Lecture Courses

Lectures as part of lecture cycle on Modern Theories of Literature (Summer 2002 – Summer 2006):

"Postmodern and Poststructuralist Perspectives"

"Cultural Studies and Beyond"

 Lectures as part of lecture cycle on American Cultural Studies (Winter 2001/02 – Winter 2008/09):

"Coordinates in Time: Major Events, Challenges, and Defining Moments in American Cultural History"

"Tracing the Fabrics of Contemporary Everyday Life: Recurrent Issues in American Religion, Civil Religion, Sports"

"American Civil Religion and Cultural Memory"

"U.S. Women’s History / Gender Studies"

"Multilingual America"

Undergraduate Seminars

Fighting Images: America at War (Winter 2008/09)

21st-Century American Fiction (Summer 2006, Summer 2008)

American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the End of the Nineteenth Century (Winter 2003/04, Winter 2004/05, Winter 2005/06, Winter 2007/08)

Survey Course USA: Understanding America (Winter 2002/03, Summer 2003, Summer 2005, Summer 2006)

American Literature and Culture of the 1960s (Summer 2002)

Graduate Seminars

Fundamentals: Approaches, Concepts, Theories (European-American Studies and American Studies Master-Programs) (Winter 2010/11)

Fundamentals of American Studies (American Studies Master-Program) (Winter 2005/06, Winter 2007/08, Winter 2008/09)

Visual Cultures of America (Summer 2004)

Review Courses for Exam Candidates

Vorbereitungskurs Grundwissensprüfung (Schwerpunkt Amerikanistik) (Winter 2008/09)

Repetitorium für Examenskandidaten (nicht vertieft; Schwerpunkt Amerikanistik) (Winter 2005/06, Summer 2006)

Introductory Literature Course

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (Summer 2001, Winter 2001/02, Winter 2007/08, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2011)

Courses Taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

English 125: Legacies of Memory (Spring 2001)

English 125: Ways of Reading (Fall 2000)

Course Taught at the University of Mainz

Integrated Language Course (Summer 2000)