Teaching

Term Paper Guidelines

If you take a class with any member of the Chair von Contzen, please refer to the following guidelines when writing your term papers:

Term Paper Outline Guidelines_Chair von Contzen

Term Paper Guidelines_Chair von Contzen

Winter Term 2025/2026

VL Survey of British and Postcolonial Literatures (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

VL Introduction to Literary Theory (Dr. Roman Barton)

VL Rezeptionsgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen et al.)

HS/MS Scene of Writing/Writing Scene (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

PS ‘She was very sparing in her diet’: Female Food Restraint in Long-Nineteenth-Century Writing (M.A. Kalina Janeva)

PS Merlin Then and Now: Adaptation and Reception of Medieval Arthurian Literature

PS Feminist Retellings of Fairy Tales, Legends, and Myths, 1970s-Present (M.A. Philomena Wolf)

PS Rakes, Balls and Nostalgia: Representations of the Regency Era in Historical Romance Novels (M.A. Helene Schöwing)

PS “A Duty Not to Remain Silent”: Women’s Voices in the Middle Ages and Now (M.A. Anna Opanasenko)

K Medieval Studies Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, PD. Dr. Michael Ott)

Ü Methoden und Werkzeuge der Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeit-Forschung (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

LitCult Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and Prof. Dr. Birte Christ)

classes taught in the past terms

Lectures and Colloquiua

VL Introduction to Literary Studies (Dr. Roman Barton)

VL Survey of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

VL The Ballad Tradition (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

VL Before the Novel – Cultures of Reading and Narrative Theory (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

VL Critical Medievalism (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian et al.)

VL Islands in Literature and Culture (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

M.Ed. Research Colloquium in Literature and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and PD Dr. Lotte Sommerer)

K Theories and Methods in Literary Studies (Dr. Roman Barton)

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Seminars

HS/MS “A Double Sorrow”: Troilus and Criseyde and its Afterlives (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

HS/MS (Re-)Framing the Classics (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and Prof. Dr. Frank Bezner)

HS/MS War Poetry Across the Ages (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

PS/HS/MS Retelling, Rereading, Rethinking – The Afterlife of Medieval Texts in Contemporary Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and M.A. Philomena Wolf)

PS/HS/MS Rewriting the Past – Antiquity in Contemporary Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

HS/MS Writing Women in the Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

PS John Donne (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier and M. A. Kalina Janeva)

PS “A Story is Always a Question”: Ali Smith’s Oeuvre (M. A. Philomena Wolf)

PS Tolkien’s World and Words (M.A. Dunja Haufe and M.A. Mareike Huber)

PS Retelling Greco-Roman Myths in Contemporary Literature (M.A. Philomena Wolf)

PS Medieval Monsters and Monstrosity (M.A. Dunja Haufe)

PS Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

PS #darkacademiabooks – Dark Academia and Contemporary English-Language Fiction (M. A. Sophia Philomena Wolf)

PS The English Country House in Poetry and Fiction, 1616–1945 (Dr. Roman Barton)

PS British Romanticism – The Age of Revolutions (Dr. Roman Barton)

PS Knights, Fights, and Fairies – The English Epic Tradition from
Spenser to Tolkien (Dr. Roman Barton)

PS Literature and Disability – An Introduction (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

HS/MS (Ir)Rationality and Medieval Literature (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen, Prof. Dr. Frank Bezner)

PS Dystopian and Utopian Fiction (Dr. Anne Rüggemeier)

PS Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama – From the Celtic Twilight to Postmodernism (Dr. Roman Barton)

PS English Love Poetry (Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen)

Ü Designing and Implementing Research and Teaching Projects (Dr. Roman Barton)

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