Institute of English Studies
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
At the interface of cultural studies and education, the Institute contributes to a number of different BA, MA and M.Ed. degree courses, e.g. Bachelor Lehren und Lernen, Master of Education, Leuphana Bachelor (Major Cultural Studies).
The Institute comprises the fields of English Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Area Studies & Language Skills.
Main research areas
The Institute of English Studies' research reflects the diversity of English and Englishes, English literature and literatures, English culture and cultures, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
We focus on the heterogeneous and hybrid nature of these research areas and the application of our findings in various contexts. Current projects reflect this inter- and transdisciplinary approach. Research in the field of TEFL deals with personal and affective factors of the learner personality and with the intercultural structure of acquisition and communication situations. Competence orientation and assessment are important aspects of our research.
Acquisition and Interlanguage Pragmatics
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.98 → …
Project: Research
Alice 150: celebrating Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
21.04.15 → 07.07.15
Project: Practical Project
ASB: American Studies Blog
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
19.09.13 → 21.01.15
Project: Other
American Studies Blogs II
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
22.09.14 → 06.11.15
Project: Research
American Studies Blog VII
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
11.08.20 → 31.08.21
Project: Practical Project
American Studies Journal and Blog
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
01.12.15 → 31.01.17
Project: Research
American Studies Journal/Blog IV
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
12.12.16 → 15.02.18
Project: Other
American Studies Journal/Blog V
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.03.19
Project: Research
AIDEFF: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic), Burwitz-Melzer, E. (Partner) & Caspari, D. (Partner)
25.09.14 → …
Project: Research
bLÜmsday 2010: Bloomsday in Lüneburg
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
22.06.10 → 03.02.11
Project: Practical Project
CODIP: Competences for Digital-Enhanced Individualized Practice
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Herzog, C. (Coordination), Altenburger, L. (Project staff), Diekhoff, H. (Project staff), Hase, A. K. (Project staff), Kahnbach, L. (Project staff), Wendt, C. (Project staff), Wucherpfennig, S. (Project staff), Horst de Cuestas, K. (Project staff) & Neumann, A. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Der deutsche Gatsby x 8: eine Ausstellung
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
10.04.12 → 01.07.12
Project: Practical Project
Developing pragmatic competence on a stay abroad
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Trebits, A. (Project staff) & Mißfeldt, D. (Project staff)
01.09.12 → 01.09.14
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Teilprojekt 10: DigiCLIL-Exchange: Vermittlung fremdsprachlicher, interkultureller und fachlicher Kompetenzen zur Vorbereitung und Begleitung studienrelevanter Auslandsaufenthalte im Blended-Learning-Format
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Benitt, N. (Project staff), Birdman, J. (Project staff), Pandarova, I. (Project staff) & Çiçek, O. (Project staff)
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
E-Learning basierte Einführungskurse in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und die Betriebswirtschaftslehre (sowie inhaltsbezogen studienrelevante Englisch-Kompetenzen)
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Blume, C. (Project staff)
01.05.17 → 30.09.17
Project: Other
EPBC: European Picture Book Collection
O'Sullivan, E. (Partner) & Cotton, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.98 → 31.03.01
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
ESET: European School Education Training Course
O'Sullivan, E. (Partner), Cotton, P. (Partner), Keenan, C. (Partner), Morgado, M. (Partner), Marriott, S. (Partner), Sahr, R. (Partner) & Leysen, A. (Partner)
01.01.02 → 31.12.04
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Englische Sprachwissenschaft im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
Foreign language pragmatic development
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Warga, M. (Partner)
01.01.05 → 31.12.07
Project: Research
Georg Forster - Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → 30.10.25
Project: Individual grant
Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
01.09.21 → 31.08.24
Project: Research
Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden (gefödert durch Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Going Green – Education for Sustainability
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.21 → 31.08.23
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Green living and sustainability in the Community
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.15 → 30.06.15
Project: Practical Project
Harry Potter 21
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
15.04.18 → 15.07.18
Project: Practical Project
HeaLinGO: Health and Language Integrated Gaming Online
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Schiemann, S. (Project manager, academic), Dadaczynski, K. (Project staff), Blume, C. (Project staff), Schmidt, I. (Project staff) & Schmidt, P. R. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.06.13 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Innovation Plus 2021/2022 Nr. 59. KOHÄRENZ ERLEBEN – REFLEXION VON UNTERRICHT: AUFGABENORIENTIERT UND VIDEOBASIERT
Karber, A. (Project manager, academic), Padberg-Gehle, K. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic), Beckmann, T. (Project staff) & Bielski-Wüsthoff, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.21 → 31.01.23
Project: Teaching
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
O'Sullivan, E. (Partner), Dettmar, U. (Partner), von Glasenapp, G. (Partner), Tomkowiak, I. (Partner) & Roeder, C. (Partner)
01.05.15 → 15.01.17
Project: Other
Jubiläumsvortrag über James Krüss
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.07 → 23.01.08
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Kinderliterarische Komparatistik
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
19.11.95 → …
Project: Research
Learner Perceptions of Web 2.0-Enhanced EFL Tasks - An Explorative Mixed-Methods Study on the U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2012
Kaliampos, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.12 → 01.03.15
Project: Dissertation project
Lehreinheiten Basiskompetenzen Inklusion in den Fachdidaktiken (Zweite Förderphase)
Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Abels, S. (Partner), Leiss, D. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Greve, S. (Project staff) & Troll, B. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.12.17 → 31.03.19
Project: Research
Leuphana Language Game Lab: Mit Gesellschaftsspielen Sprachen vertiefen
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Miralles-Andress, N. (Project manager, academic)
26.10.16 → …
Project: Other
Leuphana Lehrerbildung - Konzept einer Lehrerbildung für den Lernort Schule 2020
Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic) & Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.13 → 21.06.19
Project: Research
Lückentexte revisited: Vom computerbasierten, adaptiven Testen zum adaptiven, fremdsprachlichen Üben mit automatisiertem, dynamischem Feedback: Entwicklung und Effekt-Messung am Beispiel „L2 Englisch Lückentexte Verbformen im Zeitengefüge“
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Benitt, N. (Partner), Brefeld, U. (Partner) & Pandarova, I. (Project staff)
01.10.16 → 30.09.17
Project: Research
Nah dran! Die Praxis als Vorbild
Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic)
14.07.14 → 30.04.16
Project: Teaching
civicOER: Offene Bildungsressourcen für das Lernen durch Verantwortung in Schule, Hochschule und Zivilgesellschaft. Teilvorhaben: Lehrerbildung, Sprach- und Kulturtandems sowie Zertifikatsprogramm
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Brückner, J. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.11.16 → 31.05.18
Project: Research
Interact4School: Out-of-school individual learning and the interfaces to school teaching: Effective digital practising as a basis for competence-oriented foreign language teaching
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Beilharz, S. (Project staff), Pili-Moss, D. (Project staff), Meurers, D. (Project manager, academic), Nagengast, B. (Project manager, academic), Trautwein, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, H. (Project staff), Nuxoll, F. (Project staff) & Wendebourg, K. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Pluricentric variation in responding to 'thanks'
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.19 → …
Project: Research
Pragmatics of Discourse. Handbook of Pragmatics III
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 01.07.13
Project: Research
Projektbezogener Personenaustausch Finnland
Fetzer, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.07 → 14.05.09
Project: Other
Promotional genres: Variation across genre and culture
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.04 → 01.09.12
Project: Research
Public Information Messages. A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication in Germany and Ireland
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.05 → 01.09.12
Project: Research
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children. Conference, Princeton University, 11. -13.09.2013
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Immel, A. (Partner)
01.09.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Scientific event
QualiTIES: Qualifying Teachers for Innovative English Settings: Teaching English in heterogeneous classes in secondary years education
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Gerlach, D. (Project manager, academic) & Roters, B. (Project staff)
01.04.18 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Grundy, P. (Project manager, academic) & Yueguo, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → 20.01.17
Project: Research
Schulnahe Unterstützung für einen modernen Englischunterricht in Brandenburg
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Vogt, S. (Project staff)
14.09.12 → 09.12.15
Project: Research
Selbstlern-Moodle-Kurs als Begleitung zum Modul "Introduction to English Literature"
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Köhler, U. K. (Project staff)
15.10.11 → 15.10.13
Project: Teaching
Sustainable Education & Going Green – An Intercultural German-American Blended- Learning Project
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Kohl, M. (Partner, non-academic) & Ernst, K. (Partner)
02.09.13 → 31.01.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Tag questions across the Englishes
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Pandarova, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.12 → 31.07.14
Project: Research
Teach about U.S.
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project staff)
29.06.15 → 26.01.18
Project: Practical Project
Teach About U.S.: Educational Outreach Project 2018-2020
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project manager, academic)
25.09.18 → 28.02.21
Project: Practical Project
Teach about US: Educational Outreach Project - Bridging the American Studies and Science Classrooms: Going Green Meets STEM
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Abels, S. (Partner) & Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff)
24.02.17 → 30.09.18
Project: Practical Project
Teach about U.S. IV
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project staff)
01.09.20 → 28.02.21
Project: Practical Project
Teaching pragmatics with textbooks
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Research
Telecollaboration and learner corpora: Delivering insights into foreign language pragmatic competence
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Black, E. (Project staff)
01.08.13 → 31.01.15
Project: Research
The 2024 U.S. Elections School Project
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.24 → 31.05.25
Project: Practical Project
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic), Immel, A. (Partner), Lathey, G. (Partner), Morgado, M. (Partner), Rutschmann, V. (Partner) & Renonciat, A. (Partner)
04.12.09 → …
Project: Research
ZZL-Netzwerk: Theorie-Praxis-Vernetzung im ZZL-Netzwerk in den vier Handlungsfeldern „Heterogenität und Inklusion“, „Kompetenzorientierte Unterrichtsgestaltung“, "Coaching & Mentoring" sowie „Lehrkräftegesundheit".
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Peperkorn, M. (Project staff), Beckmann, T. (Project staff), Kulin, S. (Project staff), Besser, M. (Project staff), Fischer, N. (Project staff), Straub, R. P. (Project staff), Troll, B. (Project staff), Köhler, A. (Project staff), Scharnberg, S. (Project staff), Landmeier, J. K. (Project staff), Waschewski, T. (Project staff), Bürgener, L. (Project staff), Brückner, J. (Project staff), Dollereder, L. (Project staff) & Bode, P. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Other
ZZL-Netzwerk 2.0: Theorie-Praxis-Verzahnung in der Lehrerbildung in den Handlungsfeldern „Kompetenzorientierter Unterricht“, „Inklusion“, „Coaching & Mentoring“ und „Lehrkräftegesundheit“
Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Weinhold, S. (Project manager, academic), Straub, R. P. (Project staff), Schilling, L. (Project staff), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Fischer-Schöneborn, S. (Coordination), Bormann, F. (Project staff), Kuchenbuch, F. (Project staff), Ahlers, M. (Partner), Verbücheln, E.-M. (Project staff), Barth, M. (Partner), Jastrow, F. (Project staff), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Anders, D. (Project staff), Kleinknecht, M. (Partner), Hohensee, E. (Project staff), Schiemann, S. (Partner), Paulus, P. (Partner), Claußen, J. T. (Project staff), Poschkamp, A.-K. (Project staff), Köllner, G. (Project staff), Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff), Schürmann, H. (Project staff) & Abels, S. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.19 → 31.12.23
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
The pragmatics of Irish English
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Partner)
01.01.20 → …
Project: Research
Transformations:Räume für zukunftsorientiertes Lernen
Japsen, A. (Coordination), Meier, N. (Coordination), Wenzel, M. (Project manager, academic), Farny, S. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Other
TRAWLER: Thinking, Researching, and Academic Writing - a Learning English Resource for Moodle.
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Hübner, A. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Dwenger, I. C. (Project staff) & O'Connor, S. (Project staff)
01.07.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Practical Project
US Election Project 2012 – A Social Media-based approach to teaching US Election 2012 in the German EFL classroom at secondary level
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Kohl, M. (Partner, non-academic), Junghanns, C. (Partner) & Ernst, K. (Partner)
01.03.12 → 27.02.13
Project: Practical Project
Variational Pragmatics: Regional variation across the Englishes
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Partner)
01.01.20 → …
Project: Research
Vorhabensteil: Sprachliche Heterogenität im schulischen Fachunterricht der Sekundarstufe I
Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schwippert, K. (Partner), Lutter, A. (Partner), Neumann, A. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner) & Holle, K. (Project staff)
26.06.12 → 31.12.12
Project: Research
