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Topics
- Cultural History of Aerospace (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
- Aesthetics: Eva Geulen
- History of Aesthetics: Ernst Müller
- Psychological Aesthetics: Tobias Wilke
- Afterlife: Falko Schmieder
- Afro-German History: Jenaba Samura
- Afropean Literature: Sandra Folie, Jenaba Samura, Gianna Zocco
- Animals/Humans: Georg Toepfer
- Anthropocene: Liola Mattheis, Falko Schmieder
- Anticapitalism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Antiquity: Martin Treml
- Architecture (Theory and History): Detlev Schöttker
- Archive (Theory): Detlev Schöttker
- Art and Political Action: Alma Itzhaky
- Auto sacramental (Spanish and Latin American Corpus Christi Plays): Johanna Abel
- Autobiographical Writing (Russia): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
- Historical Avantgarde: Tobias Wilke
- Biodiversity: Georg Toepfer
- Biology: Georg Toepfer
- Biopolitics: Eva Geulen
- Black Feminism: Jenaba Samura
- Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Border Regions: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Brazilian Literature: Oliver Precht
- Literary Discourse on the Caucasus Mountains: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Childhood: Liola Mattheis
- Civil Disobedience: Liola Mattheis
- Class: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Classical Literature: Claude Haas
- Climate: Hanna Hamel
- Collectivity and Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
- Colonial trauma: Jenaba Samura
- Colonialism: Jenaba Samura
- Communism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- History of Concepts: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
- Contemporary Literature (African Diaspora): Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
- Contemporary Literature (Berlin): Hanna Hamel
- Contemporary Literature (German-speaking): Claude Haas
- Contemporary Literature (Poland, Russia): Matthias Schwartz
- Critical Theory: Pola Groß, Falko Schmieder, Sebastian Truskolaski, Christoph Hesse
- Critical Whiteness in Literature: Sandra Folie
- Critique: Georg Simmerl
- (Trans-)Cultural Appropriation in Literature: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
- Cultural and Social Anthropology: Andreas Lipowsky
- History of Cultural Theory: Barbara Picht
- Disaster: Lukas Schemper
- Dynamics of Debate in the Liberal Public Sphere: Georg Simmerl
- Early Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Ecocriticism: Alma Itzhaky
- Ecological Art: Alma Itzhaky
- Ecology: Falko Schmieder
- Economic crises: Georg Simmerl
- Editorial Theory/Practice: Anja Keith, Katja Schicht
- Embodiment: Johanna Abel
- German Enlightenment: Ernst Müller
- Essay (History and Theory): Magdalena Gronau
- Ethnography: Andreas Lipowsky
- Europe: Barbara Picht
- Europe in African and Afrodiasporic Literature: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
- Evolution: Georg Toepfer
- Exile/Emigration: Barbara Picht, Lukas Laier, Christoph Hesse
- Externalization: Katrin Trüstedt
- Creation of Fame: Detlev Schöttker
- Film history/theory: Christoph Hesse
- New Formalism: Eva Axer
- French Literature: Aurore Peyroles
- French Philosophy in the 20th Century: Moritz Gansen
- French Theory: Oliver Precht
- Genetic Engineering: Magdalena Gronau
- Constructions of Gender and Sexuality: Jenaba Samura
- Georgia: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Politics of Genre: Claude Haas (primarily Tragedy), Katrin Trüstedt (primarily Comedy)
- Theory of Genres: Eva Axer
- Global History: Jonathan Stafford
- Governmentality: Sebastian Kirsch
- The Grotesque: Eva Axer
- Hegelianism in France: Moritz Gansen
- Heiterkeit in Literature and Philosophy: Pola Groß
- Hermeneutics: Ernst Müller
- Heroism (Theory and History): Claude Haas
- Historical Semantics: Ernst Müller
- History of Historical Studies: Barbara Picht
- Methods and Critiques of the Historiography of Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
- Theory of History: Henning Trüper
- Human–Animal Relations in Antiquity: Martin Gronau
- Humanitarism: Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper
- (German) Idealism: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller
- Imagology: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
- Internationalism: Lukas Schemper
- Intersectionality: Sandra Folie
- Labor Camp Literature (Russian): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
- Law and Literature: Katrin Trüstedt
- Letter Edition: Anja Keith, Katja Schicht, Lukas Laier
- Letter Culture (The letter as literary work): Anja Keith
- Liberalism: Georg Simmerl
- Life and Life Knowledge: Georg Toepfer
- Philosophy of Life and Vitalism: Andreas Lipowsky
- Life-Saving from Nautical Distress: Nebiha Guiga, Lukas Schemper, Jonathan Stafford, Henning Trüper
- African-American Literature: Gianna Zocco
- Minor/Small Literature(s): Zaal Andronikashvili
- Russian Literature: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Literature and Philosophy: Eva Geulen
- Literary Theory: Eva Geulen, Katrin Trüstedt
- Maritime Space and Landscape: Jonathan Stafford
- Marxism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- History of Marxism: Ernst Müller
- Media (Theories): Tobias Wilke
- Memory (Theories): Eva Axer
- Cultures/Literatures of Memory (Eastern Europe, World War II): Matthias Schwartz
- Politics of Memory: Eva Axer
- History of Military Surgery: Nebiha Guiga
- (Classical) Modernity: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- History and Theory of Modernity: Jonathan Stafford
- Mythos: Martin Treml
- Napoleonic Wars: Nebiha Guiga
- Neighborhood/Neighborship: Hanna Hamel
- Paris Commune: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Periodicals (Journalism): Moritz Neuffer
- Philately: Dirk Naguschewski, Detlev Schöttker
- The Philosophy of Art: Alma Itzhaky
- The Political in Literature: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Aurore Peyroles, Sebastian Truskolaski, Katrin Trüstedt
- Political Ecology: Alma Itzhaky
- Postcolonial Theory: Jenaba Samura
- Pragmatism in France: Moritz Gansen
- Precariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Presence Effects: Johanna Abel
- Progress: Falko Schmieder
- Proletariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Psychoanalysis: Martin Treml
- Theory of the Public Sphere: Alma Itzhaky
- Queer Studies: Liola Mattheis
- Racism: Jenaba Samura
- Realism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- History of Religion (Christianity, Judaism, Islam): Martin Treml
- Representation: Katrin Trüstedt
- Romanticism (Concept): Ernst Müller
- Political Romanticism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Philosophy of Science: Georg Toepfer
- Science Fiction (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
- Secularization (Theories): Ernst Müller
- “Slave narratives”: Sandra Folie
- Small Forms: Eva Axer
- Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Sound: Tobias Wilke
- Sovereignty: Lukas Schemper
- Soviet Union: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Style: Pola Groß
- Typologies of Style: Eva Axer
- Subject (Theories): Zaal Andronikashvili
- Sustainability: Falko Schmieder
- Swing Riots/Luddites: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Time Models: Eva Axer
- Cultural Topography (Eastern Europe): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
- History of University (around 1800): Ernst Müller
- Utopia: Falko Schmieder
- Visual Culture: Tobias Wilke
- Vormärz: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- War: Claude Haas
- Wikipedia: Sandra Folie
- Window (literary motif): Gianna Zocco
- “Women’s writing”: Sandra Folie
People
- Theodor W. Adorno: Eva Geulen, Pola Groß, Christoph Hesse, Falko Schmieder, Sebastian Truskolaski
- Giorgio Agamben: Eva Geulen
- Louis Aragon: Aurore Peyroles
- Hannah Arendt: Eva Geulen, Sigrid Weigel
- Bettine von Arnim: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Erich Auerbach: Martin Treml
- May Ayim: Sandra Folie, Jenaba Samura, Gianna Zocco
- James Baldwin: Gianna Zocco
- Roland Barthes: Katrin Trüstedt
- Georges Bataille: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Walter Benjamin: Christoph Hesse, Detlev Schöttker, Sebastian Truskolaski, Sigrid Weigel, Tobias Wilke
- Max Bense: Tobias Wilke
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Eva Axer
- Hermann Borchardt: Christoph Hesse
- Fernand Braudel: Barbara Picht
- Bertolt Brecht: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Hildegard Brenner: Moritz Neuffer
- Hermann Broch: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Barbara Picht
- Emily Brontë: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Martin Buber: Martin Treml
- Georg Büchner: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Erwin Chargaff: Magdalena Gronau
- Werner Conze: Barbara Picht
- Ernst Robert Curtius: Barbara Picht
- Gilles Deleuze: Moritz Gansen
- Jacques Derrida: Oliver Precht
- Heimito von Doderer: Eva Geulen
- John Dos Passos: Aurore Peyroles
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Gianna Zocco
- Friedrich Engels: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Frantz Fanon: Liola Mattheis, Jenaba Samura
- Ludwig Feuerbach: Falko Schmieder
- Ludwik Fleck: Ernst Müller
- Theodor Fontane: Eva Geulen
- Michel Foucault: Georg Simmerl
- Sigmund Freud: Martin Treml
- Juri Gagarin: Matthias Schwartz
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Eva Geulen
- Franz Grillparzer: Eva Geulen
- Friedrich Gundolf: Claude Haas
- Oskar Halecki: Barbara Picht
- Johann Georg Hamann: Ernst Müller
- Raoul Hausmann: Tobias Wilke
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller
- Martin Heidegger: Oliver Precht
- Heinrich Heine: Eva Axer
- Klaus Heinrich: Martin Treml
- Johann Gottfried Herder: Hanna Hamel
- Moses Hess: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Albert O. Hirschman: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Arno Holz: Eva Axer
- Michel Houellebecq: Hanna Hamel
- Alexander von Humboldt: Katja Schicht
- C. L. R. James: Jenaba Samura
- André Jolles: Eva Axer
- Ernst Jünger: Anja Keith, Detlev Schöttker
- Gretha Jünger: Anja Keith
- Immanuel Kant: Ernst Müller
- Ernst Kantorowicz: Barbara Picht
- Søren Kierkegaard: Ernst Müller
- Max Kommerell: Claude Haas
- Karl Korsch: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Reinhart Koselleck: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
- Werner Krauss: Barbara Picht
- Nella Larsen: Gianna Zocco
- Bruno Latour: Hanna Hamel
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: Oliver Precht
- Hans Liebeschütz: Barbara Picht
- Clarice Lispector: Oliver Precht
- Stanisław Lem: Matthias Schwartz
- Audre Lorde: Jenaba Samura
- Georg Lukács: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Merab Mamardašvili: Zaal Andronikashvili
- Walter Markov: Barbara Picht
- Karl Marx: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
- Marshall McLuhan: Tobias Wilke
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Oliver Precht
- Czesław Miłosz: Barbara Picht
- Robert Minder: Barbara Picht
- Dualla Misipo: Sandra Folie
- Stéphane Mosès: Sigrid Weigel
- Erwin Panofsky: Barbara Picht
- Fernando Pessoa: Oliver Precht
- Wilhelm Raabe: Eva Geulen
- Kathrin Röggla: Pola Groß
- Warlam Schalamow: Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
- Friedrich Schiller: Claude Haas
- Friedrich Schleiermacher: Ernst Müller
- Arnold Schönberg: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Percy Ernst Schramm: Barbara Picht
- Erwin Schrödinger: Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
- Kurt Schwitters: Tobias Wilke
- William Shakespeare: Katrin Trüstedt
- Adalbert Stifter: Eva Geulen
- Jacob Taubes: Martin Treml
- E. P. Thompson: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Ludwig Tieck: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Paul Tillich: Martin Treml
- Flora Tristan: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Oliver Precht
- Max Leopold Wagner: Dirk Naguschewski
- Jean Wahl: Moritz Gansen
- Robert Walser: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Oskar Walzel: Eva Axer
- Aby Warburg: Barbara Picht, Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel
- Georg Weerth: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Wilhelm Weitling: Patrick Eiden-Offe
- Joseph Wulf: Anja Keith
- Sylvia Wynter: Liola Mattheis