English Literary and Cultural Studies

People

• Müller, Anja (Univ.-Prof. Dr.) (Chair)
• Boller, Alessandra (Dr.)
• Hansen, Christopher (Dr. des.) (former member)
• Hartwig, Marcel (Dr.)
• Weber, Anna Maria (Secretary)

Courses

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 23-24 / comments winter term 23-24

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Sommersemester 23 / comments summer term 23

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 22-23 / comments winter term 22-23

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Sommersemester 22 / comments summer term 22

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 21-22 / comments winter term 21-22

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Sommersemester 21 / comments summer term 21

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 20-21 / comments winter term 20-21

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Sommersemester 20 / comments summer term 20

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 19-20 / comments winter term 19-20

Research

The study of English literature and culture in Siegen has, from the 1970s onwards, integrated approaches from media and cultural studies.
The media-oriented tradition lives on in our present focus on research in the fields of

children’s literature and childhood studies,
canon formation,
fantasy and medievalism,
gender studies, as well as
adaptation and transformation studies, and
contemporary drama in English.

Our cultural-studies oriented research areas include

issues of cultural identities,
cross-Atlantic studies,
cultural transfer,
the representation and function of transspecies hybrids in popular culture,
eighteenth-century studies, and
European transculturalism.

Research projects in these fields are being developed in individual projects as well as in interdisciplinary cooperation with other members of our faculty (see the website of our staff members and the research section on the faculty website).

Further links

• Forschungsstelle "Europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur" (gemeinsam mit Dr. Jana Mikota und Dr. Sabine Planka)
• Vormoderne Männlichkeiten
• DFG-Projekt "Kanonbildung und das soziale Imaginäre in britischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur"

Current / Completed Doctoral Candidates/Projects

• Dr. Boller, Alessandra:
  “Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Dystopian Times: Modified Bodies and the Re-/ Deconstruction of Human Exceptionalism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go”
• Budde, Larissa, M.A.:
  “Symbiotes, Hybrids, Skinwalkers: Trans-species Personhood and the Absent Animal in Fiction and Film from the USM Auriga to the Six Duchies”
• Hansen, Christopher, M.A.:
  "Narrative Structure of Shared Universes in Comic and Film"
• Herrmann, Simone, M.A.:
  “Negotiations of Individual and Community in British Children's and Young Adult Adventure Stories”
• Dr. Peters, Maria Verena:
  “Crossover Literature and Age in Crisis. Harry Potter’s Kidults and the Twilight Moms”
• Severin, Maria, M.A.:
  “Renaissance Children and Childhood in the Light of Jacobean Drama”

Current Post-Doctoral Candidates/Projects

• Dr. Hartwig, Marcel:
  “Transit Cultures: Early Medical Discourses in England and the New World, 1639-1751”