Our Concept of Teaching and Research

Our aim in teaching English Literary Studies is to move beyond an in-depth knowledge of primary texts as well as literary and cultural history in order to expose numerous connections and discursive intersections between Literary Studies, on the one hand, and Cultural, Media, and Gender Studies as well as Philosophy and Aesthetics on the other. In doing so, the interdependence and the 'intertwinedness' of the various disciplines is gradually elucidated (after all, Literary Studies always invariably includes aspects of Cultural and Media Studies, Semiotics and Linguistics as well). Our teaching, thus, favours an approach based on a broad media concept which is used as a bridge between the disciplines, and on a deconstructivist view on writing.