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New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies - Podcasts

New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies

This series of podcasts is intended to give you an impression of the English Department at the University of Giessen. It provides an introduction to the faculty of the Literary and Cultural Studies section as well as to other department members who are working on similar issues from other disciplinary angles. Literary and cultural studies are interdisciplinary ventures. Students at Giessen who major in these fields profit not only from the close collaboration of our faculty with professors in linguistics and didactics but also from the presence of the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture.

Held in the winter term of 2009-2010, this lecture series was intended to offer Giessen’s students an overview of state-of-the-art methods and models for conducting literary and cultural studies. In this manner, the organizers Professors Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson hoped that students might move forward in devising their own research models and deciding on the method or methods most appropriate for their own work. The lecture series also addressed the question, “If theory is dead what comes next?” The many answers offered to this question in the form of the lectures recorded here suggest that literary and cultural studies are alive and flourishing as theoretical as well as pragmatic forms of analysis.

 

Each lecture begins by offering an overview of a new cultural object or an innovative new method for approaching literary and cultural texts. The speakers then move from offering a theoretical overview of their methods into demonstrating how a practical application of this method would be conducted.

Below, please find an overview of the lecture schedule. Note that not all of the lectures could be recorded as podcasts. By clicking on the title of the lecture, you can access the audio recording. By clicking onto the lecturer’s name you can learn more about her or his publications and research interests. All of the lectures listed here will be available shortly in a WVT Handbook: New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson (in preparation).

Lectures:

The History of Literary Theory: ‘Mouse-Eaten Records’ or an Acid Test?

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Horstmann
Professor of English and American Literature,
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

October 13, 2009

Theory in Turns: Surveying the Development of Literary Theory, 1960-2010

Prof. Dr. em. Herbert Grabes
Professor of English and American Literature, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

October 20, 2009

Eco-Criticism: The Landscapes of
Modernity in London Urban Poetry

Dr. Sonja Altnöder
Research Coordinator at IPP – International PhD
Programme Literary and Cultural Studies of the
University of Giessen

October 27, 2009

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism – The Case of Early Modern Studies

PD Dr. Ute Berns
University of Hamburg

November 3, 2009

Gender Studies and Queer Theory: Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Dr. des. Nadyne Stritzke
Assistant to the Head of the Department of English,
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

November 10, 2009

Stage(d) Life: Shakespeare and the Ecology of Media

Prof. Dr. Ingo Berensmeyer
Professor of English and American Literature, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

November 17, 2009

Literary Studies as a Form of Life-Science: The Knowledge of Literature (part 1|part 2)

Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning
Professor of English and American Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen,
Founding and Managing Director of the „International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture“ (GCSC)

& Dr. Michael Basseler
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

November 24, 2009

Reading 9/11

Prof. Dr. Greta Olson
Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies,
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

December 1, 2009

Intercultural & Postcolonial Approaches: Migration and ‘Black’ British Literature

Prof. Dr. Roy Sommer
Professor for Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of Wuppertal

December 8, 2009

Media Scandals and Cultural Transformation

Dr. Martin Zierold
Executive Board Manager of the GCSC – International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

December 15, 2009

The Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics of World Englishes: Postcolonial Englishes and Postcolonial Identity-Constructions (part 1|part 2)

Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee
President of the University of Giessen and Professor of English Linguistics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

& Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber
Professor of English Linguistics and the History of the English Language, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

January 19, 2010

Theater and Performance Studies: Contemporary American Theater

Dr. des. Anneka Esch-van Kan
Research Assistant at IPP – International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies of the University of Giessen

January 26, 2010

Literature and Cognition: Literary Theory and Its Implications for the Literary Classroom

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet
Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Member of the Executive Board of the GCSC – International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

February 2, 2010

The Translational Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies: The Example of Human Rights

Dr. Doris Bachmann-Medick
Permanent Senior Research Fellow at the GCSC – International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

February 9, 2010