Habilitation Prize

Habilitation Prize
This year’s habilitation award went to Sarah Fekadu Uthoff (LMU München) for her thesis titled “Ethiopianism: Discourse and Desire in the Old and New World, 1750 to Today.”
The shortlist included Peter Muntigl for his thesis on “Interaction in Psychotherapy Managing Relationships in Emotion-Focused Treatments of Depression,” Alexander Scherr for his thesis on “The Literature of Incompletion: Essayistic Forms of Life in the Anglophone Novel from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century,” and Mark Schmitt for his cumulative thesis on “Precarious Temporalities: Prefigurations of the Future between Utopianism and Pessimism in Cultural and Literary Studies.” We warmly congratulate the award winner and the shortlisted authors.
The laudatory speech was given by PD Dr. Nadine Böhm-Schnitker.
The prize worth 1500€ will next be awarded in 2028.
The following were awarded:
Shortlist: Peter Muntigl: "Interaction in Psychotherapy Managing Relationships in Emotion-Focused Treatments of Depression" Alexander Scherr: "The Literature of Incompletion: Essayistic Forms of Life in the Anglophone Novel from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century" Mark Schmitt: "Precarious Temporalities: Prefigurations of the Future between Utopianism and Pessimism in Cultural and Literary Studies."
Valentin Werner: „Performed Language: Theory, Description, and Application.“
Sven Strasen: „Rezeptionstheorien: Literatur-, sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und kulturelle Modelle.“
Lieselotte Anderwald: „Non-Standard Verb Paradigms in Traditional British English Dialects: Morphological Naturalness and Comparative Dialect Grammar.“