School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
School III consists of seven Institutes, all of which are involved in Oldenburg's teacher training programme to varying degrees. Specialised didacticians and academics work hand in hand.
Institute of English and American Studies
Prof Dr Martin Butler
American Literary and Cultural Studies
Research focus:
Whereas teaching covers different periods of North American literary and cultural history and focuses on a variety of media, genres as well as regions, my research particularly focuses on forms and figures of cultural mobility in North- and Inter-American as well as Transatlantic contexts, on popular cultural practices specifically in urban contexts, and, most recently, on the production of future imaginaries in different media.
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / Language-sensitive teaching and learning
Prof Dr Wolfgang Gehring
Didactics
Research focus:
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL or Fachdidaktik Englisch) is an umbrella term for the systematic investigation of a wide variety of complex processes involved in the development of language skills and their instruction. Typically, TEFL deals with the question of what needs to be taught, why it has to be taught and how it can be done. Some of the key areas of interest within the field of TEFL focus on various approaches to teaching of the language system itself, the development of transcultural skills and knowledge about different English speaking cultures, fostering the sense of aesthetics and familiarity with literary art, and classroom research. The latter addresses issues associated with planning, structuring and giving lessons, setting learning goals and outcomes, the development and assessment of competences, as well as the evaluation of teaching materials, types of content and forms of learning.
Prof Dr Marcel Schlechtweg
Linguistics and Language Science
Research focus:
I am a linguist who primarily works in the areas phonetics, phonology, morphology, and psycholinguistics.
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / Language-sensitive teaching and learning
Prof Dr Julia Wurr
Postcolonial Studies
Research focus:
- Procreation and the Postcolonial / Fortpflanzung und Postkolonialismus
- Surrogacy and Literature / Literature and Surrogacy
- Postcolonial Bioethics / Postcolonial Bioethics
- Biocapitalism in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts / Biocapitalism in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
- The Postcolonial Middle East and North Africa Region / Postkolonialismus in der MENA-Region
- Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism / Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism
- Literature and Terrorism / Literatur und Terrorismus
Institute for German Studies
Prof Dr Juliana Goschler
German as a foreign language/second language
Research focus:
- Second and foreign language acquisition, dual first language acquisition
- Contrastive linguistics and transfer phenomena in language learning
- Linguistic heterogeneity in educational contexts
- Linguistic characteristics of educational language, language in specialised lessons
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Katharina Schuhmann
German as a foreign language
Research focus
- Foreign and second language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics and language contact phenomena (acoustic-phonetic, phonological and morphological aspects)
- Theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology)
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Didactics of the German language
Research focus:
- Adaptive language behaviour
- Development-sensitive writing didactics
- Teacher language, language of instruction and classroom communication
- Language in the subject
- Tension between oral and written language, operationalisation of conceptual written language
- Easy language
- German didactic teacher research
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Thomas Boyken
Children's and youth literature studies
Research focus:
- Children's and youth literature
- Literature from the 18th to the 21st century
- drama theory
- narratology
- Theory of mediality
Prof Dr Albrecht Hausmann
Medieval Studies - Older German Literature and Language
Research focus:
- Historical narrative research
- Poetry of the High Middle Ages
- History of media change from medieval manuscript culture to book printing
Prof Dr Jörg Peters
Low German and Sater Frisian
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Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Institute of Art and Visual Culture
Prof Dr Michaela Kaiser
Art education and mediation in the context of inclusion and exclusion
Research focus:
- Inclusion and exclusion from a difference-theoretical perspective
- Art pedagogical ability norms and performance regulations
- Art education and art mediation in a culture of digitality
- Practical professionalisation research in art education and art mediation
- Cooperative relationships between art education and art mediation actors
- Intersectional sensitivity
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Institute of Material Culture
Prof Dr Karen Ellwanger
Material culture in modernity and late modernity (focus on clothing and body images); everyday objects and how they shape us, museum, cultural studies of gender studies
Research focus:
- Theory and History of Material Culture
- Museum and exhibition
- Clothing and body images in modernity / counter-modernity; traditional costume
- Vestimentary representations of the political
- Memory and gender
Institute of Music
Prof Dr Lars Oberhaus
Music education
Research focus:
- Music pedagogical teaching and learning research,
- Music and the body
- New music
- Philosophy of music education
- Early childhood music education.
Prof Dr Mario Dunkel
Music education with a focus on transcultural music education
Research focus:
- Music education,
- transcultural music education,
- connections between music and politics,
- cultural and musicological research on jazz and popular music
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 graduate programme
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Institute of Dutch Studies
Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk
Dutch linguistics
Research focus:
- Psycholinguistics
- Language acquisition
- Language processing
- Language disorders
- Speech and hearing
- Code Switching
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition