| Candidate | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Screen-to-text: The pragmatics of subtitles, transcripts and written viewer comments | audiovisual translation, relational work, interpersonal pragmatics, communal TV viewing, identity construction, pragmatics of fiction |
