Research
Final Theses
Current
Linda Kötterizsch | What, don't you read? Intertextuality in the TV series Lost | Mayer MA 2013 |
Johanna Lal | "I think we should be men first and subject afterward": Thoreaus Konzept der civil disobedience und soziale Bewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten | Mayer MA 2013 |
Finished (last 3 years)
Stefan Hautke | Transformation in Transition: A Century of Jekyll & Hyde on Film and TV | Mayer MA 2013 |
Gianna Nottbeck | Jazz in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" and August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Mayer BA 2012 |
Christoph Schoeneberg | Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer | Mayer BA 2012 |
Jana Dickel | The Big Bang Theory as Quality TV | Groß |
Alexandra Johren | The Construction of Gender Identity in the TV Series The X-Files | Groß |
Anna Ross | Constructions of the American Middle Class Woman - Feminism and Consumerism in the 1950s/60s | Groß |
Nils Hasenbanck | The Moral Decline of the Superhero | Groß |
Louisa Preul | The Representation of Female Gender Roles in Sex and the City | Groß |
Jutta Schulze | "Nothing ever ends": Bodies, Boundaries, Violence, and the Grotesque in Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Mayer |
Laura Gogoll | "Mother Hunger": The Representation of Mother-Daughter-Relationships in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy | Mayer |
Sabrina Hölling | "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world": The Image of the Mule in African American Literature from the Slave Tale to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God | Mayer |
Julia Prochazka | The Representation of Gender Relations in Owen Wister's The Virginian | Mayer |
Jesper Christiansen | The Great American West Revisited: The Western Genre and Constructions of History in HBO's Deadwood | Mayer |
Maren Lagershausen | A Hotbed of Newness: The Great Gatsby and the Representation of Things in Modern America | Mayer |
Malte Mühle | Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Morality, Society, and Inner Conflicts in Jack Kerouac's On The Road and Beat Generation | Mayer |
Max Sembill | Fashion, Sex, and Violence: Social Distinction in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho | Mayer |
Fabian Hientz | Complex Family Relationships in Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Groß BA 2012 |
Christine Heins | Jackie or Marilyn? The Construction of Female Roles in Mad Men | Groß BA 2012 |
Amelie Thiemann | Waif among forces: Consumption and New Womanhood in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie | Mayer |
Verena Ahlbrecht | From a Child's Perspective: Social Critique in To Kill a Mockingbird | Mayer |
Tobias Schwulera | Concepts of Dislocation and Orientation in Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway | Mayer |
Thomas Habedank | Persona of the Player: Videogames Teaching Culture | Denson |
Felix Brinker | Grand Schemes & Hidden Plots: The Aesthetics of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Serial Television | Mayer |
Jennifer Gotter | Dexter Light & Dark. A Genre-Specific Analysis of Showtime's Killer Series | Mayer |
Mandy Schwarze | The Awkward Moment When You Catch Fire Rather Than Sparkle in the Sunlight. The Deconstruction of the Vampire Myth from Dracula to Twilight | Groß |
Marina Litts | The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama | Mayer |
Anh-Vu Phan | Japanese Horror, American Style: An Examination of Hollywood Remakes of Japanese Horror Films in the 21st Century | Mayer |
Julius Beinecke | Bret Easton Elllis' Lunar Park and the Tradition of Literary Horror | Mayer |
Sarah Glawon | Sister Carrie: A Self-Made Woman at the End of the 19th Century? | Mayer |
Anne-Berit Holz | "She worked hard to remember as close to nothing as was safe." 'Rememory' as the Enslaving Force in Times of Freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved | Künnemann |
Maren Röver | Transcendentalism in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" | Mayer |
Anna-Katharina Giesert | Seduction in the 21st Century: Literature and TV | Mayer |
Julia Schmedes | The Catcher in the Rye: Teenage Angst and Non-Conformity in Post-War and Early Beat America | Mayer |
Dennis Garcia-Tastan | "I steal from every single movie ever made": Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction | Mayer |
Therke Schmanteck | The Representation of African Americans in Hip Hop Video Clips | Mayer |
Anna Schneegans | Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine as Documentary Film | Mayer |
Jeannette Ksous | The Hazardous Business of "Passing" in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing | Künnemann |
Jaqueline Kellner | When Will Her Life Begin?: The Construction of Love and Femininity in Disney Animation Films | Groß |
Christine Althammer | Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rebellious Ladies: The Depiction of Femininity in The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance | Mayer |
Frederike Schuur | Acceleration, Efficiency, Alienation. Representations of Urban Modernity in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer | Mayer |
Anne-Lena Oldehus | Djuna Barnes' Nightwood: A Space for the Third Sex | Mayer |
Ilka Brasch | Instrument-Mediation and the Melodramatic Experience in Stella Dallas and Letter from an Unknown Woman | Mayer |
Sebastian Spohn | Between Deity and Human Being: Deconstruction of the Superhero | Groß |
Nora Marie Zmyslony | Fascination With the Exterior and Interior: Reading Domestic Space in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth | Mayer |
Jennifer Sarnoch | "On parade in a show place": Work, Leisure, and Performance in Sister Carrie | Mayer |
Andreas Höschele | "It's Not Product Placement, I Just Like It." - Postmodern Advertising In 30 Rock | Groß |
Sören Schoppmeier | "I still get nightmares." Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves as a Horror Novel | Mayer |
Anne Elsen | Reconciling the Exotic with America: Two Asian American Autobiographies of the 1950s | Mayer |
Elisabeth Bergmann | Contrasting America and Europe in Henry James' Daisy Miller and The Europeans | Mayer |
Hans-Christian Rohlf | Chester Himes' Cotton Comes to Harlem as Hard-Boiled Detective Novel | Mayer |
Victoria Nguyen | The Reconstruction of American History in Toni Morrison's Beloved | Mayer |
Marlene Müller | Crossing Borders: Transcultural Captives and Indian Policy in 18th and 19th Century America | Mayer |
Christian Schröder | Photography and Fashion: Women in the Mirror of Vogue | Mayer |
Sascha Walther | DeLillo's Falling Man and the Aftermath of 9/11 | Twelbeck |
Kristin Dewald | Social Criticism Disguised as Animated Entertainment: How the Animated TV Series The Simpsons Presents Environmental Problems | Twelbeck |
Eike Hülsen | Food and Identity in David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming and Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats | Mayer |
Lena Wilking | "The New You": Reinventing the Self. Women and the Makeover Show | Groß |
Heiko Vreden | Ideals of Independent Personhood: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works by Emerson and Thoreau | Mayer |
Lena Soltendieck | Documenting Creationism. Flock of Dodos and Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. A Modern Take on the Raging Battle Between Creationism and Evolution in the United States | Twelbeck |
Teresa Lonnemann | Cultural Meanings Behind Literary Surfaces in Oprahs Book Club and the Literary Quartet | Twelbeck |
Tristan Zerdick | Live Deliberately! A Reader-Response Critique of Thoreau’s Walden as Self-Help | Mayer |
Svenja Fehlhaber | The Urban Dystopia in the 20th Century: Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things | Mayer |
Janna Wanagas | No stories. No past. Ghostly Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men | Mayer |
Florian Rempel | Collective Memory and Healing in Selected Works of Toni Morrison | Mayer |
Inga Lena Collas Joo | Narrating the Metropolis. The Art of Narration in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer | Mayer |
Tristan Zerdick | Live Deliberately! A Reader-Response Critique of Thoreau's Walden as Self-Help | Mayer |
Nicole Wehr | Desexed by War: Men, Morality, and Meaning-Making in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises | Mayer |
Felix Brinker | Searching for Earth, finding America: Political Allegory and Representations of American National Identity in Battlestar Galactica | Groß |
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