MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF THE English department

Here is some information regarding the research profile of the English Department.
Research projects with independent web pages are marked up; the respective project managers are responsible for the contents of these pages.

Literary and cultural studies
Linguistics and language history
TEFL (Fachdidaktik Englisch)
Emeriti professors

Literary and cultural studies

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Vacant:  

• Buchwissenschaft & Textforschung

Vacant:

• Chair of American Studies
• Ethnic literatures and cultures (in particular, African American, Native American, and Asian American Studies)
• Gender Studies and Queer Studies
• Cultural theory (postcolonial, transcultural, spatial, feminist, queer)
• Aging Studies
• Autobiography
• Visual culture
• Urban Studies

Prof. Dr. Mark U Stein:  

• English, postcolonial and media studies
  

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

Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer:

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

Linguistics and language history

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Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber:

• Chair of Variation Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut:

• Chair of Linguistics

TEFL (Fachdidaktik Englisch)

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Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz:

•  TEFL Homepage
      

Emeriti professors

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• Prof. Dr. Maria Diedrich: American studies

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

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Neuhaus (†): Shakespeare Database Project

• 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

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