• Overview of American literature and culture, from the beginnings to the present
• Interaction between American literature and culture with the rest of the world in the context of history and contemporary culture
• Canadian Studies
• Analysis of literature and history
• Philosophy, art and the analysis of social institutions and the media
• Socio-anthropological and semitic studies of multicultural American society and life
• Significant and constituating systems like film, music, advertisement etc.
• Questions of class, gender, ethnicity and identity; research on migration
• Techniques and methods of academic research and writing
• Knowledge of text analysis (terminology and methodology)
• Discussion of the most important theories of literary and cultural studies
• Research of relevant and different types of texts and media (e.g. fiction, areas of popular culture, film theater, print media, internet)
• For students in the teacher training program: practical use of the mentioned content in teaching situations

2011 to today

2001 to 2010

1995 to 2000

• Heller, Arno. Experiments with the Novel of Maturation: Henry James and Stephen Crane, 1976.
• Grabher, Gudrun. Das lyrische Du: Du-Vergessenheit und Möglichkeiten der Du-Bestimmung in der amerikanischen Dichtung, 1989.
• Klarer, Mario. Seeing through Bodies: Ekphrasis and the Historicity of Representation in English and American Literature, 1997.
• Quendler, Christian. Confessions of a Camera Eye, 2013.

• Rainer, Carmen: May Swenson and Her Poetry: Sharing a „Lonely Faith“, 2017. (Grabher)
• Köll, Karin Walpurga: Killing Justice: Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Violent Death in American Culture and Law, 2017. (Grabher)
• Spindler, Robert: Among Pirates: Barbary Captivity and Early Modern Literature and Culture in Europe and America, 2016. (Klarer)
• Haidegger, Ingrid:"Make Them Expectant": The Movie Poster as a Marketing Tool and Genre Indicator, 2015. (Klarer)
• Rudig, Stefanie: Self-Location, Self and Location. Migrant Literature by Women Writers in Victorian New Zealand, 2015. (Klarer)
• Schmied, Iris: The Hero And His Mythical / Musical Journey in Major Hollywood Films, 2015 (Grabher)
• Laner, Barbara: Cinematic Cannibalism: Instances of Media Cannibalism in Film History, 2014. (Klarer)
• Klecker, Cornelia: Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film, 2011. (Klarer)
• Mahlknecht Johannes: Writing on the Edge. Paratexts in Narrative Cinema, 2011. (Klarer)
• Kreutner, Edith. Hurricane Katrina and Her Literature: An Analysis of the Catastrophe and its Reflection in US Literature, 2011. (Heller)
• Leisner, Andreas. Individualism in U.S. Mythology: The Lawman as Promethean Figure in the Western, 2010. (Grabher)
• Prantl, Philip: Sensing Justice: American Jury System, 2010. (Grabher)
• Feyersinger, Erwin. Metalepsis in Animation: Paradoxical Transgressions of Ontological Levels, 2010. (Klarer)
• Jäger, Markus. Popular Is Not Enough: The Political Voice of Joan Baez, 2009. (Klarer)
• Schwarz, Claudia. The Ethics of Storytelling, 2008. (Grabher)
• Klein, Verena Elisabeth. Mothering Her Self, 2005. (Grabher)
• Müller, Elfi. Musizierende Literatur. Die Thematisierung der Selbst-Entgrenzung durch Musik in ausgewählten Werken der amerikanischen Prosa des 20. hunderts, 1997. (Grabher)
• Dlaska, Andrea: Ways of Belonging. Appropriating Spaces, Fashioning Identities: The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, 1997. (Scheer)
• Dehler, Johanna: Fragments of Desire: Sapphic Fictions in the Works of H.D., Judy Grahn, and Monique Wittig, 1997. (Scheer)
• Bösch, Susanna: "Sturdy Black Bridges" on the American Stage. The Portrayal of Black Motherhood in Selected Plays by Contemporary African American Women Playwrights, 1994. (Heller)
• Ilg, Angelika: Tradition und Wandel: Eine analytische Betrachtung der Erzählwerke Elizabeth Spencers, 1994. (Scheer)
• Leitner, Miryam: Janice Mirikitani. A Monography, 1994. (Scheer)
• Vogt, Elke: Grenzsituationen im Werk von Ursula LeGuin, 1994. (Heller)
• Wogowitsch, Margit. Narrative Strategies and Multicultural Identity: Maxine Hong Kingston in Context, 1993. (Scheer)
• Kallenberg-Schröder, Andrea Renate. Autobiographisches in Arthur Millers familienzentrierten Dramen, 1992. (Heller)
• Wohlfahrter, Klaus. Filmische Passagen in die Neue Welt, Entwürf ethno-amerikanischer Kulturen im Migrationsfilm, 1992. (Heller)
• Ramsey-Kurz, Helga. The Anatomy of Fiction. Fragwürdige Frauenfreundschaften in den Romanen von Anita Brookner, Alice Thomas Ellis und Emma Tennant, 1992. (Scheer)
• Danler, Paul. Der Chicano Roman im Kontext. Eine Einführung, 1991. (Scheer)
• Klarer, Mario. Frau und Utopie: Funktion von Geschlecht in der literarischen Utopie mit exemplarischen Analysen anglo-amerikanischer Frauenromane, 1990. (Heller)
• Donnenberg, Gislar Innovation und Orthodoxie: Cynthia Ozick und der Versuch eines neuen amerikanisch-jüdischen Romans, 1990. (Heller)

2011 to today

2001 to 2010

1991 to 2000

1977 to 1990

Ambraser Heldenbuch: 1.1. 2017 to 31.12.2019


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