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Lectures
  • Four Tropes
  • Comedy and the Comic
  • The 18th-Century Novel
  • The English Novel from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
  • The Literature of Sensibility
  • Theory of Drama
  • Restoration Comedy
  • Introduction to English Literature
  • Modernist Fiction
  • Narrative Theory
  • The (Meta)Historical Novel
  • Realism in the English Novel from Defoe to Joyce
Comedy and Related Topics
  • Comedies by Jonson and Shakespeare
  • William Congreve's Comedies
  • Gender in Renaissance and Restoration Comedy
  • Comedy in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • English Comedy in the 20th-Century
  • G.B. Shaw and the Genre of Comedy
  • Oscar Wilde: A Selection of his Works
  • Tom Stoppard and British Culture
  • Stoppard’s Arcadia across the Disciplines
  • Parody
  • Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Drama (Except Comedy)
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • G.B. Shaw
  • 20th-Century History Plays
  • Derek Walcott: Poetry and Drama
  • Shakespeare in Performance
  • American Memory Plays
  • Metahistorical Plays
  • Shakespeare, Beckett, Stoppard: An Intertextual Triangle
  • The Play within the Play: Shakespeare, Sheridan, Stoppard
  • History Plays
  • Performing Cleopatra
Fiction and Narrative Theory
  • Contemporary British and Irish Novels
  • The Rise of the Novel
  • James Joyce: Ulysses
  • Jane Austen
  • British and Canadian Short Stories
  • Joseph Conrad
  • E.M. Forster
  • Henry James
  • The Metahistorical Novel in England
  • Narrative Theory and the American Short Story
  • Novels by Richardson, Fielding and Smollett
  • Theories of Point of View
  • Point of View in Early Modern Narrative (co-taught with Roland Weidle, a Renaissance scholar)
  • Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Jonathan Swift (co-taught with Anette Pankratz, a Cultural Studies scholar)
  • Unreliable Narrators in English Fiction from Hogg to Ford
  • Virginia Woolf
  • George Eliot: Middlemarch and Other Writings
Poetry
  • John Donne's Poetry
  • Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Reading Poetry by Way of Genre
  • How to Do Things with Poems
  • Derek Walcott's Omeros
  • William Wordsworth and the Traditions of English Poetry
  • Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads
Themes and Motifs
  • Aestheticism
  • Doubles in 19th- and 20th-Century Fiction
  • Literature and the Economy in the 18th Century (co-taught with Anette Pankratz, a Cultural Studies scholar)
  • Passages to India 1: Kipling, Forster, Rushdie
  • Passages to India 2: Kipling, Forster, Orwell
  • Social Mobility in Austen, Dickens and Shaw
  • Religion and Politics in the 17th Century
  • Stevenson and Scotland
  • "Take Nature's Path": Primitivism in English Thought and Literature
  • Unlived Lives: Fiction and Plays by James, Beckett, Stoppard and Ishiguro
  • Empathy in Contemporary and 18th-Century Literature
Canadian Fiction
  • Reading Canadian Short Stories
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Canadian Fiction and the Provincial Town
  • Classics of Canadian Fiction
  • Alice Munro
  • Recent Canadian Fiction and Poetry: Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields
  • The Metahistorical Novel in Canada
  • Satire in the Canadian Novel
  • Portraits of the Artist in the Canadian Novel
Miscellaneous
  • Introduction to English Literature
  • Survey Course: English Literature from the Beginnings to the 18th-Century
  • Contemporary Rewritings of Homer's Epics
  • Metaphor (co-taught with Doris Schönefeld, a linguist)
  • Editing Stevenson
  • Editing Literature: Annotation
  • Editing Literature: Textual Criticism
  • Presentation of Research Projects
  • Preparing for Exams
  • Communication (with Emphasis on Writing on Literature)
  • Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English-German Translation
  • Language Course II