Current PhD-Projects
- Hanrahan, Anna. Narrating Irish Identity in Celtic Tiger Drama.
- Kerski, Eva. The Representation of Family Concepts in Post-Conflict Irish Drama.
- Preuß, Lukas. Dislocated Irishness: Nation, Race, and the Politics of Contemporary Irish-American Identity Fiction
Completed PhD-Projects
- Becker, Daniel. On the Threshold of Memory: National History and Liminality in Contemporary Irish Poetry. WVT, 2021. <>https://www.efacis.eu/content/irish-studies-europe-vol-ix-threshold-memory-national-history-and-liminal-remembrance>
Completed MA-Projects
- Danisz, Celine (MEd 2026), “The Intersection of Class and Gender in George Egerton’s The Wheel of God and Katherine C. Thurston’s John Chilcote, M.P.” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Hof zum Ahaus, Ben Walter Josef (MEd 2026), “Jan Carson’s Magic Realism: Narrating Northern Ireland’s Past, Present and Future” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Knorr, Carolin(MEd 2026), “Intimacy and Distance: Digital Communication and Social Relationships in Selected Novels by Sally Rooney” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Ramos, Karen (MEd 2026), “Irish Trauma Fiction of the Twenty-First Century: Anne Enright’s The Gathering (2007) and Elaine Feeney’s Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way (2025)” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and R. Sommer)
- Öztürk, Elif (MEd 2025), “The Representation of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Two Contemporary Irish Novels” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Uhl, Lioba (MEd, 2024), “The Representation of Human Agency in Contemporary Irish Historical Fiction” (K. Rennhak and Jan Rupp)
- Isaeva, Daria (MA 2023), “Re-Imagining Irish Identity in Irish Revisionist Historical Fiction” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Conradt, Lisanne (MEd, 2022), „Lehrmittel zum Thema Murals of Belfast“ (supervisors: Kristian Wolf and K. Rennhak)
- Jörgens, Silke (MEd, 2020), “Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It and Anna Burns’s Milkman: Two Irish Trauma Narratives in Comparison” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Riesch, Melanie A. (MEd, 2020), „Three Perspectives on Education around 1800: The Politics and Aesthetics of Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth and Martineau“ (supervisors: K. Rennhak and B. Spengler)
- El-Fourasi, Malika (MA Editions- und Dokumentwissenschaft, 2019), “Walter Macken: Short Stories. Eine kritische (Teil)Edition” (supervisors: W. Lukas and K. Rennhak)
- Vöcking, Jan (MEd, 2019), “The Gendering of Identity Crises in Sebastian Barry’s ‘Dunne Series’” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Frey, Jennifer (Med, 2019) “Contemporary Irish Trauma Fiction: Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy (1992), Anne Enright, The Gathering (2007) and Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture (2008)” (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Schmitz, Lena (MEd, 2017), „Women in Exile: The Semantics of Space in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and Sebastian Barry's On Canaan's Side“ (supervisors: K. Rennhak and S. Heinen)
- Marschall, Leandra (MEd, 2017), “Gender and Exile: Three Contemporary Novels of Development” [McCourt, Angela's Ashes (1996), O'Brien The Light of Evening (2006), Tóibín, Brooklyn (2009)] (supervisors: K. Rennhak and R. Sommer)
- Niesen, Yvonne (MA A/A, 2017), „Representing Gender in the 21st Century in Three Historical Novels about the Famine“ (supervisors: K. Rennhak and R. Sommer)
- Kerski, Eva (MA Editions- und Dokumentwissenschaft, 2015), “Teiledition der Typoskripte zu Walter Mackens ‘The Scorching Wind’ aus dem Macken-Nachlass der Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal” (supervisors R. Nutt-Kofoth and K. Rennhak)
- Wibbing, Frankziska (MEd, 2013), „Reconstructing Irish History in Selected Novels by Sebastian Barry“ (supervisors: K. Rennhak and Roy Sommer)
