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Fachgruppe
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Humanities
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Schwerpunkte
- German and Anglophone literatures (GB, USA, modern English literatures) in their European and global contexts; Comparative and transcultural issues, theories of comparison, anglophone internal comparisons; Canon and genre theories; Aesthetics of spatial and temporal orders; Aesthetics of ambivalence (the sublime, the uncanny, the grotesque); International media and popular culture (photography, film, television); Gender studies; Postcolonial and Neocolonial Studies (cultural alterity, hybridity, orientalism, hermeneutics of the foreign); Cultural Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities and Sustainability Studies