Habilitations (post-docs) and PhD theses

 

Ongoing Habilitation

Felipe Espinoza Garrido, “Imperial Sensations: Excitement, Race, and Empire in British Popular Women’s Writing, 1826–1897,” 2026

 

Completed Habilitations (venia legendi/post-doctoral qualification)

Markus Schmitz, “Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations,” 2016

Silke Stroh, “Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora,” 2022

 

Ongoing PhD supervision

Can Çakır, “Nowhere/Somewhere Better Than This: The Critique of Neoliberal Ideology in Marxist and Anarchist Utopian Literature”

Dorit Neumann, “Black British Hauntology: Historical Consciousness and Hauntings of Empire in Contemporary Black British Writing”

Mathaabe Schick, “Adichie in German(y): A Study of the German Translations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah”

Rita Maricocchi, “Forgetting Colonial Amnesia. Anglophone Impulses to the Cultural Memory of German Colonialism”

Yashka Chavan, “Queer Post ± Colonial Lines of Flight: An Autotheoretic Intervention in Gender, Sexuality, and Spatiality in South Asian Literatures”

 

Completed PhDs

Ismahan Wayah “Muslim Narrative and Drama in the Diaspora: Performing American and British Muslim Cultural Identities with and through Unity, Difference, and Dissidence,” 2018

Deborah Nyangulu “Big-man Aesthetics: Masculinity, Power, and Contemporary African Literature,” 2018

Esteban Sanchino Martinez, “Ästhetische Drastik und Popkultur: Zur Logik eines unterdrückten kulturellen Paradigmas in der Postmoderne,” 2017

Jeyapriya Foster-Srieaswaranathan “Textual and Artistic Representations of the Tamil Diaspora,” 2017

Kerstin Wilhelms “My Way. Der Chronotopos des Lebenswegs in der Autobiographie (Moritz, Fontane, Dürrenmatt, Facebook),” 2017

Felipe Espinoza Garrido “Post-Thatcherism in British Film,” 2017

Seth Berk “Amazons Abound! German Fantasies of the Amazoniain Other,” 2017

Constanze Bartsch “Sichtbarkeitsinszenierungen. Zum Begriff des Dokumentarischen, seine Funktion und Realisierung in Literatur und Film um 2000,” 2017

Till Huber “Der Diskurs-Pop der ‘Hamburger Schule’ im Kontext der deutschsprachigen Popmusik,” 2015

Markus Nehl “‘When the handcuffs, chains and iron collars were thrown into that longawaited grave …’ – Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century,” 2015

Zornitsa Dimitrova “Expression as Mimesis and Event,” 2015

Jana Weiß “Zivilreligion an US-amerikanischen, patriotischen Feiertagen, 1945-1992,” 2013

James Orao “Erzählte Interkulturalität. Ein Vergleich der zeitgenössischen deutsch- und englischsprachigen ‘Migrationsliteratur,’” 2012

Markus Schmitz “Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum. Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation,” 2007