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Prof. Renate Hof 

Renate.Hof@staff.hu-berlin.de

Courses in Past Semesters


WS 2008/09

52 50043 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden)
CO, 2 SWS Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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SS 2008

52 673 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktorand(inn)en)
CO Fr10-12wöch.UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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WS 2007/08

52 656 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden)
CO Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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SS 2007

52 689 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktorand(inn)en)
CO Fr10-12wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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WS 2006/07

52 661 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden und MagisterkandidatInnen)
CO Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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SS 2006

52 699 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden und MagisterkandidatInnen)
CO Fr10-12wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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WS 2005/06

52 621 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden und MagisterkandidatInnen)
CO Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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SS 2005

52 676 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (für Doktoranden und MagisterkandidatInnen)
CO Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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WS 2004/05

52 653 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie:
From Cultural Criticism to a Critique of Culture: Essays of the Twentieth Century
HS (8) Fr 10-12 wöch. UL 6, 2004a R. Hof

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SS 2004

52 629 Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Rethinking "The Authority of Experience"
CO (8) Fr 10-12 wöch. DOR 24, 509 R. Hof

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WS 2003/04

52 655 Constructing the Subject: Diaries, Autobiographies, Essays
HS (8) Fr 10-12 wöch. DOR 24, 509 R. Hof

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•   Select Bibliography   (PDF)


SS 2003

52 659 The Narrator as Observer
HS (8) Di 10-12 wöch. DOR 24, 411 R. Hof

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52 660 Gender and Genre: The Politics of the Essay
HS (8) Mi 12-14 wöch. DOR 24, 411 R. Hof

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52 662 Cultural Studies and 'Kulturwissenschaften'
HS (8) Do 12-14 wöch. DOR 24, 211 R. Hof

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52 667 Gender and the Concept of Difference
CO (8) Do 16-18 wöch. DOR 24, 213 R. Hof

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WS 2002/2003

52 631 Edith Wharton and Henry James: Selected Novels and Short Stories
HS (8) Di 10-12 wöch. DOR 24, 107 R. Hof

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52 632 Novels, Short Stories, and Essays of the 1950s and 1960s
HS (8) Do 12-14 wöch. DOR 24, 309 R. Hof

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52 627 American Realism: Howells, James, Twain
PS (8) Di 16-18 wöch. UL 6, 3088 R. Hof

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52 640 Zur Konstruktion des Natürlichen als Text der Kultur
CO (8) Do 16-18 wöch. DOR 24, 105 R. Hof

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SS 2002

52 648 American Literary History II: 1915 to the Present - Die Rolle von Kunst und Künstlern in der literarischen Moderne
VL (1), SG Di 13-14 wöch. UL 6, 2091/92 R. Hof
 Beginn: 16.4.2002

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•   Handouts: # 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 10a , 11       (PDF)


52 648 American Literary History II: 1915 to the Present - Die Rolle von Kunst und Künstlern in der literarischen Moderne
PS (4) Di 16-18 14tgl./1 DOR 24, 105 R. Hof
 Beginn: 16.04.2002

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52 659 Rhetorische Inszenierung: Zum Zusammenhang von Gender and Genre
HS (8) Mi 12-14 wöch. DOR 24, 307 R. Hof

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52 660 Rethinking the Public and the Private
HS (8) Do 12-14 wöch. DOR 24, 105 R. Hof

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•   Selected Bibliography   (PDF)


00 000 Probleme narrativer Autorität
HS (8) Do 16-18 wöch. DOR 24, 105 R. Hof

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WS 2001/02

52 592 American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
VL (1), SG Di 13-14 wöch. UL 9, 213 R. Hof

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52 592 American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
PS (4) Di 16-18 14tgl./1 DOR 24, 109 R. Hof

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52 594 Telling Li(v)es: Questions of Genre and Autobiographical Writing
PS (8) Do 14-16 wöch. BE 1, 144 R. Hof

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52 600 Techniques of the Observer
HS (8) Mi 14-16 wöch. DOR 24, 411 R. Hof

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52 604 New Answers to an Old Question: "What (Who) Is An American?"
HS (8) Do 10-12 wöch. DOR 24, 105 R. Hof

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SS 2001

Black Women and White Women Writing about Race
PS      SS 2001

Essayists and Literary Modernism
HS      SS 2001

First Person Narratives and the Authority of Experience
HS      SS 2001

Gender in America
HS      SS 2001

SS 2000

American Literary History II: 1915 to the Present. "Die Rolle von Kunst und Künstlern in der literarischen Moderne"
VL      SS 2000

American Literary History II: 1915 to the Present. "Die Rolle von Kunst und Künstlern in der literarischen Moderne"
PS      SS 2000

Masculinity and American Literature
HS      SS 2000

Kindliche Erzählperspektive - Künstliche Naivität
HS      SS 2000

New Directions in Race and Gender Studies
CO      SS 2000      with G. Lenz

WS 1999/2000

American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
VL      WS 1999/2000

American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
PS      WS 1999/2000

Sex and Social Change in American Fiction, 1880-1930
PS      WS 1999/2000

Edgar Allen Poe
HS      WS 1999/2000

Cultural Studies and the Concept of Difference
HS      WS 1999/2000

SS 1999

Gender and Modernism
PS      SS 1999

Der Essay als Kulturkritik
HS      SS 1999

Frauenbewegung und Feminstische Theorie in den USA und Deutschland
HS      SS 1999

Kolloquium für ExamenskandidatInnen
CO      SS 1999

WS 1998/1999

Discourse of Slavery in 19th Century America
PS      WS 1998/1999

Revealing Lives: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings
HS      WS 1998/1999

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Novels and Short Stories
HS      WS 1998/1999

Cultural Studies and the Concept of Difference
HS      WS 1998/1999

SS 1998

American Literary History II: World War I to the Present
VL      SS 1998

American Literary History II: World War I to the Present
PS      SS 1998

American Literature: Postmodernism
PS      SS 1998

"Engendering Authority": Zum Verhältnis von Autorschaft u. Autorität im 18. u. 19. Jh.
HS      SS 1998

Colloquium: Authorizing Cultural Differences
CO      SS 1998      with G. Lenz and E. Wilson

WS 1997/1998

American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
VL      WS 1997/1998

American Literary History I: Beginnings to 1915
PS      WS 1997/1998

Toni Morrison: Selected Novels, Short Stories, and Essays
HS      WS 1997/1998

Amerikanische Essayistinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts
HS      WS 1997/1998


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