Overview
My teaching at LSU covers a wide spectrum of courses in German, Screen Arts, and Comparative Literature. I teach anything from German language classes to specialized courses about business communication or conversation. My literature seminars have focused on the writings by Franz Kafka and the history of German poetry. I have also given courses and directed independent studies on film, and cultural history of the 20th century. Beyond the undergraduate level, I work with graduate students in Comparative Literature and direct dissertations.
Courses taught
- GERM 2101/2102: Intermediate German
- GERM 3060: German for Business
- GERM 3061: German Discourse
- GERM 4031: German Poetry
- GERM 4044: Special Topics in 20th-Century German Literature and Culture (Topic: Radicalism)
- GERM 4046: German Film
- GERM 4091: German Literature in Translation (Topic: Franz Kafka)
- GERM 4915: Independent Study (undergraduate level)
- HNRS 2013: The 20th Century (Radicalism in 1960s and 1970s in US and Germany)
- HNRS 4000: Independent Study (undergraduate thesis)
- CPLT 7010: Research Methods and Bibliography: Introduction to Literary Theory from Antiquity to Romanticism
- CPLT 7120: Topics in Theory of Criticism (Topic: Literary Anthropology)
- CPLT 8900: Independent Study (graduate level)
postgraduate opportunities
Program in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University
I am part of the Program in Comparative Literature at Lousiana State University where I teach literary theory and criticism. We encourage interdisciplinary work, and as such students often closely cooperate with a group of faculty advisors who have different backgrounds and fields of expertise in completing their dissertation theses.
I am currently contributing to the dissertation advising of the following students:
Pelumi Olufolajimi who is writing a dissertation on “Sophocles’ Antigone: African, Afro–Caribbean, and European Adaptations”: He compares modern renditions of the Classical drama Antigone from around the globe, comparing Jean Anouilh’s take on it from 1944 and Bertolt Brecht’s 1948 version with the adaptations by the Caribbean playwright Edward Kamau Brathwaite from 1967 and the Nigerian dramatist Femi Osofisan from 1993.
Mulin Wang who is writing a dissertation on Hermeutics and the Yijing. She relates how classical Chinese philosophers such as Wang Yangming interpreted the Yijing and traces the European reception thereof in French and German translations. She then compares Wang’s philosophy to the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.