Areas of research specialisation in German studies include:
- applied linguistics
- comparative literature
- cultural anthropology
- cultural identity, migration and bilingualism
- discourse and text analysis
- German for special purposes
- German literature from the 18th century to the present (especially Weimar Classic, Romanticism, literature of the 19th century, contemporary literature)
- history and theory of German drama and theatre
- history and theory of mass media
- history of German philosophy
- literary aesthetics
- literary theory
- media studies,
- poetics
- psychoanalytic theory
- rhetoric and cultural studies
- second language acquisition
- sociolinguistics
- sociology of literature
- travel literature
- visual culture.
