Literary Studies/ Cultural Studies

• DFG-Project: Shylock in Germany: The Reception of Shakespeare’s "The Merchant of Venice" after 1945 (Schülting / Ackermann) (duration 2008-2012)
• DFG-Project: Frontier Skirmishes: Cultural Debates in 1990s Australia (West-Pavlov / Wawrzinek)
• ARC/DFG-Project: Open Cities: Case Studies in Comparative Urban Citizenship in Sydney and Berlin (West-Pavlov / Schwarz)
• North-South Literary and Cultural Interactions (DAAD-curricula development exchange project with Kenyatta University / Kenya and University of Cape Town / South Africa) (2010-2014)
• Australian Literature in German Translation: Translators, Trends, Tendencies. Pilot project in a cooperation with the Australia Council, Monash University (2009-)

Linguistics

• DFG-Project: Contrastive analysis of German and English: Description and explanation  (König / Gast / Haas)
• DFG-NWO-Project: A typology of reciprocal markers: Analysis and documentation (König / Emkow / Gast / Hanke, Kooperation mit Utrecht University)