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Supervision

Habilitations

  • Boehm, Katharina: Tangible Pasts: The Novel and the Material Histories of Antiquarianism, 1700-1820 (abgeschlossen 2018)
  • Erchinger, Philipp: Artful Experiments: Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science (Mitglied des Habilitationsmentorats, Universität Erlangen) (abgeschlossen 2017)
  • Herbe, Sarah: 'Love the author, and me for bringing you acquainted': A Study of Paratextual Life Writing in English Poetry Books, 1598–1806 (Mitglied der Habilitationskommission, Universität Salzburg) (abgeschlossen 2017)
  • Huber, Irmtraud: Against Timelessness: Rethinking Poetic Time through Victorian Poetry (externes Habilitationsgutachten, LMU München) (abgeschlossen 2021)
  • Rostek, Joanna: Women's Economic Thought in the Romantic Age: Towards a Transdisciplinary Herstory of Economic Thought (externes Kommissionsmitglied, Universität Düsseldorf) (abgeschlossen 2020)

Dissertations

  • Biber, Olivia: Gender Relations in the Victorian Novel: The Domestic, the Economic, and the Material (Zweitbetreuung, Universität Bern)
  • Decker, Martin: 'All sorts of Ireland were no more': Irish Identities and the Great War in Drama and Fiction (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2015)
  • Eiben, Emily: Representing Buddhism in British Media and Popular Culture, 1875-1895 (Externes Kommissionsmitglied, LMU München) (abgeschlossen 2017)
  • Graef, Sebastian: Catholic Temporalities in Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Queer Fiction (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2026)
  • Grill, Anna-Maria: Metropolitan Women Medics in Popular Literature, 1858-1914 (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin)
  • Gürtner, Maria: Midlife Identities: Feminine Subjectivity and the Experience of Ageing, 1880-1920 (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2024)
  • Gürtner, Susanne: Humanism on the Early Modern Stage (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin)
  • Kucnierz, Christian: Imagining Scotland: National Self-Depiction in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting and Alasdair Gray's Lanark (Zweitgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2008)
  • Neubert, Charlotte: Constructing an Urban Identity in Late Medieval and Early Tudor London (Zweitbetreuung, GRK 2337, Universtität Regensburg)
  • Pesold, Ulrike: The Other in the School Stories: A Phenomenon in British Children's Literature (Zweitgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2013)
  • Seibert, Johanna Franziska: Archipelagic Media: Early African Caribbean Newspapers and Whirls of Emancipation, 1827-1838 (Externe Obergutachterin, Universität Mainz) (abgeschlossen 2021)
  • Spergel, Julie: Canada's Second History: The Fiction of Jewish Canadian Women Writers (Obergutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2008)
  • Sporer, Madeline: The Italian Risorgimento and Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2024)
  • Stadler, Sandra: South African Young Adult Literature in English, 2000-2014 (Zweitgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2015)
  • Weber, Miriam: The London School Board and Women's Periodicals, 1870s to 1890s (Betreuung / Erstgutachterin) (abgeschlossen 2020)

M.A.-Theses

  • Alkofer, Anna Katharina: The Construction of the Trans Bogeyman: The Framing of Transgender People in Contemporary U.S., UK, and German Newspapers (Zweitg.)
  • Alqatmeh, Raiad: British and American Languages and Cultures in Syria: Challenges and Demands
  • Bartus, Beatrice: "Women in Gordimer's Rainbow Nation: The Representation of Women in the Post-apartheid Novels"
  • Binder, Alexandra: Multiple Reflections: Framing Visions of Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Vilette (1853)
  • Bradley, Arlyn: Reading the Palimpsest in The Inheritance of Loss
  • Brockard, Cornelia: Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair as a Fanfiction Response to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
  • Dafinger, Gabriela: "A People Taut for War"? The First World War in Welsh Poetry
  • Dirrigl, Anna-Maria: Visual Activism: Zur Verarbeitung und Kommunikation intersektioneller Realitäten in der Bildenden Kunst (Zweitgutachter)
  • Dyachuk, Yana: 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' (Zweitgutachter)
  • Eder, Hannah: Narratives of Precarity in Late Twentieth-Century Feminist Plays: A Comparative Analysis" (Zweitgutachter)
  • Fürst, Hannah: Driving Modernity: Mobility and Intercultural Connectedness in the Works of E.M.Forster
  • Gräf, Sebastian: The British Museum during the Nineteenth Century: Border Negotiations in and around the National Collections
  • Gurau, Maria-Elisabeth Christine: Crumbling Narratives of Heroism and the Question of Trauma from the Crimean War to the First World War
  • Gürtner, Susanne: Legitimacy of Rule and Ideal Rulership in Shakespeare
  • Hausler, Laura: "Gender Roles and Representation in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters"
  • Heaslip, Nele: Milton's Satan and Shakespeare's Machiavel: The Faces of the Devilish Villain
  • Havé, Philippe: History and the Individual: the Ideology of Ian McEwan
  • Horner, Elina: 'Feminine' Deduction, Seduction and Self-Construction: Transgressive Female Characters in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
  • Hösle, Samantha: "Nostalgia and the English Country House in 1930s and 1940s Middlebrow Literature"
  • Hossain, M. Shakhaowat: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005): Post-9/11 Stereotypical Representations of Muslims across the ‘Centre’ (the UK and USA)
  • Karl, Johannes: The Miltonic Eternal Conflict as a Storytelling Device in British 20th Century Fantasy
  • Kazemi, Shiva: Ambivalent Voices: The Depiction of Persian Women in British Female Travel Accounts of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
  • Klee, Florian: The Crisis of Memory in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: John Banville's The Sea, Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, Tom McCarthy's Remainder, Patrick McGrath's Spider
  • König, Carla: Processes of Identity Formation and Othering in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (Zweitgutachten)
  • Kotliuk, Galyna: "Breaking the Idols: Iconoclasm, Gender, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • Krassow, Ines: "The Scientist and Fin-de-Siècle Society: Henry Jekyll, Doctor Moreau and the Invisible Man"
  • Lindinger, Pia: “Haunting Women: Ghastly Apparitions and the Female Gothic in 19th-Century Ghost Stories”
  • Loos, Theodora-Tiha: "'The time is Night': The Imperial Narrativization of Victorian Polar Voyages and The Frozen Deep"
  • Malkov, Igor: "The representation of the 'New Woman' in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure"
  • Meier, Sara: “Chains, Chambers and Choice: Women's Agency from Mid-19th to 21st-Century Gothic”
  • Nagl, Johanna: Unmarried Motherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ireland: Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Writing
  • Narino Hoyos, Manuela Alejandra: "She the Monster, she the Specter: Women's Agency in the Male Gothic"
  • North, Daniel: "'Empire Lost Among the Stars': On the Significance of Defamiliarised Historemes in the Warhammer 40,000 Franchise"
  • Oh, Dabit: "Man belongs to land": Class Conflict and Its Irresolutions in William Golding's Sea Trilogy
  • Ott, Daniel: Surviving the White Saviour: Indigenous Identity in My Place and Benang
  • Peters, Katharina: A Conspiracy of Silence: Syphilis and Eugenics in New Woman Writing
  • Polikarpova, Yulia: "The Postmodern Poetics of Terry Prachett's The Colour of Magic"
  • Prib, Arnold: "'The nicest thing about London is that London doesn't care': Double Exile and Dislocation in Robert McLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle (1989) and Joseph O'Connor's Cowboys and Indians (1991)"
  • Reger, Veronika: "The 'Voice of the Subaltern' and Postmodernity in the Neo-Victorian Novels Mary Reilly and Jack Maggs"
  • Rosner, Tanita: "Finding Identity in Other Spaces: The British Identity Crisis from the End of the Cold War to Brexit"
  • Sighiartau, Camelia: Dracula's Continuing Relevance Today: Stereotyping and Mythology in Francis Ford Coppola's and Guy Maddin's Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Novel and in Romanian Culture
  • Sporer, Madeline: Beyond Nature Writing: Concepts of Cultural Ecology in Thomas Hardy
  • Stumberger, Evelin: "'Send Them to Their Watery Graves': Cornish Wreckers in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture"
  • Tappert, Johannes: "Unconscious Theory: Psychoanalytic Shadows in the Victorian Novel
  • Tavaci, Fatma: “Bodies without Power: Masochism, Trauma, and Feminine Subjectivity in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters”
  • Tügel, Cornelia: Technology and Gender in Sherlock
  • Wallner, Myrjam: Monstrous Femininity and Transgressive Women in Nineteenth-Century Fin-de-Siècle Gothic Literature (Zweitgutachterin)
  • Wang, Jiani: Darwinism in Thomas Hardy
  • Weig, Heide-Marie: "The World is What We make It" - Humanity, Technology, and the Environment in Recent Steampunk Fiction
  • Widmann, Regina: "The New Woman and Her Fallen Sisters: Images of Deviant Womanhood in Late Victorian Women's Magazines"
  • Xie, Huan: "Diagnosing Female Hysteria, Analysing Space in Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Hardy's Jude the Obscure"
  • Zhong, Yanwen: "'Writing Death' in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials"

Magisterarbeiten

  • Brandl, Caroline: “Revisiting Manderley”: Re-Evaluating Approaches to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) (Zweitgutachter)
  • Bundner, Klara: Female Freaks in Contemporary British Writing (Erstgutachter)
  • Decker, Martin: A Gendered Look at the Irish Rural Play from Synge to McDonagh (Zweitgutachter)
  • Forster, Katharina: The Mystified Reader: The Emergence of New Modes of Reading in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Crime (Erstgutachter)
  • Gersitz, Lisa: Investigating Rebus: Examining the 'State of the Nation' in Ian Rankin's John Rebus Novels (Zweitgutachter)
  • Graf, Thomas: Settlers and Savages, Hunters and Beasts, Slaves and Fugitives: A Survey of Sub-Saharan Africa in the Works of R.M. Ballantyne (Zweitgutachter)
  • Greiner, Anna-Maria: Extraordinary Bodies in Woolf, Weldon, Carter and Winterson: Gender Dichotomies and Identity (Erstgutachter)
  • Häglsperger, Julia: London in the Victorian Detective Novel up to the Postmodern 'Urban Gothic' (Erstgutachter)
  • Hahn, Linda: London in Late-Victorian Fiction (Erstgutachter)
  • Härtling, Kristin: Tendencies in Contemporary Children's Literature (Zweitgutachter)
  • Hegyi, Nora: ‘Thanks, but We’re Working in the UK Already’: A Comparative Analysis of Eastern European Migrants in the British Daily Press (Zweitgutachter)
  • Hirschberger, Karin: Jane Austen and the Representation of Marriage (Zweitgutachter)
  • Hüttner, Johanna: British Crime Stories: The Figure of the Detective (Erstgutachter)
  • Ketzscher, Marie: Outside the Margins: The Performance of (Post-Colonial) Identity in Hanif Kureishi's Fiction (Erstgutachter)
  • Kießwetter, Veronika: Searching for a Space In-between: Women, Immigration and Identity in Contemporary British Literature (Erstgutachter)
  • Kögler, Stefan: Popular Postmodernism: Terry Pratchett and the Synergy of Intertextuality and Ethics (Erstgutachter)
  • Limmer, Judith: Human Animal/Animal Human: The Portrayal of a Paradoxical Relationship in English Literature (Zweitgutachter)
  • Maier, Moritz: The Cultural Phenomenon of 'Jack the Ripper' (Zweitgutachter)
  • Menauer, Michael: (Mis-)Representing the Nation – Stereotypes in Irish Drama before and after Independence (Zweitgutachter)
  • Nagel, Alina: Traumhafte Schrecken: Über das Unheimliche in den Werken Edgar Allan Poes - Eine psychoanalytische Literaturstudie (Zweitgutachter)
  • Pastötter, Sandra: Agatha Christie: a Real Feminist? Forerunner and Traditionalist (Zweitgutachter)
  • Pleyer, Astrid: Women's Emancipation in British and American Literature of the 19th and 20th Century (Zweitgutachter)
  • Raith, Florian: Past Lily-Time: The Vanitas-Dilemma in the Poetry of Ernest Dowson (Zweitgutachter)
  • Reiner, Karin: British Lesbian Writing in the 20th Century (Zweitgutachter)
  • Scharinger, Christina: The Contemporary Glasgow Novel (Zweitgutachter)
  • Schuierer, Beate: Writing Identity in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence (Zweitgutachter)
  • Stanczek, Gregor: Children of a Fighting Race: An Analysis of the Irish Postcolonial Identity in Short Fiction (Zweitgutachter)
  • Stary, Kinga: Olive Schreiner's Dreams and her Truths about Love, Women, and Religion (Zweitgutachter)
  • Urban, Michael: Power and Evil in Modern Fantasy Literature (Erstgutachter)

Zulassungsarbeiten

  • Ana, Karine-Alexandra: The Bildung of the Individual and the Making of the Middle Class: Self-Development and Social Mobility in Dickens's Bildungsromane
  • Bauer, Tanja: The Importance of Family in Harry Potter
  • Baumüller, Katja: Educating Gentleman? The Little People and the Heroes' Quest in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
  • Berger, Kathrin: "Tayto Crisps and Plastic Figurines as the New Irishness: The Fragmentation of Irishness and Its Effects on Identity in Martin McDonagh's The Leenane Trilogy"
  • Blessing, Simone: The Human Machine: The Complex Psyche of Sherlock Holmes in Different Forms of Media
  • Bobek, Lena: Family Structures and Power Relations in the Works of Roald Dahl
  • Boneder, Lennart: Working Men's Clubs in Victorian England: Henry Solly's Failure to Emphasise Leisure Activities
  • Brandtner, Katharina: "'Going native': The Degeneration of the English in The Isle of Pines"
  • Bugla, MIchelle: "Literature Responding to Brexit: Political Discourse in Time of Lies, Middle England, and The Wall"
  • Demleitner, Marie: "Jane Austen's Heroines and Gender Norms"
  • Feuchtinger, Ulrich: "The Role of Families, Dehumanisation, and Cannibalism in Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and Winterson's The Stone Gods"
  • Fleischmann, Katarina: "´Feminism´in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice"
  • Garren, Melanie Bernadette: The 'Popish Bugbear': Catholic Subversion and Containment in Seventeenth-Century British Literature and Culture
  • Gebhard, Rebecca: "'I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine': Feelings of Mortification as the Plot- and Character-driving Elements in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion"
  • Gebler, Verena: "The Impact of Invisible Forces on the Human Psyche in Victorian Literature"
  • Geitner, Judith Irene: "The Dandy Dialectics: Wilde and the Victorian Age"
  • Gregori, Katharina: "Gendered Villainy in Lady Audley's Secret and The Woman in White: A Comparison of the Characters of Lady Audley and Sir Percival"
  • Gruber, Carina: "The Tragedy of Ayesha, Queen of Kôr - The Dido motif in H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure"
  • Gruber, Susanne Maria: "The Status of Women, Science and Otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's 'Dracula"
  • Gulacsi, Kinga: Shakespeare for Children: a Journey through Centuries
  • Gürtner, Maria: Rewriting the Romance Plot: Eugenics, Motherhood, and the Sexual Double Standard in Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, Mona Caird, and Grant Allen
  • Hagl, Regina: Imprisonment, Confinement and Constraining Forces in Charles Dickens' Novels
  • Hench, Anna: 'I began to doubt whether my own faculties were not in danger of losing their balance': Borderlands of Obsession in The Woman in White, Lady Audley's Secret and Armadale
  • Herche, Margit: The Body of the 'Global' Girl and Boy in Animated Children's Programmes
  • Heuer, Susanne: The Duality of (Wo)man: Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly and Emma Tennant's Two Women of London as Female Re-Visions of R.L. Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Hilpert, Beatrix: Gender Images in the Vampire Narrative
  • Hochleitner, Julia: London's Labyrinth: The Detective, the City, and Origins of Crime Fiction in 'Bleak House', 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
  • Honke, Teresa: Time to Grow Up - Blurring Lines between Childhood and Adulthood in Peter Pan
  • Huber, Sophie: "Observing the Slum: Social Visiting in Mid- to Late-Victorian Novels"
  • Jahn, Michael: The Use of Intertextuality in the Discworld Novels of Terry Pratchett
  • Kaiser, Katharina: Who's the Intellectual Now? New Perspectives on the 'Science and Literature' Debate and the Value of Literary Studies
  • Koller, Katharina: Lonely Matter, Crowded Space: Aspects of Atomism and Individuality in Victorian Urban Literature
  • Kosny, Dagmar: Shakespearean Comedies (Arbeitstitel)
  • Kuzmin, Darina: Homosexuality and Hellenistic Values in Victorian Literature
  • Lang, Christina: "Science and the (Mad) Scientist in Shelley, Stevenson, Machen and Wells"
  • Leeb, Sarah: The British and their Indian Other: Space, Race and Gender in Forster's A Passage to India and Scott's The Jewel in the Crown and Staying On
  • Liedtke, Danái: 'He doth exceede a beast in beastlinesse': Shakespeare's Animal Metaphors and Manipulative Humans
  • Loher, Verena: 'What other places are there in the world than those discovered on a lover's body?'': The Body in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, Gut Symmetries, Written on the Body and the PowerBook
  • Mannfels, Lucia: Hallucinating Teenagers, Dog-Breeding Giants, and Genderless Adulterers: Rejecting Heteronormativity in Jeanette Winterson
  • Markert, Felicitas: "The Game of Discovery and Conquest: Checkmate by Prospero"
  • Meier, Fabian: A Divided Nation: Brexit and the Disunited Kingdom
  • Mendel, Benedikt: Economic Power as Unstable System: Arbitrary Decisions and Moral Downfalls in Victorian Literature
  • Natter, Florian: ‘Earth felt the wound’: Paradise Lost and the Ecological Rupture between Mankind and Nature
  • Obermeyer, Anna: "Wife-Taming and Husband-Taming: The Modification of Power Structures and Gender Roles in the 'Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo and Juliet"
  • Rauh, Irmgard: Teaching History a Lesson: Historiography and Metafiction in Tom Stoppard's Drama
  • Rehfeldt, Corinna: Harry Potter: Genres and Audience Expectations
  • Richter, Monika: Cognitive Reception Theory and Jane Austen's Novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma
  • Rieß, Anna: Sherlock Holmes Then and Now - A Comparative Study of A. C. Doyle's Detective and the BBC's Adaptation Sherlock
  • Satzger, Stefan: Eighteenth-Century Conduct Books : ‘Utility’ and ‘Pleasure’
  • Sauermann, Anna: Conversion in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, “Grace”, and Ulysses
  • Scheid, Christine: When Love and Death Embrace – Edgar Allan Poe and the Conception of the Female
  • Schmidleitner, Lisa: Wealth versus Affection in Jane Austen's Novels
  • Schobert, Kathrin: Social Criticism in Contemporary Maori Fiction: Promoting Biculturalism in New Zealand
  • Schwarz, Theresa: "Social Categorisations in the Neo-Victorian School Story: A Comparison between Tom Brown's School Days and the Harry Potter Series"
  • Schwertfirm, Lara: Linguistic Innovation and Intersectional Identity in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other
  • Schwinn, Michaela: "Theories of Personality and Behaviour in Nineteenth-Century Psychology and Literary Texts by Shelley, the Brontéés and Stevenson"
  • Senft, Verena: "Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll - Two doppelgängers in Different Societal Settings"
  • Siemens, Jan: Oppression of the Body and Pleasures of the Mind: Surveillance and Social Control in 1984 and Brave New World
  • Sippl, Ruth Lea: Taming the Gothic in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
  • Söldenwagner, Ronja: "Victorian Fairy Tales and Society: An Analyses of Fairy Tales by John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde"
  • Stegbauer, Christina: Gender on Horseback. The Evolution of the Horse and Pony Book Genre in British Children's Literature
  • Steinbauer, Katharina: "For Virtus is Named After the Man: The Representation of Women in Some of Shakespeare's Classical Plays"
  • Steinert, Alexandra: ‘The Infernal Detective-Fever Began to Burn in Me Again’: The Development of Wilkie Collins’s Novels from Sensation to Detective Novels
  • Straka, Christina: Fire in the Attic and Spirits on the Moors: Folkloric Constructions of Gender and Identity in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
  • Trenner, Julia: 'Too Gross for Expression': The (De-)Construction of 'Deviant' Sexualities and Gender Roles in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Tropper, Benedikt: 'Uprooting the Evil in the Fields': Environmental Stewardship in the Context of (Technological) Progress in J.R.R. Tokien's Legendarium
  • Usakow, Dominic: John Milton's 'Paradise Lost': Between Epic and Mock-Epic
  • Wapler, Anna Teresa: Theatricality and Fraudulence in the Novels of Charles Dickens
  • Weber, Miriam: Who Do You Think You Are? The Quest for Identity in Kate Atkinson
  • Weismeier, Katja: Sherlock Holmes, the Misunderstood Mastermind: Great Detective or Criminal?
  • Wiendl, Benedikt: The Hobbit's Englishness & The Return of the Hobbit: An Analysis of English Nationalism, Social Relationships and Themes of War in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
  • Wurstbauer, Julia: The Art of Aging in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved
  • Wypior, Maya: Monstrous or Maternal? Exploring Gender, Revenge, and the Role of Grendel's Mother in 'Beowulf' by Seamus Heaney
  • Zimmer, Maja: Female Rage and Intersectional Oppression in Zadie Smith's Swing Time and Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Women, Other
  • Zukowski, Martina: English Romantics Travelling Germany

B.A.-Theses

  • Andreas, Saskia: Land of My Mothers? Gendered Constructions of Wales and the Influence of Women on Its National History and Culture
  • Baltes, Robin: Orientalism and Colonial Discourse in Rudyard Kipling’s Novel Kim
  • Baumann, Katharina: Guilt and Redemption: The Fallen Woman Motif in Charles Dickens's Novels
  • Bechtold, Leonie: Royalty as Burden or Privilege? Conflicts of Identity in The Crown (2016)
  • Blob, Elisabeth: ’Tearing off the Plump Pasteboard’: Drawing Nature and Truth in Narrative. Perception and Gender in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White
  • Blum, Barbara: Truth or Tudor Propaganda? Medieval and Early Modern Political Theology in Shakespeare's Richard III
  • Böhm, Madleen: Caskets, Ducats, Rings: Metal as a Stage Prop in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'
  • Böhm, Miriam: Between Detective Story and Crime Novel: An Analysis of P.D. James’s Cover Her Face
  • Brandwirth, Vanessa: Male Norms, Artificial Women: An Examination of the Failure of Inter-Gender Relationships in Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Othello'
  • Brauchle, Verena: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe – a Textual Document for Economic Thinking in the 18th Century
  • Breu, Nico: Maternal Expectations: Second-Wave Feminism and Modern Echoes in British Literature and Culture
  • Brockard, Cornelia: 'Perhaps he reads too much': The Production amd Reading of Textual Evidence in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Lady Audley's Secret'
  • Bülbül, Kübra: Science and the Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century Gothic: From 'Frankenstein' to the Fin de Siècle
  • Daba, Laura: Masculinity and Britishness in James Bond and Sherlock Holmes: Popular Heroes as Reflections of Society
  • Dafinger, Gabriela: 'The Old Bar of Speech': Welshness and the Welsh Language in Gwyneth Lewis' The Language Murderer and R.S. Thomas' Welsh Airs
  • Delfs, Kristian: Writing Terrorism – A Comparative View of Terrorism in Chris Cleave's Incendiary and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Deml, Tamara: Englishness, Class, and Conservatism in Julian Fellowes' Period Drama Downton Abbey
  • Dorsch, Manuela: Englishness in the 21st Century – National Identity Construction in the Media during the Football World Cup 2010
  • Drexler, Anna: The Literary Landscape of British War Trauma: Representations in Prose Fiction and Poetry
  • Eberl, Daniela: The Clash between Modernity and Traditionalism in Dracula and Frankenstein
  • Ebner, Michael: The Clown in Shakespeare as Social Mediator: Negotiating Social Boundaries in Three Shakespeare Plays
  • Eck, Stefanie: Pygmalion's Metamorphosis and Galatea's Revenge: Feminist Revisions of Ovid's Pygmalion Myth in British and American Literature since the 20th Century
  • Ellwanger, Florian: Masculine Structures of Feeling in Post-World War II Welsh Literature
  • Englram, Kathrin: The Troubles: Artistic Representations from the 1970s to the early 21st Century
  • Feilhauer, Simone: The Representation of Gender Roles and Relationships in Selected Shakespeare Comedies
  • Fischer, Valerie: Faith and Doubt in the Victorian Era: Exploring the Crisis of Faith through the Poetry of Arnold and Tennyson
  • Frei, Alexandra: 'Eccentric' Detective and Uncanny 'Idiot': Representations of Autism in Victorian Detective Fiction
  • Furtner, Franziska: The Mechanisms of Nonsense: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
  • Fürst, Hannah: Mobility and Modernity in E.M. Forster's Howards End (1910)
  • Galler, Veronika: Vocation, Marriage and Hysteria in Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and George Eliot
  • Geiwagner, Felix: 'Sometimes brutality is the only antidote to sorrow': Trauma, Language and Violence in Three Plays by Philip Ridley
  • Genenz, Laura: Helpless Girls and Boy Saviours: Perpetuating Patriarchal Values in Recent Postfeminist Films
  • Giglberger, Lisa: The Victorian Concepts of Gender, Race, and Colonialism as Sources of Antoinette Cosway's and Edward Rochester's Lack of Identity in Jean Rhy's 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
  • Götzfried, Tanja: 'Africa is to Europe as the Picture is to Dorian Gray': Depictions of Africa and Rewritings. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  • Grlanska, Marija: The Portrayal of Soldier Figures in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway
  • Groß, Katrin: Redefining Paradise: Observations on Some Literary Sources of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
  • Gürtner, Susanne: Heterosexual Bonding in Shakespeare's Cross-Dressing Heroines
  • Haars, Soana Isabel: The Femal Social Traveller in Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's North and South, and Wells's Ann Veronica
  • Hafner, Christina: Between Companionate Marriage and Equality: Women's Roles in Selected Shakespeare Comedies
  • Häglsperger, Sophia: An Ideal and Its Contradictions: Marriage, Patriarchy and a New Model of Partnership in Shakespeare'sThe Taming of the Shrew
  • Hassold, Nicole: Master-Slave Relations in Olaudah Equianao, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Frederick Douglass; A Comparative Analysis
  • Hastreiter, Charlotte: Classification and Rights of Magical Creatures in the World of Harry Potter
  • Häusler, Ilya: Anna Sewell's Black Beauty as an Animal-Centric Text
  • Heaslip, Nele: Sympathy for the Monster: Constructing and Deconstructing Shakespeare's Aaron, Shylock and Caliban
  • Heuer, Susanne: ’Two Sides of the Same Coin’: Valerie Martin’s Mary Reilly as a Rewrite of R.L. Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
  • Hinksen, Thomas: Love and Power in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
  • Hofmann, Johannes: A Chapter of 'Moral History' and 'Scrupulous Meanness': Morality and Modernism in James Joyce's Dubliners
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