Die Top Five

Die Top Five der Anglistik und Amerikanistik: Christina Weichselbaumer, David Samitsch, Elisabeth Miriam Schneider, Christina Pöckl und Ivona Čičak (v.l.). Foto: Uni Graz/Pichler

Anglistik und Amerikanistik zeichneten ihre besten AbsolventInnen des Studienjahres 2017/18 aus

Mit dem „Excellence in English and American Studies Award“ honorieren das Institut für Anglistik und das Institut für Amerikanistik die hervorragenden Leistungen ihrer besten AbsolventInnen im Masterstudium und im Diplomstudium Lehramt. Am 26. November 2018 bekamen die Top Five des Studienjahres 2017/18 – Ivona Čičak, Christina Pöckl, David Samitsch, Elisabeth Miriam Schneider und Christina Weichselbaumer – den Preis von den BetreuerInnen ihrer Diplom- bzw. Masterarbeit im Meerscheinschlössl überreicht.
Voraussetzungen für die Auszeichnung mit dem Award, der heuer zum 15. Mal verliehen wurde, sind eine mit Sehr Gut benotete Abschlussarbeit, ein maximaler Notendurchschnitt von 1,5 sowie ein mit Auszeichnung bestandenes Bachelor- und Masterstudium bzw. Diplomstudium im ersten und zweiten Abschnitt. Berücksichtigt werden auch Studiendauer, Auslandsaufenthalte und weitere besondere Leistungen.

Die PreisträgerInnen des Studienjahres 2017/18 und ihre Abschlussarbeiten

Ivona Čičak: New Approaches to the Concept of Postcolonial Rewriting Pacific Versions of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (Lehramt); Betreuerin Maria Löschnigg
Christina Pöckl: Enacting Literary Worlds: The Use of Drama Methods for a Narrative of Nature (Lehramt); Betreuerin Roberta Maierhofer
David Samitsch: "Come gather ‘round People": Bob Dylan and the Street Ballad (Lehramt); Betreuer Hugo Keiper
Elisabeth Miriam Schneider: Disrupting Hegemonic Heteronormativity through Queer Intervention Strategies: The Negotiation of Queercoding and Queerbaiting in Fandom Spaces (Masterstudium); Betreuer Stefan Brandt
Christina Weichselbaumer: The Representation of Gender and the Construction of the Female Self in Shakespeare´s Crossdressing Comedies (Lehramt); Betreuer Martin Löschnigg

V.l.: Ineke Mennen, Institutsleiterin Anglistik, Martin Löschnigg, Christina Weichselbaumer, Hugo Keiper, David Samitsch, Stefan Brandt, Elisabeth Miriam Schneider, Roberta Maierhofer, Klaus Rieser, Institutsleiter Amerikanistik, Christina Pöckl, Maria Löschnigg und Ivona Čičak

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