Current Habilitation Projects
| Candidate | Working title | Research areas/keywords |
Askin, Ridvan | Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism | aesthetics, American romanticism, Emerson, Fuller, idealism, materialism, metaphysics, Thoreau, transcendental philosophy |
| Begley, Justin | Plant Poetics Before the Romantics: Poetry and Scholarship in the Res publica Botanica, c. 1660-1740 | poetics, rhetoric, plant studies, ecology, manuscript studies, network analysis, history of science |
Debray, Carolin | Language and interaction in online gaming communities | multimodal interaction, ludolects, corpus linguistics, intercultural pragmatics, intercultural new media studies |
Köylü, Zeynep | A Dynamic Usage-Based Approach to Second⁄Foreign Language Development in the Form of Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis | dynamic usage-based, CAFL, L2 development |
| Messerli, Thomas | Pragmatics of Fiction: Lay Subtitling and Online Communal Viewing | audiovisual translation, relational work, interpersonal pragmatics, communal TV viewing, identity construction, pragmatics of fiction |
Completed Habilitation Projects
| Candidate | Title | Research areas/keywords |
Bezzola Lambert, Ladina | Contested Authorship in Shakespeare's Lucrece and the Sonnets | |
Dayter, Daria | Corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation in simultaneous interpreting | corpus linguistics, interpreting studies, translation studies, translationese, linguistic variation |