PhD students
Completed PhD projects
Elena Baeva
Metareference as a Public Service, Performed by Contemporary Narrative Media
Chau Giang Bui
The Vietnamese Community in the United States and Germany - Changing Lives and Identities over the Course of Time (Marburg: Tectum, 2016)
Denise Burkhard
Dennis Geef
Late Capitalist Reality and its Fictitious Future(s): The Postmodern, Science Fiction, and the Contemporary Dystopia (Marburg: Tectum, 2015)
Sarah Jenischewski
Nina Liewald
Initiating a Dialogue Through 'the Global Community on your Bookshelf': Narrative Representations of 'Islamic Fundamentalism' in Selected Novels from the 1990s to the Present (Baden-Baden: Tectum, 2018)
Lea Maria Peters
Nadezda Rumjanceva
Roots in the Air: Construction of Identity in Anglophone Israeli Literature (Göttingen: V&R Unipress/Bonn University Press, 2015)
Anna Stephens
The Functions of Literature: A Diachronic Perspective on the British Novel on Terrorism from the Victorian Fin de Siècle to the Present
Kim Laura Weber
Raising Environmental Awareness via Literature: Perceptions of Nature and the City in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary British Poetry
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Current PhD projects
Susanne Dall
PhD project: Homosexuality in Neo-Victorian Literature. (working title)
Ivana Drmic
PhD project: Darstellungen des 'Balkan' im Film
Miriam Halfmann
PhD project: Observing the Observer: Representations of the Journalist in 20th-Century North American Fiction (working title).
Laura Hartmann
PhD project: Detecting Sherlock's Descendants: A Typology of British Fictional Private Detectives in Post-Holmesian Detective Fiction
Marie-Josefine Joisten
PhD project: Passion, Pain and Shame - Single Motherhood and its Reflexion in British Literature from Victorian to Contemporary Times
Victoria Milhan
PhD project: Rewriting Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Late 20th-Century and 21st-Century Rewritings of a Medieval Classic
Franziska F. Rakebrandt
PhD project:: The Endurance of Dracula and his 'Children' over the Centuries
Svenja Renzel
PhD project: Underaged and Un-Dead: The Depiction of Vampiric Children and Teenagers in Contemporary Fiction (working title)
Charlotte Schwager
PhD project: The Emancipation of Female Disney Characters (working title)
Simon Wahidi
PhD project: Apokalyptische und postapokalyptische Szenarien in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Literatur
Constanze Wessel
PhD project: Entertaining, Instructing, Moralising and Disillusioning: Images and Concepts of Parents and Parenting in British Novels from the Nineteenth Century
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