The University of Sheffield
Department of Germanic Studies

Staff research interests

Prof Henk de Berg

  • History of ideas
  • Critical theory and social thought
  • 18th-20th century literature
  • Currently working on aspects of Kulturkritik

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Dr Caroline Bland

  • German social and cultural history, especially constructions of gender
  • Late 19th and early 20th century literature
  • Women's studies
  • Currently working on cultural construction of motherhood in the Kaiserreich

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Dr Kristine Horner

  • Language politics, policy and planning
  • Language ideologies and metalanguage
  • Discourse, representation and ideology
  • Social approaches to multilingualism
  • Migration, transnationalism and citizenship
  • Luxembourg studies

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Dr Henriette Louwerse

  • Multicultural literature in Dutch
  • Representations community in contemporary literature
  • Issues of interculturality
  • Literature in a media era

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Dr Caroline Pearce

  • Modern German political culture
  • German identity formation and the legacy of the Holocaust

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Prof Michael Perraudin

  • 19th century German literature and society
  • The decline and discrediting of Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s
  • Literature and social politics in the decades leading up to the 1848 Revolution
  • German forms of early realism

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Dr Peter Thompson

  • Modern German society and politics
  • Film studies
  • Ideas and philosophy
  • Currently working on a study of the PDS in the context of the German Marxist tradition; the impact of ideas of "the End of History" on social theory and practice; Nietzsche and contemporary film; British Left and the GDR

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Dr Roel Vismans

  • Linguistics of Dutch
  • Second language acquisition

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Dr Andrew Wormald

  • Post-1945 German cinema (particularly post-unification cinema).
  • Contemporary German media and television production.
  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung, normalisation and memory of the Third Reich.
  • Ostalgie and memory of the GDR.
  • German terrorism and the legacy of the RAF.

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