Professorship for Literary Studies and Methodology of Teaching Literature

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

On the basis of a concept of literature that encompasses narrative, dramatic and lyrical texts as well as media related to literature, such as film, radio plays or picture books, the Chair of Literary Studies and Didactics deals with German literature from the 17th to the 21st century. In the sense of its interface function between literary studies and didactics of literature, an essential concern of the professorship is to describe and research processes of understanding and interpreting literature as well as intersubjective understanding of literary objects. Specifically, the professorship deals with the topic of the development of literature-related comprehension skills in childhood and adolescence, including the diagnosis and detailed description of these skills. Another of its concerns is the teaching of principles and procedures of theory-based analysis of literary texts and literature-related media. In addition, it examines the problem of literary interpretation and explores methods for promoting the understanding of literature, especially literary conversation, but also scenic play and creative and scientific writing.

Main research areas

The research activities of the professorship concentrate on the study of narrative literary texts of the 17th to the 21st century from the perspective of the history of ideas and motifs as well as from the perspective of the genres of poetry and the theory of intermediality. A special focus is currently on the study of narrative literature of the 19th century from a perspective that attempts to combine questions of the history of ideas with questions of aesthetics of effect under the motto "suspense" (see "Projects").

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  1. The Use of Anti-Windup Techniques in Didactic Level Systems
  2. Process simulation of friction extrusion of aluminum alloys
  3. Perfect anti-windup in output tracking scheme with preaction
  4. Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms
  5. Die Corporate Governance-Berichterstattung des Aufsichtsrats
  6. Einkommenssituation Selbständiger in der Europäischen Union
  7. On the geometric control of internal forces in power grasps
  8. The Meaning of Work for Post-retirement Employment Decisions
  9. Umgang mit Diversität und Heterogenität im Chemieunterricht
  10. Pädagogisch-psychologisches Professionswissen von Lehrkräften
  11. Lagrangian Coherent Sets as transport barriers in convection
  12. Quality of firms' imports and distance to countries of origin
  13. Modi der Verständlichkeit und die Magie des Unverständlichen
  14. International sojourn experience and personality development
  15. IGLU - Ergebnisse im internationalen und nationalen Vergleich
  16. Vector Fields Autonomous Control for Assistive Mobile Robots
  17. Zur interaktion koordinativer und propriozeptiver leistungen
  18. Zur Auswirkung der Höranstrengung auf das Arbeitsgedächtnis
  19. Die Förderung selbständigen Lernens im Mathematikunterricht
  20. Foreign ownership and firm performance in the German services
  21. Adaptive Lehrerinterventionen beim mathematischen Modellieren
  22. The use of knowledge in inter-organisational knowledge-networks
  23. Transductive support vector machines for structured variables
  24. Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms
  25. Exports, R&D and productivity in German business services firms
  26. Short run comovement, persistent shocks and the business cycle
  27. Multifractality of overlapping non-uniform self-similar measures
  28. Using haar wavelets for fault detection in technical processes
  29. Temporary exports and characteristics of destination countries
  30. Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
  31. Simulation based comparison of safety-stock calculation methods
  32. The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica
  33. Opportunities and Drawbacks of Mobile Flood Protection Systems
  34. Sustainability-Related Innovation and Sustainability Management
  35. Using Fuzzy PD Controllers for Soft Motions in a Car-like Robot
  36. Compound forging of hot-extruded steel-reinforced aluminum parts
  37. On inhomogeneous Bernoulli convolutions and random power series
  38. Improving Mathematical Modelling by Fostering Measurement Sense
  39. Die Dioxide und Trioxide des Tropilidens, Synthesen – Thermolysen.
  40. U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems