{"id":585,"date":"2025-06-03T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso-stg.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:13:02","slug":"thesis-supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/thesis-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"THESIS SUPERVISIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Theses supervised at the University of Fribourg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

B.A. Theses since 2007 (and comprehensive oral exams, beginning 2017)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Mathilde Waeber<\/strong>, \u201cBlackness and \/ as Social Construction in Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen,\u201d BA 2007<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Eric Miller<\/strong>, \u201cScarlett and Blanche: An Evolution of the Southern Belle,\u201d BA 2007<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Ivana Plechaty<\/strong>, \u201cCarl Gustav Jung in Saul Bellow\u2019s Herzog<\/em> and Henderson the Rain King<\/em>, BA 2007<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Maribel Bueno<\/strong>, \u201cAnishinaabe Spirituality in Louise Erdrich\u2019s Works,\u201d BA 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Martin H\u00e4sler<\/strong>, \u201cTo Alter Destiny\u2013an Irresolvable Quest [Kurt Vonnegut],\u201d BA 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Francesca Sartore<\/strong>, \u201cCities and Sewers in Baudelaire and Eliot,\u201d BA 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Alexis Wilson<\/strong>, \u201cLiterary Characteristics of American Contemporary Comic Books,\u201d BA 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Santiago Cruz Petersen<\/strong>, \u201cForm and Effect of Whitman\u2019s \u2018Song of Myself,’\u201d BA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Cinzia Minervini Jordan<\/strong>, \u201cRiding Towards Freedom: Moral Responsibility in the Work of Arthur Miller,\u201d BA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Emmanuelle Bourguet<\/strong>, \u201cHopelessness in the Plays of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams,\u201d BA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Karine Antille, <\/strong>\u201cPatriarchy, Women\u2019s solidarity and their impact on inter-sexual relationships in Gloria Naylor\u2019s The Women of Brewster Place and The Men of Brewster Place,\u201d BA 2009 (supervised by Dr. Weik von Mossner)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Pierre Defferrard, <\/strong>\u201cChildhood in the Deep South: Influence of family, friends and society on Huck Finn, Scout Finch and Richard Wright,\u201d BA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Niklas Fischer, <\/strong>\u201cNew Orleans vs. Chicago: Two Types of Carnival in Nelson Algren\u2019s A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man With the Golden Arm,\u201dBA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Dana Antonioli,<\/strong> \u201cViolence in Bastard Out of Carolina, Coming of Age in Mississippi, and Desert Flower,\u201d BA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Julia Bachmann<\/strong>, \u201cBebop influence on the conceptualisation of time in Jack Kerouac\u2019s On the Road<\/em>,\u201d BA 2010 (supervised by Dr. Weik von Mossner)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. \u00c5sa Semple<\/strong>, \u201cReligious and Moral Decay in The Great Gatsby,\u201d BA 2010 (supervised by Dr. Weik von Mossner)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Thomas M. Meier,<\/strong> \u201cScience and Entertainment in Contemporary Ecological Films,\u201d BA 2010 (supervised by Dr. Weik von Mossner)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Fabio Gramegna<\/strong>, \u201cMadness in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Tales: \u2018The terror of the soul\u2019,\u201d BA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Jeremy Gremaud, <\/strong>\u201cEdgar Allan Poe\u2019s, Mark Twain\u2019s and Ambrose Bierce\u2019s Satire: The Effect of the Civil War on the \u2018Ritualized Attack\u2019 Against Society\u2019s Ignorance,\u201d BA 2011<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Christian Keist<\/strong>, \u201cThe Representation of History and Time in the Black Arts Movement\u2019s Drama and the Influence of the Nation of Islam,\u201d BA 2011<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Aur\u00e9lie Morard<\/strong>, \u201c\u2018Unsilencing\u2019 the Outcast. From Postcolonial to Global Literature,\u201d BA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Nora Studer<\/strong>, \u201cSylvia Plath\u2019s The Bell Jar<\/em> and Charles Bukowski\u2019s Ham on Rye<\/em>: The reciprocal influence of the protagonists\u2019 disorder\/disease and their estrangement,\u201d BA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Veronica Sergi<\/strong>, \u201cHow do unreliable narrators contribute to the reader\u2019s aesthetic awareness?,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Jessica Saillen, <\/strong>\u201cThe survival of American Indian traditions in James Welch\u2019s Fools Crow<\/em> and Louise Erdrich\u2019s The Bingo Palace,\u201d <\/em>BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Nadja T. Camesi, <\/strong>\u201cA Tough Guy\u2013The Male Hero in Western and Hard-boiled fiction,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Fanny Maendly<\/strong>, \u201cManhood Behind Bars: An Analysis of Malcolm X\u2019s Autobiography<\/em> and Ernest J. Gaines\u2019s A Lesson Before Dying<\/em>,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Anita Pervanic<\/strong>, \u201cJoan Didion: Home of Words,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Lo\u00efc Obert\u00fcfer<\/strong>, \u201cObsession and Madness in Narrating Wieland, Pym,<\/em> and Ethan Frome<\/em>,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. David Schwery, <\/strong>\u201cBlack Politicians and Their Speeches,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Anne-Laure Bo\u00e9chat<\/strong>, \u201cGender Determination in Hemingway\u2019s The Garden of Eden<\/em>,\u201d BA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. Patrick Puzdrowski,<\/strong> \u201cWomen in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Short Stories,\u201d BA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. Preethy Alex<\/strong>, \u201cTroy Maxson: An Interconnected Collective. A Lacanian Analysis of August Wilson\u2019s Fences<\/em>,\u201d BA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Nathalia Schweizer, <\/strong>\u201cPostwar Youth in J.D. Salinger\u2019s Franny and Zooey<\/em> and The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>,\u201d BA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. Valentin Bruegger, <\/strong>\u201cAmerican Expatriate Writing: Framing the Paris Moment,\u201d BA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. M\u00e9lanie Balet<\/strong>, \u201cAspects of the Gothic in Horace Walpole, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. Zita Buess-Watson, <\/strong>\u201d Native Americans in Western Literature and Art,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. Charl\u00e8ne Minster, <\/strong>\u201cCatherine in The Garden of Eden<\/em>: An Analysis Applying Feminist Criticism and Psychoanalytical Criticism,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. M\u00e9lanie Voyame, \u201c<\/strong>A Structuralist Analysis of Three Detective Novels,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. Mich\u00e8le Cirelli, <\/strong>\u201cJustice and Power in Young Adult Fiction: An Analysis of The Giver, The Hunger Games, <\/em>and To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. Diana Helfer, \u201c<\/strong> Crying for a Vision: The Lives and Visions of Margery Kempe and Black Elk,\u201d BA 2015 (co-supervised with Prof. Elisabeth Dutton)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg, <\/strong>\u201cWhitman\u2019s \u2018Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\u2019 and Crane\u2019s The Bridge<\/em>: A Journey Into a New Era,\u201d BA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. Lorenzo Ghiggia, <\/strong>\u201cA Farewell to Arms <\/em>and For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>: Ernest Hemingway\u2019s War Novels Seen through the Eyes of Two Soldiers in Love,\u201d BA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. Clelia Alberici, <\/strong>\u201cThe Female Character in Young Adult Novels,\u201d BA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. Fabienne Eberhard, <\/strong>\u201cThornton Wilder beyond Our Town<\/em>,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. Celine Scheidegger, <\/strong>\u201cNature in Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s The Scarlet Letter <\/em>and The Blithedale Romance<\/em>,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. Am\u00e9lia Godel, <\/strong>\u201cWomen Characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Works,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. Arusa Chughtai,<\/strong>\u201cOn Hybridity: The Millennial Muslim,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. Marie Gaspoz, <\/strong>\u201cAfrican American Women\u2019s Self-actualization Within the Black Community,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. Patricia Machado Soares, <\/strong>\u201cImperfections Beneath Suburban Life: A close reading of The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit<\/em> and Revolutionary Road<\/em>,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. Baptiste Arnoux, <\/strong>\u201cThe Experience of Expatriation and its Consequences on Personality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s Americanah<\/em> and Ernest Hemingway\u2019s A Moveable Feast<\/em>,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  51. Noella Tinguely, <\/strong>\u201cThe Impact of Domestic Ideologies on the Slave Mother\u2019s Self-Identity in Harriet Jacobs\u2019s Incidents in the Life of a Slave-Girl <\/em>(1861) and Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved <\/em>(1987),\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  52. Kathrin Sch\u00fctz, <\/strong>\u201cWho am I? \u2013 Loss of Control and Personal Space Through the Environment in Dystopian Fiction,\u201dBA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  53. Samuele Ramelli, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  54. M\u00e9line Murisier, <\/strong>\u201cBetween Dystopia and Uchronia: A Shift in Reality.  Perspectives on the Totalitarian State in Three American Novels,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  55. Justine Salvadori, <\/strong>\u201cJohn Fante and the Italian-American Myth of Assimilation in Wait Until Spring, Bandini; The Brotherhood of the Grape<\/em> and West of Rome<\/em>,\u201dBA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  56. Olivia Stettler, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  57. Kevin Maillard,<\/strong> \u201cFrederick Douglass \u2013 The Self-Taught Slave Who Became an Accomplished Writer,\u201d BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  58. Laura Muehlebach, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  59. Leandra H\u00f6rler, <\/strong>\u201cTruth and Lying in Four Plays by Arthur Miller,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  60. Anna Borella, \u201c<\/strong>The American Justice System on Trial: Confronting the Role of Race and Class,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  61. Andrea Leu, \u201c<\/strong>Violence and Identity in Native American Literature: Joseph Boyden\u2019s The Orenda <\/em>and Sherman Alexie\u2019s Indian Killer<\/em>,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  62. Anna Vestermark Caccia, <\/strong>\u201cDisplaced and Misplaced: Cultural Syncretism and Plural Identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s The Thing Around Your Neck<\/em>,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  63. Elsa Berset, <\/strong>\u201cThe Madman as Hero in Jack Kerouac\u2019s On the Road<\/em>,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  64. Fabienne Widmer, <\/strong>\u201cConstructed Masculinity in Junot Diaz\u2019s \u2018The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,\u2019 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> and This Is How You Lose Her<\/em>,\u201d BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  65. Julie Beytrison, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  66. Patrick de Azevedo, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  67. Sanida Me\u0161a<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  68. Jessica Turpin,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  69. Myl\u00e8ne Schuwey,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  70. Claudia Jenrich, <\/strong>\u201cDepression in Recent Young Adult Novels: The Memory of Light<\/em> and All the Bright Places<\/em>,\u201c BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  71. Martina Piffaretti, <\/strong>\u201cAbuse and Objectification of African American Women in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself <\/em>and The Color Purple<\/em>,\u201d BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  72. Jeannette Widmer,<\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam,BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  73. Talena Zbinden,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  74. Zofia Brunner,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  75. Blerina Hoti, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  76. Maria Martinovic, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  77. Barbara Rossi, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  78. Vanessa d\u2019Antino, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  79. Andrea Lehmann, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  80. Blerina Abdula, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  81. Justine Dubail,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  82. Elisa Zaccaria, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA<\/strong> 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  83. Katja Andlauer, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  84. Madeleine Antille, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  85. Oc\u00e9ane Page,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  86. Lisa Dusina,<\/strong>\u201cHawthorne, Baum, and Miller: Witchcraft and Utopia in Selected American Texts,\u201d BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  87. L\u00e9a Ducrest, <\/strong>\u201cHow can a black immigrant woman feel equally at home in two different places?,\u201c BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  88. Antonio Pedro Fangueiro Pires, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  89. Benedita Lucau, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  90. Myriam Miraoui, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  91. Anna Tedeschi, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  92. Noemie Jeannet<\/strong>, \u201cSocial justice and capitalism in literature:  The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> and The Jungle<\/em>,\u201d BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  93. Yanik Brawand<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  94. Damien Elsig<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  95. Celia Arnold<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  96. Alina M\u00fcller<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  97. Sophie Jacquier, \u201c<\/strong>Controlling Sex, Reproduction and Motherhood in Margaret Atwood\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, Sheri S. Tepper\u2019s The Gate to Women\u2019s Country<\/em> and Louise Erdrich\u2019s Future Home of the Living God,<\/em>\u201d BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  98. Sofia Vassere<\/strong>, \u201cThe Oxygen Man\u201d as a Double Bildungsroman,\u201d BA<\/strong> 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  99. Jeremy Wright<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  100. Gioja Weibel<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  101. Maurizio Vannetti,<\/strong> Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  102. Francisca Domingues dos Santos <\/strong>(advised by Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg<\/strong>), \u201d Creating Identity: Jazz Features in Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man<\/em> and Toni Morrison\u2019s Jazz<\/em>,\u201d BA  2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  103. Noemi Aebli<\/strong> (advised by Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg<\/strong>), \u201cSocial and Hierarchical Structures in American Alternate Histories. An Analysis of Philip K. Dick\u2019s The Man in the<\/em> High Castle<\/em> and Philip Roth\u2019s The Plot Against America<\/em>,\u201d BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  104. Joanne Waeber, <\/strong>\u201cThe Art of Immersive Storytelling in Taylor Swift and F. Scott Fitzgerald,\u201d BA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  105. Herv\u00e9 Pollet, <\/strong>\u201cEdith Wharton\u2019s Critique of New York High Society in The House of Mirth<\/em> and The Age of Innocence<\/em>: Fashion, Gender Roles, and Money in the Gilded Age,\u201d BA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  106. Marine Bussard<\/strong>, \u201cThe Representation of Hurricanes Okeechobee and Katrina in Literature,\u201d BA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  107. Emma de Reyff<\/strong>, \u201cExamining the Challenges to Black Femininity in Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing<\/em> and Jessie Redmon Fauset\u2019s Plum Bun<\/em>,\u201d BA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  108. Giosu\u00e8 Rocco Antorini<\/strong>, \u201cSpace and Place in Contemporary Mexican Immigration Novels: a Literary-Geographical Analysis of Signs Preceding the End of the World <\/em>and American Dirt<\/em>,\u201d BA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  109. In\u00e8s Baltic,<\/strong> \u201cIdentity of California Women in Joan Didion\u2019s Fiction. An analysis of female characters in Run River<\/em> and Play It as It Lays<\/em>,\u201d BA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  110. Muriel Amstutz, <\/strong>\u201cPolice Brutality and Systemic Racism against African Americans in American Literature,\u201d BA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  111. Julie Pfammatter, <\/strong>Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2024 <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  112. Pauline Allemann, <\/strong>\u201cWomen in Dystopias: Power, Reproduction and Resistance in The Power<\/em> by Naomi Alderman and Red Clocks<\/em> by Leni Zumas,\u201d BA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  113. Aileen Sankaynagi, <\/strong>\u201cPost-colonial? The US government\u2019s continuous efforts to inhibit Native American self-determination in Louise Erdrich\u2019s Tracks<\/em> (1988) and The Round House<\/em> (2013),\u201d BA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  114. Yves-Andr\u00e9 Mabillard<\/strong>, Comprehensive Oral Exam, BA 2025 <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  115. Ines Faria Gon\u00e7alves, <\/strong>\u201c\u2018Light of his life, fire of his loins\u2019: Dolores Haze in Lana Del Rey\u2019s Born To Die,<\/em>\u201d BA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  116. Elisa Terminio, \u201c<\/strong>Soul and Struggle: The Rhetoric of Aretha Franklin\u2019s Lyrics in the Historical Context of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements,\u201d BA 2025<\/strong> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  117. Anja Baggio<\/strong>, \u201cWords of Fire and Hope. Exploring Christian Poetry and Preaching in America,\u201d BA 2025<\/strong> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  118. Amira Khali,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c\u2018Riding more than bulls\u2019: The archetypal (homo)sexuality of the Cowboy in Annie Proulx\u2019s \u2018Brokeback Mountain\u2019,\u201d\u00a0BA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  119. Valentina Tobler<\/strong>, “‘\u201cI am writing to reach you’: Epistolary Narrative in Qiu Miaojin\u2019s Last Words from Montmartre<\/em> and Ocean Vuong\u2019s On Earth We\u2019re Briefly Gorgeous<\/em>” BA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    M.A. Theses & License M\u00e9moires<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Sina Lenherr<\/strong>, \u201cBack to the Reservation: Three Male Character in their Search for Identity in Selected Novels by Louise Erdrich,\u201d License 2007<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Lenka Curdova<\/strong>, \u201cThe Family Conflict: Three Plays of Eugene O\u2019Neill,\u201d License 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. [external advisor] Anne Jobin <\/strong>[Universit\u00e9 de Neuch\u00e2tel], \u201cShifting Identities: Mixedbloods in Native American Literature,\u201d License 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Helen Walker<\/strong>, \u201cThe Inescapable Past: Form, Family and Denial in Arthur Miller\u2019s Plays All My Sons, Death of a Salesman,<\/em> and The Price<\/em>,\u201d MA 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Sabine-Anna Marro<\/strong>, \u201cTwo Turn-of-the-Century California Novels: Mar\u00eda Amparo Ru\u00edz de Burton\u2019s The Squatter and the Don<\/em> and Frank Norris\u2019s The Octopus<\/em> \u2014 \u2018Novels with a Purpose\u2019?,\u201d MA 2008. Recipient of the 2008 SANAS Teaching Travel Award.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Naomi Hasler<\/strong>, \u201cThe Portrait of a New Woman? How Margaret Fuller\u2019s political ideology and Henry James\u2019s fictional reality clash,\u201d MA 2008. Winner of the Prize for Equality and Gender Research of the University of Fribourg 2010.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Julie Hoogewoud<\/strong>, \u201cBeyond Minimalism: Silence as Narrative Strategy in the Fiction of Raymond Carver,\u201d MA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Laura Tschanz<\/strong>, \u201cThe Importance of Knowing One\u2019s Past in Toni Morrison\u2019s The Bluest Eye<\/em> and Tar Baby,<\/em>\u201d MA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Mauro Ciresa<\/strong>, \u201cInvestigation in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Detective Tales,\u201d MA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. Eric Miller<\/strong>, \u201cAdams and Jefferson: True Friends or Friendly Foes?\u201d MA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. M\u00e9lanie Baillifard<\/strong>, \u201cLiterary Responses to Indian Policies from 1800 to 1840. From Poetical Justification to Real Protest,\u201d MA 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    12. Stefania Russo<\/strong>, \u201d The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley as the Anti-Slavery Campaign of  a Black Woman in Revolutionary America ,\u201d MA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    13. Roberta Vaghi<\/strong>, \u201cMagical Realism in Selected Novels by Toni Morrison,\u201d MA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    14. Elisa Burri Monnard<\/strong>, \u201cWomen\u2019s Lives in Essays and Stories in Godey\u2019s Lady\u2019s Magazine<\/em>,\u201d MA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    15. Mathilde Waeber<\/strong>, \u201cAmerican Indian Cultural Identity and the Search for Affection in James Welch\u2019s Winter in the Blood<\/em> and The Death of Jim Loney<\/em> and Leslie Marmon Silko\u2019s Ceremony,<\/em>\u201d MA 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    16. Francesca Massei<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/em>\u201cWomen in the Gothic Narratives of Matthew G. Lewis and Charles Brockden Brown,\u201d License 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    17. Luzia Wicki<\/strong>, \u201cShockingly Wealthy: The High as a Way of Life,\u201d License 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    18. Ola Madhour<\/strong>, \u201cDegeneration and the \u2018Lost America\u201d in Henry James\u2019s Roderick Hudson<\/em> and Ernest Hemingway\u2019s The Sun Also Rises<\/em>,\u201d MA 2011<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    19. Alexis Wilson<\/strong>, \u201cMagic in Chicano Magical Realism,\u201d MA 2011<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    20. Claudia Furrer<\/strong>, \u201cSociolinguistic Concepts and Literary Analysis: The Outsider Protagonist in Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s Wise Blood<\/em> and John Kennedy Toole\u2019s A Confederacy of Dunces,<\/em>\u201d MA 2011<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    21. Julia Bachmann<\/strong>, \u201cF. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s \u2018The Jelly-bean,\u2019 Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man<\/em>, and all that Jazz,\u201d MA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    22. Emmanuelle Bourguet<\/strong>, \u201cCourageous Souls: The Portrayal of Women in Chopin\u2019s The Awakening<\/em> and Wharton\u2019s Summer<\/em>,\u201d MA 2012. Recipient of the 2012 SANAS Teaching Travel Award.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    23. Jeremy Gremaud<\/strong>, \u201cCanadian, Female and Individual Identities in Margaret Atwood\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em> and Alias Grace<\/em>,\u201d MA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    24. Carine Maffli<\/strong>, \u201cThe Legacy of Satan: A Reading of Melville\u2019s Ahab in the Light of Milton\u2019s Satan, MA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    25. Cinzia Minervini Jordan, <\/strong>\u201cBeing and Becoming: A Reading of Arthur Miller\u2019s Focus <\/em>and The Crucible <\/em>in the Light of Giorgio Agamben,\u201d MA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    26. Ryan Kopaitich<\/strong>, \u201cNarrating Postmodernism: A Study of Two Postmodern Novels,\u201d MA Comparative Literature 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    27. Andrea Meier, <\/strong>\u201cMarginal Communities and Ethnic Conflicts in Selected Novels by Louise Erdrich and Toni Morrison,\u201d MA 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    28. Lawrence Faulstich, <\/strong>\u201cWar as a Prism of 20th-century American Identity,\u201d MA 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    29. Nathalie Codina, <\/strong>\u201cEmily Dickinson\u2019s Poetics and Weltanschauung<\/em>,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    30. Jessica Meier, <\/strong>\u201cEcofeminism and Dualisms in Terry Tempest Williams,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    31. C\u00e9line Sidler<\/strong>, \u201cThe American Dream\u2019s Mythology in Three Immigrant Women\u2019s Novels,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    32. Rekik Scholler-Mekonnen, <\/strong>\u201cSpeculative Encounters: Negotiating Survival and Kinship in Octavia Butler\u2019s Kindred<\/em> and Dawn<\/em>,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    33. Alain Wider, <\/strong>\u201cHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hybrid Poet,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    34. Robert Zenh\u00e4usern, <\/strong>\u201cThe Conversion Paradox: New World Christianity and African Spirituality in Selected Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    35. Biljana Vuchovska, <\/strong>\u201cThe Value of Green Visions: Environmental Philosophy in Walden, Ecotopia<\/em> and The Word for World is Forest<\/em>,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    36. \u00c5sa Semple,<\/strong>\u201cFrom Abasement to Strength: Gender Identity in Toni Morrison\u2019s Sula <\/em>and Paradise<\/em>,\u201d MA 2014<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    37. Sibylle L\u00fcthi, <\/strong>\u201cRepresentational Affirmation: Examining Sherman Alexie\u2019s Struggles with the Language of Authenticity,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    38. Valeria Cruz Petersen Rast, \u201c<\/strong>\u2018A wild night and a new road\u2019: From Death to Poetics in  Emily Dickinson\u2019s Poetry,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    39. James Violette, <\/strong>\u201cThe Judge and the Boy: Violence and Holiness in Cormac McCarthy\u2019s Blood Meridian <\/em>and The Road<\/em>,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    40. Fanny Maendly, <\/strong>\u201cFemale Protagonists in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives: Jacobs, Williams, and Butler,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    41. Anne-Laure Bo\u00e9chat, <\/strong>\u201cLand, Gender, and Ethnicity in Willa Cather\u2019s Characters,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    42. Patrizia Zanella, \u201c<\/strong>\u2018universal mirrors that are my eyes\u2019: The Gaze in Louise Erdrich,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    43. Olivia Oberson, \u201c<\/strong>The Challenges of Nonconformity: Communities in Jewett\u2019s The Country of the Pointed Firs, <\/em>Chopin\u2019s The Awakening<\/em>, and Wharton\u2019s The House of Mirth<\/em>,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    44. Maria Teresa Delgado, \u201c<\/strong>Switzerland as an In-Between State in F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Tender is the Night<\/em>, Ernest Hemingway\u2019s A Farewell to Arms<\/em>, and Selected Short Stories,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    45. Jessica Saillen, <\/strong>\u201cThe Influence of Mixed-race Identity in American Literature Through Three Perspectives: Native American, African American and Hispanic,\u201d MA 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    46. Tania Pannatier, <\/strong>\u201cDouble Consciousness. Mixed-race women characters in William Wells Brown, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    47. Lo\u00efc Obert\u00fcfer, \u201c<\/strong>Tennessee Williams\u2019s Dramatic Development: The Magic Tower, The Purification, The Glass Menagerie <\/em>& Suddenly Last Summer<\/em>,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    48. Edith Carron, <\/strong>\u201cLily Bart and Gertrude Stein: Contrasting Two Modernist Performances,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    49. Preethy Alex, <\/strong>\u201cThe Third Continent \u2014 the Domestic Space of Malayali Americans and Bengali Americans in the United States,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    50. Andrew Niemann<\/strong>, \u201cFinding Meaning in the Everyday: Understanding Nicholson Baker\u2019s The Mezzanine<\/em> through William James,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    51. Anita Pervanic, <\/strong>\u201c\u2018layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs\u2019: The Southern Grotesque and Ideal Femininity in the Fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    52. Simon Weisskopf<\/strong>, \u201cBob Dylan. The Poet Who Aged in Public,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    53. Patricia Fux, <\/strong>\u201cDemystifying the Lost Generation: A Collection of Data,\u201d MA 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    54. Sabie Zenku Baftiri, <\/strong>\u201cAmbiguous Mother(hood) in Sylvia Plath\u2019s Poetry and Prose,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    55. Sharon Reidy Miller, <\/strong>\u201cIs Eleanor Roosevelt\u2019s Portrayal of Women Both Honest and Truthful?\u201d, MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    56. Melis \u00d6ner, <\/strong>\u201c\u2018You\u2019re Not the Indian I Had in Mind\u2019: Self-Representation versus Stereotypes in Sherman Alexie and Thomas King,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    57. Alicia Sz\u00fcts, \u201c<\/strong>Women and the Holocaust: A Double Victimization,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    58. No\u00e9mie Fragni\u00e8re, \u201c<\/strong>Struggling Female Artists in Selected Novels by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    59. Nathalia Schweizer, <\/strong>\u201cFemale Authenticity in American Literary Naturalism,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    60. Mich\u00e8le Cirelli, \u201c<\/strong>Contrasting Critical Approaches to Wharton, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    61. C\u00e9lia Germanier, <\/strong>\u201cThe Blues as Musical Legacy of African-American History,\u201d MA 2017\u00a8<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    62. Cynthia Staehlin, <\/strong>\u201cRepresenting Terrorism in Hersey\u2019s Hiroshima, <\/em>DeLillo\u2019s Falling Man <\/em>and Updike\u2019s Terrorist<\/em>,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    63. Mirella Arimondi, <\/strong>\u201cPower and Behavior in Atwood\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, Butler\u2019s Kindred<\/em> and Eggers\u2019s The Circle<\/em>,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    64. Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg, <\/strong>\u201c\u2018I just wanted to go home\u2019: Toni Morrison\u2019s Quest For the Ideal Home in Her Fiction,\u201d MA 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    65. Elisa Pagliaro, <\/strong>\u201c\u2018I can\u2019t believe what you say, because I see what you do\u2019:  James Baldwin\u2019s Phenomenological Ethics,\u201d MA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    66. Marie Budon, <\/strong>\u201cJourney into the Dark: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Gothic Imagination,\u201d MA 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    67. Valentin Br\u00fcgger, <\/strong>\u201cVanishing Points: Escape and Separation in the Early Works of Jane & Paul Bowles,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    68. Michelle Riedberg, <\/strong>\u201cAuthentic Depiction or Wishful Projection: Children in Hawthorne\u2019s The Scarlet Letter<\/em>, Stowe\u2019s Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> and Alcott\u2019s Little Women<\/em>,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    69. Samuele Ramelli, <\/strong>\u201cA Mirroring of Mankind\u2019s Fears Through American Dystopian Literature,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    70. Am\u00e9lia Godel, \u201c<\/strong>\u2019This life is a life of vicissitude\u2019: Nineteenth-century American Women\u2019s Letters, Between Duty and Disillusionment,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    71. Marie Gaspoz, <\/strong>\u201c\u2019I am a stranger to myself and a stranger now in this strange land.\u2019 The Immigrant Experience in the United States Through Three Contemporary Narratives,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    72. Nora Rickli, \u201c<\/strong>\u2018To See What Is. \u2026 Possible.\u2019  Reproductive Freedom in Contemporary Speculative Fiction,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    73. Camille Merkofer<\/strong>, \u201cLiving the Ideal Life in American Suburbs and German D\u00f6rfer<\/em>:  An Analysis of Richard Yates\u2019 Revolutionary Road<\/em>, Jeffrey Eugenides\u2019 The Virgin Suicides<\/em>, Juli Zeh\u2019s Unterleuten<\/em>, and Arno Camenisch\u2019s Ustrinkata<\/em>,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    74. Christopher Bignasca<\/strong>, \u201cBob Dylan: The Leader Who Did Not Want to Be Followed,\u201d MA 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    75. Fabienne Eberhard<\/strong>, \u201cChanging the Rules of the Game: A Literary Investigation of Social Systems of Oppression From Slavery to Mass Incarceration,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    76. Anna Caccia,<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings\u2019: Blackness and Americanness in Contemporary African American Memoirs,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    77. Jonathan Modesti<\/strong>, \u201cWronged and Oppressed Identities: Abuse and its Effects on Women Characters in Stephen King\u2019s Carrie, Gerald\u2019s Game<\/em>, and Big Driver<\/em>,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    78. Anna Borella<\/strong>, \u201cMaking a Movement: Pathos and Social Justice in Novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Chesnutt,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    79. C\u00e9line Scheidegger<\/strong>, \u201cPerforming Personalities: Women on View in Selected Novels by Wharton, Cather, Yezierska and Larsen,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    80. Valentina Prati, <\/strong>\u201cSocial Justices Debates in Chicana Literature: Castillo, Ch\u00e1vez and Cisneros Reinterpreting Anzald\u00faa,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    81. Laura Carnal<\/strong>, \u201cA Century of African American Identity: Wallace Thurman, Lorraine Hansberry, Danzy Senna & Ta-Nehisi Coates,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    82. Milena Calcagni<\/strong>, \u201cAdvancing Socialism through Literary Advocacy in the United States: Engagement and Failure,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    83. Simon Metry<\/strong>, \u201c\u2018Who shall say where the one ends, and the where the other begins?\u2019 Plagiarism and Literary Influence around Edgar Allan Poe,\u201d MA 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    84. No\u00ebmi Werthm\u00fcller<\/strong>, \u201cThe power of orality and literacy in Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian novels The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> and The Testaments<\/em>,\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    85. Prisca Genilloud, <\/em><\/strong>\u201cImmigration in the United States: A Comparison of Immigrants\u2019 Experiences in The Jungle<\/em>, My \u00c1ntonia, Hunger of Memory<\/em> and Jasmine<\/em>,\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    86. Isabella Bianchi,<\/strong> \u201cMaya Angelou the Womanist, or How a Phenomenal Woman <\/em>Comes into Being,\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    87. Alida Savio, \u201c<\/strong>The Representation of Black Women in Contemporary Literature,\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    88. Simona Suardi,<\/strong> \u201cThe Good in the Bad: Dysfunctional Families in American Literature. Dorothy Allison\u2019s Bastard Out of Carolina <\/em>(1992), Jeannette Walls\u2019s The Glass Castle <\/em>(2005) and Trevor Noah\u2019s Born a Crime <\/em>(2016),\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    89. Matthias Calderari, <\/strong>\u201cLiving on the Hyphen: Biculturalism and Latinidad in Esmeralda Santiago\u2019s When I Was Puerto Rican <\/em>(1994) and Almost a Woman <\/em>(1999), Julia Alvarez\u2019s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents <\/em>(1991) and Cristina Garc\u00eda\u2019s Dreaming in Cuban <\/em>(1992),\u201d MA 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    90. Patrick Correia de Azevedo<\/strong>, \u201cMasculinity, Race, and Queerness in Tarell Alvin McCraney\u2019s Plays,\u201d MA 2021<\/strong> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    91. Andrea Leu Escobar<\/strong>, \u201cTravel Literature, The Other and Patagonia. An Analysis of Bruce Chatwin\u2019s In Patagonia<\/em>, Paul Theroux\u2019s The Old Patagonia Express<\/em>, Luis Sep\u00falveda\u2019s Patagonia Express<\/em> and Mempo Giardinelli\u2019s Final de Novela en Patagonia<\/em>,\u201d MA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    92. Elsa Berset, <\/strong>\u201cNarratives of Moral Uncertainty: Joseph Conrad\u2019s Lord Jim<\/em> and Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved<\/em>,\u201d MA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    93. Jeannette Widmer,<\/strong> \u201cFeminism and Afropolitanism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s Americanah<\/em>,\u201d MA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    94. Vanessa d\u2019Antino<\/strong>, \u201cInvisibility, Blackness and Whiteness in Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man<\/em>, James Baldwin\u2019s The Fire Next Time<\/em> and Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019s Between the World and Me<\/em>, MA 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    95. Justine Dubail,<\/strong> \u201cMisogyny and the Myth of Masculinity: Portrayal of Women in Hip Hop Lyrics,\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    96. Svetlana Nikolic<\/strong>, \u201cIdentity Issues in the Theatre of David Henry Hwang,\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    97. Ma\u00e9va Uldry,<\/strong> \u201cOrphan Girls in Early Twentieth-Century Children\u2019s Fiction. A comparative analysis of Alice Hegan Rice\u2019s Lovey Mary<\/em> (1903), Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin\u2019s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm<\/em> (1903), L.M. Montgomery\u2019s Anne of Green Gables<\/em> (1908) and Alice B. Emerson\u2019s Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm <\/em>or What Became of the Raby Orphans <\/em>(1915),\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    98. Sophie Jacquier, <\/strong>\u201cAn Intersectional Approach of Mutual Unknowability and Orality Between Mother and Daughter in American Literature: Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, Louise Erdrich and Amy Tan,\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    99. Mich\u00e8le Wermeille<\/strong>, \u201cImpossible Choices and Muted Voices. Female Agency and Abortion in Four American Novels from 1917 to 2017,\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    100. Celia Arnold, <\/strong>\u201cIndigenous American Autobiographies by Women: How White Settler Culture and Indigenous American Culture Influenced the Genre,\u201d MA 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    101. Ayb\u00fcke Karabiyik, <\/strong>\u201cThe Indigiqueer Body as Glitch: Confronting Settler Heteropatriarchy in Billy-Ray Belcourt\u2019s Poetry and Life Writing,\u201d MA 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    102. Joanne Waeber, <\/strong>\u201dSyllable and Sound: Dickinson\u2019s Distinctive Musical Voice and its Communicative Function,\u201d MA 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    103. Olga Gottifredi, <\/strong>\u201cHow Does the New Woman Speak? A Gender-Based Analysis of Three American Dramatists,\u201d MA 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    104. Samuel Kilch\u00f6r,<\/strong> \u201cThe Illusion of the American Dream in John Steinbeck\u2019s East of Eden: A Critique of Wealth, Identity, and Moral Conflict,\u201d MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    105. Giosu\u00e8 Antorini<\/strong>, \u201cSwiss-Italian Immigration to California: Reconstructing Migrant Experiences Through Letters,\u201d MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    106. Jeremy Wright,<\/strong> \u201cUnsettling Feelings: The Sentimental Politics of Lydia Sigourney and Susan Cooper,\u201d MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    107. Emma de Reyf<\/strong>f, \u201cMore Than a Mother: A Reconsideration of Fin-de-si\u00e8cle <\/em>Womanhood in Edith Wharton\u2019s Short Fiction,\u201d MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    108. Allison Jelk<\/strong>, “Masculinity in Three Early 20th-century Writers and Their Early Short Stories: Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway,” MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    109. Yanik Brawand<\/strong>, “Memory Frames: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors’ Graphic Memoirs,” MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    110. Martina Kovcic<\/strong>, “Faith as Weapon, Belief as Resistance,” MA 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Ph.D. Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Completed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli<\/strong>. The Mirror, the Cup and the Crystal. Iconic Implications of Disappearance and Representation in the American Tradition of Riddle Poetry<\/em>.  (October 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Martin Moling.<\/strong> \u201cShake, Rattle and Write\u201d: Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011.<\/em> (October 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Ola Madhour<\/strong>. \u201cKnowledge of Necessity\u201d: Maternal Origins in Elizabeth Bishop\u2019s Epistemological Quest. <\/em>(June 2015)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Patrizia Zanella. <\/strong>The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Tomson Highway, and Thomas King<\/em>. Supported by a Doc.CH grant from the SNSF. (October 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mariam Taha.<\/strong> Literary Environmental Studies and the Representation of Urban Environments in Selected Novels<\/em>. Co-tutelle with Cairo University, Egypt. (June 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg. <\/strong>The Message on the Wall. The Wall as a Medium in Public Art and Contemporary Fiction<\/em>. (February 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In Progress<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      Mich\u00e8le Wermeille. <\/strong>\u201cBetween Creation and Control: The Depiction of Mothers and Motherhood in Feminist Speculative Fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Theses supervised at the University of Fribourg B.A. Theses since 2007 (and comprehensive oral exams, beginning 2017) M.A. Theses & License M\u00e9moires Ph.D. Projects Completed Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli. The Mirror, the Cup and the Crystal. Iconic Implications of Disappearance and Representation in the American Tradition of Riddle Poetry.  (October 2012) Martin Moling. \u201cShake, Rattle and Write\u201d: Rock Music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}