Forschungspro­jekte/Konferenzen

You can browse these pages to find out more about our current and past research projects and conferences. Please note that Ph.D. and Post-Doc projects are covered on a separate page.

• Effective Teaching-Learning Practices of Inclusive Education: A Comparison between Indian and German School Models (2024 –)
• Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering (2024)
• Nation-Building and the Creation of a 'New Community' in Contemporary Sri Lankan Art (2022)
• Funny Women (2021)
• Painful Laughter (2020)
• Transcultural Adaptation (2018)
• Gemeinschaft Neu Denken (2017)
• Gender³ intersektional: Grenzgänge (2016 - 17)
• 20th- and 21st Century Narratives of Masculinity (2015 ff.)
• Risiko (2015 - 16)
• Borderlands/Edgelands (2015 ff.)
• Jaws: Der weiße Hai Revisited (2015)
• Sabotaging 'Hitchcock' (2014 ff.)
• Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies (2010 - 14)
• Armut: Gender-Perspektiven ihrer Bewältigung in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2013)
• Lüge - Täuschung - Hochstapelei (2013)
• Transgender & Intersex (2012 ff.)
• Constructions of Masculinity (2009)

In addition, the Chair of English Literary Studies is involved in the Dresdner Nachwuchskolloquium zur Geschlechterforschung.

Other projects completed in the past have included:

• Männlichkeit, Weiblichkeit und die Frage nach dem In-Between - Gender Studies und Geschlechterforschung von der Antike bis ins 21. Jahrhundert 
  [Masculinity, Femininity and the question what's in-between: Gender Studies from Antiquity to the 21st Century]
  An interdisciplinary lecture series (publication with Königshausen & Neumann in 2010).
• Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present 
  (Publication with Palgrave Macmillan in 2010)
• Subversions of Gender Identities through Laughter and the Comic in Literature, Theatre, and Modern Media: Chances and Limits
  A German-Canadian Conference Series plus Research Project (publication with Rodopi in 2009).
• Literature and the Art of Living: Reflections on the 'Good Life' in 19th and 20th Century British Novels
  (publication with WVT in 2008)