Thesis Supervision
The English Department offers its students a wide selection of highly qualified thesis supervisors. In order to facilitate the task of finding the correct lecturer for a topic, students may refer to the lists below. Each lecturer eligible for thesis supervision is listed with their respective fields of expertise, sorted by degree scheme and overall thematic orientation.
Pleass note staff members with a PhD (Assistant/Associate/Adjunct Professors) can act as supervisors, but their capacities are limited to just a few theses per semester.
BA/BEd and MA/MEd Supervision
Literary and Cultural Studies
Bauer, Gero, PD Dr.
Contact
Academic Fields
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Victorian, Modernist, and Contemporary Literature
- Film and TV series
- Ecocriticism and New Materialism
Bauer, Matthias, Dr., Prof.
Contact
Academic Fields
- Literature from 1550-1900
- Literary Theory
- Literature and Linguistics
- Poetry (medieval to present day)
- Literature and Religion
Butter, Michael, Dr., Prof.
Contact
michael.butter@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Film
- TV Shows
- Conspiracy Theory
- American Literature
- American Culture
Franke, Astrid, Dr., Prof.
Contact
astrid.franke@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- American Poetry and Prose
- Popular Culture
- African American Literature and Culture
- American Pragmatism
- (Im)migrant Literature
Gijswijt, Thomas, Dr.
Contact
thomas.gijswijt@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II
- U.S. Elections
- Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War
- The U.S. Presidency
- The Beatles and America
Hirschfelder, Nicole, Dr.
Contact
nicole.hirschfelder@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Protest and Liberation Movements (The Civil Rights Movement, The Women's Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, #metoo)
- Oppression, Discrimination, Sexism, Racism
- African American and Women's Literature 19th Century until today
- Religion(s) in the United States
- 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid, Dr., Prof.
Contact
ingrid.hotz-davies@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Early Modern Literature (especially with reference to gender/sexuality)
- Literature by Women Writers
- Queer Literature/Literature and Gender
- New Materialism and Literature
- As a rule, I do not supervise theses in the field of American Studies
Klaiber, Isabell, Dr.
Contact
isabell.klaiber@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- North American Indigenous Studies
- African American and Women's Literatures since the 19th century
- Narratology (incl. Digital Literary Studies)
- American Drama
Reinfandt, Christoph, Dr., Prof.
Contact
christoph.reinfandt@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Contemporary Literature and Culture (British and Irish, including popular culture)
- Romanticism
- Modernisms
- Indian Literature in English
- British Fiction since the 18th Century
West-Pavlov, Russell, Dr., Prof.
Contact
russell.west-pavlov@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- African, Australian, Caribbean Literature
- Postcolonial and Global South Studies
- New Materialism/New Animism/Transformations of Literary Theory
- Translation Studies
- Time and Space in Literature
Zirker, Angelika, Dr., Prof.
Contact
angelika.zirker@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Literature from 1550-1900
- Digital Literary Studies
- Children's Literature
- Poetry (Medieval to Present Day)
- Literature and Linguistics
Linguistics
Beck, Sigrid, Dr., Prof.
Contact
sekretariat-beck@nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Compositional Semantics
- Formal Pragmatics
- Crosslinguistic Semantics
- Syntax/Semantics Interface
- Compositional Semantic Change
Featherston, Sam, Dr., Prof.
Contact
sam.featherston@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Syntactic Structures
- Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Comparison, Variation, and Change
- Anything interesting; talk to me about it.
Griffiths, James, Jun.-Prof.
Contact
james.griffiths@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
Synchronic, comparative formal linguistic research into:
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Discourse Structure
- Prosody
- Microvariation in English (Dialects)
Konietzko, Andreas, Dr.
Contact
andreas.konietzko@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Syntax
- Information Structure
- Sentence Processing
- Syntax-Semantics-Interface
- Syntax-Pragmatics-Interface
Menéndez Benito, Paula, Dr.
Contact
paula.menendez-benito@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Semantics / Pragmatics
- Quantification
- Modality
- (In)definiteness
- Tense / Aspect.
Weber, Andrea, Dr., Prof.
Contact
Academic Fields
- First Language Acquisition
- Language Comprehension in L2
- Foreign-accented Speech
- Spoken-word Recognition in L1 and L2
- Figurative Language Processing
Winkler, Susanne, Dr., Prof.
Contact
Academic Fields
- Syntactic Accounts of Grammatical Phenomena
- Information Structure and Prosody of Utterances in Discourse
- The Syntax and Interpretation of Elliptical Structures and Gaps (including telegraphic speech, abbreviated messages, etc.)
- Ambiguity in Language and First and Second Language Acquisition
- The Syntax and Pragmatics of Public Discourse
Fachdidaktik
Küchler, Uwe, Dr., Prof.
Contact
Academic Fields
- Teaching English & its Premises, Concepts, Methods or Relations to Other Disciplines
- Intercultural and Multiple Literacies (including teaching with different media formats)
- Teaching in the Context of Inclusive Education/ Heterogeneity/ Diversity/ Migration
- Anthropocene, Climate Change and Environmental Issues in Language Teaching
- The Language Skills (especially reading, writing)
BA/BEd Thesis Supervision Only
Literary and Cultural Studies
Baruah, Debarchana, Dr.
Contact
debarchana.baruah@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Im/migration
- Food
- Film and Television (Retro, Nostalgia, Seriality)
- Memory (Post World War II Memory Cultures)
- American City and the Suburb
Dengel-Janic, Ellen, Dr.
Contact
ellen.dengel-janic@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Gender and Narrative
- British Theatre Culture
- British Film and Television
- Indian Literature in English
- Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Heise-von der Lippe, Anya, Dr.
Contact
anya.heise-von-der-lippe@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Climate Change Literature
- Gothic
- Monsters and the Monstrous
- Dystopias
- Posthumanisms
Luther, Katharina
Contact
katharina.luther@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Contemporary Poetry
- Weather & Climate Fictions
- The New Materialisms
- Environmental Criticism
- Philosophy of Science
McColl, Robert, Dr.
Contact
robert.mccoll@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- British Romantic Literature (particularly poetry, particularly Byron and his circle)
- Bob Dylan
- First Wave Gothic Literature, 1760-1830
- Poetry of the long 18th Century, 1660-1830
- Shakespeare
Schinko, Carsten, Dr.
Contact
carsten.schinko@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- African American Literature
- Intermediality
- Class and Poverty
- Humor in Literature and Culture
- American Renaissance
Zähringer, Raphael, Dr.
Contact
raphael.zaehringer@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Weird Fiction
- Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Crisis Narratives
- Space and Maps in Literature and Culture
- Graphic Narrative
Linguistics
Berezovskaya, Polina, Dr.
Contact
polina.berezovskaya@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Fields
- Theoretical Linguistics
- Compositional Semantics
- Semantic Fieldwork
- Syntax-Semantics Interface
- Degree Constructions
Fachdidaktik
Hofstetter, Stefan, Dr.
Contact
stefan.hofstetter@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Field
TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), including:
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Teaching Grammar
- Teaching Pronunciation/Pronunciation Practice
- Assessment and Evaluation at School
- The TEFL-Linguistics Interface.