Research Areas of the Department of English Literature
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß:
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Focus areas:
Contemporary British Literature and Culture
- gender and queer studies
- feminist theory
- neo-victorianism
- (film) adaptation
- fungi in literature and film
Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- (early modern) law and literature
- genre (esp. revenge tragedy and tragicomedy)
- collaboration and/in theatre
- early modern piracy
- (Jacobean) gothic
Questions of Canonisation & Genre
Dr. Susan Brähler:
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Focus areas:
- Caribbean literature of migration (interdisciplinary approach), black British literature, post-ethnic literature
- Collective memory and nostalgia
- Transcultural identities
- Theories of space
- Globalization and cosmopolitism
- Alterity in literary history
- The 20th and 21st century novel
Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein:
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Focus areas:
- The 18th century novel. The Gothic novel, Gothic parodies
- Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, especially revenge tragedy
- Genre and reception theory
- English Literature of the Great War
- Golden Age Crime Fiction