Chair of French Studies
The Chair of French Literature and Cultural Studies specialises in Francophone literature and culture from the early modern period to the extrême contemporain and focuses on the following research areas: Fact and fiction, language migration, media and memory, poetics of the precarious.
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CHAIR OF FRENCH STUDIES
The Chair deals with francophone literatures and cultures from the early modern period to the extrême contemporain and these core research areas: Fact and Fiction, Language Migration, Media and Memory, Poetics of the Precarious.
From the siècle classique to the extrême contemporain
The Department of French Literature and Cultural Studies represents French and Francophone literatures and cultures in their historical and geographical breadth, both from a literary and cultural studies perspective. Teaching covers all periods from the Renaissance to the extrême contemporain; research (see publications and lectures) focuses historically on the 17th and 20th/21st centuries and systematically on the following areas: Narratology, borderline phenomena of the literary (literature/history, fact/fiction, literature/photography), gender studies, cultural transfer and language migration, media and collective memory, work and literature. Towards a poetics of the precarious.
Without neglecting the (literary and cultural) historical dimension in teaching and research, the Chair aims to develop a profile in the field of literatures and cultures of the extrême contemporain. This is because an in-depth understanding of contemporary society can be achieved through an analytical examination of current cultural phenomena and artifacts. At the same time, such a focus in the area of the 'extreme present' can act as a bridge between the various philologies as well as between the humanities and social sciences, as the corresponding fields of research open up a wide range of opportunities for both inter-faculty and non-university cooperation.
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Chair of French Studies
NameProf. Dr. Roswitha Böhm
Vice-Rector of University Culture since August 2020
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