Dr. Nicole K. Konopka

Lehrveranstaltungen

Seminare im Basismodul

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Seminare im Aufbaumodul

"Outliving systems of tyranny": Hemingway, Iberian Contemporaries, and the Spanish Civil War (gemeinsam mit Susen Halank (Romanistik) und inklusive Exkursion nach Spanien im Januar 2025)
Promised Land America (inklusive Tagesausflug zur Austellung "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" im Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
Journey of a Lifetime: Stories of German Migration in a Transatlantic Context (inklusive Tagesausflug zum Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim)
The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture
In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning Kurs über die Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern)
More Than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture
New Approaches to Old Favorites: Re-Reading North-American Children's and Young-Adult Book Classics (1860s-1960s)
From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture
From Benjamin Franklin to "The Girls Next Door": The Rags-to-Riches Narrative in American Culture
The Good, the Bad, and the Sublime: German and American Romanticism (inklusive Unterricht im ETA Hoffmann Haus, Bamberg)
From Gossip Girl to Dust Bowl Okie: The Representation of Social Class in American Literature and Culture
Golder Door: Italian Perspectives on the USA and Vice Versa (inklusive Exkursion nach Rom)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Shakespeare: Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies (mit Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug, Dr. Isolde Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer, Dr. Beatrix Hesse) - focus: "Shakespeare in the American High School" (Culture and Media)
Contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture
"Jetzt ist die Zeit und Stunde da, wir reisen nach Amerika!" German Immigrants in US-American and Canadian Literature and Culture (inklusive Exkursion nach Hamburg und Bremerhaven)
Beloved Beast: Talking (about) Animals in German and American Literature and Culture
Coming into Clover: Past and Present of Irish America (inklusive Exkursion nach Dublin)
Across the Sea: Transatlantic Relationships between Germany and the USA (inklusive Studierendensymposium in Prag)
Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug nach Neuschwanstein)
Germans in the American Civil War (inklusive Tagesausflug zum Civil War Reenactment in Walldürn)
Dudes, Machos, and Real Men: Masculinity in American Fiction
Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism (inklusive Tagesausflug in den Landschaftspark Wilhelmsbad/Hanau und das Städelmuseum Frankfurt/Main)
The Figure of the Outsider in German and American Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug zur Aufführung des Götz von Berlichingen im Rahmen der Burgfestspiele in Jagsthausen)
The European Immigrant Autobiography: A Fragment of U.S. American History
Eating Cultures: Food in a Largely American Con-Text
A Different Point of View: Female Narratives in American Immigrant Literature

Übungen (alle Module)

The Sea in North American and German Literature
The American West:ern: Exploring the Myth, the Place, the Genre
From Know-It-All to Clearly Clueless: Exploring the Narrator in US-American and Canadian Fiction
Social Writing, Socialist Writing, So-called Writing? American Literature 1860–1910
Reading the Frontier: Westward Expansion in American Literature and Culture
Disturbing Paradigms: Mental Illness in U.S. American Literature and Culture
Reading Age: Childhood and Youth in German and North-American Literature and Culture (inklusive Tagesausflug zum 17. Internationalen Comic-Salon Erlangen)
Like Feathered Brushstrokes in the Sand: Reading Asian North American Fiction
Tough Ladies: Women in American Fiction
13 Books That Shaped America
Reading the American City
Through the Eyes of the 'Monster': An-other History of America
Reading Texts of the Westward Expansion: How the West Was Won
Have a Little Faith: Religion in American Fiction
From Rags to Riches: The American Dream in U.S. American Fiction
Promised Land: Multicultural Perspectives on the United States of America

Übungen im Ergänzungs- und Vertiefungsmodul und Tutorien

How to Write a Term Paper (BA/LA/MA)
Key Texts of Literary Theory
Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies
Repetitorium "Amerikanische Literatur" (Examensübung für Lehrämter)
Betreuungsübung "Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft" (BA)

Media Session

Strange Ones: Tales of Magic, Myth, and Mischief (coming soon)
The Weird and the Wondrous: 1980s Fantasy Icons (inklusive Herr der Ringe Marathon)
From The Big Sleep to Little Women: Voices of American Cinema (inklusive Hunger Games Marathon)
Vampire Movies (inklusive Twilight Marathon)
Circus Movies
So Much More Than Red, White, and Blue: Movies with Colors in their Title
The American West
Body Switch (zusammen mit Lorena Bickert)
American Summer Camp Movies
The Wild West on the Big Screen
Looking Good! Beauty and American Cinema
Celluloid Quest: Heroes, Heroines, and the American Cinema
Shopping Films
Hotel Films
"And the Oscar® goes to…"
American Icons
Wild Ones/Mild Ones: Humans and Animals on Screen
Tales of the Strange and Wonderful: Femininity on Screen
The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism on Screen
Famous Cinematic Quotations