Master Theses
Master theses (“Mémoires”) can be consulted in the library.
Ameya Sharma Beyond the Human Narrative: Being More-than Human Through a Comparative Reading of Contemporary American Fiction
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2025
This thesis was awarded the University’s Prix du Développement durable.
Laure Mairy Pathologizing Nonconformity: Women’s Narratives of Madness as a Critique of Psychiatry, Gender, and Power in Twentieth-Century Literature
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
September 2025
Marc Durham Representations of Whiteness in African American Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2025
Naomi Geiser Wrestling with Faith: A Transhistoric Study about Doubt in Christian Poetry
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2025
Piera Biondina Resisting Structures – Emotional and Linguistic Misbehaviour as a Political and Easthetic Strategy in Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. and We Want You To Watch
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
July 2025
Solène Hug Gender and Female Virginity in Late Medieval Hagiography
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
July 2025
Elena Bögli Magic and the Supernatural in Four Middle English Breton Lays
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
July 2025
Eloïse Lima Places, objects, and metaphors in the play-pretend world of Restoration Comedies of Manners
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
June 2025
Alissia Léchenne Cross-Dressing in 20th– Century English Literature: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, Virginia Woolf Orlando and H.E. Bates’ The Triple Echo
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2025
Noémie Flatscher The idealisation and commodification of the family in Dickens’s five Christmas books
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2025
Betül Somuncu The Shifting Image of the “Turk”: An Examination of the “Other” in Four Canonical Works of English Literature from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge and Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2025
Réjeanne Furer From Oppression to Empowerment: The Significance of Black Hair in “Americanah”, “Sunita” and “That Hair”
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
February 2025
Marylène Wehren A New Use for an Old Word Because Internet: Study of the “Because X” Construction, its Effects, Source, Usage and Potential Longevity in the Context of Internet Language and Beyond.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2024
Claire Cornaz Shadows in ruling. Enter three witches. The figure of the witch and the crown in early modern drama.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
September 2024
Marine Chappuis “Faërie cannot be caught in a net of words”. The Numinous in the Secondary World in four Middle English Poems.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
August 2024
Guilherme Sanches Lira Native-speakerism, old issue, new reality.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
August 2024
Antoine Geiser “Love and Mirth are my Business”: Sexuality and Domination of the Restoration Libertine in Thomas Shadwell’s The Libertine and Aphra Behn’s The Rover.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
July 2024
Katharine Ciotta Womanimality and Meat-Eating in Atwood’s Gilead.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
June 2024
Lynn Robertson-Launstorfer Social meaning in cultural performances: A case study of North East Scots.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
April 2024
Sara Benzari Exploring the “Unexplorable”: A Comparative Reading of Menstruation and Female Identities in Contemporary English Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
December 2023
Nathanaël Reich “A Fabric of Connections”: How Conspiracy and Paranoia Attempt to Restore the Self and Knowledge in Libra, The Crying of Lot 49, and The Plot Against America.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2023
Catherine Ryburn Child Refugees and Cuban American Literature: A quest for Home.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2023
Nils Schaller Responding to the Climatic Crisis: Anthropocentrism in Solarpunk Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2023
Zoe Bessot Beyond the Punchline: An Analysis of Humor in Poetry and Fiction about Sexual Assault.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2023
Charline Lachat Merlin and Magic. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “Historia Regum Britanniae” and “Vita Merlini”, and the BBC’s “Merlin”.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
September 2023
Lucie Schaller Attitudes of school children in Switzerland towards English and German.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2023
Simone Camponovo “With a paper of scurvy verses fastened to thy breast”: Female Theatricality, Stage Metaphors and Competing Textual Appropriations of the Female Body in Four Early Modern Comedies.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
June 2023
Maxime Fridez Female Madness: The rejection of Patriarchy in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2023
Erich Bucci Trauma in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Mandeville, Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Matilda and Frankenstein.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2022
Audrey Fleury The Socio-Constructionist Ecofeminism of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019).
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
August 2022
Mélanie Graf Beyond Human Imperfections: A Comparative Study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein 2020).
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
August 2021
Francesca Jardini An Exploration of the Transmission of Social Values in Disney Adaptations of the three 20th Century Chil-dren’s Classics: James Matthew Barrie’s Peter Pan (1911), Pamela Lyndon Travers’ Mary Poppins (1934) and Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2020
Maya Kaufmann The Portrayal of Women in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2020
Marion Michellod The Environmental Crisis and Its Ontological Consequences in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2020
Rosiane Monteiro Valera Reversing the Spell of Babel: A Study of English and Spanish as Major Languages, with a Survey in Switzerland.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
June 2020
Romina Piffaretti Fashion and Becky Sharp’s Rise and Fall in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Two Twenty-First-Century Adaptations.
Under the supervision of Prof. Emma Depledge
June 2020
Marija Janosevic Interlanguage and Error Analysis: The Acquisition of English as a Second Language.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2019
Alison Cullen Representations of the Figure of the Female Pianist in Selected 19th and 20th Century Texts.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2019
Golbarg Riyahi Functions of Humor in Informal Classroom Settings: Ways in Which Students and Teacher Co-construct and Orient towards Laughables.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
July 2019
Aïcha Kottmann The Revolution Will Be Televised : Identity Politics in The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 1.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2019
Macoumba Ndiaye Feminism in African Narratives: Representation of Women during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods, The Example of Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2019
Pauline Bachofner Domestic Space and Self-reliance in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913), Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1974), and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1980).
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2019
Jennifer Rains Constructional change in the predeterminer / pronoun alternation: all the / all of the.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
February 2019
Charlotte Gardini How native are simultaneous bilinguals? A study on linguistic proficiency in the two languages of French-English simultaneous bilinguals.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2018
Elsa Annino Boats and Prisons in Selected Middle English Texts.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
September 2018
Leyla Cottier The Drive to be Heard: The Maternal Body through Victorian, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Poetry.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2018
Piri Kutluoglu Yearning for the ineffable: Arthur Waley’s translation of The Tale of Genji and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
June 2018
Rosa da Vila Costas Teaching and learning verb particle constructions: A constructional corpus-based approach.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
February 2018
Sandra Joye Negotiating Western Education in Postcolonial Societies.
Under the supervision of Dr. Vidya Ravi Allemann
December 2017
Adelina Hoxhaj The Cultural, Social and Political Implications of Hair and Beards in the Canterbury Tales.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
November 2017
Macha Burkhalter Talking About Talking Animals: The Problems of Communication With the Animal Other as Illustrated in Nineteenth Century Animal Autobiographies.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2017
Sabrina Pantaleo The Clash of Motifs in the Erle of Tolouse and Timoneda’s “Patraña séptima”.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp and Prof. Antonio Sánchez Jiménez
August 2017
Angela Veraguth Screen media exposure in children aged two to five in Switzerland – a survey.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
June 2017
Christhian Hauser Reinterpreting Home: A Postmodern and Mobile Sense of Self, Place(less)ness and Home(less)ness in Four Travel Narratives.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2017
Elisabeth Klamroth Is impoliteness typical of the ‘good guys’ or the ‘bad guys’ – a case study of the Harry Potter films.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
February 2017
Mélody Heyer Land, Power and Identity in Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
June 2016
Pascal Vosicki A Renewal in Perspective: Detachment in World War I Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2016
Sarah Williams Reimagining the Human/Animal Relationship : A Posthumanist Reading of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
January 2016
Noémie Fontaine Genre and gender in Katherine Mansfield’s and D.H.Lawrence’s short stories.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
December 2015
Kim Andrey Testimonies of the African-Americans’ Struggle to Reestablish Their Identity.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
November 2015
Kateryna Matthey-de-L’Endroit Christ’s Body as a Female and Erotic Object of Contemplation in Selected Medieval English Devotional Writings.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
October 2015
Julie Botteron Reworking Tales of enchaunters and fadas: The Representation of Women’s Magical Powers in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and El Baladro del Sabio Merlín
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp and Prof. Antonio Sánchez-Jiménez
September 2015
Maïté Garcia Melancholy, or the ambivalent condition in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and As you like it, in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi and poems by Donne and Shakespeare.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
February 2015
Lorna Harvey Conceptualizations of Gendered Identity in United Nations Broadcast Communication.
Under the supervision of Dr. Dorota Smyk
February 2015
Samuel Bourgeois The Language of Advertising: An Investigation of Market Targeting in the Commercials of Super Bowl XLVIII.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
January 2015
Ciprian Popescu Linguistic transfer in L2 English acquisition: a Romanian-speaking learner’s perspective.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2014
Katarina Kotikova Travelling towards oneself. The Quest for Female Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
September 2014
Jérémie Magnin The Question of Authority in American Punk Rock: A Literary Study of Bad Religion.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2014
Sadia Gill Images of Writing in Derek Walcott: A Poetic Nexus of Images and Themes.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
August 2014
Elena Croci Torti Three Versions of the Griselda Story.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
Mai 2014
Daniela Amsler Printed in Switzerland: The use of English in Advertising in Italian-Speaking Switzerland.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
April 2014
Meret Steinemann The English North-South Divide in Three Victorian Novels.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
February 2014
Cassandra Varga The Gendering of New York, the Atlantic, and Europe in the Works of Edith Wharton.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2014
David Simonet Code-switching: A CMC approach.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
November 2013
Fabian Aellig Efficient Topics selection Matching Students’ Needs in Vocabulary Teaching.
Under the supervision of Dr Dorota Smyk
September 2013
Olivia Arpel Mistakes in Article Usage by Francophone Speakers.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
September 2013
Céline Dornbierer Trauma in post 9/11 literature: psychological traumas in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and John Updike’s Terrorist.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2013
Gabriele Merlo Movable Identities: The Construction of Caribbean Identity in the Poetry of John Agard and Delano Abdul Malik De Coteau.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2013
Cédric Baechler Instructing Afro-Americans: the Ambiguous Legacies of Education in Frederick Douglass’ Narrative, Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird, and Sapphire’s Push.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2013
Emilie Pellaton Masks and Disguises: The Fairy Tale as Ambivalent Discourse in Oscar Wilde’s Fiction.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2013
Meriem Moussaïf Attitudes towards English in Morocco : A case study of post-graduate students.
Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hilpert
July 2013
Isabelle Thalmann Gesture in EMI: A case study in Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Studer
October 2012
Jean-Joël Février In Search of Neverlands: A Decade of Escapism and Nostalgia in British Rock (1965-1975).
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2012
Chollet Delphine The Figure of Judas in the English Mystery Play Cycles.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
September 2012
Danijela Beslin Spenser’s Defence of Eroticism in The Faerie Queene.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
September 2012
Sara Mourad Constraints on affixation in English.
Under the supervision of Prof. Andrew McIntyre
September 2012
Orianne Schaller Political imprisonment during apartheid: autobiography as a means to recover voice.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2012
Coralie Fresard “Mother Nature”: Women and Nature in Dylan Thomas’s Prose Fiction and Under Milk Wood.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
September 2012
Michelle Tursi Ben Jonson: Portraits of the author.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
September 2012
Luca Brunoni The Cosmodemonic World. Henry Miller’s Social Critique in the Context of 20th Century Dystopian Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
July 2012
Shirin Naderi-Kharaghan “THIS IS NOT AN EXIT”: Bret Easton Ellis’s Fiction as Postmodern Satire.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2012
Sarala Menzi “That Fecund Figure from whom all good things flow”: female figures torn between tradition and modernity in three Anglo-Indian Partition novels.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
December 2011
Cléo Hathorn Men’s new women: male realists and the feminist voice.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
October 2011
Fabien Rhyn “Cucullus non facit Monachum, the cowl does not make the monk,”, or does it? Staging religious propaganda and emptying the sacred in Tudor England.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
September 2011
Jennifer Cousinery The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology in Oral ESL by Uninstructed and Instructed Adult Native Mandarin Chinese Learners.
Under the supervision of Prof. Andrew McIntyre
June 2011
Stefania Piepoli Fatal couples in George Eliot’s major novels: The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
June 2011
Kalaivani Subramaniam Developmental transitions in the life-trajectories of three victorian heroines: Jane, Maggie and Tess.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
March 2011
Dilyana Petrova Identity through movement : the quest for America’s soul in road trip narratives.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
March 2011
Vincent Mathez Samuel Beckett and En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot : the bilingual and bicultural status of the author and his play.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
November 2010
Amal Medawar The female Bildungsroman : towards a definition of the genre.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2010
Emilie Perrenoud Anglo-American writers and the Val-de-Travers during the 18th and 19th century.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
March 2010
Marie-Luce Allimann To kill or not to kill the clown: the rise and fall of a Shakespearean comic figure.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
February 2010
Pauline Henry The Keys to the Otherworld in Selected Medieval English Romance Tales.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp and Dr. Fiona Tolhurst
December 2009
Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann Sexuality and Magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Launfal.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp and Dr. Fiona Tolhurst
September 2009
Jean-Frédéric Martin Pugin’s and Ruskin’s Idealisation of Gothic Architecture. (Short MA Thesis)
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2009
Sandro De Feo Iago, the actor enacted : Looking at a multi-faceted villain.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
August 2009
Alice Ghidotti Problems in English Phonetics and Phonology for Italian-Speaking Learners.
Under the supervision of Prof. Andrew McIntyre
June 2009
Ophélie Steinmann Virginia Woolf meets the cinema.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
April 2009
Emilie Bardet The Trickster Outside the Rez : Trickster Characteristics in the Novels and Short Stories of Sherman Alexie.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2009
Claire Cullen Davison Embodying Invasion in Anglo-Saxon Literature. A Study of “Beowulf” and the Story of Judith.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
February 2009
Jessica Morley Reassessing the passing figure: A comparison of racial and social class passing in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
January 2009
Jean-Frédéric Martin The Body Politic and the Human Body in Chaucer’s Harlotries.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
September 2008
Anne Jobin Shifting Identities. Mixedbloods in Native American Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2008
Valérie Michelet Historicity and romance in Shakespeare’s comedies of love.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
June 2008
Patricia Burger Women in Crisis in Doris Lessing’s Fiction. The Grass is Singing, The Summer before the Dark, Memoirs of A Survivor, The Fifth Child and “To Room Nineteen”.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
April 2008
Auréliane Montfort From Brutus to Albina; a study of two british foundation myths.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
February 2008
Ana Cardoso Balance Through Interstitial Spaces: Postcolonial Women’s Identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Novels. Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
January 2008
Madeline Ruegg “No More Yielding but a Dream”: The Play as a Dream in Shakespeare.
Under the supervision of Prof. Lukas Erne
January 2008
Myriam Cuche Representations of Relational, Clerical and Social Power in Gothic Novel. A Foucauldian Analysis of The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, The Italian and Northanger Abbey.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
September 2007
Stéphanie Kaelin Difficulties in English Phonology for Francophone Learners: a Contrastive Study.
Under the supervision of Prof. Andrew McIntyre and David Wilson
September 2007
Maite Rodriguez Seeking Stability in “Troublesome Times”. A Contextual Approach to Sarah Wilkinson’s Gothic Bluebooks “The Spectres”, “The White Pilgrim” & “The White Cottage”.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
August 2007
Annick Bôle Eigeldinger The Figure of the Maid in Three Novels by Margaret Atwood: Language, Identity, Power.
Under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
July 2007
Lucia Aubry Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium: the Oncoming of the Reality of the Imagination.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
June 2007
Geraldine Ramseyer Women Mystics and the Use of the Female Body in their Texts.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
January 2007
Ann Grandchamp Time Weaving and Storytelling in Contemporary Maori Literature.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
October 2006
Marta Carvalho Chivalry and Courtliness in Three English Medieval. Romances.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
September 2006
Ruth Bucherer Bilingual Language Acquisition between the First and the Second Birthday. A Case Study.
Under the supervision of Dr. Cornelia Tschichold
August 2006
Liza Loubry Natural Beauty, Mass-Tourism, and Industrialization in Switzerland: The Disintegration of the Swiss Myth.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
March 2006
Céline Fluri Merlin. Representations of Merlin in the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Robert de Boron.
Under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Rupp
August 2006
Zvonimir Gracin Representations of Progress in English Utopian Fiction of the 1840s.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
April 2006
Aline Simonet “The’ve got the Blues”: The Influence of Blues and Jazz Music in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
March 2006
Pierre Estoppey Psychological Aspects of the Double in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
November 2005
Linda Ball The Representation and Use of Monsters in three Medieval English Texts: Beowulf, Wonders of the East and Mandeville’s Travels.
Under the supervision of Dr Katrin Rupp and David Wilson as second reader
June 2005
Maya Waber Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche: the Emergence of the Artist as a Response to Ninteenth Century Philistinism.
Under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Vincent
February 2005
Nicolas Ducommun The Influence of the Noh in W. B. Yeats’s Drama.
Under the supervision of Prof. David Spurr
October 2004
Adam Shaw Three Honourable Men : The Hero and the Notion of Honour in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays.
Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Graham
October 2004
Natacha Graber Indian English. A “non-native” variety of English and its use in Switzerland.
Under the supervision of Cornelia Tschichold
September 2004
Simona Golisciano Home and Homelessness in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.
Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Graham
September 2004
Patrick Duss Yeat’s Concept of the Hero in the King’s Threshold, On Baile’s Strand, Deirdre and Selected Poems.
Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Graham
September 2004
Cornelia Loosli Allemand British students and their attitudes towards foreign languages.
Under the supervision of Cornelia Tschichold
July 2004
Serena Ferrari An American in Paris. Exile, identity and socio-political issues in selected works of James Balwin.
Under the supervision of Boris Vejdovsky
May 2004
Isabelle Grandjacquet The problem of conscience in Hamlet and Macbeth.
Under the supervision of Prof. David Spurr
May 2004
Anne Laure Cordey Satire in Byron’s Don Juan and Tirso des Molina’s The Trickster of Seville.
Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Graham
July 2003
Yves Kocher Pound: Signs of Life.
Under the supervision of Profs. Kenneth Graham and David Spurr
June 2003
Gabriella Herold Switzerland in English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to Byron and Ruskin.
Under the supervision of Prof. David Spurr
June 2003
