Research Foci/ Supervision
Write your BA thesis in Literary and Cultural Studies in English!
The following faculty members (in alphabetical order) are happy to supervise your BA and/or MA and PhD theses and are looking forward to your informed proposals. Please contact the respective faculty members directly and explore the list of registered supervisors and co-supervisors for the current term.
Supervision
Please follow the links as provided below for a list of all faculty members who are authorized to supervise and assess BA/MA theses in this field.
Dr. Anna Auguscik
- Exploration and Expedition Narratives
- Representations of Science and Scientists in Literature and Culture
- Discourses and Taxonomies of (Non)Knowledge
- Polar Fiction, Time Travel and Speculative Literature
- Contemporary Fiction and the Book Market
- Postmodern and Postcolonial Fiction: Australia, Britain, Canada, Caribbean, India, Ireland, Nigeria, and the Pacific
- Virginia Woolf and Modernist Fiction
- Oscar Wilde and the Fin de Siècle
- Charles Dickens and Victorian Literature and Culture
- The Long Eighteenth Century from Laurence Sterne to Walter Scott
- Shakespeare: Drama, Poetry, Rhetoric
Dr. Julia Ditter
- British Literature (C19-21), Scottish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
- Energy Humanities, Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
- (Literary) Border Studies, Critical Infrastructure Studies
- New Formalist Methodologies and Postcritical Reading Practices
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Literary History
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Medical Humanities, Especially Nineteenth-Century Literary and Cultural Mediations of Medicine and Medical science
Dr. Paula von Gleich
- African American and Black Diasporic Literature and Theory
- Border Theories and the Literature of Migration
- Critical Race Studies
- Postcolonial and Transnational Literary Studies
Dr. Vanessa Herrmann
- Adaptation Studies
- Shakespeare and Film
- Game Studies (Adventure Games)
- Gothic Fiction and Film
- Popular Culture in Film and Literature
Prof. Dr. Ursula Kluwick
- Victorian Literature & Culture
- Contemporary Literature
- Representations of Nature (especially water, the beach, and climate change)
- Ecocriticism
- Postcolonial literatures and cultures,
- ‘Alternative Realisms’ (especially magic realism and the fantastic)
- Blue Humanities
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf
- Postcolonial Film and Media
- Epistemological Power Relations and Postcolonial Knowledges
- German Colonial Texts in Papua New Guinea
- Postcolonial Studies (Cultures, Theories, Literatures and Films)
- Indigenous Literatures, Film and Media worldwide
- African Diaspora Studies
- American and Canadian Nineteenth-Century Literature
- American Prison Literature
- Women and Gender Studies
Dr. Oluwadunni Talabi
- Black feminist, Postcolonial and Transnational queer feminist studies
- Black, African women and diasporic literatures and cultures
- Critical race studies and analysis of structures
- Critical future studies and Posthumanism
- Feminist literary theory and gender studies
Corina Wieser-Cox
- Borderland & Chicanx Studies
- Queer & Gender Studies
- Horror & Speculative Fiction and Film
- Postcolonial Theories & Concepts
- Indigenous Fiction and Film
- Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Fiction and Film
- American Gothic & Southern Gothic
- Ecocriticism & Ecofeminism in Fiction and Film
- Mexican & Chicanx Queer Cinema
Kevin Christopher Wolf
- Blue Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- The Gothic
- Nostalgia
- Literature and Space
- Medical Humanities
- Science in Literature