Current Dissertation and Habilitation Projects at the Departement of Culture (put togeterh for each adviser respectively):

Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter

PhD Projects under advisement

Albrecht, Maxi: "The Cultural Politics of Intelligences in 21st-Century Survival Narratives" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2016)

Ben Jemia, Talel: "Trades and Hustlers: The Queer Aesthetics of Disorientation in American Cinema (1965-2010)" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2013)

Brinker, Felix: "Superhero Blockbusters: Seriality, Politics of Engagement, and the Spirit of 21st-Century Popular Culture" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2013)

Flamand, Lee: "Unruly Epistemologies: Complex TV and Social Knowledge in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (doctoral scholarship awarded by Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2015)

Kadritzke, Till: "Going Mad: American Film in the 1970s and the Politics of Emotional Expressivity" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2016)

Rosenhagen, Diana: "Gewalt im afroamerikanischen Drama und Theater" (since 2006)

Schoppmeier, Sören: "Playing America(n): Negotiations of American Culture in Open-World Video Games" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2015)

Soller, Bettina: "Fan Fiction: Toward a Conceptualization of Categories" (doctoral scholarships awarded by the inter-university PhD-program "Textwissenschaften" [TMTG]" and by the Einstein-Stiftung Berlin) (since 2010)

Sommerfeld, Stephanie: "Faith in Fiction: Transfigurations of Sublimity in Poe and Beyond" (since 2004)

Spoellmink, Joscha: "Affective Economies in the Art of Placemaking" (doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2004)

Sulimma, Maria: "Gender and Contemporary Cable Television Narrative" (as part of the "Popular Seriality Research Unit" - funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) (since 2013)

Thierbach, Paul: "Developments in U.S. Orientalism: Possibilities and Limitations for Popular Representations of Romantic/Sexual Relationships between European American Men and Asian (American) Women in U.S. Visual Culture of the Early 21st-Century"
(doctoral scholarship awarded by the Graduate School of North American Studies, FU Berlin) (since 2014)

Habilitation Projects under advisement

Loock, Kathleen: "Remaking als Verfahren cinematischer Selbsthistorisierung" (as part of the "Popular Seriality Research Unit" - funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG;  recipient of the DAAD P.R.I.M.E. scholarship) (since 2013)

Lüthe, Martin: "Functions of Futures: Writing Media Change in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century US Culture" (since 2014)

Starre, Alexander: "Knowledge Cultures: Shapes, Styles, and Traces of Intellect in Professionalized America, 1878-1929" (since 2013)

Stein, Daniel:"Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Serial Evolution of a Popular Genre" (as part of the "Popular Seriality Research Unit" - funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) (since 2010)
Subsequent occupation: Full Professor (W3) of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen (since 2014).

For a download of the current list of dissertational and habiliation projects under advisement of Frank Kelleter (including all concluded projects), please click here.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck

PhD Projects under advisement

Baylan, Ergün: Conscience: The Source for Transcendentalist Moral Epistemology

Breitenwischer, Dustin: Networking Hermeneutics

Chahrour, Nadine: Contemporary Arab American Literature and Culture: An Analysis of Transnational Identity and the Struggle for Recognition 

Henneberg, Julian: Imagining Embodiment: Mind-Body Relations in Contemporary American Literature

Köberlein, Aviva: (De-)Faultlines: Privacy, Poverty and Whiteness in Contemporary British American Film 

Longolius, Sonja: Who is the Mysterious Other: Coming to Terms with the Author in the Works of Calle, Auster, Breitz and Foer 

Meinel, Dietmar: Exceptional Aesthetics - Reconsidering Aesthetic Experience in the (New) American Exceptionalism of Pixar Films

Metz, Katharina: Altruism in late Nineteenth-century American Literature 

Robbins, Ben: The Female Figure in the Novels and Screenplays of William Faulkner

Schweishelm, Kathryn: Choice Cuts. Cosmetic Surgery in a Neoliberal and Postfeminist Age

Yeshshyorkina, Oksana: Cradle of Anarchy: Role and Influence of Russian and Russian-Jewish Immigration on Development, Rise and Decline of Anarchy in the United States between 1880s and 1920s

Zheng, Liping: A Comparative Study of Cultural Diplomacy between China and the United States, 2000 - 2015 

Habilitation Projects under advisement

Spahn, Hannah: Weltbürgerdiskurse in der amerikanischen Kultur (Habilitation)

Comprehensive list of concluded PhD and Habilitation Projects

Prof. Dr. Martin Lüthe

PhD Projects under advisement

Edward Birzin: Subway Art

Annely Güthoff: James Bond mon amour. Postmoderne Heldenmythen im Fokus der Cultural und Postkolonialen Studien

Birgit Haugg: Patriarchat und Männlichkeit. Das Ende einer innigen Beziehung in US Filmen des 21. Jahrhunderts

Lina Tegtmeyer: Towards a Neoliberal Aesthetics of Urban Decay