List of Previous Courses

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer 

  • Cultures in Contact: Travel Literature in the (Post)Colonial World 
  • Decolonising the Museum 
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies 
  • Forschungskolloquium

Sommersemester 2024 

Dr. Katrin Althans​ 

  • Migration Literature 
  • Australian Gothic Ficition 

 

Wintersemester 2023/2024

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Ambiguity and Gender in Anglophone Literature and Culture (Plummer/Kazmi) 
  • "Australian Mobilities" (Internationale Konferenz) (Plummer/Althans)
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • Postcolonial Literatures in English
  • Postcolonial Short Stories
  • Afghanistan - in Literature and Film
  • The Empire as Horror - Imperial Gothic
  • Interculturality in Theory and Practice (lecture) 
  • E3 - GeiWi_Kunst - Ringvorlesung Queerness: Konzepte und Debatten in der transkulturellen Gegenwart - Cr. 2-2 - Deutsch  

 

 

 

Sommersemester 2023

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer 

  • Decolonising the Museum
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Antipodean Modernism: Katherine Mansfield
  • Guided Research in British and Postcolonial Studies
  • Postcolonial Short Stories

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2 
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 3
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 4
  • An Introduction to Travel Wrting
  • Lost Worlds and Lost Races in Victorian Fiction

Wintersemester 2022/2023

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Decolonising the Museum
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Australian Literature
  • Exploring Australia
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 13
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 14
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 15
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 16
  • Colonial Kipling
  • Men of Science Searching for the Truth – Victorian Detective Stories
  • Traveling Afghanistan during the Wars

Sommersemester 2022

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Decolonising the Museum
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Guided Research in British and Postcolonial Studies
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: A Gendered Perspective 
  • Victorian Age

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Lost Worlds and New Worlds in Victorian Fiction
  • Scary Women: Victorian Ghost Stories

Wintersemester 2021/2022

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Australian Literature
  • Exploring Australia
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Inspired by the Orient: Lady Montagu's Embassy Letters in Context
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Approaches, Methods

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Afghanistan — in Literature and Film
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 10
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 11

Sommersemester 2021

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Antipodean Modernism: Katherine Mansfield
  • Decolonising the Museum
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Guided Research in British and Postcolonial Studies
  • Postcolonial Literatures in English

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Children's Literature of the Victorian and Edwardian Age
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Opium and the Orient

 

Syed Kazim Ali Kazmi, M.A.

Wintersemester 2020/21

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • Lifewriting by Muslim Women Writers in Exile
  • Orientalism Revisited
  • Tariq Ali: Islam, Multiculturalism and Secularism

 

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 10
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 11
  • Race in Victorian Literature
  • The Empire as Horror: Imperial Gothic

 

Syed Kazim Ali Kazmi, M.A.

  • Tariq Ali: Islam, Multiculturalism and Secularism

Sommersemester 2020

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Exploring Australia, 1770-2020
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Guided Research in British and Postcolonial Studies
  • Indigenising the Museum
  • Katherine Mansfield: Modernism and (Post)Colonialism
  • Postcolonial Literatures in English

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Children's Literature after 1900
  • Colonial Kipling
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Travelling Afghanistan in the 20th and the 21st century

Wintersemester 2019/20

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Ambiguität und Gender: Das Dritte Geschlecht in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  • Colonialism's Heritage in Museums and Archives
  • Cultures in Contact: Travel Writing in the Postcolonial World
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • Women Travellers in the Orient
     

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Colonialism and the Novel
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1, 2, 3 & 4
  • The Invention of Children's Literature

Sommersemester 2019

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • research leave
     

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 1, 2, 3 & 4
  • Orientalism: An Introduction
  • Representations of Afghanistan in Literature and Film

Wintersemester 2018/19

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • Muslim Women Writers in Exile
  • Orientalism
  • Picturing Australia

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies)
  • Opium and the Orient in British Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Travelling East in the Nineteenth Century - Eothen and Other Accounts of a Magical Middle East

Sommersemester 2018
 

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Colonialism's Heritage in Museums and Archives
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies (für Masterstudierende und Promovierende)
  • Mike Phillips
  • Postcolonial Crime Fiction
  • Screening Indigenous Australian Culture
     

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Brutal Masculinity in Victorian Lost World Fiction
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 2
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 3
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 4
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 5
  • Young Churchill as a Writer

Wintersemester 2017/18

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies (für Masterstudierende und Promovierende)
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • The Victorian Age

Jasamin Ulfat-Seddiqzai, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 7
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 8
  • Introduction to British Travel Writing
  • Kipling's India
  • Male Heroes in Victoria Adventure

 

Sommersemester 2017

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies (für Masterstudierende und Promovierende)
  • Hanif Kureishi  
  • Indigenising the Museum          
  • Indigenous Australian Literature and Culture

Jasamin Ulfat-Seddiqzai, M.A.

  • Boy Stories, Girl Stories: Victorian Children's Literature
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 3
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 4
  • Introduction to British Travel Writing      
  • Race and the Colonial Novel

 

Wintersemester 2016/17

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Colonialism's Heritage in Museums and Archives
  • Cultures in Contact: Travel Literature in the (Post-)Colonial World
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies       
  • Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies: Theories, Approaches, Methods
  • Lifewriting by Muslim Women Writers in Exile  

Jasamin Ulfat-Seddiqzai, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies)

 

Sommersemester 2016

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Examenskolloquium
  • Forschungskolloquium: Crossing Boundaries: Current Research Topics (für Masterstudierende und Promovierende)
  • Picturing Australia
  • Postcolonial Crime Fiction
  • Writing the Indian Diaspora: Priya Basil

Lioba Schreyer, M.A.

  • One Country, Many Voices: Australian Poetry Then and Now

 

Wintersemester 2015/16

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Narrating Slavery in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (Lecture Course)
  • Orientalism and Islamophobia
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • The Power of the Word: Religion and Literature in the Anglophone World
  • DoktorandInnenkolloquium

Lioba Schreyer, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies) Gr. 13/14

 

Sommersemester 2015

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Debating Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam - Key Author
  • Screening Indigenous Australian Culture
  • The Great Global War
  • Examenskolloquium für StaatsexamenskandidatInnen
  • DoktorandInnenkolloquium

Lioba Schreyer, M.A.

  • EN1_Englisch A1/A2 (Quereinsteiger)

 

Wintersemester 2014/15

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • on research leave

Dr. Katrin Althans

  • Postcolonial Theory

Lioba Schreyer, M.A.

  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies), Gr. 5 und 6
  • Translation and Mediation (English-German for Exchange Students)

 

Sommersemester 2014

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • The Victorian Age (lecture course)
  • Verhandlungen von Religion in Kultur und Gesellschaft (interdisciplinary lecture course)
  • Grenzüberschreitung und Exzess (interdisciplinary lecture course)
  • Hanif Kureishi
  • Picturing Australia
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • DoktorandInnenkolloquium
  • Examenskollquium für StaatexamenskandidatInnen

Lioba Schreyer, M.A

  • Contemporary Irish Poetry
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies), Gr. 7 und 8

Luisa Nassauer, M.A.

  • Post-Colonial Arab Women Writers

 

Wintersemester 2013/14

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Cultures in Contact: Travel Writing in the (Post-)Colonial World (lecture course)
  • Imagining Afghanistan (for Jasamin Ulfat during maternity leave)
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Examenskolloquium für StaatexamenkandidatInnen
  • Representations of Sydney in Literature and Film

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Colonialism and the Novel
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies), Gr. 9 und 10
  • Imagining Afghanistan (with Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer)

Luisa Nassauer, M.A. (for Jasamin Ulfat during maternity leave)

  • Colonialism and the Novel
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies), Gr. 9 und 10

Dr. Bhawana Jain

  • Writing the Indian Diaspora (Blockseminar)

 

Sommersemester 2013

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Vielfalt in kulturellen und sozialen Welten (interdisciplinary lecture course)
  • Bollywood: Indian Culture, Diaspora and Globalisation (Blockseminar)
  • Crime Fiction from Australia and South Africa
  • Multiethnic London
  • Philip McLaren: Writing Aboriginal Australia
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Examenskolloquium für StaatsexamenskandidatInnen

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Adventure Girls: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan
  • Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary Studies), Gr. 3 und 4
  • Postcolonial Travel Writing

 

Wintersemester 2012/13

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Postcolonial Dickens
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Women Travellers in the Orient
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Examenskolloquium für StaatsexamenskandidatInnen

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Afghanistan on Screen: From Fighting for Freedom to Blowing up Buddha
  • Traveling in the 20th Century: Images of Abroad, Images of Home
  • Examenskolloquium für StaatsexamenskandidatInnen

Dr. Bhawana Jain

  • Trauma, Exile and Migration in Contemporary British Fiction (Blockseminar with Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer)

 

Sommersemester 2012

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Diversityforschung an der Universität Duisburg-Essen (interdisciplinary lecture course)
  • Caribbean Women Writers in a Globalised World
  • Indigenous Australian Literature and Culture
  • Postcolonial India in Literature and Film
  • Forschungskolloquium Postcolonial Studies
  • Kolloquium für ExamenskandidatInnen

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Dangerously True Stories: British and American Traveller to Afghanistan in the 19th and 20th Century
  • Early "Indiana Joneses": Imperial Adventures
  • Travel Writing

Dr. Michaela Schrage-Früh

  • Postcolonial Women's Poetry (Blockseminar)

 

Wintersemester 2011/12

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Australia's Stolen Generations
  • Multiethnic Britain
  • Postcolonial Literatures in English (lecture course)
  • Postcolonial London II
  • (Re-)Reading Jane Eyre
    • Kolloquium für ExamenskandidatInnen und Masterstudierende

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • Colonialism and the Novel
  • Representations of Afghanistan in Literature and Film
  • Travel Writing

 

Sommersemester 2011

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer

  • Crime Fiction from South Africa and Australia
  • Screening British Asian Culture (Blockseminar)
  • Shakespeare and (Post-)Colonial Discourse
  • Travelling to India and Beyond
  • Kolloquium

Jasamin Ulfat, M.A.

  • An Introduction to Travel Writing (Blockseminar)
  • Rudyard Kipling (Blockseminar)

 

Wintersemester 2010/11

Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer 

  • British Asian Film
  • Dickens and Australia
  • Images of Istanbul
  • Picturing Australia
  • Postcolonial London