Mark Schmitt. Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst. Habilitation thesis.
Sina Schuhmeier. Changing the Record: Englishness, Popular Music, and the Song Lyric in the 21st Century. PhD thesis.
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Category: BritCult Award
To encourage and acknowledge early-career researchers’ work in British Cultural Studies, the German Association for the Study of British Cultures awards a biennial prize worth up to 1,000 euros for the best new monograph (either PhD theses, habilitation theses, or second books) in the field.
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BritCult Award 2023
The jury decided not to award the BritCult Award this year.
As a result of this decision, the Association published selection criteria for future awards (also available in German) in 2025.
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BritCult Award 2021
Victoria Allen. Industrial Memory in North(east)ernness: A PopCultural Portfolio. PhD thesis.
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BritCult Award 2019
Lisa Ahrens. (Interactive) Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation: The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature. PhD thesis.
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BritCult Award 2017
Claudia Lillge. Arbeit: Eine Literatur- und Mediengeschichte Großbritanniens. Habilitation thesis.
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BritCult Award 2015
Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Spectres of Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility. Habilitation thesis.
Cornelia Wächter. The Warder within: Prison Officer Stereotypes and Their Deconstruction in British Literature. PhD thesis.
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BritCult Award 2013
Lucia Krämer. Bollywood in Britain. Habilitation thesis.
Stephan Karschay. Deviant Subjects: Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. PhD thesis.
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BritCult Award 2011
Ellen Grünkemeier. Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. PhD thesis.
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BritCult Award 2009
Elahe Haschemi Yekani. The Privilege of Crisis. Narrative Patterns of Masculinities in English Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography and Film. PhD thesis.
Lars Eckstein. Song Texts: A Cultural Rhetoric of English Lyrics. Habilitation thesis.