Randi Gunzenhäuser

Contact Information

Prof. Dr. Randi Gunzenhäuser, M.A. E-Mail: randi.gunzenhaeuser@udo.edu Office: Emil-Figge-Straße 50, R. 0.411 Tel: +49 (0)231 755-6242 Fax: +49 (0)231 755-5450 Personal Profile at the University's Homepage

Current Announcements If you want to write a BA- or MA thesis with me, please register for the Whiteboard course. From now on: Please turn in every written assignment also electronically, by email attachment, as pdf (papers, B.A. thesis, M.A. thesis, dissertation). Gutachten für Bewerbungen und Stipendien müssen mindestens vier Wochen vor Bewerbungsschluss angefragt werden.

Office Hours

Summer Semester 21
digitally after email

Courses in the SS 21

• Intensivseminar American Studies - zugangsbeschränkt
• Quality TV: A Transatlantic Perspective
• 19th- and 20th-Century Drama - Blockseminar
• The Whiteboard: Presenting Cultural Studies Research
• Oberseminar Amerikanistik - zugangsbeschränkt
• Historical Storytelling from Novel to TV Series

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• A list of courses in past semesters can be found here.

Responsibilities & Research Interests

• Amerikanistik; Literature, the arts, and performative cultures of Romanticism; rapture, pleasure and the aesthetics of the affects; US-American popular cultures since the 19th century; melodrama in old and new media; Modernism and Postmodernism; performative and immersive aspects of literature, theater, film, and digital media; video games, game studies; urban soundscapes; media and the city; green-building standards from a cultural-studies perspective; forms of comedy in US-American city culture; sitcoms; gender studies; masculinity studies; the function of skin in US-American texts since 1800.