FANTASTIC BODY TRANSFORMATIONS

DISSERTATION NETWORK: AKTION ÖSTERREICH-UNGARN

„Human Bodies in British Fantastic Literature“
project number: 59öu19
Jan 2005 – Dec 2006

Project leader: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner,
Project partners:  György Endre Szönyi and Sarolta Marinovich Resch

The dissertation network between the Universities of Salzburg and Szeged enables seven PhD students (three from Szeged, four from Salzburg), whose dissertation theses are closely linked in terms of topic and method, to exchange their knowledge in two workshops per year, where they can present their state of research and discuss theories relevant to the study of the human body in fantastic literature. 

Participants and the topics of their dissertations: 
Rita Antoni (Szeged): „Postmodern Feminist Gothic“ 
Christina Grabner (Salzburg): „The Concept of Border in J.R.R.Tolkien“ 
Sarah Herbe (Salzburg): „Genetic Engineering in British Science Fiction“ 
Anna Kérchy (Szeged): „Subversive Bodies and Alternative Languages in Contemporary Women Writers´ Magical Realist Fiction“ 
Gergely Nagy (Szeged): „The Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien“ 
Markus Oppolzer (Salzburg): „Adolescence and Gothic Fiction“ 
Elisabeth Schober (Salzburg): „A Diachronic Study of Romance and Its Relation to the Fantastic“ 

„The Fantastic: Genres and Media of Cultural Representation“
project number: 67öu9
2007-2008

Project leader: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner,
Project partners:  György Endre Szönyi and Sarolta Marinovich Resch

Participants and the topics of their dissertations: 
Rita Antoni (Szeged): „Female Vampires in (post)modern Anglo-American Literature“ 
Korinna Csetényi (Szeged): „The Fantastic in (post)modern Gothic with a Special Interest in Stephen King“
Larisa Kocic (Szeged): „Paradise Lost and Its Fantastic Features“ 
Katalin Kocsis (Szeged): „Representations of Word/image/gender among the Pre-Raphaelites“ 
Zsófia Tóth (Szeged): „The New Woman: Twentieth-Century Representations of Female Crime and Violence“ 

Sarah Herbe (Salzburg): „The Presentation of Character in British Hard Science Fiction“ 
Markus Oppolzer (Salzburg): „Failed Rites of Passage in Early Gothic Fiction“ 
Elisabeth Schober (Salzburg): „The Magic of Romance: A Genre and Its Relation to the Unreal“ 
Elisabeth Skokan (Salzburg): „Novel and Melodrama: Stage Adaptations of Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Romances in the Nineteenth Century“