Our research culture

Our research is organized around a number of overlapping and interconnecting thematic areas in which members of staff are working:

Language studies

Work which has been or is being conducted in this area includes:

Literature and culture in their social and historical contexts

A wide range of work is being done in the following periods:

Medieval, Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Dr Nigel Harris
'Goethezeit’ [late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including the Enlightenment and the Sturm und Drang] Dr Elystan Griffiths, Dr Nicholas Martin
The late nineteenth century, Dr Elystan Griffiths, Dr Nicholas Martin, Dr Ruth Whittle
The twentieth century, Dr Bill Dodd, Dr Nicholas Martin, Dr Joanne Sayner
Women's writing, representations of women Dr Joanne Sayner, Dr Ruth Whittle
The reception of Weimar classicism, Dr Nicholas Martin
The reception of Nietzsche Dr Nicholas Martin
The reception of Dostoyevsky in Germany, Prof. Bill Dodd

The following projects have recently been funded by research bodies:

The Latin and German parallel texts of the Lumen anime C and Ulrich Putsch’s Liecht der sel, Dr Nigel Harris
Women’s political writing in the nineteenth century, Dr Ruth Whittle
Reframing Antifascism: Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta Kuckhoff Dr Joanne Sayner
Silence, memory and empathy in museums and at historic sites Dr Joanne Sayner
Sophie von La Roche’s Journal Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter (1783-84) in the Light of Unpublished Correspondence Dr Elystan Griffiths
Dolf Sternberger, National Socialism, and 'Sprachkritik', Prof. Bill Dodd