Classes Taught

Department of German, University of Freiburg (2005 - present)

• Literature and the Comic Strip (Winter Semester 2007/08; Summer Semester 2011, forthcoming)
• Introduction to Literary Studies / Cities in the Weimar Republic (Summer Semester 2011, forthcoming)
• Contemporary Literary Utopias (Winter Semester 2010/11)
• Franz Kafka - The Novels (Winter Semester 2010/11)
• The "Other" Manns: Erika, Klaus, and Golo Mann (Summer Semester 2010)
• German Romanticism (Summer Semester 2010)
• Aphorisms and Fragments (Winter Semester 2009/10)
• Contemporary German Poetry (Winter Semester 2009/10)
• Thomas Mann - "The Magic Mountain" (Summer Semester 2009)
• Introduction to Literary Studies / "Wiener Moderne" - Viennese Modernism, 1890-1910 (Summer Semester 2009)
• Goethe and the Sciences (Winter Semester 2008/09)
• Literature in the Computer Age - The Computer Age in Literature (Winter Semester 2008/09)
• Goethe´s "Wilhelm Meister´s Apprenticeship" - A Novel and its Reception (Summer Semester 2008)
• The Historical Novel as "Trivial" and "High" Literature (Summer Semester 2008)
  
• Novalis (Winter Semester 2007/08)
• Presentation of Oral and Written Research in English (taught in English; European Literatures and Cultures M.A. program, Winter Semester 2007/08)
  
• Introduction to Literary Studies  / Enlightenment (Summer Semester 2007)
• Arno Schmidt (Summer Semester 2007)
• Scientific Discourse in German Romanticism (Winter Semester 2006/07)
• Theories and Poetics of German "Popliteratur" (Winter Semester 2006/07)
• Introduction to Literary Studies / Contemporary Literature (Summer Semester 2006)
• Hermann Hesse (Winter Semester 2005/06)
• German Poetry: From Enlightenment to the Present (Special class for students from Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea;  Summer Semesters 2006, 2007; Winter Semester 2006/07)

Comparative Literature Program, University of Göttingen (2004 - 2005)

• Modern Poetry 1850-1950: From Baudelaire to the Beat Generation (Summer Semester 2005)
• Images of "Amerika" in German Literature, 1800-2001 (Winter Semester 2004/05)
• Utopian Islands in European Literature (Summer Semester 2004)

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA   (1997 - 2001)

• Intensive German Language Retreat (Spring Quarter 2001)
• Second Year German: Bertolt Brecht - Die Dreigroschenoper (Spring Quarter 2001)
• Second Year German: German Poetry Since 1945 (Spring Quarter 1999)
• Second Year German (Fall, Winter Quarters 1998/99 & 2000/01)
• Intensive First Year German (Summer Session 1998)
• First Year German (Fall, Winter, Spring Quartes 1997/98)