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.

Current winter semester 2026/27

PD Dr Andrea Gremels

Cuban Crises: Narratives in Literature and Film
Undergraduate seminar
Course start date: Tue 13 Oct 2026, weekly, 11.15 am–12.45 pm, Room GD 202

Postcolonial Literatures of Cultural Memory
BA seminar
Course start date: Wed. 14 October 2026, weekly, 11.15 am–12.45 pm, Room AM 203

Theory of Aesthetics and Postcolonial Practices
MA seminar
Course start date: Mon 12 Oct 2026, weekly, 4.15–5.45 pm, Room GD 205

The Surrealist Revolution: Dreaming and Playing
MA seminar
Course start date: Tue 13 Oct 2026, weekly, 16:15–17:45, Room AM 204

Norah El Gammal

Fundamentals of academic work: Research, writing and citation
BA/MA practical module
Course dates: Mon 8 Feb 2027, 10.15 am – 4.45 pm, Room HG 104
Thu 11 Feb 2027, 10.15 am – 4.45 pm, Room HG 104

Academic Skills: Literature Research, Writing, and Referencing
BA/MA Practical Module
Course dates: Tue 9 Feb 2027, 10.15 am – 4.45 pm, Room HG 104
Fri 12 Feb 2027, 10.15 am – 4.45 pm, Room HG 104

Norah El Gammal / Maren Romstedt

Conceptions of the Self in Neoliberalism – A Dialogue between Literary and Sociological Perspectives
BA Seminar
Course start date: Tue 13 Oct 2026, weekly, 4.15 pm – 5.45 pm, Room GD 06

Further details on the courses can be found on Moodle and ViaCampus.

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Previous courses

What is a sense of justice? Political emotions in law and literature.
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp

Literary-philosophical colloquium. Criticism today!
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp

Introduction to decolonial aesthetics
Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp/Prof. Dr Katja Diefenbach

Archives, Power, Memory: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Norah El Gammal

Poetics of the Void: Speculative Narrative in the Context of the History of Colonial Violence
Norah El Gammal

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: postcolonial and post-fascist cultures of remembrance
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

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

MA seminar: Multilingual Literatures in 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 on a research sabbatical.

MA seminar: Make Your Voices Heard! – Protest Culture and Pamphlets
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

MA seminar: Philosophy of Multilingualism
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

BA seminar: Critique of Racism: Towards a Politics of Love
PD Dr Andrea Gremels

BA seminar: Deconstruction and postcolonial theory in literary studies
Norah El Gammal

Prof. Dr Andrea Allerkamp was on a research sabbatical

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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