Dissertations are arranged by year, according to defense date.
2022-2023
"Orienting Pleasures: Identity and Language, 1900/2000"
Tae Ho Kim
June, 2023
"World, Universe, and Heterocosm in the Early German Romantic Project of Universal Poetry (1795-1802)”
Ella Wilhelm
July, 2023
„Dramaturgie des Bürgerkrieges: Schiller, Grillparzer, Hebbel“
Peter Metzel
July, 2023
2021-2022
"Revelation and Thought: A Study in the Age of Goethe"
Joseph Haydt
June, 2022
"Greater than Itself: Value, Capital, and Involuntary Unemployment in Classical Political Economy"
Daniel Burnfin
July, 2022
"Faltering Language: On German-Yiddish Literature"
Matthew Johnson
July, 2022
2021
“The Pulse of Prosody: Versification and Antiquity in the Age of Weimar Classicism”
Simon Friedland
June, 2021
"The Learning-Piece, from the Weimar Republic to the Postwar Era: A Critical-Historical Reassessment"
Noah Zeldin
April, 2021
2020
"Classical Music on Screen: Affect and Ambivalence in Nazi Film"
Emily Dreyfus
July, 2020
"The Gift of Metamorphosis: Goethe's Poetic Science of Form"
Daniel Carranza
June, 2020
"Censorship, Secrets, Correspondences, and Freedom: The Literary Public in the Viennese Biedermeier"
Tamara Kamatovic
May, 2020
2019
"Fragile Räume: Eingriffe in den Mythos des Zuhauses (1905 - 1936)"
Mirjam Berg
December, 2019
"Reading with Belief: Literary Romance in Goethe, Shakespeare, and Hitchcock"
Ethan Chesney Blass
November, 2019
"Reading Recognition: The Poetics of Poetic Realism"
Jessica Resvick
June, 2019
"Trials by Water: Law, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism"
Alexander Sorenson
April, 2019
2018
"Irreversible: Kleist, Kafka, and the Present's Past"
Matthew Jake Fraser
July, 2018
"Theater against the Turn: Acting Dialectics at Frank Castorf's Volksbühne"
Amy Carolyn Stebbins
October, 2018
"A Philosophy to Live By: Goethe's Art of Living in the Spirit of the Ancients"
Georginna Anne Hinnebusch
October, 2018
"Tradition, Transmission, Translation: Narrative Frames in Nineteenth-Century German Novellas"
Maeve Catherine Hooper
November, 2018