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Doctoral and Postdoctoral Projects

Postdoctoral Projects

Literature

Linguistics

Dr. Alan Mattli:

  • Title: "The American Century in Retrospect."
  • Keywords: American Studies, Film Studies

Dr. Johanna Vogelsanger, part of WAW-ME:

  • Title: "Geographic and Diachronic Variation in the Development of Middle English Legal Bi- and Multinomial Expressions." 
  • Keywords: Lexical Variation and Change, Phraseology, Legal Middle English

Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

  • Title: "100 Years of Generational Solidarity in World Anglophone Literature: Reading Intergenerational Justice Transculturally."
  • Keywords: Ecocriticism, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies
 
   
   

 

Doctoral Theses

Literature

Linguistics

Ann-Sophie Bosshard, part of DramaSCAPEs

  • Title: "Travel-Scapes: Mobility, Community, and the Ethics of Emplacement in Early Modern Drama."
  • Keywords: performance Studies, Cultural Geography, Mobility Studies 

Carlos Hartmann, M.A., (personal website:smog.sh):

  • Title: "The Recent History of Singular THEY. A Mixed Methods Approach at Modelling the Sociolinguistics of Gender(less) Pronouns in Online Spaces."
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Gender Linguistics

Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.:

  • Title: "Hip Hop Sentimentality."
  • Keywords: (African) American Studies, Hip Hop Studies, Gender Studies

Jasmine Wolfensberger, M.A.:

  • Title: "Mapping Medieval English Mind: Spatial Vocabulary and Conceptualizations of Space from Old to Early Modern English."
  • Keywords: Historical Linguistics

Isabel Hänggli, M.A.:

  • Title: "Constructions of Identity, Authenticity, and Agency in the Celebrity Memoir."
  • Keywords: Celebrity Studies, Life Writing 

Rihab Ayed, M.A., part of WAW-ME

  • Title: "Lexical Domains and Register Variation in Middle English: The Language of Medicine and Religion."
  • Keywords: Lexicology, Historical Linguistics

Léa Gbeassor, M.A.:

  • Title: "Energy, Extraction, and the Environment in African Futurism."
  • Keywords: Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Afrofuturism

 

Nadia Teh

  • Title: “Revising Desire: The Representation of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Disability in Historical Romance."
  • Keywords: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Race Theory, Disability Studies
 

Olivia Lanni, M.A.

  • Title: "Forms of Embodiment in Early Modern Literature."
  • Keywords: Early Modern Literature, Material Environments
 

Simona Lea Kradolfer, M.A.

  • Title: "Victorian Fairy Literature."
  • Keywords: Genre Criticism, Victorian Studies 
 

Zoë Achilles, M.A.:

  • Title: "As a Plant I Could: Analyzing Plant Writing in Contemporary Literature."
  • Keywords: Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities, American Studies