| AKIN |
Banu |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Art as a space of trespass and legitimacy for female characters as creators of an alternative gender in littératures issues de la migration and Arab American literature of 21st century
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Professor Thomas Claviez |
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| ALLEN |
Stephanie |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Early Modern Academic Drama
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Elisabeth Dutton
James McBain |
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| ALLRED |
Gemma |
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UNINE |
E-Mail
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Selling Shakespeare - Meaning Making through Marketing
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Prof Emma DePledge |
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| ANDREY |
Brayan |
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UNINE |
E-Mail
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(TBD) Experimental Sociolinguistics
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Prof. Martin Hilpert |
2024-2025 |
| AULD |
Aleida |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Reconfiguring Early Modern English Poetry in the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton
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Professor Lukas Erne |
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| BALINO |
Sofia |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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American Chaos: Joan Didion as the "Voice of a Generation" in a Disordered Nation
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Professor Simon Swift |
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| BEHLULI |
Sofie |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Ekphrastic Practices in the Contemporary US-American Novel
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Prof. Gabriele Rippl |
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| BENISTY |
Yannick |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Building Imagination through the Language of Poetics: The Architecture of Early Modern English and Continental Poetry (provisional title)
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Kirsten Stirling |
2025 |
| BERGAM PELLICANI |
Marija |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Under West Indian Eyes: Representations of Europe in Derek Walcott's Poetry
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Dr Martin Leer |
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| BERGER |
Matthias |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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United under the Banner of Medievalism? Medievalism and Negotiations of Swiss and British National Identities
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Prof. Dr Annette Kern-Stähler (University of Bern)
Prof. Dr Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) |
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| BILKIC |
Maida |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Mediating hate, managing change: Discourses of prejudice and conflict resolution in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Professor Crispin Thurlow |
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| BISCHOF |
Roman |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Narrating Neurons: Perspectives on Mental Illness in American and British Novels in the Age of Neuroscience
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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl |
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| BLAIR |
Hazel |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Region and Nation in Late Medieval Devotion to Northern English Saints (FNS project).
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Prof. Denis Renevey |
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| BLANC |
Aurélie |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Medieval Convent Drama
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Elisabeth Dutton
Olivia Robinson |
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| BOESTAD |
Klara |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Riddles in the drawing-room: le traducteur littéraire au défi de l'implicite dans l’œuvre de Jane Austen
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Prof. Fontanet |
2024 |
| BOULAT |
Kira |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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| BOURGEOIS |
Samuel |
|
UNINE |
E-Mail
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Discourse Marker Use in Written Genres
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Dr. Martin Hilpert |
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| CURTIS |
Kristen |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Adaptation and the Wife of Bath
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Prof. Dr. Mary Flannery |
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| DARCY |
Mark |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Satanic Epistemologies from Marlowe to Milton
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| DESSAU |
Lily |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Do 'we have to think with Gaia'? Readdressing the Poet's relationship with nature in the 'Anthropocene' (provisional title)
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Professor Simon Swift |
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| DROZ-DIT-BUSSET |
Olivia |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Multimodal discourse analysis of social media influencers as ‘new generation’ copy-writers.
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Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow
Professor of Language and Communication,
Director, Department of English |
2021 |
| DUARTE GONÇALVES VENTURA DE PAULA WIRTH |
Beatriz |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Language Attrition in a Multilingual Community:
Do speakers of typologically different languages attrite similarly?
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Anita Auer |
2024 |
| ESCHERLE |
Nora Anna |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Narratives of Religious Alterity: Religion and Violence in contemporary South Asian Anglophone Novels
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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez |
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| FABRIN |
Elena |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Christopher Marlowe and the Rhetoric of Renaissance Authorship
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Prof. Lukas Erne |
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| GOMES CORREIA |
Ana |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Representations of Gendered Military Identity
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Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet |
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| GREENE |
Julia |
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IHEID |
E-Mail
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The Politics of Migration
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| GUIGNOT-RAKHIMOV |
Manon |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Representations of Air and Other Elements in the 19th Century British Literature
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Enit Steiner
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2025 |
| HABIBI |
Hanieh |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Using social networks as CALL system
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2022 |
| HEGEDÜS |
Kader |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Donne's narrative of space: geographical, astronomical and spatial dimensions of John Donne's poetry
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Dr. Kirsten Stirling |
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| HEIM |
Cécile |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Denaturalizing the Law: Sexual Violence, Race and the Land in Native American Crime Fiction's Negotiation of Justice and the Law
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Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet
Valérie Cossy |
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| HEIM |
Matthias |
|
UNINE |
E-Mail
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Shakespeare on Film: Looking through Space and Time
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Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton |
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| ITEN |
Mark |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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Lower-class language use in Late Modern England
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Prof. Anita Auer |
2024 |
| JACKSON |
Honor |
|
UNINE |
E-Mail
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Malleable Spheres and Diverse Subject: Utopia and dystopia in Early Modern England
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Emma Depledge |
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| JAROSKI |
Vanessa |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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English Languages and Literatures
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Dr. Crispin Thurlow |
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| JONES |
Patrick |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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The philosophical significance of Henry James's late style, particularly in relation to Martin Heidegger.
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Simon Swift |
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| KAEMPFER |
Lucie |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Finding Joy in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
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2018 |
| KUSKE |
Eva |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Micronesian English
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Prof. Dr. David Britain |
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| LAUGHERY |
Vincent |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Metaphor and Agency in Shakespeare's Tragedies
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Kevin Curran |
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| LOESCH |
Juliette |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Dancing between Languages and Art Forms: The Transcreative Dynamics of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé from the Page to the Stage
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Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère |
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| LOETSCHER |
Audrey |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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A Moral History of Unsustainability
U.S. political authorities and climate change: policies, ideology, interests (1957-1998)
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Prof. Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl |
2022 |
| MAGNIN |
Jeremie |
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UNINE |
E-Mail
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Swiss Guestbook Project: Spatial Practices and the Performance of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Swiss Hotel Guestbooks
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Prof. Patrick Vincent
Prof. Kevin James, University of Guelph, Canada |
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| MARCHI |
Viola |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Postmodern Literature and the Ethics of the Impersonal
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez |
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| MARENZI |
Elisa |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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[Working title]: "Variation in Australian English - Exploring the emergence of ethnolects in the Italian community in Melbourne"
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David Britain |
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| MARTIN |
Caroline |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Intersectional narratology in New Woman fiction
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Prof. Deborah Madsen |
2023 |
| MATHIER |
Marion |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Working title:
In their own words: Young Swiss people’s communication ideologies and media ecologies – implications for educators
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Professor Crispin Thurlow, Department of English at the University of Bern. |
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| MCKENZIE |
Oran |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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The Poetics of Light. Perception, Forms of Attention and the Act of Thinking in Contemporary Poetry
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Dr. Martin Leer |
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| MICHOUX |
Anne-Claire |
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UNINE |
E-Mail
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Romantic Fiction, Simplicity, and the Formation of the British Nation
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Prof. Patrick Vincent |
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| MISSON |
James |
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E-Mail
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Early Modern Book History; Typography
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| MOLING |
Martin |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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"How Does It Feel?": Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1961-2011
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Prof. Thomas Austenfeld |
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| NAZROO |
Claudia |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Muslimwoman Breaking Imaginary Borders:
Space and Time in Mohja Kahf’s Fictional Narratives
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Boris Vejdovsky |
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| NEUENSCHWANDER |
Christoph |
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UNIBE |
E-Mail
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Contact, Mobility and Authenticity: Language Ideologies in Creolisation
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David Britain |
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| NIEMANN |
Andrew |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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The Ethics of William James's Pragmatism in David Foster Wallace
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Boris Vejdovsky |
2023 |
| OZOLS |
Davis |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Project title: "Biased communication: the cognitive pragmatics of fallacies"
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Director of thesis: Didier Maillat (University of Fribourg)
Co-Director of thesis: Louis de Saussure (University of Neuchâtel) |
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| PARREIRAS REIS |
Ana rita |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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Discourses on sexual temptation in Middle English texts of religious instruction
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Prof. Denis Renevey |
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| PEREIRA DOMÍNGUEZ |
Laura |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Gestures in medieval literature.
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Guillemette Bolens |
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| PERNET |
Sonia |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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Divine Aqueducts: Fluid Imagery in the Sermons of John Donne
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Kirsten Stirling |
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| PLAYER |
Amy |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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Nan Shepherd, Kathleen Jamie and the Tradition of Scottish New Nature Writing
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Prof. Rachel Falconer |
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| PREUSS |
Stefanie |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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A Scottish National Canon? Processes of Literary Canon Formation in Scotland
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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Bern)
Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter (Göttingen) |
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| RAINS |
Jennifer m. |
|
UNINE |
E-Mail
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English Clippings
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Martin Hilpert |
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| RAKHIMOV |
Azamat |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Shakespeare in Russia: Censorship and Editorial Practices
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Prof. Lukas Erne |
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| RAYNER |
Emma |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Gender, Civility, and Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Writing
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Indira Ghose
Emma Depledge |
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| REILLY |
Andy |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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Seventeenth-Century London Comedies and Digital Humanities (Provisional)
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Kevin Curran |
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| REYNOLDS |
Sean |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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The Compulsion to Translate: Dead Languages and the Poet-Translator in Postwar America
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Agnieszka Soltysik
Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, University at Buffalo, New York |
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| ROGLIARDO |
Elodie |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Black Women’s Afropean Identity: Construction, Exploration and Promulgation at the Crossroad of Relations in Leonora Miano’s, Laura Nsafou’s and Kiyemis’ Afropean Narratives.
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Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Valérie Cossy |
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| RÖÖSLI |
Samuel |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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The Role of the Senses in Literary Representations of the Non-Human World in Anglo-Saxon England
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Prof. Dr. Annette Kern-Stähler |
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| SCHNEBELEN |
Florence |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Paradigmes de l'expérience dans la littérature anglaise, allemande et française du romantisme émergent (1795-1819)
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Registered in France : Prof. Bernard Franco (Comparative Literature, Paris Sorbonne Université) |
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| SCHWEIZER |
Tibère |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Sciences du langage
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| SEMPERE |
Anindita |
|
UNINE |
E-Mail
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Poetics and Place: Mediating Deep Engagement with New Places in Twentieth Century American Literature
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Professor Patrick Vincent |
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| SIEGERT |
Yvette |
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UNIGE |
E-Mail
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'Representations of Cartagena de Indias: An Intellectual History, 1815-2016'
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Dr María del Pilar Blanco, University of Oxford |
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| SKUTHORPE |
Elizabeth |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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The functions of the dead in Old Norse-Icelandic literature
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| SMITH |
Emily |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Digital Investigation into Ambiguous Signifiers in Shakespeare's Corpus
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Lukas Erne |
2025? |
| STONCIKAITE |
IEVA |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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No Fear of Flying after Sixty: Sexuality, Gender and Creativity in the Works of Erica Jong
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Dr Thomas Austenfeld |
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| TYAGI |
Shruti Saxena |
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UNIL |
E-Mail
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Dr. Boris Vejdovsky |
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| VAUDANO |
Sanja |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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The title of my thesis is: Inside the Black Box: Poetics of Dream Narration in Salman Rushdie's Fiction
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Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter
Dr. Ursula Kluwick |
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| WEEKS |
Nicholas |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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Artistic Syntheses: A Kinesic Approach to Beckett's Plays in the Context of Modernism
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Prof. Guillemette Bolens
Dr. Martin Leer |
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| WRIGHT |
Edward |
|
UNIBE |
E-Mail
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PHD begins Autumn 2017. No title as yet.
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Professor Gabriel Rippl
TBA |
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| YANG |
Guang |
|
UNIGE |
E-Mail
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la belle lettrée : circulation du roman chinois caizi jiaren en Angleterre et en France entre XVIIe et XXe siècles
The beauty-scholar: circulation of Chinese novel caizi jiaren in England and in France between XVII and XX centuries
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Jérôme David
Nicolas Zufferey |
2023 or 2024 |
| ZEIN |
Najat |
|
UNIL |
E-Mail
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English in the Expanding Circle: the case of Morocco
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Prof. Jürg Schwyter |
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| ZURBRÜGG |
Aurélie |
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UNIFR |
E-Mail
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Writing on Walls: Message, Mediality, and Modes of Address
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Prof. Thomas Austenfeld |
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