Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge

Research and Teaching Areas

  • Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in their European and Global Contexts
  • Comparative Literature Studies
  • Literary and Cultural Theory
  • The Aesthetics of Ambivalence (the Sublime, the Uncanny, the Grotesque, the Cute)
  • The Relationship Between Aesthetics and Political Ideologies
  • International Media and Popular Culture (Photography, Film, Television), Intermediality
  • Gender and Queer Studies
  • Postcolonial and Neocolonial Studies
  • Literary and Cultural Animal Studies
  • Environmental Humanities and Sustainability Studies
  • Cultures of Work and Idleness

Biography

Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge is Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). A specialist in European Romanticism as well as in 19th and 20th century anglophone literatures and cultures, she has also a background in Comparative Literature Studies.

Claudia Lillge holds an MA in American, English, and German Studies and a doctoral degree in English Studies from the Georg-August-University Göttingen. In 2009, she was awarded the research prize of the University of Paderborn for establishing the research group “Work as Cultural Phenomenon.” Her habilitation (second book) received the BritCult Award of the German Association for British Cultural Studies in 2017. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield, the Durham University, the University of Salerno, and the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute (FU Berlin). As a visiting and guest professor she has taught at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (2015-2017, 2021), the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (2017-2020), the Peter Szondi-Institute (FU Berlin, 2020-2021), and at the Centre of European Studies (UC Berkeley, 2021). She is editor of the book series “vita activa” and co-editor of “inter/media“, published by Wilhelm Fink/Brill International. As an associated member, she is active in the research network “Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS)” at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main.

Current Projects

  • Labor and Imperial Lifestyle
  • Media Narratives of Species Protection
  • The Postcolonial Situation of Hong Kong

Work in Preparation

  • Big Game Hunting: Trophy Culture and Wildlife Design (Monograph)
  • Muße und Müßiggang (Anthology)

Interview with Claudia Lillge