Dissertations Supervised
Dissertations in progress (alphabetical):
- Silvia Chirila: Between the Double and the Shadow. Paradox and Tension in the Novels of Toni Morrison.
- Milena Nikolova: Amerikakonzeptionen im europäischen Autorenfilm.
Completed (by year):
2023
- Rabya Al-Mouslie:The Cinema of Anxieties: Rethinking Collective Anxieties as a Genre in Post 9/11 Hollywood Movies
2021
- Naghmeh Esmailpour:Between Local Narrative and Global Aspiration: Globalization and Global Media Culture in Iran and the USA
2020
- Katharina Christ:The Literary Room in the Novels of Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers and Jonathan Safran Foer
2016
- Marta Neüff: Words of Crisis as Words of Power. Crisis Rhetoric and the Tradition of the Jeremiad in 21st Century U.S. American Presidential Speechmaking.
2015
- Eva Brunner: Poetik des extremen Selbst: Identität und Emotion bei Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton und Robert Lowell. (abstract)
2014
- Karolina Golimowska: Reactions to 9/11 in US-American and British City Novels - Transatlantic and Trans-Metropolitan Perspectives.
- Antje Czudaj: Miranda July. Performer, Writer, Filmmaker.
- Lars Schmeink: Dystopian Dreams. Future Possible Worlds in Recent Literary, Visual and Digital Media.
2013
2011
- Susann Neuenfeldt: Schauspiele des Sehens. Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im Essay.