Dissertations

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Johnson, Tamara Marie

    • Johnson, Tamara Marie. Similar Wording, Similar Perception? How Synonymic Food Labels Influence Consumers. 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Schneider, Maurice

    • Schneider, Maurice. Transatlantic Fossil Fuel Fiction: An Archaeology of Extraction and Exploitation During the Short 20th Century. 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Zhu, Jialu

    • Zhu, Jialu. Home Trouble: Cross-Cultural Depictions of Home and Disruptions of Belonging in American Westerns, Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Chinese Melodramas. 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2024

  • Sigg, Pascal

    • Sigg, Pascal. Mediating the Real – Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Van Driessche, Laetitia

    • Van Driessche, Laetitia. Verb-Dependent Prepositional Phrases in Varieties of Englishes: A Variationist Construction Grammar Perspective. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Vogelsanger, Johanna

    • Vogelsanger, Johanna. Lexical Loss, Survival, and Innovation in Middle English. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Xie, Fang

    • Xie, Fang. Multimodality and Speech Act Perceptions Across Cultures: The Case of Compliments. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2023

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, Stella. Death is Served – The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Keller, Jonas

    • Keller, Jonas. English Grammatical Gender and Language Contact. 2023, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Mattli, Alan

    • Mattli, Alan. «The Conservative Mystery Lover Will Object» – Revisionist Crime Fiction in the U.S.. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Tjon-A-Meeuw, Olivia

    • Tjon-A-Meeuw, Olivia. Writing the Caribbean: Race and Sexuality in (Neo-)Victorian Narratives. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Vogelsang, Manuel

    • Vogelsang, Manuel. Revisiting the Past, Melodramatically! Melodrama and the Making of the American Past. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2022

  • Utiger, Julia Teresa

    • Utiger, Julia Teresa. Internalising Rejection: Children of the New African Diasporas in Contemporary British and Spanish Narratives. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2021

  • Eberle, Nicole

    • Eberle, Nicole. Bermudian English – A Sociohistorical and Linguistic Profile. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Frick, Deborah

    • Frick, Deborah. Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Höhn, Simone Eva

    • Höhn, Simone Eva. One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Müller, Serge

    • 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". 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Oppliger, Rahel

    • Oppliger, Rahel. Interaction and Language Change: Noun Phrase Referring Expressions in Spoken Task-Based Dialogue. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schmalz, Mirjam

    • Schmalz, Mirjam. Language Attitudes in St. Kitts – Changing Norms of English and Creole in a Caribbean Community. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2020

  • Ang-Tschachtli, Silja

    • Ang-Tschachtli, Silja. Bilingual Couples in Conversation. 2020, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, Sabine. Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction – A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Callegaro, Elena

    • Callegaro, Elena. Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of (Variable) Article Use in English – A Construction Grammar Approach. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Castelli, Stella

    • Castelli, Stella. Death Is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Ittensohn, Mark

    • Ittensohn, Mark. The Frame Tale in Late Romantic Britain: Genre and Authorial Hybridity. 2020, Universität Zürich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Lehmann, Hans Martin

    • Lehmann, Hans Martin. Syntactic Variation, Change, and Lexical Preference: a Corpus-Based Study. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Staub, Lyutsiya

    • Staub, Lyutsiya. Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas : impressionist figure paintings in contemporary anglophone art fiction. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Strebel, Stefanie

    • Strebel, Stefanie. Between Dream Houses and ‹God's Own Junkyard›: Architecture and the Built Environment in Suburban Fiction. 2020, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

  • Tuominen-Pope, Josefina Johanna

    • Tuominen-Pope, Josefina Johanna. Romantic Celebrity, Literary Periodicals, and the Dichotomy of High and Popular Culture: The Reception of Lord Byron and John Clare. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2019

  • Dreiding, Michelle

    • Dreiding, Michelle. The Space Between. Toni Morrison’s Poetics of Liminality. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Keller, Thomas

    • Keller, Thomas. A Practicological Modernism – Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Popov, Aleksandar

    • Popov, Aleksandar. Live sports commentating: a comparative study of cricket, football, horse racing and tennis commentaries. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Sandmeier-Walt, Annina

    • Sandmeier-Walt, Annina. Die Aufhebung des Klosters Muri 1841 : der Aargauer Klosterstreit in Schweizer Erinnerungskulturen. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2018

  • Barwick, Kane

    • Barwick, Kane. Darkness repeating : a Derridean analysis of Charles Dickens' Our mutual friend, Great expectations and Bleak house. 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Binder, Sabine

    • Binder, Sabine. Women in Crime: victims, perpetrators and detectives in post-transitional South African crime fiction. 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2017

  • Caspar, Cyril L

    • Caspar, Cyril L. The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity: Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry. 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schoenenberger, Petra

    • Schoenenberger, Petra. Transformations of the Supernatural: Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe. 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Stamp Bahadur, Lilly

    • Stamp Bahadur, Lilly. Troubled masculinity: the rake and the fop in the English comedy between 1662 and 1728. 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2016

  • Chang, Sophie Hsiu-Hui

    • Chang, Sophie Hsiu-Hui. Native and non-native teachers' discourse in EFL classrooms: English, Mandarin, code-switching and the use of OK. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Kollmann, Elizabeth

    • Kollmann, Elizabeth. I and the other(s): contemporary life-writing and the exilic imaginary. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Müller, Tina

    • Müller, Tina. Visions in a frame: a study of development through gaze refinement in Dorothea Brooke, Isabel Archer, and Lily Briscoe. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Neukom-Hermann, Anja

    • Neukom-Hermann, Anja. Negation, Quantification and Scope. A Corpus Study of English and German All...Not Constructions. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Perez, Danae Maria

    • Perez, Danae Maria. From gringo to guarango: language shift in a former anglophone community in Paraguay. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Staicov, Adina

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

  • Stix, Dragica

    • Stix, Dragica. "In one's own write": psychoanalytische Lektüren letzter Worte von Suizidenten. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2015

  • Bissig, Florian

    • Bissig, Florian. Coleridge and Communication. 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Leitner, Magdalena

    • Leitner, Magdalena. Conflicts in Early Modern Scottish Letters and Law-Courts. 2015, University of Glasgow, Faculty of Arts.

  • Ulzega, Lenka

    • Ulzega, Lenka. Rhodesian English in London. 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2014

  • Lehmann Imfeld, Zoë Christina

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

  • Riquet, Johannes

    • Riquet, Johannes. The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics. 2014, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2013

  • Gardner, Anne-Christine

    • Gardner, Anne-Christine. Derivation in Middle English: Regional and Text Type Variation. 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Honkapohja, Alpo

    • Honkapohja, Alpo. A linguistic and codicological study of the Sloane group of middle English manuscripts. 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Mühlheim, Martin

    • Mühlheim, Martin. Fictions of Home: Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000. 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Rathore-­Nigsch, Claudia

    • Rathore-­Nigsch, Claudia. Dialect variation and change in the diaspora: a sociophonetic study of the East African Indian community in Leicester, UK. 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2012

  • Bolander, Brook

    • Bolander, Brook. On language and power in blogs. 2012, University of Basel, Faculty of Arts.

  • Landert, Daniela

    • Landert, Daniela. The personalisation of mass media communication. Involving settings, private content and linguistic immediacy in british online news. 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Schönfelder, Christa

    • Schönfelder, Christa. Wounds and words: childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction. 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Studer-Joho, Nicole

    • Studer-Joho, Nicole. Diffusion and Change in Early Middle English: Methodological and Theoretical Implications from the LAEME Corpus of Tagged Texts. 2012, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2010

  • Binotto, Johannes

    • Binotto, Johannes. Tat/Ort: Das Unheimliche und sein Raum in der Kultur. 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Heller-Andrist, Simone

    • Heller-Andrist, Simone. The Friction of the Frame: Derrida's Parergon in Literature. 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Piccitto, Diane

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

  • Seiler, Annina

    • Seiler, Annina. The Scripting of the Germanic Languages. A Comparative Study of "Spelling Difficulties" in Old English, Old High German and Old Saxon. 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

  • Zipp, Lena

    • Zipp, Lena. 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. 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2009

  • Steiner - Karafili, Enit

    • Steiner - Karafili, Enit. Jane Austen and the civilized woman: moral development and gender. 2009, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.

• 2008

  • Breustedt, Barb

    • Breustedt, Barb. Prefabricated input in language acquisition: the syntax of storybooks. 2008, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

• 2005

  • Loren, Scott

    • Loren, Scott. Our wills and fates : the politics of identity in contemporary American fiction and film. 2005, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.