Research
Focus Areas
Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur and English late medieval literature and culture
Medieval reception in film and literature
Law and literature of the late 18th century (e.g. John Thelwall, High Treason Trials of 1794)
English literature and culture of the 20th century (e.g. cultural transfer and migration, Europeanisation)
Kindertransport and Holocaust literature
Contemporary Jewish-British literature
Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English (with Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Literature and bio-technology
Conferences at the University of Bamberg
September 27-29, 2019: together with Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. LAPASEC Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference: Final Frontiers: Exploring, Discovering, Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment (financed by Université Franco-Allemande)
October 5-8, 2017: together with Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer and the German Society for English Romanticism: The Politics of Romanticism (et al. funded by DFG)
July 18-20, 2016: together with Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and The Centre for Medieval Studies (ZEMAS): European Myths retold. Tradition or Myth? The Reception of Medieval European Topics in the Anglo-American and European Spheres (et al. funded by DFG)
September 18-21, 2005: together with Anja Müller organisation of the Annual Meeting of the German Anglist Association ("Anglistentag") in Bamberg
June 3-4, 2005: together with Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis a conference on the "Erlöser und Heiler: literarische und filmische Rezeption und Transformation von mittelalterlichen und spätantiken Erlöser- und Heilerfiguren" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and Art and the University of Bamberg
June 2004: Annual meeting of the German Society of Contemporary Drama in English (CDE) on the topic "Staging Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, the University of Bamberg, the Universitäts-Bund association, the American Consulate Munich, the British Council and donations from the Industry
June 2003: International Conference on the Topic "Fashioning Childhood: Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art, the University of Bamberg, the Universitäts-Bund association and donations from the Industry
Courses
Courses taught at the University of Bamberg
SS 2021
V: Jews in England: From William the Conqueror to Oliver Cromwell and Beyond
HS: Daniel Defoe
HS: Science Fiction Genres
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
WS 2020/21
V: History of the English Novel I
HS: The Bronte Sisters
HS: Reading Theory
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
SS 2020
V: History of English Poetry III
HS: Contemporary Jewish Women's Writing
HS: New Lines and Movements: Post-War English Poetry
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
WS 2019/20
V: History of English Poetry II
HS: Borders in Exile, Migration and War
HS: Metaphysical Poets
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
SS 2019
V: History of English Poetry I
HS: The Novel in the 1790s
HS: Spectre of Defeat: Post 9/11War in Contemporary British Drama
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
WS 2018/19
V: History of the Novel II
HS: The Novel of Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity
HS: Antisemitism in English and American Literature and Culture (zusammen mit Pascal Fischer)
Ü: Key Texts in Literary Theory (zusammen mit Chiara Manghi)
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
SS 2018:
V: History of the Novel I
HS: Frankenstein
HS: How Criseyde became Cressida: From Middle English Chaucerian romance to Early Modern English Shakespearean Drama (zusammen mit Gabriele Knappe)
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
WS 2017/18:
Forschungssemester
SS 2017:
V: Jewish-British Culture
HS: 20th-Century British Poetry
HS: John Milton's Paradise Lost
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
Ü: Key Texts in Literary Theory
WS 2016/17:
HS: Contemporary British Jewish Literature
HS: Pre-Raphaelite Literature and Art in Victorian Britain
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
Ü: Key Texts in Literary Theory
SS 2016:
V: History of the Novel (II)
HS: British Auteur Cinema
HS: British Migration Literature and Modernity
HS: Beyond Migration and Diaspora: The New Mobility Paradigm (zusammen mit Christine Gerhardt)
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
Ü: Key Texts in Literary Theory (zusammen mit Chiara Manghi)
WS 2015/16
V: History of the Novel (I)
HS: Middle English Romances (zusammen mit Gabriele Knappe)
HS: Revolution in the Works of Tom Stoppard and Twentieth-Century British Literature
Ü: Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung
Ü: Key Texts in Literary Theory (zusammen mit Chiara Manghi)
SS 2015:
V: History of English Drama (II)
HS: British Modernist Novel
HS: British Political Drama
OS: Forschungsseminar
WS 2014/15:
V: History of the English Drama (I)
HS: Thomas Malory (zusammen mit Gabriele Knappe)
HS: Henry Fielding
OS: Forschungsseminar
SS 2014:
V: History of English Poetry (II)
HS: Easters European Writers in English
PS: Huxley and Orwell: Two views on English Literature Between the Wars
OS: Forschungsseminar
WS 2013/14:
Forschungssemester
SS 2013:
V: History of English Poetry (I)
HS: Postwar and Contemporary Jewish British Literature
OS: Forschungsseminar
WS 2012/13:
V: History of the English Novel (II)
HS/Ü: Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (zusammen mit Gabriele Knappe)
OS: Forschungsseminar
SS 2012:
V: History of the English Novel (I)
HS: Charles Dickens
HS/OS: Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theory: Ecocriticism
OS: Forschungsseminar
WS 2011/12:
V: History of Drama (II)
HS: Escape to Life: Deutsche Literaten in englischsprachigen Exil
HS: The Bronte Sisters
OS: Oberseminar für Masterstudierende und Promovierende
OS: Forschungsseminar
SS 2011:
V: The History of Drama (I)
HS: Victorian Poetry
HS: Literary Definitions of the Human
HS: Recent Short Stories from the UK and Ireland
OS: Forschungsseminar Migrantenliteratur
WS 2010/11:
The History of Poetry (II)
HS: The Love Story of Troilus and Criseyde in Chaucer, Henryson and Shakepeare (zusammen mit Gabriele Knappe)
HS: Recent British and Irish Drama
OS: Forschungsseminar Migrantenliteratur
SS 2010:
V: The History of English Poetry I
HS: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Drama
HS: Law and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Ü: Forschungsseminar Literaturwissenschaft
WS 2009/10:
V: The History of the English Novel II
HS: Central and Eastern European Immigration in British and Irish Literature
HS: Theatre and Drama in the Long Eighteenth Century
Ü: Forschungsseminar Literaturwissenschaft
SS 2009:
V: The History of the English Novel I
OS: What Comes After Postcolonialism?
HS: London in Literature Through the Ages
Ü: Forschungsseminar Literaturwissenschaft
WS 2008/09:
Forschungssemester
SS 2008:
HS: Representations of the Orient in British Literature
VL: The History of Drama (I)
Ü: Übung zum Staatsexamen in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft
PS I: Introduction to English and American Literature
OS: Forschungsseminar Migrantenliteratur
WS 2007/08:
HS: George Bernard Shaw
HS: Holocaust Literature
HS: The Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Ü: Migrantenroman (Projekt)
Übung zum Staatsexamen in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft
SoSe 2007:
HS: European History in Contemporary British and Irish Novels
OS: Towns and Landscapes in English Literature (zs. mit Anja Müller)
Exkursion nach Südengland
Ü: Migrantenroman (Projekt)
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
WS 2006/07:
HS: Oscar Wilde's Works and Trials
OS: Der englische und französische Migrantenroman
Examensübung
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
SoSe 2006:
HS: T.E. Lawrence
WS 2005/06 :
VL: The History of the English Novel II
HS: Alternative Histories in Contemporary British Drama
HS: Literature and Biology (zs. mit Heiner Bus)
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
SoSe 2005
VL: The History of the English Novel I
Übung: Central Europe in Contemporary English Literature HS: Catholic Writers in Great Britain
OS: Constructing Identities in 18th-century English Literature
HS: Fantasy and Reason (zs. mit Anja Müller)
WS 2004/05:
VL: The History of English Theatre and Drama II
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
PSII: Percy B. Shelley
HS: American and English Literatures of Immigration (zs. mit Heiner Bus)
SoSe 2004:
VL: The History of English Theatre and Drama I
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
OS: Eighteenth-Century Woman Writing
HS: Victorian Poetry
WS 2003/04:
VL: History of English Poetry II
zs. mit Kollegen VL: Mittelalterrezeption im Film
HS: Literature of the Caribbean Contact Zones (zs. mit Heiner Bus)
HS: British and Irish Drama and Theatre in the 1990s
PS: Introduction to English and American Literature
SoSe 2003:
VL: History of English Poetry I
PSII: Arthur Koestler
HS: Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
OS: Reading Literary Theory
WS 2002/03:
VL: Contemporary British and Irish Drama and Theatre
HS: Cross-Atlantic Transfers
PSII: The Holocaust and After in British and American Literature
PSI: Introduction to English and American Literature
SS 2002:
VL: Englische Literatur und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts
(Professur in Bamberg) HS: Crime and Literature
HS: English Satire
PS: The Modern Novel in English
Courses taught at the University of Freiburg (Substituting Prof. Monika Fludernik)
WS 2001/2002:
VL: Der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts
WÜ: Der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts
HS: The Holocaust and After in British Literature
HS: Thomas Malory Morte Darthur
Courses at the PH Dresden and the TU Dresden
SoSe 2001:
HS: Oscar Wilde's Works and Trials
PS: From Heptarchy to Devolution (Großbritannienstudien)
WÜ: English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
Introduction into English Literature
WS 2000/2001:
2x Introduction into English Literature
PS: Culture and Law in 18th-century England (Großbritannien-studien)
PS: Elizabethan History Dramas (class page im Internet)
SoSe 2000:
PS: Holocaust Poetry
PS: From Frankenstein to Dolly: Literature and Bio-Engineering
Beide Seminare mit class page im Internet: rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~lehre/classpages/)
WS 1999/2000:
Introduction into English Literature
PS: Chapbooks and the Legal Culture
SoSe 1999:
WÜ: Victorian Poetry
PS: H.G. Wells
HS: Victorian Poetry (in Vertretung von Prof. Böker)
WS 1998/99:
Introduction into English Literature
PS: Literature and Science
SoSe 1998:
PS: Definitions of the Human in Literature and Film (1896-1996)
PS: Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries in Late 18th-century English Literature
WS 1997/98:
Introduction into English Literature
PS: Modern British Novel
SoSe 1996:
PS: Restoration Comedy
PS: Detective Theory and Fiction
WS 1995/96:
PS: Eighteenth-Century British Drama and Theatre
PS: British Short Stories
SoSe 1995:
PS: The Use of History in Contemporary British Drama
WÜ: Modern and Contemporary English Poetry
WS 1994/95:
PS: Crime and Law in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Centuries Novels
PS: Post-war British Drama and Theatre
SoSe 1994:
PS: Daniel Defoe
WÜ: English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
WS 1993/94:
PS: John Milton's Paradise Lost
WÜ: English Literature of the Eighteenth Century
SoSe 1993:
PS: English Romanticism
Introduction into English Literature
WS 1992/93:
2x Introduction into English Literature
SoSe 1992:
2x Introduction into English Literature
WS 1991/92:
2x Introduction into English Literature
Courses taught at the University of Northern Iowa
Herbst 1996:
Twentieth-Century British Novel
2x Dystopian Novel (General Education)
Courses taught at the University of Regensburg
SoSe 1991:
Chaucers Canterbury Tales
Einführung in die Englische Literaturwissenschaft
WS 1990/91:
William Blake
Shakespeares Historien
SoSe 1990:
Englische Literatur des 15. Jahrhunderts
Einführung Englische Literaturwissenschaft
WS 1989/90:
Metaphysical Poetry
Einführung Englische Literaturwissenschaft
SoSe 1989:
Shakespeares Richard II
Einführung Englische Literaturwissenschaft
WS 1988/89:
Thomas Malorys Morte Darthur
Courses abroad and at institutions outside of university
Courses abroad
seit 2005: Adjunct Professor an der Jiaotong University in Xi'an (VR China)
Courses at insitutions outside of university:
a) Lehrveranstaltung an der Sommerakademie der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
in Rovinj (Kroatien) vom 16.-29. September 2001 zum Themenbereich des SFB, Teilprojekt N "Institutionalisierung und Transfer rechtskultureller Normen in England": "Kriminalität, Strafe und Moral in der Literatur am Beispiel des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts" (zusammen mit Dr. Helmut Mottel, Germanistik, Dresden)
b) Lehrveranstaltungen in der berufsbegleitenden Weiterbildung (BBW)
Programm des Sächsischen Ministeriums für Kultus zur Weiterbildung vor allem ehemaliger Russischlehrer
August/ September 1995 Introduction into English Literature
März/April 1995 PS: Contemporary British Drama
August/September 1994 Introduction into English Literature