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 ?bung "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 Lehr?mter)
- 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 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
- 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)