Doctorates and postdoctoral lecturing qualifications
Below is a short list of ongoing and completed dissertations and postdoctoral lecturing qualifications:
Dissertations
Lehrstuhl | Name | Titel |
Adams | Flügge, Anna | James Elroy and the Novel of Obsession |
Butter | Thalmann, Katharina | "A Plot to Make Us Look Foolish": The Marginalization of Conspiracy Theory, 1950-1980 |
Fludernik | Akram, Rabia | Deviation in Postcolonial Narrative Discourse: A Stylistic Analysis of Pakistani English Female Writers |
| Alders, Maximilian | Mind-Telling in the Victorian Novel | |
| Cambiaghi, Mara | A.S. Byatt's World of Tales and Metaphors | |
| Finger, Sebastian | Realism in Middle English Plays | |
Herlyn, Anne | Dialogue and Narrative Structure in Selected Middle English Verse Romances | |
Kubowitz, Hanna | Stages of Queerness: British Drama of the Twentieth Century | |
| Pirlet, Caroline | Empathetic Narratology: A Diachronic Theory of Narrative Emotion | |
Quick, James Robert | The Gothic Sublime from Walpole to Stoker | |
Shams, Golnaz | Collectives and Mentalities in Drama: Intermental Thought in Stage | |
| Weiler, Christian | Prekäre Räume in der Postmoderne | |
Korte | ||
| Chiluwa, Molly | Constructing HIV/AIDS in African female writings: A focus on Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa | |
| Churn, Natalie | Negotiating Concepts of Time in Australian Popular Culture | |
| Ertle, Andrea | The Image of Families in Contemporary British Children’s Fiction | |
Göb, Kathrin | Repräsentationen und Reflexionen der Militär-Medien Interrelationen in britischen Memoiren zum Ersten Weltkrieg und zu den 'Medienkriegen' am Golf, im ehemaligen Jugoslawien und im Irak | |
| Ibach, Katrin | The Revival of the Byronic Hero in Contemporary Popular Culture | |
| Kattanek, Sita Maria | Representations of Organ Transplants: Western Fantasies and Black Market Realities | |
| Hadamitzky, Christiane | Competing Semantics and Modes of Presentation – the Negotiation of the Heroic in Victorian Family Magazines | |
Hermann, Martin | Secular Apocalyptic Fiction in Britain | |
Hollborn, Sarah | Genderzuschreibungen im Werk Mary Shelleys | |
| Lechner, Doris | Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past | |
Leiendecker, Thorsten | Cultural Intermediaries: The Postmodern State of High/Pop Culture | |
Rösch, Dorothea | Verhandlungen von Sicherheit im zeitgenössischen britischen Kriminalroman | |
| Takors, Jonas | Tudor History in Popular Culture | |
Zipp, Georg | Faultlines in the Imaginary: Reconfigurations of Poverty in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Fiction | |
Halford | Barkhatova, Olga | English as a third language for Russian immigrants to Germany |
| Maurer, Anne-Julie | Acquisition of Subphonemic Contrasts by German L2 Learners of English | |
| Scharf, Susanne | Lexical representation of vocabulary in the bilingual brain | |
| Hochbruck | Borgerding, Kathrin | Postmodern Ethics |
Fegert, Kai Feiten, Elmo | President Andrew Jackson in der amerikanischen Kulturgeschichte, 1815-2005 Max Stirner: Radical Enlightenment between Anarchism and Poststructuralism | |
Glaubitz, Marko | (Post)human roots and visions in contemporary science fiction characters | |
Holzgräbe, Kerstin | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
Mayer-Buehler, Julia | Cultural Studies: The Process of Globalization Mirrored by Contemporary South African and Namibian fiction, Films and Music | |
Sultany, Aiyal | Persuasion Strategies Used in Political Texts | |
Vlad, Carla Volovyk, Yuliya | The Modernist Revolt: Deconstruction of Dualistic Paradigms and the Re-Creation of the True Human Self - with Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley and the "Absurdists" or: How to Make Sense of Senseless The Anglophone Literature of Ukrainian Diaspora | |
Wurth, Wandelinus Zander, Hubertus | Discomfort with Huckleberry Finn Emplotting the Rosenbergs - The Cultural Memory of Fiction and Non-Fiction on America's Atom Spies | |
Zehringer, Anja | Reenactment | |
Kortmann | Bai, Yinchun | Towards discourse markers: a cross-linguistic study of grammatical constructionalization |
| Bour, Anthony | Description of multiple modality in contemporary Scotland: Double and triple modals in the Scottish borders | |
| Ehret, Katharina | A corpus based study of information theoretic complexity in World Englishes | |
Ilin, Natascha | Perception of Mistakes and Their Gravity in L1 and L2 | |
| Juskan, Marten | Changing stereotypes in urban northern England - the sociolinguistic dimension of salience | |
| Lunkenheimer, Kerstin | Learner characteristics as common ground in New Englishes? Focus on Southeast Asia | |
| Roller, Katja | On the relation between salience and frequency in Welsh English grammar | |
| Schneider, Agnes | Morphosyntactic Variation in the New Englishes: Tense and Aspect in Varieties in Africa and the Caribbean | |
| Schroeter, Verena | Zero subjects, topicalisation and information structure in contact varieties of English | |
Lemke | Frankiewics, Shane | The Western: A Diachronic Analysis of the all-American Genre |
Huang, Mingsha | The Arts of Subversion: On Alice's Walkers Novels in the Light of Feminist Theories | |
Sands, Sarah | African American Crime Fiction of the 20th Century | |
Mair | Beck, Jan Hendrik | American norms of academic discourse and the non-native speaking scholar |
| Cobet, Anastasia | Local Identity Construction in a Global Media Format: Discourse-Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Big Brother in the United States, Spain, and Germany | |
Gundermann, Susanne | English as a Lingua Franca - Modelling the Role of the Native Speaker | |
Hajiyan, Mehdi | Cohesion in Iranian Learner English | |
Holz, Johanna | Dialect levelling and koinéization in early 20th century Britain: new evidence from the WWI Phonographische Kommission recordings | |
| Leung, Glenda-Alicia | Sociolinguistic Change in Trinidad Creole English | |
Lorenz, David | Frequency and cognitive representation in the emergence of new English modals | |
| Mazahery, Hamzeh | The Verb in Iranian Learner English: A Corpus-Based Study | |
| Moll, Andrea | The globalization of Jamaican Creole: a web-based analysis of short-term historical trends and the current dynamics of language contact | |
Seggewiß, geb. Müller, Friederike | Current changes in the English modals | |
Trasca, Luminita | Information densification in English and Romanian written styles: a comparative study of contact, frequency and change | |
Winkle, Claudia | Information Highlighting in Standard Irish English | |
Pütz | Fegert, Kai | Andrew Jackson |
Tristram | Bismark, Christina | Analyticisation of verbal inflection? Patterns of verbal -s use in the varieties of English as compared to subject-verb agreement patterns in the Brittonic languages |
Meinking Guimaraes, Luciana | The uses of secular rulers and characters in the Welsh Saints' Lives in the Vespasian Legendary (MS. Cotton Vespasian A. xiv) | |
Schustereder, Stefan | Identity Construction in British texts of the early Middle Ages | |
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Completed theses:
AYAFOR, Munang Isaiah. Official bilingualism in Cameroon: an empirical evaluation of the status of English in official domains. (Mair)
BAY, Katja. Im Spiegel der Zukunft: Wissensethik und ihre Verbreitung im populären Fernsehen am Beispiel von Star Trek: Voyager. (Korte)
BLUMENTHAL, Alice. Entrenchment in usage-based theories: What corpus data do and do not reveal about the mind. (Kortmann)
CHITEZ, Madalina. Lexico-grammatical profiles of Romanian learner English: a corpus-based study. (Mair)
DIACONU, Gabriela. Modality in New Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study of Obligation and Necessity. (Mair)
DEUBER, Dagmar. Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: language contact, variation and change in an African urban setting. (Mair)
DUESTERBERG, Susanne. The Past in the Present: The Discourse of Archaeology in British Literature and Culture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. (Korte)
EHLERDING, Hannes. Changing Norms in English Language Teaching: The Present and Future of Foreign Language Education at German ‘Gymnasien’. (Kortmann)
FEHRLE, Johannes. Western Revisions after 1960 in a Transnational Perspective. (Hochbruck)
GÜNTHER, Ulrike. What's in a laugh? A study of humour, jokes and laughter based on the spoken component of the BNC. (Mair)
HAMILTON, Theresa. Humurous Structures in Comic English Narratives, 1200-1600. (Fludernik)
HERNANDEZ, Nuria. Pronouns in Dialects of English: A Corpus-Based Study of Non-Standard Phenomena. (Kortmann)
HINRICHS, Lars. Jamaican Creole on the internet: forms and functions of an oral language in computer-mediated communication. (Mair)
HÖHN, Nicole. Quotatives in the Jamaican acrolect: Corpus-based variationist studies of vernacular globalisation in World Englishes. (Mair)
HUNDT, Marianne. New Zealand English and its relation to British and American English. (Mair)
JANTOS, Susanne. Morphosyntax in Educated Jamaican English: A Comparison of Spoken and Written Usage in ICE-Jamaica. (Mair)
KOSSMANN, Bianca. "Rich" and "poor" in the history of English: corpus-based analyses of lexico-semantic variation and change in Old and Middle English. (Mair)
LAVERSUCH, Iman M. The discourse of race: a historical analysis based on usage in the US: Census and related sources. (Mair)
MOLLIN, Sandra. The Institutionalization of Euro-English? Form and function of an emerging non-native variety of English in Europe. (Mair)
NITZL, Irene. Pidgin im zeitgenössischen nigerianischen Drama. (Mair)
PERCILLIER, Michael. Accent unites, syntax divides? Varying degrees of nativisation of English in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. (Mair)
PIRKER, Eva Ulrike. 429 and More: Recent Narrative Projections of a Black British History. (Korte)
RACZ, Péter. Salience in sociolinguistics. (Kortmann)
ROSENFELDER, Ingrid. Jamaican English Pronunciation: An accoustic Analysis of the Spoken Component of ICE-Jamaica. (Mair)
SAND, Andrea. Linguistic variation in Jamaica: a corpus-based study of radio and newspaper usage. (Mair)
SANDERSON, Tamsin. Corpus, Culture, Discourse. (Mair)
VON SCHILLING, Martin. Optimising language teaching in university settings: an empirical evaluation of two didactic approaches. (Mair)
SCHRÖDER, Anne. Status, functions, and prospects of Pidgin English in Cameroon. (Mair)
SCHÜLY, Christoph. Charles Dickens: Popularisierungen eines populären Autors im 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. (Korte)
SPITTEL, Christina. Based on a True Story: The Great War in Australian Novels, 1914-2008. (Korte)
WAIBEL, Birgit. Phrasal verbs in learner English: A corpus-based study of German and Italian students. (Mair)
WHALEN, Tom. The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan. (Hochbruck)
Habilitationen
Recently registered:
BLUMENTHAL, Alice. Processing-based theories of word order universals: A neurolinguistic perspective.
Ongoing:
ALTENDORF, Ulrike. World Wide English on the World Wide Web: Using the Cybercorpus to Document and Monitor Lexicogrammatical Variability in Standard Englishes. (Mair)
BARTH-WEINGARTEN, Dagmar. Cesuring in talk-in-interaction: A parametric approach to "intonation units" and their role in turn-taking, language variation and language change. (Mair)
BIRKE, Dorothee. Writing the Reader: Three Centuries of English Quixotic Fiction. (Fludernik)
CHRIST, Birte. Debating the Death Penalty. American Culture and Capital Punishment (AT). (Lemke)
FEST, Kerstin. A Peep Behind the Curtain: Theatrical Discourses in 18th-Century England. (Fludernik)
HASER, Verena. Pragmatic Impairment in Asperger's Syndrome. (Kortmann)
HEYD, Theresa. Globalized communication, globalized vernaculars: the cases of Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin. (Mair)
KOHLMANN, Benjamin. The End of Laissez Faire: Literature, Liberalism and Economic Discourse, 1870-1930. (Fludernik)
LANGSTROF, Christian. Sociophonetic learning in adults. (Kortmann)
LACOSTE, Veronique. Haitians’ Diasporic English: Development, Structure and Social Functioning. (Mair)
LEIMGRUBER, Jacob. Global Englishes in multilingual settings. (Mair)
NANDI, Miriam. The Regulation of the Passions: Affect in Early Modern Diaries 1600-1800. (Fludernik)
PIRKER, Ulrike. The Long Poem in English Literature (AT). (Korte)
Completed:
ANDERWALD, Lieselotte. Non-Standard Verb Paradigms in Traditional British English Dialects: Morphological Naturalness and Comparative Dialect Grammar. (Kortmann)
DEUBER, Dagmar. Style and standards in English in the Caribbean: Morphological and syntactic variation in Jamaica and Trinidad. (Mair)
FISCHER, Roswitha. Sprachwandel im Lexikon des heutigen Englisch. Eine korpusgestützte Studie zu Motivation, Institutionalisierung und Produktivität englischer Wortbildungen seit ca. 1960. (Mair)
HUNDT, Marianne. English mediopassive constructions: a cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread and current status. (Mair)
KRUG, Manfred. English Pronouns: Present and Past. (Kortmann)
LETHBRIDGE, Stefanie. Lyrik im Gebrauch: Gedichtanthologien in der englischen Druckkultur, 1557-2007. (Korte)
OLSON, Greta. 'Criminal Beasts' and the Rise of Positivist Criminology - From Shakespeare to Dickens. (Fludernik)
SAND, Andrea. Angloversals? Shared morphosyntactic features in contact varieties of English. (Mair)
SZMRECSANYI, Benedikt. The Geolinguistics of Grammatical Variability in Traditional British English Dialects: A Large-Scale Frequency-Based Study. (Kortmann)
Graduiertenfeier
Keine Sprechstunde bei Dr. Gert Fehlner am Donnerstag, 16.05.2013