Focus on English and American Studies
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Chair of English Literatures
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Professor
NameProf. Dr. Stefan Horlacher
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Chair of English Literary Studies
Chair of English Literary Studies
Visiting address:
Wiener Straße 48, Floor 3, Room 3.13
01219 Dresden
Office hours:
Consultation hours take place on Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. after prior registration by e-mail (stefan.horlacher@tu-dresden.de). Individual consultations can also be arranged.
In research and teaching, English Literary Studies deals with English literature and texts (in the broadest sense) of Great Britain and Ireland. Another focus is on New English Literatures /Postcolonial Literatures in English. The central philological questions of traditional literary studies are closely intertwined with the perspectives of culture, linguistics, media studies, and gender theory. Our current research efforts furthermore include masculinity studies, postcolonial literature, and adaptation studies.
Research Interests
- Masculinity Studies
- Gender, Transgender and Intersex Studies
- Postcolonial Literatures and South Asian Studies
- Ageing and Dementia Studies
- Deconstruction and Narratology
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Junior Professorship on North American Literature with a focus on Future Studies
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Chair of North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies
NameJun.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen
Teaching and Research
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Research and teaching at the Chair for North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies engages the interdisciplinary and transcultural study of literatures from the U.S., Canada, and Indigenous Nations. In light of the climate emergency, increasing digital and technocultural transformations, and ongoing global injustices, the focus on “Future Studies” highlights entanglements among humans, technology, and environments in critical imaginations of the future.
Research Interests
- Science Fiction Studies
- Critical Posthumanisms and Futurisms
- Environmental Humanities
- Energy Humanities and Petrocultures
- Literature and Science
- Materialist Media Theory
- Contemporary North American Indigenous Literatures
- Critical Disability Studies
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Chair of British Cultural Studies
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Professor
NameProf. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
Chair
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Visiting address:
Wienerstr. 48, Raum 3.04
01209 Dresden
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For my office hours, please register here: https://calendly.com/cornelia-waechter-office_hours/office-hours?month=2021-11 The meetings will be held via Zoom: https://tu-dresden.zoom.us/j/84086035196?pwd=MGozVCtqb0Myd3lYWlFjMnFMQTdLQT09
The field of British Cultural Studies is generally concerned with cultural processes within society and in particular their various forms of representation in media, art, and politics. It offers a set of theories, texts and transdisciplinary approaches to analyse facets of (everyday) culture, especially with regards to their political dimensions. Thus, questions relating to representation, identity and difference/alterity, power and hegemony are central.
Research Interests
- Narratives and Mental Health
- Complicity and affect
- queer studies, (queer) masculinites
- criticl theory
- power and cultural hegemony
- subjectivity and identity
- posthumanism
- ecocriticism
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Chair of North American Studies
Professsorin
NameProf. em. Dr. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
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Research and teaching at the Chair focus on the history, society and culture of the USA and Canada from precolonial times up to the present. A regular part of teaching is the tripartite survey lecture on social and cultural history, in which connections between economics, politics, society and culture are established. These areas also constitute the focus of the respective seminars and are dealt with in greater detail throughout the studies. The seminars equally focus on popcultural phenomena of society as a whole as well as on individual ethnic groups and subcultures. Furthermore, research interests of the professor and the team build the basis for teaching, for example in lectures dealing with American popular culture (especially in films and TV series), the American West and Western, ethnic groups in North America and transatlantic relations.
Research Interests
- American and Canadian cultural history (especially of the West, including ethnic diversity, women, urban cultures)
- urban history
- minority history and culture (especially Native American and First Nations)
- gender studies
- travel writing and colonial discourse
- technology and nature
- transatlantic relations
- photography
- popular culture
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Chair of American Studies with a focus on Diversity Studies
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Chair of American Studies with a Focus on Diversity Studies
NameProf. Dr. Carsten Junker
Teaching and Research
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Demographic heterogeneity requires societies to negotiate different concepts of diversity, and the Chair of American Studies with a Focus on Diversity Studies considers this nexus of interactions from a transatlantic perspective. The research and teaching priorities of the chair focus particularly on recent developments in American Studies oriented towards exploring diversity and categories of difference against the backdrop of social struggles for participation, visibility, and the recognition of differences. At the same time, they highlight how, since the 1960s, the agenda of American Studies has been crucially shaped by criticism of oftentimes violent inequalities. The chair is committed to fostering interdisciplinary transatlantic exchange in research and teaching as well as social dialogue on issues of diversity.
Research Interests
- North American literatures and cultures (incl. Canada and the Caribbean, 17th century to the present)
- Epistemologies and ethics of difference, diversity, and decoloniality
- Theories and history of authorship, genre and media theory (esp. autobiography, essay, manifesto, interview, social media), narratology
- Critical Race Studies (esp. Critical Whiteness Studies, African American and Black Diaspora Studies)
- Gender and Queer Studies (esp. theories of intersectionality; queer theory)
- Structural violence and its articulations (esp. the history and legacy of transatlantic enslavement, settler colonialism, war in North America)
- North American popular culture, visual culture, music
- Contradiction Studies
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