Chair of English Literary Studies
In research and teaching, English Literary Studies deals with English literature and text productions (in the broadest sense) of Great Britain and Ireland. Another focus is put on New English Literatures/Postcolonial Literatures in English. The central philological questions of traditional literary studies are closely intertwined with cultural, linguistic, media- and gender-scientific perspectives. Thus the Chair is currrently involved in Gender, Transgender and Masculinity Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Adaptation- and Motif Research.