Subject and interdisciplinary diversity; student-friendly environment with a heavy research focus, combining basic research with application-oriented research. Offers in ‘Critical’ Media Literacy and for the investigation of questions of current social relevance (e.g. gender, racism, educational justice), as well as contemporary literary life.

Range of international collaborations; at least one visiting academic per semester in the German department; numerous guest lectures and research collaborations.

Successful acquisition of third-party funding projects, e.g. ‘Variance and grammaticalisation of verbal scene constructions’ (DFG), ‘Gender-sensitive language in theory and practice’ (MWK) or ‘Strategy-oriented spelling’ (RESO); ‘Doing Memory on Right-Wing Violence’ (Volkswagen Foundation); Research focuses: Empirical professional research and media literacy, literary anthropology and edition philology, Austrian and Swiss literature as well as modern literature, contemporary literature, censorship and anti-Semitism research; new education and research funding: ‘Connotatively generated gender stereotypes’