Teaching

Dr. Jan D. Kucharzewski

University of Mannheim

Summer term 2022

• “From Stonewall to #metoo: Gender in Contemporary Literature, Media and Theory” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Poe, Dickinson, Whitman et al.: The Greatest Hits of the American Renaissance” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Hegemonic Hauntings: Race and Gender in American Gothic Fiction” (master’s class)

Winter term 2021

• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (survey lecture and inverted classroom)
• “The Paranoid Style: American Fictions of Conspiracy and Treason“ (graduate seminar)

Summer term 2021

• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (survey lecture and inverted classroom)
• “Race, Class, Gender: Cultural Studies in Theory and Practice” (undergraduate seminar)
• “American Poetry and/as Philosophy” (master’s class)

Winter term 2020

• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (survey lecture and inverted classroom)

University of Osnabrück

Winter term 2020

• „God Keep Me from Ever Completing Anything: Reading Moby–Dick“

Summer term 2020

• “Gendering Genre: Negotiating Gender and Power in American Genre Texts” (undergraduate seminar)
• “I, Too, Dislike It: American Poetry from 1830-1950” (master’s class)

University of Hamburg

Summer term 2019

• “Key Concepts in American Culture/American Studies: Diversity and Hegemony” (advanced lecture)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Graduate Colloquium”

Winter term 2018/19

• “Nothing Exists in Itself: The Works of Herman Melville” (graduate course)
• “Key Concepts in American Culture/American Studies: Gender and Genre” (advanced lecture)
• “Graduate Colloquium” (together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier)

Summer term 2018

• “Key Concepts in American Culture/American Studies: Zombies in the City Upon a Hill” (advanced lecture)
• “Once More into the Fray: Transitions, Transgressions, and Liminality in American Culture” (master’s class)
• “Graduate Colloquium”

Winter term 2017/18

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself: Poetry and Philosophy in American Literature from Romanticism to Modernism” (graduate course)

Summer term 2017

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “The Chase is Better than the Catch: Hunters and Hunting in American Culture from Moby-Dick to Duck Dynasty” (graduate course)
• “OceanoGraphies: Of Seascapes, Ships, and Sailor’s Yarns” (inter-disciplinary lecture series; with Jolene Mathieson)
• “Graduate Colloquium”

Winter term 2016/17

• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)
• “Was wie wofür studieren?” (lecture series)

Sumer term 2016

• “I know this story, like I wrote it myself: Metafiction in Postmodern and Contemporary American Literature” (master’s class)

Winter term 2015/16

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)

Summer term 2015

• “Introduction to American Poetry” (undergraduate course)
• “Southern Discomfort: The Gothic Fiction of the American South” (graduate course)

Winter term 2014/15

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)

Summer term 2014

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “Cultural Studies in Theory and Practice: From Post-Structuralism to Post-Colonialism” (graduate course)

Winter term 2013/14

• “History of American Literature” (survey lecture)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)

Summer term 2013

• “I Shop Therefore I Am: Consumer Culture in Contemporary American Fiction” (graduate course)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)
• “The One-Credit-Point Book Club” (elective course)

Winter term 2012/13

• “Race, Class, and Gender in the American Sitcom” (undergraduate course)
• “Adventure, Mystery, Romance: 19th Century Popular Fiction” (graduate course)
• “The One-Credit-Point Book Club” (elective course)

Summer term 2012

• “Manning Up? Masculinities in Contemporary American Film and Television” (graduate course)
• “Introduction to Postmodern American Literature and Theory” (undergraduate course)

Winter term 2011/12

• “19th Century American Gothic and Detective Fiction” (graduate course)
• “American Realism and Naturalism” (graduate course)

Summer term 2011

• “It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Representation of Crises in American Film and Literature” (graduate course)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (undergraduate course)

Winter term 2010/11

• “Dreams Deferred? The Prose and Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance” (graduate course)
• “In the Ruins of the Future: 9/11 in the American Novel” (graduate course)

Summer term 2010

• “It’s Not Paranoia If They Are Really Out to Get You: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Film and Literature” (graduate course)
• “Negotiating Power in American Popular Culture” (graduate course)
• “Politics and Aesthetics: A Marriage of Inconvenience” (lecture series; with Dr. Claudia Heuer)

Winter term 2009/10

• “The City in American Culture” (graduate course)
• “Memory, Identity, and Amnesia in American Culture” (graduate course)

Summer term 2009

• “Tearing Down ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: Reading and Writing as Practices of Resistance” (graduate course)
• “From John Winthrop to James Baldwin: Utopian Visions and Dystopian Spaces in American Culture” (undergraduate course)

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Winter term 2008/09

• “Contemporary American Fiction” (graduate course)
• “Borderlands: Frontiers and Liminal Spaces in American Culture” (graduate course)
• “The Americas – Las Américas – Les Amériques” (master’s class)

Summer term 2008

• “From the Desert into Cyberspace: Plotting Spaces in 20th Century American Literature” (graduate course)
• “A Labyrinth of Endless Steps: The American City from ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ to Blade Runner” (graduate course)
• “Science and Literature in 19th and 20th Century American Culture (Part II)” (undergraduate course)

Winter term 2007/08

• “Cultures of Conspiracy: American Narratives of National Crisis, Paranoia, and Apocalypse” (graduate course)
• “Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Cinema” (graduate course)
• “Science and Literature in 19th and 20th Century American Culture (Part I)” (undergraduate course)
• “The Americas – Las Américas – Les Amériques” (master’s class)

Summer term 2007

• “And the Memory Remains: Identity, Amnesia, and Memory in American Literature, Film, and Culture” (graduate course)
• “Introduction to Postmodern American Literature and Theory” (undergraduate course)

Winter term 2006/07

• “Contemporary American TV-Series as Visual and Cultural Texts” (undergraduate course; with Dr. Georg Schiller)

Summer term 2006

• “Consumerism, Hyperreality, and Simulations in Postmodern American Literature” (graduate course)

Winter term 2005/06

• “The Vietnam War in American Film and Literature” (undergraduate course)

Summer term 2005

• “American Crime Fiction from Edgar Allan Poe to Paul Auster” (undergraduate course)

Winter term 2004/05

• “Cultures of Technology: Scientific Fictions in Contemporary American Literature from Thomas Pynchon to Richard Powers” (undergraduate course)

© Jan Kucharzewski 2019