Bachelor Courses
Module “Society, History, and Politics I” (04-001-1002)
Lecture: Constructing North American History I: From Colonial Times to the Civil War (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- written exam: July 7, 2025, 5 – 7 pm, HSG HS 8
Analytical Seminar (a and b) (Heather Prüßing)
- presentations: June 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2025
Analytical Seminar (c) (Parker Billinghurst)
- presentations: June 18, 25, and July 2, 2025, all from 15:15-16:45
Tutorial (Heather Prüssing)
- papers due: August 8, 2025
Module “Literature and Culture II” (04-001-1007)
Lecture: US-American Popular Culture: History, Media, Methods (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
- written exam: July 8, 2025, 9 – 11 am, HSG HS 6
Seminar 1: "No masters, no rulers"? Anarchism in US-American Literature and Culture (Dr. Katja Schmieder)
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Seminar 2: Stories of ‘Passing’ in US Literature and Culture (Dr. Stefan Schubert)
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Seminar 3: 'Reel' Men? Representations of Masculinity in US Film (Dr. Eleonora Ravizza)
- presentations due: July 13, 2025
- final essays due: August 24, 2025
Module “Society, History and Politics III” (04-001-1010)
Seminar 1: The ‘Long Progressive Era’ – U.S. Social & Cultural History, 1890s – 1920s (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- deadline final presentations: July 12, 2025
- final essay due: September 30, 2025
Seminar 2: The Long New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Peter Hintz)
- deadline final presentations: July 12, 2025
- final essay due: September 30, 2025
Module “Literature and Culture III” (04-001-1011)
Seminar: Narrating the Nuclear in US American Culture (Annika Schadewaldt)
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Seminar: Through the Looking Glass – Surrealism, Magical Realism, and Folklore (Phillip B. Williams, Picador Guest Professor)
- oral exams: July 11, 2025
- deadline portfolio submissions 04-AME-1701: July 26, 2025
Module “Ethnicity and Diversity in US-Culture II: Multicultural and Multilingual America” (04-001-1012)
Seminar Performing Race and Ethnicity (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez)
- paper deadline: August 31, 2025
Master Courses
Module “Imagining the Past“ (04-038-2004)
Seminar: Reporting Reality? News, Narrative, and Politics in US Culture (Dr. Stefan Schubert)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Seminar: Writing Black Pasts, Imagining Black Future (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Module “Political Cultures in a Transatlantic Context” (04-038-2005)
Seminar: Propaganda - Politics, Media & Communication in the USA during the 20th Century (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Seminar: Negotiating Marginality (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Module Media, Society, and Culture (04-038-2006)
Seminar: The New Hollywood – Film and U.S. Cultural History, 1965-1980 (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Seminar: A ‘Genre Turn’? Contemporary US Writing and the Mediality of Literature (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Module “Trans-/National Spaces, Bodies, Cultures“ (04-038-2016)
Seminar: The Americas in US literature and culture (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Seminar: Food, Identity, and Textuality in North American Literature and Film (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
- portfolio due: July 27, 2025
- term paper due: September 7, 2025
Lehramt Courses
Module “Literatures and Cultures of the USA” (04-AME-1402)
Lecture: US-American Literature: Beginnings to Present (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
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Seminars 1402-2a/b/c/d Nation and Imagination? US Cultural History and the Myths of ‘America’ (Dr. Sebastian Herrmann)
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Seminars 1402-2e/f The (Death of the) American Dream: Questioning Narratives of Power, Wealth, and Individualism (Dr. Eleonora Ravizza)
- written lecture exam: July 16, 2025, 5 - 7 pm, HSG HS 3
Module “US Popular Culture and American Literature” (04-AME-1701)
Seminar: Narrating the Nuclear in US American Culture (Annika Schadewaldt)
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Seminar: Through the Looking Glass – Surrealism, Magical Realism, and Folklore (Phillip B. Williams, Picador Guest Professor)
- portfolio submissions due: July 26, 2025
Module “Creative Writing: Envisioning America” (04-001-1020)
Poetry Workshop: Writing Grief (Phillip B. Williams – Picador Guest Professor)
- Portfolios due Friday, July 18, 2025