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Current Projects
▸ VR4Study - Experiencing Macbeth
This project is funded by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur ("Innovation plus 2022-2023"). The aim of the project is to allow users of a VR setting to experience different perspectives on Macbeth I.3 with the help of avatars. The design of the avatars was part of a collaborative teaching unit between the English Department and the Institute for Digital Humanities. For more information, click here.
Project status: Work in progress.
Projected completion date: first half of 2023.
Expected implementation: first half of 2023.
▸ Additional Periods: Scottish Literary History
Once completed, this unit will form an additional chapter in the Periods in English Literary History self-study unit. It will allow students to gain an overview of the development of Scottish literature as well as a deepened insight into Scottish literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth or twentieth century.
Project status: Work in progress.
Projected completion date: n/a.
Expected implementation: n/a.
▸ Additional Periods: Irish Literary History
This unit, planned as an additional chapter in the Periods in English Literary History self-study unit, will give students an insight into the development of Irish literature.
Project status: In planning stage.
Projected completion date: n/a.
Expected implementation: n/a.
This project is funded by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur ("Innovation plus 2022-2023"). The aim of the project is to allow users of a VR setting to experience different perspectives on Macbeth I.3 with the help of avatars. The design of the avatars was part of a collaborative teaching unit between the English Department and the Institute for Digital Humanities. For more information, click here.
Project status: Work in progress.
Projected completion date: first half of 2023.
Expected implementation: first half of 2023.
▸ Additional Periods: Scottish Literary History
Once completed, this unit will form an additional chapter in the Periods in English Literary History self-study unit. It will allow students to gain an overview of the development of Scottish literature as well as a deepened insight into Scottish literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth or twentieth century.
Project status: Work in progress.
Projected completion date: n/a.
Expected implementation: n/a.
▸ Additional Periods: Irish Literary History
This unit, planned as an additional chapter in the Periods in English Literary History self-study unit, will give students an insight into the development of Irish literature.
Project status: In planning stage.
Projected completion date: n/a.
Expected implementation: n/a.
Self-Study Unit Development Projects (completed)
▸ Periods in English Literary History
This self-study unit allows BA and Master students to improve their knowledge about two periods in the history of English literature. Over twice eight weeks, in a step-by-step process, students are guided to work their way into different histories of literature, to distil the key facts on canonical authors and texts, and to understand the various authors' presentation of their topics. At the same time, students improve and deepen their reading and self-management skills. For an insight into how the self-study unit works, visit the OpenILIAS installation of Göttingen University.
Study availability: every summer semester.
▸ Anglophone Literature and Culture: A Critical Survey
This self-study unit guides students enrolled in the Master of Arts through working their way into key texts and key aspects of one of three periods in Anglophone literature and culture. Students gain a good working knowledge of core texts, research and read up on core ideas of their chosen century, and also research different kinds of reception history for the texts. Step by step they work their way towards an academic presentation. Not only do they deepen their understanding of the chosen century, they also improve their time management and reading skills, and strenghten their skills in combining facets of various aspects to form a coherent argumentation. For an insight into how the self-study unit works, visit the OpenILIAS installation of Göttingen University.
Study availability: discontinued from Oct 2022.
▸ The Literature, Culture and Heritage Industries
As part of the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Arts degree programme offered by the English Department, students can experience life in the literature, heritage and culture industries at first hand by doing an internship, or by studying how literature is received and used outside the academic world. The self-study unit on the literary and cultural industries allows students to study core theoretical texts on these areas in their own time, preparing for an internship in one of the areas or learning to assess how literature is mediated outside academic contexts.
Study availability: every winter semester.
▸ Foundations of the Publishing Industry
The aim of this self-study unit is to introduce students to understanding how the publication of books works: what role the authors themselves, their agents and publishers and their readers play, how self-publishing works and how books find (their) readers.
Study availability: every semester.
▸ The Grimm Brothers in Literary Reception and Mediation
The Brothers Grimm are not only important for the history of Göttingen University but have also shaped literature (and culture) worldwide through their publication of German folk tales. To this day, the tales of Snow White or Hansel and Gretel - to name but two - are read, loved, reworked and turned into films globally. This unit gives students an insight into aspects of the literature industry, notably on the relation between authors and their audiences and on aspects of literary museums and literary tours, but will also allow students to study and evaluate different means of making the Grimm Brothers and their work accessible to a broader public.
Study availability: every winter semester.
This self-study unit allows BA and Master students to improve their knowledge about two periods in the history of English literature. Over twice eight weeks, in a step-by-step process, students are guided to work their way into different histories of literature, to distil the key facts on canonical authors and texts, and to understand the various authors' presentation of their topics. At the same time, students improve and deepen their reading and self-management skills. For an insight into how the self-study unit works, visit the OpenILIAS installation of Göttingen University.
Study availability: every summer semester.
▸ Anglophone Literature and Culture: A Critical Survey
This self-study unit guides students enrolled in the Master of Arts through working their way into key texts and key aspects of one of three periods in Anglophone literature and culture. Students gain a good working knowledge of core texts, research and read up on core ideas of their chosen century, and also research different kinds of reception history for the texts. Step by step they work their way towards an academic presentation. Not only do they deepen their understanding of the chosen century, they also improve their time management and reading skills, and strenghten their skills in combining facets of various aspects to form a coherent argumentation. For an insight into how the self-study unit works, visit the OpenILIAS installation of Göttingen University.
Study availability: discontinued from Oct 2022.
▸ The Literature, Culture and Heritage Industries
As part of the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Arts degree programme offered by the English Department, students can experience life in the literature, heritage and culture industries at first hand by doing an internship, or by studying how literature is received and used outside the academic world. The self-study unit on the literary and cultural industries allows students to study core theoretical texts on these areas in their own time, preparing for an internship in one of the areas or learning to assess how literature is mediated outside academic contexts.
Study availability: every winter semester.
▸ Foundations of the Publishing Industry
The aim of this self-study unit is to introduce students to understanding how the publication of books works: what role the authors themselves, their agents and publishers and their readers play, how self-publishing works and how books find (their) readers.
Study availability: every semester.
▸ The Grimm Brothers in Literary Reception and Mediation
The Brothers Grimm are not only important for the history of Göttingen University but have also shaped literature (and culture) worldwide through their publication of German folk tales. To this day, the tales of Snow White or Hansel and Gretel - to name but two - are read, loved, reworked and turned into films globally. This unit gives students an insight into aspects of the literature industry, notably on the relation between authors and their audiences and on aspects of literary museums and literary tours, but will also allow students to study and evaluate different means of making the Grimm Brothers and their work accessible to a broader public.
Study availability: every winter semester.
Research-oriented Teaching and Learning Projects (completed)
▸ FoLL IV (2012/2013): The Parritch and the Partridge, Updated
Rosemary Selle's PhD thesis The Parritch and the Partridge is one of the foundational texts charting the reception history of Robert Burns in Germany. Her thesis was not published, though; in accordance with German regulations, it was provided as a Diss. masch. only, so that very few copies exist outside Germany. In this project, a student team prepared the original text for publication, adding a chapter to bring Selle's findings up to date. This updated version was published by Peter Lang in the Scottish Studies International series.
▸ FoLL IX (2016): Wir bauen ein Archiv auf (with Julia Beilein)
Between 1985 and 1996, Göttingen University hosted the Special Research Group 329 "Literary Translation" (Sonderforschungsbereich 329 "Die literarische Übersetzung"). Once the research project had ended, both the library and an extensive part of the original files - letters, manuscripts for papers and articles, photocopies - found their way into the English Department. This FoLL project sighted the remains, deciding on a sorting mode for the photocopies and made the papers accessible to the public.
Rosemary Selle's PhD thesis The Parritch and the Partridge is one of the foundational texts charting the reception history of Robert Burns in Germany. Her thesis was not published, though; in accordance with German regulations, it was provided as a Diss. masch. only, so that very few copies exist outside Germany. In this project, a student team prepared the original text for publication, adding a chapter to bring Selle's findings up to date. This updated version was published by Peter Lang in the Scottish Studies International series.
▸ FoLL IX (2016): Wir bauen ein Archiv auf (with Julia Beilein)
Between 1985 and 1996, Göttingen University hosted the Special Research Group 329 "Literary Translation" (Sonderforschungsbereich 329 "Die literarische Übersetzung"). Once the research project had ended, both the library and an extensive part of the original files - letters, manuscripts for papers and articles, photocopies - found their way into the English Department. This FoLL project sighted the remains, deciding on a sorting mode for the photocopies and made the papers accessible to the public.