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
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
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
- Women's studies
- Currently working on migrant fiction in the Netherlands
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Prof Gerald Newton
- German dialectology
- MOdern and historical linguistics
- Medieval language and literature
- Dutch studies
- Luxembourgish
- Currently working on studies in the development of Luxembourgish; the history of German printing; pre-1914 German emigration
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
Eddy Verbaan
- Early modern literature in Dutch
- History and culture of the early modern period
- Urbanism and related literature and ideas
- Pedagogy
Dr Roel Vismans
- Linguistics of Dutch
- Second language acquisition
Dr Regina Weinert
- General linguistics
- Spoken language syntax and pragmatics
- German/English contrastive analysis
- Sociolinguistics