International Diversity Guest Professorships

Dr. Guillermo Aguirre Martínez - Romance Studies and Translation, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Research topic: The Spanish Poet Manuel Álvarez Ortega. From Inner Exile during Dictatorship to the Margins of the Literary Industry in Times of Democracy - with Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Hispanic Studies)

Dr. Noran Amin - English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt

Research topic: Who Am I? A Cultural Exploration of the Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the Self across Media - with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)

Prof. Fiona Ellis - Philosophy, University of Roehampton, UK

Research topic: Unity of Nature and Diversity of Spirit - with J.-Prof. Dr. Silvia Jonas (Philosophy)

Dr. Kaye Mitchell - English/American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK

Research topic: Writing Shame: Negative Affect at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Disability in Anglophone Literature and Autobiographical Life Storying - with Prof. Dr. Katrin Röder (English Literature)

Dr. Elisabeth Punzi - Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Research topic: Autobiographical Narratives and Life Storying at the Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, Disability and Mental Distress - with Prof. Dr. Katrin Röder (English Literature)

Prof. Dr. Trinidad Rico - Heritage Conservation, University of Southern California, USA

Research topic: Diversity and Cultural Heritage. Methods, Loci, Practices. - with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vinken (Heritage Conservation)

Dr. Wouter Vleugels - Management, Deakin University, Australia

Research topic: The Dark Side of Person-Organisation Fit - with Prof. Dr. Maike Andresen (Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour)

Prof. Dr. Antonella Ghersetti

Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Arabic Language and Literature

Research topic: Discourses of Alterity in the Classical Arabic adab Tradition with Special Reference to Language Ideology with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)

Prof. Dr. Don E. Walicek

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Linguistics

Research topic: Diversification of the International Corpus of English with Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug (English Linguistics)

Prof. Dr. David D. Kim

University of California, LA, USA

European Languages and Transcultural Studies

Research topic: Hannah Arendt - Exile and Diversity with Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx (Modern German Literary Studies)

Prof. Daniel Mayerhoffer

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Computational Social Science

Research topic: Modelling intra- and inter-generational network effects on life courses of marginalised groups mediated by value change in society with Prof. Dr. Johannes Marx (Political Theory)

Prof. Dr. Nancy Kendall

University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Educational Policy Studies

Research topic: Gender Issues in International Education Research with Dr. Susanne Ress (General Pedagogy)

Dr. Mervi Kaukko

Tampere University, Finland

Education

Research topic: Expertise in Innovative Research with Refugee Children and Youth with Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug (General Pedagogy)

Dr. Yariv Feniger

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Education

Research topic: From Research to Education Policy in Israel with Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler (Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course)

Dr. Laura Swift

Open University, UK

Classical Studies

Research topic: Dramatic Discourses on Diversity in the Bacchae of Euripides with Prof. Dr. Sabine Vogt (Classical Philology with a focus on Greek Studies)

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dion A. Forster

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology

Research topic: Social Coherence and Mechanisms of Othering during the Corona Pandemic in South Africa and Germany with Prof. Dr. Thomas Wabel (Systematic Theology)