Research Focus

 

  • Postmodernism and Postcolonialism as global cultural phenomena
  • Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Latin America
  • Postmodern and postcolonial theater: Theory and practice in Latin America
  • The postmodern and postcolonial novel in Latin America
  • Theater – Hybridity – Mediality
  • Hybridity, mediality and the body in culture and literature
  • New historiography and the new historical novel in Latin America
  • Postmodern and postcolonial narrative by women in Latin America
  • Jorge Luis Borges in transcultural and transdisciplinary contexts
  • Literary topographies: Real vs. imaginary spaces. Models of spatial representation and functions
  • Concepts of science in the humanities (in cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • „Border culture“
  • Discovering and conquering America: Chronicles
  • Maghrebine literature and culture
  • New autobiography in France, the Maghreb, Spain and Latin America
  • New concepts of spectacularity and body: Latin American and French theater
  • Francophone-Hipanophone-Maghreb Research
  • Transmediality
  • Frida Kahlo
  • New diasporas (Israel, Maghreb, Europa, U.S.)
  • Memory and archive in Latin America
  • Identity / Belogning / Hospitality / Recognition / Migration