Past Events
2025: Drew Hayden Taylor : "Alles beginnt mit einem Flugzeugabsturz…" Autorenlesung on November 11, 2025, 13:30, N.106 (Germersheim Campus)
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)
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).
Past Teaching
"Ü Einführung in die Regionalkompetenz (Kanada)" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst, Winter Term 2025/26)
"S Magazines and Translation" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst, Winter Term 2025/26)
"S Canadian Dualism / Dualité canadienne: French-English Relations in Canada" (Dr. Michael Lörch, Summer Term 2025)
"S Die Einwanderungserfahrung/The Immigrant Experience: Das Beispiel Nordamerika DE-EN" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst, Summer Term 2022)
"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)