7th Cycle: 2026-2028

Mahdî Brecq
	Home Institution: Stockholm University Academic Discipline: Dissertation Title: Au croisement des genres: étude philologique d’Élie de Saint-Gilles Abstract Email

João Henrique da Costa Sol Afonso
	Home Institution: JLU Giessen Academic Discipline: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Dissertation Title: The Sacred and the Beast: the Zoopoetics of Murilo Mendes and Tristan Tzara (1930 – 1959) Abstract Email

Alice Faiella
	Home Institution: University of Bergamo Academic Discipline: Dissertation Title: The Büchner Prize as a Symbolic Space for the Construction of German Cultural Identity Abstract Email

Flavia Ghetu
	Home Institution: JLU Giessen Academic Discipline: Comparative Literature Dissertation Title: Modes and Tropes of Pessimism: Disrupting Neoliberal Representations of the Village in Eastern European Novels and Films Abstract Email

Hanna Gottlieb-Zimmermann
	Home Institution: University of Graz Academic Discipline: English Literary and Cultural Studies Dissertation Title: ‘Knowledge of Good and Evil’ – Redefining Early Modern Knowledge of Pregnancy and Childbirth and its Gendered and Generic Patterns in Personal and Medical Discourse from 17th-Century England Abstract Email

Alyse Kaweng Fan
	Home Institution: UCP Lisbon Academic Discipline: Literary Studies, Comparative Literature, and Culture Studies Dissertation Title: Camilo Pessanha’s Poetical and Musical Exile in Macau Abstract Email

Meeri Pihlström
	Home Institution: University of Helsinki Academic Discipline: Dissertation Title: Retelling Human–Nature Relationships in Disney’s Film Adaptations of Children’s Literature Abstract Email

Suvi Tuulia Reivilä
	Home Institution: University of Helsinki Academic Discipline: Comparative Literature Dissertation Title: The Language of Poverty in Contemporary Finnish Literature: A Stylistic Study Abstract Email

Ahlem Saidani
	Home Institution: JLU Giessen Academic Discipline: Dissertation Title: Shakespeare and his Others in France Abstract Email

Lisa Schantl (Affiliated Member)
	Home Institution: University of Graz Academic Discipline: Dissertation Title: Global Currents in Translingual Poetry: Tracing Language, Geography and Culture in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures Abstract Email

Lisa Schattmann
	Home Institution: University of Graz Academic Discipline: English Studies Dissertation Title: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary “Romantasy” Literature Abstract Email

Teresa Weinholtz
	Home Institution: UCP Lisbon Academic Discipline: Culture Studies Dissertation Title: Exploring the Materiality, Artistic Practice, and Cultural Context of Contemporary Artists’ Books Abstract Email