| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Absy, Conçáeicao A. | Variations in Approaches to EFL: A Performance-Based Analysis of the Learning Strategies Used by Brazilian Students | Georgetown | Anna U. Chamot |
| Aljaafreh, Ali A. | Negative Feedback in Second Language Learning and the Zone of Proximal Development | Delaware | James Lantolf |
| Ambrose, Elizabeth | Self and Cosmos in Thoth Hermes Trismegistus, Meister Eckhart, and Paracelcus | Washington Univ. | James Poag & Gerhild Scholz Williams |
| Ametsbichler, Elizabeth | Society, Gender, Politics, and Turn-of-the-Century Theatre: Elsa Bernstein [Ps. Ernst Rosmer] and Arthur Schnitzler | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Andrews, Kit J. | Pater after Adorno: Resistance through Mourning | Oregon | Richard Stein |
| Baldwin, Claire M. | Novel Poetics: Reading and Narrative Strategies in Novels by S. von La Roche and M. A. Sager, 176474 | Yale | Peter Demetz |
| Baudrand-Aertker, Lynn | Dialogue Journal Writing in a Foreign Language Classroom: Assessing Communicative Competence and Proficiency | Louisiana State | Robert C. Lafayette |
| Bauer-Milliken, Karinn | Critiques of Culture in the Context of [Post]Modernity: Adorno Rethinks Nietzsche | Washington | Ernst Behler |
| Baumann, Edith | Jörg Mauthes Die große Hitze und Die Vielgeliebte: Zwei literarische Utopien | Rutgers | Ralph Ley |
| Bhide, Varsha S. | Testing the Availability of Universal Grammar in Classroom L2 Acquisition: A Developmental Study of the Acquisition of German Word Order | Delaware | James Lantolf |
| Bolton, Elizabeth | Transcendence and Transgression: From the Sublime to the Grotesque | Yale | Geoffrey Hartman & Heinrich von Staden |
| Braunsdorf, Lynn | Self-Actualization in Representative Works of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Pennsylvania | Horst Daemmrich |
| Brisbois, Judith | Do First Language Writing and Second Language Reading Equal Second Language Reading Comprehension? An Assessment Dilemma | Ohio State | Elizabeth Bernhardt |
| Cadd, Marc A. | An Examination of Two Methods of Teaching Culture and a Comparison of Their Effects on Ethnocentrism among College Students of German | Illinois [1991] | John F. Lalande, II |
| Campbell, Anne | Once the Door Is Closed: An Ethnographic Description of One Content-Based English Language Program as Four Teachers Implemented It | Florida | Rodman B. Webb |
| Chavez, Monika | Cognitive Constraints on the Accuracy of Verbal Inflections and Word Order in German as a Foreign Language | Texas | Frank Donahue |
| Collie, Ellen | What Foreign Language Teachers Believe about Reading and Reading Instruction: A Classroom Study of Six Secondary French and Spanish Teachers | Ohio State | Elizabeth Bernhardt |
| Compton, Irene | Der Marionetten-Komplex als Schlüssel zu Hans Schnier als satirischem Helden in Heinrich Bölls Ansichten eines Clowns. | Cincinnati | Erhard Friedrichsmeyer |
| Costabile, Carol Anne | Dramatic Provocations: Reform as Theme in Volker Braun's Dramatic Works | Washington Univ. | Thomas Fox |
| Cramer, Sabine | Patterns of Power: The Secondary Figures of Theodor Fontane and Henry James | Texas | André A. Lefevere |
| Crerand, Mary | From First Language Literacy to Second Language Oracy to Second Language Literacy: The Act of Writing in a Foreign Language Context | Ohio State | Elizabeth Bernhardt |
| Dassanowsky-Harris, Robert | Phantom Empire[s]: Problems of Postimperial Austrian Identity in the Novels of Alexander Lernet-Holenia | California, Los Angeles | Wolfgang Nehring |
| Diehl, Dagmar | Uwe Johnsons Romantetralogie Jahrestage: Eine Rezeptionsästhetische Analyse | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Dirke, Sabine von | 'Meer Fantasie--und Mu!': The Politics of Aesthetics in the West German Counterculture from the Student Movement to the Greens | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Donahue, Maria H. | Collaborative Learning in a Community College Freshman Composition Course: A Case Study | Georgetown | John J. Staczek |
| Drossel-Brown, Cordula | Zeit und Zeitwahrin der deutschensprachigen Lyrik der 50er Jahre: Marie Louise Kaschnitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christine Lavant | Vanderbilt | Hans Schulz |
| Dunlap, Samuel R. | Among the Cannibals and Amazons: Early German Travel Literature on the New World | California, Berkeley | Blake Spahr |
| Duplantier, Rebecca | Amazon Figures in German Literature: The Theme and Variations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Ohio State | Mark Roche |
| Egéa-Kuehne, Denise | Impact of the Preservice Field Experience in Foreign Language Teaching: A Study of the Development of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives of Foreign Language Teaching | Louisiana State | Robert C. Lafayette |
| Engber, Cheryl | A Study of Lexis and the Relationship to Quality in Written Texts of Second Language Learners of English | Indiana | Harry Gradman |
| Erspamer, Peter | The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The 'Jewish Question' in Germany, 17791815 | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Foell, Kristie | Blind Reflections: Gender in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kudszus |
| Foley-Beining, Kathleen | Physicality and Women's Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's Andächtige Betrachtungen: von Marien Schwanger-Gehen and the Abendmahls-Andachten | California, Los Angeles | Hans Wagener & Kathleen Komar |
| Forester, Lee | Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse: A Pragmatic Approach | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| French, Shelley S. | The Narrator's Portrayal of the Women in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | Illinois | Harry Haile |
| Gareis, Elisabeth | A Qualitative Study of Intercultural Friendship Patterns | [EdD] Georgia | Thomas C. Cooper |
| Glass, Hildegard | Future Cities: Responses to the Urban Challenge in German Utopian Literature [18711914] | Texas | André Lefevere |
| Gokhale, Vibba | Looking Beyond the Traditional Images of Women in Theresa Huber's Short Prose Narratives | Michigan State | Karin Wurst |
| Goyal-Greenlund, Shruti | The Passive Voice in Hindi and German: A Contrastive Analysis | Connecticut | Terrence C. McCormick |
| Graf, Roman | Voicing Limits: Rereading the Dramatic Theories of J. M. R. Lenz and L. S. Mercier | North Carolina | Christoph Schweitzer |
| Granger, Christine | A Student of Standard <%2>German Two Hundred Years Ago: Sophie von La Roche and Wieland's Edition of Her Last Work | SUNY, Stony Brook | Barbara Elling |
| Gray, Jonathan | Second Language Acquisition Theory Applied to Computer Mediated Environment | Bryn Mawr | Dan E. Davidson |
| Groff, Marsha A. | Personality Types, Writing Strategies, and College Basic Writers: Four Case Studies | Ball State | Barbara T. Weaver |
| Hanson, Gregory J. | Preference Laws for Syllable Structure: Evidence from German Dialects | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Hanssen, Beatrice | Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, and Human Beings | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Harnisch, Antje | Geschlecht, Sexualität und Familie: Untersuchungen zum deutschen Realismus | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Haruta, Pau San | Writing as the Second Phase of Language Acquisition: Emergent Grammar in Writing | Delaware | Mark Amsler |
| Heinemann, Richard | The Bureaucratic Muse: Franz Kafka and the Relation of Art and Life | Chicago | Clayton Koelb |
| Heizer, Donna | Those Other Orientals: The Muslim Orient in the Works of Else Lasker-Schüler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Helfer, Martha | Representing Romanticism: The Notion of Darstellung in Idealism and Romanticism | Stanford | David Wellbery |
| Hodge, Margarita E. | A Survey of Frequent First Language Aural Text among Foreign Language Adult Learners and Professional Educators, and Selected Texts for Developing Listening Proficiency in Two-Year Foreign Language Curricula | Maryland | William E. De Lorenzo |
| Jacquet, Roberta C. | The Influence of Method-Shaped Input and Principles in the Learning of Vocabulary in Second Language | Delaware | Louis Arena |
| Jenness, Rosemarie K. | Nikolai Gogol's Aesthetics Compared to Major Elements of German Romanticism | Brown | Victor Terras |
| Kastner, Peter | A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Motivation to Continue Foreign Language Studies Beyond the Language Requirement | Texas | Frank Donahue |
| Kegler, Lydia | Fascism and the Inability to Love in the Twentieth-Century Volksstück: Marieluise Fleisser, Martin Sperr, and Franz Xaver Kroetz | Ohio State | Dagmar Lorenz |
| Kelley, Jennifer | Ich ist ein anderer: Introduction to the Early Works of Milo Dor | Cincinnati | Jerry Glenn |
| Klages, Norgard | Childhood Memories in Women's Autobiographical Writings of the 1970s and 1980s | North Carolina | Alice Kuzniar & Siegfried Mews |
| Kloetzer, Sylvia | Mitläufer und Überläufer: Erzählte Ich-Krise in der DDR-Literatur der achtziger Jahre: Christoph Hein und Monika Maron | Massachusetts | Sara Lennox |
| Knight, Susan | The Effect of the Presence or Absence of Dictionary Access on Incidental Vocabulary Learning for College Intermediate Spanish Learners Reading Spanish Texts | Ohio State | Gilbert Jarvis |
| Kramer, Matthew | Configurations of Self: Tragic Language and Lyrical Subjectivity in Friedrich Hölderlin | California, Berkeley | Kenneth Weisinger |
| Kreide, Caroline | Lou Andreas-Salomé: Feministin oder Antifeministin? Eine Standortbestimmung zur wilhelminischen Frauenbewegung | California, Berkeley | Robert Holub |
| Kufner, Stephanie | Nur einen Menschen braucht dies Amt: Zum politischen Helden in Schillers Don Karlos | SUNY, Albany | Wolfgang Wittkowski |
| Kulick, Katherine | Principles of Adult Learning: Implications for Second Language Instruction of Returning Students | [1991] Pennsylvania State | Jeannette Bragger |
| Kurz, Horst | Die Transzendierung des Menschen im 'bio-adapter': Oswald Wieners Die Verbesserung von Mitteleuropa, Roman | Ohio State | Dagmar Lorenz |
| Lamb, Bruce C. | Discursivity, Mimesis, and the Dramatic Author in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Merchant of Venice, and Largo Desolato | Maryland | John Fuegi |
| Leonard, Linda K. | Case Studies of Informal Mentoring Relationships between Adolescent Students of French and Their Teachers in Public Secondary Schools | Minnesota | Helen L. Jorstad |
| Levin, David J. | Taking a Stab at the Truth: Narrative Education and Aggression in the Nibelung, Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's Siegfried | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kudszus |
| Lewis, Samuel | J. G. Herder and N. M. Karamzin: A Study of Similarity and Influence | Illinois | James Marchand |
| Liedke-Konow, Petra | E. T. A. Hoffmans Sera-Brüder: Ein Analyse unter zeichen- und kommunikationstheoretischen Aspekten | California, Los Angeles | Wolfgang Nehring |
| Limburg, David | Responsible Citizenship: The Works of Heinrich Mann and the Weimar Republic | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Lutomski, Pawel | Representing the Nation: Constructions of Germany 18901914 | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Maksymiuk, Stephan | Knowledge, Politics, and Magic: The Figure of the Court Magician in Medieval German Literature | Washington | Stephen Jaeger |
| Marlock, Ingeborg E. | Otto Weininger's Geund Charakter and Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwandler | Washington Univ. | Paul Lützeler |
| Marschall, Amy | Oral Traditions, Written Collections: Johann Gottfried Herder and the Brothers Grimm | Johns Hopkins | Liliane Weissberg & Lieselotte Kurth |
| Martinez-Lage, Ana | Dialogue Journal Writing in the Spanish Composition Class: Analysis and Comparison with Teacher-Assigned Compositions | Pennsylvania State | John Gutiérrez |
| Mathews, Thomas J. | Development of a Foreign Language Placement Test Using Item Response Scoring on a Multiple Choice Cloze Test | Delaware | Angela Labarca |
| Matrat, Corinne M. | Thinking Aloud Versus Joint Translating: Comparative Study of Two Research Methodologies to Investigate the Translation Process | Delaware | James Lantolf |
| Meehl, Maclaren | Jeremias Gotthelf and the French Revolution | Utah | Gerhard Knapp |
| Miller, Mark C. | Two Experimental Studies of the Effectiveness of Interactive Game Playing in the Acquisition of Japanese by American Students | Delaware | Louis Arena |
| Miller, Wayne V. | The Literary Canon as Process: Early Heinrich and Thomas Mann Novels in Their Contemporary Reception | California, Berkeley | Robert Holub |
| Mittman, Elizabeth | Encounters with the Institution: Woman and Wissenschaft in GDR Literature | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Morris, Leslie | Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land: Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann | Massachusetts | Sigrid Bauschinger |
| Morrissey, Maureen | Metaphors Second Language Teachers Live By: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis | Purdue | Margie Berns |
| Moser, Beverly A. | Advanced Writing in German as a Second Language: An Analysis of the Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of Successful Compositions | Georgetown | Heidi Byrnes |
| Muckenhirn, Geoffrey | The Treatment of Consonants in the Ambraser Heldenbuch | Illinois | Elmer Antonsen |
| Mullaney, Kathleen M. | René Char and Martin Heidegger: The Dialogue of Poetry and Thought | Chicago | Françoise Meltzer |
| Myers, Saul | Between Gold and Oblivion: The Poetry of Paul Celan and the Persistance of Extinguished Memory | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Nagata, Noriko | A Study of the Effectiveness of Intelligent CALI as an Application of Natural Language Processing | Pittsburgh | Virginia Swisher |
| Nash, Douglas | The Politics of Space: Architecture, Painting, and Theater in the German Postmodern Landscape | Washington | Steven Tau |
| Navidi, Mandana | The Role of the Mass Media in the Iran-Contra Affair: An In-Depth Study of the Media's Language Specifically with Regard to Crisis-Reporting in the United States, Iran, and Germany | Georgetown | Kurt R. Jankowsky |
| Newton, Stephen L. | German/English Lexicographical Contrasts: city, queen [quean], yard | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Nolden, Thomas | An einen jungen Dichter: Studien zur epistolaren Poetik | Yale | Jeffrey Sammons |
| Nollert, Hans | Comedy, Language, and Modes of Argument: Problems of Example in Eighteenth-Century German Dramatic Theory | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele & Werner Hamacher |
| Onofrietto, Mary | Walther von der Vogelweide's Times and the Ecclesiastical Figures in His Poetry | Rutgers | Josef Thanner |
| Pagel, Karin I. | Goethe's Fabular Poems | Stanford | Katharina Mommsen |
| Pasek, Yvonne | Die große Zeit: Kriegsjahung in der dramatischen Literatur der Weimarar Republik | Connecticut | Herbert Lederer |
| Prior, Paul A. | Contextualizing Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars: A Sociohistoric Perspective on Academic Literacies | Minnesota | Dale L. Lange |
| Quanbeck, Randi | The Politics of Sentiment: Middle Class Social Tragedy and Regressive Utopias | Northwestern | Volker Dürr |
| Ralston, Kenneth | The Captured Horizon: Heidegger and the Nachtwachen von Bonaventura | California, Berkeley | Richard Brinkmann |
| Ramos, Lilian | Peter Rosegger--Poet and Pedagogue | Washington | Diana Behler |
| Reisch, Terry | Franz Werfel's Work in Exile 193945: Reception and Critical Bibliography | SUNY Albany | John Spalek |
| Ren, Chuanlu | The Reception of Bertolt Brecht in China from 1955-87 | Vanderbilt | Hans-Joachim Schulz |
| Rhine, Marjorie E. | Inscriptions and Incisions: Writing and the Body in the Works of Franz Kafka and Yukio Mishima | Wisconsin | Keith Cohen |
| Rider, Ann | The Aesthetics of Everyday Life: Morality in the Novels of Günter de Bruyn | Ohio State | Helen Fehervary |
| Risholm, Ellen | Spatial Transformation: From Kammerspiel to Early Weimar Cinema | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Roetzel, Lisa | Constructing Masculine Identity: The Function of Women and Family in Eighteenth-Century German Literature | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Roig-Torres, Teresa | The Effects of Error Correction in the Natural Approach Classroom: A Contrastive Study | Pittsburgh | Herschel Frey |
| Rose, Kenneth R. | Method and Scope in Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research: A Contrastive Study of Requests in Japanese and English | Illinois | Yamuna Kachru |
| Rossbacher, Brigitte | Gender, Science, Technology: The 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' in GDR Women's Literature | California, Davis | Anna Kuhn |
| Russu, Chirstina | Zur Phantastik in den Werken Albrecht Schaeffers | Iowa | Ingeborg Solbrig |
| Rybarkiewicz, Wlodzimierz | Scapegoat and Fool in Hasek, Brecht, and Voinovich | Oregon | James Rice |
| Sanou, S. J. Prosper | Composing in French as a Foreign Language: Case Studies of Four Advanced Graduate Students' Constraints Accommodation Strategies | Minnesota | Dale L. Lange |
| Schmidt-Rinehart, Barbara | The Effects of Topic Familiarity on the Listening Comprehension of University Students of Spanish | Ohio State | Gilbert Jarvis |
| Schneider, Ursula | Ars amandi: A Thematic Inquiry of Sexual and Erotic Exceptions in the Early Tales of Thomas Mann and in the Works of Marguerite Duras | CUNY | E. Allen McCormick |
| Schönherr, Ulrich | Das unendliche Altern der Moderne: Untersuchungen zum Erzählwerk Gert Jonkes | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Schooler-Riley, Jose | Evolution of French Intellectual Attitudes towards Germany between 1919 and 1939, Observed in the Periodicals Revue des Deux mondes, Nouvelle Revue Française, andMercure de France | Stanford | Marc Bertrand |
| Schultz, Michael | A Strategic Approach to Reading in German for Specialized Purposes | Pennsylvania | Karl Otto, Jr. |
| Schwartz, Ana Maria C. | The Effects of Interactive Video Training in Listening Techniques, Metacognitive Techniques, and Attribution on the Listening Comprehension of Second Language Video | Maryland | William E. De Lorenzo |
| Schwarz, Anette | Melancholie: Figuren und Orte einer Stimmung | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele & Werner Hamacher |
| Shae, Michael | Dramas of Sublimity and Sublimities of Drama: Kant, Kleist, Schiller, Wagner | Yale | Andrzej Warminski |
| Singer, Sandra | Future Perspectives: Contemporary German Science Fiction's Contribution to an Ecological Bewustseinswandel | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Skow, Katherine | The Whole Is the Sum of Its Parts: A Structural and Thematic Analysis of Die sieben weissen Meister | Illinois | Marianne Kalinke |
| Slater, Stephen | The Complicity of Culture with Barbarism: A Study of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler: ein Film aus Deutschland | | Peter Demetz & Karsten Havries |
| Snyder, Emery | Persuasion and Tutelage in Some European Epistolary Novels of the Eighteenth Century | Harvard | Dorrit Cohn & Jurij Striedter |
| Spencer, Andy | Of Literature and Legend: German Writers and the Bombing of Dresden | Ohio State | Helen Fehervary |
| Steckel, Gerd | Leerstellen: Alexander Kluges Texte und Filme zwischen aufklärerischem und Diskurs | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Straif-Taylor, Helga | Lothar Schreyer's Das expressionistische Theater: Context, Background, and Translation | SUNY Albany | John Spalek |
| Tannert, Mary | Auguste Gröner's Mystery and Detective Fiction | Tennessee | Henry Kratz |
| Tannert, Robert A., Jr. | False Negation in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival | Tennessee | Henry Kratz |
| Theisen, Bianca | Gottes Griffel: Simulationen des Heiligen bei Heinrich von Kleist | Stanford | David Wellbery |
| Ulrich, Martin Karl | Eduard Mörike: Among Friends and 'False Prophets' [Words, Tones, and Images in the Mozart Novella, the Poetry, and Lieder of Kauffmann and Wolf] | Chicago | Peter Jansen |
| Verity, Deryn P. | Strategic Mediation in the Rehearsal Process: A Psycholinguistic Study of Directing | Delaware | James Lantolf |
| Vinken, Barbara | Der Ursprung der Ästhetik aus theologischem Vorbehalt: Theorien des Ästhetivon Port-Royal bis Rousseau und Sade | Yale | Peter Brooks |
| Vitzthum, Thomas | Rilke's Early Dream-World: Sexuality and the Poetic Utterance in R. M. Rilke's Nature Imagery, 1896-98 | Yale | George Schoolfield |
| Waghäll, Katarina E. | Dargestellte Welt--Reale Welt: Freundschaft, Liebe und Familie in den Prosawerken Georg Wickrams | Washington Univ. | Gerhild Scholz Williams |
| Ward, Jenifer | The Films of Margarethe von Trotta and Their Reviews: A Feminist Critical Analysis | Vanderbilt | Helmut Pfanner |
| Weidauer, Friedemann | Widerstand und Konformismus: Positionen des Subjects im Faschismus bei Andersch, Enzensberger, Kluge und Weiss | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Weigel, Robert | Zur geistigen Einheit von Hermann Brochs Werk: Massenpsychologie, Politologie und Romane | SUNY, Albany | Joseph Strelka |
| Wiesehan, Gretchen | History, Identity, and Representation in Recent German-Language Autobiographical Novels | Washington | Jeffrey Peck |
| Wilkinson, Eileen | Reception as Representation: The Multiple Mirrors of Anna Seghers' Works | Texas | Janet Swaffar |
| Winter, Sarah | Freud and Sophocles: Psychoanalysis, Greek Tragedy, and Cultural Authority | Yale | Peter Brooks |
| Wright, Leslie | The Chiasmic Bind: Writing Gay Subjectivity from Stonewall to AIDS [Literature and Community] | California, Berkeley | Avital Ronell |
| Xie, Tianwei | An Examination of the Topic-Prominence of Chinese Language Learners' Interlanguage | Pittsburgh | Virginia Swisher & Robert DeKeyser |
| Zimmerman, Gisela | The Revolutionary and the Superfluous Man: Soviet Russian Images of Faust | Kansas | Jadwiga Maurer |
| Zitelli, Miela C. | The Aesthetic Registers of Unresolvable Grief in Capote's In Cold Blood, Duras' Moderato Cantabile, and Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin | California, Davis | Marc Blanchard |
