Thesis Day – Masterkolloquium WS 2025/2026
Want to learn about your fellow students' research? Planning to write your BA or MA thesis soon and looking for advice and inspiration?
Then come and attend Thesis Day on January 14, 2026! Thesis Day serves as the larger context for the obligatory Masterkolloquium Anglistik/Amerikanistik, where students writing their MA theses will present their research and answer questions on it.
As a special feature for the day, you will also have the opportunity to speak to potential thesis supervisors in English and American Studies and learn about their expectations and fields of interest.
Everyone is welcome! If you are unable to attend the whole day, that is fine – you are free to come and go at any point between panels.
Food and drinks are provided.
In order to register, please contact Kai Zurkuhl before December 3, 2025: kai.zurkuhl@tu-dortmund.de
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Wed 14 January, 2026
8.30am - 3.30pm
IBZ, Emil-Figge-Str. 59, 44227 Dortmund
Schedule: tba
Schedule for the Day
Chair: Sarah Buschfeld
08.30 Inga Körner
Breaking Boundaries – Metalepsis, Agency and Transgressive Technology in Daniel Mullins’ Video Games (Pöhlmann/Sezer)
08.45 Fatih Tokgöz
Representation of Religion in Video Games (Pöhlmann)
09.00 Fiona Newzella
Narrating the Wound: Melancholia, Ritual and Collective “Healing” in Contemporary Asian American Cinema (Sezer/Pöhlmann)
09.15 Fabio Wortmann
Video Games and Social Competence at Grundschule Wehringhausen in Hagen (Pöhlmann/Sezer)
09.30 Yannik Klein
Mediality in the Music of Kendrick Lamar (Pöhlmann)
09.45 Annika Dillhage
Performing Queerness: Didactic Potential of Queer Graphic Narratives (Pöhlmann/Sezer)
Chair: Susanne Ehrenreich
10.15 Leonie Weiler
The Effect of Exposure to Different Varieties of English on Students’ Attitudes Towards Them (Buschfeld/Neumaier)
10.30 Lea Roeing
Chronic Illness as a Narrative Element in Popular Romance Fiction (Röder)
10.45 Sophia Brinkert
A Contemporary Regency Woman? Kate Sharma and the Representation of Women in Austen, Quinn, and Bridgerton Season 2 (Lenz/Slopek-Hauff)
11.00 Marvin Manz
Narrating Climate Change: Indigenous Perspectives in the Works of Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, Cherie Dimaline and Claire G. Coleman (Bell)
11.15 Sinah Vogt
Destructive Love and Gothic Archetypes: Exploring the Legacy of Wuthering Heights in the Modern Young Adult Novels After and It Only Happens in the Movies (Röder/Lenz)
Chair: Heike Steinhoff
13.15 Aylin Yildiz
From Experience to Practice: How Personal Encounters with Language Policy Shape Attitudes toward Implementing Multilingualism in Classrooms (Glass)
13.30 Jonna Ernst
Language around Violence in EFL Textbooks (Garcia)
13.45 Simja Tietz
BELF across Different Hierarchies and Jobroles in a German Logistics Company (Ehrenreich)
14.00 Patrick Küper
Measuring the Impact of an AI-Based Writing Assistant on EFL Students’ Self-Assessment of Their Writing Proficiency: An Intervention Study at a Vocational School in Dortmund (Püster/Ehrenreich)
14.15 Hasan Yilmazer
Between Innovation and Skepticism: AI Acceptance among Preservice English Teachers (Püster/Ehrenreich)
14.30 Janina Pecher
Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Language Teaching – A Case Study (Püster/Rottschäfer)
Chair: Katrin Röder
15.00 Lisa Schönert
“I need some Music.” – A Musicological Reading of Toni Morrison’s Fiction (Klemm/Laemmerhirt)
15.15 Elma Sapcanovic
How Does Mario Susko Negotiate His Shattered, Bicultural Identity as an Exile and Survivor Through Trauma, Language Critique, and Cultural Critique in Versus Exsul? (Grünzweig/Sattler)
15.30 Fabienne Rink
Breaking the Cycle of Silence – Three El Salvadoran Authors in Exile Seek Change (Laemmerhirt/Grünzweig)
15.45 Henrike Bischoff
Endurance and Elimination: THE LONG WALK (1979) and the Phenomenon of Endurance Running (Laemmerhirt/Grünzweig)
16.00 Lea Liebscher
Gendered Protest in Radical (Eco)activist Groups (Sezer)