Dissertation and Habilitation Projects

Supervised Doctoral Theses

Completed

  • Christoph Loreck, The Classical Tradition as a Magic Thread: John Keats and the 'Labyrinthian Path to Eminence in Art' (2005).
  • Sybille Pärsch, Differenz und Interdependenz: Die Krise der Metaerzählungen und ihre Folgen in Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses und Don DeLillos Underworld (2007).
  • Stephanie Egger-Gajardo, Das Prinzip Unentrinnbarkeit: Heteronormativität in Werken von Angela Carter und Christine Brooke-Rose (2008).
  • Meike DeVries, Das Theodizee-Problem bei Thomas Hardy (2009).
  • Elżbieta Baraniecka, Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s (2011). [CDE Bi-Annual Award].
  • David R. Kerler, Postmoderne Palimpseste: Studien zur (meta-)hermeneutischen Tiefenstruktur intertextueller Erzählverfahren im Gegenwartsroman (2011). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013] [Universitätspreis der Universität Augsburg für die beste Dissertation des Jahres 2011]
  • Georg Hauzenberger, 'It's Not by Any Lack of Ghosts We're Haunted': First Nations Gothic and Spiritual Realism (2013). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014].
  • Adina Sorian, Reading the Real: Toward a Reevaluation of Lacanian Theory in the Study of Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film (2015) [Wissenschaftspreis der Universität Augsburg].
  • Gerald Farca, Playing Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player’s Aesthetics Response
  • Martin Riedelsheimer, The Fiction of Infinity: Ethics in the Contemporary Novel
  • Korbinian Stöckl, Conceptions of Love in Contemporary Drama

 

In Progress

  • Christian Attinger, The Theatre of Philip Ridley [Arbeitstitel];
  • Alexander Lehner, Metagames: Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Videogames [Arbeitstitel];
  • Eva Ries, Flânerie as Technique of Self: Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Anglophone Flânerie Texts [Arbeitstitel];
  • Christina Schönberger, The Interplay of Distance and Closeness: (Narrative) Strategies in Second and Third Person Autobiographical Writing [Arbeitstitel];
  • Leila Michelle Vaziri, Politics, Psychology and Philosophy in Contemporary British Drama: The Theatre of Anxiety [Arbeitstitel];
  • Anja Weller, Affect and the Aesthetics of Trauma Narration in Utopian and Dystopian Speculative Fiction [Arbeitstitel]

 

 

Supervised Post-Doctoral Theses

Completed

  • Christina Wald, Spectres of Transubstantiation: The Eucharist, Disguise and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014).
  • Christoph Henke, The Discourse of Common Sense in  the  Literature  and  Culture  of Early Eighteenth-­Century Britain: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014)
  • David Kerler, The Archive Fever of the Romantics: Melancholia, Memory, and Spectrality [Working titel]

 

In Progress

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