Visiting Professors

SoSe 2024

Erasmus + Visiting Professorship: Prof Robert Higney, City University of New York, USA
Lecture course "Migration, Displacement, and the City in Contemporary Anglophone Literature"

SoSe 2023

Professorial Fellowship: Prof Ian Afflerbach, University of North Georgia, USA
Lecture course "Race, Death, and Memory in Transatlantic Writing from the Twentieth Century"

Erasmus+ Visiting Professorship: Margaret Harper, University of Limerick, Ireland

DAAD Short-Term Visiting Fellowship: Prof Dr Małgorzata Hołda, University of Łódź, Poland

WS 2022/23

Erasmus+ Visiting Professorship: Dr Fraser Riddell, University of Durham, UK, for lectures and workshops at the British Studies department

SoSe 2022

DAAD Visiting Professorship: Prof Mariana Sargsyan, Head of the Centre for British Literature, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Research Project on "Alienation and Identity in Contemporary Scottish Writing"

Professorial Fellowship: Prof Dr Ben Clarke, UNC Greensboro, USA, sponsored by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science: 'Internationalisierung der Hochschulen'

WS 2020/21

Professorial Fellowship: Prof Dr David Alvarez, DePauw University, USA, sponsored by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science: 'Internationalisierung der Hochschulen'

Research project: "Imagining Global Religion: Empire and Secularity in the English Enlightenment"

Advanced seminar: "Literature and Religious Toleration in the English Enlightenment"

WS 2017/18

Erasmus+ Visiting Professorship: Prof Dr Katie Gramich, Cardiff University, UK, for lectures and workshops at the British Studies department

Lecture "(Br)exits and Entrances: Britishness and the Four Nations"; post-Brexit workshop; Angela Carter workshop.

WS 2014/15

Fulbright Visiting Professorship: Prof Dr Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis, USA, for research and teaching at the British Studies department

Lecture course "Shakespeare and the Early Modern Worlds".

WS 2014/15 and SoSe 2016

Vielberth Fellows: Prof Dr Rod Mengham and Dr Leo Mellor, University of Cambridge

Seminars and lectures on contemporary British poetry and the environment; Dylan Thomas and WWII; Writing Conflict: 1934-37

SoSe 2014

Professorial fellowship: Prof Dr Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis, USA, sponsored by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science: 'Internationalisierung der Hochschulen'

Lecture course and advanced seminar "Early Modern Voyages and Quests".

SoSe 2014

Vielberth Fellow: Prof Dr Katie Gramich, Cardiff University, UK, for lectures and workshops at the British Studies department

Lecture and seminars on "Motherland? Gendered Constructions of Wales in Art and Poetry"; the Four Nations and literary awards

SoSe 2011

Vielberth Fellow: Prof Dr Susan Sellers, University of St Andrews

Workshop and seminar "Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Bloomsbury Afterlives". Theatre workshop and performance: Elizabeth Wright's "Vanessa & Virginia". With Kitty Randle, Sarah Fullagar, and Moving Stories crew.

Anglistik / British Studies