Professor Fludernik | Dissertations & Habilitations

Dissertations

In progress:

• García de Alba Lobeira, Sonia
  "Calumniated Wives and Wronged Husbands: Narrating Emotions in the Middle English Romances"
• Herlyn, Anne
  "Dialogue and Narrative Structures in Middle English Verse Romances"
• Kleinschmidt, Sebastian | GRK 1767
  "Narrating Salvation – Narrative Techniques in Middle English Afterlife Visions"
• Luo, Xi
  "Ritual on the Contemporary Stage: Narrative and Performance"
• Straßburg, Sebastian
  "Representation of Consciousness in the Early Modern English Pastoral Romance"
  
  

Completed:

• ALBER, Jan (2005, publ. 2007). Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film
• ALDERS, Maximilian (2015, publ. 2016). Mind-Telling: Social Minds in Fiction and History
• BUTTER, Michael (2007, publ. 2009). The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction, 1939–2002
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke, Universität Bonn)
• CAMBIAGHI, Mara (2015). A.S. Byatt's Art of Memory
• CHRIST, Birte (2008, publ. 2012). Modern Domestic Fiction. Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925
• FEST, Kerstin (2005, publ. 2009). ...And All Women Mere Players? The Construction of Feminine Identity in the Novels of Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys and Radclyffe Hall
• FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana (2009, publ. 2015). Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Milada Franková, Masaryk-Universität, Brünn)
• FRANZEN, Johannes (2016, publ. 2018). Indiskrete Fiktionen: Theorie und Praxis des Schlüsselromans 1960–2015 
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Werner Frick, Universität Freiburg | GRK 1767)
• HAMILTON, Theresa (2012, publ. 2013). Humorous Structures in Comic English Narratives, 1200–1600
• HARTY, John Francis (2007, publ. 2009). Oscillation in Literary Modernism
• HENKE, Daniela (2021). "Zerborstene Texte und Wirklichkeiten in der Schwebe: Experimentelles Erzählen über den Nationalsozialismus"
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker, Universität Freiburg | GRK 1767)
• HESTERMANN, Sandra (2001). Meeting the Other – Encountering Oneself: Paradigmen der Selbst- und Fremddarstellung in ausgewählten anglo-indischen und indisch-englischen Kurzgeschichten
• JACOBY, Nathalie (2000). Skrupulosität im Umgang mit der elend festgeschriebenen Realität macht die schönsten Geschichten kaputt! Zur formalen Integration von fiktiven und faktischen Elementen in der Literatur am Beispiel der zeitgenössischen fiktionalen Biographie
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Willy Michel, Universität Freiburg)
• KELLER, Nikola (2024). "Von Sklaverei erzählen – Sklaverei abschaffen? Erzählende Passagen in deutsch- und französischsprachigen Abolitionsdramen des 18. Jahrhunderts (1725–1802)" 
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Judith Frömmer, Universität Freiburg | GRK 1767)
• KOHLMANN, Benjamin (2010, publ. 2014). Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s
• LEDERER, Thomas (2005, publ. 2007). Sacred Demonization: Saints' Legends in the English Renaissance
• LINDER-SPOHN, Verena (2018, publ. forthcoming). "Die Du-Form als narrative Strategie im Grenzgebiet von Gebet und Erzählung in volkssprachlichen Texten des Spätmittelalters"
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Henrike Manuwald, Universität Göttingen | GRK 1767)
• MUNZ, Melina (2020). "Otiose Leisure in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English" (SFB 1015)
• NANDI, Miriam (2005, publ. 2007). M/Other India/s: Zur literarischen Verarbeitung von Armuts- und Kastenproblematik in ausgewählten Texten der indisch-englischen und muttersprachlichen indischen Literatur seit 1935
• NOOR, Farha (2022). "Leisurely Feelings: Conceptualising Emotional Manifestations of Otium in South Asia" 
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder, Universität Heidelberg | SFB 1015)
• RICCARDI, Silvia (2020). "Anatomy of Dark Romanticism. Enacting the Deviant in Literature and the Visual Arts"
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen)
• SCHWARZ-SPRONDEL, Johanna (2010). Mythos als philosophisches und literarisches Problem
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander, Universität Freiburg | Promotionskolleg "Geschichte und Erzählen")
• SHAMS, Golnaz (2018, publ. 2020). Social Minds in Drama: The Delineation of Mentalities and Collectives
  

• SIVERIO, Francesca (2023) "Globalisation, Hegemony and Culture in Selected Works by Salman Rushdie, Jeet Thayil and Rana Dasgupta"
• THOSS, Jeff (2011, publ. 2016). When Storyworlds Collide: Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Werner Wolf, Universität Graz)
• WAßMER, René (2020, publ. 2022). Muße in der Metropole. Flanerie in der deutschen Publizistik und Reiseliteratur um 1800
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Philipp Riedl, Universität Freiburg | SFB 1015)
• WEILER, Christina (2017). The Romantic Roots of Cognitive Poetics: A Comparative Study of Poetic Metaphor in Herder, Novalis, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley
  (first supervisor: Beate I. Allert, Purdue University)
  
• WIRTH, Annika (2020). "Narrating Captivity, Narrating Identity: Identity, Ideology, and Dissidence in Factual Gulf War Captivity Narratives"
  
  

Habilitations

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"
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Greta Olson, Universität Gießen)
• DUFFIELD, Hilary P. (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" 
  (first supervisor: 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"
  (2021) British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• MILDORF, Jarmila (2018). "Reading (Fictional) Dialogue: Text, Context, Cognition"
  (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies, Universität Paderborn)
• NANDI, Miriam (2017). "Reading the Early Modern Diary"
  (2021) Reading the Early Modern English Diary. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 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.