2026

Master Mari Wærner Wesenberg at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Metalinguistic Feedback in Multilingual Education: A Multimethod Study on Teachers’ Practices and Students’ Comprehension for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Solomeia Bagautdinova at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her thesis Pseudo-imperatives in Russian: a proposal for a unifying approach for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Cand.philol. Christina Sandhaug at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Supplied, Aplied, Digested, and written: Textual Representation of Spectacle in Printed Court Masques, 1603-1613 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Lukas Lehner at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Interim Lovers: Love, Perception and Media in Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Mathias Skogly Russnes at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Making sense of semantic prosody: An investigation of semantic transfer, register-sensitivity and categorisation through the lens of polysemy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Maria Buyko at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Limits to inferences: Studies on negative evidence in pragmatics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Even Teistung at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Home and Nowhere. Homelessness and belonging in W.G. Sebald and Jenny Erpenbeck for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).