Teaching

BA seminars:
Performance Studies: Shakespeare Then and Now (Isabel Karremann)
Staging the Early Modern City (Ann-Sophie Bosshard)
English Literature: Textual Analysis (Anne-Claire Michoux, Olivia Lanni)

MA seminars:
Reading Literary and Critical Theory (Isabel Karremann)
War and Peace in John Milton (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)

Lectures (BA/MA):
The English Country House  (Isabel Karremann)
Writing Ireland: Authors, Genres, Themes (Anne-Claire Michoux)

 

Spring Semester 2024

BA seminars:
John Donne's Multiple Identities (Beatrice Montedoro)
Meet the Tudors: Historical Fiction and the Court of Henry VIII (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)
Private Histories: The Rise of the First-Person Narrative (Anne-Claire Michoux)

MA seminars:
Gender in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)

Excursions:
Spenser Week (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Ann-Sophie Bosshard)

 

Autumn Semester 2023

BA seminars:
Staging Violence: Revenge Tragedies (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)
The Senses in Early Modern Literature (Isabel Karremann)

MA seminars:
Reading Literary and Critical Theories: New Approaches to Shakespeare (Isabel Karremann)
Romantic Poetry: New Critical Perspectives (Anne-Claire Michoux)

MA colloquiums:
From the Archives to the Database (Beatrice Montedoro)
Research Colloquium (Isabel Karremann)

Lectures (BA/MA):
The Rise of the Novel: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1688-1814 (Isabel Karremann)

 

Spring Semester 2023

BA seminars:
Adapting the Medieval Through the Ages (Matthias Berger)
Decolonising Robinson Crusoe (Isabel Karremann)

MA seminars:
Early Modern Women's Life Writing (Isabel Karremann)
Stage/Page: The Material Environments of Early Modern Drama (Beatrice Montedoro)

Lectures (BA/MA):
Early Modern Memory Culture (Isabel Karremann)

Excursions:
Shakespeare Week 2023: Shakespeare in Stratford-Upon-Avon (Beatrice Montedoro, Isabel Karremann)

 

Autumn Semester 2022

BA seminars:
Humour and Gender in Eighteenth Century Literature (Kilian Schindler)
Reviewing Romantic Novels (Anne-Claire Michoux)
Staging Disability in the Early Modern Period (Isabel Karremann)

MA seminars:
Reading Literary and Critical Theories: New Approaches to Shakespeare (Isabel Karremann)

MA colloquiums:
From the Archives to the Database (Beatrice Montedoro)
Research Colloquium (Isabel Karremann, Elisabeth Bronfen)

Lectures (BA/MA):
Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period (Isabel Karremann)

 

Spring Semester 2022

BA seminars:
Literature in digital mediation: Robinson Crusoe (Isabel Karremann)
Queer modernism (Isabel Karremann)
Shakespeare in Visual Culture (Beatrice Montedoro)

MA seminars:
Making and Breaking Images in 17th-century Literature (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)

Lectures (BA/MA):
Novel Readings (Isabel Karremann)
Hospitality and Exile in Shakespeare (Sophie Battell)

Excursions:
Shakespeare Week 2022 (Beatrice Montedoro, Anne-Claire Michoux)

 

Autumn Semester 2021

BA seminars:
Domestic Tragedy (Isabel Karremann)
Early Modern Sexualities (Isabel Karremann)
Loss and Recovery in Shakespeare's Romances (Sophie Battell)

MA seminars:
Ecocritical readings of early modern texts (Isabel Karremann)
Feminism and Enlightenment from Mary Astell to Jane Austen (Anne-Claire Michoux)

MA colloquiums:
From the Archives to the Database (Beatrice Montedoro)
Research Colloquium (Isabel Karremann, Elisabeth Bronfen)

Lectures (BA/MA):
Green Worlds in Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton (Anotinina Bevan Zlatar)

 

Spring Semester 2021

BA seminars:
Early Modern Heroes (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)
The English Sonnet (Isabel Karremann)

BA colloquiums:
Performing Shakespeare (Beatrice Montedoro)

MA seminars:
Sex and the City: Early Modern City Comedies (Isabel Karremann)

Lectures (BA/MA):
18-century Literature and Culture (Isabel Karremann)

 

Autumn Semester 2020

BA seminars:
Early Modern Poetry (Isabel Karremann)
Innovations in 18th-cent. Theatre Culture (Anne-Claire Michoux)
Reading and Writing Early Modern Plays (Beatrice Montedoro)

MA seminars:
Women and the Country-House (Isabel Karremann)

MA colloquiums:
Research Colloquium (Isabel Karremann, Elisabeth Bronfen)

Lectures (BA/MA):
London: A Literary History (Isabel Karremann)

 

Spring Semester 2020

BA seminars:
Daughters of Eve (Antoinina Bevan Zlatar)
(Post)Colonial Perspectives (Isabel Karremann)

BA colloquiums:
Shakespeare then and now (Isabel Karremann)

MA seminars:
The Rhetoric of Populism in Shakespeare (Isabel Karremann)

 

Autumn Semester 2019

BA seminars:
Early Modern Women Writers (Isabel Karremann)

MA seminars:
Queering the Renaissance (Isabel Karremann)

Lectures (BA/MA):
Introduction to Shakespeare (Isabel Karremann)