Hanna Wallinger, Univ. Salzburg, Juli 2011
Abgeschlossene Dissertationen (Erstbetreuung):
Marina Bacher: Pioneer African American Educators in Washington, D.C.: Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church
Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes. Salzburg 2008.
Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn: “So There It Is”: An Exploration of Cultural Hybridity in Contemporary Asian
American Poetry.” Salzburg 2009. Publikation: Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn: “So There It Is”: An
Explortion of Cultural Hybridity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry. Cross Cultures 143.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
Andrea Edl. Publikation: Andrea Edl: Vom Ursprung ökokritischen Denkens zu einem kosmopolitanen
Ansatz der urbanen Ökokritik. Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XIV: Angelsächsische
Sprache und Literatur. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.
Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeiten:
1. Petra Zellinger: Identity in Novels by Leslie Marmon Silko and Navarro Scott Momaday (Mai
2005)
2. Astrid Koblmüller: Swordswomen and Urban Warriors: The Female Hero in Maxine Hong
Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Sara Paretsky's
Idemnity Only, Deadlock, and Killing Orders (September 2005) Gewinnerin des Fulbright
Award in American Studies 2006
3. Marina Bacher: Aspects of the History of African American Education and Its Representation in
Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble (Oktober 2005)
4. Leander Leitner: The Problem of Alcoholism in Native American Communities, Leslie Marmon
Silko’s Ceremony and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (März 2006)
5. Elisabeth Spiessberger: The Representation of the “New Nueva York” in Recent Works by Puerto
Rican American Writers in New York City (März 2006)
6. Rosmarie Lindinger Pesendorfer: Michael Moore: Populism, Power and Politics (Juli 2006)
7. Christina Glück: The Portrait of Chinese Americans in Gish Jen's Typical American and Mona in
the Promised Land (Mai 2007)
8. Thomas Plöckinger: William Wells Brown and the History of Slavery (Juni 2007)
9. Stefanie Gradnitzer: Feminisms: Women in Bobbie Ann Mason's Short Stories (Juni 2007)
10. Julia Strohbach: “A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own” - The Cult of
Mourning in Novels by Cummins, Alcott and Kelley-Hawkins (Juni 2007)
11. Tamara Dekum: Illusions of the American Dream: A Comparative Study of Richard Wright's
Native Son and Ann Petry's The Street Regarding Urban Naturalism (Juli 2007)
12. Claudia Alkin: Black and White Women in the Antebellum South: A Literary and Historical
Analysis. (Juli 2007)
13. Philipp Rigott: Americans in Europe: Edith Wharton's and Henry James's International Theme
(Juli 2007)
14. Theresa Geier: The Issue of Abortion and John Irving’s Novel The Cider House Rules (Juni 2008)
15. Stefanie Powell: Cognitive Disability, Exceptionality and Identity in Contemporary American
Literature: Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Jonatham Lethem’s Motherless
Brooklyn and Elizabeth Moon’s Speed of Dark (December 2008)
16. Selma Kreindl: “Mom’s Wacky, Dad’s Distracted, Son Survives”: The Life and Writing of
Augusten Burroughs (July 2009)
17. Gudrun Bogner: “Gazing at My Image”: Identity and Sexual Desire in Novels of Passing (Juli
2009)
18. Katrin Rudek: African American Female Crime Fiction in the 1990s by Eleanor Taylor Bland,
Barbara Neely, and Valerie Wilson Wesley (Mai 2010)
19. Sabrina Felbermair (Lehramt): The Generic Conventions of Antebellum Slave Narratives (Mai
2010)
20. Stefanie Edlmann: Mother-Daughter Relationships in American Literature: Whitney Otto’s How
to Make an American Quilt, Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Rebecca
Well’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Mai 2010)
21. Stefanie Neumayer: “No Man’s Land”: The American Frontier as Pioneering Territory in Willa
Cather’s Novels of the Soil O Pioneers! and My Ántonia (Mai 2010)
22. Isolde Kraml: Identity in the Borderlands (Mai 2010)
23. Anita Paulic: The Challenge of the One and the Many: Theories and Concepts about Multicultural
Identity in the United States of America (Okt. 2010)
24. Klemens Leitner: Eliot’s Mannerisms: Mannerist Elements and Tendencies in T.S. Eliot’s Early
Poetry up to and Including The Waste Land, (Zweitbetreuer Derek deSilva) (Dez. 2010)
25. Daniela Nowak: „Tell the Historian / Tell the Ugly Truth“: The Underground Railroad in
Historical Accounts and Kathryn Lasky’s Novel True North (Jan. 2011)
26. Maria Fink: Negotiating Black Motherhood: The Black Woman as Mother and Daughter in
Dorothy West’s The Living Is Easy, Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, and Toni
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (März 2011)
27. Susanne Probst: The Representation of African American Protagonists in Frank Yerby’s
Literature (Juni 2011)
28. Katharina Kapsamer: Multiperspectivity in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom
Through Reader-Response and Young Adult Literature (Juli 2011)
29. Christina Koblinger: “What Flag Can We Wave?” Arab-American Literature and the
Multicultural Experience at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Okt. 2011)
30. Sabrina Felbermair (Diplom): ‘Does not slavery itself depress the mind, and extinguish all its fire
and every noble sentiment?‘ Pioneering African American Slave Narrators: Gronniosaw, Equiano,
Smith (Nov. 2011)
31. Martina Sperr: J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer and Young Adult Fantastic Fiction in the EFL
Classroom. (April 2012)
32. Miriam Weber: Wilderness and Civilization in Jack London’s Adventure Stories (Mai 2012)
33. Mag. Katharina Enzinger: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Series between Fiction, History,
and Ideology (Aug. 2012)
34. Susanne Davenport: George S. Schuyler and the African American Satirical Novel Black No More
(Sept. 2012)
35. Paul Nedwed: The Significance of History in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Novels (April 2013)
36. Darija Keca: Fact and Fiction in Jim Crow Riots: Wilmington 1898 and Atlanta 1906 (Juni 2013)
37. Katharina Kapplmüller: Cultural and Religious Encounters: Novels by Muslim American Women
Writers: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf, Neither This Nor That by Aliya Husain,
Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdulla (Juni 2013)
38. Julia Hartinger: Henry David Thoreau in Nature: Contradiction and Diet (Juli 2013)
39. Daniela Maria Dauser: Gender and Race in Selected Writings of Kate Chopin and Grace King
(Aug. 2013)
40. Abigail Ruth Vince, Masterarbeit: “Still the Wind Blows”: Genre Limitation and Its Effect on
Gone With the Wind (Okt. 2013)
41. Mariane Wonneberger: Boston as the World’s Greatest Irish City: Irish Immigrants in Boston
(Okt. 2013)
42. Elisabeth Mühlbacher: Dynamic, Vivid, Genuine: The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees and
the Power of Multicultural Young Adult Literature (Nov. 2013)
43. Katharina Grasböck. The Tragic Mulatto Stereotype: Exploring Howells’s An Imperative Duty,
Harper’s Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted and Chenutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (Dez.
2013)
44. Anna-Katharina Kroiss: Torn Between Chinese Tradition and the Wisdom of the New: An
Analysis of Sui Sin Far’s Short Fiction (März 2014)
45. Miriam Weber (Lehramt): Sons of the Frontier: An Ecocritical Analysis of Hamlin Garland and
Jack London’s Literary Frontiers (Juni 2014)