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Humanities Faculty

Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. American Studies
  7. Team
  8. Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt
  9. Teaching

Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Courses

Lectures (all modules)

  • American Literature I (Colonial Era - Romanticism)
  • American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism)

Seminars (Basic Module)

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

Seminars (Advanced and Specialization Module)

  • Presidential Elections and Contemporary American Literature and Culture
  • American Studies and the Planetary: Perspectives, Histories, Futures (in conjunction with Yildiz Asar's Übung "Storied Planet: Ecological Crisis, Anthropocene, and American Studies", forming an optional 10-ECTS-module: The Planetary)
  • Immigration and Exile in America: Historical and Literary Perspectives (with Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
  • Walt Whitman in American Culture (with Prof. Ed Folsom, University of Iowa)
  • "Jump at the Sun": Women of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Contemporary Arab-American Culture (with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi)
  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
  • Exam Preparation American Literature (Repetitorium für Lehrämter)
  • Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century American History, Literature, and Culture (with Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
  • Green Popular Culture? Environmentalism and American Film (with Dr. Judith Rauscher)
  • Emily Dickinson and 19th-Century Popular Culture
  • The American Presidency: History, Literature, Culture (18th-21st Century) (with Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
  • The Challenges of Intersectionality: Race and Gender in German and American Literature & Culture (with Judith Rauscher)
  • The American Civil War – History, Literature, Film (with Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
  • Arab-American Literature (with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi)
  • The Politics of American Poetry
  • From Puritan Romance to Cross-Dressing Action Comedy: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels
  • Whitman, Dickinson, and Ecocriticism 
  • American Photography and Cultural History
  • The Nineteenth-Century Novel Now: Reexamining Key Moments in American Literature
  • Walt Whitman
  • "Wie man eine Geschichte erzählt": German and American Short Stories
  • Friendship in German and American Literature 
  • Walt Whitman and American Culture
  • Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Obama: First Ladies and American Political Culture
  • Stories for a New Century: Contemporary American Literature
  • Migration Now: America's Literature of Movement
  • Nature and Economy in Toni Morrison's Novels
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Beyond Migration and Diaspora: The New Mobilities Paradigm (Oberseminar, with Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)
  • Theories of Nature, Theories of Mobility: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies (Oberseminar)
  • Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theory: Ecocriticism (Oberseminar, with Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)
  • Issues in Contemporary Literary & Cultural Theory (Oberseminar, with Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)
  • Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA and Teacher Degree)
  • American Studies Workshop (Oberseminar and PhD-Colloquium)