Supervision of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Theses
Completed PhD Theses (Dissertationen)
Thiemann, Anna. Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination. 2013.
Dickel, Simon. Black and Gay: Postmodern Negotiations. 2009.
Haas, Astrid. Stages of Agency: The Contribution of American Drama to the AIDS Discourse. 2007.
Hiltebrandt, Alexandra. "The Middle Way": Die puritanische Historiographie im Spannungsfeld von ideologischen Konstruktionen und Alltagshandeln. 2006.
Raupach, Kirsten. Am I Not a Woman and a Sister? Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit und kolonialer Sklaverei im Diskurs britischer Abolitionistinnen, 1770-1865. 2005.
Bähr, Michael. "The Anatomy of Mystery": Wissenschaftliche und literarische Spurensicherungen im 19. Jahrhundert. 2004.
Benken, Peter. Representations of Israel in Jewish American Literature. 2004.
Fitz, Karsten. Negotiating History and Culture: Processes of Trans-Culturation in Contemporary American Indian Fiction. 2001.
Bickmeyer, Annette. 'The Best Way To Explain Is To Do It': Ida Cannon and the Professionalization of Medical Social Work During the Progressive Era and the 1920s. 2001.
Marianne Schüz: Zwischen Anklang und Anklage. Die Kurzgeschichten Abraham Cahans und Anzia Yezierskas: 1890 - 1920. 1991.
Hermanns, Anne. From Mothers to Daughters? The Tradition of Quilting: (Her)Stories in the Novels of Contemporary Diasporic Novelists.
Lenhardt, Corinna. Colored Horror: Neomodern American Gothic in the 21st Century.
Oppel, Christina. Harnessing Germany: African Americans, Nazi Germany and Human Rights.
Rapp, Anna. The Academic Reception of African American Literature in the German Democratic Republic.
Reddig, Jesper. When East Meets West: Toward a Transnational Typology of Post-Soviet Jewish American Literature.
Schmidt, Jochen. Beyond the Black Atlantic: A Transatlantic Analysis of Germany During the "Black Horror on the Rhine."
Completed Postdoctoral Thesis (Habilitationen)
Mayer, Sylvia. Die naturethische Dimension in Texten der Neuengland-Regionalliteratur: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. 2002.