About us

The Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies covers a wide range of languages and cultural dynamics, with the focus of interest on contact, transfer, as well as conflicts between these cultural dynamics. The diversity of the humanities collaborating at the Faculty is unique in Austria.

As literature, theatre, film, music and other media forms are means of expressing the adoption of social, political, religious and cultural processes, the Faculty examines these multifaceted interactions of aesthetic forms and social ‘reality’. In this regard, knowledge of, and academic research into, languages plays a key role: More than 70 languages are taught and researched at the Faculty.

The education of teachers, which is of great relevance at the Faculty, is a vehicle by which the competences pooled at the Faculty can be directly conveyed to society – which is brought about in cooperation with the Centre for Teacher Education. In addition, the Faculty also invests in matters addressing the challenges of a globalised world, and its experts are heavily in demand among the media, as well as among cultural and political stakeholders.

Photo Credit (header): Gebhard Sengmüller