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English Department

Dr.Ina Verstl

Working hours
Consulation hour

About Me

Born in Munich. Educated in England. Studied economics, philosophy, and literature in Munich, Hull, and Oxford. My doctoral thesis “The Quarry of the Self: Bildung and the Subversion of Identity” was supervised by Prof. Elisabeth Bronfen and accepted by the University of Zurich. I have been an instructor at the English Department since 2012.  

Teaching (Sample)

I teach BA seminars on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and films. 

“From Brexit to Covid: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet” FS24
“Modern Scottish Fiction: Imagined Communities, Nationalism and Identity” FS23
“The Legacy of E.M. Forster” HS22
“The Brexit Novel” HS21

Supervision (Sample)

I am available as a supervisor at BA and MA level. Recently supervised theses include: 

  • “The Catholic Tragedy of Martin Scorsese’s Mafia Films” (MA Thesis, Lovre Uzelac, HS24)  

  • "Connections and Metamodernism in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall” (BA Thesis, Corinne Kaufmann, HS23) 

  • “The Shattering of the American Dream in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (BA Thesis, Manuel Kuratle, FS23) 

  • “An Invitation to Unattainable Desires: Exploring the Locus Amoenus in the Movie Call Me by Your Name” (BA Thesis, Liang Peiwen, FS23) 

  • "‘Hello hallo hullo’: Advocating Connection in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet and Companion Piece” (BA Thesis, Onna Mae Millns, FS23)