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Chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies

Prince Albert. Photo (c) Christian Krug. Used by permission

About English Literary and Cultural Studies

Our research has centred on literary and other cultural – including popcultural – phenomena in Great Britain, with a specific emphasis on literary and cultural theory  and interdisciplinary perspectives. While our research and teaching has covered British literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present, a main focus has been on the 16th/17th and the 19th/20th centuries. Of special interest are literary and cultural representations with intersecting categories of difference (especially ones relating to ethnicity and gender), their impact on identity formation and on processes of social stratification, and their connections to other discourses, such as economy, religion, politics, society or modern media. Historical case studies deal with specific socio-political structures and with politics, ideologies and mentalities in Great Britain. Focussing on these issues implies an extension of the text paradigm, which now also includes other, non-literary symbolic frameworks by which shared meanings are produced and circulated – an approach which has enabled us to foreground questions of canonisation, mediality and the materiality of culture.


An England supporter at the World Cup 2006 in Nuremberg. Photo (c) Christian Krug. Used by permissionDie Arbeit am Lehrstuhl hat in Forschung und Lehre die britische Literatur von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart abgedeckt, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf der Erforschung von Wechselbeziehungen zwischen literarischen und anderen – z.B. ökonomischen, philosophischen und politischen – Diskursen liegt. Forschungsprojekte haben sich mit Fragen der literarisch-kulturellen Repräsentation voneinander überlagernden Differenzkategorien beschäftigt (neben solchen ethnisch-sozialer Art insbesondere solche geschlechtlich-sexueller Art) als Faktoren der Identitätsbildung und der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchisierung, wobei u. a. auch ethische und religiöse Fragstellungen erörtert und psychoanalytische Ansätze erprobt werden. Historische Fallstudien beziehen sich auf jeweils spezifische politisch-gesellschaftliche Organisationsstrukturen sowie auf Politik, Ideologien und Mentalitäten in Großbritannien. Methodisch implizieren diese Schwerpunkte eine Erweiterung des Textparadigmas zugunsten einer Vielzahl symbolischer Verständigungsrahmen für Prozesse kollektiver Sinnstiftung, die auch Fragen nach Kanonisierung und Medialität sowie der Materialität von Kultur einschließen.


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Chair

Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge

Room: Room C4A1
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29361
  • Email: claudia.lillge@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/litcult/staff/prof-dr-claudia-lillge/
Office hours: Contact by appointment (email)

Administration

Evelin Werner-Kretschmar

Room: Room C4A5
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29361
  • Email: evelin.werner-kretschmar@fau.de
Office Hours:

Tue and Wed, 10.30 am - 3.30 pm

Academic Staff

Ulrike Dencovski

Room: Room C3A7
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-23573
  • Email: ulrike.dencovski@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/litcult/staff/ulrike-dencovski-m-a/
Office hours:

Office Hours:
(C3A7 or via Zoom) - by arrangement
off term:
by arrangement

Axelle Germanaz

Room: Room C3A8
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-23573
  • Email: axelle.germanaz@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/litcult/staff/axelle-germanaz-m-a/
Office Hours: Tue 12:00-13:00 (registration via e-mail)

Dr. Christian Krug

Room: Room C4A2
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-22932
  • Email: christian.krug@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/litcult/staff/christian-krug/
Office hours: Please contact me (email) so that we can arrange to talk by phone or via Zoom.

Emeriti

Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann

Room: Room C3A1
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-22033
  • Email: doris.feldmann@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/litcult/staff/emeriti/doris-feldmann/
Office hours: Contact by appointment (email)
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