Courses

Prof. Horlacher teaches on a multitude of subjects, including the fields of Gender and Masculinity Studies, Postcolonial Literature, and British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. You can browse the course descriptions to find out more.
Please check out the current Vorlesungsverzeichnis as well as OPAL to find out more about which courses are on at the moment.

Seminars (selection)

• Restoration Comedies
• Transgression and Taboo in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
• Shakespeare's Tragedies
• Shakespeare on Screen
• Daniel Defoe: The Rise of the Novel in the 18th Century
• Jane Austen: Novels and Films
• Thomas Hardy's Novels
• D.H. Lawrence: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, and Poems
• The End of Empire: Postcolonial Short Stories
• From Colonialism to Postcolonialism
• (Post-)Colonial Novels
• Contemporary Indian Novels
• Black British Literature
• Zadie Smith
• Salman Rushdie
• John Fowles's Literary Work
• The Student's Guide to Literature
• The (Post-)Modern British Novel
• The British Campus Novel
• University, Industry, Memory, and the Question of Englishness
• Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature
• Manhood in Contemporary British and American Theatre
• British and American Transgender and Intersex Novels

Lectures (selection)

• Taboo and Transgression in British Literature
• Literature and Anthropology
• Gender Studies & Literature Part 1 & Part 2
• What is Postcolonialism?
• Contemporary Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• The Concept of Memory in British Literature
• Memory and History in 20th-Century British Literature