Teaching
Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann
at the University of Würzburg (1998-2024)
Lectures
- Introduction to American Literary Studies (taught frequently)
- Scribbling Women: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
- American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- American Women Writers From Elizabeth Stuart Phelps to Annie Proulx (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
Advanced Seminars
- Rereading and Rediscovery: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Feminist Literary Criticism
- The American Historical Novel: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century
- Irish American Literature, Culture & History (taught frequently)
- Transatlantic Life Writing
- History in Stories: The New American, Irish, and Irish American Novel
- Exile and Emigration: Irish American Literature, Culture, and History
- The Green Atlantic Revis(it)ed: Irish, American, and Irish American New Historical Fiction
- Transatlantic American Studies: Irish American Literature and Culture
- American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
- The Poe Shadow: Edgar Allan Poe and His Legacy
- Concord Authors: Hawthorne & Alcott
- Crime and the City: Historical Crime Fiction
- Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches
- Past, Present, Future: Multi-Layered Historical Fiction
- Novel History
- Intermediality & Life Writing
- Cultures of Solitude: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses
- Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American Writing
- Hermits and Recluses in American Literature and Culture: Urban Retreat
- Hermits and Recluses in American Literature and Culture: Isolation in Nature
- Spin-Off, Mash-Up, and Rewrite: Literary Recycling
- Life is Fiction: Contemporary Life-Writing
- "Whose Lives Are They Anyway?": Biofiction and Biopics
- "It's All Just a Little Bit of History Repeating": Multi-Time-Level Historical Fiction
- "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman": The Female Künstlerroman (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- Beyond Adaptation? Innovative Forms of Appropriation in Contemporary Literature and Film
- "This River of Romance": The Hudson Valley and Upstate New York in History, Literature, and Art
- "A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women": Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
- Representations of Evil (with Jochen Achilles)
- The Moral Turn in American Literature (with Jochen Achilles, International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- Ethics in American Literature (with Jochen Achilles, International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
Introductory Seminars
- American Poetry in the 19th Century (taught frequently)
- American Drama in the 20th and 21st Centuries (taught frequently)
- The American Short Story in the 20th and 21st Centuries (taught frequently)
- The American Short Story in the 19th Century (taught frequently)
- Women Writers Writing Women Writers
- From the Provincetown Players to the Theater of the Absurd and Beyond: American Drama
- Rip, Bartleby, and Daisy: The American Short Story in the 19th Century
- "Leaver-Outer" and "Putter-Inner": Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
- Literary Regionalism: Narratives of Community and Identity
- Women’s Writing: Poetry
- Women’s Writing: Prose
- Julia Ward Howe’s Civil Wars: Texts and Contexts
- Growing Up: Coming-of-Age Fiction
- "The Power of Blackness": Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
- "The Tenth Muse": American Women's Poetry
- Literary Spinoffs: Canon Serialization in Contemporary Fiction
- The Literature of "Becoming" in the 21st Century
- The Literature of "Becoming"
- American Women's Writing: A Survey
- Murder Past Tense
- Jack the Ripper's American Cousins
- A Nation at War (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- Reanimated Classics
- Literature by Women: The 19th Century
- Magic(al) Realism
- Fiction of the American Renaissance
- "A Peep at the Pilgrims": Victorian Views on the Puritans
- History in the American Novel
- Modernism
- Prize-winning Novels
- The Invention of the Short Story
- Growing Up Female
- American Gothic
- Southern Fiction and Culture
- American Crime Fiction
- The American Short Story: An Introduction
- Literature by Women
- Eugene O’Neill
- Hemingway & Faulkner
- Initiation
- American History: A Culture Studies Course
Introductory Courses
- Introduction to American Studies (taught frequently)
- American History I – From the Beginnings to the Civil War: A Culture Studies Course (taught frequently)
- Einführung in die englische Literaturwissenschaft (taught frequently)
Exercises
- Basic Methods: American Literary Studies (taught frequently)
- Colloquium American Studies (taught frequently)
- American Cultural History: 1492-1865 (taught frequently)
- American Myths
- Research and Exam Colloquium (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg) (taught frequently)
- Research Colloquium (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- The Significant Seven: What's New in AmLit (International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
- Research and Exam Colloquium
- Kolloquium zu laufenden Magister- und Examensarbeiten
- Major American Writers: Ernest Hemingway
- Reading American Women Writers from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps to Annie Proulx
- Kolloquium und Prüfungsvorbereitung für Magister- und Examenskandidaten
- Reading American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- The Significant Seven: Growing Up in the New Millennium
- Major American Writers: William Faulkner
- The Significant Seven: The Return of the Author
- Major American Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Significant Seven: Poe Evermore
- Introducing: Arthur Phillips
- Central Topics in American Studies: Early American Literature
- Central Topics in American Studies: Major American Short Stories – the 19th Century
- Central Topics in American Studies: Major American Short Stories – the 20th Century
- The Significant Seven: Herstory
- The Significant Seven: New Historical Fiction
- Kolloquium zu laufenden Examens-, Magister- und Forschungsarbeiten in der Amerikanistik (with Birgit Däwes, International Graduate School for the Humanities, Würzburg)
at the University of Konstanz (2012-2013)
Colloquia
- Exam Colloquium
- Research Colloquium
- Central Topics in American Studies: The Contemporary Novel
Advanced seminars
- "A Usable Past": The New Historical Fiction
- "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman": The Female Artist in Literature and Culture
- American Lives: Biofiction, Biopics, and More
- "From Hell": Historical Serial Killer Fiction
- The Literature of "Becoming"
Introductory seminar
- "American Drama: An Introduction"
at the University of Vienna, Austria (2011)
Research Colloquium
- Specialized Seminar for Ph.D. Candidates in English and American Studies
Advanced Seminars
- The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New American Historical Fiction
- "And Then the Child Becomes a Woman": Female Initiation in American Fiction, 1865-2010
Introductory Seminar
- Tracing the Female Tradition: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Alice Sebold
at the University for Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg (2009)
- Lecture English II/English for Technical Purposes:English for Industrial Engineers (2x)
at the State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, NY, USA (2005)
- AENG368L/AWSS368L Women Writers:"And Then the Child Becomes a Woman": Female Initiation in the American Short Story
- AENG434 American Literature 1865-1920:Concepts of Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color