PhD
This section presents an overview of all PhD degrees awarded by the English Department since the spring semester of 2007, as well as a selection of PhD degrees completed in earlier semesters.
| Candidate | Title of PhD Thesis | Supervisor(s) | Semester + Year |
| Aeschbacher, Claudia | “are you still awake...?” Investigating the Contextuality of Personal Written Communication | (A.H. Jucker/D. Schreier) | Spring 2008 |
| Baur, Michaela | Linguistic needs, tutoring options and support mechanisms: A framework of an ESP course for foreign football players in the English Premier League | (D. Schreier/A. Jucker) | Spring 2011 |
| Binotto, Johannes | Tat/ort: Das Unheimliche und sein Raum in der Kultur. | (E. Bronfen/T. Steffen) | Fall 2010 |
| Bleichenbacher, Lukas | Multilingualism in the Movies | (A. Fischer/R. Watts) | Spring 2007 |
| Breustedt, Barb | Prefabricated Input in Language Acquisition: The Syntax of Storybooks | (A. H. Jucker) | Fall 2007 |
| Enderli, Gabriela D. | Dear Freedom: Imprisonment and the Death Penalty in Novels of the South | (T. Steffen/E. Bronfen) | Fall 2011 |
| Fischli, Patrick | Metapragmatics in the Foreign Classroom | (A. Jucker/D. Schreier) | Fall 2011 |
| Fleischmann, Christine | “Pour Mwan Mon Lalang Matrenel i Al Avek Mwan Partou”: A Sociolinguistic Study on Language Attitudes Towards Seychellois Creole | (A. Fischer/G. Bossong) | Spring 2007 |
| Heller-Andrist, Simone | The Friction of the Frame: Derrida's Parergon in Literature | (M. Heusser/F. Gutbrodt) | Spring 2010 |
| Janoschka, Anja | Web Advertising | (A. Jucker/U. Fries) | Spring 2004 |
| Janser, Daniela | Taken Hostage! Die Geisel als amerikanische Symptomfigur. Von den puritanischen captivity narratives über die Schauerliteratur bis zum Action- und Horrorkino des 21. Jahrhunderts | (E. Bronfen) | Fall 2008 |
| Keller-Bolliger, Ruth | “How they do things with words” –Schreibkompetenz in der Fremdsprache Englisch: Eine empirische Studie im Kontext des EDK-Projekts HarmoS zur Evaluation kommunikativer Schreibkompetenz am Ende der Sekundarstufe I | (A. Fischer/J. Oelkers) | Spring 2012 |
| Kellerhals, Ursina | “There’s no better way to fly.” Die Wirkung englischer Slogans in der Deutschschweizer Anzeigenwerbung | (A. Fischer/A.H. Jucker) | Spring 2007 |
| Klevarová, Darina | Variation in Yod Pronunciation: A Comparative Study | (A. Fischer) | Fall 2008 |
| Landert, Daniela | The Personalisation of Mass Media Communication | (A. Jucker/M. Hundt) | Fall 2012 |
| Langenbach, Juliane | Gothic Shadowplays: The Evolution of Gothic Film and Its Visual Aesthetic from the Gothic Novel to the Cinema of Jacques Tourneur, Roger Corman, and Tim Burton | (E. Bronfen/J. Schweinitz) | Spring 2011 |
| Neurauter-Kessels, Manuela | Impoliteness in Cyberspace: Personally Abusive Reader Responses in Online Media | (A. Jucker/M. Locher) | Fall 2012 |
| Pfenninger, Simone | Existo, ergo sum: How English and High German Existential Concepts Came to be Different | (A. Fischer) | Fall 2007 |
| Piccitto, Diane | Dramatic Forms and Identity-Formation in the Works of William Blake [The degree was awarded by The University of Western Ontario in Canada, but part of the dissertation was written at the University of Zurich.] | (A. Esterhammer) | Fall 2010 |
| Seiler Rübekeil, Annina | The Scripting of the Germanic Languages: A Comparative Study of 'Spelling Difficulties' in Old English, Old High German and Old Saxom | (A. Fischer/E. Glaser) | Spring 2010 |
| Smyk-Bhattacharjee, Dorota | Lexical Innovation on the Internet – Neologisms in Blogs | (A.H. Jucker/U. Fries) | Spring 2008 |
| Steiner, Enit | Jane Austen and the Civilized Woman: Moral Development and Gender | (A. Esterhammer/A. Reddick/A. K. Mellor) | Spring 2010 |
| Studer-Joho, Nicole | Diffusion and Change in Early Middle English: Methodological and Theoretical Implications from the LAEME Corpus of Tagged Texts | (D. Schreier/O. Timofeeva) | Spring 2012 |
| Weber, Tobias | “On the Verge of To-day”: Emerson and the Emergence of the American Age | (E. Bronfen) | Fall 2008 |
| Weinhold, Juliet Boege | Code Switching in School-aged Children: Elicitation and Typology | (A. Fischer/D. Schreier) | Spring 2010 |
| Zipp, Lena | Exo- and endonormative models in Fiji – A corpus-based study on the dynamics of first and second language varieties with a focus on Indo-Fijian English | (M. Hundt) | Fall 2010 |