The department is home to the following professorships:
British Studies and American Studies
- Professorship of North American Studies (Professor Timo Müller)
- Professorship of English Literature and Literary Theory (Professor Irmtraud Huber)
- Professorship of English Literature and Literary Theory (Professor Christina Wald)
German Literature
- Professorship of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory, with a special focus on literature from the early modern period to the mid-eighteenth century (Professor Albrecht Koschorke)
- Professorship of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory, with a special focus on the literature from the eighteenth century to the present (Professor Juliane Vogel)
- Professorship of Modern German Literature, with a special focus on media contexts (Professor Bernd A. Stiegler)
- Professorship of German Literature, with a special focus on medieval literature and Literary Theory (Professor Bent Gebert)
- Senior Lectureship in Older German Literature and Languages (Professor Andreas Hammer)
Art Theory/Art History
- Professorship of Art Theory/Art History (Professor Karin Leonhard)
- Senior Lectureship in Art Theory/Art History (Professor Steffen Bogen/Professor Jürgen Stöhr)
Latin Literature
- Professorship of Latin Literature (Professor Barbara Feichtinger-Zimmermann)
Media Studies
- Professorship of Media Studies (Professor Beate Ochsner)
- Professorship of Media Studies (Professor Isabell Otto)
Romance Literatures
- Professorship of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory (Professor Ulrike Sprenger)
- Professorship of Romance Literatures, with a special focus on Italian literature (Professor Michael Schwarze currently Vice Rector at University of Freiburg)
- Professorship of Cultural Theory and Methods (Professor Kirsten Mahlke)
- Junior Professorship of Romance Literatures, with a special focus on Ibero-American literature (Professor Anne Kraume)
Slavic Literatures
- Professorship of Slavic Literatures and Literary Theory (N.N.)