Guest Lecture:
Scholars
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Dr. Ines Veauthier
Dr. Klaus Schmidt
Dr. Michael Lörch
Former Scholars
Dr. Nele Sawallisch (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Sabina Matter-Seibel (im Ruhestand)
Publications
Sawallisch, Nele. “Radical Legacies in Black Nineteenth-Century Canadian Writing.” Harriet's Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada. Ed. Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple. Forthcoming.
Sawallisch, Nele, and Johanna Seibert, eds. Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World. Spec. issue Atlantic World 18.4 (2021). Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Florian Freitag, eds. "Intersectionality: Theories, Policies, Practices." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 70 (2020): 9-142. Print
Ernst, Jutta, and Brigitte Johanna Glaser, eds. Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics
along the Pacific Rim. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020. Print.
Sawallisch, Nele. “North American Counter-Territoriality.” American Territorialities. Spec. issue Journal for Transnational American Studies 11.1 (2020). Ed. Nicole Waller and Jens Temmen. https://doi.org/10.5070/T8111047000. Web.
Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. Print.
Freitag, Florian. “‘Who Really Lives There?’: (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot.” Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Ed. Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. 161-78. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. "'Poetics of the Potent’: Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation.” Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Ed. Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. 57-75. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. “‘What Is Africa to Me?' Blackness and Transgression in Contemporary African Canadian Poetry." Transgressions / Transformations: Literature and Beyond. Ed. Brigitte Johanna Glaser and Wolfgang Zach. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2018. 71-81. Print.
Sawallisch, Nele. “Trudel’s Legacies: For a Critical Understanding of Slavery in Quebec.” Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien 65 (2016): 86-101. Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Florian Freitag, eds. Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015. Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Florian Freitag. Introduction. Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015. 7-30. Print.
Freitag, Florian, and Kirsten Sandrock, eds. Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism. Spec. issue of European Journal of American Studies 9.3 (2014). http://ejas.revues.org/10368. Web.
Freitag, Florian, and Kirsten Sandrock. Introduction. Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism. Spec. issue of European Journal of American Studies 9.3 (2014). http://ejas.revues.org/10402. Web.
Ernst, Jutta. “Modernism in the United States and Canada.” The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 257-76. Print.
Freitag, Florian. “Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature.” The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 199-218. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. “‘Beyond the Bayou’: Sociocultural Spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana Short Stories.” Cultural Circulation: Dialogues between Canada and the American South. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher. Vienna: VOAW, 2013. 51-66. Print.
Freitag, Florian. The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. “De/marcations: Border Discourse in Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter.” Streifzüge durch die Welt der Sprachen und Kulturen: Festschrift für Dieter Huber zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. Melanie Arnold, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, and Michael Poerner. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013. 259-75. Print.
Freitag, Florian. “Weltgeschichte as Heilsgeschichte: Typology in Mary Rowlandson's and Jerome Lalemant's Captivity Narratives.” Canadian Literature 213 (2012): 100-115. Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Brigitte Glaser, eds. The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Brigitte Glaser. Introduction. The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 7-17. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. Rev. of Translating Canada – Charting the Institutions and Influences of Cultural Transfer: Canadian Writing in German/y, ed. Luise von Flotow and Reingard M. Nischik. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 56.1 (2010): 149-51. Print.
Ernst, Jutta. “‘Il me faut forger une arme de la littérature’: Felix Paul Greve among the Magazines.” The Politics of Cultural Mediation: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve. Ed. Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba. Edmonton: The U of Alberta P, 2003. 69-84. Print.
Ernst, Jutta, and Klaus Martens, eds.“Je vous écris, en hâte et fiévreusement”: Felix Paul Greve – André Gide. Korrespondenz und Dokumentation. St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999. Print.
Current Teaching
Summer Term 2025
"Canadian Dualism / Dualité canadienne: French-English Relations in Canada" (Seminar, Dr. Michael Lörch, Summer Term 2025)
"Die Einwanderungserfahrung/The Immigrant Experience: Das Beispiel Nordamerika DE-EN" (Seminar, Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst, Summer Term 2022)
Winter Term 2024/2025
"Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture (BA)" (Seminar, Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst, Winter Term 2024/25)
Summer Term 2022
"HS Translators and Interpreters in North American Fiction (MA)" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Summer Term 2022)
"Ü Ecocritical Thinking in the USA and Canada (MA)" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Summer Term 2022)
"HS/Ü North American Environmental Writing (MA)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Summer Term 2022)