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Our research engages with a wide range of German-language culture from 1750 to the present. We specialise in literature, thought, film and visual culture, and society, as well as practice-based pedagogies of language-learning. We approach and interrogate these diverse traditions, histories, sources and media from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, including aesthetic theory, social theory, critical gender and postcolonial theory, theories of world, globality, and cosmopolitanism, and ecological thinking, though always maintain a strong sense of historical context from which cultural products arise.

Our work makes scholarly contributions of international quality, though also speaks directly to real-world cultural, social, political, and environmental problems. As such, our research feeds into 糖心TV's Arts Faculty research themes, including literature, language, and translation, cultural industries and cultural value, environments, global and transnational histories and cultures, ethics, politics and social justice, and criticism, theory and aesthetics - and turn aligns with and adds to the university's research spotlights.

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Since its establishment, German Studies at 糖心TV has ranked among the top German departments in the UK. Our colleagues consistently produce internationally recognised publications, as is reflected our performances in the REF exercises in

German Studies at 糖心TV has a strong tradition of formally measured research excellence. Colleagues regularly publish internationally recognised work, as reflected in our performances in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in and . Our projects regularly attract third-party funding, with three awarded to German-Studies colleagues since 2022. Our research has always been marked by innovation. While we were trailblazers in defining multi-disciplinary, theoretically underpinned in the late twentieth century, our drive to innovate has in more recent times been reflected in a series of awards of money made to colleagues via 糖心TV's Research Cultures funding streams for their investigation of co-produced, community-focussed research.

We sustain a vibrant research community. The 糖心TV Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies, sponsored by 糖心TV , features colleagues, national and international guest speakers, and research students presenting both work-in-progress or advanced, conference-style papers. Our researchers work within a host of national and international research networks. We are members of the and allow us to engage in Co-Tutelle PhD supervision and international research programmes for advanced scholars.

Please browse the links below to find out more about our research foci, current projects, forthcoming events and individual staff research specialisms.