Research Areas

• ​Comparative Literature 

• ​Ecocriticism 

• ​Travel Literature 

• ​German Literature from the 18th to the 21st Century 

• ​Myth Studies 

• ​Literary Translation 

• ​Literary and cultural theory, narratology  

• ​Modernism and avant-gardes, contemporary writing 

• ​Constructions of identity and Otherness in literature and culture (e.g. gender, ethnicity, national stereotyping) 

• ​Migration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in literature and culture, exile and diaspora, Postcolonial Studies 

• ​Cinema studies  

• ​Political opposition, dissidence, mafia  

• ​Memory, Trauma and Holocaust Studies 

• ​Central and Eastern Europe, (Post-) Communism Studies 

• ​Near and Middle Eastern Studies​​ 

​​Research projects

Forthcoming monograph from Programme Director Peter Arnds - Bestia Sacra: An Eco-Literary Approach to the Politics of Dehumanization (250 pages).

Recent publications

Academic monographs

Arnds, Peter. Wolves at the Door: Migration, Dehumanization, Rewilding the World, available as hardback, paperback, and epub, Bloomsbury (New York, London, Oxford, Delhi, Sydney), 222 pp., 2021.

​Edited volumes

​Arnds, Peter. Guest Editor, Slow Travel and Eco-Awareness in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature, Special Edition of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Vol. 44.1 (2020), New Prairie Press.