Teaching
Term Paper Guidelines
If you take a class with any member of the Chair von Contzen, please refer to the following guidelines when writing your term papers:
Summer Term 2025
VL Introduction to Literary Studies (Dr. Roman Barton)
VL Islands in Literature and Culture (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
HS/MS “A Double Sorrow”: Troilus and Criseyde and its Afterlives
PS John Donne (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier and M. A. Kalina Janeva)
PS “A Story is Always a Question”: Ali Smith’s Oeuvre (M. A. Philomena Wolf)
PS Tolkien’s World and Words (M.A. Dunja Haufe and M.A. Mareike Huber)
K Theories and Methods in Literary Studies (Dr. Roman Barton)
LitCult Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma)
classes taught in the past terms
Lectures and Colloquiua
VL Survey of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
VL Survey of British and Postcolonial Literatures (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
VL Literary Theory (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
VL The Ballad Tradition (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
VL Before the Novel – Cultures of Reading and Narrative Theory (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
VL Critical Medievalism (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian et al.)
M.Ed. Research Colloquium in Literature and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and PD Dr. Lotte Sommerer)
K Medieval Studies Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, PD. Dr. Michael Ott)
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Seminars
HS/MS (Re-)Framing the Classics (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and Prof. Dr. Frank Bezner)
HS/MS War Poetry Across the Ages (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
PS/HS/MS Retelling, Rereading, Rethinking – The Afterlife of Medieval Texts in Contemporary Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and M.A. Philomena Wolf)
PS/HS/MS Rewriting the Past – Antiquity in Contemporary Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
HS/MS Writing Women in the Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
PS Retelling Greco-Roman Myths in Contemporary Literature (M.A. Philomena Wolf)
PS Medieval Monsters and Monstrosity (M.A. Dunja Haufe)
PS Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
PS #darkacademiabooks – Dark Academia and Contemporary English-Language Fiction (M. A. Sophia Philomena Wolf)
PS The English Country House in Poetry and Fiction, 1616–1945 (Dr. Roman Barton)
PS British Romanticism – The Age of Revolutions (Dr. Roman Barton)
PS Knights, Fights, and Fairies – The English Epic Tradition from
Spenser to Tolkien (Dr. Roman Barton)
PS Literature and Disability – An Introduction (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
HS/MS (Ir)Rationality and Medieval Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, Prof. Dr. Frank Bezner)
PS Dystopian and Utopian Fiction (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)
PS Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama – From the Celtic Twilight to Postmodernism (Dr. Roman Barton)
PS English Love Poetry (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)
Ü Designing and Implementing Research and Teaching Projects (Dr. Roman Barton)
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