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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
  • 19th century American World Expositions

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Rodenberg

  • Visual art and literature of the US
  • Cultural theory

Prof. Dr. Susanne Rohr

  • Literature and cultural theory
  • Semiotics
  • American Pragmatism
  • international depictions of the Holocaust at the end of the 20th century

Marius Henderson (research associate)

  • Gender and Queer Studies
  • Trauma- and Affekttheorie
  • Aesthetic theory
  • African American Studies

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. Stephan Karschay

  • Gothic fiction, film and media from the 18th to the 21st century
  • Literature and the natural sciences in the 19th century
  • Literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle
  • Representations of Otherness
  • Scandal studies

PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger

  • Literature and culture of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
  • Intermediality. media and adaptation theories, Visual Culture Studies
  • Medical and science history
  • The Victorian and Neo-Victorian Ages
  • Gender, Queer and Masculinity Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies

Dr. Philipp Hunnekuhl

  • British and European Romanticism
  • Literature of the Enlightenment
  • Manuscript studies
  • Comparative studies
  • Literary theory and philosophy

Linguistics

The main interest of English linguistics at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IAA), Universität Hamburg, is in functional and cognitive linguistics. Methodologically, the focus is on empirical and quantitative research,  as well as on research based on corpora. Besides psycholinguistics, phonology, morphology, lexicalization and grammar, research areas are variational linguistics with focus on regional varieties and sociolinguistics, as well as the multilingual language acquisition.

Please find further information on the research areas of the staff on the pages of the staff.