Current Research Projects

Ph.D. Projects (current)

Katharina Sophie Berger: "Stiftungen als Wegbereiter gesellschaftlicher Handlungsfähigkeit? Transatlantische Perspektiven" (Arbeitstitel)
Sarah Bijani: "The Audacity of Equality: The Debates on Affirmative Action in American Politics and Culture" (Arbeitstitel)
Katrin Dauenhauer: "Representations of Torture in American Culture" (Arbeitstitel)
Markus Fischer: "Apocalypse im US-amerikanischen Film" (Arbeitstitel)
Steffen Gerz: "Drama, Performance, Professional Wrestling" (Arbeitstitel)
Tabea Kaiser: "American Fiction, Fictions of America: Mapping a Twenty-First Century Cultural Imaginary" (Arbeitstitel)
Christian Klöckner: "Fictions of Terror" (Arbeitstitel)
Jie Rong: "Transnational Monkey King: Chinese Myth in American Literature and Culture" (Arbeitstitel)
Malu Rübenach: "'There are other worlds than these': Intermediality and the Fiction of Stephen King" (Arbeitstitel)
Sarah Schaschek: "'Joy in Repetition' - Seriality in Pornography" (Arbeitstitel)
Katharina Schmitt: "Denkmale: Formen der Erinnerungskultur in den USA und in Deutschland" (Arbeitstitel)

Ph.D. Projects (completed)

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)
Catrin Weimbs: "Utopische Körper - Postmoderne Verkörperlichungen des Sozialen" (2009)
Ingrid Thaler: "White Genres, Black Traditions? Reworkings of Time in Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions of Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson" (2007)
Michael Butter: "The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction 1939 – 2002" (2007)
Patrick Keller: "Neoconservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2007)
Peter Schniering: "Into a 'Hydrogen Future'? The Bush Administration's Climate Strategy and the American Belief in Technology" (2007)
Katrin Amian: "Rethinking Postmodernism(s): Charles Sanders Peirce and the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer" (2007)
Uta Gosmann: "The Poetics of Memory: Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe and Ellen Hinsey" (2005)

Habilitation Projects (current)

Dr. Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche: "Echoes of the Extreme: Writing the Self in North America" (Arbeitstitel)
Dr. Petra Wittke-Rüdiger: "Gender and Entrepreneurship in North American Literature" (Arbeitstitel)
Dr. Hyun Kang Kim: "Bild, Gewalt, Subjekt: Der visual turn und die Wiederkehr des Realen" (Arbeitstitel)

Habilitation Projects (completed)

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