P-o-L - Teachers

Supervisor	Subject	Research Interests
Prof. Dr. Eric Achermann	German Literature	Early German Modernity History of Knowledge German Law & Literature
Prof. Dr. Alexander Arweiler	Classical Philology	Latin Literature of (Late) Antiquity and Its Reconfiguration in the European Cultural History and History of Ideas
Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler	German Literature	German Realism Literature of the Classical Modern Period Literary Theory Contemporary Literature and Pop Culture
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	Arabic and Islamic Studies
Prof. Dr. Cerstin Bauer-Funke	Romance Studies	French, Spanish & Mexican Contemporary Literature French Enlightenment Literature Discourses of the Urban in French Literature Spanish Literature of the Siglo de Oro Cuban Exile Theater in the US
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Blasberg	German Literature
Prof. Dr. Andreas Blödorn	German Literature	18th to 21st Century Literature (especially Goethe, German Realism, Early German Modernity) History of Film (especially Early Modern Film and Post WWII Film) Semiotics of Literature and Media Naratology and Intermedial Storytelling in Literature and Film
Prof. Dr. Marion Bönnighausen	Didactics of Literature and Media
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Emmerich	Sinology	History and Culture of Imperial China
Prof. Dr. Christel Meier-Staubach	Latin Philology	Medieval Latin Literature from a Comparative Perspective Hermeneutics, Symbolism, Allegory Medieval Literary Theory Text and Image Encyclopedia in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity Medieval and Early Modern Drama Authorship and Epistolary Novels in the High-Medieval Period Medieval Medial Figurations of the Political and the Religious
Prof Dr. Lut Missinne	Modern Dutch Literature	Autobiographic Writing, Autofiction Poetics, Literary History, Literary Criticism Dutch Literature in German Translation Cultural Transfer in the 20th/21st Century: Netherlands - Flanders - Germany
Prof. Dr. Corinna Norrick-Rühl	Book Studies	Book Culture Publishing Book Infrastructure Book Distribution (Book Sales Clubs) The Global Book Industry Translations Children’s Books
Prof. Dr. Christian Pietsch	Classical Philology
Prof. Dr. Bruno Quast	Medieval Literature	Medieval Myths Historical Anthropology & Narratology German Reformation Literature
Prof. Dr. Silvia Reuvekamp	Medieval Literature	Poetics of character representation in the novel of the 12th-15th centuries Literary microforms Artificiality, linguistic aesthetics and style in the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages Historical narratology Literary Anthropology History of knowledge
Prof. Dr. Roland Ludger Scheel	Institute of Scandinavian Studies	Scandinavian historiography and hagiography in the Middle Ages Sagal literature Legal history Historical semantics Romanesque art in Scandinavia Byzantium at the time of the Crusades Cultural transfer in medieval Europe The Reception of the "Viking" and Nordic Mythology in Modern Europe
Prof. Dr. Christine Schmitz	Classic Philology	Antique Epos Roman Satire and Its Medieval Reception Roman Tragedy Epigram (Martial) Novel (Apuleius) Myth and Literature, Reception of Antique Mythology Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity Latin Poetry of Renaissance
Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl	American Studies	American Fiction and Life Writing, from the 18th Century to the Present Literary Theory Transnational American Studies Family and Kinship Studies Transnational Feminism Social Media
Prof. Dr. Kai Sina	German Literature and Comparative Studies
Prof. Dr. Mark Stein	English Studies: New English Literatures and Media Studies	Black British and British Asian Writing Caribbean Literature Zimbabwean Literature Critical Theory Diaspora Studies Postcolonial Studies
Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer	British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts	Constructions of Home and Belonging Diaspora Studies Early Modern Literature Eighteenth Century Studies Irish Literature Law and Literature Literary and Cultural Theory Literary History Literature and Philosophy Postcolonial Studies Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Storm	Sinology	Decision-making processes and forms of argumentation in the Tang period (618-907) Age and aging in pre-modern China Chinese legal history, law and literature Traditional Chinese poetry Concepts of childhood in pre-modern China Narrative forms in ancient Chinese short prose
Prof. Dr. Christoph Strosetzki	Romance Studies	Spanish and European Humanism Occupational Profiles in Early Modernity Theatre, Narrative Genres, Reception and Impact of Siglo de Oro History of Ideas Conversation Culture of Early Modernity
Prof. Dr. Tomas Tomasek	Medieval Literature
Prof. Dr. Christian von Tschilschke	Romance Studies	Literature and Media/Intermediality Theory and Practice of Literature - Film/TV Relations Spanish and French Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st Century Theory, History and Didactics of French, Spanish and Latin American Cinema 18th Century Spanish Literature with a Transatlantic Focus Literary and Media Gender Studies Spanish Discourse on Africa Docufiction Transgeneric, Transmedial and Transcultural
Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf	German Literature	Modern German Literature (especially Modernity and Contemporary Literature) Literary Theory Rhetorics Literary Studies as Cultural Studies Literature - Religion - Politics Autobiography/Autofiction Law & Literature
Prof. Dr. Karin Westerwelle	Romance Studies	Text and Image in 19th Century France (Focus on Charles Baudelaire) Humanism & Renaissance (Focus on Michel de Montaigne) Medieval and Early Modern Italian Poetry
AOR Dr. Barbara Winckler	Arabic and Islamic Studies	Modern Arab Literature, especially Postmodern and nahḍa Prose War and Post-War Discourse in Lebanese Literature Gender Studies Borders and Thresholds Cultural Contact Between the Orient and Occident Since the Early 19th Century Periodical Press and New Publics in 'the Long 19th Century' Arabic as Scientific Language
Prof. Dr. Irina Wutsdorff	Slavonic Studies	Slavonic Literature and Culture in Comparative Perspective: Russian and Czech Studies (18th - 21st Century) Romantic, Realist, Modern, Avantgarde and Postmodern Concepts and Poetics Literary and Cultural Theory: Prague Structualism, Semiotics of Culture, Dialogicity (Michail Bachtin), Poststructuralism and Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Cultural and Transcultural Approaches, Spatial Theory General and Comparative Literary Studies: Literature and the Arts & Media, Literature and Philosophy, Literature in Intercultural Spaces