Summer Semester 2023
Here are the classes taught by staff members of the Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies during the winter semester 2022/23.
AR Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Rita Maricocchi
Peri Sipahi
Dorit Neumann
Yashka Chavan
AR Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Writing the Caribbean in the long 18th century
092855 | Seminar | Tue 12-14
Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies)
092871 | Colloquium | Tue 14-16 (s.t.)
Rita Maricocchi
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group VIII)
092725 | Basic course | Tue 16-18
Peri Sipahi
Reading the Transpacific
092764 | Seminar | Tue 14-16
Dorit Neumann
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group VII)
092724 | Basic course | Thu 10-12
Narrating Transatlantic Slavery and its Legacy in Contemporary Black Literature
092769 | Seminar | Thu 12-14
Yashka Chavan
Migration, Mobility, and Movement in Australian Texts
092895 | Seminar | Mon 10-12
This course looks at how patterns of migration, mobility, and movement are represented in the selected ”Australian” texts with an emphasis on indigenous and transnational perspectives. Covering various genres such as fiction in the form of a novel, nonfiction in the form of biography and memoir, and a silent graphic novel, the texts offer different points of view by indigenous writers and writers with ”migration background” in Australia. A special emphasis is placed on how the titular concepts are manifested in the selected texts and how the texts make interventions in the discourses on the politics of nation-building and belonging to the nation-state, citizenship, and indigenous cosmologies and epistemologies. As such, students will engage with different mediums (literary text, graphic novel and film as visual mediums etc.) and reflect how their specific meaning making mechanisms can help unpack the politics of migration, mobility, and movement in contemporary Australian literature and culture.
Migrant and Diasporic Masculinities in Australian Texts
092896 | Seminar | Thu 12-14
How do experiences of migration, exile, and living in diaspora construct masculinities? This course explores this central question through texts produced by male writers and filmmakers in the context of contemporary Australian literature and culture. Using sociologist Raewyn Connell’s model of masculinities and pairing it Anna Hickey-Moody’s use of Deleuzian philosophy in the field of masculinity studies, the course draws attention to how masculinities are negotiated, and intersect and entangle with the discourses of race, ethnicity, and spatiality. Covering diverse literary genres such as memoir and short stories, and visual mediums such graphic novel, interactive digital adaptation, webcomic reportage and film, the selected texts offer a glimpse into portraits of masculinities shaped by migration, diaspora, and the political discourse of asylum process.