Research Areas of the Department of English Literature
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Prof. emeritus Klaus Peter Jochum:
Focus areas:
- W.B. Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature, especially a bibliography of secondary literature and reception in Europe and in the German-speaking world
Prof. PD Beatrix Hesse:
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Focus area:
- English crime fiction and the English crime play
Igor Baldoino, M.A.
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
Touhid Chowdhury, M.A.
Focus areas:
- Immigrant Literature
- Pain Studies
- Postcolonial Literature
- South Asian Culture and Literature
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