Lectures
- Four Tropes
- Comedy and the Comic
- 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
Seminars
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
Canadian Fiction
- 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
Fiction and Narrative Theory
- 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
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
