Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dissertations in progress (alphabetical):

• Silvia Chirila: Between the Double and the Shadow. Paradox and Tension in the Novels of Toni Morrison.
• Katharina Christ: Literary Rooms in Contemporary American Fiction.
• Milena Nikolova: Amerikakonzeptionen im europäischen Autorenfilm.

Completed (by year):

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

• Alexandra Wagner: Wissen in der Autobiographie.

2011

• Susann Neuenfeldt: Schauspiele des Sehens. Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im Essay.