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| Abt, Sabine. | A Journey to the Jungian Interior: Bellow's Henderson the Rain King as a Modern Individituation Process. | 2007. |
| Andrist, Simone. | “The Truth of the Frame”: Adapting Derrida’s Parergon to Literature. | 2005. |
| Auf der Maur Arantes Tomé, Simone. | An Outsider Within the British Literary Tradition: Eva Figes’ Experimental Novels. | 1998. |
| Bachmann, Martina. | The British Woman-Authored Female Detective Novel: A Mirror of the Changing Situation of Women in Society: P. D. James, Jennie Melville, Liza Cody, Joan Smith and Val McDermid. | 2005. |
| Baliarda, Reto. | Elizabeth Gaskell and the Industrial Revolution. | 1998. |
| Barth, Dominique. | “A Country of the Mind”: The Deconstruction of Australian-ness in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves and George Johnston’s My Brother Jack. | 2010. |
| Baumann, Sabine. | Symbolism in Native American Literature: Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks. | 1998. |
| Beiser, Marc. | A Masterpiece of Deception: The 1818 Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s Rewriting for the 1831 Edition. | 2003. |
| Bernhard, Karin. | The Realization of Silence: Thomas Hardy’s Novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Its Film Adaptations by Roman Polanski and Ian Sharp. | 2003. |
| Betschart, Franziska. | How John Wayne Survived Vietnam: The Decline of the American Value System and Its Reaffirmation in Novels of the Vietnam War. | 2005. |
| Biber, Karin. | Irony in Jane Austen’s Major Novels. | 1997. |
| Blaser, Dominique. | Visual Presentation of Figural Minds in Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. | 2011. |
| Blum, Adi. | A Stony Female Shape: A Reading of Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved. | 1995. |
| Bogliani, Stella. | Metafiction, Intertextuality and Subjectivity in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Oracle Night. | 2005. |
| Bolliger, Patricia. | Pre-Raphaelite Women: The Lives, Ambitions and Careers of Five Women Artists and Poets. | 1999. |
| Bosshart, Sandra. | “The Selfish Paradox”: The Nineteenth-Century American Frontier Myth in Cooper, Hawthorne and Twain. | 2005. |
| Bozzini, Clara. | Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. | 2001. |
| Brunner, Nicole. | Negotiations of Settlement: The Role of Place in the Construction of Australian Cultural Identity in Selected Modern Australian Novels. | 2000. |
| Büchi, Claudia. | Socio-Cultural Crises and Their Monstrous Manifestations: The Cultural and Personal Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature. | 2005. |
| Cassidy, Mirjam. | Imagining India: Representations of Colonial India in Kipling’s Kim, Forster’s A Passage to India, and Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown. | 2005. |
| Christen, Karin. | Clash of Cultures: Confrontation with the ‘Other’ in Colonial India in Six Indian English and Anglo-Indian Novels. | 2003. |
| Colangelo, Erica. | Black, White, Both or None?: Racial Passing in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Danzy Senna’s From Caucasia, with Love. | 2006. |
| Comtesse, Regula. | Slavery and Identity-Formation in Toni Morrison's Beloved. | 2008. |
| Derungs, Sandra. | ’Nam: Dreaming, Daunting, Disastrous: An Analysis of Metafiction and Trauma in Selected Works of Tim O’Brien. | 2009. |
| Dreiding, Michelle. | “It Was Not a Story to Pass On:” Verbalizing Trauma in Literature. | 2010. |
| Dürr, Marcel. | “See What I Mean?”: The Stories of Raymond Carver, or Experiencing Fiction. | 2002. |
| Eberhard, Philipp. | Japan through Mirrorshades: Cyberpunk, Japan, and Techno-Orientalism. | 2006. |
| Eberle, Iwona. | Eve with a Spade: Women, Gardens, and Literature in the 19th Century. | 2001. |
| Egli, Eliane. | The Repressed Fights Back: An Analysis of the Double in Romantic and Victorian Literature. | 2009. |
| Ehrensperger, Peter. | The Bleak Image of the City in Literature: Juxtaposing John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer with Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet. | 2002. |
| Eichbaum, Bettina. | A World of Collapsing Binary Oppositions: The Difficulty of Conveying Cross-Cultural Experience in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. | 2001. |
| Ergen, Sishan. | Mimicry, Hybridity, Blackness and Passing: The Representation of Islam in William Shakespeare’s Othello. | 2010. |
| Férey, Eric. | In Quest of Harmony: The Detectives Leaphorn and Chee in Tony Hillerman’s Anthropological Mysteries. | 2000. |
| Férey-Brunner, Christine. | Growing Pains: Adolescence in the First Novels of Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. | 1999. |
| Feubli, Manuela. | A World of Loss and Dislocation: Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Stories. | 2000. |
| Fink, Andrea. | Pre-Raphaelite Visualizations of Victorican Ideals of Femininity: Selected Paintings after Poems. | 2000. |
| Fischer, Esther. | Crossover: Self-Reflexivity in Realist Fiction and Mimesis in Metafiction. | 2007. |
| Fliri, Arno. | From the Mayflower to The Matrix: The Quest for Identity in American Male-Authored Literature from 1850 to 2000. | 2007. |
| Frei, Dana. | Power, Language and Sexuality in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. | 2004. |
| Frey, Gaby. | “The private core will always be … hermetic”: Decoding the Public and the Private in Brian Friel’s Plays. | 2001. |
| Frey, Nicole. | Unweaving the Seamless Garment: Aspects of the Community in George Mackay Brown’s Writing. | 1999. |
| Fritschi, Caroline. | Wordsworth’s Orchestra: Sounds, Music, Images and Harmony in William Wordsworth’s Works. | 1995. |
| Fuchs, Regula. | New Ceremonies and a Story Not to Pass On: Cultural Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. | 2004. |
| Geyer, Barbara. | New Zealanders on the Edge: An Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s and Janet Frame’s Prose Fiction. | 1999. |
| Geyer, Mirjam. | Into the Wilderness – A Literary Labyrinth: The Forest as Setting in English Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Texts. | 2008. |
| Gleiser, Cla. | Charles Dickens: Seine Frommen und Geistlichen in Little Dorrit, sowie Bleak House und Hard Times. | 1996. |
| Gorjup, Eva. | The Twilight Saga: The Twilight of Human Society and the Rise of the Sparkly Vampires. | 1012. |
| Gredig-Trüb, Serena. | American Imagery of the Vietnam War and Tim O’Brien’s Variant of Postmodernism. | 2007. |
| Greuter, Joachim. | Bessie Head’s Vision of a Better World. | 1999. |
| Grischott, Franca. | Between Brae and Wynd: An Exploration of Landscapes in 20th-Century Scottish Novels. | 2006. |
| Gwerder, Daniel. | The Collector and The Magus: An Allegorical Reading on the Basis of Luhmann’s Difference Theory. | 2005. |
| Gwerder, Philipp. | American Soldiers and American Culture in Seven Novels of the Vietnam War. | 2004. |
| Haas, Sandra Khin Mala. | The Oppression of the Other: Binary Opposition in The God of Small Things. | 2003. |
| Haenggeli, Jarah. | The Celtic Mythical World in Harry Potter. | 2003. |
| Haller, Andrea-Monika. | Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Women: An Analysis of Selected Female Protagonists. | 2007. |
| Hausammann, Andreas. | The Concept of the Poetic Voice in American Modernism: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams. | 1997. |
| Heeb, Nicolas. | Physical Violence and Police Brutality in James Ellroy’s L. A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential and White Jazz). | 2002. |
| Hodel, Marcel. | N. Scott Momaday: The Aesthetic Experience of the Native Landscape in His Work. | 1999. |
| Hofer, Irene. | A Life amid Seclusion: Social, Psychological and Spatial Aspects of Isolation in the Novels by Charlotte Brontë. | 1997. |
| Holliger, Katharina. | Memory as a Shaper of Human Condition: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Fred D’Aguiar’s The Longest Memory and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. | 2005. |
| Horvath, Olivier. | Memory and Myth: Arthur Miller and Roland Barthes on the Importance of Responsibility. | 2002. |
| Hostettler, Isabelle. | “’Mother,’ he wimpered, ‘Mother!’”: The Representation of the “Evil” Mother in Mid-Twentieth Century American Theatre Plays by O’Neill, Williams and Albee. | 2004. |
| Hug, Anna Francesca. | A Legacy of Bitterness and Disillusionment: Short Stories by Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor and Liam O’Flaherty. | 2008. |
| Hunziker, Thomas. | Visions of Blood: Visualising Macbeth on Film. | 2006. |
| Hüssy, Marian. | The Quest for Identity in Jean Rhys’s Sargasso Sea and Joan Riley’s A Kindness to the Children. | 1999. |
| Hutter, Sabriye. | Aspects of Representing the ‘Unrepresentable’ in Three Rigidly Defined Sign Systems: Salman Rushdie’s Shame, J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, and Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides. | 2006. |
| Isch Pfister, Daniela. | “Look, Mom, an Indian”: The Image of Indians in Modern Native American Literature. | 1997. |
| Janner, Valentina. | Poe through Baudelaire's Eyes: A Comparative Analysis of the Representation of the City. | 2007. |
| Jochum, Katharina. | Representing and Deconstructing Personal Identities in Paul Auster's Fiction. | 2011. |
| Joob-Stucki, Judith. | Light and Darkness: Verbal Imagery in William Skakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. | 2000. |
| Klinger, Christine. | Between the Immigrant Novel and the Fairytale: The Quest for Happiness in Selected Novels by O.E. Rølvaag. | 1999. |
| Knopf, Simon. | Taming the Beast: Irishness in Celtic Literature. | 2010. |
| Knöss, Martin. | “I don’t want to bother you…”: Marlowe’s Crisis in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. | 1999. |
| Kobel, Corinne. | Pleasantly Deceptive Arts: On the Necessary Instability of Opposing Principles in Hawthorne’s Short Stories. | 2009. |
| Kobelt, Kathrin. | The Monster in Us: Aspects of Duality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction | 2005. |
| Krucker, Ramona. | Love and Death in the American Suburb: Fear, Guilt, and the Pursuit of Innocence in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides. | 2008. |
| Labhart, Karin. | Resisting the Axiomatic Frame: Postmodernity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides. | 2006. |
| Lalive d’Epinay, Danielle. | A Hell of a Heaven: The Dualist Traps in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. | 2001. |
| Lang, Susanne. | From Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: The Development of Gothic Aspects. | 2009. |
| Lauko, Tibor. | “Children of the Night”: Monster und Monstrosität in Bram Stoker’s Dracula und anderen Gothic Novels des 19ten Jahrhunderts. | 2007. |
| Lauria, Nadia Cinzia. | The Unconscious Disguised as a Dream: Coleridge’s Theory of the Unconscious as Manifested in his Oneiric Poetry. | 2007. |
| Lawrence, Stephanie. | Discussing the Ghostly: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Victorian Ghost Stories, from Charles Dickens to M. R. James. | 2005. |
| Leumann, Christa. | Consuming the Enemy: Strategies of Identity Formation in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. | 2008. |
| Lück, Brita. | “We’re alike – there is affinity between us”: Die Hauptcharaktere in Charlotte Brontës Romanen und ihre Beziehungsmuster. | 1996. |
| Lüthi, Thomas. | Profiling the Radical: The Making of Pink Prototypes, Parlor Reds and Socialists, in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Oil! and Boston. | 1998. |
| Lutz, Cornelia. | Narratological Issues in Native American Literature. | 1998 |
| Mareen, Daniel. | Ezra Pound’s Presentation of Thomas Jefferson: A Model for Leadership in Pound’s Programme for the Rejuvenation of Western Civilization. | 1997. |
| Marruncheddu, Sabrina. | On the Relativity of Truth: Ian McEwan’s The Innocent. | 1997. |
| Marthaler, Marianne. | Threads in the Carpet: The Works of Thomas Hardy. | 2001. |
| Meier, Belinda Gabriele. | Thomas Hardy’s Portrayal of Women: The Female Stereotypes and Women’s Predicament in Victorian Society. | 1999. |
| Meybohm, Carlo. | The Search for a Balanced Bicultural Identity: Healing Journeys toward Cultural Integration and the Role of Landscape in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Keri Hulme’s The Bone People. | 2002. |
| Moling, Martin. | In-between the ‘Post-s’: Mapping the Contemporary Conditio Humana via Hanif Kureishi. | 2002. |
| Moser, Cornelia. | Changing Positions: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Women in Private and Public Spaces. | 1999. |
| Mühlethaler, Silvia. | Beyond Myth?: Race in the Old South in William Faulkner’s Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!. | 2003. |
| Mühlheim, Martin. | Past the Game of Fiction: History, Reconstruction, and Ideology in Five Narratives from the English-Speaking World. | 2004. |
| Müller, Rahel. | Maya Angelou: The Journey from the Caged Bird to the Phenomenal Woman. | 2002. |
| Murialdo, Lisa. | “Maroons Together”: Feminism and Postcoloniality Between ‘Centre’ and ‘Margins’ in Four Contemporary Rewritings | 2003. |
| Murray, Ciara. | "Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it": Storytelling and Subversion in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. | 2012. |
| Myers, Alexander. | Towards a Post-/Modern Arcadia: Pastoral as Identity Discourse in the Novels of John Banville 1989–2005. | 2009. |
| Nair, Ruth. | Gossip, a Dynamic Literary Tool in the Writing of Louise Erdrich. | 1997. |
| Nakahara, Nadine Fujie. | Confronting Imperialism and Its Consequences: The Cross-Cultural Element in Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, Winter in the Blood, and The English Patient. | 2003. |
| Niederberger, Christa. | Eve’s Quest: A Study of the Spiritual in Emily Dickinson’s Poetical Work. | 2007. |
| Ochsner, Valerie. | Questioning the Angel in the House: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Criticism of the Victorian Stereotype. | 2009. |
| Paolantonio, Fiammetta. | Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams: On the Way to Tragedy. | 1996. |
| Plüss, Andreas. | Reading the Rabbit Tetralogy: John Updike’s Socio-Cultural Criticism. | 2004. |
| Reber, Barbara. | Mason & Dixon & Lyotard: Rewriting Modernity in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon. | 2008. |
| Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel. | Caught in a Body of Words: Young and Old Artist-Protagonists in John Barth’s Short Fiction. | 2010. |
| Rohr, Mike. | The Development of Shakespeare’s Fools. | 2005. |
| Rohrbach, Clarissa. | Cultural Fetishism and the Possibilities of Language: An Analysis of Selected Writings by Don DeLillo. | 2006. |
| Rohrer, Corina. | Consuming Melancholy vs. Subversive Monstrosity: From the Romantic Vampire to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. | 2004. |
| Rossi, Kurt. | It Dwells Among the Untrodden Ways: Hypernarrative Textuality. | 2001. |
| Rotschi, Nicole. | Fiction in the Sphere of Reality: Metafictional Aspects and Otherness in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Disgrace. | 2005. |
| Rudin, Kirsten. | ‘From Tree to Tree without Ropes’: The Imaginary Homeland and the Hybrid Identity in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Anil’s Ghost. | 2003. |
| Ruepp, Fabian. | Dream or Nightmare: National Myth Heritage in Twentieth-Century Literature. | 2009. |
| Rüesch, Margret. | Counterworlds to Dystopia: The Quest for Identity through Language and Literature under the Oppressive Regimes of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. | 2001. |
| Sabo, Claudia. | 'They All Still Seem to Think That You Can Change the World Through Art': The L Word: Representing Lesbians as Advocates of Liberalism and Democracy. | 2012. |
| Schaub, Christina. | Women and Their Search for True Love and Happiness: A Study of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. | 2002. |
| Schneider, Nicole. | Deconstructing the American Dream: A Critical Reading of Four American Novels. | 2007. |
| Schneider, Simone. | Mapping a State of Mind: Identity in Scottish Literature between 1979 and 1997. | 2010. |
| Schnider Schmitt, Manuela. | Aspects of Nature in Kate Chopin: An Emersonian Approach. | 1996. |
| Schoch Trubowitz, Helen. | Hardy's Utopia: The Past and the Present in Thomas Hardy's Fiction. | 1997. |
| Schöchlin, Daniela. | … and suddenly you are forever other than you were”: Childhood and Identity Formation of Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. | 2005. |
| Schwarz, Monika. | Parents, Adults and Children: Social Criticism in Arthur Miller's Protagonists. | 2011. |
| Schweitzer, Michael. | American Identity and Its Paradoxes: Emerson, Turner, and the Western. | 2010. |
| Schweizer, Philipp. | Where Have All the Real Men Gone?: An Examination of the Connection between Music, Sport and Masculinity in the Works of Nick Hornby. | 2011. |
| Schweizer, Sabine. | Umwelt und Natur in der heutigen Stadtentwicklung: Der Stellenwert von Umwelt- und Naturmassnahmen bei der Planung und Umsetzung des Amsterdamer Stadtviertels Ijburg. | 2002. |
| Schwitter, Marc. | Success and Failure in Counterculture: Why J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan Would Have Joined W. S. Burroughs’s Wild Boys. | 2004. |
| Seelentag, Roland. | Scars and Stripes: Rambo – America's Action Figure. | 2011. |
| Seemann, Katja. | “The Visionary Essence of Woman”: Die Suche nach dem weiblichen Ideal in Thomas Hardys A Pair of Blue Eyes, Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles und The Well-Beloved. | 2005. |
| Seiler, Angelika. | From Woman to Other to Monstrous Mother: Reproduction and Abjection in the Alien Series. | 2007. |
| Spiegel, Janine. | Welcome to Elsinore!: A Geographical Approach to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. | 2006. |
| Spoerndli, Olga. | The Broken Identity of a Holocaust Survivor. | 2010. |
| Steiner, Martin. | The Common Soldiers in Henry V: Representatives of National Unity?. | 2001. |
| Steinmann, Ramona. | 'Saying' the 'Unsayable': Vietnam in the Writings of Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien. | 2011. |
| Strässle, Mirjam. | Social Abuse and Corruption in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. | 1996. |
| Strebel, Stefanie. | The Architecture of Dystopia: Echoes of Utopian Architectural Concepts in Dystopian Literature and Film. | 2009. |
| Studer, Doris. | Humor in the Works of Louise Erdrich. | 1999. |
| Stutz, Birgit. | A Feminist Approach to Margaret Atwood’s Novels The Edible Woman, Surfacing and Life Before Man. | 1997. |
| Suter, Barbara. | “I Have Some Restless Searcher in Me …”: The Quest for Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out. | 2006. |
| Suter, Christian. | Interpreting the Variorum, One More Time: An Experiment in Critical Revision. | 2006. |
| Thyssen, Daniel. | Women in Turmoil: The Role of Women Characters in Nineteenth Century English Novels. | 1998. |
| Vaghi, Katja. | The Dancing Body in Yeats' Plays for Dancers. | 2007. |
| Venzin, Nicole. | The Flâneur: Observation and Representation of Urban Spaces in John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer and Paul Auster’s City of Glass. | 2011. |
| von Niederhäusern, Giorgia. | Longing For Centers in a Decentered Universe: The Irony of the Human Condition in Nick Hornby’s Novels. | 2010. |
| Weber, Luzia. | The Play Is the Thing: A Metatheatrical Analysis of Three Characters in a Royal Shakespeare Company Production of Hamlet. | 2011. |
| Wucher, Ursula. | Double Bind in Wallace Stevens’ Transport to Summer. | 1993. |
| Wüest, Sibylle. | Unfit: Fantasy and Reality – A Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. | 2003. |
| Wüst, Stefanie. | Self-Knowledge as the Key to Reality: Andy and Larry Wachowski’s The Matrix. | 2004. |
| Zeller, Eveline. | What Is Human?: The Humanoid in Science Fiction Literature. | 2005. |
| Zellweger, Margrit. | Evil in Rowling's Magical World. | 2011. |
| Zeyrek-Gabriel, Evelin. | Identity Crisis: Ethnic and Personal Identity in Recent American Fiction. | 2010. |
| Zingg, Raymond. | Adaptations - A Way of Thinking: A Theoretical Examination of Film Adaptations: Medial and Cultural Mechanisms. | 2009. |
| Zobrist, Margrith. | Demythologizing American Identity: Mark Twain’s Mississippi Writings. | 2001. |
