Here is a list of ongoing and completed doctoral projects being conducted by our doctoral students. They are encouraged to publish their research already at this stage in their career in peer-reviewed journals and collected volumes.
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| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) & Year Completed |
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| Player, Amy | New Nature Writing in the Anthropocene: Jay Griffiths, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane | Prof. Rachel Falconer, 2024 |
| Ferry, Murielle | Studying Abroad at 16 and "Living Their Best Life"? The Social, Cultural and Linguistic Positionings of Swiss High School Students Enrolled in the French-English Bilingual Matura in the Canton de Vaud. | Prof. Anita Auer, 2023 |
| Loesch, Juliette | The Transcreative Dynamics of Oscar Wilde's Salomé from the Page to the Stage - Les dynamiques transcréatives dans Salomé d'Oscar Wilde, de la page à la scène | Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, 2023 |
| Saunier Sonia | Divine Aqueducts: Fluid Imagery and the Body in the Sermons of John Donne | Prof. Kirsten Anne Stirling, 2022 |
| Laughery Vincent | Metaphor and Ethical Agency in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A deconstructive Perspective | Prof. Kevin Curran, 2022 |
| Reilly Andy | William Shakespeare's Hamlet in Publication and Performance, 1709-1735 | Prof. Kevin Curran, 2022 |
| Casulli Florence | "If my books can help children become readers": Intertextuality, Metafictionality and Iconotextuality in Roald Dahl's Children's Books | Co-tutelle avec Emmanuel Vernadakis, CIRPaLL, Université d'Angers and Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, 2022 |
| Heim Cécile | Representing and Resisting Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls through the Rougarou, Deer Woman, the Windigo, and B'gwus. | Prof. Valérie Cossy and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2022 |
| Marshall Camille | Playing, Seeing and Doubting the Godhead in the Sixteenth-Century Towneley Collection of Biblical Plays. | Prof. Denis Renevey, 2019. |
| Oudesluijs Tino | Language Variation and Change in Coventry (c. 1400-1700). | Prof. Anita Auer, 2019 |
| Rochat Alessia | US President 2.0 or How Netizens Remix and Redefine Politics: from Abstract Pre-Election Discourse to Its Concrete Textual Organization. | Prof. Anita Auer, 2019 |
| Walz Marie Emilie | Reading Spells Backwards: Allegories of Violence and Love in Edmund Spenser’s and Angela Carter’s Fairy-Tale and Speculative Fiction | Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, 2018. |
| Nisbet Rachel | Navigating Doubled Terrain: Reading Rivers to Connect Literary and Geological Texts. | Prof. Rachel Falconer, 2018. |
| Lindholm Philip | Synaesthesia in Literature of the Romantic Period. | Prof. Rachel Falconer, 2018. |
| Berström-Allen Johan | Communities of the Common Word: The Vernacular Literary & Bibliographic Activities of the Carmelite Order in Medieval England. | Prof. Denis Renevey, 2017. |
| Denissen Diana | The Anchoress Transformed: Late Medieval Religiosity in a Middle English Compilation Culture. | Prof. Denis Renevey, 2017. |
| Hughes Roxane | Foot-Binding in Chinese American Literature. | Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik, 2017. |
| Isis Geraldo | Contemporary Fantasies of the Colombian Nation: Beauty, Citizenship, and Sex. | Prof. Valérie Cossy and Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik, 2017. |
| Riggs Ashley | Thrice Upon a Time: Feminist Fairy-Tale Rewritings by Angela Carter and Emma Donoghue, and Their French Translations. | Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and Prof. Lance Hewson (ETI, Uni. Genève), 2014. |
| Chassot Joanne | Ghosts in Contemporary African Diasporic Literature: Re-visioning History, Memory and Identity. | Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik, 2013. |
| Vuille Juliette | Holy Harlots: Authority, Gender, and the Body in Medieval English Hagiography | Prof. Denis Renevey, 2013. |
| Fachard Alexandre | A critical edition of Joseph Conrad's "Because of the dollars" (Within the Tides, 1915). | Prof. Neil Forsyth, 2009. |
