Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Lehrveranstaltungen

Vorlesungen (alle Module)

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

Seminare im Basismodul

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

Seminare im Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodul

• Presidential Elections and Contemporary American Literature and Culture
• American Studies and the Planetary: Perspectives, Histories, Futures (im Verbund mit Yildiz Asar's ?bung "Storied Planet: Ecological Crisis, Anthropocene, and American Studies", gemeinsames Modul für 10 ECTS: The Planetary)
• Immigration and Exile in America: Historical and Literary Perspectives (mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
• Walt Whitman in American Culture (mit Prof. Ed Folsom, University of Iowa)
• "Jump at the Sun": Women of the Harlem Renaissance
• Contemporary Arab-American Culture (mit Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi)
• Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century American History, Literature, and Culture (mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
• Green Popular Culture? Environmentalism and American Film (mit Dr. Judith Rauscher)
• Emily Dickinson and 19th-Century Popular Culture
• The American Presidency: History, Literature, Culture (18th-21st Century) (mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
• The Challenges of Intersectionality: Race and Gender in German and American Literature & Culture (mit Judith Rauscher)
• The American Civil War – History, Literature, Film (mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag)
• Arab-American Literature (mit 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 erz?hlt": 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

Oberseminare

• Amerikanistische Werkstatt
• American Studies and the Planetary: Perspectives, Histories, Futures
• Beyond Migration and Diaspora: The New Mobilities Paradigm (mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)
• Theories of Nature, Theories of Mobility: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies
• Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theory: Ecocriticism (mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)
• Issues in Contemporary Literary & Cultural Theory (mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka)

?bungen im Vertiefungsmodul / Examensübungen

• Exam Preparation American Literature (Repetitorium für Lehr?mter)
• Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)