Lehrstuhlinhaber

Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka ?

(* 8.06.1961 - ? 10.02.2022)

Lehrstuhlinhaber: 2002-2022

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur and English late medieval literature and culture
  • Medieval reception in film and literature
  • Law and literature of the late 18th century (e.g. John Thelwall, High Treason Trials of 1794)
  • English literature and culture of the 20th century (e.g. cultural transfer and migration, Europeanisation)
  • Kindertransport and Holocaust literature
  • Contemporary Jewish-British literature
  • Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English (with Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
  • Literature and bio-technology

Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Peter Jochum ?

(* 19.01.1937 – ? 7.04.2022)

Lehrstuhlinhaber: 1978-2002

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • William Shakespeare und das Drama der Renaissance (Habilitation: Discrepant Awareness: Studies in English Renaissance Drama)
  • Erz?hlung vom 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert
  • William Butler Yeats (Dissertation: Die dramatische Struktur der Spiele von W.B. Yeats)

Vertretungen

Dr. Nora Ple?ke

Lehrstuhlvertretung: April 2023 - Februar 2024

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Anglophone Kulturen, Medien und Literaturen (18. - 21. Jahrhundert)
  • Urban Studies, Material Culture Studies, Economic Criticism
  • Transkulturelle und Postkoloniale Theorie
  • Mentalit?tsgeschichte und -theorie
  • Materiale, mediale und kulturelle Geschichte des britischen Empires
  • London- und Stadtliteratur; Stadt- und Raumtheorie

Dr. Katrin R?der

Lehrstuhlvertretung: April 2022 - Februar 2023

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Early Modern Literature and Culture: works of Fulke Greville, Sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Daniel, censorship, conceptions of authorship and subjectivity, Protestantism / Calvinism, representations of the Ottoman Empire and Islam in English drama, historiography and travel literature between 1580 und 1620, history of emotions and epic
  • Narrative Literature, Ethical Literary Criticism and Hermeneutics of Existence: conceptions of happiness and the British novel (18th - 20th century)
  • Disability, Gender and Affect Studies, Autobiography Studies: “Shame as a Performative Narrative Affect in Automedial Art by Female British Authors with ‘Disabilities’ and ‘Mental Distress’ (Research Project funded by DFG)

Mitarbeitende

  • Igor Baldoino
    • In Bamberg: April 2017 - September 2023
  • Touhid Chowdhury
    • In Bamberg: April 2019 - M?rz 2023
  • Chiara Manghi
    • In Bamberg: Mai 2015 - September 2019
  • Lisa Sch?dlich
    • In Bamberg: Oktober 2017 - September 2018
  • Alexander Debney
    • In Bamberg: September 2016 - September 2017
  • Dr. Barbara Kehler
    • In Bamberg: April 2010 - M?rz 2016
  • Dr. Johannes Weber
    • In Bamberg: Oktober 2008 - Juni 2014
  • Professor Dr. Anja Müller
    • In Bamberg: April 2002 - M?rz 2010
  • Professor Dr. Christoph Heyl
    • In Bamberg: April 2010 - M?rz 2011