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Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of English and American Studies

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Research areas

The IAA is able to offer a wide variety of research subjects to its students and its researchers due to different foci in research projects run at the institute.

In the following, current research projects of professors and research associates of the IAA are listed.

Please find further information on research projects on the personal pages of the staff members.

American Studies

Prof. Dr. Astrid Böger

  • Media culture and cultural studies
  • Visual culture; Popular culture
  • Gender studies and theories
  • Transnational cultures; global culture

Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier

  • tba

 

Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer

  • tba

JProf. Dr. Dustin Breitenwischer

  • African American and African Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
  • Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Pragmatism
  • Hip-Hop and Popular Culture
  • Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Art and Visual Culture
  • Narratology, Paratextology, and Media Aesthetics    

British Studies

Prof. Dr. Ute Berns

  • British literature and culture of the twentieth century
  • Literature and culture of the romantic period
  • Theory of literature and culture
  • Performance, Performativity
  • Discourses of science, politics and gender in literature and culture
  • Literature and nature
  • Early modern subjectivity and interiority

Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp

    • British literature and culture 1500-1800
    • Comparative studies: music and literature
    • early modern religious and theological discourses
    • Classicism in England 

JProf. Dr. Sandra Dinter  

    • tba

Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund

  • Multilingualism
  • Third Language Acquisition
  • Varieties of English

N.N.

  • tba

JProf. Dr. Eva Berlage

  • Language variation and language change in English
  • Semantic and syntactic changes
  • Syntactic complexity
  • Corpus analysis
  • Regional variation
  • Lexicalisation, delexicalisation, and grammaticalisation