Courses Taught

I teach courses across all levels, from undergraduate introductions to advanced MA and PhD seminars. I have also designed and organised several international summer and winter schools and student exchanges. For a selection of my syllabi, please click here.

BCDSS · Bonn University (since 2021)

  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Sources–Perspectives–Approaches (winter 2024)

  • Text-Based Scholarship: Methods (winter 2023)

  • Ecological Dependencies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (summer 2023 - with a guest lecture by Dita Auziņa)

  • Doing Research I (summer 2023)

  • Imagining Indian Ocean Worlds of Dependency (winter 2021 - with a guest lecture by Arunima Bhattacharya; winter 2022 - with a guest lecture by Najnin Islam)

  • PhD Research Seminar: Postcolonial Studies–Then and Now? (summer 2022, together with Pia Wiegmink - with a guest lecture by Sruti Bala)

  • Black Atlantic Ecologies (summer 2022)

University of Würzburg (2014-2020, Selection)

Global Anglophone and Postcolonial Literatures

  • Anglophone African Literatures (winter 2018; winter 2020)

  • Crossing the Waters: Indian Ocean Trajectories (summer 2020)

  • Afrofuturism (winter 2020)

  • Contemporary Global Poetry (winter 2019)

  • Black British Poetry (winter 2017)

Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism

  • Ecological Entanglements of the 19th Century: Nature – Culture – Society (winter 2020)

  • Imaginary Geographies (summer 2014)

The Nineteenth Century

  • Literary Classics: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (winter 2020)

  • Echoes of Empire: Exploring the 19th Century (winter 2020)

  • Literary Classics: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (winter 2019)

  • The Brontë Sisters (summer 2018)

  • Rewriting the 19th Century: Neo-Victorian Literature (winter 2018)

Media, Art and Culture

  • Transformative Texts: Fanfiction and Participatory Cultures (summer 2019, summer 2020)

  • The British Black Arts Movement (summer 2020)

  • Modernism in Literature and Art (summer 2018; winter 2019)

Life Writing

  • Between Fact and Fiction: Genre-Bending Life Narratives (summer 2018; summer 2020 - with a guest lecture by Lauren Fournier)

  • Writing the Unspeakable: Holocaust Literature (winter 2017)

Gender Studies and Feminism

  • Gender Studies: Intersections, Interventions and Perspectives (summer 2020)

  • Gender Studies: Key Concepts and Methods (winter 2016)

  • Black British Women Writers (summer 2015)

  • Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Romance (winter 2014)

  • Postcolonial Theory and Gender Studies (winter 2014)

Introductions

  • Unruly Bodies: An Introduction to Disability Studies (winter 2015; summer 2020)

  • Introduction to Poetry (summer 2019)

  • Shakespeare's Comedies (winter 2016; winter 2018)

  • Introduction to English Literature (winter 2015)

Winter and Summer Schools (Co-Organisation)

  • Summer School: Africa in a Globalized World within the DAAD/IGP-funded project Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives. With keynotes and workshops by Isabel Hofmeyr, Frank Schulze-Engler, David Peimer and Ralf Schneider. (Würzburg, 05/2018)

  • DRV-Summer School: The Self and the Other: Afro-Diasporic Literatures. With public readings by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Alain Mabanckou. (Würzburg, 09/2017)

  • Winter School: Literature and Globalization within the DAAD/IGP-funded project Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives. (Delhi, 02/2016)