Dissertations 2026-2011

2026

C. Elaine Chen:  Analogies of the Freshwater Polyp in Eighteenth-Century Humanist Philosophy & Literature

2025

Bastian Lasse:  Erzählweisen des Vergessens Ellipsen im Roman von Theodor Fontane bis W. G. Sebald

Philip Liston-Kraft:  Portrait of the arzet: The Doctor in German Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages

2024

Jonas Hermann:  Das Buch von geistlicher Armut: Überlieferung, Armutskonzept, Rezeption

2023

Hans Pech - Grounding Community: On the Reception of Eckhartian Mysticism in Reformist and Revolutionary Texts from the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle.

Robert Rößler:  Die poetische Struktur des Unbewussten. Zur Verdichtung des psychologischen Vokabulars im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Rebecca Stewart:  Theory and Practice of Sublime Vulnerability in the Works of Friedrich Schiller.

Robert Stone:  Ordering the World: The Scientist and the Search for German Identity in Literature

2022

Sebastian Brass:  Fakt, Fiktion und Transparenz. Modi autobiographischer Selbstreferenz im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Anne Dymek:  The Code of Phantasia: Philosophical Investigations into the Literary Imagination and Its Future Forms

Lauren Geppi:  Bodies, Technology, and Emerging Notions of Subjectivity in the Poetry of Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Griinbein

Jermain Heidelberg:  The Whole Earth. Poetics and Planetary Ecology, 1950-1990

Sina Hoche:  Scripting Space: Affective Topographies in VALIE EXPORT, Elfriede Jelinek, and Ulrich Seidl

Christian Struck:  A Walk Through the Text. On the Materiality and Impact of Textual Marks

2021

Catrina de Rivera:  Abject Legacies: Guilt, Shame, and Transgenerational Trauma

2020

Anne Maike Röhrborn:  „Das Wird Man Wohl Noch Sagen Dürfen!“ Political Correctness-Diskurse in Deutschsprachiger Literatur Und Kabarett, 2010–2020

2019

Anton Chaevitch:  Goethe and Law: Advancement Through Narrative and Arbitration

Alexander Lambrow:  Theogony Ab Ovo: Carl Schmitt's Early Literary Writings

2018

Steven Lydon:  Visions in Sand: The Sound Figures in Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

Gernot Waldner:  What Counts. On the Reception of Statistics in Early Twentieth Century Prose

Miriam Wray:  Ornament und Mode in Kafka's Der Verschollene (1911-1914), Broch's Die Schlafwandler (1930) und Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930)

2016

Nicole Burgoyne:  Bureaucracy and Dissent: East German Subjectivity and Socialist Realism in the Context of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Romania

Arndt Luemers:  Resonantes Erzählen - Zu einem formsemantischen Prinzip bei Alfred Döblin

2015

Richard Cole:  The Jew Who Wasn't There: Studies on Jews and their Absence in Old Norse Literature

Seth Peabody:  Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in Weimar Cinema

2013

Jillian DeMair:  Telling about the Truth: Negotiations of Credibility in German Narratives

Kristin Jones:  Revitalizing Romanticism: Novalis' "Fichte Studien" and the Philosophy of Organic Nonclosure

Thomas Siefert:  Translation in Foreign Language Pedagogy: The Rise and Fall of the Grammar Translation Method

Ian Fleishman:  An Esthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Haneke

2012

Hang-Sun Kim:  "Unser Dasein starrt von Buechern": Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Crisis of Authorship

Emily Jones:  Verschachtelte Räume: Writing and Reading Environments in W. G. Sebald

Sonja Graber-Magocsi:  Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands”: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende

2011

Daniel Bowles:  Satire after Satire: The Afterlife of Satiric Practices in German Literature and Literary Theories since 1950

Pascale LaFountain:  Flaws, Mistakes, Misreadings: Error and the Human Sciences in Drama around 1800