Gender identities of White-Collar-Women in urban China; ambivalences in the position of women and gender inequalities in the process of the modernisation of society in China, transformations in gender ideals and cliches since de 90s; gender and the neoliberal subjectivation project in the example of beauty ideals and practices in East Asia.
Gender Studies; Global Art and Transculturality; Cultural Anthropology; Art and the Public Sphere; Art History in Global Context; Postcolonial Studies; Visual Culture; Contemporary Art and Cultural Politics in Morocco.
Gender history; history of the body and sexuality, especially queer historiography; history of labor and industrial relations; recent history and contemporary history.
Culture and Society in Modern China; History of Education, Children and Women in China; Intercultural Contacts in East Asia; Environmental History; Art and visual culture of East Asia; Representations of gender in China's contemporary art
US-American and European Art and Culture from the 1970s until the 1980s; Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Theory/Studies in Art History; Photography History and Theory; Politics of Representation and Constitution of the Subject in the Visual Field; Artistic Negotiations of Gender and Sexuality; Media Theory and Aesthetics.
Reception of Katharina von Bora (16-21th Century); Women Monasteries; Gift Culture; Resources; Social Relations Economy; Hospitality; Academic Culture; History of the Early Modern Age; Historical Anthropology; Jewish History; Concept of Self; Interpersonal and social relations like Patronage, Friendship; Neighbours; Enemies; Concepts of Space; Ritual Life; Testimonial Literature in Transcultural Perspective.
