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Supervision

I welcome discussion about possible bachelor/master thesis projects from students interested to engage with topics in accordance with my research areas (s. Research). If you plan to write your bachelor's or master's thesis with me as your first reader, please schedule an appointment for individual consultation about your topic idea ahead of time. Before I sign any official documents for the HPA, you will have to submit a research proposal about your topic (ca. 2 pages), in which you outline your project idea (preliminary arguments, scientific relevance, research question, primary sources) and, most importantly, your working thesis. Your proposal should be accompanied by a time frame for the project and a list of sources (primary/secondary) you intend to use. Only proposals meeting all of these requirements will be accepted - if I feel that your thesis abstract is too vague, unanswerable or lacks a clear focus/thesis you will have to revise and resubmit.

Please note: I work only part-time for the University of Koblenz. Thus, I can only take on 1-2 B.Ed. theses or 1 M.Ed. thesis as first reader per semester. For 2025 I have currently no more capacities.

Thesis Writing Mastery (OLAT-Course) for my thesis candidates (password needed)

Bachelor Theses Supervised (as First Reader)

20. Krämer, S. Shape-Shifters and Soul-Searchers in Selected Works by Marie de France (2025, ongoing, working title)

19. Korthäuer, K. The Victorian Ophelias; or, The Aesthetics of Drowning Women (2025, ongoing, working title)

18. Müller, M. Water Symbolism in Selected Works by Jane Austen (2025, ongoing, working title)

17. Hensel, R. Madness, Masculinity and (Im-)Mobility. Victorian Mental Health Treatment in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash (1863) (2025)

16. Matthews, A. The Moral Tale: Exploring Puritan Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century (2024)

15. Zehbe, N. Empowering Narratives: The Decolonizing Character of Youth Literature on the Mau Mau Revolt (2024)

14. Daleiden, J. Unveiling the Monstrous Feminine: Depictions of Grotesque Female Bodies in “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle”, Gower’s “The Tale of Florent,” and Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale” (2024, nominated for Best Thesis Award 2024)

13. Müller, J. Female Empowerment in Selected Nineteenth-Century American Short Stories (2024)

12. Morlock, L. Gendered Diseases: Negotiating Syphilis in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins (2023)

11. Kosenko, A. The Female Body as the Last Resort: The Interrelation of Politics and Women’s Bodies in Selected Satires by Jonathan Swift (2021, nominated for Best Thesis Award 2021)

10. Cordes, L. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then” – Constructions of Childhood and Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Adventures in Wonderland (2019)

9. Klekotka, F. Dualism in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Gendered and Ecocritical Reading (2019)

8. Rosemann, R. Masquerade and Disguise in the Works of Eliza Haywood (2018, extended abstract published in Junges Forschen 1/2020)

7. C. L. The Shadow of the Victorian Child in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (2018)

6. Kollmann, L. Dystopian Female Bodies: The Depiction and Interrelation of Body Theory and Power in Veronica Roth’s Divergent (2018)

5. Retz, M. Independent and Confident Princesses: Female Emancipation in Disney’s Tangled and Kiss the Frog (2018)

4. Wiechert, L. The Depiction and Interrelation of Power and Ideology in 12 Years a Slave (2017)

3.Röwekamp, A. Visualizing Change: Economic and Cultural Criticism in the Works of Virginia Lee Burton (1930-1950) (2016)

2. Ballmann, M. Homosexuality, Gender Identity, and Diversity in Children’s Literature (2016)

1. Hogenkamp, D. Reversing Gender: Constructions of Femininity in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2016)

Master Theses Supervised (as First Reader)

3.Wilden, C. Coming Out and Coming of Age – Exploring Constructions of Identity in Selected Young Adult Literature on Homosexuality (2021)

2.Farber, A. Vested Identities. Challenging Status, Gender and Sexuality through Clothing in Selected Medieval Texts (2019, nominated for Best Thesis Award 2020)

1.Schuler, S. The Depiction of Seduction, Pleasure and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (2018)