Center for Gender and Diversity Research

Modern Languages

German Department

German Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Doreen Bryant

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

Prof. Dr. Sigrid G. Köhler

Knowledge and literature; post/colonial and gender studies; mediality and aesthetics, memory and cultures of remembrance; literature and globality

Dr. Lily Tonger-Erk

(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

Prof. Dr. Carolin Führer

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

Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder

Inequality/oppression; Black/African American/Ethnic Studies; LGBTQ

English Literatures and Cultures

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies

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

Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat

Semiotics of culture; interplay of genres and spaces with discourses and power formations; Russian Symbolism; Film theory