Gender Studies; Cultural History of Emotions; Performance and Performativity; Voice Research; Voice Aesthetics; Theatrality; Theory and Aesthetics of Theater; Literature and other Arts.
Modern Heterotopias; Socialist Social Utopias and Communal Practices in the early 19th Century, Rituals of the Modern State. The Case of Torture in Liberal Democracie, History of Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centruy and its transnational entanglements; Theory and Methods of History Science; Knowledge History (Colonialism; Cold War).
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies; Geschlechterforschung; Phenomenology; Practical philosophy (focus on legal and social philosophy); emotions philosophy
Court novels of the 13th century; Jewish literature in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz; Legendary telling; Gender Theory, Intersectional Theory, Postcolonial Theory; Medieval reception
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
Entgrenzungen zwischen Choreographie, Bildender Kunst und Architektur Choreographische Verfahren im 20. Jahrhundert: Zum Verhältnis von Notation, Improvisation, Komposition und Choreographie; Tanz im Ausstellungskontext: Kanon, Rekonstruktion und Archiv; Gender, Ethnicity, Identity – Diskurse im Wandel; Queer Theory und Gender-Studies in Performance und Tanz; Social Choreographies; Dramaturgie und Vermittlung
