Teaching

SoSe 20

• Project Seminar: Narration between Text and Image: Intermedial learning from illustrated manuscripts to comics.
• Seminar: Fabulous Animals: Narrative Designs of Animality in Literature and Culture.
• Advanced seminar with a research orientation in Human-Animal Studies: Friend and Foe, Hunter and Prey: Animal Narratives from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
• Project Seminar: Learning with Heroes: Childhood Narratives in Topic-Oriented Literature Classes

WiSe 19/20

• Project Seminar: Shaping Heroes - Designing Heroes: Medieval Literature in the Explainer and Learning Video [Explainer and learning videos are short video clips, also known as "explainers" or "how-to videos." They present their content in different formats (e.g. in the form of animated drawings or in the personal appearance of a teacher) and present a subject in a simple and understandable way. The characteristic elements of this special mediation format are thus storytelling and multisensory. The project seminar wants to turn to this teaching and learning format and test its potentials together on the basis of the "Song of the Nibelungs"].
• Seminar: Medieval Narrative in the Media Network [The focus is on heroic and Arthurian narration and diachronic forms of reception in different media are compared. In addition to providing basic knowledge of source narratives and exemplary analyses from various media contexts, special emphasis will be placed on narrative and media theoretical approaches].
• Seminar: Risky? Adventurous Narrative in Historical Change [Source Text: Hartmann von Aue "Iwein"]
• Advanced Seminar: To Astonish: Encounters with the "Stranger" in Medieval Literature [Diversity-conscious research approaches will be tested on the basis of the verse narrative "Herzog Ernst B"].

Summer Term 19         

• Seminar: "Fundamentals of Older German Language and Literature II" using the "Song of the Nibelungs" as an example

WiSe 18/19    

• Seminar with first semester introduction: "Clever like a fox? Tier-Erzählungen vom Mit­tel­alter bis zur Gegenwart" [Texts and media: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Buch der Natur, Fabeldichtung, Rein­hart Fuchs, Reinecke Fuchs, medial reception].
• Advanced seminar with research orientation in Human-Animal Studies: "Cunning as a Fox? Animal Narratives from the Middle Ages to the Present" [Texts and media: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Book of Nature, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs, Reinecke Fuchs, medial reception].

SoSe 18

• Seminar: "alte maere neu erzählen: Medieval reception and literary learning".
• Seminar: "Tier-Mensch-Verwandlungen: Transformation Processes in Medieval Literature" [Texts: Der Busant, Friedrich von Schwaben, Melusine, Wolfdietrich].

WiSe 15/16

• Advanced seminar: "Sprachgewaltig: Darstellungsformen und Funktionen von Gewalt in mittelalterlicher Literatur" [Texts: Erec, Parzival, Tristan, Diu Crône, Rolandslied].

Summer Term 15          

• Interdisciplinary advanced seminar together with Dr. M. Böth (Early Modern History): "The Pursuit of Happiness: Conceptions of Happiness in the Middle Ages and Early Modern­times" [Texts: Iwein, Diu Crône, Melusine, Fortunatus, Narrenschiff, Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, Geschichte des armen Herrn von Mildenburg, Ferdinand Beneke Die Tage­ bücher, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Paul et Virginie, Unterhaltungen zur Beförderung der häuslichen Glückseligkeit by Heinrich Matthias August Cramer].

WiSe 14/15

• Seminar: "Where Love Falls: Couple Relationships in Medieval Literature" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Parzival, Tristan, medial reception].
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Ästhetik des Monströsen: Animal-Human Beings in Medieval Literature" [Texts: Isidor of Seville, Konrad von Megenberg, cartography e.g. Ebstorfer Weltkarte, Schedel'sche Weltchronik, Arolser Weltchronik, Arthurian romances, Melusine, prophecy in pamphlets, transformation narratives].

SoSe 14          

• Seminar: "Animal Narrative: The Fox as a Literary Borderline Figure from the Middle Ages to Modern Times"[Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Book of Nature, fable poetry, Rein­hard fox, Reinecke fox, medial reception].

WiSe 13/14    

• Hauptseminar: "Too beautiful to be true: Perception, Interpretation and Evaluation of the Beautiful" [Texts: Erec, Iwein, Tristan, Nibelungenlied, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, animal-bridegroom narratives and medial reception].
• Lecture in the context of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung" of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (04.02.2013) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of Das fließende Licht der Gottheit by Mechthild von Magdeburg together with M. Böth (Early Modern History).
• Interdisciplinary research colloquium in cooperation with Dr. J. Münkner (Modern German Literature) with the title "Mysticism - The Longing for the Absolute". Four­ten researchers of different disciplinary provenance (German language­history and medieval studies, history of art and early modern history, historical­time in the medium of film, theology, philosophy, and modern German literature) will explore the elusive concept of the mystical.

Summer semester 13          

• Seminar: "Of Lions, Dragons and Unicorns. Appearance and Function of Animals in Medieval Literature" [Texts: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Book of Nature, Conrad Gessner Thierbuch, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Tristan, Nibelungenlied, Herzog Ernst, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs].

WiSe 12/13    

• Advanced seminar: "Laughter in/about the Middle Ages. Criteria and Categories of the Comic [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Tristan, Parzival, Märe- und Schwankdichtung sowie Mittelalterzeption in Literatur und Film].
• Lecture in the context of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung" of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (06.02.2012) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of "Diu Crône" by Heinrich von dem Türlin together with M. Böth (Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit).

SoSe 12

• Seminar: "Grundlagen der älteren deutschen Sprache und Literatur II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Erec".
• Research seminar and colloquium for Master students "Intersectionality and Narra­tion II" in collaboration with PD. Dr. M. Mecklenburg [Texts: Minnesang, Märendich­tung].
• Lecture within the medievalist introductory lecture by Prof. Dr. M. Mecklenburg "Fundamentals of Older Language and Literature I" (19/12/2013): "Mann-Sein / Frau-Sein oder Nicht-Sein, das ist hier die Frage: doing gender im Mittelalter" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Diu Crône].

WiSe 11/12

• Interdisciplinary seminar together with M. Böth (Early Modern History): "The Way is the Destination? Travel Descriptions in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period"; open to the IAG Women's and Gender Studies program [texts: Iwein, Duke Ernst, Travels of Jehan de Mandeville , Travel Diary of Johann Rudolphi, Cavalier's Journey of Franz Anton Freiherr von Landsberg, Travel Diary of Sophie von La Roche, Leonharti Rauwolfen, Lady Mary Montagu].
• Inter-university advanced seminar for Master students and advanced BA students together with PD Dr. M. Mecklenburg: "Intersectionality and Narra­tion"; in cooperation with the Germanic Medieval Studies of the Universities of Frankfurt, Giessen and Marburg within the framework of the study group "Historical Intersectionality­research", Research Center for Historical Humanities of the Goethe University Frankfurt [Texts: Iwein, Herzog Ernst, König Rother, Nibelungenlied].
• Lecture in the context of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung" of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (14.12.2011) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of the "Nibelungenlied" together with M. Böth (Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit).

Summer semester 11

• Seminar: "Grundlagen der älteren deutschen Sprache und Literatur II" on the example of Hartmann von Aue's"Iwein".

WiSe 10/11

• Seminar: "Bewegte Bilder - bewegende Bilder: Medieval Reception in Film".

SunSe 10

• Seminar: "Fundamentals of Older German Language and Literature II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Iwein".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Johann Jacob Chris­toffel von Grimmelshausen: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Simplicius Simplicissimus".

WiSe 09/10

• Seminar in Medieval German Studies and in the study program of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies: "Love, Lust and Passion: Forms of Emotionality in Medieval Epic" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Diu Crône, Tristan].
• Guest lecture in the medieval lecture of Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde "Grundlagen der älteren Sprache und Literatur I": "gender-Transport: Mediale Rezep­tionsgeschichte des Nibelungenstoffs vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne".

SoSe 09

• Seminar: "Fundamentals of Older German Language and Literature II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Poor Henry".

WiSe 08/09

• Seminar: "Gregorius, the good sinner? A 'Legendary Novel' by Hartmann von Aue".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Tod - Trauer - Trost: Sterbebüchlein - Trauerklagen - Leichenpredigten in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Space and Gender in Medieval Literature" [Texts: Erec, Iwein, Wigalois, Gregorius, Parzival, Younger Titurel, Diu Crône, Tristan].

Summer Term 08

• Seminar: "Wernher der Gartenaere 'Helmbrecht': a Middle High German verse narrative".

WiSe 07/08

• Seminar in Germanic Medieval Studies and in the study program of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies: "Konstruktionen von Geschlecht im Nibe­lungenlied und neuzeitlichen Nibelungenliedbearbeitungen".

   

5/2010

• Guest seminar at the Philipps-Universität Marburg in the context of the medieval reception­seminar by Dr. Nathanael Busch: "Die regulierende Wirkung der Frauen? Geschlech­terkonzeptionen im Nibelungenlied".

10/2009

• Teaching stay at the German Studies Department of the European partner university Szeged (Hungary) within the framework of the "Master German Studies with binational focus", the Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) and the ERASMUS lecturer mobility of the University of Kassel (two proseminars and one lecture). The "Master German Studies with a bi­national focus" is a binational program of the Universities of Kassel and Szeged, funded by the DAAD program "Integrated International Programs with Double Degrees".

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