Lehrerfahrung
Vortragsreihen und Einführungskurse
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Writing America – American Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, summer term 2025. |
| “American Culture – History and Society,” University of Graz, summer term 2025. |
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Writing America – American Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, summer term 2024. |
| “American Film History – A Survey,” University of Graz, winter term 2023/24. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, winter term 2023/24. |
| “American Culture – History and Society,” University of Graz, summer term 2023. |
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Writing America – American Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, winter term 2022/23. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, winter term 2022/23. |
| “American Film History – A Survey,” University of Graz, summer term 2022. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, winter term 2021/22. |
| “American Culture – History and Society,” University of Graz, winter term 2021/22. |
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Writing America – American Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, summer term 2021. |
| “American Film History – A Survey,” University of Graz, summer term 2020. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2020. |
| “American Culture – History and Society,” University of Graz, winter term 2019/20. |
| “Genres and Periods – ‘Tell It as It Is’: U.S. Realism and Naturalism,” University of Graz, summer term 2019. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2019. |
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures (Focus America),” University of Graz, winter term 2018/19. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2018. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, summer term 2018. |
| “Survey of Anglophone Literatures (Focus America),” University of Graz, winter term 2017/18. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2017. |
| “American Film History – A Survey,” University of Graz, summer term 2017. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, winter term 2016/17. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2016. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, summer term 2016. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, winter term 2015/16. |
| “Writing America: U.S. Literature from the Colonial Age to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, summer term 2015. |
| “Urban and Spatial Theory,” lecture series Methods in the Humanities, University of Graz, summer term 2015. |
| “Introduction to Literary Studies II,” University of Graz, summer term 2015. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, winter term 2014/15. |
| “‘Sentiment is the Devil’: American Literary Naturalism from the 1890s to the 1940s,” University of Graz, summer term 2014. |
| “Writing America: U.S. Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, winter term 2013/14. |
| “Theories and Practice: Gender and Sexuality,” Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2013. |
| “Reading America: U.S. Literature from the Revolution to Postmodernism,” University of Graz, summer term 2013. |
| “American Culture: History and Society,” University of Graz, summer term 2013. |
| “Theory – British and American Cultural Studies,” University of Vienna, winter term 2012/13. |
| “British and American Cultural Studies: Theories and Methods,” University of Vienna, summer term 2012. |
| “Writing America: U.S. Literature from the Revolutionary Period to Modernism,” University of Vienna, winter term 2011/12. |
| “Dr. Strangelove’s America: Literature and the Visual Arts in the Atomic Age,” University of Siegen, summer term 2011. |
| “Redefining American Film Genres,” University of Siegen, winter term 2010/11. |
| “‘The Call of the Wild’: American Literary Naturalism and Its Other(s),” University of Siegen, summer term 2010. |
| “The History of U.S. American Cinema from the Beginnings until Today,” Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2009/10. |
| “Introduction to Cultural Studies I,” Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2009/10. |
| “Introduction to Cultural Studies II,” Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2009/10. |
| “Imaginary Americas: Literary Self-Fashioning in the USA from the Revolutionary Era to Modernity (1776– 1900),” University of Siegen, summer term 2006. |
| “Einführung in die Methoden und Grundbegriffe der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, teaching replacement for Prof. Winfried Fluck, May and June 2005. |
Seminare für Bachelorstudierende
| “The Puritan Mind in Early American Culture,” Università Ca‘ Foscari, Italy, September 2014. |
| “The American City from the Colonial Origins to Present-Day Culture,” Università Ca‘ Foscari, Italy, September 2014. |
| “Urbanity and Civilization: The American City,” Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2013. |
| “‘I, Too, Sing America’: African American Literature from Revolutionary Poetry to Contemporary Black Fiction,” University of Vienna, winter term 2011/12. |
| “The Gentleman as Tramp: Charlie Chaplin and the Birth of the American Film Comedy,” University of Siegen, summer term 2011. |
| “Lost in the Funhouse? Postmodern American Literature and Culture,” University of Siegen, winter term 2010/11. |
| “‘The Cinema We Need’: Canadian Film from the Documentary Tradition to Auteur Cinema,” University of Siegen, summer term 2010. |
| “‘West of Everything’: The American Frontier in Literature, Film, Painting, and Photography,” Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2009/10. |
| “Margaret Atwood’s ‘Green Dream’: Ecology and Environmental Imagination in English-Canadian Literature,” Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2009/10. |
| “Jewish American Literature and Culture,” Ruhr University Bochum, summer term 2009. |
| “‘Rewriting White’: Ethnicity and Cultural Identity from The Birth of a Nation to Legally Blonde,” Ruhr University Bochum, summer term 2009. |
| “Queer America? Gay and Lesbian Identity in U.S. Popular Culture,” Ruhr University Bochum, summer term 2009. |
| “Wham! Blam! American Pop Art and Its Critics,” Ruhr University Bochum, summer term 2009. |
| “‘Visions of the Frontier’: (Re-)Imagining the American West in U.S. Literature and Painting from the Cultural Beginnings to the Early 20th Century,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, winter term 2008/09. |
| “The History of U.S. American Film, 1980 until Today,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, winter term 2008/09. |
| “American Revolutionary Literature – Cultural Identity and Literary Imagination in the United States from 1768 to 1800,” University of Siegen, summer term 2008. |
| “Murder Mysteries – The Emergence of British Crime Fiction, 1883–1937,” University of Siegen, summer term 2008. |
| “The Old Man and the Gun – Masculinity and Violence in Ernest Hemingway’s Writings,” University of Siegen, winter term 2007/08. |
| “Lifting the Veil – British Women Novelists in the 19th Century from Jane Austen to George Eliot,” University of Siegen, winter term 2007/08. |
| “The American Short Story,” University of Siegen, summer term 2007. |
| “Oscar Wilde, Decadence Culture, and the British Fin de Siècle,” University of Siegen, summer term 2007. |
| “The Thriller – An American Genre?” University of Siegen, winter term 2006/07. |
| “Mythology and Landscape in Native American Fiction,” University of Siegen, summer term 2006. |
| “‘No Greater Threat’: Paranoid Culture and the American Media from the Kennedy Assassination to 9/11,” University of Siegen, summer term 2006. |
| “From Pocahontas to Malcolm X: Ethnic American Identity in Folklore and Mainstream Fiction,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, winter term 2004/05. |
| “The City in American Literature and Culture,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 2004. |
| “Technology and American Culture: From the ‘Machine in the Garden’ to the Digital Age,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 2003. |
| “The Trouble with Hitchcock: Ambivalence and Identity in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Films, 1940–1963,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, winter term 2002/03. |
| “Spectacular Bodies: Corporeality and Cultural Identity in the USA,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 2001. |
| “Moving Performances: Performance and Identity in American Popular Culture,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 1999. |
| “Doubles and Doubling,” University of California, Irvine, May 1998. |
| “Tod und Körperlichkeit,” co-taught with Katarina Stein, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, winter term 1997/98. |
| “Film as Symbolic Action: America and Cinema of the 1950s,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 1997. |
| “Die amerikanischen ‘Men’s Studies’,” Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, summer term 1996. |
Seminare für Masterstudierende
| “Beyond Words: Unveiling Trauma in North American Holocaust Narratives,” University of Graz, summer term 2025. |
| “Misfits: Non-Conformism, Rebellion, Disability in U.S. American Film and Television,” University of Graz, summer term 2024. |
| “‘The World Is a Book’: American Travel Writing and the Transoceanic Imaginary,” University of Graz, summer term 2024. |
| “Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson, Whitman, and Melville,” University of Graz, winter term 2023/24. |
| “Roaring Laughter: American Film Comedies from Charlie Chaplin to Greta Gerwig,” University of Graz, winter term 2023/24. |
| “The Trouble with Hitchcock: Psychology and Suspense in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Phase, 1940–1980,” University of Graz, summer term 2023. |
| “‘’Tis so appalling – it exhilarates’: U.S. Gothic Short Fiction from Washington Irving to Stephen King,” University of Graz, summer term 2023. |
| “Burgeoning Selves: American Literature as Bildungsliteratur from Sentimental Fiction to Contemporary Life Writing,” University of Graz, winter term 2022/23. |
| “Disney as Art – Animation Films and the Aesthetic Transformation of Cinema from Snow White to Encanto,” University of Graz, winter term 2022/23. |
| “Be a Man! American Masculinities from Romanticism to Postmodern Writing,” University of Graz, summer term 2022. |
| “A Touch of Evil: American Film Noir and Neo-Noir,” University of Graz, summer term 2022. |
| “Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation, Ostracism, and Exclusion in North American Literature,” University of Graz, winter term 2021/22. |
| “‘I Want to Believe’: Conspiracy Theories in American Cinema and Television,” University of Graz, winter term 2021/22. |
| “Into the Great Wide Open: North American Nature Writing from Henry David Thoreau to Cormac McCarthy,” University of Graz, summer term 2021. |
| “On the Road – Rebellion and Self-Discovery in U.S. Road Movies,” University of Graz, summer term 2021. |
| “Politically Incorrect: Censorship, Outrage, and Public Dissent in American Cinema and Writing,” University of Graz, summer term 2020. |
| “Talkin’ About a Revolution: U.S. Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Literature, 1770s–1820s,” University of Graz, summer term 2020. |
| “Brave New Worlds: The Utopian/Dystopian Imaginary in American Science Fiction Films and Novels,” University of Graz, winter term 2019/20. |
| “Bad Literature? Pulp Writing, Sensationalism, and the Lure of Popular Fiction,” University of Graz, winter term 2019/20. |
| “Silly Symphonies: U.S. Animation Films from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson,” University of Graz, summer term 2019. |
| “Against All Odds: Nonconformists, Outcasts, and Underdogs in U.S. American Literature,” University of Graz, summer term 2019. |
| “Worlds Apart: Cyborgs, Time Loops, and Parallel Universes in American Science Fiction Literature,” University of Graz, winter term 2018/19. |
| “Laughing Hysterically: The American Sitcom from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory,” University of Graz, winter term 2018/19. |
| “Beyond Belief: A Cultural History of the ‘Confidence Man’ from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump,” University of Graz, summer term 2018. |
| “The World in a Nutshell: The American Short Story after World War II,” University of Graz, summer term 2018. |
| “‘Where Dreams Come True’: Walt Disney and American Cultural Identity,” University of Graz, winter term 2017/18. |
| “Going Viral – American Bestsellers from the 18th Century until Today,” University of Graz, winter term 2017/18. |
| “‘In the Ballpark’: Sports and American Identity,” University of Graz, summer term 2017. |
| “‘Just Be Yourself’: American Fictions of Initiation and Self-Empowerment,” University of Graz, summer term 2017. |
| “‘Spellbound’: Beginnings and Endings in American Literature and Film,” University of Graz, winter term 2016/17. |
| “‘Scared to Death’: Stephen King and the American Gothic,” University of Graz, winter term 2016/17. |
| “Liminal Spaces in Anglo-Canadian Literature,” University of Graz, summer term 2016. |
| “Temporal Disorder: U.S. American Time-Travel Narratives from Edward Bellamy to Stephen King,” University of Graz, winter term 2015/16. |
| “Whodunit? Murder Mysteries in American Literature, Film, and Television,” University of Graz, winter term 2015/16. |
| “God's Country: Colonial Encounters between Puritans and Indians,” University of Graz, summer term 2015. |
| “Jewish American Literature and Culture,” University of Graz, summer term 2015. |
| “Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange,” University of Graz, winter term 2014/15. |
| “Noir: American Gangster Films of the 1940s and 50s,” University of Graz, winter term 2014/15. |
| “The Literature of Terror: The Roots of American Gothic Fiction,” University of Graz, summer term 2014. |
| “The Gun and the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway's Literary and Cultural Heritage,” University of Graz, summer term 2014. |
| “‘Surface, Surface, Surface…’: Postmodernism and American Performance,” University of Graz, summer term 2014. |
| “American Short Fiction from Washington Irving to Stephen King,” University of Graz, winter term 2013/14. |
| “‘I'll Be Back!’: The Many Sides of Arnold Schwarzenegger,” University of Graz, winter term 2013/14. |
| “‘If You Can Make It There…’: New York City in Literature and Film,” University of Graz, summer term 2013. |
| “‘Better Than the Book?’: Film Adaptations of American Literary Classics,” University of Graz, summer term 2013. |
| “‘The City That Never Sleeps’: New York as Reality and Cultural Artifact,” University of Vienna, winter term 2012/13. |
| “‘Now a Major Motion Picture’: Authorship, Accuracy, and Film Adaptations,” University of Vienna, summer term 2012. |
| “Artistry in Motion: Charlie Chaplin’s Comedies in Historical Perspective,” University of Vienna, winter term 2011/12. |
| “Banned Books: Literary Fiction and the Specter of Censorship,” University of Siegen, summer term 2011. |
| “‘Strike a Pose!’ – Performance Culture and the Constitution of Identity,” University of Siegen, summer term 2011. |
| “Incurably Romantic? A Genealogy of the Romance Genre from the 18th Century Seduction Novel to The Twilight Saga,” University of Siegen, winter term 2010/11. |
Kolloquien und Forschungskurse
| “Intersecting Identities: Exploring Diversity in American Texts on Race, Class, Gender, and Age” (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2025). |
| “PhD Colloquium ›Mensch, Tier, Maschine: Grenzen und Transformationen kultureller Praxis’“ (with Prof. Steffen Schneider) (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2024). |
| “Breaking Boundaries: Examining Race, Class, Gender, and Age in American Literature and Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2024). |
| “Recent Developments in American Literary and Cultural Studies: Intersectionality in Texts about Race, Class, Gender, and Age” (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2023). |
| “Master-Research: Cultures of the In-Between: Minorities, Subcultures, and the American CounterImagination” (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2022). |
| “PhD Colloquium ‚Grenzen, Schwellen, Übergänge. Theoretische und ästhetische Zugänge zu einer Denkfigur der (Post-)Moderne‘“ (with Prof. Anne-Kathrin Reulecke) (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2021). |
| “MasterResearch: ›Be All You Want to Be‹ – Diversity and Identity in North American Literature and Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (summer term 2021). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: Multicolored America – Diversity and Identity in U.S. American Literature and Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2019/20). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: True Colors – Diversity and Identity in U.S. Literature and Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2018/19). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: The Beloved Ones: America between High Art and Popular Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2017/18). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: E Pluribus Unum – America & Its Ethnic and Cultural Minorities” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2016/17). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: Diversity within Unity – Majorities and Minorities in U.S. American Literature and Culture” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2015/16). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: New Developments in American Literary and Cultural Studies” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2014/15). |
| “Research Seminar for B.A. and M.A. Students” (Università Ca‘ Foscari) (Sep. 2014). |
| “Master-Research Seminar: New Developments in American Literary and Cultural Studies” (Univ. of Graz) (winter term 2013/14). |
| “Colloquium for Diploma Candidates (Literature)”(Univ. of Vienna) (winter term 2012/13). |
| “Colloquium for Diploma Candidates (Cultural and Media Studies)” (Univ. of Vienna) (winter term 2012/13). |
| “Colloquium for Diploma Candidates (Literature)” (Univ. of Vienna) (summer term 2012). |
| “Colloquium for Diploma Candidates (Culture)” (Univ. of Vienna) (summer term 2012). |
| “Colloquium for Ph.D. Candidates in English and American Studies (Literature and Culture)” (Univ. of Vienna) (winter term 2011/12). |
| “Seminar for Diploma Candidates (Lehramt GYM/GHR/BK; Magister, Master)” (Univ. Siegen) (summer term 2011). |
| “Colloquium for Candidates of the Diploma and Master’s Program” (Univ. Siegen) (summer term 2010). |
| “Colloquium for Diploma Candidates (Literature and Culture)” (FU Berlin, JFKI) (winter term 2008/09). |
| “Colloquium for Exam Candidates in Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies (LCMS-B.A.), Literature, Culture, and Media (LCM-M.A.), and English (GYM/GE/BK)” (Univ. Siegen) (summer term 2008). |
| “Colloquium for Candidates of the Bachelor‘s, Master’s, and Diploma Program” (Univ. Siegen) (summer term 2007). |
| “Colloquium for Exam Candidates in North American Literature and Culture” (Univ. Siegen) (summer term 2006). |
| “Research Colloquium of the Departments of American Literature and Culture” (FU Berlin, JFKI) (winter term 2004/05). |
| “Research Colloquium of the Departments of American Literature and Culture” (FU Berlin, JFKI) (summer term 2004). |