Currently, the areas of active research in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies are:
Germanic:
- Austrian literature
- Bilingualism
- Classical German literature
- Comparative literature
- Computer-assisted language learning
- Discourse analysis/conversation analysis
- German film
- Intercultural Learning
- Literary and cultural theories
- Literature and culture of the Weimar Republic
- Post-1945 German literature
- Second language acquisition theories
- Theatre
Slavic
- Belarusian literature and culture
- Comparative literature
- Croatian language, literature and culture
- Lyrical prose, memoir and album literature
- Russian drama (classicism to contemporary)
- Russian folklore
- Russian intelligentsia
- Russian literature (medieval to contemporary)
- Theory of literature
- Ukrainian literature and culture