{"id":26,"date":"2025-01-17T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:11:32","slug":"supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPERVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">PhD Supervision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Completed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alessandra di Pietro.&nbsp;<em>Cosmopolitan Identities and Transnational Feminism in the Novels of Contemporary African Female Writers<\/em>&nbsp;(start August 2019; completion March 2023); University of Bern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ongoing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mich\u00e8le Wermeille.&nbsp;<em>Between Creation and Control: Motherhood and Female Agency in Contemporary Feminist Fiction<\/em>(co-supervision with Prof. Thomas Austenfeld); University of Fribourg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Britta Br\u00fcgger.&nbsp;<em>Children in Transit: The Representation of Child Migrants in Contemporary European Literature<\/em>&nbsp;(co-supervision with Prof. B. Vauthier, Bern)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benedict Brodmann.&nbsp;<em>London and Other Cities in Victorian Literature<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nino T\u00f6ndury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">MA Thesis Supervision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">University of Fribourg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lena Seematter.&nbsp;<em>Intermedial References (Ekphrases) in Ali Smith\u2019s Autumn and Spring<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isabelle Godel.&nbsp;<em>The Spectrum of Motherhood in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Igor Tornay.&nbsp;<em>Gender Construction and Gender Interaction in E. M. Forster\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Howards End, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Francisca Domingues dos Santos.&nbsp;<em>Transatlantic Realism Contextualized: Depiction of the Nineteenth-Century New Woman in Thomas Hardy\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Jude the Obscure<em>&nbsp;and Kate Chopin\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>The Awakening, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chloe Esmonde.&nbsp;<em>With Us or Against Us: Suffrage Propaganda Plays, Class Politics and the Characterisation of the Working-class Woman, 1908-1914<\/em>, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raissa Luiza Santos Correia.&nbsp;<em>The Legacy of a Skin Colour in the Writing of the English Writer Bernardine Evaristo<\/em>, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vince Gabriel Maceo.&nbsp;<em>The Question of Nature. Evolutionary Biology and the Pastoral Tradition in Thomas Hardy\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Tess of the d\u2019Urbervilles<em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em>The Woodlanders, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benedict Brodmann.&nbsp;<em>Class Struggle, Female Emancipation, and Social Change in Charles Dickens\u2019&nbsp;<\/em>Hard Times<em>&nbsp;and in Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>North and South, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agnese Balaj.&nbsp;<em>The Juvenalian Tradition in Orwell\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<em>&nbsp;and Woolf\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Mrs Dalloway, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laurann Catherine Monney.&nbsp;<em>Man\u2019s Relation to Nature in Henry David Thoreau\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Walden, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tanja Dokic.&nbsp;<em>Nineteenth-Century<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>Women Travellers: Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christel Oberson.&nbsp;<em>Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ambarawa, Manzanar: Survival Strategies and Narratives of Three Women Survivors\u2019 Testimonies<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jole Fontanesi.&nbsp;<em>Narrating the Hypermodern Condition: Olivia Laing\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Crudo<em>&nbsp;and Joanna Walsh\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Break<em>.up<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emma Pillonel.&nbsp;<em>Jane Austen in the Light of the Feminist Tradition:&nbsp;<\/em>Northanger Abbey<em>&nbsp;as a Parody<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kathrin Sch\u00fctz.&nbsp;<em>The Bildungsroman Revisited: Sally Rooney\u2019s Novels About Millenials\u2019 Coming-of-age in the Digital World<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Audrey Zermatten.\u00a0<em>A Tripytch of Towering Monsters<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I also supervised 27 MA theses at the University of Bern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">BA Thesis Supervision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">University of Fribourg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Laura Maia Pinto. \u201cHe is half of my soul, as the poets say\u201d \u2013 A Comparative Analysis Between the&nbsp;<em>Iliad<\/em>&nbsp;and Its Contemporary Retelling&nbsp;<em>The Song of Achilles<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Ferreira.&nbsp;<em>The Representation of the Self and the Selves in Es\u2019kia Mphaleles\u2019s Autobiography&nbsp;<\/em>Down Second Avenue, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bryan Codiroli.&nbsp;<em>Unveiling the Psychological Depths within the Gothic Tradition: A Freudian Analysis of&nbsp;<\/em>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em>Frankenstein, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacqueline Ritz.&nbsp;<em>Dynamic Descriptions in Henry James\u2019&nbsp;<\/em>The Portrait of a Lady, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathilda Gagliardi.&nbsp;<em>The Influence of the Settings in Typical Gothic Narratives<\/em>, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Am\u00e9lie Kolly.&nbsp;<em>The Graphic Novel\u2019s Characteristics as a Literary Form<\/em>, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isabelle Godel.&nbsp;<em>Queerness in&nbsp;<\/em>The Well of Loneliness, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arianna Bela.&nbsp;<em>Depiction of Family in Charles Dickens\u2019&nbsp;<\/em>David Copperfield, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Igor Tornay.&nbsp;<em>Anarchism and Terrorism in Joseph Conrad\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>The Secret Agent, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophie Rist.&nbsp;<em>The Others, the Wall and Us: Anthropocentrism and John Lanchester\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>The Wall, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aurora Leoni.&nbsp;<em>The Roles of Women in Dystopian Novels<\/em>, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aur\u00e9lie Abbet.&nbsp;<em>What Does the Love Story Bring to the American Dream in&nbsp;<\/em>The Great Gatsby<em>?<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lisa-Maria Fahrni.&nbsp;<em>Animal antagonists: Human-animal encounters in&nbsp;<\/em>Jaws<em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em>The Birds, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anja Waeber.&nbsp;<em>Stepping Out of the Private Sphere: A comparison of&nbsp;<\/em>The Awakening<em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em>The Romance of a Shop, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coraline Vuarnoz.&nbsp;<em>YouTube Series: An Internet Literary Phenomenon<\/em>, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uldry, Maeva.\u00a0<em>Surveillance in Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>1984\u00a0<em>and Egger\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>The Circle, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I also supervised 59 BA theses at the University of Bern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Supervision Completed Ongoing MA Thesis Supervision University of Fribourg I also supervised 27 MA theses at the University of Bern. 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