Membership

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Membership

Membership of the Kolleg requires acceptance as a doctoral candidate in one of the humanities subjects at the University of Kassel. Applications with an exposé and CV can be submitted to the management of the GekKo via the Dean's Office of FB 02 or by email to gekko[at]uni-kassel[dot]de


Applicants are expected to actively participate in the program, present their dissertation project in a plenary session and submit a short interim report approximately 1.5 years after admission to the program.

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Coordinator of the doctoral program:

Christine Riess

Members of the GeKKo (as at September 2025)

Alumni (as of September 2025)

Bachmann, Rebecca (2024): Gedankenexperimente als Vermittlungsinstrumente - Eine diskursanalytische und wissenschaftsphilosophische Neuorientierung. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler.

Bodden, Tamara (2023): Art and money. A discourse-linguistic investigation of documenta 14. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Davin, Sara (2017): "Like Love Is Primal?" The moral vampire as a projection surface for gender discourse in current US-American TV series. Kassel: kup.

Djinkpor, Essi Mawusé (2018): Diplomatic skills and gender: conflict resolution and peacemaking in the courtly novel. Kassel: kup. 

Döhn, Raphael (2020): Man in responsibility. The theodicy question in Hans Jonas, Dorothee Sölle and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Berlin: Logos publishing house.

Faßhauer, Daniel (2015): Kirche, Jugend, Internet. The Regional Church of Kurhessen Waldeck on the Internet - Accessibility and involvement of the young generation after confirmation by means of a special homepage. Kassel: kup.

Fischer, Andrea (2019) Kingly power, desire, adultery and murder - The story of David, Bathsheba and Uriah (2 Sam 11). Berlin: Lit.

Frevert, Mareike (2015): Wissenschaft der Synthese - Ein Ansatz zur wissenschaftsphilosophischen Bestimmung der Chemie. Kassel: kup.

George, Kristin (2025): Grammatical staging of memory processes. An empirical study of aggregative structures in texts of Nazi father literature. Lausanne: Peter Lang.

Haase, Daniel (2019): Jesus' way to the Gentiles. The geographical concept of the Gospel of Mark. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

Höllein, Dagobert: (2019): Prepositional object vs. adverbial. The semantic roles of prepositional objects. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter.

Holzapfel, Kathrin (2014): "I love only a few pictures!" : Georg Forster, art and its description. Hamburg: Igel Verlag.

Hühne, Tanja (2022): Parables read contextually. An editorial-historical-narratological study of the parables of the sower, the mustard seed and the evil vinedressers. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

Issel-Dombert, Sandra (2019): Language history as text type history. On the linguistics of complaint using the example of the "cahiers de doléances". Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann.

Juschka, Katrin (2015): "Hallowed be your name!" An interpretative-historical study of the sanctification of names in the Lord's Prayer. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

Kadenbach, Dorothea (2016): Business dialog management in French trade fair construction : a pragmalinguistic analysis of conversational strategies in business-to-business. Kassel: kup.

Kalwa, Nina (2013): The concept of "Islam". A discourse-linguistic investigation. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Klug, Nina-Maria (2012): The confessional pamphlet 1563-1580. A study in historical semiotics and textual analysis. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Kölczer, Anna-Theresa (2017): Able (or unable) to relate? On the reception of a mythological animal-human relation in Konrad von Megenberg's hoopoe example. In: Diversely intertwined: Interdisciplinary contributions to animal-human relationality. Bielefeld: transcript.

Konopatzki, Janina (2020): Roberto Bolaño's Wanderer on the Edge of the World : an approach to the recurring figures in Bolaño's prose. Kassel: kup.

Kotowski, Sven (2016): Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions. The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Langlotz, Miriam (2014): Junction and writing development. An empirical study of narrative and argumentative student texts. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Lanmadousselo, Jupiter (2021): Environmental ethics in Beninese folktales : examined in the fairy tales of the Fon people with a side glance at the Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Kassel: kup.

Lautenschläger, Sina (2017): Gender-specific body and role images. A corpus linguistic study. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Leistner, Annika (2016): Syntactic integration in speech rendition : an investigation of direct and non-direct speech rendition forms in literary texts. Kassel: kup.

Madeheim, Marvin (2022): When characters look at art. Image references and their didactic potential. Munich: kopaed.

Maubach, Bernd (2012): Auskältung: On the aesthetics of Heiner Müller's radio plays. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.

Mayer, Annika (2022): Space and (dis)orientation in contemporary French-language drama (1980-2000) : Bernard-Marie Koltès, Marie Redonnet, Patrick Kehrmann, Valère Novarina. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attemtpo.

Meng, Xiaoguo

Milevski, Urania (2016): Voices and spaces of violence. Narratives of rape in contemporary German literature. Bielefeld: Aisthesis publishing house.

Möller, Beate (2019): The Spanish regions in the Age of Enlightenment: literary representations and political-economic reform. Berlin/Ben/Vienna: Peter Lang.

Münkner, Jörn (2008): Intervening and grasping. Manipulations and visualizations in pamphlets of the early modern period. Berlin: Schmidt.

Olson, Agnes Madeleine (2017): Peer-assisted foreign language reading and achievement heterogeneity. A qualitative study. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Edition.

Pfeffer, Sarah (2016): "Palms require translation" : Derek Walcott's poetry in German : three case studies. Kassel: kup.

Raabe, Manuel (2022): "God Was Never On Your Side!" - Images of God and criticism of religion in rock and metal music. Kassel: kup, 2022.

Radkowsky, Britta (2024): Literature and film reporting as a journalistic field. Vampire narratives in German feuilletons. Kassel: kup.

Raue, Natascha: Reference to names. An empirically based study on metalinguistic uses of names of lexicalized concepts.

Siedschlag, Katharina

Simmen-Host, Alexandra (2018): The mysterious Gospel of Mark. An examination of the apparent mystery of the Messiah, Kassel: kup.

Steffen, Martina (2012): Linguistic blunders: Verleser. A pluridimensional analysis of Spanish language recordings from Uruguay. Kiel: Westensee-Verlag.

Stoye, Hélène (2014): Les connecteurs contenant des prépositions en français. Profils sémantiques et pragmatiques en synchronie et diachronie. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Timm, Julian (2023): The narrated anti-Semitism. The Narrative of the 'Jewish World Conspiracy' from its Literary Origins to the Present Day. Wallstein Verlag.

Vent, Antja

Wehde, Christian (2022): Autobiographical argumentation and self-presentation in Galatians. Gal 1:11-2:21 against the background of ancient autobiography and epistolography. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Weitemeyer, Anna

Weßel, Matthias (2021): Arthur Koestler. The genesis of a writer in exile. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Zaychenko, Katharina (2024). The representation of motion events in English and German - An empirical investigation of grammatical versus lexical aspect and cognitive factors determining motion event conceptualization of native speakers and learners. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.