• Ancient Near East
• Assyrians
• Babylonians
• Sumerians
• Akkadians
• Israel
• Syria
• Iraq
• Middle East
• Astronomy
• Astrology
• Science
• Early states
• School and education in pre-modern societies
• History of knowledge
• Oldest writing
• Decipherment
• Nimrud
• Nineveh
• Libraries
• Cuneiform
• Sumerian
• Akkadian
• Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
• 4. - 1st millennium BC
• History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
• Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology

• German literature of the Middle Ages
• Novels of the high and late Middle Ages
• Medieval German Passion Plays
• Art of novellas
• Literary theory, especially genre theory and narratology
• Gender studies
• Theories of the miraculous
• Theories of the performative
• Historical emotionality and historical anthropology
• Literature and psychoanalysis

• Chinese philosophy and aesthetics (German-Chinese)
• Moral philosophy and existentialism
• Aesthetics of German idealism
• Kierkegaard and Kant
• German literature (esp. Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Weimar Classicism, Romantic period)
• Literary theory and aesthetics in a philosophical context
• Literature of the classical modern
• Research cooperation with East Asia
• German-Asian Graduate School of Humanities

• Literature of the Enlightenment period
• Literature around 1800
• Cultural modernity
• Contemporary literature (after 1989)
• History of drama and theater
• Theory and history of the body
• History and aesthetics of sports
• Literature by women
• Gender studies
• Transcultural contemporary literature
• Cultural history of the concept of “trust”

• Text and image
• Literary portraits
• Transculturality
• Diasporic literature
• Holocaust literature
• Avantgarde
• Native American literature
• American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

• Culture and literature of Japan
• History and society of Japan
• Identity discourses, culinary studies
• Cultural translation

• Theories of literature
• Representations of community in literature and contemporary art
• German-Polish literary and cultural relations

• American literature

• History and cultural history of the British Isles
• Literature and culture in the English Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
• especially Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare
• Medieval reception in high and popular culture
• Tolkien
• Spy novels
• Winston Churchill
• British monarchy

• Gender research in medieval studies
• Lyric poetry
• Mysticism and women
• Novels
• Short novels in verse
• Literary history of emotionality
• Literary theory and medieval literature

• Popular culture and media history, especially serial forms
• North American colonial history / revolutionary period and early republic
• (American) Enlightenment studies

• Dutch literature

• English literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
• European colonialism (especially Scotland)
• Gender studies
• Vampires in literature and film

• Culture of emotions
• Satire, irony, comedy
• German-Jewish contemporary literature
• Modern poetry
• Theater of the Enlightenment
• Neurocognitive poetics

• History of literature and history of science
• Aesthetics and poetics of the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Modern Classical period
• Contemporary literature
• Psychological and experimental aesthetics around 1900
• History of the humanities

• Modern Greek studies
• Modern Greek literature and cultural history

• English literature from Shakespeare to the present
• Drama and theater
• English-Italian cultural relations
• Intertextuality and intermediality
• Literary translation

• German as a Teaching Profession
• Didactics of Literature
• Reading and literary competence and its acquisition
• Literature in the classroom
• Professionalisation

Language, Emotion and Movement

• Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

• Early acquisition of foreign languages
• Mixed-age learning settings
• English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

• Debates about the concept of “Heimat”
• German regional literature and films
• “Heimat” and propaganda
• “Heimat” and criticism of progress
• “Heimat” vs. environment
• “Heimat” as a European phenomenon
• International student exchange (international students in the German school system)

• German literature of the Middle Ages
• Literary theory, especially narratology
• Religion in medieval literature
• Power and violence in medieval literature
• Medieval reception
• Computer games

• Shakespeare and English literature and culture of the early modern period
• English literature and culture of the 19th century
• Gender studies

• Cultures of Eastern Europe, esp. Russian
• Literatures of Eastern Europe, esp. Russian-language
• Energy Humanities

• Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
• University History
• Media History and New Media
• Gender Studies
• Global Literature
• Spanish Literature
• French Literature

• Ancient literature and philosophy
• Homer
• Tragedy
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Philosophy of late antiquity (Platonism and Aristotelianism)
• Ancient philosophy of science
• History of education (liberal arts)
• Literary theory (ancient and modern)
• Modern antiquity images
• Effective history of antiquity

• Brecht’s theater and literature in the Weimar Republic and in exile
• Political and aesthetic positions and confrontations, e.g., Thomas Mann
• Walter Benjamin
• Hannah Arendt
• Exile and migration literature
• Holocaust and literature
• Letters, biography, autobiography
• Thomas Mann and the Mann family
• Women authors in literary history
• German-Jewish literary and cultural history