Dissertation Prize

The German Association for the Study of English awards the Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of English studies.

Suggestions can be submitted by the dissertation reviewers as well as by the candidates themselves, provided they are members of the association. Excellent dissertations in the field of English studies (literature, culture, and linguistics, as well as didactics) that have been completed within the last three years (the date of defense is relevant) are eligible for nomination.

The following were awarded:

Year

awarded

2021

Theresa Neumaier: "Patterns of Conversational Interaction in Varieties of English"

Martin Riedelsheimer: "Fictions of Infinity: Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels"

2018

Heidi Liedke: "There is no joy but calm: Idleness, Traveling, and Idle Travellers in the Victorian Age"

Michael Westphal: "Linguistic Variation in Jamaican Radio"

2015

Mareile Schramm: "The emergence of creole syllable structure: An empirical investigation of six Caribbean creoles"

Jan Wilm: "The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee"

2012

Joanna Rostek: "Seaing through the Past. Postmodern Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction"

2008

Stella Butter: "Literatur als Medium kultureller Selbstreflexion: Literarische Transversalität und Vernunftkritik in englischen und amerikanischen Gegenwartsromanen aus funktionsgeschichtlicher Perspek"

2005

Sebastian Hoffmann: "English Complex Prepositions: Theory and Use. A Corpus-Based Study"

Kai Merten: "Antike Mythen – Mythos Antike: Posthumanistische Antikerezeption in der englischsprachigen Lyrik der Gegenwart"

2002

Stephanie Hackert: "I did done gone: Typological, sociolinguistic, and discourse-pragmatic perspectives on past temporal reference in urban Bahamian Creole English"

1999

Magnus Huber: "Ghanaian Pidgin English. A sociohistorical and structural analysis"

Christoph Reinfandt: "Der Sinn der fiktionalen Wirklichkeiten. Ein systemtheoretischer Entwurf zur Ausdifferenzierung des englischen Romans vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart"

1996

Marianne Hundt: "New Zealand English and Its Relation to British and American English: A Corpus-based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation"

1993

Christoph Irmscher: "Masken der Moderne: Literarische Selbststilisierung bei T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, und William Carlos Williams"

Andreas Mahler: "Moderne Satireforschung und elisabethanische Verssatire. Texttheorie – Epistemologie – Gattungsgeschichte"

1990

Wolfgang Herrlinger: "Sentimentalismus und Postsentimentalismus: Studien zum englischen Roman bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts"