Mémoires directed in the English Department at UNIL since 2003

2012

• Eric Butticaz, 'Les approches postcoloniales en exégèse néotestamentaire: L'exemple de l'Evangile selon Marc'. Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Claire Clivaz (FTSR).

2012

• Marie Emilie Walz, "When The Faerie Queene Enters The Bloody Chamber: Angela Carter's Short Stories and their Spenserian Intertexts". Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, expert Rachel Falconer.
• Ann Droz. "From the Curse to the Gift: A Journey into Double Consciousness through Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved". Dir. Nidesh Lawtoo.
• Nathalie Dahlgren. "The Color Line and Racial Identities in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing". Dir. Nidesh Lawtoo.

2011

• Chiara Personini, "Multi-Faced Glasgow and Its Double-Faced Characters. The representation of Glasgow in Alasdair Gray's Lanark and Poor Things." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Malgorzata Kula, "(De)constructing me. Self-destruction as a means of self-definition in James Kelman's A Disaffection and Alasdair Gray's 1982, Janine". Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Mélina Besençon, "The Image of the Island in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and James Matthew Barrie's Peter and Wendy." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Romaine Hunkeler, "The Chicano Bildungsroman: Negotiating Identity in the works of Anaya, Cisneros and Chávez." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Catherine Burdet. "Angela Carter and Surrealism: the Doll in The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Philippe Kaenel.
• Christine Cuénod. "The Quiet Experience: A Comparative Study of Walter Benjamin's and Virginia Woolf's Reflections on the Transmission of Experience." Dir. Nidesh Lawtoo.

2010

• Laurine Chiarini, "A voice for the silenced ones: a comparative study of James Kelman's A Disaffection and Alan Warner's Morvern Callar." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Melanie Bolay. "Enchantment in Dickens: Fairy Tale Patterns and Motifs in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère.
• Cécile Gretsch. "Heteronormativity and the queer space of the fashion magazine: The representation of gender and sexuality in two fashion magazines, WAD and Vs." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Daniela Moser. "Confronting the Self. Gothic Reflections: The Mirrors in Shelley, Stevenson and Wilde." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Céline Bornet. "Living on the Edge: Marginal Characters in Toni Morrison's Novels." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Glen Regard. 'The Welcome Defence of Inverted Commas': Elizabeth Lee's Translation Project in The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (1892). Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère.
• Roxane Mérot. "Cultural Hybridity: Contradictions, Paradoxes and Tensions in Jade Snow Wong's Literary and Artistic Works." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Amélie Chappuis. "The Representation of Women in Classical Hollywood Cinema: Joseph Mankiewicz's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Sylviane Deriaz. "Three Contemporary Retellings of “Rapunzel” for Children: “Rapunzel”, “Sugar Cane” and “Rapunzel's Revenge”." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère. (orientation comparatiste)
• Christine Gmuer. "The Use of Typological Reference in the Fleshly School of Art - Prefigurative Models in Pre-Raphaelitism." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• David Javet. "The Pen that Never Stops Writing: The Lovecraft Mythology or the Expansion of a Literary Phenomenon." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Daniela Rufener. "A Journey towards Self-Definition in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and in Nella Larsen's Passing." Dir. Beverly Maeder.

2009

• Aleksandra Juszczyk. "I'll Never Be Hungry Again!": The Reprensentation of Food in Southern Literature Illustrated by Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding. Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Baptiste Torriani. "The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow: Figurative Speech in Aesop Rock's Songs." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2009.
• Barbara, Senn. "A "Wavering" Symphony: The Melodies of Inner Lives." Dir. Roelof Overmeer.
• Gabriela Kiss."Do You See the Story? Do You See Anything? - An UnReliable Narrator's Search for "a Glimpse of Truth"." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère.
• David Légeret. "Sense and Sensibility: Mary Wollstonecraft's revision of the traditional sentimental heroine in her novels "Mary", "A Fiction" (1788) and "The Wrong of Woman; or, Maria" (1798)." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Paola Locatelli. "Translating Memories into Words: A Developed Form of Unreliable Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Marina Porobic. "Robert Wilson's "Einstein on the Beach" or Theater of Relativity." Dir. Roelof Overmeer.
• Anna Schlossbauer. "Sense and Nonsense: Playing with Linguistic Conventions in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Pablé Adrian.
• Rita Schweizer. "Sarah Kane and Catharsis – The Quest for Change in the Individual and Society." Dir. Roelof Overmeer.
• Stéphanie Augsburger. "Female Characters and Love in Aphra Behn's Work: When Society Gets in the Way of a Woman's Heart." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Antoine Bianchi. "Hamlet, interpretation, and the interpretation of Hamlet." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Kathleen Pauli. "A Woman's Voice Singing Old Songs with New Words: Joyce Carol Oates's Revisions of Perrault's "La Belle au Bois Dormant" and the Brothers Grimm's "Rumpelstiltzchen"." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère. (orientation comparatiste).
• Réjane Piatti. "Where Do Fallen Angels Go." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Maria Chiara Bernasconi. "Representing Childhood. A Comparative Study of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Bianca Pitzorno's La bambinaia francese." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Ute Heidmann. (orientation comparatiste).
• Marie Pedroni. "Long spoons and happy people: re-imagining society in Barbara Kingsolver's the bean trees and pigs in heaven." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Thomas Lageder. Roddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha – Laughter as an Identity Marker and Survival Strategy in Roddy Doyles's Novels. Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Inka Sayed. "Identity in the Statement Plays of Athol Fugard." Dir. Roelof Overmeer.

2008

• Cédric Timothée Dubray. "Post-Identity: an analysis of identity formation in Gray's Lanark and 1982 Janine." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Jérôme Nicole. " "Think of it - I did not even exist!": The Dilemma of Absence and Presence in Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and in two film adaptations." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Jody Bonacina. "History became legend, legend became myth: A Mythopoeic Study of the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Anaïs Guignard. "On the subtle challenge of translating Oscal Wildes's humour." Dir. Roelof Overmeer.
• Géraldine Viret. "From the Castle to the Crematory: Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Louis Murphy's Hansel and Gretel." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère. (Prix de Faculté)
• Rita Schweizer. "Sarah Kane and Catharsis: The Quest for Change in the Individual and Society.
• Bianca Lunetta. "Under the Skin: The Quest for Identity in Nalo Hopkinson's Rewritings of Classic Tales." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Isis Giraldo. "From Macondo to Bombay: Magical Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien Años de Soledad and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère, 2008. (orientation comparatiste)
• Pierric Tenthorey. "The Nature and Functions of Plural Images in Hitchcock's Vertigo." Dir. René Roelof Overmeer.
• Coralie Rochat. "Vision and Revisions of "La Belle au Bois Dormant" and "Dornröschen" in Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)", Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love" and Francesca Lia Block's "Charm"." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère. (orientation comparatiste).
• Mamata Lehmann. "The Use of Childbirth as a Literary Tool to Depict Protagonist's Life Struggle in A Farewell to Arms, Sunset Song and The Rainbow." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Sarah Hauschild Jensen. Understanding the Other: the Eye / I Seduced." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Delphine Jeanneret. "Narrative Experimentation in Post-Postmodernism. Studies of Some Short Stories by David Foster Wallace and Lydia Davis." Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
• Christine Gil Pose. "Modes of Transformation: From the Fable of Pygmalion in Ovid's Metamorphoses to George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère. (orientation comparatiste)
• Ysaline Rochat. ""I Used to Be Subversive, but Now I'm Gay": Questions of Identity in Tony Kushner's Angels in America." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.

2007

• Matthias Heim. "Narrative Control in Four Shakespeare Films." Dir. René Roelof Overmeer.
• Laure Pochon. "Invisible Londoners: Representations of the City and its Immigrant Inhabitants in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and Monica Ali's Brick Lane." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Sébastien Blanc. "Of Poetic Hunts and Disappearing Pheasants. The Modernist Poetics of Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Fiona Mc Hugh. "Unveiling the Women in Hanif Kureishi's Early Fiction." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Keri Gonzato. "A Humument and the Quest for a Meaning." Dir. Kirsten Stirling.
• Cornelia Gysin. "The Werewolf, The Company of Wolves, and Wolf-Alice: Angela Carter's Response to Perrault's and Grimm's Treatment of the Conflict between Victim and Predator." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère. (orientation comparatiste).
• Lara Epinay Takache. "Writing an Identity between Solitude and World. A study Based on the Journals of Thomas Merton." Dir. Beverly Maeder.

2006

• Christoph Wiedmer. "Women and Caricatures in Victorian Literature." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Silvia Meroni-Carlovingi. "The General Movement of Acceptance in the Work of Sylvia Plath." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Friederike Ilschner. "Victims or Accomplices? Alienation in Don DeLillo's White Noise and Mao II." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Valérie Cangemi. "The Macro Plays and their Articulation of Church Morality: Between Consent and Critique." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Andrea Werder. "Mass Murder at the Crossroads. Monstrous Interpretations and Monstrous Narratives in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Alasdair Gray's Poor Things." Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling.
• Estelle Faivre. "Kelman's Anarchism: Aesthetics is Ethics." Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling.
• Pascal Hasler. "Representation of Nature in Five Texts by Emerson." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Viviane Murray. "Imagining Perpetual Creation: Walt Whitman, Jackson Pollock, and the American Frontier." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Cédric Horton. "Looking for the "Self" through a (re)-Visiting of the Past in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Lady Oracle & Cat's Eye." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Christian Henchoz. "Samuel Beckett, "The Silent Presence"." Dir. René Roelof Overmeer.
• Vanessa Haenzi. ""Ever after." The Representation of Gender Roles and Gender Equality in George Macdonald's Fairy Tales." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Sophie de Marval. "Early Twentieth-century American Landscape, White Pastoral, Black Hell." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Anne De Heer. "The Performance of Empathy in Storytelling in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Alex Haley's Roots." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Mary-Laure Cutruzzola. "Genre and Gender in Harriet Jacobs' and Frederick Douglass's Life Narratives." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Gwendeline Cuendet. "Ambivalence in Frances Burney: Evelina or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) and Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782)." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Claudia Brülisauer. "Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon and the Question of Literature as an "Art that Deals with Death and Death Wipes It out"." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Claire Mudry. "Windows to the East: An Analysis of Turgenev's, Tolstoy's and Doestoevsky's Fates in Nineteenth Century English Literary Magazines." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky, Exp. Digby Thomas.

2005

• Luca Zullo. "Oscar Wilde's Questionable "Immorality" yet Reliable "Ethical" Values." Dir. René Roelof Overmeer.
• Rahel Wirz. "Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories: From Oral Transmission of the Law to Written Children's Stories." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Andrea Müller. "Symbolic Space in the Context of Emancipation." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Luisa Lurati. "The Wounded Body in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Alice Walker's By the Light of My Father's Smile." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Aline Lavanchy. ""All that is gold does not glitter": Looking Beyond Stereotypes in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling.
• Pascale Hess. "Performing Race in Boris Vian's I Spit on your Graves." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Joanne Chassot. ""An Unspeakable Thing Spoken at Last." Toni Morrison's Pursuit of Black Voice." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Eléonore Ribordy. "Abolitionism in the United States: Sociohistorical Study through the Testimonies of Two Fugitive Slaves, Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and William Wells Brown's Clotel, or the President's Daughter." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Magali Pittori. "Ambivalence in the Discourse of Equality in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl and Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Isabelle Gris. "Rewriting the Little Red Riding Hood in the Twentieth Century: Angela Carter, Tanith Lee, Terry Pratchett and Wendy Wheeler." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Nadine Félix. "The Fabric of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: History, Story, Memory & Identity as Patchworks." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Agnès De Perrot. "Irony in Sylvia Plath's Late Poetry." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Benjamin Corbaz. "Alasdair Gray's ImagiNation: A Dual Scotland." Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling.
• Patrick Zambianchi. "One is not Born an Uncle Tom: Questioning Black Masculinity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Anne Tornare. "Unsaid Passion in Jane Austen." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Oana Penea. "Textual Gaps and Body Dismemberment in Ernest Hemingway's War Fiction." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Magali Monnier. "Angela Carter's Gothic Fairy Tales: The Demythologisation of Female Identity." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère, 2005. (orientation comparatiste) Prix de Faculté
• Daphné Mayor. "Behind the Mask: Women and Their Hidden Selves in Margaret Atwood's Novels Lady Oracle and Cat's Eye." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Ramona Larghi. "Public and Private Staging: Analysis of Houses and Settings in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion." Dir. Valérie Cossy.
• Meredith Blake. "Aotearoa, the Shining BrightLand. Representations of Landscape in Three New Zealand Novels : Hulme's The Bone People (1983), Ihimaera's The Matriarch (1986) and Grace's Potiki (1986)." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.

2004

• Catia Bellini. "Taming the Beast with Two Backs: For a New Poetry of Copulation in Anaïs Nin's Henry and June and Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Elena Zulian. "When Social Conditioning Leads to Failure: Women and Society in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Diego Tichelli. "Representations of Native Americans in Early American Literature: From Inventing to Defending the Other in Colombus's Diario de a Bordo, Cabeza De Vaca's Naufragios and Las Casa's Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Petra Stadler. "The Particular Universal." The Evolution from the Local to the Universal in James Kelman's Writing. Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling.
• Paula Klay-Morton. "The Portals of Reality: Growing Up Through Parallel Worlds in Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and C.S. Lewis's Narnia books.Dir. Kirsten Anne Stirling, 2004.
• Mathias Howald. Body Politics in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), The Black Album (1995), Intimacy (1998) and The Body (2002)." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Annick Glauser. "Kate Chopin, a Quest for Personal Fulfilment: In At Fault and The Awakening." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Marinella Riva. "Family Life in Louise Glück's Poetry: The Human Journey of a Woman and a Poet and her Quest for Identity and Self-Recognition." Dir. Beverly Maeder.
• Fabienne Gasser. "The Exotic in Shakespeare: Affirmation and Rebuttal of Elizabethan Stereotypes." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Olivier Knechciak. "Variations on the Circle: The Metamorphoses of Circular Motifs in William Blake's "The Four Zoas."" Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Alexandre Fachard. "Above and Below "the Surface": An Examination of Joseph Conrad's Attitude to Language." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Marianne Tièche. "Old Things Made New: Strategies of Rewriting in Coetzee's Foe and Gray's Poor Things." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.

2003

• Ariane Wyss. "Women and Micropolitics: Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Roy's The God of Small Things." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère. Prix de Faculté
• Andreas Fischer. "Desert Island Revisited: The Heritage of Robinson Crusoe, Coral Island and Treasure Island in Hergé's Comics." Dir. Martine Hennard Dutheil de Rochère.
• Laura Spaini. "Twelfth Night's Feste: The Power of the Fool against Genre Limitations." Dir. Neil Forsyth.
• Murielle Meystre. "The Stage Costumes of Helga Crane, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. Materialism and Identity in Nella Larsen's Novels." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.
• Marie-Claude Guerry. ""God always come in handy, they justify almost anything": Language, Manipulation and Gender in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin." Dir. Peter Halter.
• Mélanie Barbey. "Lovecraft and the Fear of the Unknown. The Fantastic as Genre, Monstrous Aesthetics, and Racism in Nineteenth-Century America." Dir. Boris Vejdovsky.

2012

• Di Campli, Eleonora. “Children and Childhood in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, its sources and analoges”. Dir. Denis Renevey.
• Marshall, Camille. “A Literary Peasant for the Lord’s Plough: Repression of Lower-Class Social Mobility in the Works of the Ricardian Poets”. Dir. Denis Renevey.
• Feunette, Roxane. "The Exporation of the Chivalric Code and its Limitations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte Darthur". Dir. Marco Nievergelt.
• Guerroury, Mehdi. "The War of God and Gold: Intermingling of Religion and Economics in Middle English Romances". Dir. Marco Nievergelt.

2011

• Delphine Hirschi. "From Beowulf to Frodo: New Heroism in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings." Dir. Denis Renevey.
• Desarzens, Sophie. "Chaucer's Criseyde: An Innovative Vision of a Predestined Heroine." Dir. Denis Renevey.

2010

• Jérémie Wenger. "Now you'll see its face: Forms, links and bridges throughout Birtwistle's Gawain." Dir. Denis Renevey and Georges Starobinski.
• Jessica Cuerq. "The Legend of Troy in Medieval England: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae and John Lydgate's Troy Book." Dir. Denis Renevey.

2007

• Sarah Bourquenoud. "Queen of Air and Darkness: Morgan le Fay in Arthurian Literature." Dir. Denis Renevey.

2006

• Juliette Vuille. "The Vision of the Roman Past in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England." Dir. Lucy Perry.

2005

• Nathalie Mathey. "The Relationships between Men and Women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Women's Power and Men's Authority." Dir. Lucy Perry.

2004

• Elena Berrocal. "Supernatural Events in Natural Events in Arthurian Literature." Dir. Lucy Perry.
• Nicole Schröder. "Wel to Drynke Us Leste": Aspects of Drinking in Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Canterbury Tales. Dir. Ian Kirby.
• Débora Caccaviello. "The Lover, the Sorceress and the Guide: the Roles of Women in Malory's Morte Darthur." Dir. Ian Kirby.

2013

• Becirovic, Elvira. "English in Switzerland: A Sample Study of School Students’ Attitudes and Opinions from Three Different Linguistic Areas". Dir. Dr. Patricia Ronan.

2012

• Peterhans, Melvin. "Media provision in a context of language revival: the case of Manx in the Isle of Man". Dir. Patricia Ronan.
• Haenni, Justine. "Linguistic Differences between Genders: Fact or Myth? An Answer through the Corpus-based Analysis of Blogs Written by Adult New Zealanders". Dir. Patricia Ronan.
• Bossey, Angélique. "Panoptic mechanisms on the covers of Seventeen and Cosmopolitan". Dir. Dorota Smyk-Bhattacharjee.

2011

• Tran Thi Tu Quyen. "Language contact in Switzerland: a case study on Vietnamese as an immigrant minority language in Lausanne." Dir. Patricia Ronan.

2010

• Michela Di Domenico. "English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switerland: The Swiss Italian Perspective." Dir. Patricia Ronan.
• Estelle Mariéthoz. "Sign Language in the Education of the Deaf. Case Study: The Valais." Dir. Andreas Langlotz.

2009

• Linda Ruest. "Attitudes Towards The English-Based Créole Spoken on the Colombian Island of San Andrés." Dir. Jürg Schwyter.
• Federica Polato. "English: one language, multiple attitudes, different uses, different users." Dir. Adrian Pablé, 2009.

2008

• Livie Kundert. "Alternance codique." Dir. Adrian Pablé.
• Nina Walpen. "What Ho! Translating the Wodehouse Wit. A Study of French and German Translations of P.G. Wodehouse's "Full Moon" and "Joy in the Morning"." Dir. Adrian Pable.
• Eva Kalapos."Mots that Move? Linguistic Strategies in English, French and German Magazine Advertisements: A Comparative Study." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Olivia Porchet. "Metaphors in Fairy Tales: The Role They Play on Children." Dir. Didier Maillat.
• Sylvie Kohli. "Impact of a Late Partial Immersion Programme in English on the Student's Motivation and Satisfaction. The Case of the André-ChavanneHigh School in Geneva." Dir. Didier Maillat.

2007

• Fabian Loetscher. "When "Loose Talk" Glosses Over Excessive Deficit Spending." Dir. Didier Maillat.
• Helena Fukami-Nilsson. "Language Death Terminology: A Comparative Analysis." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Adrian Pablé.
• Patricia Zufferey. "Student's Attitudes towards L2 and L3 at Secondary School Level in the Canton of Valais. A Case Study."  Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Adrian Pablé.
• Charlotte Eidenbenz. "Gendered Stereotypes and Linguistic Behaviour: An Empirical Research of Latrinalia Discourse." Dir. Didier Maillat.

2006

• Mario Pozzoli. "English in Switzerland: A Case-study of an American Investment Bank in Zurich." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Sandrine Onillon.
• Letizia Mezieres. "French Immersion Programs in North America." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Sandrine Onillon.
• Cindy Bottinelli. "The Context of Science Fiction: Deictic Conception and Construction of Strange New Worlds." Dir. Didier Maillat.
• Barbara Bachmann. "English in Swiss State Schools. A Divisive Issue." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Najat Zein. "The Bilingualism and Code-switching Patterns of some Moroccan Immigrants in Lausanne." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Patricia Banzer. "Once upon a Character...": The Linguistic Construction of "Goodies" and "Baddies" in Fairy Tales and Bush's Political Speeches. Dir. Didier Maillat.

2005

• Ellen Joy Fedigan. "The Stigmatisation of Regional Accents in England: Past, Present and Future: A Socio-Analytic Approach." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Adelma Lamanna. "Endangered Languages in the USA: The case of Ojibwa." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Sandrine Onillon.
• Véronique Moret. "Communicative Competence and Second-language Acquisition: A Case Study in Public Schools of the Canton de Vaud." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Ronda Léchaire-Callahan. "Separate but Equal? Teacher Attitudes towards African American English in Georgia, USA." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter, Exp. Sandrine Onillon.

2004

• Nadine Mestral. "World English: Opinions and Perspectives from Four Continents." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter,.
• Antonia Tudisco. "Standard Singapore English: Emergence and Development of a Local Model of English in a Non-native Context." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Alexandra Perrinjaquet. "English in Switzerland: Non-English Speakers and the Increasing Presence of English in Swiss Society." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Noémie Favez. "Strategies of Discourse: The Use of Rhetoric in the Writings of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and its Echoes in African-American Literature of the 1950-1960s." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter & Peter Halter, Exp. Sandrine Onillon.    
• Aline Hulmann. "English Verb-Particle Combinations. Their Acquisition by French-Speaking Swiss Students Near the End of Compulsory Education." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Coralie Clerc. "Interlanguage Phonology: A study of the Acquisition of Second Language Phonology by Native Speakers of French Learning English." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.

2003

• Anne-Laure Gex. "The Grammaticalisation of thanks to and no thanks to." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.
• Christina Cuonz. "Latrinalia in University Toilets. A Linguistic Perspective with Field Research in Norway and England." Dir. Jürg Rainer Schwyter.