Contemporary German Cinema in its political, aesthetic and industrial context; The relationship between German and US cinema; The representation of 'Victimhood' in German culture; 'Ostalgie' View full profile

Political, utopian and fantastic thought, esp. in Romanticism, German Student Movement, Science Fiction, and in the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse and Uwe Timm. View full profile

Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Literature, Theatre and Film, particularly: Queer and Minority Identities; Transculturalism; Contemporary German Cinema; German Women's Writing; Elfriede Jelinek. View full profile

Literature and the Holocaust, especially the works of W. G. Sebald and H. G. Adler; Holocaust translation; issues of gender and queer identities in contemporary German literature; View full profile

German literature in its social and historical context; the role of the writer-intellectual; Contemporary Austrian drama & the stage; Literature & National Socialism; Post 1989 Narrative Fiction View full profile

Lecturer in German. Cinematic representations of terrorism; Cultural memories of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF); Post-1945 Austrian literature and film; Film adaptations View full profile

The literature of Christian Kracht; Pop literature since the 1980s; Konkrete Poesie and ‘cut-up’ montages since the 1960s; The novels of Arnold Stadler View full profile

Filmic representations of the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof group) over the course of the last 30 years. View full profile

Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching, Austrian and German Cinema, Cultural exchange and and intercultural communications. View full profile

DAAD Lektorin View full profile

History of the German Women's movement, gender relations in German history. The response of the women's movement to the First World War and the role of women activists in cultural demobilisation. View full profile

Relationships between politics and writing, the role of the German intellectual in the period after 1945, and literature after 1989. View full profile

Border cultures and theory; Contemporary German-speaking theatre and drama with particular focus on representations of migration and transnational experience. View full profile