History of criticism, Books as a medium (including digital literature) (History of the Book, Paratexts, The materiality of the book), Cultural forms of expression, Digital literature, narration/storytelling, hypertext (Twitter fiction), High and low culture, Historiography of literature, Literary epochs (20th Century American literature, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Modernism, Postironical literature, Postmodernism, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gibson), Literature, Media, Text theory and analysis, The literary market (Serialization), Theory and Analysis of Culture, USA
History of criticism (War and literature), Cultural history (Cultural history of the war, Germany and the second world war, Memory theory, The air war, Vergangenheitsbewältigung), Essay writing and cultural journalism, Literary epochs (20th century, Christoph Ransmayr, cultural memory, German postwar literature, Imre Kertész, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, War literature), Poetics, poetry and philosophy (Aesthetics of the war, Literature and ethics, Memory, Poetics of the war, Witness Literature), Text theory and analysis
History of criticism, History of aesthetics after 1735, Literary epochs (German classicism and romanticism, Romanticism), Philosophical aesthetics, Poetics, poetry and philosophy, Text theory and analysis, Theory and History of Aesthetics