Prof. Dr. Sladja Blazan

Lehrstuhlvertretung

room: PT 3.2.73
phone:+49 (0) 941 / 943 - 3477
 

American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany

email: Sladana.Blazan@ur.de

Office hours winter term 2025/2026

Tuesday, 2-3pm

and by appointment. Please send an email to Sladana.Blazan@ur.de to register beforehand and make arrangements at least 24 hours in advance. 

Research Interests

• North American Literature and Culture 16th to 21st Ct. 

• Transcultural Studies, Critical Refugee Studies

• Intersectionality  

• Human Rights / Subject Formation  

• Environmental Humanities

• Posthumanism, Speculative Fiction, Feminist Utopias

• The Nonhuman 

Academic Appointments

Interim Professor, W2 Mediacultures in North American and British Studies, English and American Studies Department, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Guest Professor, Literature and Cultural Studies, Bard College Berlin 

Assistant Professor, (Akademische Rätin a.Z.), English and American Studies Department, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Interim Professor, Literature Section, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

Summer School Faculty, Language & Thinking, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA 

Guest Professor, English and American Studies Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Guest Professor, Feodor-Lynen-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Postdoc), „Center for Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies“ New York University 

Teaching Asssitant, English Department, University College Dublin 
 

Degrees

Habilitation    

Philosophische Fakultät der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Neuphilologisches Institut

Venia Legendi für das Fach Amerikanistik 

Habilitationsschrift: Ghosts and Their Hosts: Spectrality in Early U.S. American Literature and Culture

Habilitationsvortrag: “Fantastic Futures: Ecological Dystopias”

Ph.D.

Philosophische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Fach Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Dr. phil.) 

Dissertation: American Fictionary: Postsozialistische Migration in der nordamerikanischen Literatur

M.A.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Freie Universität Berlin / University College Dublin

Fächerkombination: Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Linguistik / Publizistik mit dem Abschluss: Magistra Artium (M.A.) 

Magisterarbeit: Identitätssuche europäischer ImmigrantInnen in der amerikanischen Literatur der neunziger Jahre 

Books

Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America (University of Virginia Press, 31.12. 2024) 
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10044/

American Fictionary: Postsozialistische Migration in der U.S. amerikanischen Literatur. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006.

Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

with Nigel Hatton. Refugees and / in Literature. Sonderheft Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2/3, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018.  

with Avital Ronell. What Was I Thinking: A Critical Autobiography and Spectral Colloquy. Hauptstadtkulturfonds, 2011. 

Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Feminismus und Utopie.” Geschlechterforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, herausgegeben von Carmen Birkle, Christl M. Maier, Susanne Maurer, Bettina Wuttig. Nomos, 2025. (in Redaktion)

“A Murmur in the Trees”: Ethics Beyond the Human in Slave Narratives.” Resonance, Special Issue Too Great for Words: The Ineffable in Sound and Text, edited by Abby Fagan, Elena Furlaneto, Philip Grider, 2025. (in Redaktion)

“Citizenship.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies. Hrsg. Yén Lê Espiritu. SAGE Publications, 2025. (im Druck)

“Asylum, Migration, Border Crossings: In Their own Voices and Images.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture, Hrsg. Barry Sandywell und Martin Hand, Bloomsbury, 2025. (im Druck)

“The Moment You Locked Eyes: Animacy, Race and Gender” INSERT: Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries. Special Issue: Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten. Hrsg. Ulrike Gerhardt und Julia Wolf. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, 2024. https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-moment-you-lock-eyes/

“The Promise of the Nonhuman: An Existentialist Trope in the Anthropocene.” Whose Universal? On Humanist Ideals and Colonial Reality, Hrsg. Kader Attia, Ana Teixeira Pinto und Anselm Franke, Sternberg Press, 2023, 161-180.

“‘Something Beyond Pain’: Gender, Violence, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Gender Forum, Special Issue Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction, vol. 82, 2022. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/article/view/2573

“Haunted and Nature: An Introduction.” Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman, Hrsg. Sladja Blazan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 1-20.

“Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material within the Aesthetics of the Ecogothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation.” Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman, Hrsg. Sladja Blazan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 67-90.

“Lithic Corporeality: Elemental Philosophy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Short Stories.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Hrsg. Monika Elbert und Laura Laffrado, vol. 46, 2021, 155-173. 

“Von Hannah Arendt’s ‚We Refugees’ to Viet Thanh Nguyens The Refugees: Re-Evaluierung der Flüchtlingsdesignation im gegenwärtigen nordamerikanischen Roman.” Non-Persons: Grenzen des Humanen und des Humanitären in Literatur, Kultur und Medien, Hrsg. Stephanie Catani und Stephanie Waldow, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2020, 131-145. 

mit Nigel Hatton. “Introduction: Refugees and / in Literature.” Sonderheft Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2/3, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, 97-103. 

“Literature and the Agency of the Refugee: An Analysis of Narrative Structures Employed in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees.” Sonderheft Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2/3, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, 177-192.  

“Vernünftiges Geistersehen: Die Politik des Gespenstischen.” Lernen, mit den Gespenstern zu leben: Das Gespenstische als Figur, Metapher und Wahrnehmungsdispositiv, Hrsg. Lorenz Aggermann, Ralph Fischer, Eva Holling et al. Berlin: Neofelis, 2015. 97-108.

“The Fantasy of Politics: The Past and the Future of Object Related Fantasy.” Politics in Fantasy Media: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Television, and Games, Hrsg. Gerold Sedlmayr und Nicole Waller, McFarland, 2014, 179-190.

“The Theater of Violence: Interview with Michael Taussig.” Mousse Magazine, nb. 45, Okt-Nov 2014, 78-87. 

“Bugged: A Call to Inspect our Focalizers.” The Reluctant Narrator, herausgegeben von Ana Texeira Pinto, Sternberg, 2015. 109-114.

“Silencing the Dead: Washington Irving’s Use of the Supernatural in the Context of Slavery and Genocide.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 69, nb. 2, Sommer 2013, 1-25. (Reprint in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism: Washington Irving, Hrsg. Michael J. Collins, vol. 422, Layman Poupard Publishing for GALE, 2023.

“The Return of that Which Returns: Kant’s ‘One Great Republic.’” Discovering the Human, Hrsg. Sabine Blackmore und Ralph Haeckel, Routledge, 2012: 69-85.

“Urban Dwellers: Women Writers Who Left Eastern Europe Never to Arrive in the United States.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 53, nb. 2, 2008, 189-208.  

“Haunting History: The Ghostliness of History in Contemporary Novels.” Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities, Hrsg. Wilfried Raussert und Rüdiger Kunow, LIT Verlag, 2008. 129-43. 

“Eastern European or Extra Terrestrial: Post-Socialist Topics in New York.” New York: Cradle of America’s Cultural Plurality, Hrsg. Michal Peprnik und Mathew Sweney, Palacky, 2007. 103-110.

“Performing Ethnic Heroes in New York Novels of the 1990s.” CinematoGraphies: Visual Discourses and Literary Strategies in 1990s’ New York, herausgegeben von Günter H. Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann und Karl-Heinz Magister, Winter, 2006. 219-240.

“How Sexy Is It? Ethnicity and Sexuality in American Fiction Writing.” Michigan Feminist Studies, vol. 18, 2005, 59-76. 

“The Immigrant is Dead, Long Live the Immigrant: The Transmigrant in American Literature.” Dve Domovini/Two Homelands: Migration Studies, vol. 19, 2004, 37-46.

“Revision of Exile in Contemporary Slavic Writing in the USA.” Cultural Exchanges Between Central/Eastern Europe and America, Hrsg. Christa Buschendorf und Astrid Franke, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. 150-171.
 

CONF. / PRESENT.:

“Earth Spirits: Reading the (Post)Colonial Garden Archive in Elizabeth Nunez’ Prospero’s Daughter with Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book).” Archiving America/American Archives: Jahrestagung Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Siegen, 11.-14. Juni, 2025. 

“Radical Kinship: Metamorphosis in Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2014) and River Solomon’s Sorrowland (2021).” Metamorphosis in Contemporary Literature. Universiät Mainz. 22.-24. Mai 2025. 

“Colonial Arboreal Imaginaries: Sentient Landscapes.” Soundscapes. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikanistik. 24. Mai 2024. 

“’Fantastic Futures: Ecological Dystopias.” Universität Würzburg. 10. Mai 2023. 

“The Universal Human? Questioning Western Humanism in Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein and Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.” Crises de l’universel dans la littérature et la critique anglophones. Sorbonne University. Paris. 30.-31. März 2023.
“Ecological Dystopias.” Bard College Berlin. 23. März 2023. 

“Interspecies Figurations: The Crisis of Categories in Futuristic Extinction Narratives.”  International Gothic Association. Trinity College Dublin. 26.-29. Juli 2022. 

“Beyond Human(ism)?“ 12th Berlin Biennale. “Whose Universal: A conference on humanist ideals and colonial reality.” Akademie der Künste. 2.-3. Juli 2022. 

“More-than-Human Narrative Perspective in Fictions of the Anthropocene.” Impossible Fictions. International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies. University of Chicago. 3. März 2022. 

“The Past in the Future.” Workshop with Avery Gordon. Illegible Escapes: Writing and Archiving. Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin. 9. November 2021.

“Indigenous Origins of the EcoGothic in Weird Fiction: Exploring the Concept of ‘Place-Thought’ in Stranger Things and Annihilation.” Spekulative Fiktion und Ethik. Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. Universität zu Köln / Universität Bamberg. 23.-25. September 2021. 

“Vegetomorphism: Ecogothic Trans-Specieism in Stranger Things and Annihilation” Association for US Popular Culture Studies. 1. Juni 2021. 

“Representations of Violence in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.” International Symposium Politics and Horror, University of Stirling. 7.-8. Mai 2021. 

“Haunted Landscapes in Slave Narratives.” 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal. European Association for American Studies. 30. April-2. Mai 2021. 

“Human Interference: Botany, Agriculture, and Mining in the Dark Green Gothic.” Gothic Nature III: New Directions in EcoHorror and the EcoGothic. Online. 30 October 2020. 

„Haunting and Nature: An Introduction.“ Haunted Nature. International Symposium. Universität Würzburg. 8.-9. November 2019. 

“Narrative, Movements, Archives.” Panel. International Symposium In/Visibility and Opacity: Cultural Productions by African and African Diasporic Women. Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover. 10.-12. Juli 2019.

“‘The Land of Spirits is a Kind of America’: Spectrality and the Creation of a Nation.” Symposium Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches in Early American Literature. Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. 4.-6. Oktober 2018.

“Von Hannah Arendts ‘We Refugees’ zu Viet Thanh Nguyens The Refugees: Politische und individuelle Fremdheitserfahrungen im Kontext von Migration im gegenwärtigen amerikanischen Roman.” Symposium Non-Persons: Grenzen des Humanen und des Humanitären in Literatur, Kultur und Medien. Universität Augsburg. 14.-15. Juli 2017. 

“Extramoderns and Their Discontent: Ethics and Aesthetics of Detachment in Teju Cole’s Open City.” Jahrestagung Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien: Modernities and Modernization in North America. Universität Hannover. 6.-9. Juni 2017.

“Shakespeare and National Identity in Early American Literature.”  Weltliteraturen: Shakespeare und Cervantes 2016. 6. Bonn Humboldt Preisträger Forum. 12.-15. Oktober 2016. 

“‘Nature will arise, and will be heard’: Death and the Regularization of Native American Lives in Early American Literature.” The Biopolitics of America: Bodies, Environments, and the Liberal Imagination. Universität Würzburg. 28.-30. Juli 2016. 

“Ghosts and Their Hosts: Spectrality in North American Romantic Literature.” Universität Bamberg. 16. November 2016.

“Ghosts and Their Hosts in the Literature of the Early Republic.”  Learning, to live with Ghosts. Ghosts as a Figure of Thought, Metaphor and “Dispositif” of Perception in Theory and Aesthetics. Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Fankfurt am Main. 31. Oktober – 02. November 2013.

“Evil Nature: The Gothic Tradition in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist.” Universität Bamberg. 3. Juli 2012. 

“Fantasy and the War on Terror in Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia.” The Politics of Contemporary Fantasy. Universität Würzburg. 5.-7. Oktober 2012. 

“A Short History of Spectral Advising: Why and How We ‘See’ Ghosts.” Jahrestagung: Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. Universität Zürich. 13.-16. September 2012.

“The Ethics of Haunting: Ghostly Sightings and Memory in Contemporary American Women’s Literature.” The Politics of Memory. University of Zadar. 6-9. September 2012. 
 
“Brownifying the Web: Virtual Ethnicity and the Concept of Cyberspace in the Work of Guillermo Goméz-Pena.” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien Jahrestagung. Mainz, 31. Mai – 2. Juni 2012. 

“Why Do Poets Need Bodies? The Politics of the Shift from Performance to Sound in the Poetry of Tracie Morris.” European Association for American Studies Annual Meeting. Izmir, Turkey. 30. März – 2. April 2012. 

“‘Seen in Memory or a Dream’: Imagination from Thomas Hobbes to Toni Morrison.” Toni Morrison and Circuits of the Imagination. The Toni Morrison Society. Paris. 4.-7. November 2010. 

“The Daemon of Tedworth from 17th Century England to 20th Century Cinema: A Reevaluation of Spectral Matters.” Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert. Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. Universität Hamburg. 30. November-2. Oktober 2010. 

“In Light of the Enlightenment: The Irrational.” Discovering the Human: Life Sciences and the Arts in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. International Conference at the Department of English and American Studies. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 10. – 12. September 2009. 

“Say why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? – The Irrational and the American Enlightenment.” Beliefs, Myths, Superstitions and Rituals: Global Language, Local Adaptations. ACLA Harvard University. 25. - 29. März 2009.  

“The Dream of Reason and Magic Philosophy in the 1790s.” How Dangerous is the Irrational? Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin. 30. November 2009.  

“The Return of That Which Returns: Ghosts and Their Hosts According to Kant and Freud.” New York University. 24. Februar 2009. 

“Introduction and Response.” Sights of Enchantment: Magic – Vision – Metaphor
Workshop am Deutschen Haus der Columbia University in New York. 13. Februar 2009.

“Hollywood’s Medeas in 1940s Cinema.” Women on the Verge: Medea and Other Exiles. University of Chicago. 9. - 12. April 2008. 

“Reading life through death and the necessity to do so in post-revolutionary settings.” Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside. 23. April 2008.

“Absent Presences in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland.” New York University, American Studies Lecture Series. 4. April 2008.

“Addressing the Ghost.” Deutsches Haus at New York University. 23. März 2008. 

“Can Women Travel: Women Who Left Eastern Europe Never to Arrive in the U.S.” Columbia University. 24. März 2006.

 “Eastern European or Extra Terrestrial: Positioning ‘Slavic’ Narratives in an American Transnational Context.” CUNY Graduate Center. 10. März 2006.

“Wild East or Wild West: Contemporary Representations of Eastern Europe in American Fiction.” Olomouc Colloquium of American Studies: New York, Cradle of America’s Cultural Plurality. Palacky University. 3.-7. September 2006.

“North-American Autobiographical Narratives in the Context of Former Yugoslavia.” Auto/Biography and Mediation. IABA Jahrestagung. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. 27.-31. Juli 2006. 

“An immigrant, how cute! Demystification of the immigrant experience in literature.” W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Series, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 15. Juni 2004.

“Haunting History: The Ghostliness of History in Contemporary American Literature.” Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Universität Potsdam. 18.-19. Juni 2004. 

“Stereotyping as (Re)Negotiation of East-European Identities in Contemporary American Literature.” Global Ethnic Networks. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 16.-18. April 2004.

“An Immigrant, How Cute! Demystification of the Immigrant Experience in Literature.” Literatures and Spaces of Globalization. Columbia University, New York, USA. 2.-3. Februar 2004.

„Postsozialistische Transmigrantinnen in der amerikanischen Literatur.“ Transnationale Erfahrungen im Spannungsfeld von kultureller Differenz und Assimilation. Universität Potsdam. 10.-11. Oktober 2003.

„Ökonomien der Sprache: Das weibliche Sprechen und Schweigen in der Literatur.“ Negotiating Cultural Difference. Universität Leipzig. 15. April 2003.

“Gender and Migration in Contemporary Slavic American Literature.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Gender. Bogazici University, Istanbul. 6.-7. März 2003.

“The Notion of Gender and Exile in Contemporary American Literature.” Negotiating Cultural Difference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 16. Juli 2002.

“East and Central European Migrant Literature in the United States Written after 1989 and Seen as a Developing Part of a Multicultural American Literature.” East-West American Studies Conference: Cultural Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America. Zentrum für Nordamerikaforschung, Johan Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. 29. Mai -2. Juni 2002.
 

Ausrichtung von Tagungen, Symposien und Workshops (Auswahl)

“Evil Nature / Women.” Workshop Dutch Art Institute, Nida Art Colony, 9.-12. Januar 2025. 

“Present Absences: Colonial Imaginaries.” Workshop with Gob Squad Arts Collective, Berlin, 30. Oktober 2024. 

„Mean Girl Theory: Vanishing and Appearing.” Workshop, Dutch Art Institute, Nida Art Colony, 18.-21. Januar 2024. 

“Speculative Fiction and the Capitalocene.” Workshop, Brecht-Haus Berlin, 17. Juni 2022 und 24. Juni 2022. 

“Representations of Nature and the Afterlife of Colonialism.” Seminar, Dutch Art Institute / Performing Arts Forum, 11. und 12. Juni 2022. 

“Haunted Nature.” International Symposium. Universität Würzburg. 8.-9. November 2019. 

“America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment.” Annual Meeting German Association for American Studies. University Würzburg. 12.-14. Juni 2014. 

“American Economies.” Annual Meeting German Association for American Studies. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 27.-30. März 2010. 

“How Dangerous is the Ir-Rational?” International Conference. Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin. 30. Oktober 2009.

“Specters, Ghosts, and Revenants: The Serial Return.” Workshop. Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting. 22.-25. Mai 2008. 

“The Uninvited.” Workshop. American Association for Comparative Literature Annual Meeting: Arrivals and Departures. Long Beach. 24.-27. April 2008.

“Ghost as a Trope.” Symposium. Deutsches Haus at NYU. 23. Februar 2008.

“Gender, Ghosts, History.” Workshop. American Association for Comparative Literature Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Other. Princeton University. 23.-26. März 2006. 

 “Cosmopolitanism Then and Now.” Workshop. The Politics of English as a World Language. Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English: Transcultural English Studies. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. 19.-23. Mai 2004.
 

TEACHING

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Marburg

• Posthuman / Nonhuman / Inhuman (HS)
• Utopian and Dystopian Visions (HS)
• Reconceptualizing the Refugee (HS) 
• Climate and Fiction (HS)
• Colonialism and Its Afterlives (HS)
• The Haunted Screen (HS) 
• Independent Project (American Studies) 
• Job Skills (Berufsorientierung) 

Bard College Berlin

• Literary Utopias From the Early Modern Period into the 21st Century (PS)  
• Ecological Dystopias (PS)
• Romanticism Then and Now (PS)
• Speculative Fiction and World-Making (PS)
• Language & Thinking (Bard College Berlin und Barenboim Said Akademie) 

Neuphilologisches Institut, Universität Würzburg

• Gender, Science and the Aesthetics of the Weird 
• American Cultural History 1865-2019 
• The Cultural Work of Haunting 
• Performance Poetry 
• Literature and Posthumanism 
• Haunted Nature 
• Agency in Contemporary Fiction by and about Refugees 
• Contemporary Poetry and Activism 
• New Approaches to Gothic Fiction 
• Colonial and Early American Literature and Culture 
• Science Fiction and Social Activism 
• Modernism 
• Refugees in / and Literature 
• Puritanism and its Literary Legacy 
• Afropolitanism and its Discontents 
• Ethnic Ghost Stories 
• Gothic Novel Then and Now: Interdisciplinary and Transhistorical Approaches 
• Early American Literature 
• From Migration to Transmigration in Contemporary American Fiction 
• American Romanticism 
• Introduction to American Studies 
•  Migration as a Literary Topic 
• Reading and Interpreting Henry James
• Reading and Interpreting Toni Morrison
• Literature and Testimony
• American History II – From the Civil War to the Present 
• The American Gothic Tradition 

John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

• Sentimental Novel: The Seduction Narrative
• Contemporary American Poetry 
• Trauma and / in Literature 
• Beyond Ethnic Novels 
• The American Gothic Tradition, 18th to 20th Century 
• Stories and Alternative Histories

Bard College, USA (Sommerschule)

• Language and Thinking

German Department, New York University, USA

• German Literature 18th to 20th Century 

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Death and Sexuality
• Techniken wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens 
• Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• Immigration as a 20 Ct. Literary Topic
• The American Dream / The American Nightmare
• Gender und Migration in der nordamerikanischen Literatur der 1990er