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English Literature(s)

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From Shakespeare to the New English Literatures

The current profile of English literature at Chemnitz Technical University covers the entire field of English literature – from Shakespeare to the present. This complexity requires context-related, literary and cultural theoretical approaches, as well as cultural ones. Hence, the profile comprises the academic fields of English literary and cultural theory as well as the anglophone literatures and cultures beyond Great Britain, including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia. In addition, the new media are considered as decisive elements in the context of the studies of English literatures, with a special focus on literary adaptations and gender studies.

Moreover, the emphasis on the literature and culture of the British Isles endows students with a substantial regional competence (England, Scotland, (Northern-) Ireland and Wales). This opens out to an intercultural process of comprehension, which is extended by providing an understanding of the New English Literatures/Postcolonial Literatures, with a significant focus on India. Consequently, the postcolonial experience broadens the “classic” study of English as it builds bridges towards transnational, socio-geographical and globalised literary and cultural studies.

Intercultural and medial competence

In addition, the current profile offers an interdisciplinary and integrative step towards the new media. In the age of globalisation and migration, intercultural competence is gaining more importance and can even be considered as the key competence of the 21st century. The primarily anglophone and medial globality of the international employment market and the growing occupational mobility with which future generations of students are confronted require concurrence of professional, literary, cultural, historical and media-specific skills.

The Current Profile: an overview

  1. Black and Asian British Literature and Film
  2. Contemporary Poetry in English
  3. Gender Studies
  4. (Northern-) Irish Literature and Film
  5. Literary Adaptations
  6. Literature of the British Isles
  7. (Postcolonial) Metropolises
  8. New English Literatures:
    Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, South Asia
  9. Postcolonial Theory and Transculturality
  10. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

 

Contact information
TU Chemnitz, Anglistik, 09107 Chemnitz
Tel.: +49 (0)371-531-34 285
Fax: +49 (0)371-531-27 329

Besucheradresse:
Reichenhainer Straße 39, Zi. 226