Poetics, poetry and philosophy (Aesthetics of the war, Literature and ethics, Memory, Poetics of the war, Witness 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, History of criticism (War and literature), Literary epochs (20th century, Christoph Ransmayr, cultural memory, German postwar literature, Imre Kertész, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, War literature), Text theory and analysis