PhD Projects

Current PhD Projects

Jyutika Satghar M.A.

Identity Saturation of Women with Disabilities in Films and TV Series

Ankita Dolai M.A.

From 'Madwomen' to 'Funny Women': Excess as Resistance in Comedy Produced by Women

Nadine Ellinger M.A.

Be(com)ing Mothers: Complicating Motherly Figures in African(a) Fiction

Corvin Bittner M.A.

Stealing Time, Making Time: Queer Sentimentality in Time Travel Narratives

Eva Krannich M.A.

Magical and Mythological Water Figures in Anglophone Speculative Ecofiction

Georgette Bentu

Negotiating Archipelagic Identities in the Age of Climate Change: Island Nations Literature

Completed PhD Projects

Dr. phil. Johanna Pundt

Speculative India: Genre and Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Anglophone Literature and Popular Culture

Dr. phil. Danyela Demir

Reading Loss: Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels

Dr. phil. Ashumi Shah

Understanding Speculative TV Fandoms

Dr. phil. Anke Bock

Superevil: Villains in Silver Age Superhero Comics

Dr. phil. Michelle Genck

Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, Oldboy: Manga und Anime zwischen Amerikanisierung und globaler Medienkultur

Dr. phil. Edoardo Checcucci

Conflicts, Negotiations and Ambivalences in Norwegian Postmigration Literature: Critiques and Rewritings of Norwegianness

Danica Stojanovic M.A.

Aesthetics of Fantasy Theatre - “A magic of its own”?

Giuliano Marmora M.A.

The Sword and the Hoard: Reframing Armaments and Treasures in Beowulf Novelistic Retellings

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