Ongoing PhD Projects

 

Overview of Current Dissertations

In the context of ACCELS, there currently are six dissertation projects, in which the PhD students work on different research questions from cognitive and empirical literary studies.

• Caroline Kutsch: Empirically Investigating (Triggers of) Experientiality in Narrative Texts: A Contribution to Cognitive Narratology
• Deborah de Muijnck: Post-Conflict Narratives: (Re-)Constructing Narrative Identity after Trauma
• Teresa Turnbull: Literary Representation of Characters with Disabilities in Science Fiction
• Jessica Jumpertz: The Representation and Negotiation of Highly Intelligent Female Characters from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
• Judith Eckenhoff: to be announced
• Kai Tan: The Psychogeographical Reader: Embodiment and Psychogeographical Literary Moments in Contemporary English Novels