Research Areas

Christoph Houswitschka:

English literature and culture of the late medieval period (Thomas Malory, Arthurian Literature)
Reception of the Middle Ages in literature and film
English literature and culture of the 18^th century (reform movements in the late 18^th century, jurisdiction and literature in the 18^th century)
English literature and culture of the 20^th century (cultural transfer and migration; Europeanisation in 20^th century English literature from Arthur Koestler until David Edgar; Holocaust literature)
Literature and biotechnology

Klaus Peter Jochum:

W.B. Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature, especially a bibliography of secondary literature and reception in Europe and in the German-speaking world

Beatrix Hesse:

English crime fiction and the English crime play

Susan Brähler:

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

Chiara Manghi:

Food and recipes in literature
Epistolary novels
Depiction of rivers in literature and music
Dorset literature

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein:

The 18^th 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

Cooperative Relationships

The department has cooperative relationships with the University of Bamberg’s exchange partners of.

We also maintain contact and collaborate on projects with the universities in Lodz, Krakow, Bucharest an Xi’an as well as with our “European Joint Master’s Programme in English and American Studies” partner universities in Graz, Paris “Denis Diderot”, Pecs, Venice and New York.

The English Literature department is also a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZEMAS) and is involved in the Bamberger Vorträge zum (Musik-)Theater series. Additionally, we work closely with other departments in the Humanities Faculty (e.g. within the framework of lecture series and joint projects) as well as the Centre for Interreligious Studies.