English Studies
English Studies
The English Studies Department focuses
on literary and cultural studies. In our programmes we explore the
various expressions of British literature and culture in their
historical and cultural contexts from the Middle Ages to the present
day. We are convinced that the texts of the past continue to have an impact
on the present. In order to understand contemporary literature and
culture it is necessary to also investigate their roots – even back to
antiquity. Literary texts are studied as works of art, and as
configurations of historical and media-specific fields of
transformation, which requires a thorough understanding of gendered
knowledge production, political systems and transformation processes
(for example with respect to postcolonial contexts or situations of
migration and cultural contact) or of media-specific, religious and
other conceptions of life (e.g. in life writing).
Our particular interests include Medieval and Early Modern literature and culture, the 18th-century, Modernism, Postmodernism and life writing as well as Gender and Postcolonial Studies. These interests are reflected in our research as well as in the Bachelor and Master programmes we offer, including the degrees in BA English, MA English Literatures and MA Education. In addition the department is also involved in the MA European Literatures as well as the BA and MA Gender Studies degrees.
Associated degree courses:
- BA Englisch
- MA Englische Literaturen - English Literatures
- MA Education, Englisch
- MA European Literatures
- BA Gender Studies
- MA Gender Studies
- Magister Anglistik
- Magister Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- Lehramt Englisch
