Ph.D. and Postdoc Projects

• Miriam Halfmann: "Observing the Observer: Representations of the Journalist in 20th-Century North American Fiction" (working title)
• Kimay Holtzwarth: "Happy Heteropatriarchal Ending? The Subversion of Heteronormative Marriage in Shakespeare’s Comedies"
• Milena Nowotny: "Beyond Good and Evil – Can Walter White and Jimmy McGill Embody Nietzsche's Übermensch?" (working title)
• Paula Rosenthal: "In Defence of Selected Misjudged Victorian Female Characters"
• Ann-Sophie Vornholz: "Memory and Resistance in Feminist Speculative Fiction" (working title)
• Constanze Wessel: "The Impossible Ideal? Fictional Parental Figures from the Long Nineteenth Century through the Lens of Parenting Advice Literature"
• Barbara Wildfeuer: "Deconstructing the Layers: Intersectionality and Crisis Management in the British Royal Family"
• Katrin Zander: "Queering British Postwar Modernism: Sex, Time, and Aesthetic Affinities in Selected Works by Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy"

• Denise Burkhard: "The First World War and Reconciliation in British, Australian and New Zealand Fiction, 1960-Present"

• Malik Ade: "Kitchen Martyrs? Constructions of Household Dependencies in Nigerian Novels"
• 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" (published with Tectum in 2016)
• Denise Burkhard: "Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral: (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction" (published with V&R Unipress in 2023)
• Dennis Geef: "Late Capitalist Reality and its Fictitious Future(s): The Postmodern, Science Fiction, and the Contemporary Dystopia" (published with Tectum in 2015)
• Laura Hartmann: "Detecting Sherlock’s Descendants: A Typology of British Fictional Private Detectives in Post-Holmesian Detective Fiction" (published with Cambridge Scholars in 2026)
• 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" (published with Tectum in 2018)
• Lea Maria Peters: "'I Have Always Found Revenge to Be the Purest of Motivations' – Game of Thrones as a Contemporary Feminist Revenge Tragedy" (published with Cambridge Scholars in 2022)
• Nadezda Rumjanceva: "Roots in the Air: Construction of Identity in Anglophone Israeli Literature" (published with V&R Unipress in 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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