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Recently Taught Graduate Courses

 

Spring 2007

  • Introduction to the Teaching of German (Russo/Tatlock)
  • Consuming Fictions: Commodification and the German Novel 1775-1815 (Erlin)
  • Fin-de-Siecle (Schindler)
  • Screening the 50s: 1950s German Cinema (Kapczynski)
  • The Aesthetics of Interface/Media and the Arts as Windows to the World (Koepnick)
  • Witches, Ghosts and Vampires: Constructing the Occult Other (Williams)
  • Methodology and Literary Theory: Globalism (LŸtzeler)

 

Fall 2006

  • Ways of Knowing/Ways of Telling: German Literature and Culture of the 17th Century (Williams)
  • On Beauty: Aesthetics and its Discontent (Koepnick)
  • Seminar in the Teaching of German (Russo)
  • Eco-Criticism from Goethe to Grass (Detering)
  • German and Austrian Women Writers 1865-1910 (Tatlock)

 

Spring 2006

  • Niebelungenlied: A Troubled Legacy (Layher)
  • Friedrich Schiller (LŸtzeler)
  • Negation and Negativity in the 1980s (Diedrichsen)
  • The Aesthetics of Motion (Koepnick)

Fall 2005

  • The Quest for India in German Literature and Thought (Talgeri)
  • Seminar in the Teaching of German (Russo)
  • Seminar in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century: Violence and Community (Tatlock)
  • Seminar in the Literature of the Twentieth Century: The Ball is Round: The Global Culture of Soccer (Schindler)
  • Seminar in Cultural Theory: Move On: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Motion (Koepnick)
  • Methods of Literary Study: The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (Williams)

 

Spring 2005

  • Contemporary Literature Since 1965 (Krass, Krau§)
  • Methodology and Literary Theory (LŸtzeler)
  • History of the German Language (Layher)
  • Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: Autobiographical Writing by Men and Women in Early Modern Germany (Williams)
  • Literary Seminar: Discourses of identity and Alterity in Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Literature (McGlothlin)

 

 

 

Updated in 2007 by patrick brugh and sandra marcu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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