Sample Syllabi

This is the result of a discussion on Twitter: Dr Jennifer Leetsch (then Würzburg, now Bonn University) very kindly decided to upload her own course syllabi for the Corona summer term 2020 as an inspiration for others struggling with pandemic pedagogics. I subscribe to the idea of academic kindness/generosity in general, but I think it has become even more important during and after the Corona pandemic, at a time when many of us are struggling (with time, with caring responsibilities, with technical issues, with anxiety, etc. etc.). So here are my syllabi for the summer term 2022. You are welcome to steal ideas, and I would love to know if there was anything you found useful! Older syllabi (starting with winter term 2020/21) are linked below.

  • undergraduate module Love on the Early Modern Stage (seminar) / Sonnet Culture(s) (tutorial) (Bonn, summer term 2022): view combined syllabus
  • MA-seminar Tragicomic Experiments on the Early Modern Stage (Bonn, summer term 2022): view syllabus
  • MA-seminar Playing Indoors: From Boy Actors to Candlelit Tragedy (Bonn, summer term 2022): view syllabus

syllabi since winter term 2020/21 (taught at Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Passau University):

early modern (+ adaptations):

  • lecture Early Modern Literature and Culture (Passau, winter term 2021/22): view syllabus
  • undergraduate seminar Shakespeare & the Politics of Postcolonial Adaptation (Passau, winter term 2021/22): view syllabus
  • 3rd-year seminar Revenge Tragedy (Frankfurt/Main, summer term 2021): view syllabus
  • MA-seminar Staging Early Modern Law (Frankfurt/Main, winter term 2020/21): view syllabus
  • MA-seminar Corsairs, Privateers, Renegados: Early Modern Piracy (Frankfurt/Main, summer term 2021): view syllabus

eighteenth century (+ adaptations):

  • 3rd-year seminar (Abolishing) British Slavery (Frankfurt/Main, winter term 2020/21): view syllabus

nineteenth century:

  • 3rd-year seminar Pre-Raphaelite Brothers and Sisters (Frankfurt/Main, summer term 2021): view syllabus
  • 3rd-year seminar Literature & Culture of the Fin de Siècle (Passau, winter term 2021/22): view syllabus

contemporary literature and culture:

  • undergraduate seminar Writing Queer, Writing Gender(s) (Passau, winter term 2021/22): view syllabus
  • 3rd-year seminar Neo-Gothic Narratives (Frankfurt/Main, winter term 2020/21): view syllabus
  • MA-seminar Contemporary Irish Horror (Frankfurt/Main, summer term 2021): view syllabus
  • MA-seminar Brexit Britain (Frankfurt/Main, winter term 2020/21): view syllabus