Summer term 2014
Below you will find all classes taught by staff members associated with the English, Postcolonial and Media Studies in summer term 2014.
Prof. Dr. Mark Stein
Dr. Silke Stroh
AOR Dr. habil. Markus Schmitz
Caroline Kögler
Jeyapriya Srieaswaranathan
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Prof. Dr. Mark Stein
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Group V
094560 | Seminar | Thu 10-12 | 2 SWS | ES 130
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies is a two-semester course concluding with a written exam at the end of the summer term.
Part I of the course took place in the winter semester and covered both literary and non-literary cultural representations.
In the summer semester, part two of the course focuses on literature. It provides an overview of literary genres and discusses methods and tools for textual analysis and interpretation. Reading American, British, and postcolonial texts, students are introduced to the practice of literary and cultural studies. Building on the knowledge acquired in the winter term, they learn how to combine specific critical and theoretical perspectives with detailed exploration of three set texts.
Students need to purchase a copy of each of these and must have read all three texts by the beginning of the summer semester:
William Shakespeare. Hamlet. c. 1599. Ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. London: Arden, 2006. Print.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1855. In: Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon. New York: W.W. Norton 2002. Print.
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. 1997. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. Print.
Black British Literature from the Eighteenth Century until Today: From Equiano to Evaristo
094760 | Vorlesung | Mon 12-14 | 2 SWS | JO 1
Since the eighteenth century, black authors have written and published in the British Isles - and in effect changed the face of English literature. This lecture course surveys this 'multicultural' body of literature by black and Asian writers, introducing students to such texts as Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789), Mary Prince's History (1831), Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures (1857), Duse Mohamed Ali In the Land of the Pharaohs (1911), Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling (1934), Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988), Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000), Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots (2008). The lecture also addresses the cultural locations of these texts and invites reflection on critical terminology such as "black British" and "British Asian", situating writing in British, postcolonial and transnational contexts. For some lectures, reading samples discussed in the lecture will be made available via learnweb.
The Black Cultural Archive
095456 | Seminar | Wedn 10-12 | 2 SWS | JO 101
This seminar takes on a small selection of those primary and secondary texts which make up the UK’s black cultural archive. This is a body of work which focuses not only on identity, ethnicity, and gender and race relations, but also seeks to represent the long-standing black presence on the British Isles in its multiplicity and complexity. Focussing on historical, critical and theoretical materials – such as work by Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy or Peter Fryer – the seminar engages students in debates about how to read, how to teach, how to contextualize, how to historicize, and how to theorize black British literary and visual cultural production.
Betreungsseminar
095862 | Kolloquium | Thu 14-16 | 2 SWS | ES 333
Diese Veranstaltung ist auf die Bedürfnisse von Studierenden zugeschnitten, die sich bei mir zum Examen anmelden möchten oder angemeldet haben, oder die bei mir eine Modulabschlussprüfung absolvieren. Die Veranstaltung befasst sich - in getrennten Sitzungen - mit allen Prüfungstypen; es geht es um Modulabschlussprüfungen (mündlich, schriftlich), Klausuren, mündliche Abschlussprüfungen (Staatsexamen/Magister), sowie um die Planung und Begleitung von schriftlichen Hausarbeiten bzw. B.A.- und M.A.-Arbeiten. Spezifische Probleme und Strategien der Prüfungsvorbereitung werden besprochen; Prüfungssimulationen können durchgeführt werden.
TeilnehmerInnen besuchen ausgewählte, für sie relevante, Sitzungen. Für Studierende, deren BA-, MA-, MAed-Arbeit durch mich betreut werden, findet 14-tägig ein Examenskolloquium (Do, 14-16h) statt. Hier werden Projekte vorgestellt und diskutiert. Details können dem Syllabus entnommen werden (s. Aushang).
Eine persönliche Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich, sie erfolgt in der ersten Sitzung, aber die elektronische Anmeldung in HISLSF ist erforderlich, wenn ihr Studiengang ein Betreuungsseminar erfordert.
Kolloquium "Postcolonial, Transnational and Transcultural Studies"
095839 | Oberseminar | fortnightly
This is a research colloquium on Postcolonial, Transnational, and Transcultural Studies (PTTS) mainly for PhD-students and postdocs. Each semester we discuss a range of topical essays as well as work in progress of participants. If you are interested in the colloquium, get in touch via email.
(room 126)
Dr. Silke Stroh
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Group VII
094589 | Seminar | Thu 12-14 | 2 SWS | ES 131
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies is a two-semester course concluding with a written exam at the end of the summer term.
Part I of the course took place in the winter semester and covered both literary and non-literary cultural representations.
In the summer semester, part two of the course focuses on literature. It provides an overview of literary genres and discusses methods and tools for textual analysis and interpretation. Reading American, British, and postcolonial texts, students are introduced to the practice of literary and cultural studies. Building on the knowledge acquired in the winter term, they learn how to combine specific critical and theoretical perspectives with detailed exploration of three set texts.
Students need to purchase a copy of each of these and must have read all three texts by the beginning of the summer semester:
William Shakespeare. Hamlet. c. 1599. Ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. London: Arden, 2006. Print.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1855. In: Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon. New York: W.W. Norton 2002. Print.
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. 1997. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. Print.
Participants need to have attended Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I.
Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies)
095695 | Kolloquium | Thu 16-18 | 2 SWS | ES 3
AOR Dr. habil. Markus Schmitz
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Group VI + VIII
094574 | Seminar | Wedn 16-18 | 2 SWS | ES 131
094593 | Seminar | Thu 16-18 | 2 SWS | ES 131
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies is a two-semester course concluding with a written exam at the end of the summer term.
Part I of the course took place in the winter semester and covered both literary and non-literary cultural representations.
In the summer semester, part two of the course focuses on literature. It provides an overview of literary genres and discusses methods and tools for textual analysis and interpretation. Reading American, British, and postcolonial texts, students are introduced to the practice of literary and cultural studies. Building on the knowledge acquired in the winter term, they learn how to combine specific critical and theoretical perspectives with detailed exploration of three set texts.
Students need to purchase a copy of each of these and must have read all three texts by the beginning of the summer semester:
William Shakespeare. Hamlet. c. 1599. Ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. London: Arden, 2006. Print.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1855. In: Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon. New York: W.W. Norton 2002. Print.
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. 1997. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. Print.
Participants need to have attended Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I.
Caroline Kögler
Exoticism, Madness, and Migration
095260 | Lektürekurs | Mon 14-16 | 2 SWS | ES 202
The exotic is not an inherent quality to be found 'in' certain people, objects, or places; instead, exoticism can be seen as a system of perception that renders people, objects, and places strange and mysterious, while – at the same time – it domesticates them: they become familiar in the exotic sensation that they induce, but at the same time, this sensation itself requires that they be kept at a distance, and controlled. (Huggan 2001) The exotic can be seen, then, as a socio-cultural and even political mechanism that structures and organises encounters with otherness and posits otherness as alluring, but also potentially dangerous. Madness has often been treated in colonial and postcolonial novels as such a form of dangerous otherness, as a case of difference gone the wrong way, or gone too far (i.e. beyond control). Madness has further been topical where the internalisation of colonial discourse and its exoticising gaze has been addressed (e.g. as traumatic), whilst self-exoticism has also been shown to offer an opportunity for self-empowerment. In this context, migration across geographical and socio-cultural borders posits a unique chance to encounter the relativity – if not the pathological element – of such forms of categorization and perception: exoticism and madness (pathologized difference). Because migration – or even thinking about migration – potentially shakes the very foundations on which narratives of socio-cultural superiority are build, considering such an opportunity has often resulted in colonial paranoia, and, in turn, in being pathologized.
In this reading class, we explore these relationships by engaging with the following novels:
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Students are also expected to know Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre as a background text for Wide Sargasso Sea.
There will be a quiz in the first session to ensure that you have done your reading.
Communicating Texts and Theories with a focus on: South Africa in a colonial and postcolonial framework: Group III
094957 | Übung | Mon 16-18 | 2 SWS | ES 3
In dieser Übung werden die im Grundlagenmodul erworbenen Grundkenntnisse und Fähigkeiten in Spezialisierungsgebieten differenziert und gefestigt. Die detaillierten methodischen Kenntnisse werden zur Anwendung gebracht, indem sie auf historisch oder systematisch definierte Themen aus den Bereichen British, American und/oder Postcolonial Studies bezogen werden. Somit sollen die Studierenden lernen, eigene Forschungsfragen über britische, amerikanische und postkoloniale Literatur- und Kulturphänomene zu formulieren.
This class focusses on: South Africa in a colonial and postcolonial framework.
We will explore the following novels: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
Studienleistung: regelmäßige Anwesenheit, individuelle Kurzpräsentation und Lektüre.
There will be a quiz in the first session to ensure that you have done your reading.
Jeyapriya Srieaswaranathan
Violence, Incest and Queer Desire
094851 | Seminar | Mon 12-14 | 2 SWS | ES 3
This course aims to provide insight into (post)colonial physical, epistemic and representational violence, incest (survorship) as a site of political disruption (and other readings) as well as theoretical assumptions that undergird queer studies, from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. These works include (short) fiction, (short) films, historical and sociological materials, theoretical texts, focusing on modes of depicting the intersections between violence, sexuality, race, class, gender and nationality.
Students are expected to give an oral presentation and contribute regularly to class discussions. For accreditation, a term paper (MLA-style) is required.
Communicating Texts and Theories: Group IV
094961 | Übung | Mon 14-16 | 2 SWS | ES 2
In dieser Übung werden die im Grundlagenmodul erworbenen Grundkenntnisse und Fähigkeiten in Spezialisierungsgebieten differenziert und gefestigt. Die detaillierten methodischen Kenntnisse werden zur Anwendung gebracht, indem sie auf historisch oder systematisch definierte Themen aus den Bereichen British, American und/oder Postcolonial Studies bezogen werden. Somit sollen die Studierenden lernen, eigene Forschungsfragen über britische, amerikanische und postkoloniale Literatur- und Kulturphänomene zu formulieren.
Diese Übung hat den Schwerpunkt Postcolonial & Diaspora Studies.
Literatur: Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. Print.
Studienleistung: regelmäßige Anwesenheit, individuelle Kurspräsentation und Lektüre.
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Academic Skills II: Group VIII + IX
094718 | Sprachpraktische Übung | Mon 14-16 | 2 SWS | ES 226
094722 | Sprachpraktische Übung | Mon 16-18 | 2 SWS | ES 226