| Maryam Fatemi | Gender: the relativistic analysis of linguistic disparities in German, English and Persian | Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins |
| Raúl Enrique García López | Research Skills and EFL. Pre-Service Teacher Identity | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carolyn Blume |
| He Huang | [kooperative Betreuung zusammen mit Prof. Philipp Doebler von der Fakultät für Statistik der TU Dortmund ] | Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins |
| Marc Jones | Investigating Interventions in CALL Listening Skill Development | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carolyn Blume |
| Elena Panfilova | Zeitausdrücke im Deutschen, Tschechischen und Russischen: Eine Vergleichsanalyse | Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins |
| Lara Carina Schlömer | Connections in, between and to Ego-Documents by Female Authors of the late 18th Century | Prof. Dr. Sigrid Nieberle |
| Zhengtao Ding | 'Effeminate masculinity' in literary and non-literary discourses on male homosexuality (1896–1912) | Prof. Dr. Sigrid Nieberle |
| Milena Michalak | Theory, Authenticity, Genre: Aporias in the Discourse of Literary Studies on the Postmigrant | Prof. Dr. Sigrid Nieberle |