Be Your Self: American Fictions of Initiation and Self-Empowerment
Going Viral: American Bestsellers from the 18th Century until Today
Where Dreams Come True: Walt Disney and American Cultural Identity
The World in a Nutshell: The American Short Story after World War II
Beyond Belief? A Cultural History of the ‘Confidence Man’ from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump
Laughing Hysterically: The American Sitcom from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory
Writing America: American Literature from the Colonial Era to Postmodernism
Worlds Apart? Cyborgs, Time Loops, and Parallel Universes in American Science Fiction Literature
Silly Symphonies: U.S. Animation Films from Felix the Cat to The Simpsons
Tell It As It Is: American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Against All Odds: Nonconformists, Outcasts, and Underdogs in U.S. American Literature
Bad Literature? 'Pulp' Writing, Sensationalism, and the Lure of Popular Fiction
Brave New Worlds? The Utopian/Dystopian Imaginary in American SF Films and Literary Texts
Politically Incorrect: Censorship, Outrage, and Public Dissent in American Cinema and Writing
Talkin’ about a Revolution: U.S. Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Literature, 1770s – 1820s
INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN: North American Nature Writing from Henry David Thoreau to Cormac McCarthy
On the Road: Rebellion and Self-Discovery in U.S. Road Movies
“I WANT TO BELIEVE”: CONSPIRACY THEORIES in American Cinema and TELEVISION
Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation, Ostracism, and Exclusion in North American Literature
A Touch of Evil: American Film Noir and Neo-Noir
Be a Man! American Masculinities from Romanticism to Postmodern Writing
Burgeoning Selves: American Literature as Bildungsliteratur from Sentimental Fiction to Contemporary Life Writing
Disney As Art: Animation Films and the Aesthetic Transformation of Cinema from Snow White to Encanto
Roaring Laughter: American Film Comedies from Charlie Chaplin to Greta Gerwig
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson, Whitman, and Melville
“Tis so appalling – it exhilarates”: U.S. Gothic Short Fiction from Washington Irving to Stephen King
Misfits: Non-Conformism, Rebellion, and Disability in U.S. American Film and Television
“The World Is a Book”: American Travel Writing and the Transoceanic Imaginary
Beyond Words: Unveiling Trauma in North American Holocaust Narratives
Doktoratskolloquium "Mensch - Tier - Maschine (Grenzen und Transformationen kultureller Praxis)"
American Literary History
Introduction to Literary Studies II
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