Professorship for Modern German Literature/Literary Cultures

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The designation "Literary Cultures" emphasises the cultural-scientific character of the literary studies practised in the Lüneburg Cultural Studies subject ensemble. Like the traditionally oriented institutes of literary studies, the core of literary studies is first and foremost devoted to literary works: their aesthetics, the circumstances of their production, their history and the readings they have provoked.

Main research areas

Literary cultures, however, extend beyond the individual literary work in at least two ways. Firstly, from an intracultural point of view, in that different cultures of production and reception within a society are examined, some of which exist quite independently of each other; secondly, from an intercultural point of view, in that the processes of cultural exchange taking place on a global scale are addressed in relation to literature.

Literary studies oriented towards cultural studies is committed to interdisciplinarity. Although it still has its mainstay in the traditional philologies and their theories, its research and teaching is transdisciplinary and genuinely cultural studies-oriented. Topics that can only be meaningfully dealt with in an interdisciplinary context are therefore of particular relevance to it. Such cross-sectional topics include: Interculturality, mediality, cultural memory, gender and violence relations. In addition to humanities subjects such as history, philosophy, media and art history as well as the other philologies, the Literary Cultures in Lüneburg therefore also work together with social science-oriented subjects.

The "Literary Cultures" in Lüneburg do not intend to offer a full-fledged programme in literary studies. However, students can choose to focus on this area in all phases of their studies and, in particular, write their Bachelor's and Master's theses as well as their doctoral dissertations here.

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  3. Social Policy in the European Union by Karen M Anderson. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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  5. Special Issue: Flucht und Verflechtung. Zur Bildung eines ‚unsteten‘ Archivs der Literatur
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  8. The ESBW Short Scale A Test for Assessing Teachers’ Standards-Based Educational Knowledge
  9. Einleitung: Sozialpolitik als Geschlechterpolitik - Geschlechterpolitik als Sozialpolitik
  10. Weitergehende Prozessbewertung mittels Non-Target-Screening bei der Landeswasserversorgung
  11. Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce ?
  12. Modeling and simulation of the heterogenous material behavior in thermal-sprayed coatings
  13. Relationships between climate, productivity and vegetation in southern mongolian drylands
  14. Release of monomers from four different composite materials after halogen and LED curing
  15. Einstellungen von studierenden im 4. studienjahr zur erlangung kommunikativer kompetenzen
  16. Effects of forest management on species diversity of vascular plants in northern Germany
  17. Dispersal of vascular plants by game in northern Germany. Part II: Red deer (Cervus elaphus)
  18. Simulation of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany with ordinary differential equations in MATLAB