Research
This is a Department with a long tradition of distinguished research in German and Germanic Studies and a diverse and active current research profile. The academic interests of staff are exceptionally wide-ranging, but we identify a number of research strands, in which several colleagues are engaged:
- Modern German literary and cultural studies and intellectual history
- Modern German politics, society and history
- Germanic linguistics, including sociolinguistics and pragmatics
- Dutch Studies and Luxembourg Studies
In recent years, the Department has sustained and developed the high quality of its research. In the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, 30% of its research has been rated as being internationally excellent or world-leading.
The Department is the home department of three of the University´s Research Centres, the Centre for Luxembourg Studies, the Centre for Dutch Studies, and the Ernst Bloch Centre. It also supplies the Directors of two further interdisciplinary Research Centres, the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Gender Studies in Europe.
For further information, visit the pages of our centres.