Research Projects
You can browse these pages to find out more about our current and past research projects and conferences, including:
- 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 (2015ff.)
- Risiko (2015-16)
- Borderlands/Edgelands (2015ff.)
- Jaws: Der weiße Hai Revisited (2015)
- Sabotaging 'Hitchcock' (2014ff.)
- Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies (2010-14)
- Armut: Gender-Perspektiven ihrer Bewältigung in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2013)
- Lüge - Täuschung - Hochstapelei (2013)
- Transgender & Intersex (2012ff.)
- Constructions of Masculinity (2009)
- DFG-Projekt Kollektive politische Identitäten (2010ff.)
In addition, the Chair of English Literary Studies supervises several Ph.D. projects and 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)