Prof. Dr. Katrin Berndt
Raum 2.11
Tel. 0345 55-23522
Fax 0345 55-27272
E-Mail: katrin.berndt@anglistik.uni-halle.de
Werdegang
Research Areas
- British Literature and Culture in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- ‘Second World(s)’: Contemporary Perspectives on Cold War East and Central Europe
- British Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Anglophone African and Canadian Writing
- Feminism (Political, Literary, and Social History of Women’s Rights)
Teaching & Supervision
Students interested in writing their final theses (BA, MA, WH StEx) under my supervision, please
- Make sure your ideas fall into one of the areas* given below,
- Sign up for my office hour (via StudIP), and
- Submit a short draft (max. 300 words in bullet points with your main ideas for topic, approach, and primary sources) at least three days in advance of the appointment.
*Representation of the Cold War in British Literature and Film
*The British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
*British Culture, Politics, and Society since WWII
*Twentieth-Century and Contemporary British Writers
*Transcultural Anglophone Writing
*Adaptations, Intertextuality, Multimodal Narratives
Examples of previous supervisions
‘Every Age Gets the Bond It Needs’: Representation of Twenty-First-Century Britain in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre (MA)
Sisterhood in Jane Austen’s Novels: The Social and Emotional Importance of Female Bonds in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma (MA)
The Representation of Thatcherism in Selected British Films of the New Labour Years (WH StEx)
A Hero’s Journey – Die Harry Potter Heptalogie im Kontext des Monomythos von Joseph Campbell (WH StEx)
The Concept of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (BA)
Narrating Under Milk Wood: Storytelling in Fiction and Film (BA)
Between Fact and Fiction – History in Laura Fish’s Strange Music (BA)