Courses at the Chair of Western European Literatures

Overview of the courses

You can find information about the courses in ViaCampus and Moodle.

Important: Please do not forget to also register in ViaCampus so that we can register your grades.

For content related questions, please contact the respective lecturer.
For organisational matters, please contact: weslit@europa-uni.de.

Office management

Anette Hübner

Office hours

Tuesday and Thursday 9am-12pm
or by appointment

Room: HG 272

Current Summer semester 2026

Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp

What is a sense of justice? Political emotions in law and literature.
BA seminar
Start of event: Tue 21 April 2026, weekly, 11:15-12:45, room HG 201b

Literary-philosophical colloquium. Criticism today!
BA/MA research colloquium
Preliminary meeting: Tue 28 April 2026, 13:00-14:00, room HG 104

Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp / Prof. Dr Katja Diefenbach

Introduction to decolonial aesthetics
MA seminar
Start of event: Thu 23 April 2026, weekly, 14:15-15:45, room GD 205

Norah El Gammal

Archives, Power, Memory: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
BA Seminar
Start of event: Mon 13 April 2026, weekly, 14:15 - 15:45, Room GD 202

Poetics of the Blank Space: Speculative Narration in the Context of Colonial History of Violence
BA Seminar
Start of event: Tue 21 April 2026, weekly, 18:15 - 19:45, Room GD 202

PD Dr Mariele Nientied

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Joyful Science
BA seminar
Fri 17/04; 08/05; 12/06; 10/07/2026, 10:15 - 16:45, room GD 06

 

 

Further information on the events can be found on Moodle and ViaCampus.

 

 

 

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Previous courses

MA seminar: Aesthetics and its consequences. An introduction to theory and practice
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp

MA Seminar: Composition, Music, Poetry. Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp / Dr Adrian Schliebe

BA/MA colloquium: Literary-philosophical colloquium. Criticism today!
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp

BA seminar: How do you exhibit an opera in a museum? A project seminar on Bachmann, Henze and Kleist
Norah El Gammal / Dr Adrian Schliebe

MA seminar: Trauma: post-colonial and post-fascist cultures of memory
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

BA Seminar: Transculturality: Concepts and Practices from the Global South
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

MA Seminar: Multilingual Literatures at the Age of Machine Translation
PD Dr Andrea Gremels / Prof. Dr Britta Schneider

BA Seminar: Life Writing from the Caribbean
Norah El Gammal

BA Seminar: Hermeneutics
PD Dr Marielle Nientied

Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp was in her research semester

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MA seminar: Manifestiert Euch! - Protestkultur und Streitschrift
PD Dr. Andrea Gremels

MA seminar: Philosophie der Mehrsprachigkeit
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

BA seminar: Rassismuskritik: Für eine Politik der Liebe
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

BA seminar: Dekonstruktion und Postkoloniale Theorie in den Literaturwissenschaften
Norah El Gammal

 

Prof Dr Andrea Allerkamp was in her research semester

 

BA Seminar: Adorno's Literature
Frank Müller

Prof Dr Andrea Allerkamp was in her research semester

 

 

Notes on the preparation of performance records

In the appendix you will find an overview, how many ECTS points can be achieved for which performance.

In the appendix you will find instructions, according to which criteria essay, term paper and exposés are formulated and examples of work steps when writing.

Here you will find important hints on the structure and formalities of a scientific paper.

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