Research
Current research projects include: representations of sleep in Shakespeare; the relationship between mock-heroic poetry and the London book trade, 1660-1740; nineteenth-century Swiss visitors’ books; Byron and radicalism; the making of Ruskin’s Modern Painters IV; twentieth-century American representations of Switzerland; critical editions of several Swiss travelogues; English and French clippings; lexical constructions in alternations; connectivity changes in a network of construction.
See also the list of publications of the English Institute.
See also the list of Ph.D theses directed by the professors of the English Institute.
See also the list of recent “mémoires” in English.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
- Jana Constantin “Representations of Sleep in William Shakespeare’s Plays and narrative poems: Politics, Gender and Adaptations.”
- Simone Camponovo “Food and Gender in Early Modern Drama.”
- Gemma Allred “Selling Shakespeare: Meaning Making through Marketing.”
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
- Jérémie Magnin “Spatial Practices and the Performance of Identity in Nineteenth Century Swiss Visitor Books.”
- William Edwards “Elegance, Anachronism, and the Whig Voice in Regency Poetry.”
- Mattia Ferraro “Representations of Switzerland and the Swiss in American Literature, 1900-2020.”
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
- Jennifer Rains “English and French clippings.“
- Brayan Andrey “Testifying to accent bias and language anxiety: Experimental studies of attitudes toward witnesses’ accents and their effects on legal decision-making.“
- Hikaru Hotta “Lexical bias in morphosyntactic alternations: A usage-based approach.“
- Hewei Liu An empirical study of historical change in English constructions within a construction network, viewed from a diachronic construction grammar perspective.
“Detecting connectivity changes inductively in a network of constructions”, FNS, Prof. Martin Hilpert, Dr. Chadi Ben Youssef, Hewei Liu – 01.11.2024-31.10.2028.