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:

Year
awarded
2025
Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff: "Ethiopianism: Discourse and Desire in the Old and New World, 1750 to Today."
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."
2022
Joanna Rostek: „Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age: Towards a Transdisciplinary Herstory of Economic Thought.“

Valentin Werner: „Performed Language: Theory, Description, and Application.“
2019
Nadine Böhm-Schnitker: „Senses and Sensations: Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel.“
2016
Carolin Biewer: „South Pacific Englishes. A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English.“
2013
Jan Alber: „Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama.“
2010
Erik Redling: „From Mimesis to Metaphor: Intermedial Translations in Jazz Poetry.“

Sven Strasen: „Rezeptionstheorien: Literatur-, sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und kulturelle Modelle.“
2007
Roger Lüdeke: „Ästhetische Souveränität und das politische Imaginäre des 18. Jahrhunderts. Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake.“

Lieselotte Anderwald: „Non-Standard Verb Paradigms in Traditional British English Dialects: Morphological Naturalness and Comparative Dialect Grammar.“
2004
Stefan Horlacher: „Masculinities: Konzeptionen von Männlichkeit im Werk von Thomas Hardy und D.H. Lawrence.“
2001
Burkhard Niederhoff: „The Rule of Contrary: Das Paradox in der englischen Komödie der Restaurationszeit und des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts.“
1995
Jürgen Kamm: „Der Diskurs des heroischen Dramas: Eine Untersuchung zur Ästhetik dialogischer Kommunikation in der englischen Restaurationszeit.“
1992
Werner Wolf: „Ästhetische Illusion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst: Theorie und Geschichte mit Schwerpunkt auf englischem illusionsstöremden Erzählen.“
1988
Christoph Bode: „Ästhetik der Ambiguität: Zu Funktion und Bedeutung von Mehrdeutigkeit in der Literatur der Moderne.“