Dr. Nicole K. Konopka

Courses

Seminars (Basic Module)

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
Introduction to American and British Cultural Studies

Seminars (Advanced Module)

Taking from the Rich, Giving to the Poor: Social Bandits in Transatlantic Perspective
"Outliving systems of tyranny": Hemingway, Iberian Contemporaries, and the Spanish Civil War (together with Susen Halank (Roman Studies) and including an excursion to Spain in January 2025)
Promised Land America (including a day trip to see the exhibition "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" in Stuttgart)
Journey of a Lifetime: Stories of German Migration in a Transatlantic Context (including a day trip to the Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim)
The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture
In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning class offered via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern)
More than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture
New Approaches to Old Favorites: Re-Reading North-American Children's and Young-Adult Book Classics (1860s-1960s)
From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture
From Benjamin Franklin to "The Girls Next Door": The Rags-to-Riches Narrative in American Culture
The Good, the Bad, and The Sublime: German and American Romanticism (including a session at the ETA Hoffmann Museum, Bamberg)
From Gossip Girl to Dust Bowl Okie: The Representation of Social Class in American Literature and Culture
Golden Door: Italian Perspectives on the USA and Vice Versa (including a field trip to Rome, Italy)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Shakespeare: Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies (mit Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug, Dr. Isolde Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer, Dr. Beatrix Hesse) - focus: "Shakespeare in the American High School" (Culture and Media)
Contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture
"Jetzt ist die Zeit und Stunde da, wir reisen nach Amerika!" German Immigrants in US-American and Canadian Literature and Culture (including a field trip to Hamburg and Bremerhaven)
Beloved Beast: Talking (about) Animals in German and American Literature and Culture
Coming into Clover: Past and Present of Irish America (including a field trip to Dublin, Ireland)
Across the Sea: Transatlantic Relationships between Germany and the USA (including a student symposium in Prague, Czech Republic)
Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture (including a day trip to the castle Neuschwanstein)
Germans in the American Civil War (including a field trip to a Civil War reenactment in Walldürn, Germany)
Dudes, Machos, and Real Men: Masculinity in American Fiction
Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism (including a day trip to the English landscape gardens at Wilhelmsbad/Hanau and the St?del Museum in Frankfurt/Main)
The Figure of the Outsider in German and American Literature and Culture (including a daytrip to see the play "G?tz von Berlichingen" at the Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen)
The European Immigrant Autobiography: A Fragment of U.S. American History
Eating Cultures: Food in a Largely American Con-Text
A Different Point of View: Female Narratives in American Immigrant Literature

Reading Classes (all modules)

Discourses of Mental Illness in North American Literature and Culture
Banned Books
The Sea in North American and German Literature
The American West:ern: Exploring the Myth, the Place, the Genre
From Know-It-All to Clearly Clueless: Exploring the Narrator in US-American and Canadian Fiction
Social Writing, Socialist Writing, So-called Writing? American Literature 1860–1910
Reading the Frontier: Westward Expansion in American Literature and Culture
Disturbing Paradigms: Mental Illness in U.S. American