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  • Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik GS

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    • 17478 Seminar
      Digital Tools - Schwerpunkt ISS/GYM/GS (Christian Ludwig)
      Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik Digital Tools - Schwerpunkt Grundschule

      This course aims to explore selected areas of teaching English as a foreign language to young learners. It particularly focuses on selected texts and media often used in the young learners classroom, including, stories, songs, picturebooks, and digital media. It also takes a closer look at language teaching methodology, i.e. methods, and activities which can currently be found in primary English classrooms. Closely related to this, the course helps to find and try out strategies for some of the key challenges of teaching English as a foreign language to young learners.

      Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik - Schwerpunkt Gymnasien/ISS

      Digital Tools in English Language Learning: Gains and Pains

      Since the 2000s, digital technology has become a recognisable force equally supported and resisted in education. This course explores the still rarely harnessed learning potential of tech tools in foreign language education in a hands-on and practical manner. In order to do so, it addresses a range of issues such as methodological approaches to technology as well as syllabus, materials, and task design related in technology-enhanced learning environments. Closely related to this, it also discusses mostly neglected aspects of reflection, evaluation, and assessment when working with technology in the foreign language classroom.

       

  • Vertiefungsmodul D3 Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

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    • 17358 Vorlesung
      V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonial Theories (Stephan Laqué)
      Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial expansion and oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

    • 17359 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Writing the Middle Passage (Cordula Lemke David Wachter)
      Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 19.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      From the 16th to the 19th century, several million Africans were deported to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade. The collective trauma of what later became known as “the Middle Passage” continues to haunt Carribean and North American cultural imagination. In this seminar, we will discuss literary representations of this historical injustice and its aftermath in the form of transatlantic slavery. Our course will mainly focus on two texts: Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008). But we will also look at passages of other novels, theoretical texts, works of visual art and life writing. We will scrutinize the literary strategies employed in “writing the Middle Passage” and discuss issues such as violence, trauma, haunting, exploitation, economics and law, community and heal-ing.


      This class will deal with violence and racism, and the texts contain graphic and disturbing scenes of racialized and sexualized violence. We will do our best to make our seminar a space where we can engage empathetically and thoughtfully with such content.



      Preparation


      Please purchase and read Morrison’s novel in the following (inexpensive) paperback edi-tions: Toni Morrison: Beloved, Vintage 1997 (ISBN 978-0099760115). Other text will be availa-ble on Blackboard.
    • 17360 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonial Epic (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      At a first glance, postcolonial epic seems to be an oxymoron: classical epics, which are often associated with the construction of heteronormative genealogies, national myths of origin, and the legitimation of colonial rule, appear to be central to the hegemonial power challenged by anti-colonial and postcolonial literature. Many postcolonial texts, however, do reference classical epics—intertextual references that are often discussed in the context of imperial/local hybridities, subverting hegemonial discourses. In view of the recent discussions about postcolonial genres in general, this seminar focuses on the less studied generic transformations of postcolonial epics in their specific cultural contexts. In order to do so, we will read (excerpts of) postcolonial epics that self-consciously reflect their status as epics, for instance, Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990), Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (1997), Myung Mi Kim’s Dura (1998) or Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003).

    • 17361 Vorlesung
      V-Culture-Gender-Media: Theorizing Gender (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will offer a comprehensive introduction to Gender Theories. We will start with the basic terminology, the key concepts, and the historical development of Gender Studies, and address parallels and differences between Gender Studies and Feminism, Masculinity Studies and Queer Studies. Focusing on a variety of examples from literature and culture, mainly (but not exclusively) from the 20th and 21st centuries, we will consider the construction of gender identities and their intersections with other social categories such as race, class, sexual orientation, religion etc. This will also include a consideration of cultural differences and historical changes. The second half of the semester will be dedicated to more recent debates and approaches, such as gender and religion, gender and ecology, queer temporality, gender and Disability Studies, and Trans Studies.

       

      The course will be organised as a lecture series with discussion. Students are expected to attend regularly and read short texts in preparation of weekly classes. All texts will be available on Blackboard.


    • 17362 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will focus on the representations, constructions, and negotiations of Jewishness in late 20th and early 21st-century British literature, film, and culture. This will include the various responses to both the long tradition of anti-Jewish hatred and the recent rise in anti-Semitism. We will read texts by British Jewish and non-Jewish writers that address topics such as Holocaust remembrance, religion and sexuality, the conflicts in a multi-ethnic society, the tensions between the individual and the community, as well as between orthodoxy and secularism. In addition, we will discuss contemporary rewritings, screen and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and explore how they re-imagine the character of Shylock, Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender.


      Texts: Students should purchase and read Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience (2006) and Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (2016). Both novels are available in paperback editions and can be ordered at local bookshops. Shorter texts will be available on Blackboard. Participants are expected to be familiar with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.


      Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as response papers, short presentations, group work) and the submission of an essay (c. 4000 words).


  • Vertiefungsmodul D4 Culture - Gender - Media

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    • 17362 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will focus on the representations, constructions, and negotiations of Jewishness in late 20th and early 21st-century British literature, film, and culture. This will include the various responses to both the long tradition of anti-Jewish hatred and the recent rise in anti-Semitism. We will read texts by British Jewish and non-Jewish writers that address topics such as Holocaust remembrance, religion and sexuality, the conflicts in a multi-ethnic society, the tensions between the individual and the community, as well as between orthodoxy and secularism. In addition, we will discuss contemporary rewritings, screen and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and explore how they re-imagine the character of Shylock, Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender.


      Texts: Students should purchase and read Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience (2006) and Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (2016). Both novels are available in paperback editions and can be ordered at local bookshops. Shorter texts will be available on Blackboard. Participants are expected to be familiar with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.


      Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as response papers, short presentations, group work) and the submission of an essay (c. 4000 words).


    • 17363 Verschiedenes
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Imagining the English Countryside (Stephan Karschay)
      Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The English countryside is usually imagined in distinctly ‘pastoral’ terms. Ideas of a ‘pastoral’ landscape derive from classical literature and are found in literary texts that deal with the beauties of the natural world and often focus on the lives of shepherds (pastor in Latin) and nymphs. Originating in the Hellenistic period with Theocritus’s Idylls (third century BC) and popularised by the Roman poet Virgil, this mode of writing spread throughout Europe in the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance and came to be almost synonymous with the notions of prelapsarian peace and escapism. Yet pastoral representations of nature have always implicitly gestured beyond themselves to reflect human and natural predicaments and express social, political and religious criticism. In other words, pastoral always has an ulterior motive. Often, pastoral’s nostalgic perspective on a lost ‘Golden Age’ reveals itself to be a cry for radical change that still lies in the future. Thus, pastoral literature and art can reveal several, apparently contradictory, orientations in terms of time: it can hanker after a glorious past (elegiac mode), rejoice at a bountiful present (idyllic mode) or anticipate an improved future (utopian mode). From an ecocritical perspective, the pastoral lends itself to reconfigurations of the relationship between us and the non-human (or better: more-than-human) world, and this seminar is also conceived as a first introduction to the theory and practice of ecocriticism. Even though the genre has somewhat declined in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, pastoral as a cultural and literary strategy has proved to be remarkably resilient and malleable. In this seminar we will look at a broad range of different genres and media – from the pastoral’s origins in Graeco-Roman literature and its heyday in Renaissance poetry and drama, to the ingenious uses of pastoral in contemporary British art, literature and advertising. We will specifically look at the pastoral’s inherent spatial opposition (town versus country) and its triple distinction of time (past versus present versus future) to appreciate the modifications the genre has undergone over the centuries. In seminar discussions and group presentations, students will engage with a large variety of literary and non-literary texts, paintings, photographs, performances, as well as film and television.

        
         

      Voraussetzungen


      Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Aufbaumoduls 2 (Introduction to Cultural Studies).


      Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung). Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.



      Literaturhinweise


      Zur Einführung geeignet: Garrard, Greg. “Pastoral”, in G. G., ed., Ecocriticism(London: Routledge, 2004), 33–58.


      Gifford, Terry. “Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral”, in Louise Westling, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 17–30.


      Rigby, Kate. “Ecocriticism”, in Julian Wolfreys, ed., Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 122–54.


      Zur Anschaffung


      William Shakespeare, As You Like It [1599], Norton or Arden edition.


      Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles [1891], ed. Tim Dolin, London: Penguin.
    • 17364 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Conceptualising Cultural Memory in Contemporary British Literature (Marie Catherine Menzel)
      Zeit: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this class, we will be approaching “memory” from the perspective of what is sometimes called “new cultural memory studies” (Erll Memory in Culture, 13). Paralleling other postmodern critical moments, this research field developed under the influence of poststructuralism and the notion of social and cultural construction, with roots in the early 20th century and a significant presence in the humanities since the 1980s and 90s. At the core of this perspective lies the conceptualisation of “memory” in its qualities as a constructed collective, cultural, and social phenomenon.



      In the course of the semester, we will first familiarise ourselves with some foundational theoretical perspectives on memory (and cultural memory) as socially constructed and collective. Then, we will look into some topics pertaining to a specifically British collective and cultural form of memory, touching on topics such as national identity narratives. And finally, we will discuss some literary representations of British collective memory, covering both their memory-reflexive and memory-productive aspects.



      Required Reading:



      Students need to acquire access to the following novels, further required reading will be made available via Blackboard:



      Small Island by Andrea Levy


      England, England by Julian Barnes


      The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro



      Suggested introductory and preparatory reading (excerpts will be read in class):



      Memory in Culture by Astrid Erll


      The Making of English National Identity by Krishan Kumar


      The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann



      Requirements for course participation:



      Successful completion of the module “Introduction to Cultural Studies”.



      Assessment:



      Assessment for full credits is done on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in all class activities (e.g. assignments, presentations, group work, quizzes, preparation of the required reading), and—depending on your chosen module type—a ca. 4000 word essay.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D5 Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

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    • 17366 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Sociolinguistics and Varieties: Sociolinguistics and the Law (Antje Wilton-Franklin)
      Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar focuses on language use in legal contexts and investigates the ways in which sociolinguistic research can help to shed light on language use in the legal process, and the ways in which sociolinguists can contribute to the process for instance by uncovering issues of linguistic inequality or by acting as expert witnesses in criminal cases. We will focus on both spoken and written language in legal institutional contexts, in particular on emergency calls, police interviews and witness statements, courtroom discourse and authorship analysis.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D6 Structure of Englisch

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  • Vertiefungsmodul D7 Semantics and Pragmatics

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    • 17370 Vertiefungsseminar
      VS-Semantics and Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Space (Antje Wilton-Franklin)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/228 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar we will investigate the complex relationship between language and (material) space from a pragmatics perspective. Sessions will be based on the handbook on “Pragmatics of Space” (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110693713/html), comprising various contributions on the linguistic description of space, interaction in different spaces, communicative resources of constructed spaces and cultural differences in the pragmatics of space. We will work closely with a selection of texts from the handbook, which students will be required to read, summarise and discuss. Additionally, we will explore the relationship between language, interaction and space in a practical way by experiencing different spaces and environments interactionally. The course will be linked to a workshop on The Co-Evolution of Language, Interaction and Architecture (https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/interactionlab/workshop-the-co-evolution-of-language-interaction-and-architecture/), where students will be able to participate in and learn from discussion with experts from a variety of different fields.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D1 Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain

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    • 17352 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Medievalism (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202

      Kommentar

      Whether on the Renaissance stage, in nineteenth-century fiction, in contemporary TV series, the medieval appears to be omnipresent. Why are people fascinated by the medieval—and what is the cultural (as well as ideological) backdrop for an interest in the Middle Ages? After reviewing recent (theoretical) conceptualizations of medievalism, we shall consider a time-period, the Renaissance, which seems not to be particularly interested in the Middle Ages, but rather looks beyond the medieval toward classical antiquity. Discussing medieval and early modern receptions of the Troy story, especially Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, we will address questions concerning the construction of the medieval within medieval texts—and how the latter might be connected to the Renaissance’s (seeming) neglect of the Middle Ages.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D2 Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

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    • 17354 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Shakespeare's Tainted Heroes (Stephan Laqué)
      Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 18.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      As Kenneth Muir has noted, “there is no such thing as Shakespearean Tragedy: there are only Shakespearean tragedies.” This seminar will approach the variety of Shakespearean tragedy by taking a closer look at the ways in which the plays engage with the traditions and the conventions of the genre. Please purchase Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Coriolanus either as individual editions (preferably from the Arden Shakespeare Series) or the Norton Shakespeare: Tragedies (ed. Stephen Greenblatt) – or indeed the complete The Norton Shakespeare (ed. Stephen Greenblatt). Please start reading Romeo and Juliet before the start of the semester.

    • 17355 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The Book and the Body: The Victorian Novel of Sensation (Stephan Karschay)
      Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The serialisation of Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel The Woman in White in Charles Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round from 1859 to 1860 is often regarded as the birth of a new type of fiction in Victorian England that came to dominate the literary market in the 1860s: the sensation novel. Even though recent criticism has widened the remit of the genre to include examples from earlier decades, Collins’s novel of mystery, deception and murder exerted an unprecedented cultural influence: readers (like the seasoned novelist W. M. Thackeray) are reported to have sat up all night ploughing through the pages of Collins’s doorstopper in a frenzy to find out what happened next. The novel became a singular object of consumption in other respects as well: ladies with money to spare could treat themselves to Woman-in-White fashion and Woman-in-White perfume, and music lovers could dance to Woman-in-White waltzes. Other novelists followed Collins and created ever more exciting ‘novels with a secret’, and the 1860s alone saw two further genre-shaping examples with Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861). This overwhelming popular success prompted conservative critics to rail against these titillating productions: the novelist Margaret Oliphant was appalled by the representation of sensation fiction’s heroines as “fleshly and unlovely”, and the Dean of St Paul’s, Henry L. Mansel, condemned sensation authors like Collins, Braddon and Charles Reade for offering cheap literary fare and – more dangerously – for “preaching to the nerves” of their readers. In this seminar, students will read two long sensation novels (The Woman in White and Lady Audley’s Secret) and one shorter example taken from the genre of detective fiction (Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles) – a form that can be fruitfully traced to the sensation novels of the 1860s. We will place these novels in their rich historical and cultural contexts and engage with the immediate responses to the genre. We will study sensation fiction’s generic predecessors (such as the Gothic romance and the silver-fork-novel) and weigh its significance for modern forms like the crime novel and the psychological thriller.


         

      Voraussetzungen



      Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Aufbaumoduls 1 (Surveying English Literatures)

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      Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung). Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.



      Literaturhinweise


      Zur Anschaffung: Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White [1859-1860], ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). [ISBN: 9780199535637]; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret [1862], ed. Lyn Pykett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). [ISBN: 9780199577033]; Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles [1902], ed. Christopher Frayling (London: Penguin, 2001). [ISBN: 9780140437867].



      Zur Einführung geeignet: Kate Flint, “Sensation”, in K.F., ed., The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 220-242.
    • 17356 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The Bountiful Constraint (Jordan Schnee)
      Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 18.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      How does constrained writing paradoxically open up language? What overt and covert strategies have authors used to create work that is highly formal but also highly playful? The Paris-based literary movement OuLiPo has been the headquarters of constrained writing since its inception in the middle of the last century. The group is well-known for writers like Georges Perec and Italo Calvino but has also had a considerable presence in English, from members like Harry Matthews and Ian Monk to the Feminist OuLiPo collective, Foulipo. In this seminar we will focus on OuLiPo and OuLiPo-adjacent output in English. Students should acquire Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature edited by Warren F. Motte.

    • 17357 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Fantasy, Fairies and Nonsense (Susanne Schmid)
      Zeit: Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 11.05.2024)
      Ort: KL 29/139 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar, which is going to centre on Victorian fantasy, fairies (goblins, of course, too), and nonsense, we will read and discuss fiction by H. G. Wells (The Island of Dr Moreau, 1896), George MacDonald (Phantastes: A Fairie Romance, 1858), and Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass, 1871); poetry by Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market, 1862) and Edward Lear; and a few shorter texts. While looking at theories of the fantastic and of nonsense we will also consider issues as diverse as science and responsibility, gender roles, readerships, illustrations, fantastic journeys and spaces, magical and non-magical objects.



      Please make sure that you obtain copies of two major texts, ideally the following editions:
      Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, ed. Peter Hunt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Oxford World’s Classics.
      H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau, ed. Darryll Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Oxford World’s Classics.



      The other texts will be made available via Blackboard (links, scans, electronic editions accessible through the university library). Regular and active participation are necessary. You will also be expected to join a group presentation.



      This course takes the form of a block seminar spread out over four days: 11 May, 24 May, 25 May, 8 June 2024, from 9:00 to 16:00.



      Please register on Campus Management AND send me an email in April once you have received confirmation of your place in the course. You will receive further material in the second half of April.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D3: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

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    • 17358 Vorlesung
      V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonial Theories (Stephan Laqué)
      Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial expansion and oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

    • 17359 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Writing the Middle Passage (Cordula Lemke David Wachter)
      Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 19.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      From the 16th to the 19th century, several million Africans were deported to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade. The collective trauma of what later became known as “the Middle Passage” continues to haunt Carribean and North American cultural imagination. In this seminar, we will discuss literary representations of this historical injustice and its aftermath in the form of transatlantic slavery. Our course will mainly focus on two texts: Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008). But we will also look at passages of other novels, theoretical texts, works of visual art and life writing. We will scrutinize the literary strategies employed in “writing the Middle Passage” and discuss issues such as violence, trauma, haunting, exploitation, economics and law, community and heal-ing.


      This class will deal with violence and racism, and the texts contain graphic and disturbing scenes of racialized and sexualized violence. We will do our best to make our seminar a space where we can engage empathetically and thoughtfully with such content.



      Preparation


      Please purchase and read Morrison’s novel in the following (inexpensive) paperback edi-tions: Toni Morrison: Beloved, Vintage 1997 (ISBN 978-0099760115). Other text will be availa-ble on Blackboard.
    • 17360 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonial Epic (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      At a first glance, postcolonial epic seems to be an oxymoron: classical epics, which are often associated with the construction of heteronormative genealogies, national myths of origin, and the legitimation of colonial rule, appear to be central to the hegemonial power challenged by anti-colonial and postcolonial literature. Many postcolonial texts, however, do reference classical epics—intertextual references that are often discussed in the context of imperial/local hybridities, subverting hegemonial discourses. In view of the recent discussions about postcolonial genres in general, this seminar focuses on the less studied generic transformations of postcolonial epics in their specific cultural contexts. In order to do so, we will read (excerpts of) postcolonial epics that self-consciously reflect their status as epics, for instance, Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990), Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (1997), Myung Mi Kim’s Dura (1998) or Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003).

    • 17361 Vorlesung
      V-Culture-Gender-Media: Theorizing Gender (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will offer a comprehensive introduction to Gender Theories. We will start with the basic terminology, the key concepts, and the historical development of Gender Studies, and address parallels and differences between Gender Studies and Feminism, Masculinity Studies and Queer Studies. Focusing on a variety of examples from literature and culture, mainly (but not exclusively) from the 20th and 21st centuries, we will consider the construction of gender identities and their intersections with other social categories such as race, class, sexual orientation, religion etc. This will also include a consideration of cultural differences and historical changes. The second half of the semester will be dedicated to more recent debates and approaches, such as gender and religion, gender and ecology, queer temporality, gender and Disability Studies, and Trans Studies.

       

      The course will be organised as a lecture series with discussion. Students are expected to attend regularly and read short texts in preparation of weekly classes. All texts will be available on Blackboard.


    • 17362 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will focus on the representations, constructions, and negotiations of Jewishness in late 20th and early 21st-century British literature, film, and culture. This will include the various responses to both the long tradition of anti-Jewish hatred and the recent rise in anti-Semitism. We will read texts by British Jewish and non-Jewish writers that address topics such as Holocaust remembrance, religion and sexuality, the conflicts in a multi-ethnic society, the tensions between the individual and the community, as well as between orthodoxy and secularism. In addition, we will discuss contemporary rewritings, screen and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and explore how they re-imagine the character of Shylock, Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender.


      Texts: Students should purchase and read Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience (2006) and Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (2016). Both novels are available in paperback editions and can be ordered at local bookshops. Shorter texts will be available on Blackboard. Participants are expected to be familiar with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.


      Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as response papers, short presentations, group work) and the submission of an essay (c. 4000 words).


  • Vertiefungsmodul D4: Culture - Gender - Media

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    • 17362 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain (Sabine Schülting)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The course will focus on the representations, constructions, and negotiations of Jewishness in late 20th and early 21st-century British literature, film, and culture. This will include the various responses to both the long tradition of anti-Jewish hatred and the recent rise in anti-Semitism. We will read texts by British Jewish and non-Jewish writers that address topics such as Holocaust remembrance, religion and sexuality, the conflicts in a multi-ethnic society, the tensions between the individual and the community, as well as between orthodoxy and secularism. In addition, we will discuss contemporary rewritings, screen and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and explore how they re-imagine the character of Shylock, Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender.


      Texts: Students should purchase and read Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience (2006) and Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (2016). Both novels are available in paperback editions and can be ordered at local bookshops. Shorter texts will be available on Blackboard. Participants are expected to be familiar with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.


      Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as response papers, short presentations, group work) and the submission of an essay (c. 4000 words).


    • 17363 Verschiedenes
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Imagining the English Countryside (Stephan Karschay)
      Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The English countryside is usually imagined in distinctly ‘pastoral’ terms. Ideas of a ‘pastoral’ landscape derive from classical literature and are found in literary texts that deal with the beauties of the natural world and often focus on the lives of shepherds (pastor in Latin) and nymphs. Originating in the Hellenistic period with Theocritus’s Idylls (third century BC) and popularised by the Roman poet Virgil, this mode of writing spread throughout Europe in the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance and came to be almost synonymous with the notions of prelapsarian peace and escapism. Yet pastoral representations of nature have always implicitly gestured beyond themselves to reflect human and natural predicaments and express social, political and religious criticism. In other words, pastoral always has an ulterior motive. Often, pastoral’s nostalgic perspective on a lost ‘Golden Age’ reveals itself to be a cry for radical change that still lies in the future. Thus, pastoral literature and art can reveal several, apparently contradictory, orientations in terms of time: it can hanker after a glorious past (elegiac mode), rejoice at a bountiful present (idyllic mode) or anticipate an improved future (utopian mode). From an ecocritical perspective, the pastoral lends itself to reconfigurations of the relationship between us and the non-human (or better: more-than-human) world, and this seminar is also conceived as a first introduction to the theory and practice of ecocriticism. Even though the genre has somewhat declined in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, pastoral as a cultural and literary strategy has proved to be remarkably resilient and malleable. In this seminar we will look at a broad range of different genres and media – from the pastoral’s origins in Graeco-Roman literature and its heyday in Renaissance poetry and drama, to the ingenious uses of pastoral in contemporary British art, literature and advertising. We will specifically look at the pastoral’s inherent spatial opposition (town versus country) and its triple distinction of time (past versus present versus future) to appreciate the modifications the genre has undergone over the centuries. In seminar discussions and group presentations, students will engage with a large variety of literary and non-literary texts, paintings, photographs, performances, as well as film and television.

        
         

      Voraussetzungen


      Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Aufbaumoduls 2 (Introduction to Cultural Studies).


      Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung). Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.



      Literaturhinweise


      Zur Einführung geeignet: Garrard, Greg. “Pastoral”, in G. G., ed., Ecocriticism(London: Routledge, 2004), 33–58.


      Gifford, Terry. “Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral”, in Louise Westling, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 17–30.


      Rigby, Kate. “Ecocriticism”, in Julian Wolfreys, ed., Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 122–54.


      Zur Anschaffung


      William Shakespeare, As You Like It [1599], Norton or Arden edition.


      Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles [1891], ed. Tim Dolin, London: Penguin.
    • 17364 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Culture-Gender-Media: Conceptualising Cultural Memory in Contemporary British Literature (Marie Catherine Menzel)
      Zeit: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this class, we will be approaching “memory” from the perspective of what is sometimes called “new cultural memory studies” (Erll Memory in Culture, 13). Paralleling other postmodern critical moments, this research field developed under the influence of poststructuralism and the notion of social and cultural construction, with roots in the early 20th century and a significant presence in the humanities since the 1980s and 90s. At the core of this perspective lies the conceptualisation of “memory” in its qualities as a constructed collective, cultural, and social phenomenon.



      In the course of the semester, we will first familiarise ourselves with some foundational theoretical perspectives on memory (and cultural memory) as socially constructed and collective. Then, we will look into some topics pertaining to a specifically British collective and cultural form of memory, touching on topics such as national identity narratives. And finally, we will discuss some literary representations of British collective memory, covering both their memory-reflexive and memory-productive aspects.



      Required Reading:



      Students need to acquire access to the following novels, further required reading will be made available via Blackboard:



      Small Island by Andrea Levy


      England, England by Julian Barnes


      The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro



      Suggested introductory and preparatory reading (excerpts will be read in class):



      Memory in Culture by Astrid Erll


      The Making of English National Identity by Krishan Kumar


      The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann



      Requirements for course participation:



      Successful completion of the module “Introduction to Cultural Studies”.



      Assessment:



      Assessment for full credits is done on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in all class activities (e.g. assignments, presentations, group work, quizzes, preparation of the required reading), and—depending on your chosen module type—a ca. 4000 word essay.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D5: Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

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    • 17366 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Sociolinguistics and Varieties: Sociolinguistics and the Law (Antje Wilton-Franklin)
      Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar focuses on language use in legal contexts and investigates the ways in which sociolinguistic research can help to shed light on language use in the legal process, and the ways in which sociolinguists can contribute to the process for instance by uncovering issues of linguistic inequality or by acting as expert witnesses in criminal cases. We will focus on both spoken and written language in legal institutional contexts, in particular on emergency calls, police interviews and witness statements, courtroom discourse and authorship analysis.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D6: Structure of Englisch

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  • Vertiefungsmodul D7: Semantics and Pragmatics

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    • 17370 Vertiefungsseminar
      VS-Semantics and Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Space (Antje Wilton-Franklin)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/228 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar we will investigate the complex relationship between language and (material) space from a pragmatics perspective. Sessions will be based on the handbook on “Pragmatics of Space” (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110693713/html), comprising various contributions on the linguistic description of space, interaction in different spaces, communicative resources of constructed spaces and cultural differences in the pragmatics of space. We will work closely with a selection of texts from the handbook, which students will be required to read, summarise and discuss. Additionally, we will explore the relationship between language, interaction and space in a practical way by experiencing different spaces and environments interactionally. The course will be linked to a workshop on The Co-Evolution of Language, Interaction and Architecture (https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/interactionlab/workshop-the-co-evolution-of-language-interaction-and-architecture/), where students will be able to participate in and learn from discussion with experts from a variety of different fields.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D1: Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Brit ain

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    • 17352 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Medievalism (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 32/202

      Kommentar

      Whether on the Renaissance stage, in nineteenth-century fiction, in contemporary TV series, the medieval appears to be omnipresent. Why are people fascinated by the medieval—and what is the cultural (as well as ideological) backdrop for an interest in the Middle Ages? After reviewing recent (theoretical) conceptualizations of medievalism, we shall consider a time-period, the Renaissance, which seems not to be particularly interested in the Middle Ages, but rather looks beyond the medieval toward classical antiquity. Discussing medieval and early modern receptions of the Troy story, especially Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, we will address questions concerning the construction of the medieval within medieval texts—and how the latter might be connected to the Renaissance’s (seeming) neglect of the Middle Ages.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D2: Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

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    • 17354 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Shakespeare's Tainted Heroes (Stephan Laqué)
      Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 18.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      As Kenneth Muir has noted, “there is no such thing as Shakespearean Tragedy: there are only Shakespearean tragedies.” This seminar will approach the variety of Shakespearean tragedy by taking a closer look at the ways in which the plays engage with the traditions and the conventions of the genre. Please purchase Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Coriolanus either as individual editions (preferably from the Arden Shakespeare Series) or the Norton Shakespeare: Tragedies (ed. Stephen Greenblatt) – or indeed the complete The Norton Shakespeare (ed. Stephen Greenblatt). Please start reading Romeo and Juliet before the start of the semester.

    • 17355 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The Book and the Body: The Victorian Novel of Sensation (Stephan Karschay)
      Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2024)
      Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The serialisation of Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel The Woman in White in Charles Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round from 1859 to 1860 is often regarded as the birth of a new type of fiction in Victorian England that came to dominate the literary market in the 1860s: the sensation novel. Even though recent criticism has widened the remit of the genre to include examples from earlier decades, Collins’s novel of mystery, deception and murder exerted an unprecedented cultural influence: readers (like the seasoned novelist W. M. Thackeray) are reported to have sat up all night ploughing through the pages of Collins’s doorstopper in a frenzy to find out what happened next. The novel became a singular object of consumption in other respects as well: ladies with money to spare could treat themselves to Woman-in-White fashion and Woman-in-White perfume, and music lovers could dance to Woman-in-White waltzes. Other novelists followed Collins and created ever more exciting ‘novels with a secret’, and the 1860s alone saw two further genre-shaping examples with Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861). This overwhelming popular success prompted conservative critics to rail against these titillating productions: the novelist Margaret Oliphant was appalled by the representation of sensation fiction’s heroines as “fleshly and unlovely”, and the Dean of St Paul’s, Henry L. Mansel, condemned sensation authors like Collins, Braddon and Charles Reade for offering cheap literary fare and – more dangerously – for “preaching to the nerves” of their readers. In this seminar, students will read two long sensation novels (The Woman in White and Lady Audley’s Secret) and one shorter example taken from the genre of detective fiction (Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles) – a form that can be fruitfully traced to the sensation novels of the 1860s. We will place these novels in their rich historical and cultural contexts and engage with the immediate responses to the genre. We will study sensation fiction’s generic predecessors (such as the Gothic romance and the silver-fork-novel) and weigh its significance for modern forms like the crime novel and the psychological thriller.


         

      Voraussetzungen



      Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Aufbaumoduls 1 (Surveying English Literatures)

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      Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung). Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.



      Literaturhinweise


      Zur Anschaffung: Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White [1859-1860], ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). [ISBN: 9780199535637]; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret [1862], ed. Lyn Pykett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). [ISBN: 9780199577033]; Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles [1902], ed. Christopher Frayling (London: Penguin, 2001). [ISBN: 9780140437867].



      Zur Einführung geeignet: Kate Flint, “Sensation”, in K.F., ed., The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 220-242.
    • 17356 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The Bountiful Constraint (Jordan Schnee)
      Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 18.04.2024)
      Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      How does constrained writing paradoxically open up language? What overt and covert strategies have authors used to create work that is highly formal but also highly playful? The Paris-based literary movement OuLiPo has been the headquarters of constrained writing since its inception in the middle of the last century. The group is well-known for writers like Georges Perec and Italo Calvino but has also had a considerable presence in English, from members like Harry Matthews and Ian Monk to the Feminist OuLiPo collective, Foulipo. In this seminar we will focus on OuLiPo and OuLiPo-adjacent output in English. Students should acquire Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature edited by Warren F. Motte.

    • 17357 Vertiefungsseminar
      S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Fantasy, Fairies and Nonsense (Susanne Schmid)
      Zeit: Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 11.05.2024)
      Ort: KL 29/139 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar, which is going to centre on Victorian fantasy, fairies (goblins, of course, too), and nonsense, we will read and discuss fiction by H. G. Wells (The Island of Dr Moreau, 1896), George MacDonald (Phantastes: A Fairie Romance, 1858), and Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass, 1871); poetry by Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market, 1862) and Edward Lear; and a few shorter texts. While looking at theories of the fantastic and of nonsense we will also consider issues as diverse as science and responsibility, gender roles, readerships, illustrations, fantastic journeys and spaces, magical and non-magical objects.



      Please make sure that you obtain copies of two major texts, ideally the following editions:
      Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, ed. Peter Hunt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Oxford World’s Classics.
      H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau, ed. Darryll Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Oxford World’s Classics.



      The other texts will be made available via Blackboard (links, scans, electronic editions accessible through the university library). Regular and active participation are necessary. You will also be expected to join a group presentation.



      This course takes the form of a block seminar spread out over four days: 11 May, 24 May, 25 May, 8 June 2024, from 9:00 to 16:00.



      Please register on Campus Management AND send me an email in April once you have received confirmation of your place in the course. You will receive further material in the second half of April.