Doctoral and Postdoctoral Projects

Literature

Linguistics

Dr. Alan Mattli:

• Title: "The American Century in Retrospect."
• Keywords: American Studies, Film Studies

Dr. Johanna Vogelsanger, part of WAW-ME:

• Title: "Geographic and Diachronic Variation in the Development of Middle English Legal Bi- and Multinomial Expressions." 
• Keywords: Lexical Variation and Change, Phraseology, Legal Middle English

Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell: 

• Title: "100 Years of Generational Solidarity in World Anglophone Literature: Reading Intergenerational Justice Transculturally."
• Keywords: Ecocriticism, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Dr. Stella Castelli

• "Camp, Comedy & Cultural Imaginaries: On Humor in Literature & Media."
• Keywords: Humor Studies, Visual Culture, Critical Theory

Literature

Linguistics

Ann-Sophie Bosshard, part of DramaSCAPEs: 

• Title: "Travel-Scapes: Mobility, Community, and the Ethics of Emplacement in Early Modern Drama."
• Keywords: Performance Studies, Cultural Geography, Mobility Studies 

Annika Rossmanith, M.A.:

• "L2 Development as a Function of the Social and Affective Construction of Age across Retirement."
• Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics

Christina Deady, M.A.:

• "The Uncanny Capitalist in Gothic Literature." 
• Keywords: Cultural Analysis, Victorian Studies, Marxism

Carlos Hartmann, M.A., (personal website:smog.sh):

• Title: "The Recent History of Singular THEY. A Mixed Methods Approach at Modelling the Sociolinguistics of Gender(less) Pronouns in Online Spaces."
• Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Gender Linguistics

Hana Vrdoljak, M.A.:

• Title: "Hip Hop Sentimentality."
• Keywords: (African) American Studies, Hip Hop Studies, Gender Studies

Marina Asian Caparros, M.A.:

• "Scandinavian Lexical Impact on Regional Variation and Scribal Choice in Middle English Poetry."
• Historical Linguistics, Anglo-Norse Contact

Isabel Hänggli, M.A.:

• Title: "Constructions of Identity, Authenticity, and Agency in the Celebrity Memoir."
• Keywords: Celebrity Studies, Life Writing 

Jasmine Wolfensberger, M.A.:

• Title: "Mapping Medieval English Mind: Spatial Vocabulary and Conceptualizations of Space from Old to Early Modern English."
• Keywords: Historical Linguistics

Léa Gbeassor, M.A.:

• Title: "Energy, Extraction, and the Environment in African Futurism."
• Keywords: Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Afrofuturism

Rihab Ayed, M.A., part of WAW-ME

• Title: "Lexical Domains and Register Variation in Middle English: The Language of Medicine and Religion."
• Keywords: Lexicology, Historical Linguistics

Nadia Teh, M.A.:

• Title: "Revising Desire: The Representation of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Disability in Historical Romance."
• Keywords: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Race Theory, Disability Studies

Ronja Zimmermann, M.A., part of LASAD: 

• Title: "Language Attitudes in the Swiss Anglophone Diaspora."
• Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Migration Studies

Olivia Lanni, M.A.

• Title: "Forms of Embodiment in Early Modern Literature."
• Keywords: Early Modern Literature, Material Environments

Sarah d'Episcopo, M.A.:

• Title: "Shifting Grounds: Ciaran Carson and the Poetics of the In-Between."
• Keywords: Irish Studies, Cultural Studies, Intertextual Analysis

Simona Lea Kradolfer, M.A.

• Title: "Victorian Fairy Literature."
• Keywords: Genre Criticism, Victorian Studies 

Zoë Achilles, M.A.:

• Title: "As a Plant I Could: Analyzing Plant Writing in Contemporary Literature."
• Keywords: Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities, American Studies