Current PhD Projects
Ph.D. candidate | Working title | Research areas/keywords |
| Aerni, Anouk | “And the rain won’t make any difference?”: A Farewell to Anthropocentrism in American Postbellum Prose from 1850-1970 | |
| Albrecht, Maxi | The Cultural Politics of Intelligences in 21st-Century Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Survival Narrative | |
Bieri, Aline | Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the Swiss Context: The Linguistic Challenges and Implications of Teaching a Subject such as Biology in English Research Database: Project 3572984 | Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), second and foreign language learning and teaching, second language acquisition (SLA), conversation analysis (CA), sociolinguistics |
Blagojevic, Blanka | Europe East and West – Negotiations of a Blurry Borderline SNF-Project: British Literary and Cultural Discourses of Europe | contemporary British travel writing, discourses of Europe, Eastern Europe in British literature and culture, Balkanism, cultural topographies |
| Ehrsam, Kristina | The Role of English as a Lingua Franca in the Foreign Language Classroom | |
| Frey, Michaela | t.b.a. | |
| Kraft, Corin | Time and Place in Contemporary Literature of the U.S. South | |
Küng, Melanie | Bordering Europe: The Cultural and Literary Production of the English Channel in the 20th and 21stCenturies Research Database: Project 2280353 SNF-Project: British Literary and Cultural Discourses of Europe | contemporary British fiction and travel writing, cultural topographies, memory studies, discourses of Europe, national identity |
| Loew, Joelle | On identities and gender at work: a linguistic case study of agile IT | identity construction, workplace discourse, gender, agile, interactional sociolinguistics |
Mauruschat, Ania | Radiophonie, Störung und Erkenntnis. Zur Epistemologie der Radiokunst am Beispiel der Katastrophenhörspiele von Andreas Ammer und FM Einheit | Sound & radio studies, transnational & entangled media histories, literature & science, media archeology & digitization, avant-garde, modernism & post-modernism |
| Nisticò, Simona | Politeness in fictional translation | |
Rapcsák, Balázs | Samuel Beckett's Media Art SNF-Project: Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality | Beckett studies, media theory, media technologies, agency, multimediality |
| Tübben, Ilenia | t.b.a. |
Completed PhD Projects
Ph.D. candidate | Title | Research areas/keywords |
Askin, Ridvan | Narrative and Becoming: Differential Narratology Research Database: Project 103858 | Differential narratology, the transcendental and empirical |
Bolander, Brook | On Power in Blogs Research Database: Project 103880 | computer-mediated communication, disagreement, power |
| Caci, Ursula | Locating Gender in Space: Emily Dickinson's Conception of Gender | |
Diederich, Catherine | Framing Sensory Adjectives: A Seminatic Analysis of Sensory Language Research Database: Project 1167187 | sensory language, frame semantics, corpus linguistics |
| Gottlieb, Derek | Common Nonsense: Community and Skepticism in Shakespearean Comedy | |
Hägler, Andreas | History, Critique, Utopia: Experimental Writing in the Context of Contemporary Anglophone Literature Research Database: Project 103857 | contemporary anglophone literature, experimental literature, aesthetic theory, Adorno |
Hänggi, Christian | Thomas Pynchon’s Sonic Fictions Research Database: Project 1454158 | Thomas Pynchon, sound studies, noise, silence, music |
| Keller, Daniela | Germany and Physics in English Fiction after 1960: A Diffractive Reading of Anglo-German Entanglements Research Database: Project 2280353 | contemporary British fiction, cultural topographies |
Lüthi, Daniel | Space and Narrative in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels Research Database: Project 2280340 | Space, narratology, Terry Pratchett |
| Meier, Stefanie | Language education and the global care work economy. Mapping structural inequalities in Philippine nurse migration to Germany Research Database: Project 3572983 | political economy of language, language education and labor migration, border management, language and the international division of reproductive labor critical sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication |
Messerli, Thomas | Repetition in Telecinematic Humour – How US American Sitcoms Employ Repetitive Patterns in the Construction of Multimodal Humour Research Database: Project 1653180 | telecinematic discourse, (linguistic) humour theories, sitcom humour, repetition and incongruity, (multimodal) discourse analysis |
Moreillon, Olivier | Cities in Flux: Capetonian and Durbanite Literary Topographies | South Africa, post-apartheid literature, space and place, South African cities, (South) African urban studies, Mariam Akabor, Rozena Maart, Johan van Wyk, K. Sello Duiker, Bridget McNulty, Lauren Beukes |
| Osei-Bonsu, Victoria | Representations of the Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad | Representation and othering, postcolonial discourse and analysis |
| Quassdorf, Sixta | "A little more than kin" – Quotations as a linguistic phenomenon. A study based on quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet | Phraseology, Quotation Studies, Shakespeare, Digital Humanities, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics |
| Reichel, A. Elisabeth | Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict SNF-Project: Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity | alterity, media, intermediality, sound and visual studies, notions of immediacy |
Rudolf von Rohr, Marie-Thérèse | Persuation in Smoking Cessation Online Research Database: Project 963000 | persuasion, relational work, identity construction, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication |
| Thurnherr, Franziska | Interpersonal Pragmatics and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Collaborative Work in Email Counseling Research Database: Project 1087057 | relational work, identity construction, (mental) health discourse, therapeutic alliance, computer-mediated communication, discourse analysis, interpersonal pragmatics |