Heldenepik, Alexander Novels, Love and Adventure novels, Travelogues; Utopian Communities in the Middle Ages Literature; Literary Configurations of Knowledge; Spatial Representations of Medieval Literature; Gender Studies; Reception and Construction of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art; Theory and Aesthetics of the Voice; Aesthetic Experience and Perception as well as Gender/Queer Theory and Performance
Transcultural interweaving processes in literature and knowledge history; late middle age until 19th century (focus: France, Spain); Rhetoric: hsitory, theory, practice and literature; historic emotion research; genre theory and history; gender and institutional theory (particularly University, Academia and Familiy); Digital Humanities and methods in humanities, pragmatics of fiction and Limit-Phenomena of the fictional.
literary theory; the interrelations between literature, sciences and philosophy from antiquity to the present; postcolonialism; concepts of world literature; history of utopia; concepts of time
20th century literature, in particular: exile and migration literature; Holocaust and literature; Brief - Biography - Autobiography; Thomas Mann and the Mann family; Female authors of literary history; German-Jewish literature and cultural history
Australian Studies; gender studies; Postcolonial Studies; Postmodernism; Romanticism, Ecopoetics: British Nature Writing, Romanticism and Decreation, The London Flâneur.
