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Contemporary German Literature and Media; Theories of the Contemporary; Aesthetics and Politics; Transnationalism and Translation; Digital Writing; European Jewish Literatures; Literary and Cultural Theory; Theories of the Novel

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Transatlantic slave trade; Dutch and Portuguese (post)colonialism; Low Countries Studies; European politics and culture; Swiss literature and culture

Introduction to German Reading Culture; The Multicultural Netherlands; The Dutch-Speaking Caribbean; From New Amsterdam to New York; Anne Frank and After; The Indonesian Connection; “Minor Literatures” – Austrian and Swiss Literature and Identity

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Foreign Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Applied Linguistics

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Frankfurt School; German Idealism; Aesthetics; Literature and Philosophy; Intellectual History

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Cultural and media studies with a focus on moving images, multilingual literature, and theories of migration, social interaction and aesthetic intervention in a global horizon

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Modernism/modernity; Weimar cinema and culture; trauma and memory; 20th century German literature, film, and avant-garde; film theory and media archaeology; Frankfurt School; German exiles; film noir; photography and temporality

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Applied linguistics; Social, cultural and stylistic approaches to language study; Discourse analysis; Multilingualism; Second language acquisition

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Ecosemiotics; Translation Studies; Language Philosophy (Hamann, Nietzsche, Mauthner, Wittgenstein, Heidegger); Psychoanalysis & Literature; 18th-21st Century Germanophone Poetry & Prose; 19th Century Science & Literature.

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Medieval Literature; Literature and religion; History of the Imagination; Literature, sensation and emotions; Aesthetics

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Germanic linguistics, historical and contemporary; Linguistic fieldwork; Socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to language variation and language change; Semiotics

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Kleist; Fontane and German Realism; Theory of Hermeneutics; theory of cultural institutions; history of Germanistik, including German exiles

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Germanic linguistics; Modern German and Dutch; Syntax and phonology; Functional and cognitive approaches, e.g. the affects of various semantic, pragmatic, and processing factors on syntactic phenomena

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German literature and intellectual history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on classical-romantic literature and the philosophical thought of German Idealism; Law and Literature; Legal and Political Thought; Comparative Literature (mainly Western Europe)

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Medieval and early modern literature; Habsburg court society in the early modern period; development of the German language in the late Middle Ages; text and time image; textual instability; Vienna