Germanic Languages & Literatures

Washington University

314.935.5106; Fax: 314.935.7255; german@artsci.wustl.edu

One Brookings Drive, CB 1104, St. Louis, MO 63130

W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

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Courses

Graduate Course Archive

Below is a list of our recent graduate courses. For more information about our graduate courses, both past and present, please contact Lutz Koepnick, or see our Faculty Research Areas.

Spring 2008

Ger 4381 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE SINCE 1965
Instructor: Jandl / Tawada

Ger 435 REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST
Instructor: McGlothlin

Ger 5053 SEMINAR IN THEORIES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY / THEORIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Instructor: Russo

Ger 521 THE THIRTY YEARS WAR REVISITED
Instructor: Medick

Fall 2007

Ger 4911 EUROPE, AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY: IDENTITY DISCOURSES SINCE 1750 IN LIT, THOUGHT, ART & POLITICS
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 526 SEMINAR IN THE LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE LITERARY IMAGINATION AND THE GERMAN BOURGEOISIE
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 528 POLITICAL RAGE: TERRORISM IN GERMAN CULTURE
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 529 SEMINAR IN CULTURAL THEORY: THE PROSTHETIC EYE: GERMAN LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2007

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature Since 1965
Instructor: Gauss / Rabinovici

Ger 450 Methodology and Literary Theory
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 524 Seminar in Literature of the 18th Century: Consuming Fictions: Commodification and the German Novel 1775-1815
Instructor: Erlin

Ger 526 Seminar in Literature of the 19th Century: Fin-De-Siecle
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: Screening the 50s
Instructor: Kapczynski

Ger 550 Methods of Literary Studies: Cultural Pluralism: From Modernity to Globalization [Home-based in Comparative Literatures]
Instructor: Lützeler

L16 Comp Lit 512 Seminar: Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires: Constructing the Occult Other
Instructor: Williams

Fall 2006

Ger 521 Ways of Knowing / Ways of Telling: German Literature and Culture in the 17th Century
Instructor: Williams

Ger 526 Seminar in Literature of the 19th Century: German and Austrian Women Writers 1865-1910
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 528 Literary Seminar: Eco-Criticism From Goethe to Grass
Instructor: Detering

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: On Beauty: Aesthetics and Its Discontents
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2006

Ger 4381 Contemporary German Literature Since 1965
Instructor: Steinert / Leupold

Ger 457 Structure of the German Language
Instructor: Williams

Ger 520 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Nibelungenlied: A Troubled Legacy
Instructor: Layher

Ger 524 Seminar in Literature of the Late 18th Century: Friedrich Schiller
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 529 Seminar in Theory: Negation and Negativity in the Eighties
Instructor: Diederichsen

Fall 2005

Ger 4101 German Literature and Culture: 1750-1830: Friedrich Schiller: Freedom and Love
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 4105 Topics in German Studies: Restoration, Revolution, and Redefinition: 19th-century
Instructor: Jenkins

Ger 4911 The Quest for India in German Literature and Thought
Instructor: Talgeri (Visiting Professor)

Ger 526 Seminar in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century: Violence and Community
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 527 Seminar in Literature of the 20th Century: The Ball is Round: The Global Culture of Soccer
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: Move on: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Motion
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2005

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature since 1965
Instructors: Stephan Krass, Angela Krauß

Ger 450 Methodology and Literary Theory
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 456 History of the German Language
Instructor: Layher

Ger 521 Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: Autobiographical Writing by Men and Women in Early Modern Germany
Instructor: Heide Wunder

Ger 528 Literary Seminar: Discourses of Identity and Alterity in 20th-Century German-Jewish Literature
Instructor: McGlothlin

Ger 550 Methods of Literary Study: Cultural Pluralism: From Modernity to Globalization
Instructor: Lützeler

L16 Comp Lit 512 Constructing Strangeness: Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires (1500-2000)
Instructor: Williams

Fall 2004

Ger 505 Seminar in the Teaching of German
Instructor: Russo

Ger 521 Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: Magic and Merriment: Early Modern Prose Narratives (Volksbuch) from Melusine to Eulenspiegel (15th to 16th Century)
Instructor: Williams

Ger 524 Seminar in Literature of the Late 18th Century: The Sexual Goethe
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: M
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2004

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature since 1965
Instructor: Taught by the Max Kade writer and the Max Kade critic in residence

Ger 526 Seminar in Literature of the 19th Century: Imagining Germany: Gender, Nationalism, and National Idendity
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 528 Literary Seminar: Sociolinguistics: Language Usage and Social Identity
Instructor: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Angelika Linke, Zurich Universität

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: Marxism and Cultural Criticism
Instructor: Erlin

Ger 550 Methods of Literary Study: The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
Instructor: Williams

Fall 2003

Ger 4521 Topics in Literature and History: The German Contribution to the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 505 Seminar in the Teaching of German
Instructor: Russo

Ger 521 Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: The 16th Century Reformers - Travelers - Witches
Instructor: Williams

Ger 527 Seminar in Literature of the 20th Century: Protest, Sex, and Punk: Germany 1968-1982
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 528 Literary Seminar: Circa 1959
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2003

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature Since 1945
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 520 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Gender and Genre: Medieval Short Stories
Instructor: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ingrid Kasten, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

Ger 527 Seminar in Literature of the Twentieth Century: Were we Ever Modern? The Literature of German Expressionism
Instructor: Mueller-Richter

Ger 550 Methods of Literary Study: Cultural Pluralism: From Modernity to Globalization
Instructor: Lützeler

Fall 2002

Ger 435 German Literature and Fascism, 1933-1945: Representing the Holocaust
Instructor: Schindler

Ger 457 Structure of the German Language
Instructor: Williams

Ger 4911 Seminar in Culture Studies: Aesthetic Politics: Power, Art, and Modern Culture
Instructors: Koepnick, Sabine Eckmann

Ger 505 Seminar in the Teaching of German
Instructor: Russo

Ger 526 Seminar in Literature of the 19th Century: The Literary Imagination and the German Bourgeioisie
Instructor: Tatlock

Spring 2002

Ger 428 German Romanticism, 1790-1830: Romantic Love in Romanticism
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature Since 1945
Taught by the Max Kade writer and the Max Kade critic-in-residence

Ger 494 Seminar on German Film: City and Nature in German Cinema - A Topography
Instructor: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Gertrud Koch, Die Freie Universität Berlin

Ger 529 Seminar in Cultural Theory: Benjamin Remastered: From Mechanical Reproduction to the Digital Divide
Instructor:Koepnick

Fall 2001

Ger 456 History of the German Language
Instructor: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Alfred Ebenbauer, Universität Wien

Ger 505 Seminar in the Teaching of German

Ger 526 Seminar in Literature of the 19th Century: Contested Communities: Nineteenth-Century German Regionalism and the Literary Imagination
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 527 Seminar in Literature of the 20th Century: Traditionalismus und Erneuerungswille im Werk Bertolt Brechts
Instructor: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Norbert Müller, Freie Universität-Berlin

Ger 550 Methods of Literary Study: The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
Instructor: Williams

Spring 2001

Ger 4381 Contemporary Literature Since 1945
Taught by the Max Kade writer and the Max Kade critic in residence

Ger 494 Seminar on German Film: The Dark Mirror: Film Noir and the Exile of German Filmmakers in Hollywood
Instructor: Koepnick

Ger 521 Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: Those Wild and Crazy Times: Wonders and Witches in Early Modern Culture (1500-1700)
Instructor: Williams

Ger 524 Seminar in Literature of the Late 18th Century: From Body to Mind: Sexuality in the Age of Goethe
Instructor: Schindler

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Germanic Languages & Literatures

314.935.5106; Fax: 314.935.7255; german@artsci.wustl.edu

One Brookings Drive, CB 1104, St. Louis, MO 63130