Teaching

Summer 2025

17329 -PS-Medieval English Literatures: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

17382 -HS-Medieval English Literatures: Beowulf

17383 -Ü-Medieval English Literatures: The Middle Ages and/in Theory

Winter 2024/2025

17350 -V-Literatures of Medieval Britain: The Canterbury Tales

Summer 2024

Winter 2023/2024

Summer 2023

17329 -GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen

17350 -S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Canterbury Tales

Winter 2022/2023

17318 -PS-Surveying English Literatures: Jane Austen

Summer 2022

17352 -PS-Surveying English Literatures: J. R. R. Tolkien

Winter 2021/2022

17329 -PS-Medieval English Literatures: Middle English Romance

Summer 2021

17382 -HS-Medieval English Literatures: Arthurian Romance

17383 -MÜ-Medieval English Literatures: The Middle Ages and Theory

Winter 2020/2021

Summer 2020

17382 -HS-Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales: The Gentils

17383 -MÜ-Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales: The Churls

Winter 2019/2020

Summer 2019

17316 -PS- Surveying English Literatures II: Jane Austen

17332 -PS- Medieval English Literatures II: The Canterbury Tales

Winter 2018/2019

Summer 2018

17316 -PS- Surveying English Literatures II: Espionage Fiction

17347 -V- Literatures of Medieval Britain: Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain I: Deploying the Dead

17358 -S- Culture-Gender-Media II: The Medieval Motion Picture

17393 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: Beowulf

17394 -MÜ- Medieval English Literatures: The Middle Ages and Theory

Winter 2017/2018

17331 -PS- Medieval English Literatures II: Robin Hood

Summer 2017

17315 -GK- Surveying English Literatures I

17322 -PS-Surveying English Literatures II: The Beauty of Survival - Writing the Second World War

17326 -PS-Medieval English Literatures II: The Rise and Fall of Camelot: Sir Thomas Malory

17393 -HS-Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales: The Gentils

17394 -MÜ-Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales: The Churls

Winter 2016/2017

Research Semester

Summer 2016

17352 -S- Literatures of Medieval Britain: Modernity and Alterity in the Literature of Medieval Britain II: The Pearl Poet

17355 -S- Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts: The Historical Novel

17397 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: Troilus and Criseyde

17398 -MÜ- Medieval English Literatures: The House of Fame

Winter 2015/2016

17317 -PS- Surveying English Literatures II: Jane Austen

17325 -PS- Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Pomp and Circumstance: Filming the Monarchy

17333 -PS- Medieval English Literatures II: The Canterbury Tales

17348 -VS- Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain II: J.R.R. Tolkien

Summer 2015

17353 -S- Literary Studies: Periods-Genres-Concepts II: When Hitler Won the War: Parahistory and the Parahistorical Novel

17400 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: Beowulf

17402 -MÜ- Medieval English Literatures: The Postcolonial Middle Ages

Winter 2014/2015

17323 -S- Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Espionage in Film and Fiction

17353 -S- Medieval English Literatures II: Middle English Romance

Summer 2014

17353 -S- Literary Studies: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Literary Studies II: Children’s Literature: The Edwardian Tradition

17368 -S- Culture-Gender-Media II: The Medieval Motion Picture

17406 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales - The Gentils

17407 -T- Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales - The Churls

Winter 2013/2014

Research Semester

Summer 2013

17331 -S- Medieval English Literatures II: The Pearl Poet

17351 -V- Literary Studies: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Literary Studies I: Detective Fiction

17366 -S- Introduction to Cultural Studies: Culture, Gender, Media II: Robin Hood

17406 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: Shakespeare: Romance and Gender

Winter 2012/2013

17396 -T- Literary and Cultural Theories: Speaking with the Dead. The New Historicism in Retrospect

17398 - HS - Constructing Difference:Literary and Cultural Histories - Literary Archaeologies

17399 - T - Constructing Difference: Ekphrastic Traditions - Ancient to Early Modern

17352 -S- Literary Studies II: Periods-Genres-Concepts: J.R.R. Tolkien

Summer 2012

17316 -S- Surveying English Literatures II: Jane Austen

17330 -V- Medieval English Literatures I: Languages, Texts and Genres c. 700-1500

17406 -HS- Medieval English Literatures: Beowulf

Winter 2011/2012

Research Semester

Summer 2011

17353 -V/Ü- Literary Studies I: Der historische Roman

17405 -HS- The Canterbury Tales

17407 -T- Dreaming Chaucer

Winter 2010/2011

17348 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Beowulf

17353 -VS- Literary Studies II: The Historical Novel

17397 -HS- Shakespearean Medievalism

17398 -T- Inventing the Middle Ages in the 20th Century: Texts and Theory

Summer 2010

17315 -V/Ü- Surveying English Literatures I: From Medieval to Modern (with Russell West-Pavlov)

17348 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Early Middle English Romance

17367 -VS- Culture, Gender, Media II: Espionage in Fiction and Film

17406 -HS- Literature and Politics c. 1400

17408 -T- Dreaming of Love

Winter 2009/2010

17 332 -AS- Medieval English Literatures II: Middle English Romance

17 347 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Readers, Writers, Texts: The Idea of the Vernacular in Late Medieval English

Summer 2009

17315 -V/Ü- Surveying English Literatures I: From Medieval to Modern

17346 -V/Ü- Modernity and Alterity I: Populär, pittoresk, politisch? Das Mittelalter im Mainstream-Kino

17348 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

17405 -HS- The Canterbury Tales: The Gentils

17406 -T- The Canterbury Tales: The Cherls

Winter 2008/2009

17347 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

17352 -VS- Literary Studies II: J. R. R. Tolkien

17405 -HS- Shakespeare’s Romes

17446 -S- Literatur und Medien im Kontext des Englischunterrichts

Summer 2008

17353 -VS- Literary Studies II: Elizabethan Prose Fiction

17354 -VS- Literary Studies II: Early Modern Ekphrasis

17414 -HS- Alliterative Morte d’Arthure/Stanzaic Morte d’Arthur

17415 -T- Beowulf

Winter 2007/2008

17315 -V/Ü- Surveying English Literatures I

17330 -AS- Medieval English Literatures II: The Rise and Fall of Camelot: Sir Thomas Malory

17347 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Robin Hood

17359 -VS- Culture, Gender, Media II: Queen Elizabeth I: Sovereign, Poet, Cultural Phenomenon

Summer 2007

17339 -AS- Medieval English Literatures II: The Middle English Lyric

17356 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: The Postcolonial Middle Ages

17364 -V/Ü- Literary Genres I: Detective Fiction

17368 -VS- Literary Concepts II: When Hitler Won the War: Parahistory and Parahistorical Novels

Winter 2006/2007

17326 -AS- Surveying English Literatures II: The Beauty of Survival - Writing the Second World War

17355 -V/Ü- Modernity and Alterity I: Issues of Orality and Literacy in Medieval English Literature

17356 -VS- Modernity and Alterity II: Old English Poetry: Elegiac and Heroic

17368 -VS- Literary Genres II: Shakespeare’s Romances

Summer 2006

17340 -V/Ü- Medieval English Literatures I: Languages, Texts and Genres c. 700-1500

17386 -HS- The Canterbury Tales

17341 -AS- Middle English Arthurian Romances

Winter 2005/2006

52547 -SE- Shakespeare’s Othello

52612 -HS- Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

Summer 2005

52640 -HS- William Langland, Piers Plowman

52641 -HS- Law and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern England

Winter 2004/2005

52613 PS/HS (HU Berlin): Thomas Hoccleve: Bureaucracy, Interiority and Literature

52631 -HS- (HU Berlin) J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer - Scholar - Cultural Phenomenon

Summer 2004

52589 -PS/HS- Chaucer’s House of Fame

52601 -HS- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Winter 2003/2004

17302 -Ü/PS- How to Make a King: Late Middle English Literature and the Lancastrian Propaganda Machine

17312 -Ü- Introduction to Middle English Language and Literature

Summer 2003

17303 -Ü/PS- The Decline and Fall of Camelot in Two Versions: The Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure

Winter 2002/2003

17304 -Ü/PS- The Lollards: Religion, Politics and Literature in Late Medieval England

Summer 2002

17302 -Ü/PS- Chaucer’s Dream Visions

17320 -HS- Beowulf