Dissertations

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2026

  • Tiwari, Mansi

    • Tiwari, M. (2026). Beyond the Human Eye: Seeing Subjects in the Twenty-First Century (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-283862

  • Willimann, Sophie

    • Willimann, S. (2026). Subject Omission in English: A Corpus-Based Approach (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-284000

• 2025

  • Brack, Carmen

    • Brack, C. (2025). “A Vision that Is Diseased”: Madness and Masculinity in British Fiction, 1790–1900. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279665

  • Johnson, Tamara Marie

    • Johnson, T. M. (2025). Similar Wording, Similar Perception? How Synonymic Food Labels Influence Consumers (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-267752

  • Schneider, Maurice

    • Schneider, M. (2025). Transatlantic Fossil Fuel Fiction: An Archaeology of Extraction and Exploitation During the Short 20th Century (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-275184

  • Zhu, Jialu

    • Zhu, J. (2025). Home Trouble: Cross-Cultural Depictions of Home and Disruptions of Belonging in American Westerns, Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Chinese Melodramas (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-277453

• 2024

  • Sigg, Pascal

    • Sigg, P. (2024). Mediating the Real – Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Van Driessche, Laetitia

    • Van Driessche, L. (2024). Verb-Dependent Prepositional Phrases in Varieties of Englishes: A Variationist Construction Grammar Perspective (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-264640

  • Vogelsanger, Johanna

    • Vogelsanger, J. (2024). Lexical Loss, Survival, and Innovation in Middle English (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-267746

  • Xie, Fang

    • Xie, F. (2024). Multimodality and Speech Act Perceptions Across Cultures: The Case of Compliments (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-262327

• 2023

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, S. (2023). Death is Served – The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Keller, Jonas

    • Keller, J. (2023). English Grammatical Gender and Language Contact (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-237799

  • Mattli, Alan

    • Mattli, A. (2023). «The Conservative Mystery Lover Will Object» – Revisionist Crime Fiction in the U.S. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-235240

  • Tjon-A-Meeuw, Olivia

    • Tjon-A-Meeuw, O. (2023). Writing the Caribbean: Race and Sexuality in (Neo-)Victorian Narratives (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-235295

  • Vogelsang, Manuel

    • Vogelsang, M. (2023). Revisiting the Past, Melodramatically! Melodrama and the Making of the American Past (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-234022

• 2022

  • Utiger, Julia Teresa

    • Utiger, J. T. (2022). Internalising Rejection: Children of the New African Diasporas in Contemporary British and Spanish Narratives (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-219524

• 2021

  • Eberle, Nicole

    • Eberle, N. (2021). Bermudian English – A Sociohistorical and Linguistic Profile (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Frick, Deborah

    • Frick, D. (2021). Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women’s Visionary Writings. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Höhn, Simone Eva

    • Höhn, S. E. (2021). One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson’s Novels. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Müller, Serge

    • Vulgar Greatness and Common Lords: The Rhetoric of Ambiguity and the Poets of the Nobility in Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets.” (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-205809

  • Oppliger, Rahel

    • Oppliger, R. (2021). Interaction and Language Change: Noun Phrase Referring Expressions in Spoken Task-Based Dialogue (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-211319

  • Schmalz, Mirjam

    • Schmalz, M. (2021). Language Attitudes in St. Kitts – Changing Norms of English and Creole in a Caribbean Community (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-205343

• 2020

  • Ang-Tschachtli, Silja

    • Ang-Tschachtli, S. (2020). Bilingual Couples in Conversation (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-187175

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, S. (2020). Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction – A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Callegaro, Elena

    • Callegaro, E. (2020). Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of (Variable) Article Use in English – A Construction Grammar Approach (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-191565

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, S. (2020). Death Is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Ittensohn, Mark

    • Ittensohn, M. (2020). The Frame Tale in Late Romantic Britain: Genre and Authorial Hybridity (Dissertation, Universität Zürich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-169327

  • Lehmann, Hans Martin

    • Lehmann, H. M. (2020). Syntactic Variation, Change, and Lexical Preference: a Corpus-Based Study (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-191330

  • Staub, Lyutsiya

    • Staub, L. (2020). Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas : impressionist figure paintings in contemporary anglophone art fiction. Narr Francke Attempto. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Strebel, Stefanie

    • Strebel, S. (2020). Between Dream Houses and ‹God’s Own Junkyard›: Architecture and the Built Environment in Suburban Fiction. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-187166

  • Tuominen-Pope, Josefina Johanna

    • Tuominen-Pope, J. J. (2020). Romantic Celebrity, Literary Periodicals, and the Dichotomy of High and Popular Culture: The Reception of Lord Byron and John Clare (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-187986

• 2019

  • Dreiding, Michelle

    • Dreiding, M. (2019). The Space Between. Toni Morrison’s Poetics of Liminality (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-175373

  • Keller, Thomas

    • Keller, T. (2019). A Practicological Modernism – Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-184555

  • Popov, Aleksandar

    • Popov, A. (2019). Live sports commentating: a comparative study of cricket, football, horse racing and tennis commentaries (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-171344

  • Sandmeier-Walt, Annina

    • Sandmeier-Walt, A. (2019). Die Aufhebung des Klosters Muri 1841 : der Aargauer Klosterstreit in Schweizer Erinnerungskulturen (Vol. 4). Chronos. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2018

  • Barwick, Kane

    • Barwick, K. (2018). Darkness repeating : a Derridean analysis of Charles Dickens’ Our mutual friend, Great expectations and Bleak house. LAP Lampert Academic Publishing. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, S. (2018). Women in Crime: victims, perpetrators and detectives in post-transitional South African crime fiction (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2017

  • Caspar, Cyril L

    • Caspar, C. L. (2017). The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity: Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Schoenenberger, Petra

    • Schoenenberger, P. (2017). Transformations of the Supernatural: Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Stamp Bahadur, Lilly

    • Stamp Bahadur, L. (2017). Troubled masculinity: the rake and the fop in the English comedy between 1662 and 1728 (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-161531

• 2016

  • Chang, Sophie Hsiu-Hui

    • Chang, S. H.-H. (2016). Native and non-native teachers’ discourse in EFL classrooms: English, Mandarin, code-switching and the use of OK. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-204543

  • Kollmann, Elizabeth

    • Kollmann, E. (2016). I and the other(s): contemporary life-writing and the exilic imaginary (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-204603

  • Müller, Tina

    • Müller, T. (2016). Visions in a frame: a study of development through gaze refinement in Dorothea Brooke, Isabel Archer, and Lily Briscoe (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-171394

  • Neukom-Hermann, Anja

    • Neukom-Hermann, A. (2016). Negation, Quantification and Scope. A Corpus Study of English and German All...Not Constructions (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-127485

  • Perez, Danae Maria

    • Perez, D. M. (2016). From gringo to guarango: language shift in a former anglophone community in Paraguay (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-169802

  • Staicov, Adina

    • Staicov, A. (2016). “I feel like I’m a born again Chinese – but kinda fake:” Ethnic identity construction in San Francisco Chinatown’s diaspora community (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Stix, Dragica

    • Stix, D. (2016). “In one’s own write”: psychoanalytische Lektüren letzter Worte von Suizidenten. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-162961

• 2015

  • Bissig, Florian

    • Bissig, F. (2015). Coleridge and Communication (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Leitner, Magdalena

    • Leitner, M. (2015). Conflicts in Early Modern Scottish Letters and Law-Courts (Dissertation, University of Glasgow) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-120758

  • Ulzega, Lenka

    • Ulzega, L. (2015). Rhodesian English in London (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-204517

• 2014

  • Lehmann Imfeld, Zoë Christina

    • Lehmann Imfeld, Z. C. (2014). The Ghost of God: Theology in the Supernatural Fiction of Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James (Dissertation, University of Bern)

  • Riquet, Johannes

    • Riquet, J. (2014). The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2013

  • Gardner, Anne-Christine

    • Gardner, A.-C. (2013). Derivation in Middle English: Regional and Text Type Variation (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Honkapohja, Alpo

    • Honkapohja, A. (2013). A linguistic and codicological study of the Sloane group of middle English manuscripts (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Mühlheim, Martin

    • Mühlheim, M. (2013). Fictions of Home: Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000 (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Rathore-­Nigsch, Claudia

    • Rathore-­Nigsch, C. (2013). Dialect variation and change in the diaspora: a sociophonetic study of the East African Indian community in Leicester, UK (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2012

  • Bolander, Brook

    • Bolander, B. (2012). On language and power in blogs (Dissertation, University of Basel)

  • Landert, Daniela

    • Landert, D. (2012). The personalisation of mass media communication. Involving settings, private content and linguistic immediacy in british online news (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Schönfelder, Christa

    • Schönfelder, C. (2012). Wounds and words: childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Studer-Joho, Nicole

    • Studer-Joho, N. (2012). Diffusion and Change in Early Middle English: Methodological and Theoretical Implications from the LAEME Corpus of Tagged Texts (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2010

  • Binotto, Johannes

    • Binotto, J. (2010). Tat/Ort: Das Unheimliche und sein Raum in der Kultur (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Heller-Andrist, Simone

    • Heller-Andrist, S. (2010). The Friction of the Frame: Derrida’s Parergon in Literature. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Piccitto, Diane

    • Piccitto, D. (2010). Dramatic Forms and Identity-Formation in the Works of William Blake (Dissertation, University of Western Ontario (Canada))

  • Seiler, Annina

    • Seiler, A. (2010). The Scripting of the Germanic Languages. A Comparative Study of “Spelling Difficulties” in Old English, Old High German and Old Saxon. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

  • Zipp, Lena

    • Zipp, L. (2010). Exo- and endonormative models in Fiji – A corpus-based study on the dynamics of first and second language varieties with a focus on Indo-Fijian English (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2009

  • Steiner-Karafili, Enit

    • Steiner-Karafili, E. (2009). Jane Austen and the civilized woman: moral development and gender (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-46411

• 2008

  • Breustedt, Barb

    • Breustedt, B. (2008). Prefabricated input in language acquisition: the syntax of storybooks (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-5489

• 2005

  • Loren, Scott

    • Loren, S. (2005). Our wills and fates : the politics of identity in contemporary American fiction and film [Studentendruckerei der Universität Zürich]. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-148357