French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Baudelaire, Proust
- Imagination in periods of transition, literary representation of time and memory, the post-romantic generation
French literature and culture in the 18th century
- The human subject in Enlightenment and Romanticism, Marivaux, Rousseau, Chateaubriand
- Masquerade and authenticity, semiotics of the body
- Constructions of character, person and persona
- Salon culture and gender
Autobiography and life writing
- Autofiction and écriture de soi (Foucault)
- Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras
Writing and Exile
- The picaresque novel and its transformations from the 18th to the 20th centuries (Defoe, Sorel, Lesage, Mann)
- Concepts of otherness
Academic teachers: Rainer Warning, Bernhard Teuber, Timothy Hampton