University of Bamberg
open search form
You are here

Humanities Faculty

Chair of English Literature

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. Chair of English Literature
  7. Team
  8. Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß
  9. Supervision

Habilitation / second book

first supervisor

  • Münderlein, Kerstin-Anja. “The Construction of Femininities and Masculinities in British Golden Age Crime Fiction.” Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

external reviewer

  • Hackenesch, Silke. “Colorblind Love or Racial Responsibility? (Black) Adoptive Families in Postwar America and Transnational Civil Rights.” University of Cologne, 2023.
  • Tronicke, Marlena. “Configurations of Empire in Neo-Victorian Fictions.” Universität Münster, 2023.

PhD

first supervisor

  • Schwieren, Lily. “‘What Virtue Can There Be in Water?’ The Fluidity of Gender, Genre, and Theatrical Practices in the Works of John Lyly” (working title). Cotutelle with Prof. Dr. Lena Steveker, Université du Luxembourg.

second supervisor

  • Brändle, Lara. “Discourses of Motherhood and Femininity in Neo-Victorian Literature” (working title). Oslo, first supervisor: Dr. Stuart Mcwilliams.
  • Beyvers, Sarah Elisabeth. 2025. “Walk Like a Victorian: Spatial Engagement and Embodied Mobility in Neo-Victorian Video Games.” Passau, first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucia Krämer.
  • Gerlsbeck, Silvia. 2023. “New Portraits: Authorship, Masculinity, and the Artist as ‚Other‘ in the Anglo-Caribbean Künstlerroman, 1954–1991.” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann.
  • Jasenowski, Jaroslaw. 2022. “The Rites of Truth – Performing Factuality in John Dunton’s Athenian Cosmos.” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer.

MA thesis

  • 2025. "Shifting Perceptions: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Temporal Relations in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and The Waves." Bamberg.
  • 2025. “Constructing Otherness: Psychoanalysis, Feminist Critique, and the Politics of Exclusion in Frankenstein and Poor Things.” Bamberg.
  • 2025. “Detecting Identity: Girl Sleuths and the Formation of Selfhood in Children’s Historical Boarding School Mysteries.” Bamberg.
  • 2025. “Subverting Gender Roles: Narration and Characterisation in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Portrait of a Lady.” Bamberg.
  • 2020. “'Look at this place. Isn’t it wrong?': Four Doctors and the Representation of Dystopian Spaces in Doctor Who (BBC, 2005-2017).” Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Zulassungsarbeit

  • 2025. "The Subversion of Gender Roles in Sally Rooney’s Normal People: A Feminist Analysis of Intimacy, Body, and Power.” Bamberg.

BA thesis

  • 2025. "'My Friend […] the Harlot': Transgressive Heterosocial Bonds in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk." Bamberg.
  • 2025. "Places make the man: Psychogeographical Exploration of Places in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London.” Cologne.
  • 2025. "Performing Gender Identities: An Analysis of Sex Education (Netflix, 2019-23)." Cologne.
  • 2024. “Transgression and Control in Feminist Dystopia: Alderman’s The Power and Mackintosh’s The Water Cure." Cologne.
  • 2024. "Metafiction and (Un)Reliability: A Feminist Analysis of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and the 2023 Film Adaptation." Cologne.
  • 2024. "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Navigating Hybrid Identity and Belonging in Late 20th-Century Black British Literature." Cologne.
  • 2024. "Ballet, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the Question of Accessibility." Cologne.
  • 2024. “Subverting Heteronormativity in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens and Its Adaptation.” Cologne.
  • 2024. "Space and the Role of Women in the Victorian Social Novel: Gaskell’s North and South and Disraeli’s Sybil, or The Two Nations.” Cologne.
  • 2024. "Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st-Century Coming-of-Age Novel: Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water." Cologne.
  • 2024. “Gender, Sexuality and Trans Bodies in Horror Literature: Transgression in Stoker’s Dracula and in the Works of Clive Barker.” Cologne.
  • 2024. "Anti-Semitism and Queerness in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice." Cologne.
  • 2023. "The ‘New’ Monstrous Feminine? The Femme Fatale and the Female Gaze in Killing Eve." Cologne.
  • 2023. "Affect and Female Friendships in Sally Rooney’s Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland." Cologne.
  • 2023. "Queer Identities in Fleabag: A Critical Reading of the TV Series." Cologne.
  • 2022. "Cosmopolitan Intersectionality in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels." Frankfurt/Main.
  • 2022. "Gender Roles and Narrative in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials: The Collision of Feminism and Female Stereotyping." Frankfurt/Main.