Research Areas of the Department of English Literature

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Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß:

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Focus areas:

Contemporary British Literature and Culture

• gender and queer studies
• feminist theory
• neo-victorianism
• (film) adaptation
• fungi in literature and film

Early Modern Literature and Culture

• Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• (early modern) law and literature
• genre (esp. revenge tragedy and tragicomedy)
• collaboration and/in theatre
• early modern piracy
• (Jacobean) gothic

Questions of Canonisation & Genre

PD Dr. Beatrix Hesse:

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Focus areas:

• English crime fiction and the English crime play  

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