Current Habilitation Candidates
Clucas, Tom: "The Economy of Character: Writing the Self in the Social Marketplace in British 'Community Novels' from 1776 to 1914".
Effe, Alexandra: “Truth and Fiction in Writing about Oneself: Metaautobiographical Reflections from the Pseudofactual Novel to Contemporary Autofiction.”
Kovach, Elizabeth: “Working Lives in U.S.-American Literature: Transformations in Forms of Labour, Forms of Life, and Narrative Aesthetics in Industrial and Post-Fordist Capitalism.”
Polland, Imke: “Representations of Anglo-European Relations in British Literature from the 18th to the 21st Century”.
Scherr, Alexander: “Disruption and Fragmentation: The Essay as a Genre, Transgeneric Mode of Representation and Cultural Response to Modernization in Anglophone Literature from the 19th to the 21st Century”.