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 TalesSummer 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 SemesterSummer 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