Dissertations

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Brack, Carmen

    • Brack, Carmen . "A Vision that Is Diseased": Madness and Masculinity in British Fiction, 1790–1900 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Johnson, Tamara Marie

    • Johnson, Tamara Marie . Similar Wording, Similar Perception? How Synonymic Food Labels Influence Consumers 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Schneider, Maurice

    • Schneider, Maurice . Transatlantic Fossil Fuel Fiction: An Archaeology of Extraction and Exploitation During the Short 20th Century 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Zhu, Jialu

    • Zhu, Jialu . Home Trouble: Cross-Cultural Depictions of Home and Disruptions of Belonging in American Westerns, Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Chinese Melodramas 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2024

  • Sigg, Pascal

    • Sigg, Pascal . Mediating the Real – Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Van Driessche, Laetitia

    • Van Driessche, Laetitia . Verb-Dependent Prepositional Phrases in Varieties of Englishes: A Variationist Construction Grammar Perspective 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Vogelsanger, Johanna

    • Vogelsanger, Johanna . Lexical Loss, Survival, and Innovation in Middle English 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Xie, Fang

    • Xie, Fang . Multimodality and Speech Act Perceptions Across Cultures: The Case of Compliments 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2023

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, Stella . Death is Served – The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Keller, Jonas

    • Keller, Jonas . English Grammatical Gender and Language Contact 2023, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Mattli, Alan

    • Mattli, Alan . «The Conservative Mystery Lover Will Object» – Revisionist Crime Fiction in the U.S.

  • Tjon-A-Meeuw, Olivia

    • Tjon-A-Meeuw, Olivia . Writing the Caribbean: Race and Sexuality in (Neo-)Victorian Narratives 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Vogelsang, Manuel

    • Vogelsang, Manuel . Revisiting the Past, Melodramatically! Melodrama and the Making of the American Past 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2022

  • Utiger, Julia Teresa

    • Utiger, Julia Teresa . Internalising Rejection: Children of the New African Diasporas in Contemporary British and Spanish Narratives 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2021

  • Eberle, Nicole

    • Eberle, Nicole . Bermudian English – A Sociohistorical and Linguistic Profile 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Frick, Deborah

    • Frick, Deborah . Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Höhn, Simone Eva

    • Höhn, Simone Eva . One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Müller, Serge

    • Müller, Serge . Vulgar Greatness and Common Lords: The Rhetoric of Ambiguity and the Poets of the Nobility in Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the Poets" 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Oppliger, Rahel

    • Oppliger, Rahel . Interaction and Language Change: Noun Phrase Referring Expressions in Spoken Task-Based Dialogue 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schmalz, Mirjam

    • Schmalz, Mirjam . Language Attitudes in St. Kitts – Changing Norms of English and Creole in a Caribbean Community 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2020

  • Ang-Tschachtli, Silja

    • Ang-Tschachtli, Silja . Bilingual Couples in Conversation 2020, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, Sabine . Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction – A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Callegaro, Elena

    • Callegaro, Elena . Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of (Variable) Article Use in English – A Construction Grammar Approach 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, Stella . Death Is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Ittensohn, Mark

    • Ittensohn, Mark . The Frame Tale in Late Romantic Britain: Genre and Authorial Hybridity 2020, Universität Zürich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Lehmann, Hans Martin

    • Lehmann, Hans Martin . Syntactic Variation, Change, and Lexical Preference: a Corpus-Based Study 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Staub, Lyutsiya

    • Staub, Lyutsiya . Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas : impressionist figure paintings in contemporary anglophone art fiction 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Strebel, Stefanie

    • Strebel, Stefanie . Between Dream Houses and ‹God's Own Junkyard›: Architecture and the Built Environment in Suburban Fiction 2020, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Tuominen-Pope, Josefina Johanna

    • Tuominen-Pope, Josefina Johanna . Romantic Celebrity, Literary Periodicals, and the Dichotomy of High and Popular Culture: The Reception of Lord Byron and John Clare 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2019

  • Dreiding, Michelle

    • Dreiding, Michelle . The Space Between. Toni Morrison’s Poetics of Liminality 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Keller, Thomas

    • Keller, Thomas . A Practicological Modernism – Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Popov, Aleksandar

    • Popov, Aleksandar . Live sports commentating: a comparative study of cricket, football, horse racing and tennis commentaries 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Sandmeier-Walt, Annina

    • Sandmeier-Walt, Annina . Die Aufhebung des Klosters Muri 1841 : der Aargauer Klosterstreit in Schweizer Erinnerungskulturen 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2018

  • Barwick, Kane

    • Barwick, Kane . Darkness repeating : a Derridean analysis of Charles Dickens' Our mutual friend, Great expectations and Bleak house 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, Sabine . Women in Crime: victims, perpetrators and detectives in post-transitional South African crime fiction 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2017

  • Caspar, Cyril L

    • Caspar, Cyril L . The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity: Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schoenenberger, Petra

    • Schoenenberger, Petra . Transformations of the Supernatural: Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Stamp Bahadur, Lilly

    • Stamp Bahadur, Lilly . Troubled masculinity: the rake and the fop in the English comedy between 1662 and 1728 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2016

  • Chang, Sophie Hsiu-Hui

    • Chang, Sophie Hsiu-Hui . Native and non-native teachers' discourse in EFL classrooms: English, Mandarin, code-switching and the use of OK 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Kollmann, Elizabeth

    • Kollmann, Elizabeth . I and the other(s): contemporary life-writing and the exilic imaginary 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Müller, Tina

    • Müller, Tina . Visions in a frame: a study of development through gaze refinement in Dorothea Brooke, Isabel Archer, and Lily Briscoe 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Neukom-Hermann, Anja

    • Neukom-Hermann, Anja . Negation, Quantification and Scope. A Corpus Study of English and German All...Not Constructions 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Perez, Danae Maria

    • Perez, Danae Maria . From gringo to guarango: language shift in a former anglophone community in Paraguay 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Staicov, Adina

    • Staicov, Adina . “I feel like I’m a born again Chinese – but kinda fake:” Ethnic identity construction in San Francisco Chinatown’s diaspora community 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Stix, Dragica

    • Stix, Dragica . "In one's own write": psychoanalytische Lektüren letzter Worte von Suizidenten 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2015

  • Bissig, Florian

    • Bissig, Florian . Coleridge and Communication 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Leitner, Magdalena

    • Leitner, Magdalena . Conflicts in Early Modern Scottish Letters and Law-Courts 2015, University of Glasgow, Faculty of Arts.

  • Ulzega, Lenka

    • Ulzega, Lenka . Rhodesian English in London 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2014

  • Lehmann Imfeld, Zoë Christina

    • Lehmann Imfeld, Zoë Christina . The Ghost of God: Theology in the Supernatural Fiction of Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James 2014, University of Bern.

  • Riquet, Johannes

    • Riquet, Johannes . The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics 2014, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2013

  • Gardner, Anne-Christine

    • Gardner, Anne-Christine . Derivation in Middle English: Regional and Text Type Variation 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Honkapohja, Alpo

    • Honkapohja, Alpo . A linguistic and codicological study of the Sloane group of middle English manuscripts 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Mühlheim, Martin

    • Mühlheim, Martin . Fictions of Home: Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Rathore-­Nigsch, Claudia

    • Rathore-­Nigsch, Claudia . Dialect variation and change in the diaspora: a sociophonetic study of the East African Indian community in Leicester, UK 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2012

  • Bolander, Brook

    • Bolander, Brook . On language and power in blogs 2012, University of Basel, Faculty of Arts.

  • Landert, Daniela

    • Landert, Daniela . The personalisation of mass media communication. Involving settings, private content and linguistic immediacy in british online news 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schönfelder, Christa

    • Schönfelder, Christa . Wounds and words: childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Studer-Joho, Nicole

    • Studer-Joho, Nicole . Diffusion and Change in Early Middle English: Methodological and Theoretical Implications from the LAEME Corpus of Tagged Texts 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2010

  • Binotto, Johannes

    • Binotto, Johannes . Tat/Ort: Das Unheimliche und sein Raum in der Kultur 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Heller-Andrist, Simone

    • Heller-Andrist, Simone . The Friction of the Frame: Derrida's Parergon in Literature 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Piccitto, Diane

    • Piccitto, Diane . Dramatic Forms and Identity-Formation in the Works of William Blake 2010, University of Western Ontario (Canada), Faculty of Arts.

  • Seiler, Annina

    • Seiler, Annina . The Scripting of the Germanic Languages. A Comparative Study of "Spelling Difficulties" in Old English, Old High German and Old Saxon 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Zipp, Lena

    • 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 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2009

  • Steiner - Karafili, Enit

    • Steiner - Karafili, Enit . Jane Austen and the civilized woman: moral development and gender 2009, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

• 2008

  • Breustedt, Barb

    • Breustedt, Barb . Prefabricated input in language acquisition: the syntax of storybooks 2008, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2005

  • Loren, Scott

    • Loren, Scott . Our wills and fates : the politics of identity in contemporary American fiction and film 2005, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.