Research Doctoral Education

Doctoral supervisors

Literature and linguistics

  • Helene BARTHELMEBS

    20th and 21st Century French-speaking Literatures, Gender, Place of women on the literary scene, Comparative literature, Interculturality especially with postcolonial studies, Identities, Women’s writing

    FR, EN

  • Katrin BECKER

    Katrin BECKER
    German studies – Culture and Media Theory

    DE, FR, EN

  • Amelie BENDHEIM

    Amelie BENDHEIM
    Middle High German Language and Literature; Historical Narratology and Poetics; Intercultural Medieval Studies

    DE

  • Stefan BOERNCHEN

    Stefan BOERNCHEN
    German language literature of the 18th to the 21st century; media theory and media narratives; music and literature, graphic literature (comic, graphic novel); psychoanalysis; Gender Studies; posthumanism; Postcolonial Studies; narratives of the digital

    EN, DE

  • Claudio CICOTTI

    Claudio CICOTTI
    Italian linguistics and literature, Italian migration, migration literature, autobiography studies

    FR, EN, DE, IT

  • Till DEMBECK

    Till DEMBECK
    German literary history, Multilingual philology, Literary and culture theory, Literature and media, History of philology and linguistics

    DE, EN

  • Jeanne GLESENER

    Jeanne GLESENER
    Luxembourgish literatures, Comparative literature and World literature studies with focus on Small literatures; Migration and Literature in Europe

    LB, EN, FR, DE

  • Dieter HEIMBOECKEL

    Dieter HEIMBOECKEL
    New German literature from the 18th century to the present, Interculturality, Literary and cultural theory, Drama and theatre, Literature and knowledge/non-knowledge, Modernism

    DE

  • Oliver KOHNS

    Oliver KOHNS
    Aesthetics of the political, theories of world literature, German and English-language literature from the 18th to the 21st century, The figure of the villain in literature

    DE, EN

  • Georg MEIN

    Georg MEIN
    Theory and history of media, Literary theory, 18th to 21th century poetry and aesthetics

    DE

  • Anne-Marie MILLIM

    Anne-Marie MILLIM
    Victorian Literature, Life Writing, Non-Fictional Genres

    LB, EN, DE, FR

  • Nathalie ROELENS

    Nathalie ROELENS
    Travel literature, Urban semiotics

    FR, IT

  • Heinz SIEBURG

    Heinz SIEBURG
    Middle high German language and literature, Word formation, Sociolinguistics (German dialects, Gender studies)

    DE

  • Florentina ARMASELU

    Florentina ARMASELU
    Digital Humanities (text analysis and text interpretation, text encoding)

    EN, FR, RU

  • Gabriele BUDACH

    Gabriele BUDACH
    Migration, Multilingualism, Informal learning, Multimodality, Cultural mediation

    DE, FR, EN, IT

  • Ingrid DE SAINT-GEORGES

    Ingrid DE SAINT-GEORGES
    Sociolinguistics, workplace communication, vocational education, multimodal approaches to discourse, insertion, discourse analysis, ethnography, digital communication

    FR, EN

  • Katrien DEROEY

    Katrien DEROEY
    Teaching and learning in an internationalized context. Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education.

    EN, NL, DE, FR

  • Caroline DOEHMER

    Caroline DOEHMER
    Luxembourgish linguistics, Luxembourg studies

    LB, DE, EN, FR

  • Peter GILLES

    Peter GILLES
    Luxembourgish linguistics, language variation & change, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, phonetics/phonology

    DE

  • Birgit HUEMER

    Birgit HUEMER
    Applied linguistics

    DE, EN

  • Eve LEJOT

    Eve LEJOT
    French for academic writing in multilingual and international contexts,
    Language learning and teaching,
    Multilingualism and digitization, Language policy

    FR, DE, EN, ES

  • Christoph PURSCHKE

    Christoph PURSCHKE
    Sociolinguistics (multilingualism & ideologies, variation & change, attitudes & perception), natural language processing (low-resource languages, social media analysis, computational sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics), participatory research (crowdsourcing, citizen science, mobile research apps, tool development), theoretical approaches (cultural theory, theory of science, philosophy of language, social semiotics)

    DE, EN, FR, LU

  • Heinz SIEBURG

    Heinz SIEBURG
    Middle high German language and literature, Word formation, Sociolinguistics (German dialects, Gender studies)

    DE

  • Gian-Maria TORRE

    Gian-Maria TORRE
    Art & art history / Languages & linguistics / Communication & mass media

    FR, IT

  • Melanie WAGNER

    Sociolinguistics, Historical sociolinguistics, Literacy, Luxembourgish in the new media

    DE, EN, LB

  • Sabine EHRHART

    Study of languages in contact, especially in Luxembourg; Plurilingual competences in educational settings, Ethnolinguistics, Language ecology of the classroom, Migrational sociolinguistics

    FR, DE, EN

  • Constanze WETH

    Multilingualism, multiliteracies, writing acquisition, language acquisition

    FR, DE

  • Lena STEVEKER

    English Studies: early modern studies, especially English drama and popular culture;
    early modern news culture; British fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries; British
    popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries; British cultural memories

    EN, DE

  • Natalie BLOCH

    Theatre and drama history, Political theatre, Contemporary theatre and drama, Performance analysis, Performance studies, Cultural performances

    DE, EN