Please find below the titles of some B.A. and M.A. theses that Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher has supervised.
M.A. Theses Supervised (Selection)
Communicating the End of our World: An Ecocritical Analysis of Climate Crisis Narration in Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth |
Environmental Education and Emotional Engagement: An Ecopedagogical Literary Analysis of Richard Power's The Overstory |
Gender and Violence in Susanne Collin’s The Hunger Games Trilogy |
The Politics of Lost Voices: Identity (De-)Construction in Elif Shafak's Three Daughters of Eve and Elif Batuman's The Idiot |
Jewish Stories? References to Jewishness and the Holocaust in Marvel’s X-Men |
How Medieval Traditions of Monsters Justified Settler Colonialism in North America: Monstrous Representations of Native Americans between 1606 and 1634 |
Survivance in the Second Apocalypse: Reading Indigenous Speculative Fiction |
Sometimes life's a bitch and then you keep living": Existentialist and Nihilist Reflections in Contemporary Adult Animated Series |
The Concept of Love in Sapphic Romance: Reading Contemporary American Romance Novels with bell hooks's Framework of Radical Love |
B. A. Theses Supervised
Maternal Figures and Caregivers as Sources of Terror in Stephen King's Carrie and Misery |
Representations of Hawai'i in Mainstream US-American Romantic Comedies |
"I’m proud to be black like me": Mickey Guyton and Black Country Music |
The Dilemma of Social Justice in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Bastille’s “Four Walls (The Ballad of Perry Smith)" |
Religion, Gender, and the Representation of Witches in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina |
"Through the Trees": Genre, Spectatorship and Female Monstrosity in Karyn Kusama's Jennifer's Body (USA 2009)” |
Promoting Climate Literacy through Science Fiction: The Environmental Potential of Frank Herbert's Dune |
Digital Black Feminism in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah |
"There is something seriously wrong with her": Establishing Girlhood in Stranger Things |
Sexuality and Virtue in 1980s and 1990s American Teenage Movies |
Representations of Mental Health Issues in the TV Series Euphoria |
"For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be": Material Imagination in the Work of Cormac McCarthy |
Power, Gender Roles, and Reproductive Politics in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks" |
"am, I am, I am": The Reconciliation of Discipline and Deviance in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar |
Reading Weird Fiction as Ecofiction: Ecophobia and Climate Anxiety in H.P. Lovecraft’s "The Color out of Space" (1927) and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (2014) |
Americanness in Barack Obama's Promised Land |
Fashioning Film Space: A Closer Look at the Effect of Costume, Set Design and Sound in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013) |
Climate Change Education and Satire in Adam MacKay's Don't Look Up (2021) |
The Conflict of Gender, Religion and Technoscience in the TV Series The Handmaid's Tale |
Maddened Whale and Squealing Hogs – Animal Innocence in Moby Dick and The Jungle |
The Metamorphoses of Circe: The Development of Feminist Narratives in Modern Rewritings of Greek Mythology |
Space, Perspective, and Mental Illness in The Woman in the Window (2021) |
Exploring Masculinity in Early Postwar Combat Films about WWII |