Research Strengths
- Austrian and German literature and comparative literature
- Migration: Germany to Australia
- "Inszenierte Autobiograpien": Fiction and autobiography
- Women and gender studies
- Bildungsroman
- Intertextuality
- Motif of the artificial human
- History of German studies
- German colonialism and nationalism
- Contemporary German culture and society
- German linguistics, comparative linguistics
- Effective language learning, motivation, computer-assisted language teaching
- Language politics, varieties in languages, language history, language contacts
- Lexicography