Literary and Cultural Studies

Chair of American Studies

Prof. Dr. Schultermandl

• American literature, performance, and media studies, from the 18th century to the present
• Cultural theories: gender studies, queer theory, critical race theory, affect theory, decolonial and transnationals studies, migration and border studies
• Literary theory, performance studies, film studies, popular culture, auto/biography studies, new media

Chair of British Studies

Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer

• Project "Fundamentalism"
• Literary and cultural theory
• History of literature
• Literature of the British Empire
• British drama from Renaissance to the present

Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies

Prof. Dr. Mark U Stein  

• including literary and cultural theory
• African, Asian British
• Black British, Caribbean, South Asian
• Scottish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literature and Culture
• Minority cultures
• Shakespeare Studies, Chicano Studies; Editorial Theory and Textual Criticism; Performance Theory and Criticism
• Celtic Studies, Film Studies, transcultural didactics
• Exile, Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism, Ethnic Studies, Arab American Representations, Postcolonial Urban Geography and Visual Culture

Book Studies

Prof. Dr. Corinna Norrick Rühl

• American Community Cookbooks
• Project "Buch als Waffe"
• Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände
• Mail-Order Book Culture

Linguistics

Chair of English Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut

• phonetics and phonology of English
• the development and structure of the world-wide varieties of English
• second and third language acquisition
• corpus linguistics
• sociolinguistics
• phraseology
• the history of English

Chair of Variation Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber

• varieties of English world-wide
• sociolinguistics
• corpus linguistics
• language use in media

Special interests in research and teaching include the following:

• English in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia
• language contact and contact languages
• language attitudes and standardization
• language use in news media, in music, and in computer-mediated communication
• language and globalization
• language in education
• style variation
• grammatical variation and change
• varieties of English in historical perspective

English Language Education

Chair of English Language Education

Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann

Research and projects done by the English Language Education Team include:

• ADiBE Project
• Forum Fremdsprachendidaktik
• Nigeria - Cultural Learning, Global & Human Rights Education
• Reading Websites Critically
• QLB Teilprojekt Videobasierte Lehrmodule als Mittel der Theorie-Praxis-Integration
• Mündliche Prüfungen
• QLB Teilprojekt Basiscurriculum Heterogenität
• Video Games and Language Teaching

For more information please  visit our own research website.

Emeriti Professors

• Prof. Dr. Maria Diedrich: American studies

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Fabian: Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände

• Prof. Dr. Lienhard Legenhausen: Autonomous Language Learning

• Prof. Dr. Bernfried Nugel: Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies

• Prof. Dr. Hermann Real: Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies: The work of Jonathan Swift in textual structure (Textkonstitution), commentary and interpretation | History of science in the seventeenth century