Research
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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

Professor Dr. Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser:  

Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky:

  • 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

Professor Dr. Mark Stein:  

  • 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)

Professor 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


Professor Dr. Dagmar Deuber:

Professor Dr. Ulrike Gut:

TEFL (Fachdidaktik Englisch)

Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz:


Prof. Dr. Dominik Rumlich:

  • Teaching English as a foreign language
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • Affective-motivational determinants of language learning (esp. EFL self-concept and interest)
  • Assessment
  • Empirical research on teaching literature
  • Empirical research methods (with a focus on quantitative research)
        

Emeriti professors

  • Professor 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