Courses
Introductory seminars
Introduction to English and American Literature
Undergraduate seminars
Shakespeare's Comedies – A Stage-Centred Approach
Hamlet – Text, Criticism, Performance
Religious Poetry from Donne to Eliot
Victorian Sensational Fiction
An Introduction to Henry James
Robert Louis Stevenson
English Short Stories at the Turn of the Century
Rudyard Kipling
British Crime Fiction
"The Waste Land" and Other Poems
The Catholic Novel – Waugh and Greene
Vladimir Nabokov
Man and Animal in Contemporary British Fiction
Doris Lessing
Contemporary British Drama – the Nineties
Spies and Traitors in Recent British Drama
Tom Stoppard
The Novels and Plays of Michael Frayn
Contemporary Canadian Writers
Genre and “Auteur-Ship” in the Films of Neil Jordan
Graduate seminars
Point of View
Novels and Rewrites
Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare’s Histories
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Regicide in Shakespeare’s Tragedies – Hamlet and Macbeth
Justice and Mercy in Shakespeare’s Comedies: The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, The Tempest
Shakespeare on Film: Hamlet
Metaphysical Poets
Victorian Gothic
Victorian Arthuriana
Victorian Poetry
The Preraphaelites
British Colonialism in Fiction: Kipling and Conrad
The Edwardian Era – An Age of Transition
The Well-Made Play
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
The British Boarding School in Fiction and Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Film noir and Literature
The “Cambridge Footlights” and Its Influence on British Humour
Lectures
The Nation's Favourite Poems
A Survey of British Drama
Short Story, Novella, Tale – A History of Short Fiction
The Works of William Shakespeare
The Victorian Period
A History of British Film
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Reading classes and "Übungen"
Practice of Interpretation: Poetry
Childhood and Memory in Recent British Fiction
The Private and the Political in British Film