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/
- Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Englert, Privatdozentin
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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/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth, B.Sc. M.Sc.
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Department for German Studies
- 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/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burkhardt Wolf
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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/
- Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, Ph.D.
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Department of Near Eastern Studies
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jeanine Dagyeli
Research Focus:
Central Asian Studies
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/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jeanine Dagyeli