Eveline Kilian was appointed Professor of English Cultural Studies and Cultural History at HU in 2006 and has held various guest professorships at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen, Freiburg, Saarbrücken and Göttingen. Since April 2011 she has been the director of the Institute for English and American studies. Further research interests include gender studies, metropolitan cultures (especially London) and modernism and post-modernism. A current research project focuses on English writers in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s.