Anglistik IV: Modern English Literature

Research and teaching at AngIV spans the full historical range of British literature: from Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett to Sarah Kane; from William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot to Jackie Kay; from Mary Shelley to James Joyce to Irvine Welsh; from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith.

The work of literature describes, imagines, models, and re-invents practices of work throughout historical periods and across literary genres. Furthermore, literary texts themselves are produced under the socio-economic, historical, critical, and creative working conditions of writing processes. Literature emerges in writing scenes, in which work, world, and words become entangled into the critical and creative ecologies shared by human and more-than-human agencies.

Focusing on Creative Writing – Genetic Criticism – Artistic Research, we offer ways to experience, first-hand, the practical challenges of academic and creative writing: telling a good story is crucial for communicating scholarly and literary knowledge. Experimenting with creative writing strategies opens up new and innovative perspectives both on literary practice and critical research enhancing your academic writing skills.

Our study programmes offer indispensable professional skills which will prepare you for future careers in media and journalism, in publishing and marketing, as well as in academia and research.