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. Karin Esders
- Cultural History / Cultural Studies
- Film und Popular Cultures
- Critical Race Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Gender Studies
- Transnational Cinema
- Media Theories
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
Kim-Nicola Kück M.A.
- Narratology
- Biofiction
- Historical Fiction
- Science in Literature
- Gender Studies
- Theatre 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. 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. Katalina Kopka
- Film Studies
- Pop Culture
- Science and Literature
- Gender Studies
- Gothic Fiction
- Trauma Studies
- Cultural Memory Research
Dr. Jana Nittel
- British, Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Literature of the 18th to 21st Century
- Film and Media studies
- Literary Masculinities Studies
- Anglophone Crime Fiction and Film
- Anglophone Travel Literature of the 13th to 21st Century
Prof. Dr. Norbert Schaffeld
- British Literature
- Australian and Canadian Culture
- Shakespeare Adaptations
- Film Studies
- The History of Science
- Fictional Representations of the Natural Sciences
Corina Wieser-Cox
- Borderland, Chicanx, and Latinx Studies
- Queer & Gender Studies
- Speculative Fiction and Film
- Trans* & Nonbinary Representations in Film and Literature
- Indigenous North and Central American Film and Literature
- Postcolonial Theories & Concepts
- Indigenous Teachings & Knowledges
- Two-Spirit & Queer Indigeneities in Fiction and Film