MEAS American Studies Courses for - Winter Term 2021/22
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American Studies
Courses for
MEAS
Winter Term 2021/22Sprechstunden Wintersemester 2021/2022
Name Sprechzeit Raum PT Tel: 943-
DEPKAT, Prof. Dr. Volker tba 3.2.71 3476
N.N. tba 3.2.70 3475
GEBAUER, Dr. Amy Do 10:00-12:00 3.3.88 3429
GOTTESWINTER, Lena Di 16:00-17:00 3.2.83 3507
FAISST Prof. Dr. Julia Di 14:00-15:00 3478
3.2.73
Lehrstuhlvertretung
HEBEL, Prof. Dr. Udo siehe Homepage 3.2.73 3477
HEBEL-BAURIDL, Dr. Birgit Mi 12:00-13:00 3.2.85 3509
Mi 14:30-15:30 3510
HEGER, Tamara 3.2.86
and by appointment
HUNDT, Dr. Stefanie tba 3.3.88 3429
STETLER, Dr. Julia Mi 10:00-12:00 3.2.88 1809
TU, Jiann-Chyng Di 10:30-11:30 3.2.83 3507
Registration for office hours is obligatory!
Please send an email to
vorname.nachame@ur.de to register
beforehand and make arrangements!
2Amerikanistik (American Studies)
36299 CITAS Ringvorlesung - Blinde Flecken im Raum: Das Mittelmeer aus Vickers
multidisziplinärer und transhistorischer Perspektive | The Mediterranean
and its Blind Spots: Transhistorical Perspectives on a Contested Area
Module: ENGYM-M32A.1 (4.0), AMST-M32.1 (4.0), AMST-M23.3 (4.0), ENG-UF-WB (4.0), ENG-DF-ZP (4.0), NAS-FKN-ZP (4.0), NAS-M01.3
(4.0), EAS-M34.1 (8.0), EAS-M34.2 (8.0), EAS-M34.3 (8.0), EAS-M31.4 (8.0), WB-IAA (4.0), EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1(7), EAS-M8.2
(7.0)
Tag Rhyth. von bis Zeit Beginn Ende Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Mi wöch 16 18 c.t. H4 Vickers
Course description: Please see online course catalog (SPUR).
First Semester MA Courses in European American Studies
P-(D-)-35846 Fundamentals and Frames of Transnational American Studies Hebel-Bauridl
Module: EAS-M1.1 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Mi wöch. 14:00 16:00 c.t. PT 1.02* Hebel-Bauridl
The course introduces students to key methods and theories of the interdisciplinary field of
American Studies on graduate level. It discusses perspectives that are central for an
understanding of both core agendas of the discipline and its development toward Transnational
American Studies. First, it critically reflects on central concepts and issues such as nation,
globalization, identity, ethnicity, gender, memory, or neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and racial
grammar. Second, it traces approaches to American Studies as a discipline from its beginnings to
the so-called New American Studies and recent frameworks of Post-Exceptionalist and
Transnational American Studies. Third, it engages in a critical discussion of recent theoretical and
methodological trends shaped by the visual, performative, spatial, and transnational turns in
American Studies. This course is based on central theoretical and methodological texts, which will
be available on GRIPS.
Course requirement: oral presentation.
Credit requirements: Modulprüfung (module exam: Theories, Approaches, Methods); Final exam:
Friday, 11 February 2022, 10:00am–12:00 (120mins.), room VG 0.24. All course materials will be
available on GRIPS. Credit for: MEAS.
P-(D-)-35847 Theories and Concepts in European-American Studies Hebel-Bauridl
Module: EAS-M1.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Do wöch. 10:00 12:00 c.t. ++ZH 6 Hebel-Bauridl
Approaching European-American Studies within the frameworks of Transnational American
Studies and Critical Area Studies, this course introduces students to scholarly theories that are
central for a critical understanding of past and present European-American relations,
3negotiations, trajectories, exchanges, and entanglements as well as their impact on other areas
in the world. First, the course discusses key concepts of American Studies and related
interdisciplinary fields that are at the core of European-American Studies, e.g. space, mobility, or
region. Second, it debates transnational approaches to American Studies that specifically inform
the project of European-American Studies, e.g. circumatlantic and transatlantic studies as well as
critical (transnational) regionalism and new/critical area studies. Third, it traces transnational
dimensions of concepts of American Studies that allow for a particularly apt investigation of topics
from the field of European-American Studies, e.g. contact zones, cultural transfer, transnational /
European-American memory, transnational interpictoriality, etc. This course is based on central
theoretical and conceptual texts, which will be available on GRIPS.
Course requirement: oral presentation.
Credit requirements: Modulprüfung (module exam: Theories, Approaches, Methods); Final exam:
Friday, 11 February 2022, 10:00am–12:00 (120mins.), room VG 0.24. All course materials will be
available on GRIPS. Credit for: MEAS.
P-(D-)35848 Readings and Sources in European-American Cultural Relations I: From the Beginning through the End of the Depkat
19th Century
Module: EAS-M2.1 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Di wöch. 16:00 18:00 c.t. 19.10.2021 30.11.2021 ++ZH 6 Depkat
Do wöch. 16:00 18:00 c.t. 21.10.2021 02.12.2021 ++ZH 6 Depkat
On the basis of key texts and visual documents, we will discuss mutual perceptions, political
interaction, social ties, and cultural exchange between Europe and the United States from the
fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Among the topics covered in this course are Europe’s
colonial expansion into the New World, eighteenth-century debates about progress and decline,
European-American relations in the “Age of Atlantic Revolutions,” migration history, and American
capitalism and notions of modernity.
Course requirement: presentation.
Credit requirements: Modulprüfung (module exam: Readings I and Readings II; tba).
Reading: All course materials will be available on GRIPS. Credit for: MEAS
P-(D-)35849 Readings and Sources in European-American Cultural Relations II: The 20th and 21st Centuries Depkat
Module: EAS-M2.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Di wöch. 16:00 18:00 c.t. 07.12.2021 10.02.2022 ++ZH 6 Depkat
Do wöch. 16:00 18:00 c.t. 09.12.2021 12.02.2022 ++ZH 6 Depkat
On the basis of key texts and visual documents, we will discuss mutual perceptions, political
interaction, social ties, and cultural exchange between Europe and the United States in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among the topics covered in this course are the World Wars,
the Cold War and the “War on Terror”, the Americanization of Europe, the formation of consumer
societies, twentieth-century Euro-American pop culture, and the current state of European-
American relations.
Course requirement: presentation.
Credit requirements: Modulprüfung (module exam: Readings I and Readings II; tba).
Reading: All course materials will be available on GRIPS. Credit for: MEAS
4Seminars in European American Studies
P-(D-)35840 “Southern Planters and the Global Flow of Cotton in Antebellum America” (Topics in Mobilities Depkat
and Cultural Transfers, EAS-M4)
Module: EAS-M4.1 (8.0), EAS-M4.2 (8.0), EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0), AMST-M32.2 (5.0), AMST-M32.3 (7.0),
ENGYM-M32A.2 (5.0), ENGYM-M32A.3 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Mi wöch. 08:30 10:00 s.t. ++ZH 6 Depkat
Recent studies on the history of global capitalism have featured the centrality of cotton as the
raw material that kept textile mills in England and New England running. Southern planters joined
the global cotton economy rather late in the game, but once they were at it, they turned the U.S.
into the world's leading cotton producing region that, on the eve of the Civil War, provided two
thirds of the world's supply. Southern planters, therefore, were commercial entrepreneurs in an
emerging global economy that was anchored in a cotton-industrial complex built on slavery. Hard
to relate to this fact is the phenomenon of Southern nationalism that emerged after 1820 and that
developed an increasingly separatist potential culminating in the secession of eleven Southern
states and the Civil War, which, from a Southern perspective, was fought to defend a Southern
way of life built on slavery. The Southern community imagined by Southern nationalism was
essentially a pre-industrial one, a community of honor-driven Southern gentlemen and Southern
Belles engaging in pre-capitalist pursuits. The seminar will take this paradox as point of departure
to reflect Southern planters as both global economic actors and carriers of a Southern nationalism
that denied the realities of a global cotton capitalism.
Literature: Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism (New York: Knopf,
2014). Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, eds. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American
Economic Development (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2018). Peter Kolchin, American
Slavery, 1619–1877 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1993). Paul Quigley, Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and
the American South, 1848–1865 (New York: Oxford UP, 2012).
Course requirement: oral presentation, incl. presentation handout and/or PowerPoint
presentation.
Credit requirement CSAdv. (LA/BA): advanced academic writings in English (research paper of
ca. 10 pp.).
Credit requirement HS LA/BA: advanced academic writings in English (ca. 15 pages).
Credit requirement master's program: prior to WS 2018/19: presentation and final research paper
(ca. 15 pages for 8 CP or ca. 20 pages for 10 CP, depending on credit type); master's program
as of WS 2018/19: presentation and proposal for a possible research paper (5 pp.). Please also
check the Modulbeschreibung:
https://www.uni-
regensburg.de/studium/modulbeschreibungen/medien/master/eas_master_ws1819.pdf
All course materials will be made available on GRIPS.
P-(D-)35841 “Enslavement and Resistance” (Topics in Spaces, Regions, Spheres, EAS-M3) Faisst
Module: EAS-M3.1 (8.0), EAS-M3.2 (8.0), EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0), AMST-M32.2 (5.0), AMST-M32.3 (7.0),
ENGYM-M32A.2 (5.0), ENGYM-M32A.3 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Mi wöch. 10:00 12:00 c.t. ++ZH 6 Faisst
As the Black Lives Matter movement with its protests against systemic oppression of Black people,
police brutality, and racism in the U.S. as well as transnationally demonstrates, the legacy of slavery
continues to deeply impact race relations on a global scale. “If slavery persists as an issue in the
political life of black America,” writes Saidiya Hartman in Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the
5Atlantic Slave Route (2007), “it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the
burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial
calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of
slavery—skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death,
incarceration, and impoverishment.” In this course, we will investigate both the life and afterlife of
enslavement and resistance in the U.S. and Europe. How did enslaved people write about their
first-hand experiences of living under and escaping the ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery in their
autobiographies? How did novelists imagine slavery after it got abolished but lived on in global
systems of indentured servitude and sharecropping? And finally, how do contemporary
photographers and filmmakers depict the trappings of various forms of enslavement and
possibilities of resistance today? Throughout, we will examine how cultural and socio-political
spaces of power relations—such as the plantation, the prison, substandard housing, and public
spaces—bear witness to transnational histories of enslavement. Ultimately, we will work to
understand how social movements in the U.S. and in Europe draw upon the legacy of enslavement
and resistance to stand up to the challenges of white supremacy and racially motivated violence
today, and thereby participate in anti-racist endeavors on a global stage.
Course requirement: oral presentation, incl. presentation handout and/or PowerPoint
presentation.
Credit requirement CSAdv. (LA/BA): advanced academic writings in English (research paper of
ca. 10 pp.).
Credit requirement HS LA/BA: advanced academic writings in English (ca. 15 pages).
Credit requirement master's program: prior to WS 2018/19: presentation and final research paper
(ca. 15 pages for 8 CP or ca. 20 pages for 10 CP, depending on credit type); master's program
as of WS 2018/19: presentation and proposal for a possible research paper (5 pp.). Please also
check the Modulbeschreibung: https://www.uni-
regensburg.de/studium/modulbeschreibungen/medien/master/eas_master_ws1819.pdf
All course materials will be made available on GRIPS.
P-(D-)35842 “Colonialism, Racism, White Supremacy—Academic Responsibilities beyond the University Hebel-Bauridl
Classroom” (Topics in Politics and Responsibilities, EAS-M5)
Module: EAS-M5.1 (8.0), EAS-M5.2 (8.0), EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0), AMST-M32.2 (5.0), AMST-M32.3 (7.0),
ENGYM-M32A.2 (5.0), ENGYM-M32A.3 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Mo einzel 18:00 20:00 c.t. 13.12.2021 13.12.2021 Zoom Hebel-Bauridl
Fr einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 21.01.2022 21.01.2022 VG 0.04 Hebel-Bauridl
Mo einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 14.02.2022 14.02.2022 PT 1.0.2* Hebel-Bauridl
Fr einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 18.02.2022 18.02.2022 ZH 5 Hebel-Bauridl
Fr einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 04.03.2022 04.03.2022 PT 1.0.2* Hebel-Bauridl
Fusing research and practice, this course brings together scholarly discussion, public opinion, and
outreach beyond the university classroom. Firstly, it discusses and compares German and
American structures of oppression and inequality with a particular focus on colonialism and its
aftermaths as well as structures and systems of racism and white supremacy. Secondly, it explores
and applies methods to gauge and analyze the public opinion on these topics as well as to gather
questions that the public may have. Thirdly, it engages with approaches to public outreach and
knowledge transfer and develops practical options; students will decide on a final product such
as, for example, a poster exhibit, a multimedia web exhibit etc.
Course requirement: informal presentations in a workshop atmosphere.
Credit requirement: content development for exhibits (workload equivalent to term paper length).
6P-(D-)36298 “Of Ghosts and Zombies. Negotiating Trauma in European and North American Film (Spain, Brüske
France, Poland, USA)” (Topics in Mobilities and Cultural Transfers, EAS-M4)
Module: EAS-M4.1 (8.0), EAS-M4.2 (8.0), EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatum Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
Fr einzel 14:00 18:00 s.t. 115.10.2021 15.10.2021 S 213 Brüske
Sa einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 16.10.2021 16.10.2021 S 213 Brüske
Fr einzel 14:00 16:00 s.t. 29.10.2021 29.10.2021 H9 Brüske
Fr einzel 14:00 18:00 s.t. 03.12.2021 03.12.2021 H8 Brüske
Sa einzel 10:00 16:00 s.t. 04.12.2021 04.12.2021 S 213 Brüske
Course requirement: oral presentation, incl. presentation handout and/or PowerPoint
presentation.
Credit requirement master's program: prior to WS 2018/19: presentation and final research paper
(ca. 15 pages for 8 CP or ca. 20 pages for 10 CP, depending on credit type); master's program as
of WS 2018/19: presentation and proposal for a possible research paper (5 pp.). Please also check
the Modulbeschreibung:
https://www.uni-
regensburg.de/studium/modulbeschreibungen/medien/master/eas_master_ws1819.pdf
All course materials will be made available on GRIPS.
7Kurse anderer Lehrstühle und Institute im Master-Programm MEAS
(Courses Offered by Other Departments for our M.A. Program MEAS)
P-(D-)36267 “Künstliche Intelligenz & Area Studies” Sudmann
Module: EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatu Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
m
Di wöch 14:00 16:00 c.t. PT 1.02* Sudmann
Course description: Please see online course catalog (SPUR).
P-(D-)33334g “Transatlantic Challenges in a Globalized World” Groitl
Module: EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatu Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
m
Di Wöch 10:00 12:00 c.t. VG 1.36 Groitl
Course description: Please see online course catalog (SPUR).
P-(D-)36283 “Whose City, Whose Spaces? Multi-Scalar Spatial Politics and Urban Governance Steigemann
Processes”
Module: EAS-M7.2 (7.0), EAS-M8.1 (7.0), EAS-M8.2 (7.0)
Seminar, SWS: 2, Max. Teilnehmer: 15
Day Rhyth. von bis Zeit Anfangsdatu Enddatum Gruppe Raum Lehrperson Bemerkung
m
Mi Wöch 12:00 14:00 c.t. R 009 Steigemann
Course description: Please see online course catalog (SPUR).
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