Canadian Studies Courses at Marburg (1999-2012)

Winter 2012/13

VL: Introduction to the Study of Anglophone Literatures (Carmen Birkle)

HS: Native North America (Canada and the USA) (Carmen Birkle)

PS: Canadian Content (Munro Hotes)

Summer 2012

PS: Indigenous Issues in Canada (Heuser)

PS: Writing from/about the Canadian Prairies (Kuester)

PS: Short Stories from Britain and Canada (Langwald)

HS: Key Concepts in North American Studies (Birkle/Kuester)

Winter 2011/12

VL:Canada: Recent European Perspectives (interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung, Martin Kuester mit Gästen)

VL: The New Literatures in English: Key Texts Representing Post-Colonial Writing (Martin Kuester)

PS: Making it New: Contemporary Poetry (Martin Kuester)

HS: North of the 49th Parallel: Recent Writing from Canada (Martin Kuester)

Summer 2011

PS: Of Moors and Monsters? Postcolonial Shakespeare (Sylvia Langwald)

PS: Globality, Identity and Asian North American Narratives (Eleanor Ty) Im Sommersemester 2011 lehrte Prof. Dr. Eleanor Ty von der Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo/Ontario (Kanada) als Gastprofessorin am Marburger Zentrum für Kanada-Studien. Die Philipps-Universität Marburg hat seit Jahren einen erfolgreichen Austausch mit der Wilfrid Laurier University.

Winter 2010/2011

Birkle: Interdisciplinarity in North American Studies (HS)
Langwald: Generations and Diasporic Identities in Canada (PS)

Summer 2010

Birkle: Key Concepts in North American Studies (HS)
Kuester: 19th Century Poetry from Britain and Canada (PS)
Kuester: 20th Century Literature (VL)
Kuester: Recent Anglophone Drama (HS)
Langwald: Introduction to the Study of Anglophone Literatures (UE)
Ulm: Key Texts by North American Native Writers (PS)

Winter 2009/2010

Birkle: The Two Margarets: Atwood and Laurence (PS)
Krewani: Die Medientheorie Marshall McLuhans aus der Perspektive einer zeitgenössischen Medienwissenschaft (SE/HS)
Kuester: Recent Novels from Great Britain and the Commonwealth (including Canadian examples) (PS)
Kuester:19th Century Novels from Britain and Canada (HS)
Langwald: Writing the Nation: Lyrics of Poets Laureate from the Anglophone World (including Canadian examples) (PS)
Ulm: Literature and the New Media (PS)

Summer 2009

Birkle: Slavery in the Americas (PS)
Fels: “Where is Here?”: Local Color Fiction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Canadian Literature (PS)
Heuser: “Borders Within”: Regionalism and Diversity in Canada (PS)
Lajeunesse: Geomorphology of Canada (VL)
Lajeunesse: Selected Topics of Geomorphology, Geology and Pedology of Canada (OS)
Langwald: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Great Britain and the Commonwealth (PS)

Winter 2008/09

Birkle: Exploring the Region: British Columbia in History, Literature, and Culture (PS)

Summer 2008

Birkle (Amerikanistik): Mapping North America in Travel Writing (VL)
Birkle (Amerikanistik): Going Native in America (HS)
Merschhemke (Amerikanistik): Introduction to the study of Anglophone Literatures (UE)
Kuester (Anglistik): The Novel in English: From Modernism to Post Colonialism (PS)
Kuester (Anglistik): The Concept of Europe in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (HS)
Kuester/ Handke (Anglistik): North American Language and Culture

Winter 2007/08

Kanadistische Ringvorlesung, Mo 18-20 im Kanada-Saal der Universitätsbibliothek

Keller/ Sandrock (Anglistik): Scotswomen, Home and Abroad – Literary Journeys (PS)
Radu (Anglistik): Building the Canadian Nation (PS)
Kuester (Anglistik): Modern and Postmodern Poetry (HS)
Heuser (Anglistik): First Nations of Canada (PS)
Heidenreich: The Short Story in English-speaking Canada (PS/HS)
Heidenreich: The Coming-of-Age Novel in English-speaking Canada (HS)

Summer 2007

Fels: Contemporary American Family Novels (PS)
Radu: Auto/biograpry: Writing (Canadian) Lives (PS)
Kuester:Transatlantic Stereotyping: Views From/About Both Sides of the Ocean (HS)

Winter 2006/07

Kuester: The New Literatures in English (VL)
Radu: Building the Canadian Nation (PS)

Summer 2006

Radu: 20th Century Poetry in the UK and Canada (PS)
Heuser: Canadian Mysteries (PS)

Winter 2005/06

Kuester: Postmodern and/or Postcolonial: Contemporary Writing from Britain and the Commonwealth (S)
Zimmermann: Englisch als Weltsprache (VL)
Bosold: A Good International Citizen? Canadian Foreign Policy from 1945 to Present (S)

Summer 2005

Keller/Kuester: Tall Tales and Typescripts: Canadian Creative Processes (S)
Krewani: Marshall McLuhan and the digital worlds (S)
Walz: The Fundamentals of Screenwriting (UE)
Walz: Canadian Film: An Introduction (PS/S)

Winter 2004/05

Kuester: Recent Developments in British and Canadian Drama (S)
Quennet: Regional Stories in the US and Canada in the 19^th Century (PS)
Courtney: Selected Problems of Canadian Politics (S)
Courtney: Introduction to Canadian Government and Politics (S)

Summer 2004

Heuser: Canada from Sea to Sea to Sea (PS)
Kuester: Nineteenth-Century Novels from Britain and Canada (S)
Quennet: The Jewish Short Story in England, Canada and the U.S. (PS)
Panofsky: Creative Writing (June 2-8, 2004) (UE)

Winter 2003/04

Kuester: Modernism and Postmodernism: Poetry and Fiction from Great Britain and the Commonwealth (PS)
Kuester: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Key Texts from the 20th Century (VL)
Radu: The Canadian Kuenstlerroman (PS)
Schiller: Politische Systeme und Konfliktmuster in Kanada und USA (PS)

Summer 2003

Kuester: The Contemporary Novel in English: Recent Booker Nominees from the New English Literatures / Included: Yann Martel, The Life of Pi (S)
Lescure: La situation du français au Canada (PS)
Lescure: L'espace francophone (UE)
Krieger: Einführung in die Geschichte Kanadas (VL)
Krieger: Lektüre ausgewählter Quellen und Darstellungen zur kanadischen Geschichte (MS)
Hecht: Canada - its urban-economic realm (VL)
Hecht / Pletsch: Selected topics on the Canadian socio-economic urban realm Hecht (S)

Winter 2002/03

Heuser: Multiculturalism: Pieces of the Canadian Mosaic (PS)
Kuester: Plays Within Plays (S)
v. Bredow: Multilateralismus als Methode außenpolitischen Handelns (S)

Summer 2002

Dyck: Canadian Poetry: An Introduction (PS)
Dyck: The Rhetoric of the Aboriginal Canadian Novel (S)
Keller: From Autobiography to Prosopagraphy: Self-Writing from the Middle Ages to Present (PS)
Krewani: Kanadischer Film (S)
Neer: The Great White North? – A Fresh Look at Canada (UE)
Williams: Creative Writing (UE)

Winter 2001/02

Summer 2001

Guest professor Hans-Jürgen Greif; seminars in French Canadian literature
Pletsch/Müller/Kehr: GIS-basierte Regionalanalyse – Beispiele aus laufenden Forschungsprojekten (Kanada, Frankreich, Deutschland)

Winter 2000/01

Kuester: The Historical Novel (V)
Kuester: Historical Novels: Traditional and Postmodern (S)

Summer 2000

Kuester: Introduction to New Literatures in English (VL)
Quennet: The Nineties in Canadian Women Writers Fiction (S)
van Herk: Contemporary Canadian Authors: Canadian Historical Dilemmas in Fiction (S)
van Herk: Creative Writing: Short Fiction (UE)

Winter 1999/00

v. Bredow / Moss: Politics, Culture and Political Culture in Canada (S)
Kuester: Margaret Atwood (S)

Summer 1999

Kuester: Reflections of the Great War in 20^th Century Literature (S)
Moss: Ethnicity in Canada (PS)
Quennet: On the Wings of Tongue: Jewish Canadian and American Writing (PS)
Pletsch/Gerhard: Geography im Internet (S)

Language: All courses are taught in the language in which their titles are announced.

Frequency: irregular (no periodical repetition)

S = seminar, advanced level; taught mainly by (tenured) professors
PS = seminar, beginners (semesters 1-5); taught also by MAs and PhDs
UE = practical exercise; taught by all
VL = lecture; taught by (tenured) professors