Teaching Experience

Graduate & Undergraduate courses in Film, Media and Literary Studies at (Selection)

  • Institute of Culture & Media, University of Düsseldorf, Germany (2010)
  • Philosophische Fakultät (former Department of Languages, Literature & Media Studies), University of Siegen (2002–2005 & 2009 - present)
  • Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Dortmund (1999–2004)

Themes (Selection)

  • Martial Arts Film (Summer 2011 & Winter 2011/12; undergraduate level)
  • Exoticism. On Media Relationship between Japanese and European Culture (Summer 2010; graduate & undergraduate level)
  • Über Spektakel [On spectacle] (Summer 2009; block seminar, graduate level)
  • Die Oper: Geschichte, Formen und Theorien [The Opera: History, Form and Theory] (Winter 2004/05; undergraduate level)
  • Gender-, Rassen-, und Nationalstereotypen in Medientexten und Literatur I & II [Gender-, Race- and National Stereotypes in Media and Literature] (Winter 2003/04; Summer 2004; graduate & undergraduate level)
  • Männerphantasien auf Reisen [Male Fantasies when Travelling] (Summer 2003; graduate & undergraduate level)
  • ‘Liebe bis in den Tod’ [love until death]. Heinrich von Kleist – intertextuell, interdiskursiv, intermedial (Summer 2001; graduate level)
  • Kultur lesen – ‘Global Cities’ [Reading Culture – ‘Global Cities’) (Winter 2000/01; graduate level)
  • Autobiographie und Roman; Facetten der DDR-Literatur [Autobiography and Novel; Facets of Literature of the German Democratic Republic] (Winter 1999/00; undergraduate level)