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”.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Roman Bartosch
Department of English II, University of Cologne
roman.bartosch(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Literature and Culture Pedagogy; Literary Learning and New Media; Anglophone Literatures and Cultures from the 19th to the 21st Centuries; Inter- and Transcultural Learning; Education for Sustainability; Transcultural Ecology, Human-Animal Studies, Ecocriticism; Inclusive Language Teaching; Literary Value and Canonicity
Prof. Dr Sven Bernecker
Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne
s.bernecker(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Epistemology; metaphysics and philosophy of mind; Kant and German idealism
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
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Wiebke Dannecker
Department of German Language and Literature II, University of Cologne
w.dannecker(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: Literature and its Teaching in Inclusive Settings; (Digital) Media in a Mother Tongue Classrom; Educational Governance; Empirical Methods in the Field of Literature and its Teaching
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. Dr. Anke Ortlepp
Department of History, University of Cologne
anke.ortlepp(at)uni-koeln.de
Main areas of research: American Cultural History; History of Travel and Tourism; Gender History; Urbanism, Space and History; History of Things; Material Culture Studies
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. 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. 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