Musicology

Theatre and Media Studies

Global Performance and Popular Cultures History of Theatre Aesthetics and Media Stagings of the Political/Chorus Theories of Performativity Postcolonial Critique and Intersectionality

Design and construction studio
Theory and history of architecture
Theory and history of urbanism

Architecture and Politics: Architecture from WW II until today in the European and non-European context Globalization and Urbanization: Investigations into the development of cities Design Research Methods / Research by Design: Architectural research in teaching and professional practice / Creative Design Practice (design doctorates for professionals) The Profession of the Architect: Architectural formation, professional practice, and politics Architectural Education: The past and the future

Composer, writer and broadcaster; performance: piano, viola, spoken voice; music

The lack of visibility of women composers in musical history.

Art history

Transcultural art history Illuminated manuscripts in Persia and north of the Alps Connections between the arts in Christian and Islamic contexts Ornaments Frames Francisco Goya Theory of images

Science and Technology Studies (History, Anthropology and Sociology of Science and Technology); Sound Studies

Themes at the crossroads of History, Science and Technology Studies, and Sound Studies. Examples are history of noise as a public problem, developments in musical instrument design, sound technologies and everyday practices, history of car sound design, history of car radio, media representations of urban soundscapes, soundscapes of the past, the role of sound and listening in science, engineering and medicine, and the history of auditory surveillance.

Late medieval and early modern art, Art historiography

Body history and gender in the arts Mediality and materiality (oil painting, prints & drawings) Art historical methods and Nationalsocialism

Contemporary art history

Classical modern art Contemporary architecture Museology Risorgimento

Edition and the process of writing, German Literature (18th century to 21th century), General and Comparative Literature, Culture - Literature - (Inter-) mediality

Edition, 'critique génétique', texutal scholarship, analysis of writing processes German-language literature, especially from Austria, of the 20th and 21st centuries Mediality of Literature Intermediality Inter- and Transculturality Intertextuality Literature and Culture of the "Goethezeit" (18th/19th century) Orientalism, mutual influences Orient-Occident Literature and Theatre of Modernism and of the Avant-gardes

Theatre and dance studies

The history and aesthetic of dance from the 18th century to the present Modern and avant-garde theatre and dance Theatricality and gender differences Virtuosity in art and culture Body - Image - Movement Contemporary theatre, dance, performance

Artistic research, music and literature, the relationship between the arts, contemporary literature, death

Media Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Bildwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft

The Nature of Abstraction, Theories of Immersion, Affect and the Moving Image, the History of Filmic Avant-garde within the Context of Art History, Expanded Cinema as a precursor to contemporary Installation Art, Einfühlung, Empathy and Neuroscientific Aesthetics.

Classical Archaeology, Ancient Iconography, Ancient History, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies

Interdisciplinary approach of Classical culture, Images and anthropology of the Past, History of ludic culture as cultural fabric, History of medicine, magic and of the body, History of women and childhood

Cultural transfer and dissimination of literary, artistic and religious motifs from antiquity into the Islamic world, in particular the oriental Alexander tradition in the languages and cultures of the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and south-east Asia.

Literary-historical research into the Alexander cycle in historical, religious, literary, philosophical and scientifical sources and popular epics from the Arabic and Islamic world Gog and Magog and Islamic eschatology Codicology and Paleography of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts Traditional art, calligraphy and miniaturepainting of the Islamic world De Susannah-tradition: interreligious and transcultural transmission of motifs in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources Arabic popular epics: structure and liguisitic and paleographic features Wisdom literature

Cultures, literatures, and media of Europe with special attention paid to Central and Eastern Europe

Poetics and coding, name – gender – identity, ideology – historiography – canon, ethics in literary studies and cultural studies, Holocaust studies and Eastern Europe, literary pragmatics, editorial studies, media in religion and secularisation, the ends of empires and the start of the film era, film censorship, rhetoric and film propaganda, new waves in Eastern European film; What is open access? Theory and practice

German philology and English studies

Medieval and early modern English drama, especially University drama and convent drama; medieval religious writings, especially for women; Julian of Norwich and the transmission of her writing; devotional compilation

Italian painting and sculpture of the 16th and 17th centuries, European painting of the Baroque period

Painting in Rome 1580-1630 The transfer of culture to and from Italy during the Renaissance and Baroque The development of style in connection with social networks Physiognomy and the language of gestures in painting Still life and Trompe-l'Oeil

Art history

18th Century, 19th Century, Material Culture, Restoration, Exoticism, Diorama, Europe, Native America

Art History, History of Science, Classical Archaeology

History and Theory of Vision and Visualization Relationship between Art and Science Aesthetics and Epistemology of Image Production Processes Concepts of Space History and Theory of Landscape Painting History and Theory of Drawing and Graphics Early Modern Portraits Methods of Art History and the History of Science

Musicology

Gender, diversity and music Opera, music theatre Swiss music history of the 19th century Culturally derived performance practice

Art history, illustrated history, museums and exhibitions

Construction of history and memory in times of crises Exhibition theory Museum and collection history

Art history, Heritage preservation

Islamic art and architecture, al-Andalus, exchange and transfer processes Islamic World/West (Iberian Peninsula, Ottoman Empire), monument preservation in the Islamic World, appropriation of Islamic aesthetics in the West (Middle Ages/19th century), Orientalism, Islamic art and the museum

Early modern art history (14th-18th centuries)

Visual arts of the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, esp. in the Netherlands and in England Early modern and contemporary art history (especially theories of authorship and historical concepts of artistic production) Artistic mobility in the early modern period Text-image relationships, notational iconicity Materiality, mediality and topology of the codex (and its illumination)

Italian painting, 19th century German painting, interrelationship between the arts (in particular, between music and painting)

Philosophical and philological sciences, science of art

History of the performing arts, Cultural history, Artistic practices, Patronage, Early Modern Rome, French Seventeenth Century music, theater and poetry

Theatre, dramaturgy and acting theories of the Age of Enlightenment Theories of theatre, dramaturgy and acting in the 20th and 21st century (focus on contemporary theatre) Gender research Theatrical historiography Puppetry

Sociology of Media and Culture, Media and Communications research, Journalism Studies, Sociology of the Arts, Sociology of Music, Sociology of Literature

Susanne Janssen has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature and other art forms. Her current research focuses on changes and continuities in the classification of culture; the socialand economic significance of cultural heritage (in particular popular music heritage); processes, structures and impacts of cultural globalization; the production and consumption of online media content; cultural authority and trust; innovative practices in the media and creative industrie.

Art history

Medieval and early modern art, artistic theory and artistic patronage Art and religion before and after the Reformation Christian iconography

Art history

Art of the early modern period and the late mediaeval period; double-coding and resemantization of signs, as well as transcultural processes of negotiation in visual cultures; Mexican and Spanish art of the 19th and 20th centuries, photography

Asian art history

Buddhist art history of northern India, Afghanistan and the Himalayas Tibetan art history Manuscript illumination in India and Tibet to the 15th century Archaeology of South Asia Translational art history: Conservation and art history research Heritage preservation – Afghanistan, Tibet

Art and new media

Images of assassinations and terror Art exhibitions and their history Spatial arrangements in laboratories and modern mass transportation interiors Art and the natural sciences History of methods

Area of specialisation: Art history, art theory, historiography

Art history and history of Early Modern period and after the WW II, cultural theory, history and theory of historiography

Slavic studies and Yiddish studies

Literary and cultural theories; intermediality; intertextuality; Russian and Yiddish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; literature and paintings by the Jews of eastern Europe; intertextual relationships among the (eastern-European Jewish) literatures in Russian, Polish and Yiddish; cities as texts (research concentration: Russian literature)

Art history

French art and architecture and their influence in the German-speaking countries in the 17th and 18th centuries The visual arts in southern Germany around the year 1500 Image and text in the professional art history literature

History of Art. Medieval art and architecture.

Visual Translations of Jerusalem The Holy Land and Europe: Spiritual and Material Bridges The “Holy Lands” of Europe: Architectural Emblems Cult of Sites and Cult of Saints: Studies in the Theory of the Image The Medieval Image of the World: Visual Dimensions of Medieval Science

Cultural history of music

Music historiography History of knowledge Musical theatre History of science and the humanities Cultural history of exile Transcultural music history Music, space and place Gender Studies

Musicology, Renaissance music, 19th century music, music edition, music manuscripts, music prints

German speaking area 16th century German music prints Franz Schubert Salzburg music history Mozart source studies music and politics historiography

German Literature (19th-20th century); Modernism, Comparative Literature; German-Jewish Literature and Thought; Literature and Philosophy

German-Jewish Literature and Thought Modernism Literary Theory Literature and Philosophy

German mediaeval studies

Courtly epic poetry Biblical epic poetry Fact and Fiction Manuscript Culture, esp. 'text and image' Law and Literature Reception of the Middle Ages in the 19th century

Design Studies / Design Research

Design methodology and epistemology; knowledge design and experimental media practices; history of creativity techniques and wicked-problem solving.

History of Medieval Art and Architecture

Women's contributions to medieval art and architecture Multicultural art of medieval Iberia Twelfth-century architecture and sculpture Romanesque architecture and sculpture Spanish medieval palaces

German Literature (18th century to present)

History of the Political Imaginary, Theory and History of Genres, Interrelations between Law and Literature, Cultural Theory

Art history (Middle Ages, Early Modern - Italy and the Netherlands), sculpture, topography, landscape painting, political iconography, concepts related to the historical understanding of space

Memory Topography, cartography and landscape Knowledge of the Arts / Artistic skills Nation building Construction of social reality in cinema

Political theory

Political emotions, political judgment, the politics of memory, art and politics, gender, and theories of oppression.

Art and Architectural History

Space / Space conceptions in Modernity, Socia-Spatial Theories; Processes and Practices of Auratization and Sacralization Architecture, Art, and Design in the 19th to 21st centuries, their influence on constructing (national) identies and social order; Geographic focusses: Europe, Palestine / Israel, USA Historiography; Preservation history and politics

Art and architectural history of the Middle Ages, art historiography

The art and architecture of Rome in the High and Late Middle Ages (Cosmati) Light and dark in architecture The history of art history (Séroux d'Agincourt) Receptions of the Middle Ages (in modern art and architecture, in photography, in museums) Relics and reliquaries The history of the body Gender studies

History of Art of the Middle East

Modern Art of the Middle East Images and Representations in Islam

Study of Religion

Theories and methods of the study of religion Media and religion in culture and society Image, text and visuality Film and religion Gender and religion Religion in the public space and space theories Hermeneutics in the Study of Religion History of religion in antiquity and Europe

Late Middle Ages: Burgundy, France and the Netherlands; Painting in England ca. 1400-1900; Rivalries in the art; the allegorical interpretation of precious stones during the Middle Ages

Literature studies - comparative literature

Polish and Italian literature and their European contexts (19th - 20th c.) Italianism, mediterraneism Literary themes and myths Comparative literature - methodology and practice Translation and translation studies Correspondence of arts (literature and visual arts) History of ideas Italian poetry of the 20th century

Music TheoryMusic HistoryHistory of Science

History of musical cognition History of music theory Music and neural science in the Romantic Era Eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy Theories of attention

English and North American literary and cultural studies

Intermediality (text-image relationships, esp. ekphrasis, photography) Interculturality, postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism English-language literature of Southern and Southeast Asia Construction of antiquity in Anglophone literature Literary and cultural theory History and anthropology of media Literature and anthropology Literature and religion Autobiography research Gender studies

Psychology.

Art, aesthetics, consciousness, developmental psychology, emotion theories, general psychology, hermeneutics, identity theories, metaphors, personality psychology, phenomenology, phenomenological psychology, theory of science, qualitative methods.

Architecture, design and fine arts of the late 19th to early 20th century

The careers of Scottish architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) and American-born artist James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903); their contemporaries and context. In 2014 completed a major Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research project, Mackintosh Architecture:Context, Making and Meaning.

History of Art

Medieval Painting and culture; Renaissance; Italian art

Art history

Art and the transfer of culture in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries Museum and collection history Art theft and looted art

Cultural history of early modern and early colonial India c.1600-1860, and of the Indian Ocean 1750-1900, specialising in the fields of music, dance and performance.

South Asian music in Islamic contexts The history of Muslim South Asia c.1500–1860, especially the relationship of the arts to political & social power, gender & sexuality, friendship, emotions, medicine, and the astrological & esoteric sciences Mughal history 1658–1858 Indo–Persian writings on music History of the Malay world History of pleasure The transition from pre–colonial to colonial musical fields c.1750–1900 Patronage & connoisseurship The economic & social history of musicians, dancers & actors; courtesans; aesthetics & ethics; intermediality; music & religion

18th to 21st century art

French and German Painting of 18th and 19th centuries Contemporary Art Theory and Cultural History of the Image Aesthetics of Reception History and Theory of Perception and Affects Modern Art Theory History, Theory and Practice of Art Criticism

Classical Archaeology

Greek Archaeology Archaeology of Cult Funerary culture Topographic Studies Iconography

Egyptology

Language / linguistics Literature History Image / text relation Old kingdom

history and theory of photography, genderstudies, interpicturality

interrelations of painting, photography and film; visual constructions of gender and authorship; the challenge of extreme states of body, mind and affect (death, passion ecc.) for the different media

Art history

Research on emotion French art of the 19th century History of science

Christian archaeology and Byzantine art history

Catacomb painting, book illumination, monumental art, North African ceramics, Byzantium and the West

Early modern art and architecture; rhetoric and the arts; art and anthropology

rhetoric and the arts; art and agency; iconoclasm, idolatry and fetishism; the sublime; architecture in London and Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries

Arts, art history and arts sciences; art criticism and curatorial research.Legal theory, methodology and philosophy of law and legislative studies, criminal law, law of air, space and sea.Fundamental rights and freedoms.

Collaborative art research, Curatorial research, Interdisciplinary research between the fields of visual art, law and political philosophy for improving the re-legitimation or re-invention of fundamental rights, or simply imagining new fundamental rights

Humans and their Environments: Evolutions, Interactions

Study of ancient personal ornaments Characterisation of prehistoric societies, in particular their social organisation, exchange systems and ethno-cultural units, through the study of personal ornaments found in burials and settlement sites Ethnoarchaeological research on personal ornaments Creation of modern, fossil, experimental and ethnographic reference collections for the study of prehistoric personal ornaments, taphonomic and technological analyses, microscopy, macrophotography, GIS, multivariate statistical analyses, creation of databases

Realia studies

Iconography and interpretation of images Historical study of images Gender history Study of dress

Computational and mathematical approaches to music research

Computational musicology Music information retrieval Music cognition Mathematical music theory Computational music analysis Computational humanities Oral transmission in folksongs Musical similarity Musical performance research Rhythm and meter in music

Mediaeval art history - the history of the art trade at the beginning of the 20th century - materiality in mediaeval art - social groups in mediaeval art - clothing research - images of old age in art during the middle ages and the modern period - 19th century stage scenery

Treasury art Materiality and production in art The representation of "age(ing)" Stage scenery from the 16th to the 19th centuries History of the art trade Intellectual history of art history in the 19th and 20th centuries

Contemporary history, cultural history

The cultural history of the political, Europe during the Cold War, media history, historical theory, visual history

Dance studies

Historical dance research Ethnochoreology Colonial music history of the modern period

German and Dutch art history of the 15th-17th centuries, collection history, court culture, late mediaeval urban culture, art history and cultural memory, art history and education

Philosophy, History of Thought, Science of Texts, Theory and History of Literatures and Arts

Dance and theatre studies

Performance and movement analysis History and aesthetics of dance photography Contemporary theatre, dance, performance

Art history

Art and art history from the 18. century to the present Art History as "Kulturwissenschaft" Art and the natural sciences Gender studies History of science