Ph.D. and Postdoc Projects

  • Johanna Kluger: “Beyond Hero and Heroine: A Queer Narratology of the Popular Romance Novel"

  • Ted Richthofen: “‘How are We Going to Handle the Woman Bootlegger?’ Narratives of Women’s Public Presence in Prohibition-Era Colorado.””

  • Angela Benkhadda: "Native American Historical Fiction: Conflicting Epistemologies and Political Discourses"

  • Stefanie Esser: "Hol(l)ywood: The Christian Right in American Popular Culture"

  • Mareile Hörstrup: "Concepts of Attention in the Contemporary North American Novel" 

  • Rita Kopp: "The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in Canada: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Implementation Discourse and Consequences for Indigenous Women and Girls"

  • Stefan Benz: “Negotiations of Rhythm and Sound from Early Indigenous Writing to Hip Hop and EDM.” (WT) (second book / Habilitation)

  • Katharina Fackler: “Early American Sea Writing, Pacific Ecologies, and the Aesthetics of Extraction.” (WT) (second book / Habilitation)

  • Mahshid Mayar: "W( )oles and ( )holes: Politically Engaged Erasure Poetry in Twenty-First-Century United States." (WT) (second book / Habilitation)

  • Fenna Wächter, "'A Way of Living': Representations of Homeownership in TIME Magazine" (2017) (full text)

  • Catrin Weimbs: "Utopic Bodies, Dystopic Subjects: Dialogues between Literature and Theory" (2009) (full text)

  • Christian Klöckner: "Exploding Books: Contemporary American Fiction, Maurice Blanchot, and the Writing of Terror(ism) (2011)

Published as The Writing of Terrorism with Peter Lang in 2017

  • Katrin Dauenhauer:"The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2009" (2013)

Published under same title with Peter Lang in 2015

  • Sarah Schaschek: "Reloading the Money Shot: Seriality in Pornography" (2012)

Published as Pornography and Seriality: The Culture of Producing Pleasure with Palgrave Macmillan in 2014

  • Simone Knewitz: "'A Poet is flesh and blood as well as brain': Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, and the Modernist Poetics of the Material Body" (2010)

Published as Modernist Authenticities: The Material Body and the Poetics of Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams with Winter in 2014

  • Ingrid Thaler: "White Genres, Black Traditions? Reworkings of Time in Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions of Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson" (2007)

Published as Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson with Routledge in 2010

  • Michael Butter: "The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction 1939–2002" (2007)

Published under the same title with Palgrave Macmillan in 2009

  • Peter Schniering: "Into a 'Hydrogen Future'? The Bush Administration's Climate Strategy and the American Belief in Technology" (2007)

Published as U.S. Climate Policy and Technology: The Bush Administration and American Conceptions of Environmental Challenges with Nomos in 2008

  • Katrin Amian: "Rethinking Postmodernism(s): Charles Sanders Peirce and the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer" (2007)

Published under the same title with Brill in 2008

  • Uta Gosmann: "The Poetics of Memory: Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe and Ellen Hinsey" (2005)

Published as Poetic Memory: The Forgotten Self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2011

  • Dr. Simone Knewitz, "Contested Claims: The Rhetoric and Politics of Private Property in U.S. Culture" (2018)

Published as The Politics of Private Property: Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse with Lexington Books in 2021

  • Dr. Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche: "Echoes of the Extreme: Writing the Self in North America" (2011)

  • Dr. Axel Stähler: "Zion's Fiction: Postkoloniale Fiktionen jüdischer Identität" (2007)

Published as Literarische Konstruktionen jüdischer Postkolonialität: Das britische Palästinamandat in der anglophonen jüdischen Literatur with Universitätsverlag Winter in 2009