Profile
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 establish 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 and between the humanities and social sciences, as the corresponding fields of research open up a wide range of opportunities for both cross-faculty and non-university cooperation.
