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
• Postcolonial Studies
  
  • Transcultural and Postcolonial Theory
  • Material, Medial and Cultural History of the British Empire
• Material Culture Studies
  • history of technology
• Medical Humanities
  • Human-Machine interaction
  • Hypnosis
  • Illness
• 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