Lichterfeld - Past Courses
Early Modern Studies
My courses focus on Shakespeare & Adaptations, Shakespeare & Marginalisation, Shakespeare & Nature, and many other issues in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Shakespeare & Nature
BA1 Shakespeare's Green Spaces
Shakespeare, Politics & Marginalisation
BA3 Rulership & the Nation
MA Shakespeare and Marginalisation (MA Current Issues in Renaissance Studies, SS 2021)
BA 1 Shakespeare and Race (BA Issues in Literary and Cultural Studies, SS 2021)
BA 3 Shakespeare and Diversity (BA Renaissance Studies, WS 2020/2021)
BA 3 Political Shakespeare: Venice - Material Culture and the Other (SS 2017)
BA Mapping the Nation (SS 2022)
MA 2 Writings Politics on the Early Modern Stage (Current Issues in Ren. Studies, WS 2019/2020)
MA Shakespeare and War (MA Module: SS 2016)
BA 1 "the king is dead, long live...?" Power and Propaganda in Shakespeare (BA Issues: SS 2014)
MA Shakespeare. Law and History (SS 2013)
MA Transgression and Subversion of Power (WS 2010/2011)
BA Playing Politics: "Danger never dreamt of - that is the danger" (BA V2: WS 2009/2010)
Shakespeare, Theory & Adaptations
BA 3 Shakespeare and Time (Renaissance Studies, SS 2020 - fully online)
BA 3 Shakespeare and Space (Renaissance Studies, SS 2018)
MA Shakespeare Now (MA, Winter 2017/18)
BA 3 Shakespeare Adaptations in Film and Literature (WS 2012/2013)
BA Drama, Theatre, Film. Authority, Authenticity, Adaptations (SS 2011)
BA Drama Theory/ Dramentheorie (WS 2008/2009, joint teaching)
Death, Revenge & Illegitimacy
BA 3 Shakespeare's Bastards (WS 2014-15)
Eros & Thanatos in English Renaissance Drama (BA advanced module: WS 2013/2014)
Retribution and Revenge in the English Renaissance (MA Seminar: WS 2012/2013)
Revenge in English Renaissance Tragedy (Proseminar: WS 2006/2007)
Romances, Reading & Families
MA 2 Folio/Age - Wor(l)dbuilding (MA Current Issues in Renaissance Studies, MA SS 2023)
BA 1 A Midsummernight's Dream (BA Issues, SS 2023)
MA Liminality, Pasages, Transitions - Current Issues in Renaissance Studies (SS 2022)
MA Hurting, Healing, and Shakespeare (WS 2021/22)
Mapping the Romances: Myths and Fairy Tales (MA Module: WS 2015-16)
British and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Mystery, Myth, and Magic (BA V: SS 2010)
Knights, Noblemen and Ladies in Distress: Heroes and Chivalry in all Ages and Genres (Wiss. Übung: WS 2008/2009)
Reading the Renaissance/ Lektürekurs Renaissance (Wiss. Übung: SS 2008)
Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Drama/ Väter und Töchter im Drama der Shakespearezeit (Proseminar: SS 2005)
Teaching Degree
M Ed Shakespeare for Teachers (Master of Education, Winter 2017/18)
M Ed Shakespeare and the Renaissance (Teaching Degree: SS 2016)
Modernism
MA Who's fond of Virginia Woolf? Novels & Adaptations" (Literatures in Comparison, SS 2019)
MA Modernism (Literatures and Cultures from the 20th Century to the Present SS 2019)
BA1 The Hogarth Press 1917. Celebrating Modernism (BA Issues, SS 2017)
BA3 "For nothing was simply one thing". To the Lighthouse. Theory and Text (WS 2015/2016)
MA Modernism. Emotion. Subjectivity. (SS 2015)
BA3 Modernist Literatre (WS 2013/2014)
Virginia Woolf. Time, Space & Memory (BA Issues: SS 2012)
British Literatures and Cultures: The Sea (BA V: SS 2011)
Bloomsbury (Proseminar: SS 2006)
Modern Histories (Proseminar: SS 2007)
Water
We write in Water (WS 22/23)
Focus on Water (WS 22/23)
Scotland & Ireland
Scottish Politics, Edinburgh and the Highlands (SS 2022)
National Identity - Scotland. A Case Study (WS 2021/22)
Field Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (BA & MA students SS 2019)
Scottish History and the Scots Language & Field Trip to Stirling, the Cairngorms and Edinburgh (Regional Studies, SS 2019)
Scottish Poetry & Field Trip to Edinburgh, the Cairngorms, and the Silver City Aberdeen (SS 2018)
Scottish Romanticism & Field Trip to Scotland's Cities and the West Coast (SS 2017)
Scottish Literature & Field Trip to Edinburgh (BA Optional module: SS 2015/ SS 2016)
Exploring British Cultural History: Yorkshire Field Trip to Yorkshire (June 2014; MA research module: SS 2014)
'From Page to Stage': Field Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (MA module: SS 2010. 2011, 2012; Organisation Field Trip: SS 2009 - SS 2013)
Field Trip to Washington D.C. (SS 2012)
"Slow let us trace the matchless vale of the Thames" - Topography in Literature (MA Advanced Module: SS 2010)
Field Trip to London (May 2010)
Schottische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte (Proseminar: WS 2005/2006)
London in Literature (Proseminar: WS 2007/2008)
Topography, Literature & Further Field Trips
MA London in Time and Space (WS 2023/24)
MA Spatial Theory and the Metropolis (WS 2023/24)
MA Exploring British Cultural History: Yorkshire Field Trip to Yorkshire (June 2014)
MA research module: Yorkshire Literature (SS 2014)
MA module: 'From Page to Stage' (SS 2010. 2011, 2012)
Field Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (Organisation SS 2009 - SS 2013)
Field Trip to Washington D.C. (SS 2012)
MA Advanced Module: "Slow let us trace the matchless vale of the Thames" - Topography in Literature (SS 2010)
Field Trip to London (May 2010)
Further Courses & Introductions
Sports in Popular Culture (MA Module: Anglophone Media and Popular Culture, WS 2018/19)
Rhine Romanticism (BA Advanced Module: WS 2016/17)
The Novel/ Der Roman vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert (BA module: WS 2008/2009, joint teaching)
Doctors and Churchmen in Literature (BA seminar: WS 2011/2012)
BA thesis colloquium (SS 2013)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (WS 2011/2012)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (WS 2010/2011)
Englische Literaturen und Kulturen (SS 2009)
Grundkurs: Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft (SS 2006)