Postdoctoral Dissertations
A considerable portion of our graduate students stay on after their Ph.D.s to do postdoctoral research. The post-doctoral qualification is called a Habilitation in Germany and is the traditional prerequisite for appointment to a professorship.
The following is an overview of all in-progress and completed postdoctoral dissertations written at the English Department since the 1990s.
The University of Freiburg’s English Department has a well-deserved reputation for producing top-quality professors; those who have written their postdoctoral dissertation at our department have excellent chances of landing a full professorship. You can find a list of professors who studied in Freiburg on our page Professors.
(Updated: August 2021)
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
In progress:
- Rüggemeier, Anne. "Poetics of Isolation in English Literature (17th-21st Century)"
Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
Completed:
- ALBER, Jan (2013). "Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama"
(2016) Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. - BIRKE, Dorothee (2014). "Writing the Reader: Quixotic Novels in England, 1752–2008"
(2016) Writing the Reader: Figurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. - CHRIST, Birte (2020). "Repräsentation der Todesstrafe in der amerikanischen Kultur"
(Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Greta Olson, Universität Gießen) - DUFFIELD (geb. Dannenberg), Hilary (2001). "Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time, Space and Mind in Narrative Fiction, 1580–1998"
(2008) Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- KLUWICK, Ursula (2017). "Fictions of Fluctuation: Water in the Victorian Age"
(Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter, Universität Bern) - KOHLMANN, Benjamin (2017). "Writing the Common Good: Literature, The Economy, and the Idea of the Welfare State, 1830-1910"
(forthcoming) Speculative States: British Literature, Institutionality, and Reform. Oxford University Press. - MILDORF, Jarmila (2018). "Reading (Fictional) Dialogue: Text, Context, Cognition"
(Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies, Universität Paderborn) - NANDI, Miriam (2017). "Reading the Early Modern Diary"
(forthcoming) Reading the Early Modern English Diary. Palgrave. - OLSON, Greta (2008). "'Criminal Beasts' and the Rise of Positivist Criminology – From Shakespeare to Dickens"
(2013) Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Completed:
- BUTTER, Michael (2012). "Plots, Designs, and Schemes: American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present"
(2014) Plots, Designs, and Schemes. American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte
In progress:
- Zimmermann, Ulrike. "Popularisations of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary British Culture"
Completed:
- FALKENHAYNER, Nicole (2017). "CCTV Beyond Surveillance"
(2018) Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States. London: Routledge. - KILIAN, Eveline (2002). "Gender-bending und die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in der englischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur – Theoretisches und literarische Perspektiven"
(2004) GeschlechtSverkehrt. Theoretische und literarische Perspektiven des gender-bending. Königstein/Taunus: Helmer.
- LETHBRIDGE, Stefanie (2012). "Poetry Anthologies in British Print Culture"
(2014) Lyrik in Gebrauch: Gedichtanthologien in der englischen Druckkultur 1557–2007. Heidelberg: Winter. - PETZOLD, Jochen (2008). "Sprechsituationen lyrischer Dichtung: Ein schemakritischer Beitrag zur Gattungstypologie"
(2012) Sprechsituationen lyrischer Dichtung. Ein Beitrag zur Gattungstypologie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. - SCHNEIDER, Ralf (2004). "Literatursysteme und Medienwandel: Systemische und anthropologische Aspekte der Entwicklung und Erzählliteratur in Großbritannien"
LINGUISTICS
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann
In progress:
- Hansen, Beke. "A Sociolinguistic Description of First Nations Englishes in British Columbia"
- Haser, Verena. "Pragmatic Impairment in Asperger's Syndrome"
- Rosen, Anna. "Spontaneous Speech in EFL Learning and Teaching"
Completed:
- BLUMENTHAL-DRAMÉ, Alice (2019). "Processing-Based Theories of Word-Order Universals: A Neurolinguistic Perspective"
Kumulative Habilitation - LANGSTROF, Christian (2014). "Sociophonetic Learning in L1 and L2"
(2016) Sociophonetic Learning in L1 and L2. ResearchGate.
- ANDERWALD, Lieselotte (2007). "Non-Standard Verb Paradigms in Traditional British English Dialects: Morphological Naturalness and Comparative Dialect Grammar"
(2009) The Morphology of English Dialects: Verb Formation in Non-Standard English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- KRUG, Manfred (2003). "English Pronouns: Present and Past"
Kumulative Habilitation, mehrere Publikationen zwischen 1998–2004. - SOMMERER, Lotte (2022). "Non-canonical Noun Phrases in English: Past and Present"
- SZMRECSANYI, Benedikt (2011). "The Geolinguistics of Grammatical Variability in Traditional British English Dialects: A Large-Scale, Frequency-Based Study"
(2015) Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair
In progress:
- Bohmann, Axel. "Locating Superdiversity: Communicative Repertoires of Refugees in Germany"
- Lacoste, Véronique. "Haitians' Diasporic English: Development, Structure and Social Functioning"
Completed:
- DEUBER, Dagmar (2010). "Style and Standards in English in the Caribbean: Morphological and Syntactic Variation in Jamaica and Trinidad"
(2014) English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - FISCHER, Roswitha (1996). "Motivation, Institutionalization and Productivity of New Words of the English Language: A Corpus-Based Study"
(1998) Lexical Change in Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Study of the Motivation, Institutionalization, and Productivity of Creative Neologism.Tübingen: Narr.
- HUNDT, Marianne (2002). "English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-Cased Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status."
(2007) English Mediopassive Constructions. A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status. Amsterdam: Rodopi. - LEIMGRUBER, Jakob R. E. (2018). "Language Planning and Policy in Quebec: A Comparative Perspective"
(2019) Language planning and policy in Quebec. A comparative perspective with views from Wales and Singapore. Tübingen: Narr.
- SAND, Andrea (2005). "Angloversals? Shared Morphosyntactic Features in Contact Varieties of English"
(forthcoming) Angloversals? Shared Morphosyntactic Features in Contact Varieties of English. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Administrative advising in the closing stages:
- Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar (2013). "Cesuring in Talk-in-interaction: A parametric Approach to Intonation Units and their Role in Turn-taking, Backchanneling, Language Variation and Language Change"
(2016) Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in Talk-in-interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins - Gut, Ulrike (2006). "Non-native Speech: A Corpus-linguistic Approach"
(2009) Non-native Speech: A Corpus-based Analysis of Phonological and Phonetic Properties of L2 English and German. Frankfurt: Peter Lang - Häcker, Martina (2006). "Origins and History of [h]-dropping and [h]-insertion in English: A Corpus-based Study"
- Hilpert, Martin (2013). Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Matthews, Richard (1994). Cumulative Habilitation
- Stukenbrock, Anja (2012, publ. 2015). Deixis in der Face-to-Face-Interaktion. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter