Research Areas of the Department of English Literature

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka:

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Focus areas:

• 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 

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 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