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Professors and Associate Professors
Researchers, Fixed-Term and College Staff
Language Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Shivani Chauhan
Research topicA critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe
Supervisor
Gwendoline Choi
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
Supervisor
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 topicUncovering Women's Voices: Alternative Forms of Participation in the German Enlightenment
Sarah Isabelle Fengler
Research topicEuropean Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment
Supervisor
Sophie Forst
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
Alexandra Hertlein
Research topicArchetype, Genealogy and Founding Myth – The Search for Origins in Scientific, Philosophical and Philological Texts of the 18th and 19th Century
Supervisor
Roberto Interdonato
Research topicAlienation and the Utopian Function of Literature in Anna Maria Ortese and Ingeborg Bachmann
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
Supervisor
Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin
Research topicStasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art
Supervisor
Isabel Parkinson
Research topicTranslating the 'erzaehlte Innenwelt': Analysing English translations of German-language women-authored consciousness narratives.
Supervisor
Timothy Powell
Research topicThe Reception of Hans Sachs in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990
Supervisor
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
Supervisor
Rebecca Schleuss
Research topicHealing Sisters. Health Provision in Medieval Convent Rules and Literature
Supervisor
Sarah Schwarz
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
Supervisor
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.
