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Past Events

2023: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): "Margaret Atwood's Venture into Graphic Novels: The Angel Catbird Trilogy and the War Bears Series." Guest lecture on May 16, 2023, 9:40 AM (Germersheim Campus)

2020: Dr. Nele Sawallisch (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): "Claiming ‘The Great Black North’
in Contemporary Short Stories from Canada." Guest lecture on December 15, 2020, at 9:40 AM (BigBlueButton)

2016: Rahab Njeri (IRTG Trier): “Shades of Blackness in the Autobiography of Malcolm X.” Guest lecture on Jan 29, 2016, at 10AM in SBII 02-432 (Mainz Campus).

2016: George Elliott Clarke (U of T): “Poles Apart?: The ‚Great Black North‘ in Canada and Sweden.” Guest lecture on Dec 13, 2016, at  8AM in HS18 (Campus Mainz).

2015: Kathleen Scherf (Thompson Rivers U): "Cultural Tourism, Sustainability, and Alternate Geography: Deep Maps and Immersive Experience." Guest lecture on Tuesday, October 25, at 9:40AM in Room 328 (Germersheim Campus).
2015: Kathleen Scherf (Thompson Rivers U): "Cultural Tourism, Sustainability, and Alternate Geography: Deep Maps and Immersive Experience." Guest lecture on Tuesday, October 25, at 9:40AM in Room 328 (Germersheim Campus).
2015: Drew Hayden Taylor: "Whitewater Canoeing down the Rapids of Aboriginal Humour." Guest lecture on Tuesday, July 21, at 9:40AM in Room 328 (Germersheim Campus).
2014: "Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim." International, interdisciplinary conference (July 17-July 19, 2014). See http://www.pacificrim.uni-mainz.de

Past Teaching

"PS/Ü Indigenous Voices of North America (Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Film)" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Winter Term 2022/23)

"HS/Ü City Fictions: Urban Experiences in the U.S. and Canada" (MA) (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2022/23)

"S/Ü Literaturübersetzen: Die Übertragung von Native American und First Nation Life Writing" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Winter Term 2022/23)

"Ü Introduction to Canadian Studies" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2022/23)

"VL Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture (BA & MA)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2022/23)

"PS/Ü North American Ecofiction" (Michael Lörch; Winter Term 2022/23)

"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)

"HS Asian North America: Diversity, Language, and Translation (USA and Canada) (MA)" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Winter Term 2021/22)

"Mobile America (MA)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2021/22)

"VL Transnational Modernism (MA)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Summer Term 2021)

"Ü Introduction to Canadian Studies" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Summer Term 2021)

"S/Ü Studies in Comparative North American Literature II: Specters of American Fascism in U.S. and Canadian Literature and Film" (Dr. Klaus H. Schmidt; Summer Term 2021)

"S "Narrating Identities": Übersetzung von Kurzgeschichten und Gedichten zu ethnischen Identitäten (USA und Kanada) (MA)" (Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Sabina Matter-Seibel; Summer Term 2021)

"PS/Ü Epidemics in North American Literature" (Michael Lörch; Winter Term 2020/2021)

"S/Ü Studies in Comparative North American Literature I: Constructions of the "North" in U.S. and Canadian Fiction" (Dr .Klaus H. Schmidt; Winter Term 2020/2021)

"VL Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture (BA & MA)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2020/2021)

“Black Resistance in North America” (Nele Sawallisch; Winter Term 2017/2018)

“Introduction to Autobiography/Life Writing” (Nele Sawallisch; Winter Term 2015/2016)

"Perspectives on Canadian Studies" (Kathleen Scherf; Summer Term 2015)

"North American Theater: Recent Developments in the United States and Canada" (Sabina Matter-Seibel; Winter Term 2015/2016)

"Introduction to North American Studies (Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2015/2016)

"North American Life Writing" (Jutta Ernst; Winter Term 2015/2016)

"Konzepte kulturellen Übersetzens" (Jutta Ernst/Cornelia Sieber; Winter Term 2015/2016)