PhD Candidates

Nasrin Babakhani
n.babakhani(at)gmail.com | LinkedIn Profile
Project title: "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Literary Magical Realism"
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Lisa Bölinger
Project title: "Narrating Nonhuman Lives: Animal Subjectivities in North American Literature"


Ashley Chandler
ashley.chandler(at)zess.uni-goettingen.de | ashleyvchandler(at)gmail.com
Project title: "Daring and Disabled: The Power of Physically Challenged Superheroes in American Comic Books"
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Mohan Ding
Project title: "Chinese American Poets Avant-Garde or Nostalgia Poetics?"


Phillip James Grider
Project title: "Non-Human Agency in Early North American Media"


Wiebke Kartheus
Project title: "Museum Studies as American Studies"


Bochao Liu
Project title: "The epistemological transformation in American literary criticism (since 1990): poetics revisited and the Voegelinian paradigm"



Mohammad Sadegh Najjarzadeha
m.najjarzadeha(at)stud.uni-goettingen.de | ResearchGate Profile
Project title: "The Influence of Traumatic Violence on Individual and Collective Identity: An Interdisciplinary Discourse and a Literary Critical Analysis of American Postmodern Society"
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