Winter Semester 2025/2026

• S: Introduction to Cultural Studies (nur IAS)
• S: The Ecogothic: Haunted Landscapes in Fiction and Film (Pre- and Post-Civil War)

Summer Semester 2025

• S: Beyond Algorithms: (Re)Imagining AI in American Literature and Culture
• S: Introduction to Literary Studies

Winter Semester 2024/2025

• S: Staging the Nation in Early American Drama

Summer Semester 2024

• S: Indigenous Futurisms

• Pingler, Marina. “The ‘Colonial Anthropocene’ Imaginary: Re-Imagining Climate Change in Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018).” JAAS, special issue “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice,” vol. 5, no. 2, 2024, pp. 142-62. doi:10.47060/jaaas.v5i2.198. 

• “‘With All Those Places to Live, How Come Nobody’s Anywhere?’– The Great Silence and Elegy for the Planet in Richard Powers’ Bewilderment (2021) and Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (2021).” (American Soundscapes: 70th Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies, University of Oldenburg, May 24, 2024)
• “The Colonial Anthropocene Imaginary: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Climate Change in Literature and Activism.” (Visiting Scholars Seminar, Havard University, Comparative Literature Department, March 7, 2024)
• “Disrupting the Universality of the Anthropocene: The Captivity Narrative in Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018).” (“Disrupting Imaginations: Annual Conference Science Fiction Research Association, University of Dresden, August 19, 2023)
• “Alternative Modes of Future-Making: The Anthropocene and Its Imaginaries.” (“The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure”, University of Mannheim, May 4, 2023).
• “The Anthropocene: A Return to Grand Narratives? – Ontology and Postcolonial Critique in Indigenous Speculative Fiction." (“Crises of the Universal in Anglophone Literatures and Criticism,” Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, March 30, 2023).
• “Scaling up the Imagination in Narrative: Climate Change in Steven Amsterdam‘s Things We Didn‘t See Coming (2009).” As Part of the Lecture Series “American Short Story: Theory, History, Cultural Contexts,” University of Tübingen, 1. February 2023.
• “Cli-Fi: Re-Imagining Climate Change in American Literature and Culture.” As Part of the Lecture Series “Issues in American Literary & Cultural History IV: From World War II to the Present,” University of Tübingen, 26. January 2023.
• “Grassroots Convergence – Star Trek Fandom: Axanar Productions and the Final Frontier of Fan-Fiction Law.” (As Part of the Lecture Series “Introduction to Cultural Studies,” University Tübingen, January, 2023).
• “The Colonial Anthropocene Imaginary: Re-Imagining Climate Futures in Speculative Fiction.” (Narrative, Environment, Social Justice: Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), University of Salzburg, 22. October 2022).
• “Alternative Climate Imaginaries: Re-Imagining Climate Futures in Speculative Fiction.” (Ambivalences of Ecological Transformations: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities, Augsburg, 25. June 2022).
• “Alternative Climate Imaginaries: Re-Imagining Climate Futures in Speculative Fiction.” (Political Education and American Studies: 68th Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 11. June 2022).
• “Re-Imagining Climate Futures: Alternative Imaginaries in American Literature and Culture.” (HCA Spring Academy, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, 21-25. March 2022).
• “Indigenous Futurisms – A Transnational Response to Ontological Conflicts: Moving Beyond a 'One-World World' in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves" (“Transnational Relations: Past, Present, and Future”, Annual Postgraduate Forum, 02. December 2021).
• “Ontological Conflicts in the Face of Climate Change: Moving Beyond a ‘One-World World’ in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves” (Environmental Displacements, Workshop, University of Augsburg, 07. Oktober 21)