Bachelor's thesis

Supervisor's expertise

When you choose your preferred supervisor, you will naturally be guided by your experience of their teaching. However, remember that each member of staff has their own field of expertise. Below is a list of supervisors’ names and key words that describe their area of research.

• Cathelein Aaftink
  Research interests: Literary, philosophical and empirical Aesthetics; Phenomenology; Literature and Controversy; Short stories; close reading; critical reading and writing; Virginia Woolf.
• Lida Amiri
  Research interests: Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Translational Research, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century.
• Bas van Bommel
  Research interests: Greek and Roman literature, Bildung, rhetoric, Latin.
• Michela Borzaga
  Research interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Memory, Modernism, Cultural Memory, Gender and Literature.
• Frank Brandsma
  Research interests: Medieval literature, Arthurian literature, fantasy, emotions in literature, narratology.
• Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
  Research interests: Literature and (new) media, music, aesthetic theory and intermediality in the modern and post-modern age.
• Paul Bijl
  Research interests: Legal humanities and (human) rights, (post)colonial history, anti- and postcolonial literature, racism, cultural memory and visual culture, as well as, more recently, disability.
• Saskia Bultman
  Research interests: Literature, Biographies and Life Stories, History of Identities, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, History of Science, History of Medicine, Gender and Sexuality, Women's History.
• Kári Driscoll
  Research interests: Animal studies,  Posthumanism, German Literature, Franz Kafka, Literary Translation, Literary Theory, Modernism, Literary (Post)Modernism,  Comparative Literature Studies, Literary Criticism, Environmental Humanities, Contemporary Literature.
• Sophie van den Elzen
  Research interests: Antislavery and Abolitionism, Cultural History, History of Feminism, Literature and Memory, Literary Theory, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Political Activism and Rhetoric, Magazine Studies, Transnationalism.
• Leila Essa
  Research interests: Comparative Literature Studies, Anglophone Indian Literature, German Literature and Culture, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Space, Literature and Memory, Literature and (New) Media, Social Justice, Postmigrant Authorship.
• Susanne Ferwerda
  Research interests: Comparative Literature Studies, Climate Change, Gender and Literature, Feminist Literary Criticism , New Materialism, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Theory, Literary Theory, Modern Dutch Literature, Australia, Contemporary Literature, Migration.
• Tom Hedley
  Research interests: Literary (Post)Modernism, Attitude towards Science and Mathematics, Literature and Space, German Literature and Culture, Irish Literature, Narratology, Austrian Literature, Mathematical Thinking, Life Writing, Literature and Memory.
• Flore Janssen
  Research interests: Gender Studies, Political Activism, Archives, Literature in the 19th/20th Century.
• Birgit Kaiser
  Research interests: Literature and affectivity; baroque aesthetics; singularity; transnational literatures; postcolonial studies; literatures of 19th and 20th century.
• Susanne Knittel
  Research interests: Memory and trauma; literature and architecture; cultural studies; modernism and the metropolis; disability studies; 20th and 21st century culture.
• Müge Özoglu
  Research interests: Literary Theory, Comparative Literature Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminist Literary Criticism , Contemporary Literature.
• Ann Rigney
  Research interests: Literary theories; methods of cultural inquiry; cultural memory; historical fiction; remediation; nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Jeroen Salman
  Research interests: Renaissance literature, literature and science, popular culture, children’s literature, book history, digital humanities.
• Merve Tabur
  Research interests: Environmental Humanities, Climate Change, Middle Eastern Studies, Speculative fiction, Critical Theory, Feminist Theories, Postcolonial Studies.

All Bachelor's theses are assessed by two lecturers. If your supervisor is one of the lecturers teaching in the Bachelor's programme, then this person will also be the first assessor (or the 'examiner'). Theses are assessed using an assessment form. If there is a large difference of opinion between the first and second assessors, a third assessor may be engaged, who will always work with a separate assessment form.

We take all forms of academic deception very seriously and expect all students to observe the ethical standards of proper academic conduct. When you start writing your thesis, you must submit the Plagiarism awareness declaration form as an acknowledgement that you have read the University's regulations regarding fraud and plagiarism. Lecturers or supervisors will report any suspected cases of fraud or plagiarism to the Board of Examiners. 

In case you are doing research that involves interviewing people, submitting questionnaires or involving people in any other way, you are probably doing human-subject related research. If so, please review the checklist and discuss it with your supervisor. The checklist contains information on privacy, ethics and data management.