Kommentierte Lehrveranstaltungen
Gesamtansicht – Wintersemester 2025/2026
SLK-MA-AA-1-S1-S
(Spezialisierungsmodul 1 – Sprachwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Variation in World Englishes
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 3. Doppelstunde W48/001 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Harry Potter and his friends eat sweets in the British edition but candy in the American edition of their adventures: you have probably learned about differences in pronunciation and vocabulary concerning these two varieties of English, but what about English in Australia, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria? Over the last years, major research projects have been devoted to taking stock of the range of variation found in World Englishes. The course will tackle topics such as verb complementation, negation, definiteness, discourse markers, speech acts and politeness from a comparative perspective. One prominent aspect of this course will be an introduction to corpus linguistic methods and to the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which provides the basis for much current research on World Englishes.
This course is mainly research-oriented, i.e. students should be prepared to do a lot of reading and to undertake original research. You are encouraged to check out this introductory text in advance: Lange, Claudia & Leuckert, Sven (2020), Corpus linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Taylor and Francis (available as an ebook via the SLUB).
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Languages in Contact
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 2. Doppelstunde HSZ/0E05/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Language contact is all around us: we borrow words from other languages, we might switch between our different languages, we encounter street signs and billboards using several languages in the public sphere.
This course will address some of the most relevant issues in the field of Contact Linguistics. We will initially look at the most immediately obvious kind of language contact, namely loanwords and borrowing. We will also get to know about the study of multilingual linguistic landscapes. Classifications of and constraints on code-switching or code-mixing will also feature prominently; after all, language contact primarily manifests itself at the level of multilingual communicative interaction. Finally, we will discuss concepts such as superdiversity and the impact of globalization on the future of English as a contact language.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Styles and Registers
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 4. Doppelstunde CHE/0184/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Notions such as style, register, genre, text type explicitly or implicitly play an important role in various linguistic disciplines (and not least in literary studies), but are notoriously difficult to pin down. This seminar will approach styles, registers and related concepts both from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will get to know the framework pioneered by Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad in their book Register, Genre, and Style (2009, available as an ebook via the SLUB); this framework for analysing the situational and functional characteristics of styles and registers will enable us to describe and compare different text types. With this in mind, we will focus on a variety of text types such as public speeches, newspaper writing, letters, academic writing, and also new forms of electronic communication and recent problematic developments such as fake news. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary text types, with occasional forays into the history of a particular text type.
SLK-MA-AA-1-S1-L
(Spezialisierungsmodul 1 – Literaturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [AmLit - Woodard] – Rotten World: Understanding the Fungal Imaginary
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51177750539
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 3. Doppelstunde ABS/214 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- : In the last decade or so there has been a surge of interest in the mycological: documentaries, academic texts, films, and video games are replete with discussions of fungus and the fungal. The course examines the history of the fictional uptake of mushrooms (and their close relatives) and how and why they have become so prevalent. Such an examination will move across multiple genres and also engage with scientific and mythological understandings of the fungal world.
SLK-MA-AA-1-S1-K
(Spezialisierungsmodul 1 – Kulturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Odour and Order: Smell, Culture, and Representation
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This seminar is concerned with the ways smell functions as a cultural phenomenon. How we perceive, categorise, and respond to odours is deeply embedded in social practices, political discourses, and systems of knowledge. Smell is not simply a biological sensation but a site where power structures and cultural hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Throughout history, olfactory experience has been systematically gendered, raced, and classed. European cultures, for example, constructed specific olfactory stereotypes and attributed them to racialised groups as a means of establishing social hierarchies. Similarly, while men were allowed to smell sweaty, women who did not smell ‘sweet’ were considered to betray ideals of femininity. Smell also played a role in maintaining class boundaries: while the working class was labelled malodorous, the upper-class body was deodorised in cultural and political discourses. In this seminar, we will ask, for instance: In what ways do cultural productions challenge or reproduce dominant olfactory regimes? How might scent function as a mode of resistance, intimacy, or exclusion? What kinds of bodies or spaces are made to carry odour, and which ones are deodorised?
Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr - Literatur
- Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Critical Love Studies
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 4. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
In 1924, the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley opens an article in the British Vogue with the following words: “La Rochefoucauld […] remarked of love: that there are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love talked about. […] We may extend the scope of the maxim and say that even the people capable of spontaneously falling in love would not fall in love in the peculiar ways they do if they had never heard talk, or never read, of these particular ways of loving. For the fact is that there are fashions in love; fashions that last a little longer, it is true, than the modes in dress, but quite as tyrannous as these.” This theory-heavy seminar serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of critical love studies. Even though, as Laurent Berlant phrases is, “[t]here is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory”, this seminar is going to explore love in its constructedness. We are going to consider, for instance, the material practices and embodied experiences of love in their interrelation with power and domination; the cultural contingency of the relation between sexuality and romance, or passion and love; consumer capitalism and the impact of film, television and literature on the ways in which we make sense of love and romance. Students will then analyse representations of their choice within British Cultural Studies through the prism of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class. The course culminates in a student conference where these papers are presented and discussed. - Literatur
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- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
- 31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Anti-Americanism
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 25
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 2. Doppelstunde W48/101/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- he seminar will allow students to explore critical perspectives on the United States and analyze how negative views of the U.S. are formed and perpetuated through cultural texts and discourses. There is no scholarly consensus on what the term “Anti-Americanism” exactly refers to, which allows us to explore its varied meanings. We will thus attempt to historicize, contextualize, and more broadly examine notions of “Anti-Americanism” as an object of interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. It will be our task to ask who has meant what by “Anti-Americanism” and when, where, in what ways, and why the term was and is articulated. This includes asking what “Anti-Americanism” tells us about those who express (or criticize the expression of) “Anti-Americanist” sentiments. A core idea of the seminar is to consider how “Anti-Americanism” allows us draw general conclusions about the embattled meaning of “America” more broadly, not least what it can signify outside the United States.
This seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Methods and Theories in American Studies: Form Matters
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 7. Doppelstunde W48/103/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The seminar addresses matters of form because form matters. In other words, we will examine scholarly discussions concerning questions of formalization, both old and recent. The assumption is that abstract notions such as cultural imaginaries, discourses, knowledge, among others, would not exists were it not for their formalized dimensions. It aims to consider different forms of formalization: language, narratives, genres, and media. The seminar is meant to facilitate the in-depth study of theories of form and will cover aspects from areas such as rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre and media theory, “new formalisms” and others.
The seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
SLK-MA-AA-1-S2-S
(Spezialisierungsmodul 2 – Sprachwissenschaft)
- Vorlesung – [Ling - Lange] - Language and Society
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 80
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Freitag 3. Doppelstunde HSZ/401 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This lecture will offer a broad perspective on the study of language(s) in relationship to the societies in which they are spoken. We will first explore different approaches to some of the by now classical concerns of sociolinguistics – how factors such as age, status, gender, ethnicity influence our linguistic choices and in how far attitudes – our own as well as other people’s – towards accents and dialects pervade our perception of speakers and shape our ideas of what is the ‘right’ language.
We will then move on to issues that are generally subsumed under the label ‘sociology of language’, covering topics such as linguistic diversity and (in)equality, bilingualism and the treatment of minority languages in education, language conflicts and language planning.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Variation in World Englishes
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 3. Doppelstunde W48/001 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Harry Potter and his friends eat sweets in the British edition but candy in the American edition of their adventures: you have probably learned about differences in pronunciation and vocabulary concerning these two varieties of English, but what about English in Australia, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria? Over the last years, major research projects have been devoted to taking stock of the range of variation found in World Englishes. The course will tackle topics such as verb complementation, negation, definiteness, discourse markers, speech acts and politeness from a comparative perspective. One prominent aspect of this course will be an introduction to corpus linguistic methods and to the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which provides the basis for much current research on World Englishes.
This course is mainly research-oriented, i.e. students should be prepared to do a lot of reading and to undertake original research. You are encouraged to check out this introductory text in advance: Lange, Claudia & Leuckert, Sven (2020), Corpus linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Taylor and Francis (available as an ebook via the SLUB).
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Languages in Contact
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 2. Doppelstunde HSZ/0E05/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Language contact is all around us: we borrow words from other languages, we might switch between our different languages, we encounter street signs and billboards using several languages in the public sphere.
This course will address some of the most relevant issues in the field of Contact Linguistics. We will initially look at the most immediately obvious kind of language contact, namely loanwords and borrowing. We will also get to know about the study of multilingual linguistic landscapes. Classifications of and constraints on code-switching or code-mixing will also feature prominently; after all, language contact primarily manifests itself at the level of multilingual communicative interaction. Finally, we will discuss concepts such as superdiversity and the impact of globalization on the future of English as a contact language.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Styles and Registers
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 4. Doppelstunde CHE/0184/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Notions such as style, register, genre, text type explicitly or implicitly play an important role in various linguistic disciplines (and not least in literary studies), but are notoriously difficult to pin down. This seminar will approach styles, registers and related concepts both from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will get to know the framework pioneered by Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad in their book Register, Genre, and Style (2009, available as an ebook via the SLUB); this framework for analysing the situational and functional characteristics of styles and registers will enable us to describe and compare different text types. With this in mind, we will focus on a variety of text types such as public speeches, newspaper writing, letters, academic writing, and also new forms of electronic communication and recent problematic developments such as fake news. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary text types, with occasional forays into the history of a particular text type.
SLK-MA-AA-1-S2-L
(Spezialisierungsmodul 2 – Literaturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [AmLit - Ingwersen] – Black Horror Cinema
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51357122566
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 5. Doppelstunde HSZ/105/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Horror film has long served as a mirror of cultural anxieties, staging collective fears in forms that are at once exaggerated and symbolic. At any given time, the cinematic construction of monsters—whether ghosts, zombies, mutants, vampires, cannibals, or psychopaths—reveals much about hegemonic norms, including what is considered desirable, what is repressed, and who or what is cast as Other. American horror film, in particular, is notorious for its reliance on racial and gendered stereotypes. More often than not, its gaze has been a White gaze, evident in portrayals of Black masculinity as an animalistic threat, depictions of Voodoo in early zombie films, and the disturbingly frequent trope that “the Black guy dies first.”
At the same time, horror has provided a space for social critique, resistance, and the articulation of nonhegemonic forms of subjectivity and agency. This course takes the contemporary renaissance of Black Horror Cinema, or Black Neo-Horror—exemplified by films such as Jordan Peele’s celebrated allegory of liberal racism Get Out (2017), Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021), or Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025)—as an occasion to explore the long tradition of Black filmmakers, performers, and audiences mobilizing the horror genre to confront racial oppression, reckon with collective trauma, imagine social change, center positive portrayals of Blackness, or just have fun. We will consider “Black horror” in its multiple registers: the historical reality of Black life in America as itself a form of horror; films made by Black filmmakers who use the genre for critique or reinvention; works featuring Black actors and characters; and the significance of audience and reception—how Black viewers have interpreted, resisted, or reclaimed horror.
Through screenings of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ganja and Hess (1973), Tales from the Hood (1995), Candyman (1992 and 2021) and Get Out (2017), the course will pair key examples of Black Horror Cinema with foundational texts in Black Studies, African American history, and Film Theory.
All films will be screened at selected cinemas in Dresden outside the regular course slot (friends invited).
Please note: Given this course's theme in relation to horror and racism, we will engage potentially disturbing material, incl. filmic depictions of racial violence, strong language, and scary movie scenes. Our discussions and secondary texts will contextualize this content in the study of popular culture, horror studies, and the history of U.S. racism.
- Vorlesung – [AmLit - Ingwersen] - Issues in North American Literature: Nature and Technology
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 90
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51357122568
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 7. Doppelstunde W48/004/H In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- From Puritan constructions of wilderness to the colonization of Mars, the North American imaginary is fundamentally shaped by ambiguous and interconnected attitudes towards nature and technology. While ideas of “Nature” have been employed to both legitimize Indigenous displacement and anchor American constructions of freedom and self-reliance, visions of technology oscillate between fantasies of techno-utopia and deep-seated anxieties around ecological catastrophe and the disruptions of humanist subjectivity. Sketching a trajectory from the early modern period to the present, this survey lecture offers a framework for understanding the intersection of environmental and technological imaginaries as central to the development of North American literature and key to historicizing the cultural conditions of the Anthropocene. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives from ecocriticism, critical posthumanism, and speculative fiction studies, we will explore the continuities and ruptures that lead from romanticist views of the sublime to Golden Age science fiction, from the figure of the pioneer to the engineer and space cowboy, from the environmental aesthetics of modernism to cyberpunk and ecological entanglement, from the machine age to the technosphere and climate fiction, from the colonial politics of wilderness to environmental justice movements and Indigenous futurism. With examples from a broad range of genres and modes (incl. nonfiction essays, poetry, novels, short stories, film, and music), we will revisit key stages of the North American literary tradition and explore critical dialogues with decolonial and feminist critiques of North American progress narratives and poetics of environmental placemaking.
- Seminar – [AmLit - Woodard] – Rotten World: Understanding the Fungal Imaginary
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51177750539
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 3. Doppelstunde ABS/214 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- : In the last decade or so there has been a surge of interest in the mycological: documentaries, academic texts, films, and video games are replete with discussions of fungus and the fungal. The course examines the history of the fictional uptake of mushrooms (and their close relatives) and how and why they have become so prevalent. Such an examination will move across multiple genres and also engage with scientific and mythological understandings of the fungal world.
SLK-MA-AA-1-S2-K
(Spezialisierungsmodul 2 – Kulturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Odour and Order: Smell, Culture, and Representation
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This seminar is concerned with the ways smell functions as a cultural phenomenon. How we perceive, categorise, and respond to odours is deeply embedded in social practices, political discourses, and systems of knowledge. Smell is not simply a biological sensation but a site where power structures and cultural hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Throughout history, olfactory experience has been systematically gendered, raced, and classed. European cultures, for example, constructed specific olfactory stereotypes and attributed them to racialised groups as a means of establishing social hierarchies. Similarly, while men were allowed to smell sweaty, women who did not smell ‘sweet’ were considered to betray ideals of femininity. Smell also played a role in maintaining class boundaries: while the working class was labelled malodorous, the upper-class body was deodorised in cultural and political discourses. In this seminar, we will ask, for instance: In what ways do cultural productions challenge or reproduce dominant olfactory regimes? How might scent function as a mode of resistance, intimacy, or exclusion? What kinds of bodies or spaces are made to carry odour, and which ones are deodorised?
Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr - Literatur
- Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr
- Vorlesung – [BritCult - Wächter] - Collective Memory
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 60
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 6. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- In everyday contexts, we tend to think of memory as something individual, a kind of mental storage space where we keep our past. Yet, as Maurice Halbwachs argued in the 1920s, even seemingly personal memories are in fact collective: “No memory is possible outside frameworks used by people living in society to determine and retrieve their recollections.” Memories are always partial, selective, and shaped by the present in which they are recalled. This lecture explores how collective memory is constituted, transmitted, and contested. We will consider examples ranging from family customs and religious traditions to national commemorations, monuments, and heritage sites. We will also discuss contested memory – such as colonial remembrance and Brexit nostalgia – and ask how remembering and forgetting operate in the service of power. Particular attention will be paid to the ethical and political implications of memory: whose voices are heard, whose memories are silenced, and how memory both affirms and challenges dominant ideologies.
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Critical Love Studies
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 4. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
In 1924, the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley opens an article in the British Vogue with the following words: “La Rochefoucauld […] remarked of love: that there are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love talked about. […] We may extend the scope of the maxim and say that even the people capable of spontaneously falling in love would not fall in love in the peculiar ways they do if they had never heard talk, or never read, of these particular ways of loving. For the fact is that there are fashions in love; fashions that last a little longer, it is true, than the modes in dress, but quite as tyrannous as these.” This theory-heavy seminar serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of critical love studies. Even though, as Laurent Berlant phrases is, “[t]here is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory”, this seminar is going to explore love in its constructedness. We are going to consider, for instance, the material practices and embodied experiences of love in their interrelation with power and domination; the cultural contingency of the relation between sexuality and romance, or passion and love; consumer capitalism and the impact of film, television and literature on the ways in which we make sense of love and romance. Students will then analyse representations of their choice within British Cultural Studies through the prism of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class. The course culminates in a student conference where these papers are presented and discussed. - Literatur
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- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
- 31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
- Vorlesung – [AmCult - Junker] - American Chronotopes: Place-making in US Cultural History
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 70
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 4. Doppelstunde W48/004 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This survey lecture course provides an overview of US cultural history from the early European colonization of North America to recent moments in the United States. Taking a transnational perspective and considering the notion of place-making as a point of departure, it surveys crucial places, periods, and topics relevant to American cultural history. It heightens an understanding of the dynamics of American cultural history by focusing on key chronotopes—moments and sites—that have contributed to shaping an understanding of it. Among other aspects, the course highlights how chronotopes relate to the emergence of what “America” means to different demographic groups. It also considers the medial and discursive conditions that shape an understanding of chronotopes today.
The lecture course begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Anti-Americanism
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 25
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 2. Doppelstunde W48/101/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- he seminar will allow students to explore critical perspectives on the United States and analyze how negative views of the U.S. are formed and perpetuated through cultural texts and discourses. There is no scholarly consensus on what the term “Anti-Americanism” exactly refers to, which allows us to explore its varied meanings. We will thus attempt to historicize, contextualize, and more broadly examine notions of “Anti-Americanism” as an object of interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. It will be our task to ask who has meant what by “Anti-Americanism” and when, where, in what ways, and why the term was and is articulated. This includes asking what “Anti-Americanism” tells us about those who express (or criticize the expression of) “Anti-Americanist” sentiments. A core idea of the seminar is to consider how “Anti-Americanism” allows us draw general conclusions about the embattled meaning of “America” more broadly, not least what it can signify outside the United States.
This seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Methods and Theories in American Studies: Form Matters
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 7. Doppelstunde W48/103/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The seminar addresses matters of form because form matters. In other words, we will examine scholarly discussions concerning questions of formalization, both old and recent. The assumption is that abstract notions such as cultural imaginaries, discourses, knowledge, among others, would not exists were it not for their formalized dimensions. It aims to consider different forms of formalization: language, narratives, genres, and media. The seminar is meant to facilitate the in-depth study of theories of form and will cover aspects from areas such as rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre and media theory, “new formalisms” and others.
The seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
SLK-MA-AA-1-E-S
(Erweiterungsmodul – Sprachwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Variation in World Englishes
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 3. Doppelstunde W48/001 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Harry Potter and his friends eat sweets in the British edition but candy in the American edition of their adventures: you have probably learned about differences in pronunciation and vocabulary concerning these two varieties of English, but what about English in Australia, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria? Over the last years, major research projects have been devoted to taking stock of the range of variation found in World Englishes. The course will tackle topics such as verb complementation, negation, definiteness, discourse markers, speech acts and politeness from a comparative perspective. One prominent aspect of this course will be an introduction to corpus linguistic methods and to the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which provides the basis for much current research on World Englishes.
This course is mainly research-oriented, i.e. students should be prepared to do a lot of reading and to undertake original research. You are encouraged to check out this introductory text in advance: Lange, Claudia & Leuckert, Sven (2020), Corpus linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Taylor and Francis (available as an ebook via the SLUB).
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Languages in Contact
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 2. Doppelstunde HSZ/0E05/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Language contact is all around us: we borrow words from other languages, we might switch between our different languages, we encounter street signs and billboards using several languages in the public sphere.
This course will address some of the most relevant issues in the field of Contact Linguistics. We will initially look at the most immediately obvious kind of language contact, namely loanwords and borrowing. We will also get to know about the study of multilingual linguistic landscapes. Classifications of and constraints on code-switching or code-mixing will also feature prominently; after all, language contact primarily manifests itself at the level of multilingual communicative interaction. Finally, we will discuss concepts such as superdiversity and the impact of globalization on the future of English as a contact language.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Styles and Registers
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 4. Doppelstunde CHE/0184/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Notions such as style, register, genre, text type explicitly or implicitly play an important role in various linguistic disciplines (and not least in literary studies), but are notoriously difficult to pin down. This seminar will approach styles, registers and related concepts both from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will get to know the framework pioneered by Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad in their book Register, Genre, and Style (2009, available as an ebook via the SLUB); this framework for analysing the situational and functional characteristics of styles and registers will enable us to describe and compare different text types. With this in mind, we will focus on a variety of text types such as public speeches, newspaper writing, letters, academic writing, and also new forms of electronic communication and recent problematic developments such as fake news. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary text types, with occasional forays into the history of a particular text type.
SLK-MA-AA-1-E-L
(Erweiterungsmodul – Literaturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [AmLit - Ingwersen] – Black Horror Cinema
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51357122566
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 5. Doppelstunde HSZ/105/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Horror film has long served as a mirror of cultural anxieties, staging collective fears in forms that are at once exaggerated and symbolic. At any given time, the cinematic construction of monsters—whether ghosts, zombies, mutants, vampires, cannibals, or psychopaths—reveals much about hegemonic norms, including what is considered desirable, what is repressed, and who or what is cast as Other. American horror film, in particular, is notorious for its reliance on racial and gendered stereotypes. More often than not, its gaze has been a White gaze, evident in portrayals of Black masculinity as an animalistic threat, depictions of Voodoo in early zombie films, and the disturbingly frequent trope that “the Black guy dies first.”
At the same time, horror has provided a space for social critique, resistance, and the articulation of nonhegemonic forms of subjectivity and agency. This course takes the contemporary renaissance of Black Horror Cinema, or Black Neo-Horror—exemplified by films such as Jordan Peele’s celebrated allegory of liberal racism Get Out (2017), Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021), or Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025)—as an occasion to explore the long tradition of Black filmmakers, performers, and audiences mobilizing the horror genre to confront racial oppression, reckon with collective trauma, imagine social change, center positive portrayals of Blackness, or just have fun. We will consider “Black horror” in its multiple registers: the historical reality of Black life in America as itself a form of horror; films made by Black filmmakers who use the genre for critique or reinvention; works featuring Black actors and characters; and the significance of audience and reception—how Black viewers have interpreted, resisted, or reclaimed horror.
Through screenings of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ganja and Hess (1973), Tales from the Hood (1995), Candyman (1992 and 2021) and Get Out (2017), the course will pair key examples of Black Horror Cinema with foundational texts in Black Studies, African American history, and Film Theory.
All films will be screened at selected cinemas in Dresden outside the regular course slot (friends invited).
Please note: Given this course's theme in relation to horror and racism, we will engage potentially disturbing material, incl. filmic depictions of racial violence, strong language, and scary movie scenes. Our discussions and secondary texts will contextualize this content in the study of popular culture, horror studies, and the history of U.S. racism.
- Seminar – [AmLit - Woodard] – Rotten World: Understanding the Fungal Imaginary
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51177750539
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 3. Doppelstunde ABS/214 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- : In the last decade or so there has been a surge of interest in the mycological: documentaries, academic texts, films, and video games are replete with discussions of fungus and the fungal. The course examines the history of the fictional uptake of mushrooms (and their close relatives) and how and why they have become so prevalent. Such an examination will move across multiple genres and also engage with scientific and mythological understandings of the fungal world.
SLK-MA-AA-1-E-K
(Erweiterungsmodul – Kulturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Odour and Order: Smell, Culture, and Representation
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This seminar is concerned with the ways smell functions as a cultural phenomenon. How we perceive, categorise, and respond to odours is deeply embedded in social practices, political discourses, and systems of knowledge. Smell is not simply a biological sensation but a site where power structures and cultural hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Throughout history, olfactory experience has been systematically gendered, raced, and classed. European cultures, for example, constructed specific olfactory stereotypes and attributed them to racialised groups as a means of establishing social hierarchies. Similarly, while men were allowed to smell sweaty, women who did not smell ‘sweet’ were considered to betray ideals of femininity. Smell also played a role in maintaining class boundaries: while the working class was labelled malodorous, the upper-class body was deodorised in cultural and political discourses. In this seminar, we will ask, for instance: In what ways do cultural productions challenge or reproduce dominant olfactory regimes? How might scent function as a mode of resistance, intimacy, or exclusion? What kinds of bodies or spaces are made to carry odour, and which ones are deodorised?
Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr - Literatur
- Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Critical Love Studies
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 4. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
In 1924, the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley opens an article in the British Vogue with the following words: “La Rochefoucauld […] remarked of love: that there are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love talked about. […] We may extend the scope of the maxim and say that even the people capable of spontaneously falling in love would not fall in love in the peculiar ways they do if they had never heard talk, or never read, of these particular ways of loving. For the fact is that there are fashions in love; fashions that last a little longer, it is true, than the modes in dress, but quite as tyrannous as these.” This theory-heavy seminar serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of critical love studies. Even though, as Laurent Berlant phrases is, “[t]here is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory”, this seminar is going to explore love in its constructedness. We are going to consider, for instance, the material practices and embodied experiences of love in their interrelation with power and domination; the cultural contingency of the relation between sexuality and romance, or passion and love; consumer capitalism and the impact of film, television and literature on the ways in which we make sense of love and romance. Students will then analyse representations of their choice within British Cultural Studies through the prism of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class. The course culminates in a student conference where these papers are presented and discussed. - Literatur
-
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
- 31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Anti-Americanism
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 25
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 2. Doppelstunde W48/101/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- he seminar will allow students to explore critical perspectives on the United States and analyze how negative views of the U.S. are formed and perpetuated through cultural texts and discourses. There is no scholarly consensus on what the term “Anti-Americanism” exactly refers to, which allows us to explore its varied meanings. We will thus attempt to historicize, contextualize, and more broadly examine notions of “Anti-Americanism” as an object of interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. It will be our task to ask who has meant what by “Anti-Americanism” and when, where, in what ways, and why the term was and is articulated. This includes asking what “Anti-Americanism” tells us about those who express (or criticize the expression of) “Anti-Americanist” sentiments. A core idea of the seminar is to consider how “Anti-Americanism” allows us draw general conclusions about the embattled meaning of “America” more broadly, not least what it can signify outside the United States.
This seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Methods and Theories in American Studies: Form Matters
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 7. Doppelstunde W48/103/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The seminar addresses matters of form because form matters. In other words, we will examine scholarly discussions concerning questions of formalization, both old and recent. The assumption is that abstract notions such as cultural imaginaries, discourses, knowledge, among others, would not exists were it not for their formalized dimensions. It aims to consider different forms of formalization: language, narratives, genres, and media. The seminar is meant to facilitate the in-depth study of theories of form and will cover aspects from areas such as rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre and media theory, “new formalisms” and others.
The seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
SLK-MA-AA-1-SP
(Sprachpraxis – Language Applications)
- Sprachlernseminar – Advanced Translation
- Lehrperson
-
- Andrea Stubenrauch
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 1. Doppelstunde – Virtuell - Beschreibung
- This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate. Students will be introduced to some theories and techniques of translating and there will be systematic practice of particular structures and lexis which are difficult to translate. Students will be given texts to translate in class and at home. Students should have a good grammar book and a good monolingual dictionary. Materials: The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, and should be brought to the first meeting. Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: either you are matriculated for Master or for State Exam 3: all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed.
- Sprachlernseminar – Advanced Essay Writing
- Lehrperson
-
- Andrea Stubenrauch
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 4. Doppelstunde BSS/133 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate. This course will develop the work of the Writing course and will focus particularly on writing argumentative essays. The course will examine what makes a good essay and practise the planning, structuring, style and checking of essays. A key aspect will be the practice of new lexis and idiom typical of formal writing style. Texts which provide both excellent models of English writing and provocative topics for debate will be studied with the aim of transferring the writing skills and language encountered into active usage. Materials: The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, 01217 Dresden. Please bring these materials to the first meeting Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: either you are matriculated for Master or for State Exam 3: all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed
- Sprachlernseminar – Advanced Essay Writing
- Lehrperson
-
- Andrea Stubenrauch
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Freitag 3. Doppelstunde – Virtuell - Beschreibung
- This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate. This course will develop the work of the Writing course and will focus particularly on writing argumentative essays. The course will examine what makes a good essay and practise the planning, structuring, style and checking of essays. A key aspect will be the practice of new lexis and idiom typical of formal writing style. Texts which provide both excellent models of English writing and provocative topics for debate will be studied with the aim of transferring the writing skills and language encountered into active usage. Materials: The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, 01217 Dresden. Please bring these materials to the first meeting Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: either you are matriculated for Master or for State Exam 3: all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed
- Sprachlernseminar – Advanced Essay Writing
- Lehrperson
-
- Sandra Erdmann
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 1. Doppelstunde SE2/123/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate. This course will develop the work of the Writing course and will focus particularly on writing argumentative essays. The course will examine what makes a good essay and practise the planning, structuring, style and checking of essays. A key aspect will be the practice of new lexis and idiom typical of formal writing style. Texts which provide both excellent models of English writing and provocative topics for debate will be studied with the aim of transferring the writing skills and language encountered into active usage. Materials: The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, 01217 Dresden. Please bring these materials to the first meeting Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: either you are matriculated for Master or for State Exam 3: all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed
- Sprachlernseminar – Advanced Translation
- Lehrperson
-
- Michael Calabranno Pérez
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 4. Doppelstunde W48/0002/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate. Students will be introduced to some theories and techniques of translating and there will be systematic practice of particular structures and lexis which are difficult to translate. Students will be given texts to translate in class and at home. Students should have a good grammar book and a good monolingual dictionary. Materials: The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, and should be brought to the first meeting. Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: either you are matriculated for Master or for State Exam 3: all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed.
- Sprachlernseminar – Option: JABS (Journalistic Writing)
- Lehrperson
-
- Michael Calabranno Pérez
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 22
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 1. Doppelstunde SE1/0218/P In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This course is offered as an Option course to both B.A. and State Exam candidates and also as an extra voluntary course to any other students. Foreign exchange students of English are very welcome. The course will be a workshop for journalistic writing and will develop or deepen the journalistic, research and writing skills of participants. Regular participation and the fulfilling of homework assignments are of utmost importance. Materials will be provided on OPAL. Prerequisites: 1: the Entry Test must have been passed. 2: the courses in Pronunciation and Intonation, Grammar, and Vocabulary must have been completed.
SLK-MA-AA-2-A-L
(Ausbaumodul – Literaturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [AmLit - Woodard] – Rotten World: Understanding the Fungal Imaginary
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51177750539
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 3. Doppelstunde ABS/214 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- : In the last decade or so there has been a surge of interest in the mycological: documentaries, academic texts, films, and video games are replete with discussions of fungus and the fungal. The course examines the history of the fictional uptake of mushrooms (and their close relatives) and how and why they have become so prevalent. Such an examination will move across multiple genres and also engage with scientific and mythological understandings of the fungal world.
SLK-MA-AA-2-A-K
(Ausbaumodul – Kulturwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Odour and Order: Smell, Culture, and Representation
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This seminar is concerned with the ways smell functions as a cultural phenomenon. How we perceive, categorise, and respond to odours is deeply embedded in social practices, political discourses, and systems of knowledge. Smell is not simply a biological sensation but a site where power structures and cultural hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Throughout history, olfactory experience has been systematically gendered, raced, and classed. European cultures, for example, constructed specific olfactory stereotypes and attributed them to racialised groups as a means of establishing social hierarchies. Similarly, while men were allowed to smell sweaty, women who did not smell ‘sweet’ were considered to betray ideals of femininity. Smell also played a role in maintaining class boundaries: while the working class was labelled malodorous, the upper-class body was deodorised in cultural and political discourses. In this seminar, we will ask, for instance: In what ways do cultural productions challenge or reproduce dominant olfactory regimes? How might scent function as a mode of resistance, intimacy, or exclusion? What kinds of bodies or spaces are made to carry odour, and which ones are deodorised?
Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr - Literatur
- Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Critical Love Studies
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 4. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
In 1924, the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley opens an article in the British Vogue with the following words: “La Rochefoucauld […] remarked of love: that there are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love talked about. […] We may extend the scope of the maxim and say that even the people capable of spontaneously falling in love would not fall in love in the peculiar ways they do if they had never heard talk, or never read, of these particular ways of loving. For the fact is that there are fashions in love; fashions that last a little longer, it is true, than the modes in dress, but quite as tyrannous as these.” This theory-heavy seminar serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of critical love studies. Even though, as Laurent Berlant phrases is, “[t]here is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory”, this seminar is going to explore love in its constructedness. We are going to consider, for instance, the material practices and embodied experiences of love in their interrelation with power and domination; the cultural contingency of the relation between sexuality and romance, or passion and love; consumer capitalism and the impact of film, television and literature on the ways in which we make sense of love and romance. Students will then analyse representations of their choice within British Cultural Studies through the prism of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class. The course culminates in a student conference where these papers are presented and discussed. - Literatur
-
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
- 31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Anti-Americanism
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 25
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 2. Doppelstunde W48/101/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- he seminar will allow students to explore critical perspectives on the United States and analyze how negative views of the U.S. are formed and perpetuated through cultural texts and discourses. There is no scholarly consensus on what the term “Anti-Americanism” exactly refers to, which allows us to explore its varied meanings. We will thus attempt to historicize, contextualize, and more broadly examine notions of “Anti-Americanism” as an object of interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. It will be our task to ask who has meant what by “Anti-Americanism” and when, where, in what ways, and why the term was and is articulated. This includes asking what “Anti-Americanism” tells us about those who express (or criticize the expression of) “Anti-Americanist” sentiments. A core idea of the seminar is to consider how “Anti-Americanism” allows us draw general conclusions about the embattled meaning of “America” more broadly, not least what it can signify outside the United States.
This seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Methods and Theories in American Studies: Form Matters
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 7. Doppelstunde W48/103/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The seminar addresses matters of form because form matters. In other words, we will examine scholarly discussions concerning questions of formalization, both old and recent. The assumption is that abstract notions such as cultural imaginaries, discourses, knowledge, among others, would not exists were it not for their formalized dimensions. It aims to consider different forms of formalization: language, narratives, genres, and media. The seminar is meant to facilitate the in-depth study of theories of form and will cover aspects from areas such as rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre and media theory, “new formalisms” and others.
The seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
SLK-MA-AA-2-WiPrä
(Wissenschaftliche Präsentation)
- Kolloquium – [AmCult - Junker/Ingwersen] - North American Studies Colloquium
- Lehrpersonen
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- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 15
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 6. Doppelstunde W48/102/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- TThis colloquium aims to provide an informal forum in which students, especially those in the advanced stages of their studies, can present their current or planned theses (Staatsexamen, BA, MA, doctoral) and discuss them with fellow students. For MA students, attendance of this colloquium counts toward the module ”Forschungslaboratorium”. All other students can learn from participating in this colloquium without earning credits.
The colloquium begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Odour and Order: Smell, Culture, and Representation
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz – – In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- This seminar is concerned with the ways smell functions as a cultural phenomenon. How we perceive, categorise, and respond to odours is deeply embedded in social practices, political discourses, and systems of knowledge. Smell is not simply a biological sensation but a site where power structures and cultural hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Throughout history, olfactory experience has been systematically gendered, raced, and classed. European cultures, for example, constructed specific olfactory stereotypes and attributed them to racialised groups as a means of establishing social hierarchies. Similarly, while men were allowed to smell sweaty, women who did not smell ‘sweet’ were considered to betray ideals of femininity. Smell also played a role in maintaining class boundaries: while the working class was labelled malodorous, the upper-class body was deodorised in cultural and political discourses. In this seminar, we will ask, for instance: In what ways do cultural productions challenge or reproduce dominant olfactory regimes? How might scent function as a mode of resistance, intimacy, or exclusion? What kinds of bodies or spaces are made to carry odour, and which ones are deodorised?
Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr - Literatur
- Blockseminar: 23.02, 25.02, 27.02, 02.03., 04.03. 11:10-16:20 Uhr
- Seminar – [BritCult - Wächter] - Critical Love Studies
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 35
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Einschreibefrist
- Ab
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Montag 4. Doppelstunde W48/0004/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
In 1924, the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley opens an article in the British Vogue with the following words: “La Rochefoucauld […] remarked of love: that there are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love talked about. […] We may extend the scope of the maxim and say that even the people capable of spontaneously falling in love would not fall in love in the peculiar ways they do if they had never heard talk, or never read, of these particular ways of loving. For the fact is that there are fashions in love; fashions that last a little longer, it is true, than the modes in dress, but quite as tyrannous as these.” This theory-heavy seminar serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of critical love studies. Even though, as Laurent Berlant phrases is, “[t]here is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory”, this seminar is going to explore love in its constructedness. We are going to consider, for instance, the material practices and embodied experiences of love in their interrelation with power and domination; the cultural contingency of the relation between sexuality and romance, or passion and love; consumer capitalism and the impact of film, television and literature on the ways in which we make sense of love and romance. Students will then analyse representations of their choice within British Cultural Studies through the prism of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class. The course culminates in a student conference where these papers are presented and discussed. - Literatur
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- 13 October – 22 December: regular sessions (Mondays, 13:00-14:30)
- 31 January and 1 February (10:00-16:00): Student Conference
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Variation in World Englishes
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 3. Doppelstunde W48/001 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Harry Potter and his friends eat sweets in the British edition but candy in the American edition of their adventures: you have probably learned about differences in pronunciation and vocabulary concerning these two varieties of English, but what about English in Australia, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria? Over the last years, major research projects have been devoted to taking stock of the range of variation found in World Englishes. The course will tackle topics such as verb complementation, negation, definiteness, discourse markers, speech acts and politeness from a comparative perspective. One prominent aspect of this course will be an introduction to corpus linguistic methods and to the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which provides the basis for much current research on World Englishes.
This course is mainly research-oriented, i.e. students should be prepared to do a lot of reading and to undertake original research. You are encouraged to check out this introductory text in advance: Lange, Claudia & Leuckert, Sven (2020), Corpus linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Taylor and Francis (available as an ebook via the SLUB).
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Languages in Contact
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 2. Doppelstunde HSZ/0E05/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Language contact is all around us: we borrow words from other languages, we might switch between our different languages, we encounter street signs and billboards using several languages in the public sphere.
This course will address some of the most relevant issues in the field of Contact Linguistics. We will initially look at the most immediately obvious kind of language contact, namely loanwords and borrowing. We will also get to know about the study of multilingual linguistic landscapes. Classifications of and constraints on code-switching or code-mixing will also feature prominently; after all, language contact primarily manifests itself at the level of multilingual communicative interaction. Finally, we will discuss concepts such as superdiversity and the impact of globalization on the future of English as a contact language.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Styles and Registers
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 4. Doppelstunde CHE/0184/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Notions such as style, register, genre, text type explicitly or implicitly play an important role in various linguistic disciplines (and not least in literary studies), but are notoriously difficult to pin down. This seminar will approach styles, registers and related concepts both from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will get to know the framework pioneered by Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad in their book Register, Genre, and Style (2009, available as an ebook via the SLUB); this framework for analysing the situational and functional characteristics of styles and registers will enable us to describe and compare different text types. With this in mind, we will focus on a variety of text types such as public speeches, newspaper writing, letters, academic writing, and also new forms of electronic communication and recent problematic developments such as fake news. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary text types, with occasional forays into the history of a particular text type.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Anti-Americanism
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 25
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 2. Doppelstunde W48/101/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- he seminar will allow students to explore critical perspectives on the United States and analyze how negative views of the U.S. are formed and perpetuated through cultural texts and discourses. There is no scholarly consensus on what the term “Anti-Americanism” exactly refers to, which allows us to explore its varied meanings. We will thus attempt to historicize, contextualize, and more broadly examine notions of “Anti-Americanism” as an object of interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. It will be our task to ask who has meant what by “Anti-Americanism” and when, where, in what ways, and why the term was and is articulated. This includes asking what “Anti-Americanism” tells us about those who express (or criticize the expression of) “Anti-Americanist” sentiments. A core idea of the seminar is to consider how “Anti-Americanism” allows us draw general conclusions about the embattled meaning of “America” more broadly, not least what it can signify outside the United States.
This seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Seminar – [AmCult - Junker] - Methods and Theories in American Studies: Form Matters
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- OPAL ab 10.10.2025 12:00 Uhr
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 7. Doppelstunde W48/103/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The seminar addresses matters of form because form matters. In other words, we will examine scholarly discussions concerning questions of formalization, both old and recent. The assumption is that abstract notions such as cultural imaginaries, discourses, knowledge, among others, would not exists were it not for their formalized dimensions. It aims to consider different forms of formalization: language, narratives, genres, and media. The seminar is meant to facilitate the in-depth study of theories of form and will cover aspects from areas such as rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre and media theory, “new formalisms” and others.
The seminar begins in the first week of the semester.
- Oberseminar – [BritLit/BritCult - Horlacher/Wächter] - Oberseminar
- Lehrpersonen
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- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 10
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Über URL einschreiben
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 6. Doppelstunde W48/0003/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- The Oberseminar is open to doctoral candidates, to students completing their MA, Staatsexamen or Master Thesis, and to those approaching the end of their studies. It is intended to give the participants the opportunity to introduce their projects, and to learn from the presentations given.
The focus will be on theoretical approaches and their application to the projects, with the added intention of fostering an exchange of research interests and ideas among advanced students of English/American Literature and British/American Cultural Studies in the department. A prerequisite for those attending is the willingness to present the findings of their work as well as to lead the ensuing group discussions.
•For LiKWa-students this course serves as “Forschungslaboratorium”, and for Master-students it serves a double function:
- as the “Peer Colloquium,” it is part of “Wissenschaftliche Praxis II”, and
- as the forum for the “Colloquium“ it is part of the “Modul Wissenschaftliche Präsentation”.
Both requirements have to be met in different semesters. The first session will take place in the second week of term.
- Seminar – [AmLit - Woodard] – Rotten World: Understanding the Fungal Imaginary
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 30
- Einschreibung
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- Einschreibung über
- Einschreibung über OPAL am 10.10.2025 ab 11:00 Uhr: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51177750539
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Dienstag 3. Doppelstunde ABS/214 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- : In the last decade or so there has been a surge of interest in the mycological: documentaries, academic texts, films, and video games are replete with discussions of fungus and the fungal. The course examines the history of the fictional uptake of mushrooms (and their close relatives) and how and why they have become so prevalent. Such an examination will move across multiple genres and also engage with scientific and mythological understandings of the fungal world.
SLK-MA-AA-2-A-S
(Ausbaumodul – Sprachwissenschaft)
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Variation in World Englishes
- Lehrperson
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- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
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Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Mittwoch 3. Doppelstunde W48/001 In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Harry Potter and his friends eat sweets in the British edition but candy in the American edition of their adventures: you have probably learned about differences in pronunciation and vocabulary concerning these two varieties of English, but what about English in Australia, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria? Over the last years, major research projects have been devoted to taking stock of the range of variation found in World Englishes. The course will tackle topics such as verb complementation, negation, definiteness, discourse markers, speech acts and politeness from a comparative perspective. One prominent aspect of this course will be an introduction to corpus linguistic methods and to the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which provides the basis for much current research on World Englishes.
This course is mainly research-oriented, i.e. students should be prepared to do a lot of reading and to undertake original research. You are encouraged to check out this introductory text in advance: Lange, Claudia & Leuckert, Sven (2020), Corpus linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Taylor and Francis (available as an ebook via the SLUB).
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Languages in Contact
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 2. Doppelstunde HSZ/0E05/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Language contact is all around us: we borrow words from other languages, we might switch between our different languages, we encounter street signs and billboards using several languages in the public sphere.
This course will address some of the most relevant issues in the field of Contact Linguistics. We will initially look at the most immediately obvious kind of language contact, namely loanwords and borrowing. We will also get to know about the study of multilingual linguistic landscapes. Classifications of and constraints on code-switching or code-mixing will also feature prominently; after all, language contact primarily manifests itself at the level of multilingual communicative interaction. Finally, we will discuss concepts such as superdiversity and the impact of globalization on the future of English as a contact language.
- Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Styles and Registers
- Lehrperson
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Maximale Teilnehmeranzahl
- 40
- Einschreibung
-
- Einschreibung über
- Ab 10.10.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Termine
-
Wochentag Uhrzeit Ort Durchführung Donnerstag 4. Doppelstunde CHE/0184/U In Präsenz - Beschreibung
- Notions such as style, register, genre, text type explicitly or implicitly play an important role in various linguistic disciplines (and not least in literary studies), but are notoriously difficult to pin down. This seminar will approach styles, registers and related concepts both from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will get to know the framework pioneered by Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad in their book Register, Genre, and Style (2009, available as an ebook via the SLUB); this framework for analysing the situational and functional characteristics of styles and registers will enable us to describe and compare different text types. With this in mind, we will focus on a variety of text types such as public speeches, newspaper writing, letters, academic writing, and also new forms of electronic communication and recent problematic developments such as fake news. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary text types, with occasional forays into the history of a particular text type.