Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein

Dissertationen

Current

• Becker, Johannes; Präventionsfantasien. Zur Darstellung von Sicherheitsdoktrinen in zeitgenössischer Literatur und zeitgenössischem Film (AT)
• Ben Hania, Rabeb:A Study of the Metafictional Dialectics in Margaret Atwood's Fiction from a Post-Postmodernist Perspective (AT)

• Bockmann, Lars-Frederik; Diasporic Dilemmas: Jewish American Identity and Double Structures of Collective Memory in the Novels of Michael Chabon (AT)

• Damböck, Elisabeth: Beyond Diasporas: Transcultural/Transnational Issues in Recent South Asian – North American Texts.

• Feng Jie; The Representation of Transnationalism in Yiyun Li’s Fiction (AT)

• Haensell, Dominique: All the World in One Place: Urban Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction (AT)

• Jochum, Tobias: Reimagining the Intolerable: The Ethics in Representation in Contemporary Transnational Narratives of  Feminicide

• Kohrs, Johannes: The Crisis of Representation – Race and Recognition in the Field of Contemporary African American Literature: Percival Everett

• Sharma, Anke: Out of Many, One? Community, Consciousness, and the “We” Narrative Voice in Contemporary US Fiction (AT)

Completed

• Bahmany, Leila: A Virtual Site of Ambivalence. The Mirror and the Psychology of the Specular Reflection in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath (abgeschl. 2012, Latifeh Yarshater Award 2016).

• Beissenhirtz, Alexander: Affirmation and Resistance. The Politics of the Jazz Life in the Self-Narratives of Louis Armstrong, Art Pepper, and Oscar Peterson (abgeschl. 2010).

• Dikant, Thomas: Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation 1784-1866 (abgeschl. 2011).

• Dorson, James: Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy’s Negative Imagination (abgeschl. 2011).

• Eis, Melanie: The Beat Generation - On the Road to Rebellion? The Counterculture's Investment in Whiteness and Masculinity (abgeschl. 2016).

• Frese, Sophia: „’No Cover Up’: Jewish- and Palestinian-American Literature on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (abgeschl. 2012).

• Golubiewski, Mikołaj: The Personae of Czesław Miłosz: Self-Situating, Perspectivism, and Movement (abgeschl. 2016).

• Gorenstein, Zuzanna: New Sincerity and the Contemporary American Family Novel: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (abgeschl. 2015).

• Kozyrakis, Yuliya: Post-racial Realities. Passing Narratives in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (abgeschl. 2015).

• Majewska, Magda: The Representation of Sexuality in Postmodern Literature (abgeschl. 2017).

• Manson, Richard: White Men Write Now: Deconstructed and Reconstructed Borders of Identity In Contemporary American Literature By White Men (abgeschl. 2004)

• McSherry, Siofra: Gift Exchange and the Poetry of Marianne Moore (abgeschl. 2017)

• Mittelstädt, Margot: Moments of Insight, and a Glimmer of Hope: Recognition, Self-Help, and the Novels of Anne Tyler (abgeschl. 2013).

• Motyl, Katharina: With the Face of the Enemy – Arab American Literature since 9/11 (abgeschl. 2013).

• Odabas, Janna: Ghostliness in Contemporary Asian American Literature (abgeschl. 2017).
• Potgieter, Koen: Responding to Urban Crisis: The Black Ghetto Novel since 1940 (abgeschl. 2017).

• Richardson, Dorothy: A Trip to Niagara. Play and Interplay. An Examination of William Dunlap's Play of 1828 (abgeschl. 2009).

• Stompor, Tomasz: Precise Intersection Points. The Textual Materiality of William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Experiments (abgeschl. 2014).

• Wege, Birte: Drawing on the Past: The Graphic Narrative Documentaries of Emanuel Guibert, Ho Che Anderson, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco (abgeschl. 2015), 2016: Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis des Heidelberg Center for Amercican Studies

Habilitationen

Laufend

• Dikant, Thomas: On Consequences: Law, Action, and the American Novel, 1870-1930.
• Dorson, James: The Managerial Imagination: Mastery and Drift in American Literary Naturalism.
• Sedlmeier, Florian: Field, Archive, Iteration: William Dean Howells.
• Wege, Birte: 'Scripting Reality'

Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier

Dissertationen

• Engwer, Sabine: Writing the African American Nation: Notions of Folk, Volk, and Nation in the Literature of the Nadir.

Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Dissertationen

Eggers, Fabian: