Commission
The members of the a.r.t.e.s. commission serve as the heads of the interdiscipinary a.r.t.e.s. graduate classes. As such, they also supervise the annual application and selection process for the structured doctoral model “Integrated Track”.
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Beil
Media Studies and Digital Culture
Main research topics:
Game Studies, Participatory Culture, Intermediality / Transmediality
Prof. Dr. Anja Bettenworth
Department of Classics, University of Cologne
abettenw(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Ancient epic; Roman elegy; Hellenistic poetry; Reception of Antiquity in modern film and literature - especially in the modern Maghreb
Prof. Dr. Claudia Blöser
Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne
Practical Philosophy
uni-koeln.deMain areas of research: Ethics and Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Hope, Kant's Practical Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Christiane M. Bongartz
Department of English I, University of Cologne
chris.bongartz(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Multilingualism with respect to language development, literacy/ies, and socio-economic conditioning
Prof.'in Dr. Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino
Department of Art History - Professor of Architectural History
gabriella.cianciolo(at)uni-koeln.de
Main research topics:
19th- and 20th-century architecture, Mural art (wall paintings, mosaics, graffiti), Reception studies, Cultural Heritage
Prof. Dr. Torsten Hahn
Department of German Language and Literature I
Modern German Literature
Main research topics:
Aesthetics and Poetics: Coding of Literature / Theory of Form, Media theory and literature, Literature and political philosophy, Pop and / as surface
Prof. Dr. Fabian Klose
Chair of International History and Historical Peace and Conflict Research
Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology / GSSC / Graduiertenkolleg 2261 „anschließen–ausschließen“
s.kurfuerst(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Urbanism, media and communication, state-society relations, development, visualization in participatory programmes, audiovisual methods, Hip Hop studies; regional foci: Southeast Asia and the Pearl River Delta
Prof.'in Dr. Ulrike Lindner
Professor of History of Europe and European Colonialism
ulrike.lindner(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research:
Global History, Comparative Imperial History, Global Social Policy and Medical History, Postcolonial Approaches, Gender History
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Lorenz
Professor for Didactics
Main areas of research:
Philosophy of History and Philosophy of Didactics, Philosophical Canon, Religious Beliefs in Philosophy Class
Prof. Dr. Doris Mücke
Department of Linguistics - Phonetics
Main areas of research:
Experimental Phonetics and Phonology, Modelling of Typical and Atypical Speech, Prosody and Articulation
Prof.'in Dr. Gesine Müller
Department of Romance Studies
gesine.mueller[at]uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research:
World Literature Debate and Latin America, Literatures of the Spanish and French Caribbean, Literatures of Romanticism, Transculturality
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Nitsch
Department of Romance Studies
Main areas of research:
French prose of the 20th and 21st centuries, Argentine Modern Literature, Space and Movement in Literature and Film
Prof.'in Dr. Michaela Pelican
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Main areas of research:
Transnational migration, South-South mobility, social inequality, ethnicity, indigeneity, conflict, pastoral economy, visual and media anthropology. Sub-Saharan Africa: Cameroon, Gabon, South Africa; United Arab Emirates; China. Department focus: Methods, Globalization.
Prof. Dr. Ute Planert
Department of History - Chair of Modern History, University of Cologne
ute.planert(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: European history of the 18th and 20th centuries; nationalism, war and post-war period; the Napoleonic Empire in a global context
Prof.' in Dr. Dorothea Rohde
Department of History
Main areas of research:
Economic and social history of the Greco-Roman city, Roman religion and early Christianity, Roman epigraphy
Prof. Dr. Silviane Scharl
Department of Prehistoric Archaeology
sscharl(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: European Neolithic and Copper Age; Transfer of innovation in prehistoric societies; Neolithic Critique
Prof.'in Dr. Monika Schausten
Department of German language and literature I
Medieval German language and literature
sekretariat-schausten(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research:
German Literature of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, Textual Media: Visual Topoi and Color Discourses in Medieval Modern Literature, Economies of Exchange in Medieval Literature
Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher
Department for German Language and Literature, University of Cologne
petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Experimental Pragmatics; Information Structure; Psycho/Neurolinguistics; Reference
Prof. Dr. Christian Spies
Department of Art History, University of Cologne
c.spies(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Image Theory; European Postwar Painting; Conceptual Painting; Theory of Sculpture; History of Video Art
Prof. Dr. Karl Ubl
Department of History, University of Cologne
karl.ubl(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: History of Education and Learning; History of Kinship Relations; Legal History; History of the Carolingians