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Chair of French Literature and Cultural Studies
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Chair holder
NameProf. Dr. Roswitha Böhm
Vice-Rector of University Culture since August 2020
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Deputy Head of Chair
NamePD Dr. Bettina Lindorfer
Chair of French Studies
The chair is concerned with Francophone literatures and cultures from the early modern period to the extrême contemporain and these research foci: Fact and Fiction, Language Migration, Media and Memory, Poetics of the Precarious.
Research Interests:
- Narratology
- Border phenomena of the literary (literature/history, fact/fiction, literature/photography)
- Gender Studies
- Cultural Transfer and Language Migration
- Media and Collective Memory
- Work and Literature. Towards a Poetics of the Precarious.
To the Chair of French Literature and Cultural Studies
Chair of Italien Literature and Cultural Studies
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Chair Holder
NameProf. Dr. Elisabeth Tiller
Chair of Italian Literature and Cultural Studies
The Chair of Italian Literature and Cultural Studies focuses on cultural products such as literary texts, films, pictures, maps, and graphic novels, as well as on historical modes of functioning and constellations of culture and knowledge that constitute such aestheticized representations. The historical window for teaching and research extends from the Middle Ages to the immediate present. The focus is on cultural phenomena, medial processes, and historical transformations of society, which are explored from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, discourse analysis, fiction theory, or gender studies.
Research Interests:
- Fictionality and factuality
- Migration in literature and film
- Contemporary literature
- Early Modern Studies
- Gender Studies
- History of literature, culture and knowledge
- Spatial theory and urban discourses