Dissertations directed



1965: Janet Swaffar, The Generation Theory in German Literary Criticism. 
1966:
William R. Cantwell, The Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis. A Study of Change and Continuity in the German Literature of the Jahrhundertwende.
1967:
James A. Lange, The Levels of Suspense in E. T.A. Hoff­mann 's Elixire des Teufels.
1968:
M. Lynne Martin, Karl Emit Franzos: His Views on Jewry as Reflected in His Writings on the Ghetto.
1969:
Evelyn T. Beck, Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: A Study of' the Impact of the Yiddish Theater on the Work of Franz Kafka.
Marilyn Klein Torbruegge, Bodmer and Füßli: "Das Wun­derbare" and the Sublime.
1971:
Roy F. Allen, Literary Life in German Expressionism and the Berlin Circles.
1973:
Henry G. Huettich, Theater in the Planned Society: The Contemporary Topical Drama of the German Democratic Republic.
Thomas A. Kamla, The Theme of Exile in the Novel of the German Emigration.
1974:
Carolyn O. Becker, From the Jacobins to the Young Ger­mans: The Liberal Travel Literature in Germany from 1785 to 1840.
Verna Schuetz, The Bizarre Literature of Hans Heinz Ewers, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Meyrink, and Karl Hans Strobl.
Heinz Bulmahn, Adolf Glassbrenner: His Development from a Young German to a Vormärz Writer.
1975:
Karen R. Achberger, The German Opera Libretto since 1945.
Helen Fehervary, Hölderlin and the Left: The Search for a Dialectic of Art and Life.
1976:
Asta Augusta Heller, Sozialpolitische Elemente in Heines Prosawerken (Polen, England, Frankreich).
1977:
Friedrich Achberger, Republikbezogene Literatur in Öster­reich 1919-1927.
David Bruce Little, The Parvenu in the Berlin Novel 1871­-1918.
1978:
Egon W. Breckner, Hermann Bahr and the Quest for Culture: A Critique of His Essays.
1979:
Gabrielle Bersier, Wunschbild und Wirklichkeit. Deutsche Utopien von 1700 bis 1790.
Robert C. Holub, Heinrich Heine's Reception of German Grecophilia: The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
Wigand Lange, Die Theaterpolitik der amerikanischen Besatzungsbehörden in Deutschland 1945 bis 1949.
Carol Poore, German-American Socialist Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century.
Robert Stingle, The German "Zeitstück" 1928-1933.
1980:
Viktoria Hertling, Literarische Reportagen über die Sowjetunion in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik.
Christa Hildebrand, Gegängelte Justiz. Kritische Stimmen zum Justizsystem der Weimarer Republik. Eine Untersuchung der Literatur von 1926-1932.
Martha Gustavson Marks, Ernst Toller: His Fight against Fascism.
1981:
Merle Krueger, Authors and the Opposition: West German Writers and the Social Democratic Party from 1945 to 1969.
Jürgen Pelzer, Kritik durch Spott. Satirische Praxis und Wirkungsprobleme im westdeutschen Kabarett.
1982:
Nancy Vedder-Shults, Motherhood for the Fatherland: The Portrayal of Women in Nazi Propaganda.
1983:
Sara H. Markham, Elusive Prosperity: Images of the United States Conveyed in Selected German Travel Literature, 1923­-1933.
Wolfgang Müller, Dichter-Helden in der DDR-Literatur der siebziger Jahre.
1984:
Andreas Lixl, Ernst Toller und die Weimarer Republik.
1985:
Michael John T. Gilbert, Bertolt Brecht and Music: A Com­prehensive Study.
James W. Jones, The "Third Sex" in German Literature from the Turn of the Century to 1933.
Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin, The Death of God, the Limits of Man, and the Meanings of Woman: The Work and the Leg­ends of Lou Andreas-Salomé.
1989:
Kirsten Belgum, Interior Meaning: The Design of the Bour­geois Home in the Realist Novel.
Stephen Brockmann, Mass Culture / Mass Death: The World War and Weimar Realism.
Karoline Kirst-Gundersen, Walter Benjamin's Theory of Nar­rative.
1990:
Alan Lareau, An Unhappy Love: The Struggle for a Literary Cabaret in Berlin, 1919-1935.
Paul G. Levesque, Thomas Mann as a Critic of Wilhelminian Literary Life: 1894-1914.
Christina A. Guenther, Sexual and Textual Politics Reconsid­ered: Kleist's Amphitryon and Marquise von O. vs. Their Adaptations in the 1960s.
1991:
Helen G. Morris-Keitel, Identity in Transition: The Images of Working-Class Women in Social Prose of the Vormärz (1840-1848).
Peter Morris-Keitel, Naturkonzepte in der Literatur der frühen Jugendbewegung (1900-1918).
Nancy Carolyn Michael, Elektra and Her Sisters: Male Rep­resentations of Female Characters in Viennese High Culture, 1900-1905.
Amy Stapleton, Future Perspectives: Contemporary German Science Fiction's Contribution to an Ecological Bewußt­seinswandel.
1992:
Ellen Risholm, Spatial Transformation: From the Kammer­spiel to Early Weimar Cinema.
1993:
Thomas Wolber, Im Zirkel der Melancholie: Das literarische Frühwerk Reinhold Schneiders (1903-1958).
1994:
Alexa Larson-Thorisch, Was It Rape? Sexual Violence and the Construction of Gender in Legal-Medical and Literary Discourse (1770-1810).
William H. Rollins, Aesthetic Environmentalism: The Hei­matschutz Movement in Germany, 1904-1918.
Susan E. Tyson, From the Polis to the Mass: Production, Rit­ual, and the Communication of Technology in the Literary/Cultural Journal from 1890-1910.
1995:
Lisa A. Bilsky, Adrienne Thomas, Gertrud Isolani, and Ga­briele Tergit: German-Jewish Women Writers and the Expe­rience of Exile.
Randall N. Halle, Containing Desire: Hegemony, Homoso­ciality, and German Nationalism, 1780-1956.
1996:
Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Germanisten im "Niemandsland". Die exilierten Akademiker und ihre Wirkung auf die ameri­kanische Germanistik (1933-1955).
John Andrew Reaves, The Development of an Ecologically Critical Sorbian Literature as a Consequence of the German Democratic Republic's Dependence on Soft Coal as an En­ergy Source.
2000:
 James D. Young, Die Anderen erfinden mich: AIDS­-Homophobia in Germany and Its Reflexes in German Gay Literature.
2001:
Lisa Rainwater van Suntum, The Rosa-Myth; Representations of Rosa Luxemburg in German Culture.
Eric Paul Jacobsen, Monism: The Evolution of a World View from 1770 to 1930.
2003:
Sinikka Church, The Concept of "Zugehörigkeit" in Hans Fallada's Novel 'Kleiner Mann - Was nun?'
2004:
Kerry John Cox Bertolt Brecht's Approach to Theater as an Analogue to Open Source Software
2005: Matthew Lange, Antisemitic Elements in the Critique of Capitalism in German Culture from 1850-1933.


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