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The following links lead to individual Seminar Ideas and offer a place to communicate about seminars one would like to see created. Use the individual discussion pages for commentary and the main pages for topics such a seminar might focus on

Wishes (Student and Staff)

• Children's and Youth Literature
• Anglistik Seminare im Professionalisierungsbereich
  • English language and mass media
  • English as a global language
• Academic Study Skills Workshop
• Education on TV
• Lovecraft, Poe and the Unspeakable Horror, Weird Tales and Disturbing Worlds

Anna Auguscik

• Pornography
• The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes
• "A morbid fear of salad": (post)modern medieval life in Nicola Barker's Darkmans (2007)
• Postcolonial vs. postmodern appeal and the success of a novel: Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and A.S. Byatt, Possession (1990)

Maike Engelhardt

• Language Testing for Language Teachers
• English as a Lingua Franca
• Language and Age
• Phonetics and Phonology: American English
• Techniques and Strategies of Foreign Language Learning
• Teaching Methods: Past, Present and Future
• (Ergänzende) Unterrichtsmaterialien im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I & II
• Lehrwerksanalyse Red/Green/Orange Line
• Didactic ranges of didactic texts. How to comprehend reading comprehension
• Linguistic aspects of political speeches of the 20th and 21st century

Anton Kirchhofer

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 1, UE (Teil 2 alt)
• AM 5, 1 SE Literature and the School System (abgesprochen mit Wolfgang Gehring)
• MM1 (auch HS klausurvorbereitend), 1 SE The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes (mit Anna Auguscik; abgesprochen mit Delia Duncan, UE)
• Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Olaf Simons

Summer Term 09

• (1)Gesetzt: Directed studies, (Examens- und) Doktorandenkolloquium,
• (2) BM 1, 1 V (Teil 1 alt)

• (3) AM2c und 11: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa
  • alternativ: AM 2b, 5 und 11 Childhood Stories and Children's Literature
  • alternativ: Modern Tales of a Puritan Past (e.g. Hogg, Justified Sinner, Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter …) (AM 2b und 11, oder MM 1 und klausurvorbereitend)

• MM1(auch klausurvorbereitend) Gothic Fiction – The Early Canon (Otranto, Udolpho, Monk, Northanger Abbey)
  • alternativ: John Milton
  • alternativ: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa

other options and future projects:

• Explorations in the History and Ideology of Purity
• The Cultural History of Shakespeare
• Writing (in) Ireland in the Mid-20th century. (Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett)
• British Fiction in the 1850s – Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, book production of 1850s, the novel market and reviewing etc.
• The Sensational Novel - Popular and Transgressive Writing in the 1860s
• Confession and Narrative
• Exploring the Lord Chamberlain's Files (mit Exkursion und Editionsprojekten
• Representations of Gender and Violence from Shakespeare to the Present
• Creation, Nature, Environment - Changing Conceptions in Literature and Culture
• Plots of Emancipation and Conversion - Writing Religious Experience.
• Fictions about Contemporaries - Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point (1928)
• Obscure and Public Poetry in the 19c - Swinburne, Whitman, Hopkins, Dickinson
• Fictional Parsons - from Fielding to Golding
• Editing Shakespeare - the History of Shakespeare's 'Texts'
• From Theodicy to Political Economy - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 'Systems Theories'
• Theories of Literary Communication
• Public School Stories - Tom Hughes, Samuel Butler, Evelyn Waugh
• Girls' at School
• "National Allegories" - Allegory in Postcolonial Writing
• Modernism and Journalism

Olaf Simons

Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult
Summer: 2 Basismodule + 2 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult

Winter

• Deep Space Nine American Culture
• Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Anton Kirchhofer
• Canterbury Tales, Literature

Summer

• The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Literature and Linguistics
• English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies

Alternatives

• Time Travel Literature (and Film)
• Chapbooks Literature
• Theories of the Novel Literature
• Fathers and Sons in American Movies American Culture
• The Bayeux Tapestry, Cultural Studies
• 18th-century Sentimental Novels and Plays English Literature
• Cinematic Violence Cultural Studies
• Pornography Literature, with Anna Auguscik
• Ossian
• The Best of all Possible Worlds
• The Invention of Psychology
• The English Rogue and the German Simplicissimus
• Histories of English Literature
• Online Communication, Blogs and Wikipedia
• Poetic Justice
• Seminars on individual years