Y?ld?z A?ar, M.A.

Teaching

Introductory Courses (basic module)

  • Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Seminars (advanced module)

  • Borderland Futurities: Contemporary Ethnic American Speculative Fiction
  • Girlhood in American Environmental Literature
  • "New Woman, New Earth": Ecofeminism and Natureculture in Contemporary American Literature

Reading Courses (all modules)

  • Modern American Drama
  • Storied Planet: Ecological Crisis, Anthropocene, and American Studies (in conjunction with Prof. Christine Gerhardt's advanced seminar "American Studies and the Planetary: Perspectives, Histories, Futures", forming an optional 10-ECTS-module: The Planetary)
  • One Hundred Years of Herland: Reading Gilman's and Piercy's Feminist Utopias
  • Reading American Short Forms
  • American Dystopia: From Classical to Feminist and Young Adult Dystopian Literature

Practice Classes (supplemental module)

  • Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies