Teaching
Dr. Lena Pfeifer
Advanced Seminars
- Literature and the Anthropocene (Winter 2026/27)
- US-American Energy Cultures Past and Present (Winter 2025/26)
Introductory Seminars
- 20th-Century US-American Poetry (Summer 2026)
- The American Renaissance (Winter 2025/26)
- Realism from the 19th Century to the Present (Winter 2024/25)
- Environmental Humanities: Texts, Methods, Debates (Summer 2024)
- Literary Theory in Practice: Reading Post-45 American Literature (Summer 2024)
- Cold War Cultures & Literary Representation (Winter 2023/24)
- Exploring American Modernism (Summer 2023)
- Think Local, Act Global: Reading the Environment on Different Scales (Summer 2022)
- Reading the Environment: Contemporary US-American Poetry and Prose (Winter 2021/22)
- Environmental Activism: Writing Change(s)? (Winter 2020/21)
Lecture
- Introduction to American Cultural Studies (Winter 2026/27)
Other
- Reading and Practice for Introduction to American Cultural Studies (Winter 2026/27)
- Energy Cultures (guest session in the CHARM-EU master’s program “Global Challenges for Sustainability,” January 2026)
- Lektürekurs: American Cultural & Literary History (Winter 2022/23, with Lukas Hellmuth)
