Since April 2012 the chair is devoted to cultural studies-based research and teaching of eighteenth to twenty-first century German-Jewish literature and cultural history, as well as exile and migration literature in all German-speaking areas (in Europe and beyond). This focus adds another valuable aspect to the thematic orientation of the faculty of social and cultural studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
Jessica Wolff
Prof Dr Kerstin Schoor
As a literary scholar and lecturer I concentrate on literary culture and communication in their spatial, performative, medial and aesthetic dimensions. Topics of interests are the phenomena of cultural interactions and aesthetical boundary shifts in literature concerning diaspora, exile and migration—in other words the examination of social borderlines par excellence—which have to be reanalyzed in literary studies to reflect contemporary debates on globalization. I particularly focus on German exile literature after 1933 as well as German-Jewish literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries in German speaking areas, in Europe, and beyond.
K. Schoor
