| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Abbott, Vaidehi Ramanathan | Wellformedness in Alzheimer Narratives: An Interactional and Schematic Understanding | Southern California | James Gee |
| Abdullah, Mary C. | The Influence of Lou Andreas-Salomé and Her Writings on Rainer Maria Rilke between 1897 and 1905 | Massachusetts | Sigrid Bauschinger |
| Balsamo, Gian | Legitimate Filiation and Gender Segregation: Law and Fiction in Texts by Derrida, Hegel, Joyce, Pirandello, Vico | Vanderbilt | Roy Gottfried |
| Barfield, Gregory | An Analysis of the Relationship between Learning Styles and Foreign Language Achievement of High School Students [EdD] | Georgia | Genelle Morain |
| Berg, Margarete C. | The Outcast Orphan in German and American Literature | U of Washington | Diana Behler |
| Berman, Nina | Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschen Kultur um 1900 | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Bilas, Lidia Z. | Literature in the Lincke Collection Translated from the Spanish, French, and English into German: A Bibliographic Survey of Translations in the Lincke Collection at the University of Chicago | Chicago | W. R. Johnson |
| Blair, John | Authority and Transgression in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | Indiana | Lawrence Frye |
| Bornedal, Peter | The Interpretation of Art | Chicago | Françoise Meltzer |
| Borovsky, Zoe P. | Rocking the Boat: Women in Old Norse Literature | California, Berkeley | Carol Clover |
| Bower, Kathrin M. | In the Name of the [M]other? Articulating an Ethics of Memory in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander | Wisconsin | Nancy Kaiser |
| Bryant, Keri | Mixed Messages: Revising the Role of the Jew in Sixteenth-Century German Fiction | Pennsylvania | NL |
| Burrow, Steele D. | Risk and Insurance in the Writings of Franz Kafka | California, Santa Barbara | Laurence Rickels |
| Chaimov, John B. | 'A Masonic Lodge of Literature': Popular and Private Discourse in the European Reception of the French Revolution | Chicago | Françoise Meltzer |
| Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline B. | Deriving the Underlying Dimensions of Oral Proficiency across Various Tasks as Assessed by Different Rater Groups | Ohio State | Elizabeth Bernhardt |
| Ciccone, Nancy | Loose Ends: Practical Reason and Inner Debate in Medieval Romance | California, Berkeley | Phillip Damon |
| Clopton, Laura Dale | Dative Reflexive Motion Verbs in Old Saxon: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Czajkoski, Christina | Second Language Presentation in Context and out of Context: A Comparison | Pittsburgh | Herschel Frey |
| Daley, Margaretmary | Corresponding Artists: Self and Genre in German Romantic Letters | Yale | Cyrus Hamlin |
| Davidson, John Ellsworth | Deterritorializing the New German Cinema [1993] | Cornell | Sander L. Gilman |
| Destino, Thomas | Observing a Bilingual Science Teacher Accommodating both Language and Content Objectives | Ohio State | Elizabeth Bernhardt |
| Dixon, Edward | The Selling of the Enlightenment: Christian Heinrich Spiess and the Tales of Insanity | Pennsylvania | NL)
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| Djukic-Cocks, Ana | Das Amerikabild in den Reportagen von Egon Erwin Kisch | Cincinnati | Karl Obrath |
| Downey-Vanover, Jeanne | Universal Grammar and Adult Second Language Learning | Maryland | NL |
| Dullea, Robert J. | The Literary Thanatic: Writing and Oblivion in Freud and Bataille | U of Washington | Sven Rossel |
| 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 Hinderer |
| Ehrman, James F. | Translation, World View, and Time: Rewriting Organic Science in Translation | Texas | André Lefevere |
| Emde, Silke von der | Entering History: Feminist Dialogues in Irmtraud Morgner's Leben und Abenteur der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura | Indiana | Ingeborg Hoesterey |
| Emonds, Friederike B. | Gattung und Geschlecht: Inszenierung des weiblichen in Dramen deutschsprachiger Theaterschriftstellerinnen | California, Davis | Gail E. Finney |
| Fertig, David L. | Variation and Change in Verbal Inflection in Late Medieval and Early Modern Nuremberg | Michigan | Rosina Lippi-Green |
| Fingas, Monika | Die Struktur von Hermann Brochs Roman Der Tod des Vergil erörtert im Hinblick auf seine philosophischen, linguistischen und literarischen Komponenten | Georgetown | Kurt Jankowsky |
| Freiburg, Jeanne E. | Regulating Bodies: Gendered Visions of the State in German and Swedish Cinema | Minnesota | NL |
| Gerdemann-Klein, Ellen | The Dramaturgical Integration of Text and Music in Brecht's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg | Illinois | Karl-Heinz Schoeps |
| Gerstenberger, Katharina | Writing Herself into the Center: Centrality and Marginality in the Autobiographical Writings of Nahida Lazarus, Adelheid Popp, and Unica Zuern [1993] | Cornell | Peter Uwe Hohendahl |
| Giartosio, Tommaso | Seeing and Looking: The Language and Discourse of Vision in Epistemology and Literature | California, Berkeley | Michael Lucey |
| Gillman, Abigail E. | Die Musik des Vergessens: Memory and Identity in the Work of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Harvard | Dorrit Cohn |
| Gleason, Michael | The Self-Conscious Hagiographer: Literary Ambition and Political Power in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Old Norse Saints Lives | Brown | Joseph Pucci |
| Goldfarb, Nancy | The Poetics of Drowning: Readings in the Poetry of Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Shelley, Mallarmé, and Stevens | Michigan | Timothy Bahti |
| Gott, Gil | Migration, Ethnicization, and Germany's New Ethnic Minority Literature | California, Berkeley | Robert Holub |
| Grair, Charles | Träumt ihr den Friedenstag?: The Representation of War and Rebellion in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Grant, Matthew T. | Critical Intellectuals and the New Media: Bernward Vesper, Ulrike Meinhof, and the Frankfurt School and the Red Army Faction | Cornell | Geoffrey Waite |
| Green, Anne M. | The Women in the Novellas of Clemens Brentano | Illinois | James McGlathery |
| Greiner, Paul | Suprasegmentals in Germanic: Evidence from Gothic and Old High German | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Grove, Leslie A. | Experiential Time in the Works of Johan Borgen | U of Washington | Henning Sehmsdorf |
| Gruettner, Mark | Kopfgeburten und Die Rättin von Günther Grass: Intertextualität und Zeitkritik | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Hackner, Cornelia C. | James Joyces Roman Ulysses im Umfeld des Expressionismus | California, San Diego | James Lyon |
| Hamilton, Donald R. | A Literary-Documentary Analysis of Beyer's German Version of Nicodemus Frischlin's 1575 Württemberg Court Festival Description | Cincinnati | Richard Schade |
| Hammermeister, Kai | Nietzsche's Knights, the Third Sex, and Other Inventions | Virginia | NL |
| Hannemann, Ernst | Empire in der Ästhetik: Zur Entwicklung aesthetischer Grundpositionen beim jungen Herder untersucht am Beispiel des Auditiven | California, Davis | Karl R. Menges |
| Hansen, Mark B. N. | From Heidegger to Horror: The Defiguration of the Machine in Romantic Literature and Cultural Theory | California, Irvine | Juliet MacCannell |
| Heins, John P. | The Parody of Sentimentality in Eighteenth-Century German Literature | Cornell | Peter Uwe Hohendahl |
| Heinze, Karin U. | Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis: A Contrastive Study of the Organizational Patterns of American and German Texts for Business and Economics Taken from Wirtschaftswoche and Business Week | Michigan State | Patricia Paulsell |
| Horwich, Cara M. | The Theme of Survival in Grimmelshausen's Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch and Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder | Georgetown | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Howells, Christa V. | Heimat und Exil: Ihre Dynamik im Werk von Hilde Spiel | Rice | Michael Winkler |
| Höyng, Peter | '...und mußte dem Geist des Zeitalters nahe bleiben': Studie zur Darstellung des Historischen auf dem Theater am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Hutchison, Catherine | The Narrator's Tale: Christa Wolf and the Reader in the Text | Michigan | Anne Herrmann |
| Jeep, Lynda H. | Feminist Intertextuality: Fiction by Contemporary Argentine and German Women Writers | Chicago | Clayton Koelb |
| Johnson, Catherine T. | The Representation of Blacks in Medieval German Literature and Art | Michigan | Patricia Simpson |
| Johnson, Christopher | The Volga German Dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas | Kansas | William Keel |
| Kahf, Mohja | The Muslim Woman in Western Literature from Romance to Romanticism | Rutgers | M. Josephine Diamond |
| Katsareas, Dimitri | The Public and Private English-German Schools of Baltimore: 1836-1904 | Georgetown | Alfred Obernberger |
| Kim, Eunju | The Imaginative Play Context and Child Second Language Acquisition: A Naturalistic Longitudinal Study [1993] | Florida State | Elizabeth Platt |
| King-Smith, Birgitta | Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Die Sinnbezirke des Ausdruckssehen in Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus Teutsch und in der Continuation des abentheurlichen Simplicissimi | Ohio State | Johanna Belkin |
| Klett, Ulrike E. | Liebesklage, Hochzeitsspiel und Epithalamium in Lohensteins Arminius-Roman: 'Bitter-süsse Pillen' eines Politicus | Michigan | Roy Cowen |
| Kuechelmann, Nancy | Narrative Perspective and Thematic Issue in Selected Short Prose Works of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Rutgers | Joanna Ratych |
| Larson-Thorisch, Alexa | Was It Rape? Sexual Violence and the Construction of Gender in Legal-Medical and Literary Discourse [1770-1810] | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand & Nancy Kaiser |
| Leiste, Marcus W. | Borne contra Heine: Aspekte einer Feindschaft | California, San Diego | James Lyon |
| Maier-Heym, Edward K. | Narratives by Lessing and Goethe | California, Davis | Helmut Schneider |
| Manicke, Michelle E. | From Underling to Overdag: Literary Portraits of the Press in the Works of Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, and Karl Kraus | Illinois | Herbert Knust |
| Manicke, Michelle | From Underling to Overdog: Literary Portraits of the Press in the Works of Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, and Karl Kraus | Illinois | Herbert Knust |
| Martinez-Rico, Ingrid M. | In Search of the Romantic Female Voice: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Rosalia De Castro | Pennsylvania State | Raymond Fleming |
| McInerney, Magdalen B. | Flames Fed from Within: Medieval Women and Mystical Writing | California, Berkeley | Carolyn Dinshaw |
| McKey, Ellen B. | Re-Writing Arcadia: An Analysis of German Philhellenic Literature | Rutgers | Hildburg G. Herbst |
| Mohr, Werner | Albert Bloch as Caricaturist, Social Critic, and Authorized Translator of Karl Kraus in America | Kansas | Frank Baron |
| Muehle, Keinz P. | Wir sind wieder wer! Die Repräsentation der Nazivergangenheit, des Konsums und der Geschlechterrollen im westdeutschen Film der füngzier Jahre | Minnesota | Jack Zipes & Richard McCormick |
| Mueller-Meehl, Gisela | Fotografie als Paradigma der Rahmenschau in neun Kurzgeschichten von Siegfried Lenz | Utah | Robert E. Helbling |
| Neeb-Crippen, Jerry | Vom bürgerlichen Lustspiel zum Ritterroman: Zur Unterhaltungsliteratur im ausgehenden achtzehnten Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der frühen Werke Ernst August Klingemanns | Illinois | Herbert Knust |
| Neindorf, Kari | A Comparative Study of Non-Native Speaker Performance on Culture -Fair and -Biased Essay Topics | Florida State | Elizabeth Platt & Frederick Jenks |
| Niekerk, Carl | Bildungskrisen: Die Frage nach dem Subjekt in Goethes Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Nobile, Nancy M. | Allegorical Education: Pedagogical Writings of Heinrich von Kleist | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele |
| O'Connor, Patrick J. | Passages of Revolutionary Desire: The Writings of Julio Cortázar and Walter Benjamin | Yale | Sylvia Molloy |
| Osselmann, Dawn-Leigh H. | Misogyny in Heine and Baudelaire and Its Link with Romantic Pessimism | Pennsylvania State | William Crisman |
| Page, Barry R. | A Gestural Analysis of Conditioned Sound Changes Involving Nasal-Obstruent Sequences in Early Germanic | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Pankow, Edgar | The Metaphorical Letter: Concepts of Epistolary Writing in Hölderlin, Jean Paul, and Edgar Allan Poe | Stanford | Peter Demetz & Geoffrey Hartman |
| Park, Jusik | From Aesthetics to Poetics: The Benjaminian Turn in Paul De Man | Purdue | Vincent Leitch |
| Pohle, Bettina | Woman as Icon: Representations of Femininity around 1900 in German Literature and Culture | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Polster, Arnim | Childhood, Autonomy, and Social Order: The Pedagogy of Karl Phillipp Moritz | California, Berkeley | Daniel Wilson |
| Pon, Cynthia | Negativity, Transition, and Crossing: Communication of Differences in the Poetry of Shelley, Hölderlin, and Baudelaire | Michigan | Timothy Bahti |
| Popov, Nikolai B. | Celan Seen Through | U of Washington | Ernst Behler |
| Prakash, Kamini | The Discourse of the Other in German Travel Writing, 1800-60 | Michigan State | Karin Wurst |
| Pridmore-Brown, Michele | The Rhythm of Marching Boots, the Rhyme of Property, and the Lure of Charismatic Leaders: Fascist Modernism, the Poetics of Technology, and the Mythification of Energy | Stanford | Lucio Ruotolo |
| Racz, Gregary J. | The Twentieth-Century Novel and Rereading | Princeton | Sandra Bermann |
| Rast, Hubert | Subversive Contextualizations: Law and Unruly Literature | Michigan | Ross Chambers |
| Reichert, Sybille A. M. | Unendliche Sehnsucht: The Concept of Longing in German Romantic Narrative and Song | Yale | Cyrus Hamlin & Geoffrey Hartman |
| Ringmayr, Thomas G. | Humor und Komik in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur: Arno Schmidt, Eckhard Henscheid und Robert Gernhardt | U of Washington | Richard Gray |
| Rollins, William H. | Aesthetic Environmentalism: The Heimatschutz Movement in Germany, 1904-18 | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Rose-Lefmann, Deborah | Hendrik Herps Spiegel der Vollkommenheit in deutscher Sprache: eine überlieferungsgeschichtliche Edition | Princeton | Michael Curschmann |
| Rueschmann, Eva | Those Precious Bonds: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sister Relationships in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film | Massachusetts | Catherine Portuges |
| Schlachter, Sandra A. | Germanic Journalistic Products in an Asian Environment: Shanghai 1939-41 | Southern California | Cornelius Schnauber |
| Schmidt, Doris B. | Reception of Literature by German-Jewish Immigrants to the US, As Exemplified in Aufbau: 1934-44 | New York U | Volkmar Sander |
| Schönfeld, Christiane | Dialectics and Utopia: The Prostitute in German Expressionism | Pennsylvania State | Ernst Schürer |
| Schuetze-Coburn, Stephen M. | Prosody, Syntax, and Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation | California, Los Angeles | John DuBois & Pamela Munro |
| Small, Jeff | On-Line Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease | Southern California | Elaine Andersen |
| Spreizer, Christine | The Habitus of German Expressionist Writers | Pennsylvania | NL |
| Stimpson, Gene O. | Hermann Kasack: Zwischen Mystik und Naturwissenschaften | Southern California | Cornelius Schnauber |
| Sullivan, Heather I. | The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works | U of Washington | Diana Behler |
| Tan, David | Carl Einstein: Primitivism and Expressionism | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Turits, Michael B. | Mimicry and Movement: Fascism, Politics, and Culture in Italy and Germany | Massachusetts | Marc Shell |
| Tyson, Susan E. | From the Polis to the Mass: Production, Ritual, and the Communication of Technology in the Literary/Cultural Journal from 1890-1910 | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Vandenberg, David D. | Reading the Book of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann, Herman Melville, and Mary Shelley | North Carolina | Lilian Furst |
| Watt, Jonathan | L1 Interference in Written L2: A Comparison between the Pennsylvania German and Koine Greek Situations | Pittsburgh | Terrence Kaufman |
| Weber, Ulrike | Christa Wolf and the Memory of the Future: Gender, Socialism, Resistance | Northwestern | Christine Froula |
| White, Douglas K. | The Mirror of Modern Allegory: Figuring Lacan's Theory of Narcissism | California, Irvine | Juliet MacCannell |
| Wiedmer, Caroline A. | Reconstructing Sites: Representations of the Holocaust in Postwar Literary Cinematic and Memorial Texts | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Wierschke, Annette | Schreiben als Selbstbehauptung: Kulturkonflikt und Identität in den Werken von Aysel Özakin, Alev Tekinay und Emine Sevgi Özdamar | Minnesota | Arlene Teraoka |
| Wlodek, Steven T. | Adventure in the Works of Thomas Mann | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Wotschke, Jean | From the Home Fires to the Battlefield: The Mother as Representative, Victim, and Critic of Wilhelminian Society in Expressionist Drama | Pennsylvania State | Ernst Schürer |
| Ye, Fang-Xian | China-Rezeption bei Hermann Hesse und Bertolt Brecht | California, Irvine | Herbert Lehnert |
| Zagar, Monika | Ideological Clowns in the Fiction of Dag Solstad | California, Berkeley | Karin Sanders |
