Syllabi and Materials

Courses I have taught

• Visions of Modernity. Science, Media and Magic in Europe, 1770-1910

• Introduction to Media Theory

• The Mass(es') Media: Media Theory and the Politics of Mass Representation

• Thinking Machines: Androids and Automatons in Science and Fiction

• Psy-Fi: Psychoanalysis and Fiction 

• Art and Politics of Berlin in the 20th Century

• Erzählanfänge: Problems with Beginning and Beginning with Problems. Self-designed course for 3rd/4th year of German curriculum. For sample assignments and more on this course, click here.

• Thinking Tragedy: Nietzsche's Geburt der Tragödie 

Courses I would like to teach

I keep a running list of more experimental course ideas (graduate, undergraduate, and mixed), which range from completed syllabi to rough ideas and constellations of individual works. These are meant to serve as a personal archive / aide-memoire, an intellectual tool (for producing new constellations among familiar works), and a means for responding in conversation and thought to contemporary concerns. 

• What's Missing When I Say I Miss You? Love, Lack, Language (UG/G)

• The Sense of Unending: Reading and Time in Kafka and Kleist (G)

• Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Other Life-Altering Affects (UG) 

• Killjoys: On the Affective Turn (G) 

• Critique and Crisis: On The History of History with Reinhart Koselleck and Hannah Arendt (UG/G)

• On Being Born And Having To Die: Arendt and Heidegger (UG)

• Making It Contingent: On Method (G)