Caribbean: The Postcolonial Experience in Selected Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories" (U Bonn, 2017)
- Jan Eric SCHNELLBACHER: "An Analysis of Selected Dystopian Elements in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Its Potential in the EFL Classroom" (U Bonn, 2016)
- Johanna FRASSEK: "Teaching EFL Lexically at a German School" (U Bonn, 2016)
Bachelor Theses
- Sara SALZER: "Literature in the EFL Classroom: Short Stories in English Language Teaching" (U Tübingen, 2022)
- Annika BUCK: "The Literature Lesson in the Digital Age" (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Vera FOLBERT: "The Potential of Students' Biographical Background as a Resource for Identity Construction and Investment in English Foreign Language Education (Tübingen, 2021)
- Louisa HERING: "Digital Teaching in the English Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2021)
- Maximilian GIEBE: „Serious Games and their Contribution to Intercultural Learning in the EFL Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2020)
- Hanna BOZENHARDT: "Going to the Theatre" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Sophia HIPPER: „Environmental Issue in the EFL Classroom“ (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Hildegund HOLZKNECHT: "Shakespeare in the EFL Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Julia KRINGS: "Digitalisation and Introductory Textbooks for English Teacher Professionalisation" (U Tübingen, 2019)
- Teresa BLESSING: "World Englishes in the EFL Classroom" (U Tübingen, 2018)