Englisches Seminar

Summer Semester 2025

In the 2025 summer semester, the Department of American Studies offers a wide range of courses. Also, a number of courses offered by other departments are open to American Studies students. For comprehensive information on all study courses, please see the course catalogue on alma.

Basic Module Courses

S: Introduction to Literary StudiesDr. Carsten Schinko
S: Introduction to Literary StudiesMarina Pingler
S: Introduction to Cultural Studies (nur IAS)Prof. Dr. Michael Butter

These courses are accompanied by a tutorial. 

Advanced Module Courses

S: The Literature of Mobility (Post-Civil War) Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke
S: The Cultural Cold War (Post-Civil War) Dr. Thomas Gijswijt
S: Guns in America: Culture, Politics, Violence (Pre- and Post-Civil War)Dr. Thomas Gijswijt
S: Beyond the Mask: African-American Theater (Post-Civil War)Dr. Isabell Klaiber
S: 19th-Century Politics in and through Literary Writing (Pre- and Post-Civil War)Dr. Isabell Klaiber
S: The Literatures of Abolitionism (Pre- and Post-Civil War) Dr. Johanna Roering
S: Remembering the American Civil War (Pre- and Post-Civil War)Dr. Johanna Roering
S: Modernist Poetry (Post-Civil War) Dr. Carsten Schinko

Lectures

L: American Politics and PoetryProf. Dr. Astrid Franke
L: Issues in American Literary & Cultural History I: From Colonialism to the RevolutionProf. Dr. Michael Butter

Focus Module Courses

S: Beyond Algorithms: (Re)Imagining AI in American Literature and CultureMarina Pingler

 

Focus and Master Module Courses

S: Literature of the Early Republic Prof. Dr. Michael Butter
S: Sex, Sandals, and Society: Rome in Hollywood (+ film screening)Prof. Dr. Michael Butter
S: Sports and RaceProf. Dr. Astrid Franke
S: Segregating Music in America: From 'Race' Records to TechnoDr. Risto Lenz
S: Representing War in American LiteratureDr. Johanna Roering
S: The White Savior in American Film and LiteratureDr. Johanna Roering
S: Sports Film (+ film screening)Dr. Carsten Schinko
S: Democracy of Laughter: From the Tall Tale to Meme CultureDr. Carsten Schinko
S: America Around 1900: Ellis Island, the Bowery and Beyond Prof. Dr. Tonn-Meller
S: Graphic Medicine: The Intersection of Health and Comics Across the AtlanticDr. Davina Höll

 

Elective Curriculum

S: U.S. Foreign Policy I Dr. Thomas Gijswijt
S: U.S. Foreign Policy III: The United States and Russia since the End of the Cold WarDr. Thomas Gijswijt

 

External Offer for Elective Curriculum

S: A Social History of AI

Prof. Ph.D. Luke Fernandez

PD Dr. phil. Daniel Menning

S: Gendering Death: Gender, Death, and PowerReyhan Özsahin
S: Knowledge in Africa - Perspectives from East and West

Jun.-Prof. Dr. phil. Nadja Klopprogge

Jun.-Prof. Dr. phil. Emily Graf

 

S: Religion and mediaJun.-Prof. Dr. Carola Lorea
S: Sonic EthnographyJun.-Prof. Dr. Carola Lorea
S: Precarity: Animals and Death in Modern Visual CultureDr. Corey Ratch
S: Sociology of Policing and Human Rights Dr. Deep Chand

 

Dates & Deadlines

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