Modern Languages
German Department
German Linguistics
Uncontrolled and controlled language acquisition of German as a second language (DaZ); linguistic diversity in the classroom; language-sensitive teaching/language education in all subjects; subject-related language training in DaZ; typologically, ontogenetically and cognitive-phsychologically motivated language training in DaZ; drama-grammatical language training in DaZ
Later German Literature
Knowledge and literature; post/colonial and gender studies; mediality and aesthetics, memory and cultures of remembrance; literature and globality
(Literary) theory: gender and postcolonial studies; intertextuality; psychoanalysis; rhetoric; (female) networkers in the 18th century; media and gender; religion and gender; body and gender/actio/performance; genealogy
Cultures and practices of memory in German classes, literary and media-aesthetic learning (especially multimodality, digitality, aesthetic experience), form- and genre-sensitive literary didactics
Medieval German Studies
Prof. Dr. Annette Gerok-Reiter
Gender studies and medieval literature
Nina Holzschuh, M.A.
Gender studies; intersectionality; gender & narratology; gender in medieval literature; masculinity; gender & heroism; gender & medieval reception
English Department
American Studies
Inequality/oppression; Black/African American/Ethnic Studies; LGBTQ
English Literatures and Cultures
Gender/queer Studies; women's literature from the Renaissance to today; early modern literature; communicating under conditions of (self-)censorship and interdiction
Slavic Department
Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies
Semiotics of culture; interplay of genres and spaces with discourses and power formations; Russian Symbolism; Film theory