Universität Paderborn
Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
tel.: 05251/60-2849, -3604

Professur für Anglistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft):
Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies: toennies@zitmail.uni-paderborn.de
Heike Buschmann M.A.
Christina Flotmann M.A.
Ina Grimm M.A.

British Cultural Studies is an integral part both of the Paderborn B.A. in English and American Literary and Cultural Studies and of the new Master of Arts in the English department. Research and teaching focus on representations in a wider range of media (images, films, television, literary and non-literary texts etc.) and analyse the identity constructions they convey. In this way, semiotic methods are combined with the political concerns underlying British Cultural Studies in the original Birmingham approach.

We emphasise interdisciplinary connections with other departments and try to balance theoretical considerations with practical applications, including the relevance of Cultural Studies for teacher training.

There is a special interest in the following fields:

• New Cultural Geography
• Black British culture
• The Victorian Age
• Gender Studies
• Consumer identities in contemporary Britain
• British political culture
• Teaching British Cultural Studies
• British theatre

Coe-edited series:
anglistik & englischunterricht (with Gabriele Linke and Holger Rossow)

Current research project:
Spatial Constructions of British Identities
(with the Universities of Wuerzburg and Teesside/GB)

The work group's series 'Spatial Practices' has been published by Rodopi since 2006).

There is also a series of conferences organised by members of the work group, of which the most recent one took place in Paderborn : 'Teaching Spaces' on 24 May 2008.

Book projects:

• 'London : Diversity and Myth' for 'Viewfinder' (Langenscheidt)
• Introduction to British Landeskunde for Metzler Verlag (with Julia McIntosh-Schneider)

Conference announcement:
In November 2009, the Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures will take place at Paderborn University with the topic 'Reading British Spaces'.

Ph.D. projects:

• Heike Buschmann, The Museum as a Narrative Space
• Christina Flotmann, Mythological Structures in Harry Potter and Star Wars
• Ina Grimm, Representations of space in contemporary British fiction and art
• Julia McIntosh-Schneider, Women in South Asian women's writing