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