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 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