Research Foci

The subject area of Anglophone Studies at Department III of the Faculty of Humanities at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg focuses on the following research fields:

  • Economic Criticism
    • Money and Fiction
  • Nature-Culture-Interactions
    • Human-Animal-Studies
    • Ecocriticism
    • Human Beings and Machines
  • Postcolonial Studies
    • Transcultural and Postcolonial Theory
    • Material, Medial and Cultural History of the British Empire
  • Mentality Studies
    • History of Mentality
    • Theory of Mentality
  • Urban Studies
    • Theory of City and Space
    • City Literature, focussing especially on Literature of London
    • City and the Fantastic
  • Popular Culture
    • The Fantastic, especially Urban Fantasy
    • Humour Studies
    • Participatory Culture

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