PhD Supervision
Completed Dissertations
- Winkler, Robert A.: "Generation Reagan Youth: Representing and Resisting White Neoliberal Forms of Life in the U.S. Hardcore Punk Scenes (1979-1999)" (completed June 2019)
- Hülsen, Lea: „Caribbean Literary Interventions: Critiques of Humanism in the Works of Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter“ (completed July 2020)
- Kalous, Isabel: "Contemporary Black Travel Narratives: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa and beyond" (completed December 2020)
Ongoing Dissertations
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Völker, Nicola: „(Un)real Estate: A Cultural Narratology of Gentrification in Central Brooklyn, 2003-2018“
- Goodrich, Candace: "Ecosemiotic constructions - An analysis of the contemporary use of visual and narrative signs in non-western and western eco-art and eco-fiction"
- Rezaei, Somaye: "The Laughing Chorus: Anti-racist humor in Contemporary American Late-night Shows"
- Ravi, Archana: "Re-remembering the Second World War: Examining Guilt, Trauma and Resilience in
Contemporary Representations of the War." - Presago, Marco: "Literary Circulation and the Role of Institutions: A Focus on the Contemporary Players of the Industry of Culture"
- Peters, Dzifa: "Tropes of Polarity: Visual Representation and Afrodiasporic Identities" (Cotutelle with Catholic University Lisbon)