Studies

Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, Chronic Illnesses, or Care-Taking Responsibilities

If you have a (learning) disability, a chronic illness, or care-taking responsibilities (for children or other family members) that keep you from participating in courses in the way you would like to or from completing some of the course readings and tasks, please do not hesitate to ask for replacement tasks or a waiving of certain course requirements. We as a team firmly believe that students have to take responsibility for their own learning, but the ultimate goal is for everyone to take away as much as possible from their studies. If accommodations on our part in the American Literature and Culture team can remove (or, at least, lower) hurdles and help students to do that, we will try to provide them.

Courses in the Current Semester

Winter 2023/24	JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: "HS: The Politics of American Poetry". Monday: 16 -17:30.
	JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: "OS: Sexuality, Affect, Citizenship: Reading Lauren Berlant". Tuesday: 14 -15:30.
	Verena Wurth: "PSMP: Modernist Literature" (Basic-Level Seminar). Thursday: 10 -11:30.
	Verena Wurth: "PSMP: Black Theater" (Basic-Level Seminar). Wednesday: 10 -11:30.
	Burak Sezer (LA): "MS: Ecoterrorism in American Literature and Culture" (Mid-Level Seminar). Wednesday: 12 -13:30.
	Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil: "MS: American Cultural Studies: Key Concepts, Histories, and Emerging Approaches" (Mid-Level Seminar). Monday: 12 -13:30; Wednesday 10-11:30. Please note: This course is taught twice (Mondays at noon, Wednesdays at 10 a.m.). It serves as the introductory seminar "Aspects of North American Literature and Culture" for NAS students. NAS students who take this course should also take the "Tutorial in North American Literature and Culture" taught by Jana Huneke, which accompanies this course. This course also serves as a regular 'Mittelseminar' for B.A. students, for whom the tutorial is voluntary.
	Jana Huneke: "TUT: Tutorial in North American Literature and Culture". Wednesday: 14 -15:30. Please note: This tutorial accompanies Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil's Seminar "Aspects of North American Literature and Culture" NAS students have to take the tutorial together with the seminar.

Courses in Previous Semesters

Summer 2023

JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: "VL: North American Speculative Fictions"
JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: “HS: Sovereignty and Survivance in Native American Literature and Culture” (Advanced-Level Seminar)
Dr. Mahshid Mayar: "MS: Sound, Silence, and Noise in US Literature and Culture " (Mid-Level Seminar)
Dr. Mahshid Mayar: "PSMP: Introduction to 21st Century American Poetry" (Basic-Level Seminar)
Burak Sezer (LA): "MS: Androgyny in Science Fiction" (Mid-Level Seminar)
Sara Tewelde-Negassi (LA): "PSSP: Science Fiction Narrative" (Basic-Level Seminar)

Winter 2022/23

JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: “OS: Ecocriticism and Mobility Studies” (Research Colloquium)
JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher: “HS: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in American Culture” (Advanced-Level Seminar)
Dr. Mahshid Mayar: "MS: Poetry of Erasure: Theory and Practice" (Mid-Level Seminar)
Verena Wurth (LA): “PSSP: New Golden Age TV: Crimes and Other Disasters” (Basic-Level Seminar)
Sascha Klein (LA): "PSSP: Housing America: Spaces and Architectures in U.S. Literature and Film (Basic-Level Seminar)
Burak Sezer (LA): "PSSP: Animals in American Literature and Culture" (Basic-Level Seminar)
N. N.: TUT: Tutorial North American Literary and Cultural Studies (NAS)