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Utrecht University Library

Student theses.

Theses written by Utrecht University students must be uploaded in OSIRIS. Master theses will be made publicly available by the university library. Bachelor theses will not be made publicly available.

Utrecht University promotes open sharing of knowledge, that is why students may indicate when uploading their master thesis in OSIRIS if they agree to making their thesis publicly available. If a student chooses to do so, the university library will take care of the publication. As a result, the master thesis can be found, under a Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND , in the Utrecht University Student Theses Repository and in search systems such as Google (Scholar) and  WorldCat .

Submitting master theses

• You upload your thesis in OSIRIS. More information about uploading theses . 
• When uploading your master thesis you may indicate if you want your thesis to be publicly available. Bachelor theses will not be made publicly available.

Finding master theses 

• If you have agreed to making your master thesis publicly available, it will be freely accessible in the Utrecht University Student Theses Repository Please read the manual to get the best search results.
• Master theses can also be found in  WorldCat  and Google Scholar . 
• Master theses will be available for a fifteen-year period. Please note: this also applies to theses which were publicly available before September 2021. 

Changing the publication status

Has your master thesis already been published and would you like to make adjustments? Please contact the library via [email protected] .

Have you decided not to publish your master thesis or have you set an embargo date and would you like to see that changed so that your thesis is made publicly available? Please send an email to your faculty . State the reasons why you want to change the publication status or embargo date. Have you written the thesis together with a fellow student? Don't forget to inform the other author(s).

Please check the page about uploading and archiving your thesis for more information.

Taking your thesis offline 

• Master theses are online for a fifteen-year period, after that period they are always taken offline 
•  Do you want your openly published thesis taken offline? Please send a request to the library by filling in the form  Request to take student thesis offline . 

Privacy statement 

Utrecht University treats personal data as confidential. More information about how Utrecht University handles personal data in relation to your thesis can be found in the  privacy statement . 

• Here you will find information about  archiving your thesis  and  contact details of your faculty  
• Please  contact the library  for general questions about publishing your thesis 
• Do you want your thesis taken offline?  Please fill in this form  

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Literary Studies

Bachelor's thesis.

Your Bachelor’s thesis is a “proof of competence” where you showcase your skills in your chosen area of Literary Studies. The Bachelor’s thesis allows you to share the competences and knowledge that you have acquired over the three years of your degree programme. Your thesis is linked to a level 3 course and the paper's contents are relevant to one of the Literary Studies specialisations.

BA thesis application

As you write your bachelor’s thesis, your work will be supervised by a member of the Literary Studies teaching team, who will be appointed by the programme coordinator. Please send the 'BA thesis application' in an email to dr. Müge Özoglu at least four weeks before you want to start. You will then be assigned a supervisor who you should contact promptly. Prior to this, you could of course talk to teachers about thesis supervision.

Supervision

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.

Handing in your thesis

Once you have completed your thesis, you must submit it in Osiris (and not via an email to your supervisor). Osiris also provides you with evaluation progress as well as your final grade. 

If your supervisor has indicated that your final paper is ready for assessment, proceed as follows:

• You upload your thesis in Osiris Student  > Cases > My cases > Start a new case by using the plus icon in the bottom right corner.  A new window will open. Make sure your pop-up blocker is turned off for the new window to open. Choose Thesis and graduation > HUM: Thesis evaluation
• You upload your thesis in  Blackboard  (to check for plagiarism).

Did you get a pass?

If you have received a satisfactory grade, you will need to upload the final version to Utrecht University's thesis archive. This is mandatory.

• Go to  Osiris Student  > Cases
• Choose  Archive & publish thesis - Follow-up Case
• Archive your thesis

Bachelor theses are not published by default.

Forms and procedures Bachelor's thesis

Your Bachelor's thesis will be assessed following specific evaluation procedures. You can prepare for this by reading the following documents and explanations prior to starting your thesis.

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 .

Fraud and plagiarism

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. 

Do you use participants for your research?

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.

Thesis Archive

Once your thesis has been completed and approved, you will need to upload the final version in our thesis archive via Osiris > Cases. Choose  Archive & publish thesis - Follow-up Case and Archive your thesis.

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