Elected 1998
American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle
Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century
German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing
