Research Foci/ Supervision

Write your BA thesis in Literary and Cultural Studies in English!

The following faculty members (in alphabetical order) are happy to supervise your BA and/or MA and PhD theses and are looking forward to your informed proposals. Please contact the respective faculty members directly and explore the list of registered supervisors and co-supervisors for the current term.

     

    Supervision

    Please follow the links as provided below for a list of all faculty members who are authorized to supervise and assess BA/MA theses in this field.

    Dr. Karin Esders

    • Cultural History / Cultural Studies
    • Film und Popular Cultures
    • Critical Race Studies
    • Postcolonial Studies
    • Gender Studies
    • Transnational Cinema
    • Media Theories

    Dr. Paula von Gleich

    • African American and Black Diasporic Literature and Theory
    • Border Theories and the Literature of Migration
    • Critical Race Studies
    • Postcolonial and Transnational Literary Studies

      Dr. Vanessa Herrmann

      • Adaptation Studies
      • Shakespeare and Film
      • Game Studies (Adventure Games)
      • Gothic Fiction and Film
      • Popular Culture in Film and Literature

      Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf

      •  Postcolonial Film and Media
      •  Epistemological Power Relations and Postcolonial Knowledges
      •  German Colonial Texts in Papua New Guinea
      •  Postcolonial Studies (Cultures, Theories, Literatures and Films)
      •  Indigenous Literatures, Film and Media worldwide
      •  African Diaspora Studies
      •  American and Canadian Nineteenth-Century Literature
      •  American Prison Literature
      •  Women and Gender Studies

      Dr. Oluwadunni Talabi

      • Black feminist, Postcolonial and Transnational queer feminist studies
      • Black, African women and diasporic literatures and cultures
      • Critical race studies and analysis of structures
      • Critical future studies and Posthumanism
      • Feminist literary theory and gender studies

      Corina Wieser-Cox

      • Borderland, Chicanx, and Latinx Studies
      • Queer & Gender Studies
      • Speculative Fiction and Film
      • Trans* & Nonbinary Representations in Film and Literature
      • Indigenous North and Central American Film and Literature
      • Postcolonial Theories & Concepts
      • Indigenous Teachings & Knowledges
      • Two-Spirit & Queer Indigeneities in Fiction and Film