Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies

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  • Department of African Studies
    • Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Englert, Privatdozentin

      Research Focus:
      African Studies, especially: land rights issues, popular culture practices, qualitative research methods, Mobility Studies (currently foci on mobilities in the context of solidarity practices, on contemporary travel narratives on Africa, on Rastafari in Africa (in the context of a FWF project).
      Regional foci: Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, diasporic contexts, Africa in the world.

      More information can be found at
      https://afrika.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliches-personal/englert-birgit/ 
    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther  

      Research Focus:
      African Studies, in particular with regard to historical studies, urban studies and housing, studies of/on religion, colonialism, biography, mobility studies, archives and photography.

      More information can be found at:
      afrika.univie.ac.at


    • Ass. -Prof. habil. Rémi Armand Tchokothe   

      Research Focus:
      Comparative African Languages and Literatures from Africa and the Diaspora;
      Indian Ocean Literatures;
      Creole Literatures from Africa;
      African Literatures and Political Geography;
      Cultures and Popular Postcolonialisms;
      Intercultural Translation;
      Critical African(a) Studies;
      Archiving Oral Literatures and Copyrights;
      Sociolinguistics in Africa and African Youth Languages in the Diaspora   

      More information can be found at:
      https://complit.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/personal-detailansicht/user/tchokother20/inum/1065/backpid/110804/
  • Department of English and American Studies
    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Heinz

      Research Focus
      English and Anglophone literatures and cultures with a focus on intersectionality, subject cultures, and material practices, e.g. in the context of homemaking and ideas of home and its attached politics of home (including the politics of gender, ‘race’, class and nationalities); postcolonial studies, with a focus on settler colonialism

      More information can be found at
      anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/heinz/
  • Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth, B.Sc. M.Sc.

      Research Focus:
      • Deep learning & statistical natural language processing
      • Text analysis for the Digital Humanities
      • Weakly supervised information extraction
      • Knowledge graphs, knowledge-base population from text

      More information can be found at:
      https://www.benjaminroth.net/
  • Department for German Studies
    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karen Schramm

      Research Focus
      German as a foreign language (teaching and learning of GLF, teaching competences, classroom interaction, reading/literacy)

      More information can be found at
      https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/karen-schramm/

    • Prof. Dr. Alexandra N. Lenz

      Research Focus
      Linguistics, Germanic languages, Language Variation and Change, Language Contact

      More information can be found at
      https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/alexandra-n-lenz/

    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burkhardt Wolf

      Research Focus:
      Discourse history of violence, economy, and governmentality;
      poetics of affect;
      cultural and media history of seafaring;
      bureaucracy and archive in literature;
      media aesthetics of film.

      More information can be found at:
      https://www.univie.ac.at/germanistik/burkhardt-wolf/
  • Department of Musicology
    • Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, Ph.D.

      Research Focus
      My research focuses on music perception and music cognition, more recently with a focus on song perception and song cognition. I analyse behavioural and questionnaire as well as neuroimaging data as part of my research. I collaborate with musicologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists.

      More information can be found at
      https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/cui/
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
    • Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jeanine Dagyeli

      Research Focus:
      Central Asian Studies. Jeanine Dagyeli's research interests are human-environment relations, labour, pre-Soviet capitalism and cultural heritage. She is PI of the project Anthropogenic Environments in the Future Tense (ANTHEFT) funded by an ERC Consodiator Grant.

      More information can be found at:
      https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/team/detail-team-turkic-studies/user/dagyelij21/inum/1073/backpid/124928/

    • Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Yavuz Köse   

      Research Focus:
      Yavuz Köse is Professor of Turcology at the University of Vienna. His research is focused on the social, economic, and consumption history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Particularly, he is interested in the effects of modernization and globalization in the late Ottoman Empire. Two other major topics Köse is engaged with are the environmental history and the emergence and development of tourism in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. 

      More information can be found at:
      http://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/
  • Department of Slavic Studies
  • Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies
    • Ass.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Waitz

      Research Focus
      Media and Cultural Studies, New Media, Television, Space and Place, Politics, Class, Gender

      More information can be found at
      https://www.thomaswaitz.at/ 
  • Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
    • Ass. Prof. Dr. Birgit Nemec

      Research Focus
      History of Medicine and the biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century, in particular: Reproduction and Risk, Disability studies, Patient Engagement, Political Epistemologies

      More information can be found at
      birgit.nemec@univie.ac.at