Semiotics and semiology (discourse analysis, literary and cultural semiotics), Cultural change (forgiveness, individual and cultural memory), Globalisation (literature and globalization), Historiography of literature, Literary epochs (Europe after 1700), Modernity (urban culture), Narrativity/storytelling (the function of storytelling), Philosophy of education and history of the concept of education ('Bildung' and secondary education), Poetics, poetry and philosophy (conceptions of nature, memory), Structuralism, World literature (globalization and literature)
