Dissertations
2023-2024
Em Sandberg
"Breakdowns and Short Circuits: Media and Modernity, 1895-1920"
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"
