teaching

Courses I teach (a selection)

• Interpictoriality in Picturebooks, Online Master Course, Autonomous University of Barcelona, April-May 2017
• Theorizing the Visual Archive (with Katherine Capshaw Smith), Summer School "Children's Literature and the Archive", at the University of Newcastle, August 12-14, 2015
• Children's Literature from 0 to 3: How Do Children's Books Support Early Literacy?, Workshop at the University of Belo Horizonte, March 29, 2015
• World literature for children. Spring school for students "World Literature: Reading and Writing in the Age of Globalisation" within the scope of "European Campus of Excellence", University of Göttingen, February 24-28, 2014. URL:http://euca-excellence.eu/index.php/current-and-future-courses/goettingen-2014
• History of German children's literature
• Encyclopaedias for children since the Enlightenment
• Romantic fairy tales
• Images of childhood in Romantic children's literature
• E.T.A. Hoffmann
• Children's literature of the avant-garde and modernism
• Erich Kästner
• Crosswriting in German children's literature
• Harry Potter and popular youth culture
• Interfaces between children's literature and literature for adults
• Lyrics for children
• School stories
• Detective novels for children
• Jewish children's literature in a European context
• Swedish children's literature
• Astrid Lindgren
• International children's classics
• World literature for children: cultural spaces and relationships
• Children's books and translation
• Canon and canonicity in children's literature
• Intertextuality in children's books
• Aspects of gender in children's literature
• The picturebook as an autonomous art form
• Picturebooks for young children (aged 0 to 3)
• Photography and children's literature
• Interpictoriality in picturebooks
• Graphic novels
• Film adaptations of children's literature
• Children's literature and intermediality
• Children's films of the GDR
• Autobiographical narration in children's books
• Narration and cognition
• Unreliable narration in children's literature
• Representation of Africa in children's literature
• Cognitive poetics of children's literature
• Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature