Maturaarbeit/Matura Paper or Extended Essay in English: working with the teachers of the English Department, who to contact and what’s been done.

Here’s a list of all the teachers in our department willing to supervise a Maturaarbeit. It includes their research interests and a selection of the Matura Papers they have supervised so far.

Evans, Holly

• Research Interests:
  • science fiction
  • gothic fiction
  • artificial intelligence, humans vs machines
  • dystopias, strange places
  • dark humour
  • psychology
  • creativity and art
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:

Hartmann, Isabel

• Research Interests:
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Honarchian Anouk

• Research Interests:
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:

Loren, Scott

• Research Interests:
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Merker, Katharina

• Research Interests:
  • English language and literature
  • Creative writing
  • Special education
  • Anything connected to the theatre
  • Anything connected to linguistic exchanges
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:
  • Nael – eine Zeitreise: Einen angefangen Roman fertigschreiben
  • Reiseführer für das kleine Portemonnaie
  • Eine kulturhistorische Analyse altenglischer Gedichte
  • Berufliche Zukunft von Jugendlichen mit besonderen pädagogosichen Bedürfnissen
  • Unterstützung und Forum für AustauschschülerInnen
  • EE: Khaled Hosseini ,The Kite Runner
  • EE: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  • EE: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
  • EE: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

Metzler, Alan

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Nellen, Orlaith

• Research Interests:
  • Irish writing
  • ‚Troubles‘ literature
  • Drama / Theatre of war
  • Gothic literature.
  • War poetry
  • Identity politics / Coming of Age & Identity dissonance
  • Child psychology in literature (eg. McCabe’s The Butcher Boy)
  • Dystopia
  • Morality & Ethics
  • Madness & Deception
  • Absurdism / Satire
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:

Nyffenegger, Sara (English Literature and Humanities/Cultural and Art History)

• Research Interests:
  • Romantic, Victorian and Modernist Literature (roughly 1780-1950)
  • Gender and Identity
  • Coming of Age
  • Marxisim, power structures, conflict
  • Social and Political changes (Dystopias)
  • Cultural history in general/ Cultural history of the Islam
  • Art history
  • Adaptation and film studies / screenplays
  • Disabilities and Madness in Literature
  • Science and Ethics in Literature (Gothic)
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:
  • A comparison of the depiction of the theme of sacrifice in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis in respect to René Girard’s scapegoat theory.
  • Criminal Collaboration – Perpetrator to Poet
  • Women’s Education During the Victorian Era from the Perspective of the Novel Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  • The Representation of Women in Christina Rossetti’s „Goblin Market“
  • Narrative Fiction: Retelling of Oisín in Tír na nÓg (Irish Legends)
  • A Room of One’s Own – Bildungsräume der Frau um 1928 in Verbindung mit einem Essay von Virginia Woolf

Sarrafan, Eva

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Schönfelder, Christa

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Violette, James

• Research Interests:
  • Dystopian Literature
  • Modernist Literature
  • Science Fiction
  • Power and Marginalization
  • The work of Cormac McCarthy and Philip K. DickCultural
  • History (Contemporary History, US and European History, Historical Patterns and Processes)
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised:

Widmer, Andreas

• Research Interests:
• A selection of Maturaarbeiten supervised: