Dissertationen
2. Thomas Graf, "The Plurality of Imperial Identities in British Invasion Fiction, 1871-1914" (2021)
1. Sandra Stadler, "Contemporary South African Literature for Young Adults: Space, Gender
and Social Economics" (2015)
Masterarbeiten
11. "Processes of Identity Formation and Othering in Bernardien Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other "
(European Studies, 2025)
10. "Feminist Development Policy and Its Representation in the German Print Media: A Postcolonial
and Postcolonial Feminist Analysis" (European Studies, 2024)
9. "'Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know': The Motif of the Modern Dr Faust(us) in
Late Victorian Literature" (2023)
8. "(Un)Masking the Spectre: The Late Victorian Female Criminal at the Intersection of Criminal,
Gender and Consumer Discourse in Late Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Detective Fiction" (2022)
7. "Caught Between Romance and Change: Contrasting Aspects of Scottish Identity from
Sir Walter Scott to Irvine Welsh" (2020)
6. "Dangerous Toys: Abuse of Technology and Its Socio-Psychological Implications in Black Mirror" (2019)
5. "Portrayal of Trauma in Selected Poems of Ciaran Carson from The Irish for No to Until Before After" (2019)
4. "The New Woman and Her Fallen Sisters: Images of Deviant Womanhood in Late Victorian Women's
Magazines" (2017)
3. "Benefits and Books: The Literary Response to the Social Welfare System in Scotland, 1980-2014" (2016)
2. "Women in Gordimer's Rainbow Nation: The Representation of Women in the Post-apartheid Novels
of Nadine Gordimer" (2014)
1. "Exploring the Colonial Encounter: Hybridity of Irish Identity Represented in George Bernard Shaw's
John Bull's Other Island, and Brian Friel's Making History and Translations " (2013)
Magisterarbeiten
9. "The Cultural Phenomenon of 'Jack the Ripper'" (2013)
8. "Settlers and Savages, Hunters and Beasts, Slaves and Fugitives: A Survey of Sub-Saharan Africa
in the Works of R.M. Ballantyne" (2012)
7. "'Happy Multicultural Land': The conciliatory Effect of Humour in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet, Meera Syal's
Anita and Me and Zadie Smith's White Teeth " (2011)
6. "The Contemporary Glasgow Novel" (2011)
5. "Children of a Fighting Race: An Analysis of Irish Postcolonial Identity in Short Fiction" (2011)
4. "British Lesbian Writing in the 20th Century: Literary Lesbian Images as Reflections, Modifiers
and Constitutors of Society" (2011)
3. "'Revisiting Manderley' -- Re-Evaluating Approaches to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938)" (2011)
2. "'Thanks, but We're Working in the UK Already': A comparative Analysis of Eastern European
Migrants in the British Daily Press" (2011)
1. "Writing Identity in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence" (2010)
BA
75. "A Tale of Fangs and Fear: The Vampire as Scapegoat in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'" (2025)
74. “The Patriarchal Understanding of Women in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings” (2025)
73. "A State of Victimhood: The Victimhood of Soldiers in the War Poetry of Wilfred Owen" (2025)
72. "Transgressing Victorian Norms: The Female Criminal in Fin-de-Siècle Crime Literature" (2025)
71. “Nursed by the Vampire: Motherhoood in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's ‘Carmilla’"(2025)
70. "Representing Māori Women: Identity and Mana Wāhine in The Bone People and Potiki " (2025)
69. "The Troubles of Adolescence: Exploring Coming-of-Age Amidst Conflict in Derry Girls " (2025)
68. "Marriage, Family, and the Self-fulfilment of Women: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Cinematic
Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" (2024)
67. "Along the Highland/Lowland Divide in R.L. Stevenson's Kidnapped " (2024)
66. "Female Emancipation and Lesbian Existences in the Chapter 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'
in Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson" (2023)
65. "'Free, Feminist and Powerful': Representations of Black British Motherhood and Queer Identity
in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (2019)" (2023)
64. “'Adapt or Perish': Evolution and Degeneration in Selected Works by H.G. Wells” (2023)
63. "The Mechanisms of Immortaltiy: Of Phylacteries and Horcruxes" (2022)
62. "Jacobitism, Scottish National Identity and the Duality of Identities in Violet Jacob's Flemington
and D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron" (2022)
61. "Manliness in A.C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes" (2021)
60. "Heroism in Detective Fiction and Film: Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's Fiction
and the BBC's Sherlock " (2021)
59. “Performances of a Performance: Pluralities of Gender in Feminist Analogue Art” (2021)
58. "Gender and Sexuality in Queer Literature" (2021)
57. "(Anti-)Colonialism in Stevenon's Treasure Island " (2021)
56. "Artificial Enough to Become Genuine? Gender Politics in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire
Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)" (2020)
55. "'He puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars...?' The Use of Cross-Dressing
in Monty Python's Flying Circus" (2020)
54. "The Power of Children: Adult-Child Power Relations in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Coraline " (2020)
53. "Country Houses and Leisure Culture in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" (2019)
52. "The Representation of Female Criminals in Late Nineteenth-Century fin de siècle Literature" (2019)
51. "Doctor Who: The Development of the Female 'Sidekick'" (2019)
50. "Questions of Identity in Kgebetli Moele's Untitled " (2019)
49. "Questions of Identity in Disney Pixar's Brave: The Construction of Scottish Identity
through the Romantic Tradition" (2019)
48. "The Function of Fairy Tales in John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things" (2019)
47. "'To Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles': Critical Commentaries on the Monarchy in William
Shakespeare's Hamlet and its Contemporary Retelling The Royals" (2018)
46. "The Representation of Africa in Robert Michael Ballantyne's Gorilla Hunters (1861)" (2018)
45. "Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A New Perspective on the 'Fallen Woman'
Character or a Reinforcement of Victorian Gender Idals?" (2018)
44. "The Ambiguities of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas " (2018)
43. "The Victorian Vivisection-Debate and Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau " (2018)
42. "Really Utilitarian Engines: Tracing Utilitarian Ideas in Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series " (2018)
41. "Family Values in Harry Potter " (2018)
40. "Winning Recognition: London City Branding in the Context of the Olympic Summer Games 2012" (2018)
39. "'Helping Those Who Help Themselves': Instructional Articles in The Boy's Own Paper and
The Girl's Own Paper " (2018)
38. "The Motif of Resistance in V for Vendetta and The Children of Men" (2017)
37. "Praising the Pioneers: The Role of Feminist Magazines in Promoting Women's Access to
Higher Education in Late Victorian England" (2017)
36. "The Development and Regression of the Bond Girl" (2017)
35. "Versions of Girlhood in the Girl's Own Paper" (2017)
34. "Gender Depictions in Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy -- New Perspectives on the Male Main
Character in Contemporary Fantasy Literature" (2017)
33. "The Labyrinth of Love: Mary Wroth's Crown of Sonnets and the Concepts of Spiritual
and Worldly Love" (2017)
32. "'Change the story and the story changes you': Subversion in Terry Pratchett's Tiffany
Aching Series" (2017)
31. "'They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and death of your body':
Power Monopolies in Dystopian Literature" (2017)
30. "The Mytho of the Irish West in Selected Plays" (2016)
29. "The Dilemma of the 'War on Terror': A Comparison of Two British Tabloids and Two National
'Quality Papers'" (2016)
28. "The Depiction of Gender Roles in Enid Blyton's Novels" (2016)
27. "A Study in Silk: The Original Sherlock Holmes in Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk " (2016)
26. "Male Homosexuality over the Years: A Dichronic comparison of Three Adaptations of Oscar Wilde's
The Picture of Dorian Gray " (2016)
25. "'Learning the White Man's Way' - Australia's Stolen Generations" (2016)
24. "Gender Aspects of Early British Punk Rock" (2014)
23. "The English Rococo as a Mirror of Contemporary Eighteenth Century Culture and Society" (2014)
22. "Dystopian Elemts in selected Plays by Mark Ravenhill" (2014)
21. "BBC's Sherlock: An Adaptation Combining the Victorian Model with Twenty-first Century
Innovation" (2014)
20. "Literary Prototypes, Authorial Limits, and Reluctant Paternalism in Elizabeth Gasckell's
'Social Problem Novels'" (2014)
19. "Illuminating the Shadows - An Analysis of Good and Bad in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of
Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2008)" (2014)
18. "'Too Old to Change?' J.M. Coetzee's David Lurie as a Representative of South African Apartheid
and Post-Apartheid Societies" (2013)
17. "Intertextuality as a Seminal Tool to Comprehend Gender and Sexuality Issues in Richard O'Brien's
The Rocky Horror Picture Show " (2013)
16. "Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century" (2012)
15. "Singing Independence? The National Anthem Debate as an Access Key to Scottish National Identity
and Scottish Nationalism" (2012)
14. "Dylan Thomas and the Process of the Gothic and Grotesque" (2012)
13. "British Literary Responses to 9/11: The Cases of Pat Barker's Double Vision and Chris Cleave's
Incendiary " (2012)
12. "Morals and Morality in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist " (2012)
11. “The Representation of Muslims in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist ” (2012)
10. "Gender Issues in 'Robina Crusoe'" (2012)
9. "'Staying alive's as good as it gets' - Modern Media and its Impact on the Individual in 28 Days Later " (2012)
8. "'But there again, I keep forgetting that you're more than just a very beautiful woman.' - The Changing
Concept of the Bond Girl" (2012)
7. "'Nature' in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: Visualising Inner Processes by Means of External
Conditions" (2012)
6. "Pat Barker's Union Street : Women versus Men - A Society of Role Swaps" (2011)
5. "Orientalism and Colonial Discourse in G.A. Henty's Rujub the Juggler " (2011)
4. "The Function of Fairies in The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and in the Artemis Fowl
Series by Eoin Colfer" (2011)
3. "Englishness in the 21st Century -- National Identity Construction in the Media During the Football
World Cup 2010" (2011)
2. "Behind the Façade: The Ambiguity of the Theme Family in Ian McEwan's Novels The Cement Garden,
The Child in Time, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach " (2011)
1. "Daniel Devoe's Robinson Crusoe – A Textual Document for Economic Thinking in the 18th Century" (2010)
Staatsexamen (vertieft)
54. "The Portrayal of Working-Class Political Activism in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
and North and South " (2025)
53. “Assuaging Victorian Anxieties: The ROle of Science in Bram Stoker's Dracula” (2025)
52. “Lisa McGee's Derry Girls: An Ambiguous Representation of (Northern) Irishness” (2025)
51. “Echoes of Jane Eyre: Feminism and Gender Dynamics in Two Film Adaptations” (2024)
50. "Industrialisation from the Post-Apocalyptic Perspective: An Analysis of the Assessment of Industrial
Influences on Society and Nature in Richard Jefferies's After London " (2024)
49. “From Monstrosity to Feminism: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a New Light” (2024)
48. "Where Do I Belong? Intersecional Hybrid Identity in the Historical Graphic Memoir The Roles We Play
by Sabba Khan" (2024)
47. "The Sufferer's Perspective of Immigration" (2024)
46. "Diseased, Deformed, Deviant: Degeneration in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872) and
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)" (2023)
45. "Not so New: The Inspiration Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady Took from a Fatal Woman" (2022)
44. "'I didn't eat for three days so I could be lovely' - The Romanticization of Eating Disorders in the Media
and in Skins UK " (2022)
43. "The Nineteenth and the Twentieth/Twenty-First Century in Dialogue: The Relevance of the Neo-Victorian
Novels Affinity and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters for Contemporary Society" (2022)
42. "Post-ColonialWales: Welsh Nationalism, Language, and Identity Mirrored in Plaid Cymru" (2021)
41. "'It's like a haunted house, only I'm the ghost.' Representations of Mental Illness and Mentally Ill Individuals
in Charlie Covell's The End of the F*** World " (2021)
40. "Sympathy for the Devil: Sympathy Guidance Strategies Concerning Dungeon & Dragon's Iconic Vampire
Strahd von Zarovich in I, Strahd: The Memories of a Vampire " (2021)
39. "Agnes Grey's Struggle towards Emancipation: The Governess as a Solution to the Woman Question
- A Feminist Reading of Agnes Grey " (2021)
38. "'Time can be rewritten' - But that doesn't mean it should! Changing Tendencies of Postcolonial depictions
in the Chibnall Era of Doctor Who " (2021)
37. "Cross-Dressing as Rebecca: The Role of Gender (Idetntity), Gender Performance and Same-Sex Desire
in Amy Dillwyn's The Rebecca Riots " (2021)
36. "Brexit and Anglo-German Relations in Political Cartoons" (2021)
35. "I'll (Not) Face Myself: A Psychoanalytic Comparative Reading betweeen Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
and Katsura Hashino's Persona 4 " (2020)
34. "Jane Austen's Timeless Theme of First Impressions: Adapting Pride and Prejudice to Screen,
Modern Times and Different Cultures" (2020)
33. "Strong Women in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew " (2020)
32. "Heroes in A Song of Ice and Fire: Radical or Conventional?" (2019)
31. "Modern Femininity in British Fin-de-siècle Literature: The 'New Woman' Phenomenon in George
Gissing's New Grub Street " (2019)
30. “The Presentation of Bonnie Prince Charlie and His Function as Projection Screen”(2018)
29. "The Depiction of Gender in Jones' Howl's Moving Castle in Comparison with Its Film Adaptation" (2017)
28. "Mary Poppins: Comparison of the Book Series with the Disney Film Adaptation Mainly Focusing
on the Portrayal of Gender Roles" (2017)
27. "Getting Behind Brexit" (2017)
26. “Generational Conflict and Identity Construction in Zadie Smith's White Teeth ” (2017)
25. "Demystifying Celtic Identity" (2017)
24. "Failing Heroes in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire" (2016)
23. "Two World Wars and One World Cup: The Influence of Politics, Media and Football on
Anglo-German Relations" (2016)
22. “Success or Failure? The Feminine Ideal in Enid Blyton's Malory Towers Series.” (2015)
21. "Coping With the Past: The Example of District Six." (2015)
20. "Charms, Chains and Clipboards: Madness in Great Britain During the 17th and 18th Centuries" (2013)
19. "Identity, Race and Society in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams " (2013)
18. "Construction of Scottishness in Hamish Macbeth " (2013)
17. "'I Am in an English Autumn' Constructions of Egypt as Postcolonial Space in Ahdaf Soueif's
The Map of Love and Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building " (2013)
16. "From Villains to Heroes? The Representation of Pirate Characters in The Pirate, Treasure Island,
Captain Blood, and Selected Stories from 19th Century Children's Magazines" (2013)
15. "'There Is No Nationality Without Literature': Nation-building and Identity Construction Based on the
Poetry of the Easter Rising 1916" (2013)
14. "28 Days Later, Chlidren of Men and Family Patterns in the Face of Global Developments" (2013)
13. "The Perception of Women as Threat to the Patriarchal Order as Portrayed in William Shakespeare's
The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing " (2013)
12. "Challenging Idealistic Notions of Irishness: The Demythologisation of the West of Ireland
in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish Drama" (2012)
11. "Colonial and Postcolonial Concepts in Father Ted and Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy" (2012)
10. "The Representation of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' in Contemporary British Fiction" (2012)
9. "Ancient Mythology in A Midsummer Night's Dream " (2012)
8. "The Changing Image of Oscar Wilde" (2011)
7. "The Motif of the Double in Scottish Literature" (2011)
6. "'Trustable, Good, Sound Women the World Can Lean On' The Girl's School Story as a Mediator of
Suitable Gender Roles for Girls: An Analysis in Children's Literature" (2011)
5. "Searching for the 'Inner Room': Identity Formation in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia " (2011)
4. "The Vampire: The Change of the Creature's Depiction through the Ages" (2011)
3. "The Early Feminism of the Female Gothic" (2011)
2. “Prostitutes and Wives in Neo-Victorian Fiction – Giving a Voice to the 'Weak'” (2011)
1. "Appearances can be Deceptive – The Search for Identity and Reality in Kate Atkinson's
Human Croquet" (2010)
Staatsexamen (nicht vertieft)
43. "'More than a Sudden Strange Fancy?' Feminism and Gender in Terry Pratchett's Discworld" (2025)
42. "The Princess and the Press: A Comparative Analysis of Tabloid and Broadsheet Representations
of Diana in Selected Newspapers" (2025)
41. "Love Between Tradition and Autonomy: How Bridget Jones's Diary and Bride and Prejudice
Reimagine Modern Romance" (2025)
40. “From Gandalf to Bilbo: The Many Faces of Heroism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit ” (2025)
39. "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Slasher Film and Its Rebirth Achieved by Scream (1996)" (2024)
38. "Analysing the Depiction and Potential Glorification of Violence in the TV Series Peaky Blinders" (2024)
37. "Harry Potter and the Phenomenon of Print Media" (2023)
36. "By Order of the Peaky Blinders: Exploring the Portrayal of Violence and the Potential Glorification thereof
in Steven Knight's Drama TV Series Peaky Blinders" (2023)
35. “The Multi-Layered Depiction of Margaret Thatcher in the TV Series The Crown” (2023)
34. "The Influence of Different Feminist Movements on the 1995 Series and the 2005 Movie of
Pride and Prejudice" (2023)
33. "Topics of Gender in Outlander" (2023)
32. "Emerging Feminism in the Shadow of the Supernatural: A Modern Interpretation of
The Turn of the Screw " (2023)
31. "Assasin's Creed: Syndicate's Use of Historical Figures as Mediators of Political and
Social Problems." (2023)
30. "'An Englishman born and bread, almost': The Search for Identity in the bildungsroman
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi." (2023)
29. "Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins' Morality in Three Treasure Island Film Adaptations." (2022)
28. "The Mother, the Maiden, and the Crone: Subversion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels" (2022)
27. “Depiction of Women's Power and Feminism in the 18th Century Series Outlander ” (2022)
26. "The Representation of the Royal Family in the British Press" (2021)
25. "The Coverage of the Coronavirus Pandemic in British Newspapers" (2020)
24. "Innocent Until Proven Guilty? The Negative Press Coverage of the Oscar Wilde Trials" (2020)
23. "A Feminist Perspectiv eon Disney Pixar's Brave " (2020)
22. "Dystopian Worlds in Black Mirror" (2019)
21. "Racism in the World of Harry Potter and Its Similarities to the Third Reich" (2019)
20. "Scribbling Gender: An Analysis of Societal Gender Constructions through Bathroom Graffiti" (2019)
19. "Multiculturalism in Muhammad Khan's I am Thunder (2018)" (2018)
18. "Ecocriticism in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings " (2017)
17. "The Role of Women within the Harry Potter Series" (2016)
16. “The Downfall and Redemption of a 'Fallen Woman' in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth ” (2016)
15. "Modern British Culture in BBC's Sherlock " (2016)
14. "Representation of Women in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire " (2015)
13. "Gender Roles and Gender Stereotypes in Children's Literature between the 1920s and 1940s" (2015)
12. "Shades of Victorianism: A Comparison and Evaluation of Shades of Grey and Jane Eyre " (2015)
11. "Analysis of Hayao Miyazaki's Film Adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle " (2015)
10. "Gender and Gender Roles in British Fairy Tales" (2015)
9. "The Depiction of the United Kingdom Independence Party in Selected British Newspapers During
the Campaign for the European Elections 2014" (2014)
8. "'Facts Are Chiels that Winna Ding' Scottish Independence and the Press: An Analysis of the
Coverage of Four British Newspapers" (2013)
7. "Prejudice in Harry Potter " (2012)
6. "Austen goes Bollywood: Love Relationships in Bride & Prejudice " (2012)
5. "The Futility of War: A Study of Selected Poems by Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and
Siegfried Sassoon" (2012)
4. "Hornby on Relationships" (2012)
3. “'It starts with doors.' - Fantasy Tropes in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Stardust ” (2011)
2. "Emancipated Women Characters in George Bernard Shaw's Drama" (2010)
1. "Relationships in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting: Mirror for the Interstate Relations between
England and Scotland" (2010)