Completed

• Christoph Loreck, The Classical Tradition as a Magic Thread: John Keats and the 'Labyrinthian Path to Eminence in Art' (2005).
• Sybille Pärsch, Differenz und Interdependenz: Die Krise der Metaerzählungen und ihre Folgen in Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses und Don DeLillos Underworld (2007).
• Stephanie Egger-Gajardo, Das Prinzip Unentrinnbarkeit: Heteronormativität in Werken von Angela Carter und Christine Brooke-Rose (2008).
• Meike DeVries, Das Theodizee-Problem bei Thomas Hardy (2009).
• Elżbieta Baraniecka, Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s (2011). [CDE Bi-Annual Award].
• David R. Kerler, Postmoderne Palimpseste: Studien zur (meta-)hermeneutischen Tiefenstruktur intertextueller Erzählverfahren im Gegenwartsroman (2011). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013] [Universitätspreis der Universität Augsburg für die beste Dissertation des Jahres 2011]
• Georg Hauzenberger, 'It's Not by Any Lack of Ghosts We're Haunted': First Nations Gothic and Spiritual Realism (2013). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014].
• Adina Sorian, Reading the Real: Toward a Reevaluation of Lacanian Theory in the Study of Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film (2015) [Wissenschaftspreis der Universität Augsburg].
• Gerald Farca, Playing Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player’s Aesthetics Response
• Martin Riedelsheimer, The Fiction of Infinity: Ethics in the Contemporary Novel
• Korbinian Stöckl, Conceptions of Love in Contemporary Drama

In Progress

• Christian Attinger, The Theatre of Philip Ridley [Arbeitstitel];
• Alexander Lehner, Metagames: Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Videogames [Arbeitstitel];
• Eva Ries, Flânerie as Technique of Self: Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Anglophone Flânerie Texts [Arbeitstitel];
• Christina Schönberger, The Interplay of Distance and Closeness: (Narrative) Strategies in Second and Third Person Autobiographical Writing [Arbeitstitel];
• Leila Michelle Vaziri, Politics, Psychology and Philosophy in Contemporary British Drama: The Theatre of Anxiety [Arbeitstitel];
• Anja Weller, Affect and the Aesthetics of Trauma Narration in Utopian and Dystopian Speculative Fiction [Arbeitstitel]

Completed

• Christina Wald, Spectres of Transubstantiation: The Eucharist, Disguise and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014).
• Christoph Henke, The Discourse of Common Sense in  the  Literature  and  Culture  of Early Eighteenth-­Century Britain: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014)
• David Kerler, The Archive Fever of the Romantics: Melancholia, Memory, and Spectrality [Working titel]

In Progress