Research

Film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, intellectual history, philosophy of history

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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 colonial history, with a focus on culture, religion, literature, and language; Dutch literature; German literature, with a focus on Swiss literature; Low Countries Studies; European politics and culture.

From New Amsterdam to New York: Race, Culture, and Identity in New Netherland; Anne Frank and After: World War II and the Holocaust in the Netherlands; The Indonesian Connection: Dutch Dutch (Post)colonial History and Culture…

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

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German literature and thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth century; Comparative study of European and Chinese literature and thought; Law and Literature; Political Thought