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

sabbatical term

Winter 2023/2024

sabbatical term

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

sabbatical term

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

sabbatical term

Summer 2019

  • 17316 -PS-

    Surveying English Literatures II: Jane Austen

  • 17332 -PS-

    Medieval English Literatures II: The Canterbury Tales

Winter 2018/2019

sabbatical term

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

sabbatical term

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

sabbatical term

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

  • 17352 -S-

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

  • 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

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

sabbatical term

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