Research Areas of the Department of English Literature
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Prof. Dr. Nora Pleßke:
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Focus areas:
- Anglophone Kulturen, Medien und Literaturen (18. - 21. Jahrhundert)
- Urban Studies, Material Culture Studies, Economic Criticism
- Transkulturelle und Postkoloniale Theorie
- Mentalitätsgeschichte und -theorie
- Materiale, mediale und kulturelle Geschichte des britischen Empires
- London- und Stadtliteratur; Stadt- und Raumtheorie
PD Dr. Beatrix Hesse:
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Focus areas:
- English crime fiction and the English crime play
Igor Baldoino, M.A.
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Focus areas:
- Gender Studies
- Literary Heroism
- LGBTQ + Literature and Culture
Dr. Susan Brähler:
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Focus areas:
- Caribbean literature of migration (interdisciplinary approach), black British literature, post-ethnic literature
- Collective memory and nostalgia
- Transcultural identities
- Theories of space
- Globalization and cosmopolitism
- Alterity in literary history
- The 20th and 21st century novel
Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein:
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Focus areas:
- The 18th century novel. The Gothic novel, Gothic parodies
- Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, especially revenge tragedy
- Genre and reception theory
- English Literature of the Great War
- Golden Age Crime Fiction