| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Adair-Hauck, Rita B. | A Descriptive Analysis of Whole Language/Guided Participatory versus Explicit Teaching Strategies in Foreign Language Instruction | Pittsburgh | Richard Donato |
| Adelung, Andrea | A Decade of 'Time Rebels': Tempo and Temporality in the German Literature of the 1980s | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Andrews, Dianne | Developmental Sequences in the Acquisition of French L2: A Study of Adult-Classroom Learners [1991] | Illinois | Sandra Savignon |
| Avent, Joseph H. | A Study of Language Learning Achievement Differences between Students Using the Traditional Language Laboratory and Students Using Computer-Assisted Language Learning Courseware | Georgia | Thomas C. Cooper |
| Barry, Mary S. | The Effects of Varying Levels of Reading Complexity on Measures of Comprehension in Reading Spanish Expository Prose [1992] | Purdue | Alan Garfinkel & William Flint Smith |
| Beauvois, Margaret H. | Computer-Assisted Classroom Discussion in French Using Networked Computers [1992] | Texas | Diane Lemonnier Schallert |
| Berard, Stephen A. | Infinitive Usage in Gothic: A Comparison of Gothic and Greek Syntax | Massachusetts | James E. Cathey |
| Berroth, Erika | Amphibien und Grüne Gläser | California, Santa Barbara | Laurence A. Rickels |
| Blandino, Doreen M. | The Effect of Studying French on Native Speakers of English: Explicit and Implicit Grammatical Knowledge | SUNY Buffalo | Jeannette Ludwig |
| Bledsoe, Robert S. | Reading and Identity Construction in the Eighteenth Century German Novel [Gellert, La Roche, Nicolai, Goethe] | California, Berkeley | Hinrich C. Seeba |
| Block, Lydia S. | A Study of College Students with and without Learning Disabilities in a Mainstream Foreign Language Class [1992] | Ohio State | Roger R. Bargar |
| Borella, Sara S. | Voicing the Difference: Contemporary Swiss Women Writers | Brandeis | Jane Hale |
| Brenner, David. | Promoting the Ostjuden: Ethnic Identity and Audience in the German-Jewish Cultural Review Ost und West [Berlin: 1901-23] | Texas | Janet K. Swaffar & John M. Hoberman |
| Brueggemann, Aminia M. | Chronotopos Amebei Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Günter Kunert und Martin Walser | Michigan | Marilyn S. Fries |
| Cadierno-López, Teresa | Explicit Instruction in Grammar: A Comparison of Input-Based and Output-Based Instruction in Second Language Acquisition | Illinois | Bill VanPatten |
| Cannon, Sue S. | The Medicine of Hildegard of Bingen: Her Twelfth Century Series and Their Twentieth Century Appeal as a Form of Alternative Medicine | California, Los Angeles | Donald J. Ward |
| Chamness, Nancy O. | In a Different Voice: The Libretto as Literature: Doktor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni | Indiana | Ulrich Weisstein |
| Chase, Jefferson S. | Representing Germany | Virginia | Walter H. Sokel |
| Cordero Ponce, Wanda L. | Effects of Summarization Training on the Comprehension of Expository Texts Read in French as a Foreign Lan | Pennsylvania State | Jeannette D. Bragger |
| Davies, Lloyd G. | On Reading Nature: Romanticism, Textuality, and the Alps | Duke | Robert Gleckner |
| Detschelt, Felicia | The Relationship of Learning Modality, Reading Achievement, and Foreign Language Aptitude of Second-Year High School Students of German | Pittsburgh | Richard Donato |
| Dobson, James J. | Teacher Reformulations of Student Responses in an English as a Second Language and Teacher Development Program for International Teaching Assistants | Minnesota | Dale L. Lange |
| Dollinger, Roland A. | Totalität und Totalitarismus im Exilwerk Döblins | Princeton | Michael W. Jennings |
| Donelan, James H. | Self-Consciousness and Music in Early Romanticism: Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth, and Beethoven | Yale | Cyrus Hamlin |
| Dressler, Monika R. | Variation and Change in Strategies of Early New High German [1350-1700]: A Study in Diachronic Syntax | Michigan | Rosina Lippi-Green |
| Eckart, Gabriele | Sprachtraumata in den Texten des DDR-Schriftstellers Wolfgang Hilbig | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Edmunds, Kathryn R. | 'Nicht wie im Spiegel': Self-Representation in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and Dichtung und Wahrheit | Princeton | Walter H. Hinderer |
| Erol, Sibel | Narratives of Stillness: A Re-Examination of the Bildungsroman | California, Berkeley | Robert Alter |
| Evelein, Johannes | August Strindberg und das expressionistische Stationendrama: Eine Formstudie | SUNY Albany | John M. Spalek |
| Ferguson, Mark A. | The Memory of Malte: Crisis of the Remembered Self in Rilke's Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Francis, Richard A. | Translation as Transformation: Models and Analogues for Wider Practice and Reception | U of Washington | Ernst Behler |
| Freeland, Beverly M. | Wigalois A: A Prototype Edition of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois | California, Los Angeles | Franz H. Bäuml |
| Gahren, Francis M. | A Study of the Vocabulary Acquisition of Advanced Learners of French in Classroom and Naturalistic Environments | Ohio State | Elizabeth B. Bernhardt |
| Gallego, Olga | A Comparative Study of the Process versus Product Approach to the Instruction of Writing in Spanish as a Foreign Language | Pennsylvania State | Lynn Gorell |
| Gluzman, Michael | Suppressed Modernisms: Marginality, Politics, Canon Formation | California, Berkeley | Chana Kronfeld |
| Grauman, Arthur H. | Residual Tonality: Representations of Music and the Visual in Goethe's Novels | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Griffin, Margaret | Language and Instruction | Georgetown | Roger W. Shuy |
| Grunert, Mark S. | Die Poesie des Übergangs: Hölderlins späte Dichtung im Horizont von Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der Transzendental | Texas | Walter D. Wetzels |
| Hagens, Jan-Lüder | Spiel-im-Spiel und Welttheater: Formen der Reflexion im Drama und ihr Gebrauch in Shakespeares The Tempest, Calderons El Gran teatro del mundo, und Bidermanns Philemon Martyr | Princeton | Walter H. Hinderer |
| Hahn, Gregory | Anti-Copyright: Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century Arguments against Copyright | Indiana | Matei Calinescu |
| Hanssen, Paula J. | Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's Silent Collaborator | Illinois | Karl-Heinz Schoeps |
| Heinz, Peter J. | Towards Enhanced, Authentic Second Language Reading Assessment, Research, and Theory Building: The Development and Analysis of an Automated Recall Protocol Scoring System | Ohio State | Elizabeth B. Bernhardt |
| Hemmer, Robert A. | Criteria for Syllabus Design: Interactive Complexity and the Sequencing of Scenarios | Georgetown | John Staczek |
| Henke, Burkhard J. | Die Tragödie des Usurpators: Schiller, Shakespeare, und die Renaissance | California, Irvine | Thomas P. Saine |
| Herrmann, Karin U. | Frau--Körper--Natur: Ein Diskurs wider die Natürlichkeit | Washington U | Sabine Wilke |
| Heumann, Susan | Question-Response Journals: Requiring Questions in Interactive Student-TeachWriting | Georgetown | Jeffrey T. Connor-Linton |
| Horne, Haynes | The Role of Critique and Aesthetics in the Production of Enlightened Community | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Isom, Deborah M. | An Ethnographic Study of the Behaviors of Beginning Foreign Language Students in a Computer Environment [1991; EdD] | Boston | Maria Estela Brisk |
| Jensen, Birgit | Eine Kindheit im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Konfiguration Kind' und ihr literarischer Widerstand bei Theodor Fontane | Ohio State | Mark Roche |
| Kabongo-Mianda, Kalala | Child Interlanguage Discourse: The Role of Peer Interaction [1991] | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Kaneko, Tomoko | The Role of the First Language in Foreign Language Classrooms [1992; EdD] | Temple | Rod Ellis |
| Kang, Hee-Wong | Opening a Window into the Process of Reading in a Second Language [1991] | California, Berkeley | Lily Wong Filmore |
| Kaplan, Matthew L. | The Rhetoric of Subjectivity: Studies in the Poetry of Gottfried Benn and Wallace Stevens | North Carolina | William Harmon & James Rolleston |
| Kline, Rebecca R. | The Social Practice of Literacy in a Program of Study Abroad | Pennsylvania State | Jeannette D. Bragger |
| Wideburg, Laura A. | Kriemhild: Demon-Hero-Woman | U of Washington | C. Stephen Jaeger |
| Lee, Jungsook P. | Age and Acculturation as Factors in Phonological Acquisition of English as a Second Language [EdD] | Georgia | Genelle G. Morain |
| LeLoup, Jean W. | The Effect of Interest Level in Selected Text Topics on Second Language Reading Comprehension | Ohio State | Elizabeth B. Bernhardt |
| Leupold, Dagmar | The Oxymoron as Generative Model in Petrarch, Hofmannswaldau, and Musil | City U of New York | Fred J. Nichols |
| Liddiard, Robert B. | Second Language Acquisition Theory and Reading Comprehension Testing Strategies [1992] | U. of Washington | Jurgen Klausenburger & Julia Herschensohn |
| Lokai, Deborah | Language Acquisition and Socialization in Three Works Based on the Stories of Kaspar Hauser and the Wild Child of Aveyron | Wayne State | Penrith Goff |
| | Luborsky, Peter D. | Goethe's Scientific Language in Prose and Poetry | Massachusetts | Wilfried Malsch |
| Lungstrum, Janet A. | Nietzsche and Creativity in the Contexts of German and French Modernism | Virginia | Walter H. Sokel |
| Luo, Jing | A Study on the Effects of Marginal Glosses on the Reading Comprehension of Intermediate Level College Students of French | Pennsylvania State | James N. Davis |
| Mayer, Paula | The Reception of Jakob Böhme in German Romanticism | Princeton | Theodore J. Ziolkowski |
| McCone, Thomas V. | Student Linguistic Response to Perceived TA Foreignness | Delaware | James P. Lantolf |
| Melendez, Maria M. | The Effects of Grammar Instruction on Learners' Development of Grammatical Competence in a Foreign Language | Pennsylvania State | Joyce Neu & James N. Davis).
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| Meunier-Cinko, Lydie Elisabeth | Gender Differences and Computer-Based Foreign Language Group Activities | Arizona | Robert A. Ariew |
| Meyer, Imke | Jenseits der Spiegel kein Land: Ich-Fiktionen und Identitäts-Illusionen in Texten von Franz Kafka und Ingeborg Bachmann | U of Washington | Jens Rieckmann |
| Moltz, Carol | The Effect of Extra Listening Practice on the Speaking Skill of Natural Approach Elementary Spanish Students | Pittsburgh | Herschel J. Frey |
| Moore, Miriam P. | Second Language Acquisition of Lexically Constrained Transitivity Alternations: Acquisition of the Causative Alternation by Second Language Learners of English | South Carolina | Stanley Dubinsky & Rene Schmauder |
| Muller, Martin | Technik und Literatur: Post-eschatologische Literatur der achtziger Jahre als Paradigma der Zivilisationskritik | California, Santa Barbara | Ursula R. Mahlendorf |
| Nagy, Ellen M. | A History of Women in American Germanics, 1850-1950 | Ohio State | David P. Benseler & Charles W. Hoffmann |
| Ohmaye, Enio | Simulation-Based Language Learning: An Architecture and a Multimedia Authoring Tool [1992] | Northwestern | Roger C. Schank |
| Olson, Audie | The Younger Generation in Brecht's Dramatic Work | Illinois | Herbert Knust |
| O'Maley, Patricia | Second Language Learners in a Language and Culture Immersion Program: Longitudinal Case Studies in an Ethnographic Framework | Ball State | Christopher Ely |
| Ostmeier, Dorothea | Sprache des Dramas--Drama der Sprache: Die dramatischen Szenen der Nelly Sachs | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele |
| Parkin, Nora L. | Geschlecht and Transgression: The Theology of Sin and Salvation in Thuring von Ringoltingen's Melusine | Washington U | Gerhild Scholz Williams |
| Posthofen, Renate S. | George Saiko [1892-1962]: Leben und Werk eines unbekannten großen Autors | SUNY Albany | Joseph P. Strelka |
| Ranney, Susan E. | Learning the Role of the International Teaching Assistant: Sociolinguistic Competence in an Unequal Power Setting | Minnesota | Constance Walker |
| Rode, Silvia A. | Franz Werfels Stern der Ungeborenen: Die Utopie als fiktionaler Genrediskurs und Ideengeschichte | California, Los Angeles | Hans Wagener |
| Russi, Roger | Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's Kassandra, Monique Wittig's Les Guerillers, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand | North Carolina | Alice A. Kuzniar |
| Sandage, Donna S. | Recall of Visual and Verbal Information from Authentic Video by Second, Fourth, and Sixth Semester Learners of German at the High School Level | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| Schefle, Karl W. | Aspekte der 'neuen Sach' in ausgewählten Romanen von H. Fallada, E. Kästner, I. Keun, E. Reger und G. Tergit [DML] | Middlebury | Konrad Kenkel |
| Schellhammer, Ulrike B. | Spatial Dynamics in Poetry: A Topographical Approach to Poems by Rilke, Hölderlin, and Bachmann | Rice | Michael Winkler |
| Sebastian, Thomas | Der Gang der Geschichte: Studie zur Rhetorik der Zeitlichkeit in Hermann Brochs Romantrilogie Die Schlafwandler | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Seidman, Naomi | A Marriage Made in Heaven? The Sexual Politics of Hebrew-Yiddish Diglossia | California, Berkeley | Chana Kronfeld |
| Simon, Sunka | Contemporary Epistolary Fiction and Theory: A Postmodern Poetics? | Johns Hopkins | Liliane Weissberg |
| Skidmore, James M. | History with a Mission: Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic | Princeton | Theodore J. Ziolkowski |
| Sonntag, Martina | German Exile Literature in the College Curriculum [DA] | SUNY, Stony Brook: | Barbara E. Elling |
| Steinwand, Jonathan M. | Mnemonic Images: The Gender of Modernity in Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Hölderlin, and Bettina Brentano-von Arnim | SUNY Binghamton | Dennis J. Schmidt |
| Strack, Thomas | Privileged Experience and the Claim to Intersubjective Validity: On the Representation of Alien Cultures in Selected Travel Reports from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century | Southern California | Dagmar Barnouw |
| Striedter, Anna K. | Women Writers and the Epistolary Novel: Gender, Genre, and Ideology in Eighteenth Century Fiction | California, San Diego | Winifred Woodhull |
| Taylor, Sheryl V. | The Effect of Language Ability and Varying the Immediate Recall Protocal Procedure on Recall Measures of Listening Comprehension in University Students of Intermediate Spanish | Ohio State | Gilbert A. Jarvis |
| Thiede, Rolf | Stereotypen vom Juden--Text und Kontext: Die frühen Schriften Heinrich Manns und seines Bruders Thomas: Zum antisemitischen Diskurs der Moderne und dem Versuch seiner Überwindung | Johns Hopkins | Lieselotte E. Kurth |
| Thoren, Krista | Salience of Error to Learners of French: Toward a Characterization of Salience in Second Language Acquisition | Florida | David Birdsong |
| Thorhallsdottir, Gudrun | The Development of Intervocalic *j in Proto-Germanic | Cornell | Jay H. Jasanoff |
| Torrance, James G. | A Concordance to the Middle High German Kudrun | California, Los Angeles | Donald J. Ward |
| Upton, Thomas A. | The Influence of First and Second Language Use on the Comprehension and Recall of Written English Texts by Japanese Readers | Minnesota | Helen Jorstad & Diane Tedick |
| Vazsonyi, Nicholas | Anatomy of a 'Breakthrough': Georg Lukács's Goethe Reception and Concurrent Accommodation of Stalinism | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Villavicencio, José A. | Teachers' Perceptions of Foreign Language Programs in San Mateo County Public High Schools [1992; EdD] | Southern California | Johanna Lemlech |
| Vocca, Robert | Rites of Passage and the Construction of Masculinity in Hubert Fichte's Das Waisenhaus, Detlevs Imitationen rünspan, Die Palette, and Versuch über die Pubertät | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Volpe, Rosa | From Comprehension to Production: The Role of Mental Anchors in Second Language Learning through Unedited Film | Texas | Diane L. Schallert |
| Walters, Timothy M. | Hegel's Last Words and the Critique of Speculative Idealism | Johns Hopkins | Judith Butler & Werner Hamacher |
| Wegner, Phillip E. | Horizons of Future Worlds, Borders of Present States: Utopian Narratives, History, and the Nation | Duke | Fredric R. Jameson |
| Weilnböck, Harald | Romantische Revolution und die Psychoanalyse der protofaschistischen Entfremdung: Eine nach-Freudianische Lesart der bürgerlichen Mentalität ausgehend von Friedrich Hölderlins Empedokles mit Ausblick auf die Situation der [Post-]Moderne | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Wilburn, Deborah S. | Naturalistic Inquiry into Kindergarten Children's Experiences in a Spanish Immersion Setting: A Collaborative Research Project | Ohio State | Gilbert A. Jarvis |
| Winter, Julie M. | Luther Bible Research and Volkish Nationalism in Early Twentieth Century Germany | Northwestern | Peter L. Lehmann |
| Wisely, Andrew | If Peace Should Break Out: The Discourse of Honor in the Writings of Arthur Schnitzler | Washington U | Egon Schwarz |
| Wolf, Darlene F. | The Effects of Task, Language of Assessment, and Target Language Experience on Foreign Language Learners' Performance on Reading Comprehension Tests [1991] | Illinois | James F. Lee |
| You, Wenjia | Toward a Methodology of Freudian Influence: A Consideration of Paradigmatic Asian and Western Texts | Rutgers | Janet A. Walker |
| Zinggeler, Margrit | Literary Freedom and Social Constraints in the Works of Swiss Writer Gertrud Leutenegger | Minnesota | Leonard L. Duroche |
