Graduate
Dissertations
2022-2023
Sarah M. Harris
Male Bias in Generic Statements: A Contrastive Analysis of English and German Nouns
Carolyn Hawkshaw
The “Secret Inclination” of the German Weak Masculine Nouns: A Case of Usage-Driven Paradigmatic Change. A Diachronic Corpus Study (1350–1900)
2021-2022
Vera Felder
Of Friends and Foes: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphor in the Discourse of Contemporary Right-Wing Populism in Germany
Landon Reitz
Looking Up from the Page: Scenes of Reading in Medieval to Contemporary German Literature
Kumars Salehi
The Dialectical Curmudgeon: Afterlives of Hegel in German Literature and Political Thought
Christine Vais
A Diachronic Application of Frame Semantics to Meaning Change in Prepositions: The Case of German mit
2020-2021
Evelyn Roth
Meaning through Context – The Case of Discourse Neologisms: A Lexicological Approach to the Semiotic Nature and Function of Discourse Neologisms as an Extension to the Lexicographical Approach of Discourse Glossaries for COVID-19
Julia K. Schroeder
Artificial Woman in the Box
Jonas Teupert
Fugitive Forms: Literary Critiques of Modern Mobility
Melissa K. Winters
From the Wartburg to Nuremberg: Richard Wagner, the Middle High German Blütezeit, and Early Modernity
2019-2020
Jon Cho-Polizzi
A Different Village: Writing Place through Migration
Alicia Roy
Authorship in Crisis: German Cinema and the Changing Roles of the Writer
Scott Shell
The application of Peircean Semiotics to the Elder Futhark Tradition: Establishing Parameters for Magical Communication
2018-2019
Michael J. Fragomeni
Optimality Theory and the Semiotic Triad: A New Approach for Songwriting, Sound Recording, and Artistic Analysis
Adrienne N. Merritt
Recalling the Word: the Germanic Beguine “Sisters,” Memory, and the Question of Genre
Cara E. Tovey
Life as a Dance: Lebensform and the Promise of an Alternative Modernity
2017-2018
Estes, George
Phonetics and Sound Change: Selected Problems in Germanic Phonology
Hench, Christopher
Resonances in Middle High German: New Methodologies in Prosody
Hottman, Tara
The Art of the Archive: Uses of the Past in the German Essay Film
Orich, Annika
Artificial Aliens: Reproductive Imaginations in German Culture
Preseau, Lindsay
“Kiezdeutsch, Kiezenglisch”: English in German Multilingual/-ethnic Speech Communities
2016-2017
Fockele, Kenneth
Songs of the Self: Authorship and Mastery in Minnesang
Haselbeck, Sebastian
Dieses furchtbare Doppelgängertum der Repräsentation. Gespenstische Figuren der Souveränität zwischen 1910 und 1919
Ingalls, Jenna
Else-Lasker-Schüler’s Collaborative Avant Garde: Text and Image in Berlin c. 1910
Woods, Peter
Slovene Bilingualism and German Language Contact
2015-2016
Born, Erik
Sparks to Signals: Literature, Science and Wireless Technology, 1800-1930
Johnson, Courtney
Inside in the City: Domestic Space in the Literature and Film of Weimar Berlin
Savoth, Eric
Responding to Pain: Emotion, Medicine, and Culture between German Naturalism and Modernism
2014-2015
Almog, Yael
Hebrew Reminiscences: Global Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in the Rise of Hermeneutic Thinking
Dickinson, Kristin (filed in Comparative Literature with Deniz Göktürk as Adviser)
Translation and the Experience of Modernity: A History of German Turkish Connectivity
Dobryden, Paul
Cinema as Environment: The Emergence of German Film Culture
Gordon, Kevin A.
Traces in the Desert: The Poetics of Sand, Dust and Ash in German Literature
Manthripragada, Ashwin J.
Constituting a Self through an Indian Other. A Study of Select Works by Stefan Zweig and Hermann Hesse
Musanovic, Emina
The Shadow: An Unruly Modern Specter
2013-2014
Etzler, Melissa
Writing from the Periphery: W. G. Sebald and Outsider Art
LeBlanc, Mary Ellen
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology: Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
2012-2013
Beals, Kurt
From Dada to Digital: Experimental Poetry in the Media Age
Backman, Donald
The Topographic Imagination: Kerouac, Regener, Kafka and the Quest for Self-Realization
Haubenreich, Jacob
The Materialities of Writing in Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
2011-2012
Kolar, Meredith
Cognitive Structures Underlying Gendered Language Usage in Germany: Narration and Linguistic Fieldwork
St. Clair, Michael
Germanic Origins from the Perspective of the Y-Chromosome
Zahrt, Jennifer
The Astrological Imaginary in Early Twentieth-Century German Culture
2010-2011
Bergerson, Jeremy
Apperception and Linguistic Contact between German and Afrikaans
Layne, Priscilla
Black Voices, German Rebels: Acts of Masculinity in Postwar Popular Culture
2009-2010
Huffmaster, Michael
Reading Kafka’s Mind: Categories, Schemas, Metaphors
Price, Timothy
The Old Saxon Leipzig Heliand Manuscript Fragment (MS L): New Evidence Concerning Luther, the Poet, and Ottonian Heritage
Rahman, Sabrina
Designing Empire: Austria and the Applied Arts, 1864-1918
Sakalauskaite, Aida
Zoometaphors in English, German, and Lithuanian: A Corpus Study
Trop, Gabriel
Aesthetic Exercises and Poetic Form in the Works of Hölderlin, Novalis, and Rococo Poets
2008-2009
Gramling, David
Where Here Begins: Monolingualism and the Spatial Imagination
Henderson, Dayton
The Cult of Antigone Conflicts in Commemorating Germany’s Fallen Soldiers
Kooiker, Jason
Standard German and Dialect in the Swiss-German Classroom
Schechtman, Robert
Community and Utopia: The Discourse of Gemeinschaft and the Search for a New Modernity in Germany
Yamini-Hamedani, Azadeh
Waves of Translation: Goethe, Hafez, Nietzsche, Zoroaster