#  Dissertations 2026-2011 

 



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## 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