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Teaching - Former Semesters


Summer 2013
  • Seminar:
    Under the Greenwood Tree: Robin Hood and the Outlaw Tradition

  • Seminar:
    Wisdom and Experience

  • Übung:
    Medieval English Literature Group A

  • Seminar:
    The Grail Romances

Winter 2012/13
  • Vorlesung:
    The Reinvention of Chaucer: Chaucer and the Critics

  • Seminar:
    Saints and Sinners in Old and Middle English

  • Seminar:
    The Symbolic Mode: Middle English Allegorical Poetry

  • Seminar:
    Historical Pragmatics

  • Seminar:
    Middle English Prose by Women


Summer 2012
  • Seminar:
    Middle English Debate Poetry

  • Seminar:
    Late Medieval and Renaissance Ballads

  • Seminar:
    Chaucer's Dream Visions

  • Übung:
    Medieval English Literature, Group B


Winter 2011/12
  • Lecture:
    From England to Byzantium and from Havelok to Sir Gawain: The Middle English Romances

  • Seminar:
    Love, Separation and Reunion

  • Seminar:
    Introduction to Old English

  • Seminar:
    Armchair Travellers

  • Seminar:
    Through Artificial Eyes

Summer 2011

  • Lecture:
    Medieval English Literature (MEL)

  • Lecture:
    The Bible and the Literature of the Middle Ages

  • Seminar:
    Knights, Saints and Outlaws: Screening the Medieval World on the Box

  • Seminar:
    Book and Verse: Biblical Literature in Old and Middle English

  • Seminar:
    The Art of Narrative: Narrative and Narratology in Medieval Literature


Winter 10/11
  • Sabbatical

Summer 2010

  • Lecture:
    Medieval English Literature (MEL)

  • Seminar:
    Beowulf

  • Seminar:
    Fairies and Furies: The Middle English Breton Lays

  • Seminar:
    Historical Linguistics


Winter 2009/10

  • Lecture:
    Windows on the Medieval and Renaissance World

  • Seminar:
    Excalibur Strikes Again: Thomas Malory's Morte Arthur

  • Seminar:
    Editing Medieval English Texts

  • Seminar:
    Introduction to Old English

Address and Contact

  • Luuk Houwen
    Prof. Dr. L.A.J.R. Houwen
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Department of English
    FNO 02/85
    Universitätsstr. 150
    D-44780 Bochum
  • mailto luuk.houwen@rub.de
    phone +49/234/32-22518

  • Secretary

  • Martina Dornieden
    FNO 02/83
  • mailto martina.dornieden@rub.de
    phone +49/234/32-28518