Professor Lemke | Course Offerings

Summer Semester 2024

• HS/MS Sustain*able – A Cultural Studies Approach to Sustainability
• HS/MS Black Media Studies
• PS Acting Gender
• PS On Writing – Academic, Creative, Autofiction, Metafiction
• PS Short Fiction – Strong Feelings

Winter Semester 2023/24

• HS/MS American Film
• VL [Dis-]Connection
• HS/MS Inequality and Identity
• HS/MS Queer Narratives and Queer Theory

Winter Semester 2022/23

• HS/MS Critical Literacies and Sustainability – On Media, Digital, and Attentional Literacy
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• VL Literary Theory (MELLIT)

Summer Semester 2022

• PS Film Aesthetics - The Politics of the Gaze
• PS The Age of (Dis)Connectivity
• HS/MS Beyond Patriarchy - American Cultural History 1920-2020
• HS/MS The Great American Novel - Must-Reads 1850-1950

Winter Semester 2021/22

• MS/HS Black Lives - Milestones in Film and Fiction
• MS/HS The Art of Connection
• Literary Theory (MELLIT)

Summer Semester 2021

• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• MS/HS In/visible - Phenomenal Women in U.S. American History and Contemporary Media
• MS/HS The Politics of Happiness

Winter Semester 2020/21

• HS/MS A House Divided - Polarization Then and Now
• VL Humanities Now/Geisteswissenschaften im 21. Jahrhundert (with Prof. Dr. Frank Bezner)
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Thesis Writing and Colloquium

Summer Semester 2020

• HS/MS African American Literature. From Slave Narratives to Conscious Rap
• HS/MS Critiques of Capitalism. Precarity, Labour and Leisure (with Prof. Dr. Robin Curtis)
• HS/MS Documentary Film
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Thesis Writing and Colloquium

Winter Semester 2019/20

• HS/MS Back to the Future
• HS/MS In the Pursuit of Happiness
• HS/MS Stories That Get to You
• HS/MS The Gaze That Kills
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2019

• HS/MS Body and Mind
• HS/MS Precariousness and its Other. Photography, Artifacts, Film, Performance (with Prof. Dr. Robin Curtis)
• PS Short Stories That Get to You
• VL Hollywood "Class"ics
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2018/19

Sabbatical

• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2018

• HS/MS American Literature 1825-1925. From Transcendentalism to Modernism
• HS/MS Spectacular Bodies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2017/18

• HS/MS Imagining the Future
• PS African-American Literature
• PS Screening the Real
• PS (m. Unterrichtsbezug) Precarious Representations – In the Classroom and as Objects of Critical Scrutiny
• VL Precarious Representations
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2017

• HS/MS Film – History and Theory
• PS Mom. The Representation of Motherhood in American Fiction
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2016/17

• HS/MS Dystopian Fiction
• HS/MS New York, New York (with Andreas Starck)
• New York Exkursion
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2016

• HS/MS (with Unterrichtsbezug) American Film
• HS/MS Liberty and Solidarity in American Culture
• HS/MS Short Fiction and Creativity
• VL Understanding America – Cultural Theory (with Dr. Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk)
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2015/16

• HS/MS Black Power – African American Literature (18^th to the 21^st Century)
• HS/MS Gender Now – Geschlechter(Forschung) in deutschen und U.S.-amerikanischen Medien (with Prof. Dr. Nina Degele)
• PS Reel Lives – New Hollywood and Beyond
• VL Ungleichheit / Inequality – Kultur- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Analysen (with Prof. Dr. Tim Krieger)
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2015

• HS/MS The American Short Story of the 21^st Century
• HS/MS The Visual Text – How to Read Still and Moving Images
• VL Enabling Fictions of the 21^st Century
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2014/15

• HS/MS The Documentary – Videos, Photos, and Reality TV
• PS America's Struggle For Liberation – Past, Present, Future
• PS Cultural Studies Revisited
• HS/MS Hollywood Cinema
• VL Introduction to Cultural Studies (with Dr. Dustin Breitenwischer)
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2014

• HS/MS The Holy Trinity of Cultural Studies – Race, Class, Gender
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2013/14

• HS/MS Documentary Fiction/Film and Reality
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2013

• HS/MS American Dream Reconsidered
• HS/MS Film Studies and Visual Theory
• PS Creative Non-Fiction
• PS The American Short Story of the 20^th and 21^st Century
• PS The Roaring Twenties and American Modernism
• OS Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Theory
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2012/13

• HS/MS African American Literature
• HS/MS American Poetry
• VL Reading Queer Films – Doing Queer Theory
• Masterkolloquium Literary Theory (MELLIT)
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2012

• HS/MS American Modernism
• PS The American Short Story of the 20^th Century
• VL Class in the U.S. – Fiction, Film, and False Ideologies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2011/12

• HS/MS Harlem Renaissance
• HS/MS Key Concepts of American Studies
• VL The USA after 9/11
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2011

• HS/MS Class Matters
• HS/MS The American Short Story of the 20^th and 21^st Century
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2010/11

• Masterkolloquium Literary Theory (MELLIT)
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2010

• HS/MS Strong Emotions in Short Fiction
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2009/10

Forschungssemester | FRIAS

• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2009

• HS/MS Intro to Afro
• HS/MS Narrating Emotion Through Time
• HS/MS Soziale Ungleichheiten in intersektionaler Perspektive – Die Frauenbewegung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert in den USA und Deutschland (with Prof. Dr. Nina Degele & Prof. Dr. Sylvia Paletschek)
• HS/MS Visual and Film Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2008/09

• HS/MS Literary Theory
• HS/MS Short Fiction Inside and Out – Analyzing Short Stories as Critics and Writers
• PS How to Read Images
• PS American Literature of the 19^th Century and Slavery
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2008

• HS Hart unter der Grenze. Amerikanistische und soziologische Perspektiven auf soziale Ungleichheiten
• HS Mexicans in the US-Language, Culture, Identity
• HS Visual Studies. Dialectics of Seeing
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2007/08

• HS/MS African Americans in Europe
• HS/MS The Vernacular Tradition in American Literature
• HS/MS Representing Poverty in American/British Film and Literature
• VL Introduction to Literary Studies
• Examenskolloquium

Summer Semester 2007

• HS Arbeit am Körper – Soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Körperkonzepte und deren Repräsentation im amerikanischen Film (with Prof. Dr. Nina Degele)
• HS Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James
• HS Representing Poverty in American/British Film and Literature (with Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte)
• PS Modern American Poetry and Poetics
• Examenskolloquium

Winter Semester 2006/07

• HS Classics of American Literature – Modernism
• HS Harlem Renaissance
• HS Mexican American Culture and Literature of the 20^th Century
• HS The Rise of the Entertainment Industry

Summer Semester 2006

• HS Classics of American Literature II
• HS Introduction to Textual Analysis
• HS Priwithivism and Transatlantic Modernism
• VL & Ü Black American Literature from Slave Narratives to Rap Lyrics

Winter Semester 2005/06

• HS American Classics of the 19^th Century
• HS Ethnic Literature of the 20^th Century
• HS The Vernacular Tradition in American Literature