Your Studies

We offer a BA program "English: Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures" as well as the full range of degree programs for prospective teachers (LS I, LS I + II, LAB, Wirtschaftspädagogik).
We offer a MA program "American Studies/British Studies/English Linguistics" and we are part of the trinational and trilingual MA program "Border Studies."
We contribute to the certificate programs "Gender Studies" and "Applied Pop Studies."
We are contributing partner to the BA program "Europäische Literaturen und Medien im globalen Kontext". We contribute as minor subject (Nebenfach) to the BA program "Historisch-Orientierte Kulturwissenschaften" and some of our courses are open for students in the MA program "Lateinamerikanische Kultur- und Medienwissenschaft."

Course Registration

Course Registration for the summer term 2025 will start on Monday, 10 March 2025 at 3.30 p.m.

Check LSF for further details.

Courses

Summer Semester 2025

In the summer term 2025 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the summer term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium

Due to Prof. Fellner’s sabbatical, there will be no BA/MA colloquium. Instead, Prof. Fellner will hold regular Office hours.

There will be a “Blockkolloquium” in April for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (Lehramt). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on April 22, 2025.

Please sign up via email by April 14, 2025 (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

Summer School in May 6 to May 9, 2025, 9-18h

Witnessing B/orders in Flux: War, Migration, Media

This seminar, which will be taught in the form of a summer school, explores the cultural responses to border reconfigurations in North America and Europe within the broader context of geopolitical instability and shifting border dynamics. We will analyze how territorial changes are witnessed, represented, and narrated through various cultural artifacts such as literature, film, digital folklore, and art. Students will examine how these representations mediate collective memory, identity, and affective responses to border shifts and rifts, contributing to the broader discourse on migration, displacement, and the human experience of geopolitical transformation. The course will also engage with the theoretical frameworks of bordertexturing to understand the material and immaterial dimensions of cultural production on borders in response to spatial reconfigurations.

In this summer school, students from the MA Border Studies and the MA American Studies at Saarland University will meet students from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv.

Course requirements: oral presentation, term paper.

Course texts and other materials will be made available on Teams.

Dr. Svitlana Kot / Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

Advanced Module C 2: Border Cultures im Master “Border Studies”

HS Advanced Topics im Kernfachmaster “American Studies / British Studies / English Linguistics”

Lateinamerika MA

Prof. Dr. Paul Morris

HS “Contemporary Canadian Novels of Immigrant Experience”

Blockseminar in June/July

The immigrant experience is a foundational phenomenon of Canadian culture and history. To a substantial degree, the country has been shaped by successive generations of immigrants, from colonial times until the present. The immigrant experience has been woven into every facet of the country’s history and understanding of itself at the level of individual destinies as well as that of the national collective. While an historical constant within Canadian life, the understanding and collective perception of immigrants and immigration and their role in shaping the country have changed over the years.

It is no surprise that the Canadian literary institution has long been occupied with the literary depiction of the immigrant experience. Some of the quintessential texts of Canadian literature – from Frances Brooke and Susanna Moodie to Frederick Philip Grove and Michael Ondaatje – have been about the effects of immigration on the immigrants themselves and the country as a whole. To a significant degree, the changing contours of the Canadian national imaginary have been shaped by changing perceptions of immigration as expressed in the nation’s literary art.

The present course will be occupied with a reading of four contemporary Anglophone novels of immigrants and immigrant experience within Canada. Our interest in studying these texts will be to identify consistencies within the transhistorical “story” of immigration, but also to observe changes and to reflect upon the ways in which the changing narratives of immigrant experience reflect shifts within the national imaginary.

Students are required to read the assigned texts in advance of the relevant classes and to come to discussions prepared to express their own ideas and insights.

List of Required Reading (tentative list):

Peter Behrens, The O’Briens, 2012

Barbara Joan Scott, The Taste of Hunger, 2022

Dmitri Nasrallah, Hotline, 2022

Nancy Lam, The Loyal Daughter, 2022

N.B. Course Requirements: Course readings / discussions

Presentation on a relevant topic of the student’s choice

Final essay of approximately 15 - 20 pp.

Tentative Schedule (Alterations to the schedule possible – according to student availability):

Monday June 16 16:00 – 18:00 Introduction

Friday June 20. 16:00 – 19:00 Peter Behrens, The O’Briens

Monday June 23 16:00 – 19:00 Peter Behrens, The O’Briens

Friday June 27 16:00 – 19:00. Barbara Joan Scott, The Taste of Hunger

Monday June 30 16:00 – 19:00 Barbara Joan Scott, The Taste of Hunger

Friday July 4 16:00 – 19:00 Dmitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Monday July 7 16:00 – 19:00 Dmitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Friday July 11 16:00 – 19:00 Nancy Lam, The Loyal Daughter

Monday July 14 16:00 – 19:00 Nancy Lam, The Loyal Daughter

Dr. Svetlana Seibel

HS Performing Antiquity: American Engagements with Ancient Greek Drama

Wed. 12-2 pm

A 2 2, room 120.1

Dr. Arlette Warken

PS North American Coming-of-Age Narratives

Thursdays 4-6 pm

A 2 2, 120.1

Coming-of-age narratives depict the challenges of children and young adults during a formative phase of their lives. According to Sarah Graham, such narratives “offer privileged access to the psychological development of the central character whose sense of self is in flux, paralleling personal concerns with prevailing values.” We will discuss the genre history of coming-of-age texts and the Bildungsroman tradition in the North American context and explore how themes such as individuality, family, school, friendship, sexuality, and career choices are negotiated through the lens of race, class, and gender. A reader with a variety of American and Canadian stories and excerpts will be provided in Moodle at the beginning of classes.

Course requirements: readings, active participation, abstract of paper project, research paper (10-12 pages)

Dr. Tobias Schank

PS Bob Dylan

Thursdays, 12-14

B 3 1, 2.18

Few contemporary artists have shaped U.S. American culture and literature like Bob Dylan. Throughout his almost 7 decades spanning career, he has been (and continues to be) one of the most influential, prolific Anglophone poets. For his impact on American literature, and specifically “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” (Nobel Prize Press Release 2016), he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Thematically, his body of work comprises folk songs, protest songs, personal reflections; musically, he has applied various styles, ranging from folk to blues to Rock’n’roll; he has composed both prose and poetry, has started his memoirs, has tried his hand as a painter, and has repeatedly been the subject of critically acclaimed films, fictional and non-fictional – most recently, in the biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (James Mangold, 2024).

This seminar will provide an overview to Bob Dylan’s extensive oeuvre by studying and discussing selected albums and song lyrics, other select pieces of his writing, as well as filmic accounts of his life and career.

Readings may include (final syllabus will be presented in the first session):

Tarantula (1971), poetry collection

Chronicles: Volume One (2004), memoir

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)

The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964)

Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Blood on the Tracks (1975)

The Basement Tapes (1975)

Time Out of Mind (1997)

DON’T LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967)

NO DIRECTION HOME (Martin Scorsese, 2005)

I’M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes, 2007)

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (James Mangold, 2024)

Requirements:

Active participation, including reading/watching and writing assignments, participation in class discussion, a short presentation, and a seminar paper (6000 words).

Bärbel Schlimbach, M.A.

PS Revealing the “Truth”? American Crime Fiction from the 19th to the 21st Century

Wednesday, 16-18

A 2 2, 120.1

Geöffnet für Gender Zertifikat: Modul aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung

In this seminar, students will be introduced to the genre of American crime fiction. We will look at the reasons for the fascination of American literature and culture with crime, mystery and violence. Prior to the discussion of our primary texts, we will familiarize ourselves with terms and theoretical concepts important for the analysis of crime fiction. We will read short stories and Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel Gone Girl to trace traditions as well as developments of the genre and its sub-genres like the detective story, hard-boiled narratives or (neo) noir. We will start with short stories from the 19th century by Edgar Allan Poe, who is often seen as the “founding father” of American crime/mystery fiction. After these early examples, we will look at developments like the emergence of the hard-boiled detective in the twentieth century, for example in stories by Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, before we explore recent trends in late 20th-Century and early 21st-Century texts, especially innovations to the genre by female writers, e.g. Sara Paretski’s V.I. Warshawski. Class discussion will consider questions such as: Is crime fiction conservative because of its tendency to restore the status-quo by solving the crime and punishing the perpetrator(s) or is there potential for subversion? How can narrative/a narrator trick the audience until the revelation of the “truth” at the very end? How is violence presented? How are sex/gender and race/ethnicity represented? How can the solving of mysteries in fiction be paralleled to society’s interest to reveal “truth”? Has crime fiction changed with current debates about “post-truth”?

Short stories and secondary literature will be made available.

Students have to buy: Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl (2012).

Preferably this edition: Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. Random House, 2012.

EAN: 9780385347778

Requirements:

Active participation, including reading and writing assignments, participation in class discussion, a short presentation and a seminar paper.

Amerikanistik/Cultural Studies:

Danielle Kopf-Giammanco

Introduction to Cultural Studies I: North America

Thursday, 12-14

B 3 1, Lecture hall I

This course is intended to provide a foundational understanding of cultural myth(s), production, and analysis. This lecture will primarily focus on the United States but will feature some Canadian history and culture. The first section of the course will be dedicated to a general survey of contemporary political and social issues to prepare students for more in-depth discussions and approaches while inviting students to challenge common stereotypes. The second section will provide an overview of theoretical approaches to North American Cultural Studies with a focus on the historical development of policy, media, race, gender, and class. The course’s historical focus will primarily be centered around understanding how events in the twentieth- and twenty-first century have contributed to present-day American national identity formation. We will explore how popular narratives aim to encompass multiculturalism, while also working to universalize the American experience and what it means to be “American.”

We will discuss issues regarding race, class, gender, sexuality, discrimination, violence, and slavery. It is my intention to create a safe space for all participants to learn and engage with this discourse, as well as understand/respect different perspectives.

Geöffnet für Hok Nf American Cultural Studies

Isis Luxenburger

Introduction to Media Studies: Almost Human?! Reflections on Technology, AI and Robots in American Media, Culture and Society

Monday, 10-12

B 3 1, 2.18

Future technologies from (Sci-fi) movies and TV series—such as touch screens, video calls or VR glasses—have long become an important part of our everyday lives. Media are everywhere around us; we consume, use, mediate and digest media daily. Most of these media are—and have become—digital; books, newspapers, or physical films become relics when they are transferred into the well-connected and omnipresent digital sphere. As media also mirror and influences the society they are produced in, media productions such as movies and series are a fruitful subject within the field of cultural studies. Artificial intelligence(s), robots, cyborgs and future technologies have interested and fascinated directors and viewers but also influenced developments in computer science and artificial intelligence, which then inspired directors for new media productions.

This course introduces students to the study of media and its interrelations with culture, society, and itself, laying particular emphasis on film studies and gender representations within media on the theoretical level. After an overview on various aspects of media history, media theory, and media analysis, we will reflect on the roles of and interconnections between media, technology, culture, and society as well as their representations in the media, i.e. in movies, series and games. Although the course focuses on a specific genre, the students will be provided with a toolkit to critically analyze media productions in general and from various angles.

We/you will work with several sci-fi productions, depending on their availability on streaming platforms (Netflix, Prime, Disney+, AppleTV) during the semester. Possible media productions to investigate are e.g.:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Total Recall (1990)

The Fifth Element (1997)

The Matrix franchise (1999-2021)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Minority Report (2002)

I, Robot (2004)

WALL-E (2008)

Surrogates (2009)

Mass Effect 2 (2010)

Mass Effect 3 (2012)

Total Recall (2012)

Prometheus (2012)

Her (2013)

Pacific Rim (2013)

Almost Human (2013-2014)

Ex Machina (2014)

Chappie (2015)

Alien: Covenant (2017)

Detroit: Become Human (2018)

Altered Carbon (2018-2020)

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Love, Death & Robots (2019-present)

Upload (2020-present)

Severance (2022-present)

Silo (2023-present)

You will watch some of the films completely, I will use excerpts from others in class. You may, of course, watch all of them! If you have a specific American sci-fi production in mind, which you would like to work on although it is not on this list, no problem! Any North American (= from the US or Canada) (co-)production can be chosen. Over the first weeks of the semester, you will have time to explore the corpus and find a media production and topic to work on in your presentation and short paper / oral exam.

Readings and material: a selection of texts will be provided; the films we will work with are available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV, respectively.

Please note that you do not have to have access to all streaming platforms listed here! We will see during the first session, which ones are available to you and adjust the course accordingly!

Requirements: The introductory part of the course will be accompanied by readings, the application part of watching clips/films and small writing assignments, students will give a presentation, either in class or as a recording (depending on the number of participants), and write a short paper, which has to be handed in until September 30. Students of “LA Sek 1” will have to take an oral exam instead of writing a paper.

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Digitalität, KI, Gesellschaft

Dr. Lisa Johnson

UE CS II North America: The Roots and Global Reach of Hip-Hop Culture

Blockseminar

06-07 June and 11-12 July: Fridays 12-18.30 and Saturdays 9.30-15.30

A 2 2, 120.1

This course explores the origins of hip-hop in 1970s New York and its evolution into a global cultural phenomenon. Students will examine its historical roots, focusing on hip-hop as a response to socio-economic challenges in the Bronx, and trace its worldwide influence, including its role in marginalized communities abroad. Key themes include anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and critiques of systemic oppression, with case studies like Public Enemy’s Fight the Power. Through song analysis, documentaries (Hip-Hop Evolution), and readings (e.g., Tricia Rose’s Black Noise), the course integrates theory and practice, inviting students to engage creatively with hip-hop as a tool for artistic and political expression.

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

Courses

Winter Semester 2024/2025

In the winter term 2024/25 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the summer term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

VL American Regional Literatures and Cultures

Tue, 12-14

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium

Tue, 16-18

This workshop-like colloquium allows candidates (BA-students, MA-students and Stex-students) to talk about the topics of their theses and the topics for their oral exams.

This colloquium consists of two parts:

1) “Blockkolloquium” in October for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (LS I, LS I+II, LAB). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on October 15, 2024.

Please sign up for the Blockkolloquium (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

2) Workshop for those students who will write/or are working on their BA, MA or Staatsexamensarbeit. A major goal of this course is to guide students through the process of writing a research paper. All candidates in NamLitCult who are working on a written thesis are therefore encouraged to attend regularly.

This colloquium starts on October22, 2024. The exact dates of when these workshops will meet will be discussed in the first session.

Please sign up via LSF.

Research Colloquium

Tue, 18-20; online

This research colloquium offers writers of Ph.D. dissertations a forum for presentations of their work-in-progress. It will start on October 22, 2024.

For more information on Prof. Fellner's classes click here

Dr. Svetlana Seibel

HS “Forms Moulded For Us”: The Many Genres of Susan Glaspell

Wed. 12-14

Geöffnet für Gender Zertifikat

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Dr. Tobias Schank

PS (Un-)Writing the Frontier: (De-)Colonizing the Americas in Word, Song, and Image

Thursdays, 12-14

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Bärbel Schlimbach

UE CS II North America: Race, Class, Gender in Borderlands Film and Media

Thursday, 12-14

MA Border Studies:

Specialization Module C1: Interculturality and Diversity

Crossgelistet für Masterstudiengang Lateinamerika?

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Gender Studies (Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung)

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop Studien (Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur)

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Dr. Arlette Warken

PS In Other Wor(l)ds: Margaret Atwood’s Short Fiction

Thursday, 16-18

A 2 2, room 120.1

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Dr. Ewa Macura-Nnamdi

HS Mediterranean Crossings: Passage, Seawater and Borders

teilgeblockt tba

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Isis Luxenburger

Introduction to Media Studies: Upload - Reflections on Technology, AI and Robots in American Media, Culture and Society

Monday, 10-12

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Danielle Kopf-Giammanco

Introduction to Cultural Studies North America

Thursday, 12-14

B 3 1, Lecture hall I

UE CS II North America: True Crime: Narrative & Ethics

Wednesday, 10-12

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Pop-Zertifikat

Erfolg in Serie: Staffel XII

All presentations on Tuesdays Evenings, starting 7 pm.

Kino Achteinhalb, Nauwieserstraße 19, Saarbrücken.

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Courses

Summer Semester 2023

In the summer term 2023 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the summer term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

“Borders and Wars”

Advanced Module C 2: Border Cultures im Master “Border Studies”

HS Advanced Topics im Kernfachmaster “American Studies / British Studies / English Linguistics”

Blockseminar (17.-24.04.2023)

VL War and Peace in North American Literature

Tuesday, 12-14

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium

Tue, 16-18

This workshop-like colloquium allows candidates (BA-students, MA-students and Stex-students) to talk about the topics of their theses and the topics for their oral exams.

This colloquium consists of two parts:

1) “Blockkolloquium” in April for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (LAG, LAR, LAB). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 4 p.m.

Please sign up for the Blockkolloquium via email by March 30, 2023 (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

2) Workshop for those students who will write/or are working on their BA, MA or Staatsexamensarbeit. A major goal of this course is to guide students through the process of writing a research paper. All candidates in NamLitCult who are working on a written thesis are therefore encouraged to attend regularly.

This colloquium starts on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Further meetings will be announced in the first session.

Please sign up via LSF.

Research Colloquium

Tue, 18-20 online

This research colloquium offers writers of Ph.D. dissertations a forum for presentations of their work-in-progress. It will start on April 25, 2023.

UE/VL Foundations of Cultural Studies

Wed 10-12

Geöffnet für Gender-Zertifikat:

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

Geöffnet für Hok Nf American Cultural Studies und Gender Studies

For more information on Prof. Fellner's classes click here

Prof. Dr. Paul Morris

HS Ukrainian-Canadian Literature

Blockseminar in June/July:

Friday, June 30: 7-20

Saturday, July 1: 10-13

Monday, July 3: 17-20

Friday, July 7: 17-20

Saturday, July 8: 10-13

Monday, July 10: 17-20

Friday, July 14: 17-20

Monday, July 17: 17-20

Friday, July 21: 17-20

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Dr. Svetlana Seibel

HS From Achilles to Alexander: Wars of Classical Antiquity in American Literature

Wednesday, 12-14

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Bärbel Schlimbach

PS From New England to the West Coast, from the Canadian Border to the South: Regions in US-American Literature

Wednesday, 14-16

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Dr. Arlette Warken

PS 20^th Century American Drama

Thursday, 16.15-17.45

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Isis Luxenburger

Introduction to Media Studies

Mo, 10-12

Geöffnet für Gender-Zertifikat: Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

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Danielle Kopf-Giammanco

Introduction to Cultural Studies I: North America

Thu, 12-14

Geöffnet für Hok Nf American Cultural Studies

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Dr. Lisa Johnson

UE CS II North America: On Ethics of Ownership, Representation and Appropriation in Popular Music

Blockseminar:

Friday, April 28: 12-18.30

Saturday, April 29: 9.30-15.30

Friday, June 23: 12-18.30

Saturday, June 24: 9.30-15.30

Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur und Pflichtmodul

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Courses

Winter Semester 2022/23

In the winter term 2022/23 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the winter term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Most of NamLitCult's classes are planned to take place in-person / on-campus (subject to change in case of changing parameter by legal regulations, regulations by university etc.).

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

together with Tobias Schank

UE CS II North America: Race, Class, Gender in Borderlands Films and Music

MA Border Studies: Specialization Module C1: Interculturality and Diversity

Crossgelistet für Masterstudiengang Lateinamerika

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Gender Studies (Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung)

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop Studien (Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur)

Blocklehrveranstaltung

Freitag, 28.10.22: 13.30-18.30

Samstag, 29.10.22: 10.00-12.30

Freitag, 18.11.22: 13.30-18.30

Samstag, 19.11.22: 10.00-12.30

Freitag, 13.01.23: 13.30-18.30

Samstag, 14.01.23: 10.00-12.30

VL: Identity, Diaspora, and Displacement in North American Literatures

Tue, 12-14

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium

Tue, 16-18, online

This workshop-like colloquium allows candidates (BA-students, MA-students and Stex-students) to talk about the topics of their theses and the topics for their oral exams.

This colloquium consists of two parts:

1) “Blockkolloquium” in October for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (LAG, LAR, LAB). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on October 18, 2022.

Please sign up for the Blockkolloquium (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

2) Workshop for those students who will write/or are working on their BA, MA or Staatsexamensarbeit. A major goal of this course is to guide students through the process of writing a research paper. All candidates in NamLitCult who are working on a written thesis are therefore encouraged to attend regularly.

This colloquium starts on October 25, 2022. The exact dates of when these workshops will meet will be published on our website.

Please sign up via LSF.

Research Colloquium

Tue, 18-20, online

This research colloquium offers writers of Ph.D. dissertations a forum for presentations of their work-in-progress. It will start on October 25, 2022.

Click here for more information on Prof. Fellner's classes.

Dr. Svetlana Seibel

HS: Weavers of Tales: Women Writers and the Homeric Tradition

Mon, 14-16

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Gender Studies (Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung)

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Bärbel Schlimbach, M.A.

PS: Uncanny and Haunting? American Gothic Fiction from the 18th Century to the Present

Wed., 14-16

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Dr. Arlette Warken

PS: In Other Wor(l)ds: Margaret Atwood’s Short Fiction and Poetry

Thursday, 16-18

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Isis Luxenburger

Introduction to Media Studies – Stereotypes and Identities in Modern Family (2009-2020)

Mo 10-12

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Angewandte Popstudien (Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur)

Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Gender Studies

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Payman Rezwan

UE CS II North America: Born In The USA: The Representation Of Minorities In Music And On TV

Geblockt: details tba

Pop-Zertifikat: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

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Danielle Kopf-Giammanco

Introduction to Cultural Studies North America

Thursday, 12-14

B 3 1, Lecture hall I

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Courses

Summer Semester 2022

In the summer term 2022 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the summer term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Most of NamLitCult's classes are planned to take place in-person / on-campus (subject to change in case of changing parameter by legal regulations, regulations by university etc.).

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

VL "Women Life Writings"
Tue, 12-14
A 1 7, Großer Hörsaal

UE/VL "Foundations of Cultural Studies"
Wed, 10-12h
B 2 1, Lecture hall 0.02.1
Geöffnet für Zertifikat Gender Studies: Basismodul
Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Pop-Kultur
Crossgelistet für HoK NF American Studies und NF Gender Studies

“North American Borderlands: Histories and Cultural Practices”
Advanced Module C 2: Border Cultures im Master “Border Studies”
HS Advanced Topics im Kernfachmaster “American Studies / British Studies / English Linguistics”
Crossgelistet für Master "Lateinamerika"
Blockseminar
Friday, 29 April:14-18.30
Saturday, 30 April: 10-15
Friday, 13 May: 12-17h
Saturday, 14 May: 10-15
Saturday, May 20: all day (excursion, strongly recommended)

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium
Tue, 16-18
A 2 2, room 1.20.1 / online

This workshop-like colloquium allows candidates (BA-students, MA-students and Stex-students) to talk about the topics of their theses and the topics for their oral exams.
This colloquium consists of two parts:
1) “Blockkolloquium” in April for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (LAG, LAR, LAB). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on Friday, April 8, 2022, starting at 4 p.m.
Please sign up for the Blockkolloquium via email by March 30, 2022 (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

2) Workshop for those students who will write/or are working on their BA, MA or Staatsexamensarbeit. A major goal of this course is to guide students through the process of writing a research paper. All candidates in NamLitCult who are working on a written thesis are therefore encouraged to attend regularly.
This colloquium starts on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Further meetings will be announced in the first session.
Please sign up via LSF.

Research Colloquium
Tue, 18-20
Online
This research colloquium offers writers of Ph.D. dissertations a forum for presentations of their work-in-progress. It will start on April 12, 2022.

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Prof. Paul Morris

Guest Professor from Université de Saint-Boniface

HS "The Theatre of Indigenous Peoples in Canada"
This seminar will be conducted on the following dates/times:
Friday, June 10: 17:00 – 19:00
Monday, June 13: 17:00 – 20:00
Friday, June 17: 17:00 – 20:00
Monday, June 20: 17:00 – 20:00
Friday, June 24: 17:00 – 20:00
Monday, June 27: 17:00 – 20:00
Friday, July 1: 17:00 – 20:00
Monday, July 4: 17:00 – 20:00
All sessions are planned on campus: C 5 3, room 1.20.

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Dr. Svetlana Seibel

PS "Salem and Beyond: Historical Witch Trials in North American Literature"
Mon, 14-16
A 2 2, room 120.1

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Dr. Madgalena Pfalzgraf

PS "Indian classical music in contemporary literature in English: Representations of the Raag in selected novels by Amit Chaudhuri and Neelum Saran Gou"
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Wed, 10-12
A 2 2, room 2.13

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Dr. Arlette Warken

PS "North American Coming-of-Age Stories"
Thu, 16-18
A 2 2, 120.1

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Dr. Hank Rademacher / Danielle Kopf-Giammanco

"Introduction to Cultural Studies: North America"
Thu, 12-14
B 3 1, Lecture hall I

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Bärbel Schlimbach, M.A.

"Introduction to Media Studies: Representations of Equal Rights Movements and Gender in American (Biographical) Movies"
Wed, 14-16
A 2 2, 120.1
Geöffnet für Zertifikat Gender Studies: Aufbaumodul 2: Aktuelle Fragestellungen der Genderforschung
Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur

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Dr. Lisa Johnson

UE CS II North America "Performing Culture: The Jamaican Dancehall in American Popular Culture"
Blockseminar:
Friday, April 22: 12-18:30
Saturday, April 23: 9:30-15:30
Friday, June 10: 12-18.30
Saturday, June 11: 9.30-15.30
All sessions are planned on campus: A 2 2, room 120.1.
Geöffnet für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop-Studien: Pflichtmodul 1: Interdisziplinäre Einführung in die Popkultur and Pflichtmodul 2: Pop in der Praxis

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Courses

Courses Winter 2021/22

In the winter term 2021/22 NamLitCult is offering the following classes:

For additional information and detailed descriptions, look up the winter term course pages. All departmental courses are also listed in the course directory (LSF) maintained by the university.

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

together with Dr. Magdalena Pfalzgraf
VL Memories of Diversity / Diversity of Memories
Wed, 10-12

HS Remembering 9/11 in Pandemic Times
(Graduate) Seminar for NamLitCult students (BA/MA/Stex)
Vorbesprechung online; Blockseminar hybrid in-class

HS Cultural Encounters in Europe
MA Border Studies: Specialization Module C1: Interculturality and Diversity
MA American Studies: Research Focus Module
Anrechenbar für Zertifikat Angewandte Pop Studien: Pop-Projekt
All meetings online:
Tuesday, 14 Sept. 2021: 10-12: Constituent meeting of participants and curators from each country
Tuesday, 14 Sept. 2021: 13-16.30: Borders, Media, and Cultural Studies Research (online)
Wednesday, 15 Sept. 2021: 13-15
Thursday, 16 Sept. 2021: 13-16
Friday, 17 Sept 2021: 10-12: Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods (online)
Friday, Sep. 24, 2021: 13-15: Q&A with the Service Team
Monday, 04 Oct. 2021: 10-12
Monday, 11 Oct. 2021: 10-12 and 13-15
Friday, 19 Nov. 2021: 12-17: Presentation of Project Results

This class should be taken in combination with Klaus Heissenberger’s tutorial “Borderlands Stories: Ethnography, Film, and Photography.”
Please register with Tobias Schank: tobias.schank[at]uni-saarland.de.

BA/MA/STEX Colloquium

Tue, 16-18
Online or in 2.03

This colloquium consists of two parts:

1) “Blockkolloquium” in October for those students who will participate in the oral state exam (LAG, LAR, LAB). All topics can be presented and discussed. Please bring handouts for your brief presentations. This “Blockkolloquium” will take place on October 19 at 4pm.
Please sign up for the Blockkolloquium (amerikanistik[at]mx.uni-saarland.de).

2) Workshop for those students who will write/or are working on their BA, MA or Staatsexamensarbeit. A major goal of this course is to guide students through the process of writing a research paper. All candidates in NamLitCult who are working on a written thesis are therefore encouraged to attend regularly.
This colloquium starts on November 2. The exact dates of when these workshops will meet will be published on our website.
Please sign up via LSF.

Research Colloquium
Tue, 18-20
Online / Building A 5 3, room 2.03

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