SUPERVISION

PhD Supervision

Completed

  • Alessandra di Pietro. Cosmopolitan Identities and Transnational Feminism in the Novels of Contemporary African Female Writers (start August 2019; completion March 2023); University of Bern

Ongoing

  • Michèle Wermeille. Between Creation and Control: Motherhood and Female Agency in Contemporary Feminist Fiction(co-supervision with Prof. Thomas Austenfeld); University of Fribourg
  • Britta Brügger. Children in Transit: The Representation of Child Migrants in Contemporary European Literature (co-supervision with Prof. B. Vauthier, Bern)
  • Benedict Brodmann. London and Other Cities in Victorian Literature
  • Nino Töndury.

MA Thesis Supervision

University of Fribourg

  • Lena Seematter. Intermedial References (Ekphrases) in Ali Smith’s Autumn and Spring, 2025.
  • Isabelle Godel. The Spectrum of Motherhood in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, 2025.
  • Igor Tornay. Gender Construction and Gender Interaction in E. M. Forster’s Howards End, 2024.
  • Francisca Domingues dos Santos. Transatlantic Realism Contextualized: Depiction of the Nineteenth-Century New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, 2024.
  • Chloe Esmonde. With Us or Against Us: Suffrage Propaganda Plays, Class Politics and the Characterisation of the Working-class Woman, 1908-1914, 2023.
  • Raissa Luiza Santos Correia. The Legacy of a Skin Colour in the Writing of the English Writer Bernardine Evaristo, 2023.
  • Vince Gabriel Maceo. The Question of Nature. Evolutionary Biology and the Pastoral Tradition in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Woodlanders, 2023.
  • Benedict Brodmann. Class Struggle, Female Emancipation, and Social Change in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, 2023
  • Agnese Balaj. The Juvenalian Tradition in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, 2022.
  • Laurann Catherine Monney. Man’s Relation to Nature in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, 2022.
  • Tanja Dokic. Nineteenth-Century Women Travellers: Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, 2021.
  • Christel Oberson. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ambarawa, Manzanar: Survival Strategies and Narratives of Three Women Survivors’ Testimonies, 2021.
  • Jole Fontanesi. Narrating the Hypermodern Condition: Olivia Laing’s Crudo and Joanna Walsh’s Break.up, 2021.
  • Emma Pillonel. Jane Austen in the Light of the Feminist Tradition: Northanger Abbey as a Parody, 2021.
  • Kathrin Schütz. The Bildungsroman Revisited: Sally Rooney’s Novels About Millenials’ Coming-of-age in the Digital World, 2021.
  • Audrey Zermatten. A Tripytch of Towering Monsters, 2021.

I also supervised 27 MA theses at the University of Bern.

BA Thesis Supervision

University of Fribourg

  • Laura Maia Pinto. “He is half of my soul, as the poets say” – A Comparative Analysis Between the Iliad and Its Contemporary Retelling The Song of Achilles, 2025.
  • David Ferreira. The Representation of the Self and the Selves in Es’kia Mphaleles’s Autobiography Down Second Avenue, 2024
  • Bryan Codiroli. Unveiling the Psychological Depths within the Gothic Tradition: A Freudian Analysis of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein, 2024.
  • Jacqueline Ritz. Dynamic Descriptions in Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, 2023.
  • Mathilda Gagliardi. The Influence of the Settings in Typical Gothic Narratives, 2023.
  • Amélie Kolly. The Graphic Novel’s Characteristics as a Literary Form, 2023.
  • Isabelle Godel. Queerness in The Well of Loneliness, 2022.
  • Arianna Bela. Depiction of Family in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, 2022.
  • Igor Tornay. Anarchism and Terrorism in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 2022.
  • Sophie Rist. The Others, the Wall and Us: Anthropocentrism and John Lanchester’s The Wall, 2022.
  • Aurora Leoni. The Roles of Women in Dystopian Novels, 2022.
  • Aurélie Abbet. What Does the Love Story Bring to the American Dream in The Great Gatsby?, 2021.
  • Lisa-Maria Fahrni. Animal antagonists: Human-animal encounters in Jaws and The Birds, 2022.
  • Anja Waeber. Stepping Out of the Private Sphere: A comparison of The Awakening and The Romance of a Shop, 2022.
  • Coraline Vuarnoz. YouTube Series: An Internet Literary Phenomenon, 2022.
  • Uldry, Maeva. Surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 and Egger’s The Circle, 2021.

I also supervised 59 BA theses at the University of Bern.