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Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Near East
  • Assyrians
  • Babylonians
  • Sumerians
  • Akkadians
  • Israel
  • Syria
  • Iraq
  • Middle East
  • Astronomy
  • Astrology
  • Science
  • Early states
  • School and education in pre-modern societies
  • History of knowledge
  • Oldest writing
  • Decipherment
  • Nimrud
  • Nineveh
  • Libraries
  • Cuneiform
  • Sumerian
  • Akkadian
  • Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
  • 4. - 1st millennium BC
  • History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
  • Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology

Dr. Norbert Dittmar
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition

Pohlstraße 5, 10785 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Problems of linguistic unification
  • Minority languages
  • Bilingualism
  • Berlin: urban language
  • Youth language
  • Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
  • Conversational behavior, in groups and conflicts

Dr. Ulla Haselstein
Professor of Literature

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Literature

Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Text and image
  • Literary portraits
  • Transculturality
  • Diasporic literature
  • Holocaust literature
  • Avantgarde
  • Native American literature
  • American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Professor of Japanese Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies

Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
838-53857, -53856

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and literature of Japan
  • History and society of Japan
  • Identity discourses, culinary studies
  • Cultural translation

Dr. Matthias Hüning
Professor of Dutch Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Dutch Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Dutch linguistics with a focus on language comparison (especially Dutch-German)
  • History of language and language change
  • Lexicology (semantics, word formation)
  • Sociolinguistics and (European) multilingualism

Dr. Susanne Klengel
Professor of Latin American Studies

Institute for Latin American Studies
Division of Literatures and Cultures of Latin America

Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Latin American literatures and cultures
  • Literary and cultural theory
  • Image / text relations
  • Cultural transfer between Europe and Latin America – history and present-day status
  • Intellectual history
  • Concepts of cultural translation
  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • Argentina / Southern Cone
  • Caribbean countries
  • Transregional issues and literatures / cultures in border areas

Dr. Philipp Krämer

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Dutch Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Dipl.-Frankreichwissenschaftler, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Overseas France, Indian Ocean Islands, and the Caribbean
  • Saarland, Lorraine, and Luxembourg
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Scandinavia
  • Creole languages, languages of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean region
  • Multilingualism and language policy
  • Dialects, minority languages, regional languages
  • Critique of language, linguistic purism, language ideology
  • Racism
  • Colonialism and postcolonial societies

Dr. Ekkehard König
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Linguistics

Goßlerstraße 2-4, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are possible in English, French and German

Areas of Expertise

  • Language comparison (contrastive linguistics)
  • Germanic language family
  • linguistic typology (halting and fourfoldness of languages)
  • language history (change of meaning)
  • semantics and pragmatics (meaning and use of linguistic expressions)

Dr. Michael Meier-Brügger
Professor of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Indo-European linguistics
  • Comparative linguistics
  • The prehistory of European languages

Dr. Judith Meinschaefer
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophie and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Gallo-Roman Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Linguistics
  • Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish)
  • Languages in France

Dr. Manfred Pfister
Professor of English Literature

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Wullenweberstraße 11, 10555 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • English literature from Shakespeare to the present
  • Drama and theater
  • English-Italian cultural relations
  • Intertextuality and intermediality
  • Literary translation

Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

Language, Emotion and Movement

  • Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

  • Early acquisition of foreign languages
  • Mixed-age learning settings
  • English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

Dr. Shabo Talay
Professor of Semitic Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies
Semitic Studies

Fabeckstraße 23-25, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Semitic languages
  • Arabic and Arabic dialectology (i.e., Syria, Iraq, Turkey)
  • Aramaic languages in the Near East and in Europe
  • Oriental Christians, past and present
  • Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Near East
  • Ethnic group of Arameans, Assyrians, Chaldeans
  • Coexistence of Kurds and Syrian-Aramaic Christians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)

Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
  • Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites
  • Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and conflict

Dr. Ferdinand von Mengden
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Historical Linguistics of English

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Language change and language variation
  • English language / history of the English language
  • Old English
  • Language history
  • History of linguistics
  • Numerals and linguistic numeral systems
  • Grammaticalization
  • Language and society