Principal Investigators - Faculty 05

FB 05 – Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture

Prof. Dr. Jan Alber	Institut für Anglistik	English and American Literature
Dr. habil. Michael Basseler	Institut für Anglistik Department of English International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture	English and American Literature and Culture; African American literature and culture, short stories, literary and cultural theory, and the field of literature and knowledge
Prof. Dr. Thomas Daiber	Institut für Slavistik Department of Slavic Studies	Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl	Institut für Germanistik Department of German Studies	German literary history (medieval and early modern periods); courtly epics; Arthurian literature; late medieval and early modern drama; early German literature in Eastern Europe; literature, religion and political interest
Prof. Dr. Verena Dolle	Institut für Romanistik Institute for Romance Studies	Latin American literature (Hispanic America, Brazil) from the colonial period to the present day, focus countries: Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Latin American urban literature in the 20th/21st century, Portuguese literature in general: from Camões to the present day
Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen	Institut für Romanistik Institute for Romance Studies	French and Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, intermediality (especially literary film adaptations), poetics of the epistolary novel, literature and economics, Romance auteur film, French authors between Romanticism and Modernism, interculturality research
Prof. Dr. Joachim Jacob	Institut für Germanistik Department of German Studies	Literary Studies
Dr. Jens Kugele	International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture	Study of Culture & Literature; History of Religion; Cultural Memory & Politics of Space; German-Jewish History, Culture & Literature; History of Zionism; Autobiography; Franz Kafka
Prof. Dr. Katrin Lehnen	Institut für Germanistik Department of German Studies	Literacy and education in the media society, communication in the teaching profession, media-specific writing processes
Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee	Institut für Anglistik Department of English	English linguistics, corpus linguistics, varieties of English
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning	Institut für Anglistik Department of English	English and American literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, interdisciplinary narrative and memory research
Prof. Dr. Greta Olson	Institut für Anglistik Department of English	Literary Studies; law and literature; law and medialization; science studies; political approaches to cultural studies; gender studies; animal studies; American punitivity
Prof. Dr. Falk Seiler	Institut für Romanistik Department of Romance Studies	Sociolinguistic norms research, language awareness and language biographies, multilingualism, language conflicts, Francophone research, French in the Lesser Antilles, language and mediality, socio- and textlinguistic aspects of software and software localization, language and economy, language as a cultural and natural phenomenon
Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund	Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften Department of Applied Theatre Studies	Contemporary theory and dance, theatre theories, performance, intermediality
Prof. Dr. Annette Simonis	Institut für Germanistik Department of German Studies	Modern German literature; comparative literary studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Wingender	Institut für Slavistik Department of Slavic Studies	Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Uwe Wirth	Institut für Germanistik Department of German Studies	German Literature and the Study of Culture