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Professorship of American Studies
Professorship of American Studies

Courses

Courses this term

Lecture
Course
45364 Ring-Vorlesung: „Migration und Identität: historische und aktuelle Diskurse und Phänomene“
Wed.. 18:00 - 20:00 (weekly), Location: (PHIL) HS 2, (WIWI) HS 7, Dates on Wednesday, 22.07.2026, Wednesday, 29.07.2026 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (PHIL) HS 2
Prof. Dr. Julia Ricart Brede
Prof. Dr. Jens Späth
Prof. Dr. Grischa Vercamer
Prof. Dr. Oliver Stoll
Prof. Dr. Armin Bergmeier
Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf
Prof. Dr. Jessica Kreutz
Prof. Dr. Barbara Lutz-Sterzenbach
46542VL "All Men Are Created Equal": The Cultural Impact of the American Revolution
Thu.. 12:00 - 14:00 (weekly), Location: (PHIL) HS 2, Dates on Thursday, 30.04.2026 14:00 - 15:00, Room: (PHIL) HS 2
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Dr. Anna Ley
Colloquium
Course
46593 Good morning, America!
Wed.. 16:30 - 18:00 (weekly), Location: (WIWI) SR 033
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
46597 Doktorandenkolloquium Amerikanistik
Dates on Friday, 19.06.2026 09:00 - 16:00, Room: (NK) DiLab-Lehrkräftezimmer (NK 212/213)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Seminar
Course
46560PSL Queer and Decolonial Approaches to Early American Literature
Mon.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (LU 8) SR 307
Florian Zitzelsberger
46561PSL From Olaudah Equiano to Percival Everett: African American Writings Through the Centuries
Mon.. 16:15 - 17:45 (weekly), Location: (Online), Dates on Monday, 15.06.2026 17:15 - 18:45, Room: (Online)
Dr. Klara Stephanie Szlezak
46570PSK WICKED as Cultural Phenomenon
Tue.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) DiLab-Klassenzimmer (NK 211), Dates on Tuesday, 21.04.2026, Monday, 27.04.2026 18:00 - 20:00, Room: (NK) DiLab-Lehrkräftezimmer (NK 212/213)
Florian Zitzelsberger
46571PSK The (Her)Story of Violence in the US
Wed.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 204 (HA), Dates on Wednesday, 22.04.2026 14:00 - 16:00, Room: (NK) SR 202 (U)
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
46573PSK "All Men Are Created Equal"? The American Revolution in American Cultural Production
Tue.. 16:00 - 18:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412a
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
46578PSK Policies of Iconoclasm, Censorship, and Image-Making in the US: Reflections on Visual Practices and (Political) Storytelling
Mon.. 12:00 - 14:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412b
Dr. Anna Ley
46579PSK "CLIMATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP From Systems Thinking to Market-Ready Solutions"
Dates on Monday, 08.06.2026, Wednesday, 10.06.2026 14:00 - 16:00, Friday, 12.06.2026 14:00 - 18:00, Monday, 15.06.2026, Wednesday, 17.06.2026 14:00 - 16:00, Friday, 19.06.2026 14:00 - 18:00, Monday, 22.06.2026, Wednesday, 24.06.2026 14:00 - 16:00, Friday, 26.06.2026 14:00 - 18:00, Room: (LU 8) SR 309 (U)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Olaf Kuhlke
Advanced seminar
Course
46554HS “Amerika, Du hast es besser”? 19th-Century Images of the U.S. as Seen from Abroad
Thu.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412c (U)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Florian Zitzelsberger
Compulsory seminar
Course
67005 Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation USA
Dates on Friday, 12.06.2026 - Saturday, 13.06.2026 09:00 - 18:00, Room: (NK) DiLab-Lehrkräftezimmer (NK 212/213), (WIWI) SR 034, (WIWI) SR 027
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
Workshop
Course
46596WÜ Creative Writing Workshop
Wed.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (WIWI) SR 028 (HA)
Eva Fiedler
Seminar
Course
46595WÜ Introduction to American Culture / Landeskunde USA
Florian Zitzelsberger
46598 Lektürekurs Amerikanische Literatur
Wed.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (LU 8) SR 002 (U)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Florian Zitzelsberger
Advanced seminar
Course
46554HS-A “Amerika, Du hast es besser”? 19th-Century Images of the U.S. as Seen from Abroad
Thu.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly) - Raum (NK) SR 412c (U) n.a.
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz

Lecture
Course
43630 Kulturwirtschaft / International Cultural and Business Studies: Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung
Wed.. 08:00 - 10:00 (weekly), Location: (PHIL) HS 2, (AM) HS 9
Dr. Christian Dölle
Dr. Maria Diekmann
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Prof. Dr. Werner Gamerith
Prof. Dr. Anna Henkel
Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Krautheim
Elena Mühlbauer
Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane
Prof. Dr. Julia Ricart Brede
Prof. Dr. Jens Späth
Prof. Dr. Karin Stögner
Prof. Dr. Dirk Totzek
Dr. Friederike Trotier
Dr. Michael Weigl
Dr. Kristina Wittkamp
Dr. Oliver Zimmermann
43631 Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Kulturvergleich
Wed.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412a, Dates on Wednesday, 26.11.2025 16:00 - 18:00, Room: (NK) SR 412c (U)
Dr. Christian Dölle
Prof. Dr. Birgit Beumers
Sarah Beyvers
Dr. Maria Diekmann
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Dominik Gotthart
Prof. Dr. Anna Henkel
Prof. Dr. Andreas König
Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List
Johannes Nickl
Dr. Christian Rademacher
Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane
Nina Riedler
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar
Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffer
Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl
Dr. Michael Weigl
46542VL The Cultural Work of American Photography: A Survey
Wed.. 10:30 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (PHIL) HS 2
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Colloquium
Course
46593 Good morning, America!
Wed.. 16:30 - 17:30 (weekly), Location: (WIWI) SR 033
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
46597 Doktorandenkolloquium Amerikanistik
Dates on Friday, 17.10.2025, Thursday, 29.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00, Room: (NK) DiLab-Lehrkräftezimmer (NK 212/213), (NK) VR 401
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Seminar
Course
46560PSL Contemporary Experimental Fiction
Mon.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (LU 8) SR 307
Florian Zitzelsberger
46561PSL Versions and Visions of "America" in Poetry
Tue.. 16:00 - 18:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412c (U)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
46570PSK Unmasking Blackface, Redface, and Yellowface: (Re)Appropriations
Tue.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (LU 8) SR 307, Dates on Tuesday, 04.11.2025, Monday, 10.11.2025 18:00 - 20:00, Room: (LU 8) SR 308, (LU 8) SR 307
Florian Zitzelsberger
46571PSK Intersectional Reflections on Country Music and Cowboys as Cultural Practice: From Hillbilly and Vaudeville to Lil Nas X and Beyoncé
Wed.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 204 (HA), (LU 8) SR 308
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
46573PSK From the Puritans to Reject Project 2025: American Cultures of Dissent from the Beginnings Through the Second Trump Presidency
Mon.. 16:00 - 18:00 (weekly), Location: (HK 14b) SR 015, (Online)
Dr. Klara Stephanie Szlezak
46578PSK Visual Reflections of the Super Bowl as a Socio-Cultural Mirror: From the American Dream to Half Time Show Aesthetics?
Dates on Friday, 23.01.2026 14:00 - 18:00, Saturday, 24.01.2026 10:00 - 16:00, Friday, 30.01.2026 14:00 - 18:00, Saturday, 31.01.2026 10:00 - 16:00, Saturday, 07.02.2026 10:00 - 18:00, Room: (HK 12) SR 001, (HK 12) SR 005
Dr. Anna Ley
Introductory course
Course
46500GK Introduction to Cultural Studies: Britain and the USA
Thu.. 12:00 - 14:00 (weekly), Location: (WIWI) HS 5, Dates on Thursday, 05.02.2026 12:00 - 14:00, Room: (WIWI) R 301
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Seminar
Course
46592WÜ Kolloquium Schriftliches Staatsexamen Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Schwerpunkt Amerikanistik)
Tue.. 14:00 - 16:00 (weekly), Location: (LU 8) SR 307
Florian Zitzelsberger
Tutorial
Course
46501 Tutorium 1 zu Introduction to Cultural Studies: Britain and the USA
Wed.. 08:00 - 10:00 (weekly), Location: (HK 28) SR 001, (LU 8) SR 308
Patricia Hunglinger
46502 Tutorium 2 zu Introduction to Cultural Studies: Britain and the USA
Wed.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (HK 28) SR 001, (LU 8) SR 308
Patricia Hunglinger
Advanced seminar
Course
46554HS Suburbia as Cultural Space in American Film and Fiction
Thu.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (NK) SR 412b
Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
Workshop
Course
46596WÜ Creative Writing Workshop
Wed.. 10:00 - 12:00 (weekly), Location: (HK 14b) SR 315 (U)
Eva Fiedler
Seminar
Course
46595WÜ Introduction to American Culture / Landeskunde USA
Florian Zitzelsberger
Research group
Course
46791 Junges Forschungsatelier | Young Research Atelier
Dates on Wednesday, 29.10.2025, Wednesday, 10.12.2025, Wednesday, 21.01.2026 16:30 - 18:00, Room: (NK) SR 205
PD Dr. Jörg Sternagel
Dr. Vanessa Vollmann
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