Doctoral theses
In progress
- Juliette Vuille, Holy Harlots: Authority, Gender, and the Body in Medieval English Hagiography. Dir. Prof. Denis Renevey.
- Joanne Chassot, African American and Afro-Caribbean Ghostly Re-visions of American History. Dir. Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik.
- Najat Zein, English in the expanding circle: the case of Morocco. Dir. Prof. Jürg Schwyter.
- Isis Giraldo, 'Brave New Women': Postfeminist configurations of female subjectivity in contemporary Colombian popular culture. Dir. Prof. Valérie Cossy and Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik.
- Marie Emilie Walz, When The Faerie Queene Enters The Bloody Chamber: Comparing Edmund Spenser's and Angela Carter's Fiction. Dir. Dr Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère.
- Roxane Merot, Foot-Binding in Chinese American Literature. Dir. Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik.
- Ashley Riggs, Contemporary Fairy Tale Rewritings in Translation: The Case of Angela Carter and Emma Donoghue. Dir. Dr Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Prof. Lance Hewson (ETI, Uni. Genève) (comparative literature).
- Magali Monnier, La dimension métapoétique dans les contes de fées de Mme d’Aulnoy et d’Angela Carter : étude comparative. Dir. Dr Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Prof. Ute Heidmann (CLE, UNIL) (comparative literature).
- Johan Bergström-Allen, Communities of the Common Word: the Vernacular Literary & Bibliographic Activities of the Carmelite Order in Medieval England. Dir. Prof. Denis Renevey.
- Rachel Nisbet, Navigating Doubled Terrain: Reading Rivers to Connect Literary and Geological Texts. Dir. Rachel Falconer.
- Alesia Rochat, Intertextuality as a text-constituting mechanism of Facebook posts in political discourse. Dir. Andreas Langlotz.
- Francois Tine, Trauma and the Gothic in Toni Morrison. Dir. Agnieszka Soltysik.
Completed
Alexandre Fachard, A critical edition of Joseph Conrad's "Because of the dollars" (Within the Tides, 1915), Dir. Neil Forsyth, 2009.


