Students have a free choice of dissertation subjects within the
areas of staff expertise and are encouraged to develop new and
innovative approaches and ideas. Examples of topics that have been
proposed by our students focus for example on decolonial or
postcolonial discourses, on trauma and exile, on ecocriticsm or on
concepts such as transculturality and heterotopia through in-depth
analysis of contemporary case studies. Examples of dissertations
are:
- From a barren desert to a microbial jungle: Deep-sea narratives
in the Anthropocene
- Heimat als Heterotopie: Ortlosigkeit und Vielortigkeit der
neuen Heimat in Keuns Kind aller Länder und
Stanišićs Herkunft
- Le transculturalisme littéraire à travers deux «
intrangères » issues de l’exil. Une comparaison
entre L’art de perdre d’Alice Zeniter et
Marx et la poupée de Maryam Madjidi
- Trauma - Ironi i ungdomsromanen Tio över ett. Hur
kolliderande former skapar en personlig bild av Kirunas
flyttning
- Ambivalent feminism: Hashtagification, YouTubification, and
Eurovisionization of women's rights in Russia
Dissertations may be supervised by any appropriate member of
staff. The following list indicates the areas of expertise of the
various staff members:
Vera Alexander: English and Anglophone
Literatures and Cultures, Ecocriticism, Travel writing and
mobility, Life Writing, Bildungsroman, Children’s Literature,
Place, Space, Heterotopia, Diaspora, Transculturality.
Alberto Godioli: Humour and satire across
media; Law and Humanities; Comparative literature,
19th-21st centuries; Italian literature and
culture, including film; Modernism; Posthumanism.
Ester Jiresch: Scandinavian Literature,
Culture, and History, Swedish Politics, Scandinavian Crime Novel,
Modern European Culture and History, Gender Studies.
Florian Lippert: Modern German literature,
Modern European literature and culture, Film Studies, The European
migrant crisis, Literary Theory, Film Theory, Reception Theory,
Critical Theory, Systems Theory, Art and Literature in Philosophy,
Sociology and Politics, Self-reflexivity, Surveillance.
Hugh McDonnell: 20th Century French
and Spanish Political, Social and Cultural History, French and
Spanish Politics, Culture, Identity, and Politics, The Idea of
Europe and European Identity, Political Theory.
Konstantin Mierau: Empirical Study of Literary
Reception, Prison Reading, Digimodernism and Literature, Spanish
Golden Age Literature, The (Spanish) Picaresque Novel.
Ksenia Robbe: Russian Literature and Culture,
Eastern European and Postsocialist studies, Postcolonial and
Decolonial Theory, Memory and Time Studies, Feminism and Gender
studies, South African Literature and Culture, Visual Art, Museums,
Theatre and Performance, Aesthetics and Politics.
Camilla Sutherland: Contemporary
Spanish-Language Literature, Women Writers, Gender Studies, Spatial
Theory, Latin American Literature and Culture, Global Modernisms,
Avant-gardes, Art History, Film Studies, Theatre and
Performance.
Jeanette den Toonder: Contemporary French and
francophone Literature, Migrant and Minority Literature, Literary
Theory, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Quebec novel, Gender
studies, Spatial Theory, Life Writing, Transculturality.
Pablo Valdivia: Multidisciplinary Humanities
Research, Cultural Analytics, Cultural Narratives, Narrative
Theory, Metaphor Theory, European Literature and Culture,
Comparative Literary Studies, Film Studies, Visual Studies,
Literature and Culture from the Golden Age till the Present, Art
History, Theatre, Poetry, European Politics and Culture, Spanish
and Latin American Literature, Culture and Society.
Vera Veldhuizen: Children’s Literature,
Young Adult/Adolescent Literature, Picture books, Fairy tales,
Fables, Narrative Empathy, Script Theory, Irish Literature, War
Literature, Literary Theory, Cognitive Studies.
Judith Jansma: French and Francophone
Literatures and Culture, Literature and societal conflict, Populist
narratives of (national) identity, Feminism and Gender Studies,
Critical Discourse Analysis
