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Chair of German Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Holder of the chair
NameMs Prof. Dr. Marina Münkler
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W48, 2nd floor, room 210 Wiener Str. 48
01219 Dresden
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Office hours:
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The Chair of German Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture studies the German literature and culture of the Middle Ages from the beginnings of written records in German (around 800 AD) to the end of the 16th century. Medieval studies and early modern research cover a wide range of texts, from literature in the narrower sense to non-fictional texts.
Research Interests:
- Invectivity
- Narratives and cultural memory
- Communications and narratives of risk
- Integration and social change
- Alterity and interculturality
- Experience of the foreign
- Friendship and social change
- Dialogue Research
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Chair of Digital Cultures
© Michael Kretzschmar
Chair holder
NameProf. Dr. Orit Halpern
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Research and teaching areas of the Chair for Digital Cultures & Societal Change focuses on the relationship between digital media, infrastructure, and governmentality.
Smart Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence, and the Anthropocene. These three categories are unified through an investment in using humanistic inquiry to denaturalize the present and to inform the future of how we design and envision digital technologies; fostering new methods and practices at the intersection of the humanities, science, and the arts; and interrogating how computational infrastructures and artificial intelligence technologies impact race, environment, and political-economy.
Research Interests:
- History of Science
- Anthropology
- Digital Humanities
- Environmental Humanities
- Media and Culture Studies
- Design Studies
- Political Science
- Zur Professur für Digital Cultures
Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature
© Lars Koch
Prof. Dr. Lars Koch
Chair holder
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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Fakultät SLK
Institut für Germanistik
Professur für Medienwissenschaft und NdL
01062 Dresden
Parcel address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Fakultät SLK
Institut für Germanistik
Professur für Medienwissenschaft und NdL
Helmholtzstraße 10
01069 Dresden
Office hours:
- Monday:
- 11:00 - 12:00
- except during the lecture-free period
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The Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature is interested in issues at the intersection of media and cultural theory, aesthetics and (cultural) narratology. It investigates the political and emotional dimensions of literature, film and TV series, deals with popular cultural phenomena as well as with 'high culture' and assumes that its objects can only be comprehensively viewed if they are historically classified and discursively contextualized.
Research Interests:
- Invectivity, Theatricality, Aesthetics
- Culture, Emotions, Fear
- Literary, media and cultural theory of disturbance
- Emotional complexes of populism
- Narratology and cultural analysis of the television series
- Medialization of danger and risk
- Collective experiences of denormalization
- Experiences of strangeness