• Nineteenth- and twentieth- century German literature
• German ghazal poetry
• Turkish-German literature
• Diaspora experience in literature
• Contemporary Turkish literature (Emphasis: The German minority experience through the native perspective)
• Sufism and Sufi symbolism
• Turkish feminisms
• Feminisms of the Muslim Middle/Near East

• The literary works of female Turkish-German writers
• Germany's non-Turkish migrant literature
• Women's role and function in the contemporary Islamist movement in Turkey
• Non-western feminisms

German translation of Der weinende Granatapfel by Alev Tekinay, a Turkish-German writer.

Nicht da ist man daheim, wo man seinen Wohnsitz hat, sondern wo man verstanden wird.

Christian Morgenstern