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Members of staff and their fields of special interest

SILKE HESSE Franz Kafka; baroque literature; Grimmelshausen; women's literature.

HEINZ KREUTZ Applied linguistics; sociolinguistics, social dialectology; second language acquisition; contrastive rhetoric and cross cultural communication; discourse and text analysis; business German and German for special purposes; language teaching.

KATE RIGBY Romanticism; modernism; postmodernism; literary theory; cultural criticism; feminist theory; drama and theatre studies.

DAVID ROBERTS Heinrich Mann; Goethe, Canetti; theory of the German novel; realism in literature; contemporary German literature; theory of parody; postmodernism.

PHILIP THOMSON The grotesque; modern German poetry; literary theory; B. Brecht; contemporary German and Australian fiction.

WALTER VEIT Medieval and baroque studies; comparative literature; literary theory; poetics; aesthetics, rhetoric and intercultural studies.

MONTY WILKINSON German synchronic and diachronic syntax and phonology; older stages of Germanic languages; grammatical relations and linguistic universals.


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