Completed Projects – Postdoctoral Research and Dissertations

Completed Postdoctoral Research Projects (Habilitationen)

• • Susanne Gruß: The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre on the Early Modern Stage (2020)
  • Simone Broders: The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (2018)
  • Gerd Bayer: Novel Horizons: The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction (2012)

Completed Dissertation Projects

• • Niko Pomakis: “A Secret and Ruinous Burden at the Very Heart of Us”: Trauma and Dissociation in the Life and Works of Sebastian Barry (2018)
  • Nina Kiesel: “A sense of humour is a serious business”: Studien zur Paradoxie bei Martin Amis” (2014)
  • Sophia Schmidt: “What’s anything got to do with anything?” – Diskurse des Postmodernen im in-yer-face theatre” (2014)
  • Sonja Müller: Von der georgianischen Ära bis zum Zeitalter des keltischen Tigers: Der Wandel der Stadtdarstellung im Dublinroman (2014)
  • Katharina Lempe: “Poetics of Loss”: The Elegy in the Poetry of Andrew Motion (2014)
  • Cornelius Hoffmann: “Mimicking the Universe”: Das Verhältnis der Lyrik zur ‘Realität’ bei Simon Armitage (2014)
  • Simone Broders: “As if a building was being constructed”: Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes (2007)
  • Susanne Gruss: The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: The (De)Construction of Gender in the Works of Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter (2007)
  • Daniela Gerberding: “Memory running out of my mouth so easily, a stream of living water”: Erinnern und Erzählen in den Romanen und autobiographischen Erzählungen von Eva Figes (2004)
  • Gerd Bayer: “Greener, more mysterious processes of mind”: Natur als Dichtungsprinzip bei John Fowles (2003)
  • Aglaja Frodl: “Das Selbst im Stil: Die Autobiographien von Muriel Spark und Doris Lessing” (2002)