Dr. Mareike Spychala

Courses

Seminars (Basic Module)

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

Seminars (Advanced and Specialization Module)

• Race and Politics in German and U.S.-American Culture
• Feminist Theory, Feminist Fiction: Transatlantic Conversations
• Skeletons in the Closet: Gothic and Horror in American Literature and Culture
• Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries
• Gender, Race, and Nationality: Transatlantic Literature and Culture from the 18th to the Early 20th Century
• "East Goes West": Tracing Developments in Asian American Literature and Culture
• From Poetry to Song Lyrics: Analysing and Teaching Verse (Interdisciplinary Seminar)
• "This Double-Consciousness" - African American and Afro German Literature and Culture
• British and American SF/F TV and its Literary and Cultural Adaptations: Situating "Doctor Who" and "Star Trek" (together with Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein)
• Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in American Literature
• Riding off Into the Sunset: The Western in German and American Culture
• Writing the American Character? Autobiography in U.S. Literature
• Mission Accomplished? American Literature about the Second Iraq War 
• "Hijab Scenes": Exploring Contemporary Arab American Literature

Reading Classes (all modules)

• "Uncle Sam Wants You:" War in American Culture (incl. film series "The Americans Come": War in American Cinema)

Practice Classes (Supplemental Module)

• Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies