See lists of all academic staff, students, and administrative staff at the faculty on the main People page.
Academics
Researchers, Fixed-Term and College Staff
Language Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Sophia Buck
Research topicMoscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison
Shivani Chauhan
Research topicA critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe
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Gwendoline Choi
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
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Lucas-Jan Dörre
Research topicMy project will investigate the importance of walking for German poetry since modernity, embedded in the long tradition of detours in German thought.
Supervisor
Mareike Sophie Drünkler
Research topicWeeklies, Women and the Will to Reform – Alternative Forms of Female Participation in the German Enlightenment
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Georgina Edwards
Research topicBuilding on Bildung in the 20th century – individual and institutional learning in Wittgenstein and Hesse
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Sophie Forst
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
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Carolin Gluchowski
Research topicRevising Private Prayerbooks. The Latin/Low-German Prayerbooks from the Cistercian Convent of Medingen in the Context of Late-Medieval Church Reforms
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Alexandra Hertlein
Research topicArchetype, Genealogy and Founding Myth – The Search for Origins in Scientific, Philosophical and Philological Texts of the 18th and 19th Century
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Roberto Interdonato
Research topicLight and darkness in the work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
Patrick Leuenberger
Research topicCritical Study of the Representation of the Stranger and Dark Skin in German Medieval Literature
Martin Lindner
Research topic(De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Habsburg’s inner & extra-European discourses of identity and difference.
Supervisor
Julia Lorenz
Research topicMeasuring Intensity – A New Methodological Approach towards Medieval Relationships
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Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Luise Morawetz
Research topicThe Glosses of the Murbach Hymns. A Study on Syntax and Language Use in Old High German
Supervisor
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin
Research topicStasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art
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Isabel Parkinson
Research topicTranslating the 'erzaehlte Innenwelt': Analysing English translations of German-language women-authored consciousness narratives.
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Hannah Scheithauer
Research topicCross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German
Marlene Schilling
Research topicPersonification as Devotional Strategy in Middle Low German Literature
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Sarah Schwarz
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
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Lujza Vallo
Research topicMy Jewishness is my "life issue", the circumstances, the laws, the world made it so.' Jewish Assimilationist Writing in Mitteleuropa from 1980-1940.
