Teaching

Teaching Qualifications

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

External Appointments

• I hold an honorary appointment in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne.

• 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)
• Work on Myth in Ovid (PhD in Comparative Literature, co-supervised with Katie Fleming)

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).