Angus Nicholls, QMUL

Teaching Qualifications

I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy)

External Appointments

• I was formerly External Examiner for Comparative Literature at the University of St. Andrews

• I have previously taught as a guest lecturer at the Europa Universität Viadrina (Frankfurt an der Oder), the University of Stuttgart, Utrecht University and the University of Antwerp

Recent and Current PhD Supervisions

• The Concept of Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche (PhD in Comparative Literature, awarded August 2018)

Recent and Current Undergraduate Teaching

• Brief Encounters: Around the World in Short Stories (first year Comp Lit, I teach the stories of Pramoedya Ananta Toer)

• Morphology of British Culture (first year, for Erasmus students)

• Myth and Modernity (first year Comp Lit)

• European Literature and its Contexts (first year Comp Lit)

• Foundations of German Studies (first year German)

• Literature and Philosophy (second year Comp Lit)

• Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives (second year Comp Lit)

• German Thought I: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (second year German and Comp Lit)

• German Thought II: Political Thought in the 20th Century (final year German and Comp Lit)

• The Scene of Writing (final year Comp Lit)

• German III (final year, advanced German language, including translation)

• Comparative Literature and Modern Languages Research Project (final year Comp Lit)

Recent and Current Postgraduate Teaching

• Cultures of Comparison (MA Comp Lit)

• Walter Benjamin on Memory (IGRS MA in Cultural Memory)

• Theory and Practice of Anglo-German Cultural Relations (MA Anglo-German Cultural Relations)

• Anglo-German Travel Writing (MA Anglo-German Cultural Relations)

• In Pursuit of Prejudice (MA Anglo-German Cultural Relations)

• Anglo-German Aesthetics in the Long C18th (MA Anglo-German Cultural Relations)