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Completed PhDs (international)

Maagard, Cindie

“Convergence and Divergence: Configurations of Love in Angela Carter’s and Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction.” University of Southern Denmark, Odense 2003 (PhD defence: 26.3.2003).

» current position: Associate Professor, Department of Language Culture, History and Communication (link)

Lundholt, Marianne Wolff

“The Linguistic Manifestation of Literary Communication in Narrative Fiction.” University of Southern Denmark, Kolding 2004 (PhD defence: 22.12.2004).

» current position: Communication Advisor at Danfoss Refrigeration and Air conditioning A/S (link)

Llantada Díaz, María Francisca

“Form and Meaning in Dorothy M. Richardson’s Pilgrimage: A Critical Reassessment.” Universidad de Zaragoza 2005 (PhD defence: 13.5.2005).

» current position: Lecturer at the Area of English Philology; Department of English, french and German Philology (link)

Kuczma, Katarzyna

“Remembering Oneself, Charting the Other – Memory as Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in the Works of Paul Auster”. Co-tutelle Poznan University (PhD defence: 19.2.2010 in Poznan).

» current position: Assistant Professor, UAM’s School of English (link)

Iversen, Anniken Telnes

“Change and Continuity: The Bildungsroman in English.” University of Tromsö 2009/10 (PhD defence: 22.2. 2010 in Tromsö).

Goncalves, Diana

“Eskatastrophè: Representations of 9/11 in American Literature.” Universidade Catolica, Lissabon (Co-Betreuung: Isabel Gil, PhD defence: 7.2.2013 in Lissabon).

» current position: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (link)

Ameel, Lieven

“Imagining and Experiencing the City: Helsinki in Finnish Prose Literature in the First Half of the 20th Century.” University of Helsinki/Finnish Graduate School (Co-Betreuung: Pirjo Lyytikäinen, PhD defence: 14.6.2013 in Helsinki).

» current position: University Lecturer at Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (link)

Mäkelä, Hanna

“Narrated Selves and Others: A Study of Mimetic Desire in Five Contemporary British and American Novels.” University of Helsinki/Finnish Graduate School (Co-Betreuung: Heta Pyrhönen, PhD defence: 9.5.2014 in Helsinki).

Seligardi, Beatrice

“Shaping the University Imaginary: Configurations and Refigurations in British Fiction.” University of Bergamo (Co-Betreuung: Alessandra Marzzola; PhD defence: 28.5.2014 in Bergamo).

» current position: Junior Assistant Professor in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature, University of Sassari (link)

Shvanyukova, Polina

“Exploring Italianness from the Margins: Linguistic, Generic and Cultural Hybridisation in Contemporary Fictions of Immigration.” University of Bergamo (Co-Betreuung: Marko Sirtori; PhD defence: 28.5.2014 in Bergamo).

» current position: Researcher at Dipartimento di lingue e letterature, comunicazione, formazione e società, Università degli Studi di Udine (link)

Nakari, Netta

“Écrire sa vie, vivre son écriture: The Autobiographical Self-Reflection of Annie Ernaux and Marguerite Duras.” University of Tampere/Finnish Graduate School (external reviewer 2014).

Nykänen, Elise

“Worlds Within and Without: Presenting Fictional Minds in Marja-Liisa Vartio’s Prose Fiction.” University of Helsinki/Finnish Graduate School (Co-Betreuung: Jyrki Nummi, PhD defence: 24.1.2015 in Helsinki).

» current position: University Lecturer at Department of Finnish, University of Helsinki (link)

Mauricio, Ana Fabiola

“Art Culture: CAM and the Reshaping of Lisbon’s Culturalscape.” Universidade Catolica, Lissabon (Co-Betreuung: Luisa Leah de Fariai, PhD defence: 08.11.2016 in Lissabon).

 » current position: Head of Research and Innovation Office, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (link); Senior Researcher at CECC, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (link)

Lindemann Lino, Verena Pia

“Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal - (Re)mediation, Translation and the Refugee Other in Sob Céus Estranhos, Enquanto Salazar Dormia and Fantasia Lusitana..” Universidade Catolica, Lissabon (Co-Betreuung: Peter Hanenberg, PhD defence: 16.1.2020 in Lissabon).

 » current position: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences and Researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (link)

Ovaska, Anna

“Fictions of Madness and the Madness of Fiction. Evoking and Negotiating Psychatric Disorders in Modernist Finnish Literature.” University of Helsinki/Finnish Graduate School (Co-Betreuung: Pirjo Lyytikäinen, PhD defence: 2019 in Helsinki)

» current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Narrare Center for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, Tampere University (link)

Rozzoni, Stefano

“Pastoral Criticism in the Context of the Environmental Humanities: Trajectories in the Anthology Georgian Poetry Vol. I-IV (1911-1922)”. (Zugl.: Diss., Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 2022; Co-tutelle mit der University of Bergamo; Co-Betreuung: Flamina Nicora; PhD defence: 9.9.2022 in Bergamo)

» current position: Wiss. Mitarbeiter bei der Professur für Englische Literaturwissenschaft (englisches Drama von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart), Universität Graz (link)

Herold, Vera

"Reknitting the Archive: The Lissaboner Deutsche, Anecdotal Memory and the Making of History." Universidade Catolica, Lissabon (Co-Betreuung: Isabel Gil)

» current position: Executive Coordinator at CinEd European Cinema Education for Youth (link)