dr. K. (Konstantin) Mierau

Current:

As vice dean of the faculty of arts, I am in charge of the education portfolio in the faculty board, in collaboration with our dean and our managing director.

Past teaching (selection):

1) PHD education:

- Graduate School for the Humanities

As programme director at the GSH from 2026 till 2018, I directed the development and coordination of course modules for PhD candidates as well as the development of supervisor training. The innovative approach has been awarded with funding from SoFoKles View GSH website for a full overview:

http://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/

http://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-training/

- Federation of Graduate Schools in Social Sciences and Humanities

As director of the Federation GSSSH from 2020 till 2024, I oversaw course development and innovation offering various courses on, among others, academic integrity, career development, and mental wellbeing. The Federation builds on the potential for interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation between the various disciplinary approaches in the 8 faculties for the social sciences and the humanities. In 2021, I was awarded funding for the development of a learning community for interfaculty PhD projects at the University of Groningen.

https://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/federation-of-graduate-schools/

2) BA and Ma teaching

Since 2010, I have taght a wide range of BA and MA courses:

- Studying Europe (2016 - 2024): Course development and coordination, lectures and seminars

- Applied Sociology of Literature (2017 - 2024): Course development, lectures and seminars

- Master tutorial Crisis and Literature, Course development

- Living and Reading in Europe, Content development & Lectures (English and Dutch) (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Medieval European Literature, Minor historical literature I, Course development, lectures and seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Early European Space, Minor historical literature II, Course development, lectures and seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Early modern historical literature, Minor historical literature III, Course development, lectures and seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Spanish Literature in Word and Image, Course development, lectures and seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Mexico Studies, Course development lectures and Seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Ma tutorial Representaciones de la marginalidad, development and seminars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

- Don Quijote en su contexto histórico/social, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Lengua, Cultura e identidad, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Inleiding Literatuurgeschiedenis Spanje en Latijns-Amerika, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Inleiding Cultuurgeschiedenis Spanje en Latijns-Amerika, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Literaturas clásicas y coloniales, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Literatura hispánica contemporánea, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- 'Hemel en Hel' minorcursus Europese Literatuurgeschiedenis, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Foundational Fictions, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Encuentros Culturales, Course development, graduate seminars (Universiteit Utrecht)

- Filosofía de la Ciencia, Course development, lectures and seminars (Universiteit Amsterdam)

- Cultuurkunde Spanje, Lectures (Universiteit Amsterdam)

- Cultuuranalyse, Seminars (Universiteit Amsterdam)