Dissertations Supervised
Dissertations in progress (alphabetical):
- Kai Linke: Queer Comics and the Question of Homonormativity.
- Anne Potjans: Mixed-Race Identity and the Lived Experience of Black Bodies in Black German and African American Autobiographies.
- Teresa Schäfer: Mehrsprachigkeit in jüdisch-amerikanischer Gegenwartsliteratur.
- Janina Scholz: Gender, Sexualität und das 'monströse' Andere in amerikanischen Fernsehserien.
- Jiann-Chyng Tu: Berlin in African-American Literature.
Completed (by year):
2017
- Suncica Klaas: Immigrant Autobiographies and Human Rights Discourses.
2016
- Amina Grunewald: Versuche adoleszenter indigener Selbstdefinitionen in transkulturellen Kontaktzonen anhand ausgewählter Romane Sherman Alexies.
2015
- Nana Adusei-Poku: "Rooted in but not limited by" Re-iterations of Post-Black Art. (supervised by Prof. Eva Boesenberg and PD Dr. Gabriele Dietze)
- Ulrike Schneeberg: Making Boys and Girls in Picturebooks with Monsters.
2014
- Viola Amato: Intersex Narratives and the Shifts in Representation: Challenging the Limits of Intersex Intelligibility in Autobiography, Literature and Popular Culture.
- Kristina Graaff: Challenging Ethnoracial Confinement in the 21st Century Through Popular African American Fiction: Street Literature and the Street-Prison Symbiosis.
- Pierre-Héli Monot: Mensch als Methode: Allgemeine Hermeneutik und partielle Demokratie im deutschen und US-amerikanischen 19. Jahrhundert (Friedrich Schleiermacher – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Frederick Douglass).
2013
- Michael Duszat: Enumeration and the Essay. (supervised by Prof. Boesenberg and Prof. Hof)
- Marta Lysik: Dialogism in the Work of Louise Erdrich.
2011
- Simon Strick: Naming Pain. Tracing Discourses on Pain, Gender and Race in 19th Century American Culture. (Betreuerin: Gaby Dietze, Zweitgutachterin: Eva Boesenberg)
2010
- Annegret Mihan: Undoing Difference? Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. (supervised by Prof. Lenz and Prof. Boesenberg)