Supervision (1998-2006)

for a list of current supervising activities go to supervision at Roskilde U

MA Thesis Direction

(Aalborg U, & Odense U)

  • The Fox, the Anteater, and a Camel's Cuckoo Clock: Signatures of Synchronicity in Malcolm Lowry's "Ghostkeeper" by David Sinkinson (SDU)
  • Mirrors: Reflections on Sel(f)ves, Role(s), and Truth(s) in American Metapictures: Selfreflexivity and Intermediality in Artworks by Russel Connor, Mark Tansey, Cindie Sherman, and Andy Warhol by Maria Kafton
  • The Inspector Lynley Series by Anja Nielsen
  • Feminist Readings of Anne Brönte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Marie Guldberg
  • Icon Work: Marilyn Monroe and Madonna by Maria Jørgensen
  • Chick lit Aesthetics by Charlotte Stubben


 Projects

(Projects are 25-90 pages - depending on the number of students (1-4) writing together - assessed through oral exams)

 
American
Canadian
 		British

Culture Studies
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Alice Walker - Race and Feminism
  • Toni Morrison - Race and Feminism
  • Michael Chabon - Historiographic Metafiction
  • Paul Auster - Moon Palace and the Bildungsroman
  • Tennessee Williams - Melodrama and the Southern Gothic
  • Nicholson Baker: Vox
  • Isabel Wolff: Rescuing Rose
  • Chick lit and the male perspective
  • Defamiliarization and the Queering of Chick lit
  • Chick lit and Sex and the City
  • Documentary filmmaking: Eileen Wournos's story

  • Margaret Atwood - Canadian Postmodernism
  • Margaret Laurence - Canadian Postmodernism
  • Shakespeare: Hamlet
  • Oscar Wilde and
  • Aestheticism
  • Virginia Woolf and Androgyny
  • Victorian Novels - Dickens and Haggard
  • Integration and assimilation in Israel
  • Female Representations in Disney films/cartoons
  • Shoes as cultural Symbols in Sex and the City
  • Fashion as Communication in Sex and the City
  • Feminism, Myth, and Culture in Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives
  • The Postmodern Disney: consumerism and ideology

Papers
(Papers are individually written assignments - 25 pages)

Cultural Theory and Analysis
 		History of Ideas
 		Literary Studies/Theory & Genre
  • The Baroque
  • Jean Baudrillard
  • Sex and the City
  • Women's Magazines
  • Michel de Certeau/Paul Auster
  • Extreme Make-overs and Body Fascism
  • Andrei Codrescu's documentary Road Scholar
  • Detective TV shows
  • The Authority of Aesthetics
    • Feminism and Ally McBeal 
    • Identity and ideals of beauty
  • Film and Society
    • Marilyn Monroe and the Media
  • Postmodernism and Film
  • Feminism and Film:
    • Mona Lisa Smile
    • Desperate Housewives
    • Sex and the City
  • Chick lit and metropolitan identity
  • Shopping
  • Ernst Cassirer
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Levinas/Løgstrup
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rousseau/Nietzsche
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Jean François Lyotard
  • Oscar Wilde/Matthew Arnold
  • Margaret Atwood/Northrop Frye
  • Gerard Genette (SDU)
  • William Burroughs (SDU)
  • Marcel Benabou (SDU)
  • Roland Barthes (SDU)
  • Narratology
  • Literature of transit: The Poetics of Andrei Codrescu, Eva Hoffman, Charles Simic, and Raymond Federman
  • Autobiographic writing: truth and fiction
  • Author - Text - Reader
  • Shakespeare and Theory (Marxism)
  • Queer Theory and Feminism
  • Queer Theory
  • Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Katherine Mansfield
  • Psychoanalysis and Marxism
  • Judith Butler and the Performative
  • Postcolonialism and Diaspora: Kazuo Ishiguro
All activities are at Aalborg University (unless marked SDU, University of Southern Denmark)
(this page is edited once each semester)