Recent ILCS Students

Some of the Institute's research students, who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations. Completion date is given in brackets, together with the topic of the dissertation.

PhD

Federico Filauri (2024)
Topic: Ernst Bloch's Messianism: The Inheritance of a Theological Trope and its Political-Philosophical Significance

Carlos Piccone Camere (2023)
Topic: Beyond the Bulls: The Life and Afterlives of St Francisco Solano. Unravelling the First Canonisation Process in the New World

Jack Arscott (2023)
Topic: Treading a Fine Line: Enlightened Patriotism in Practice in the Left-Wing Journalism of the Weimar Republic

Mario Graña (2023)
Topic: Nueva Toledo on Display: The Politics, Theatre and Paperwork of Making War on the Chiriguanaes through the Punitive Expeditions of Almendras, Toledo and Lozano Machuca (1564-1586)

Francielle Carpenado (2021)
Topic: Social media Languages, Authenticities and Affordances: Brazilian Food Discourses in the UK

Angharad Mountford (2020)
Topic: The Female German Exile in Post-War London

Stephanie Homer (2020)
Topic: Issues of Trauma, Identity and Postmemory in Kindertransport Fiction
Freelance Researcher and Editor

Sharon Baker (2020)
Topic: From Satire to Silence: Hans Ssachs' Commentary on Civic Decline
Sylvia Naish Visiting Fellow (2021-22)

Nicola Sayers (2016)
Topic: Suburban Nostalgia, Hope and Longing in Contemporary American Literature and Culture: A Blochean Perspective
Freelance Researcher

Steven Jefferson (2016)
Topic: Forgetting Cultural Memory: Shifting Representations of the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe after 1945
Freelance Researcher/Lecturer

Jana Buresova (2015)
Topic: The Dynamics of Forced Female Migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1938-1950
Freelance Researcher/Lecturer

Arnhilt Höffle (2014)
Topic: The Reception History of Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) in the Chinese-Speaking World
Erwin Schrödinger Fellow (Berkeley/Hamburg)

Jochen Hung (2012)
Topic: The Newspaper Tempo and the End of the Weimar Republic
Lecturer (University of Utrecht)

Raymond C. Coffer (2011)
Topic: The Relationship of Richard Gerstl and Arnold Schönberg (1906-1908) and its Impact on the Artistic Works

Isabel Schropper (2010)
Topic: Austrian Female Migration to Britain, 1945-1960
Teacher (Jüdisches Berufliches Bildungszentrum, Vienna)

Stefan Stadthaus (2010)
Topic: 'Deutsche Jugend wohin?' Eine Untersuchung des Generationsdiskurses nach dem 2. Weltkrieg der 'jungen Generation'
 

MRes

Zachary Eastop (2021)
Dissertation: Adapting Panurge

Haiyun Liu (2021)
Latin American Studies

Roberto León Miranda (2021)
Dissertation: Representations of the 'Insider' and the 'Outsider' in Belle Epoque Paris: Lautrec, Maupassant and Daudet

Katherine Ferrufino (2018)
Dissertation: Education Policy and Practice: Guarani Language in Paraguay and Bolivia post-1992

Margaret May (2018)
Dissertation: Objects and Jewish Identity in Fictional Works by Georg Hermann, Barbara Honigmann and Katja Petrowskaja

Stephanie Homer (2016)
Dissertation: How Do Hilde Spiel, Elisabeth Castonier, and Judith Kerr Redefine the Gendered Concept of Heimat in their Autobiographical Fiction?