UP

U. S. Doctoral Degrees Related to
the Teaching of German listed in
Die Unterrichtspraxis-Teaching German
in 1995 (Vol. 30)



As in the compilations published in Die Unterrichtspraxis, "related to the teaching of German" refers to dissertations completed in Germanics, comparative literature, linguistics, and foreign or second language education with reasonable applicability to German or to the teaching of German.

Compiled and Edited by David P. Benseler, Case Western Reserve University.

Degree Awarded to:
Title of Dissertation
Granting Institution
Dissertation Director
Acker, GeoffreyThe Codex Argenteus Upsaliensis: A Codicological Examination.Illinois [1994]James W. Marchand
Assis, Ana A. dePeers as a Resource for Language Learning in the Foreign Language Context: Insights from an Interaction-Based Study.PennsylvaniaTeresa Pica
Axcelson, John W.The Divine Breath of Irony: The Religious Consciousness of Romantic Literature.ColumbiaKarl Kroeber
Baer, Ulrich C.Fractured Experience, Absolute Event: The Poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan.YaleGeoffrey Hartman
Barnett, Deborah L.The Effect of Multicultural Literature on the Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity of Freshman-Literature Students.ArizonaRobert Ariew
Behl, HeikeOhne Zahl Sind die Straben: Wege in Dichtung Paul Celans.California, San DiegoJames Lyon
Berducci, Domenic F.Structure and Learning Opportunities in Science Mentoring: An Analysis Following Pike and Vygotsky.PennsylvaniaFrederick Erickson
Bergstrom, Anna M.The Expression of Past Temporal Reference by English-Speaking Learners of French.Pennsylvania StateJeannette Bragger & Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Bokel, FranzGreat Days in Germany: Third Reich Celebrities as Mediators between Government and People.TexasKatherine Arens
Boots-Ebenfield, MarcThe Semantics of Grammatical Aspect in the Interlanguage of American College Students of Russian: An Analysis of Oral Proficiency Interviews Before and After Study Abroad.Bryn MawrRichard Brecht & Dan Davidson
Bothe, BrittaLove and Work in Irmtraud Morgner's Salman Novels.California, Los AngelesEhrhard Bahr
Branch, Jessica A.Performance Anxiety: Gender, Performance, Text.YaleMargaret Homans & David Marshall
Burrow, Steele D.Risk and Insurance in the Writings of Franz Kafka.California, Santa BarbaraWolf Kittler
Chajla, FatimaArticulation of French Programs between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions: Language and Culture Performance Achieved by High School Students Enrolled in French II and College Students Enrolled in Second-Semester French.Louisiana StateRobert Lafayette
Cordero-Román, ArnaldoPhotography and Literature: Two Case Studies and a Portfolio of Cultural Encounters.MarylandJohn Fuegi
Cramer, SilkeReisen und Identität: Autogeographie im Werk Hubert Fichtes.California, DavisAnna K. Kuhn
DeCamp, Richard M.The Drama of Carl Orff: From Unerwünscht to Post-Modernity.IowaFord B. Parkes-Perret
Doering, WolfgangGlück und Gewalt bei Heinrich von Kleist: Die Frustrations-Hypothese als literaturpsychologischer Ansatz.California, Los AngelesEhrhard Bahr
Dong, Yu-RenIntensive, Highly Professional Training: Non-Native Graduate Students' Writing of Their Theses/Dissertations. GeorgiaDonald Rubin).
Doughty, Delbert O.The Underground Hero in Modern World Literature.Pennsylvania StateEarl Fitz
Ehrstine, Glenn E.From Iconoclasm to Iconography: Reformation Drama in Sixteenth-Century Bern.TexasDavid Price
Einbeck, KandaceLearning Styles and Successful Language Learning: The Case of German for Engineers at the University of Rhode Island.ConnecticutBarbara Wright
Fast, Michael G.Assessing Interaction in Fiber-Optic Networked, Multisite Foreign Language Instruction.IowaLeslie L. Schrier & Michael E. Everson
Fiero, PetraSchreiben gegen Schweigen: Grenzerfahrungen in Jean Amérys autobiographischem Werk.Nebraska [1994]Robert Shirer
Florez-Estrada, NancySome Effects of Native-Nonnative Communication via Computer E-Mail Interaction on the Development of Foreign Language Writing Proficiency.PittsburghHerschel Frey
Frantz, Barbara F.Gertrud Kolmar's Prose: Stories about Inferiority, Violence, Social Impotence, Maternal Bonds, and the Boundaries of the Self.California, Santa BarbaraUrsula Mahlendorf
Fraunhofer, HedwigPostpaternalism and the Fear of the Feminine: The Economic and the Erotic in Strindberg, Brecht, Giraudoux, and Sartre. OregonLinda Kintz).
Fry, Ingrid E.Elective Affinities: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Concept of Bildung and Its Influence on the American Transcendentalist Writers Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau.Washington Univ.Paul Michael Lützeler).
Gaus, Linda Zu nutz und heylsamer ler: Representations of Women in Early Modern German Satire.California, BerkeleyElaine Tennant
Gerdeman-Klein, EllenThe Dramaturgical Integration of Text and Music in Brecht's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg .Illinois [1994]Karl-Heinz Schoeps
Gerena, NatanaelPuerto Rican Students and Their ESL Teachers: Perceptions of the Influence of Classroom Management on Behavior and Academic Achievement.Pennsylvania StateThomas Dana
Gerl, AnnelieseAnalyse der literarischen Beiträge im Ver Sacrum 1898-1903.California, Los AngelesWolfgang Nehring
Ghawi, MohammedDeveloping Second Language Proficiency and Academic Competency: A Case Study of a Modified Adjunct Literature Course.ArizonaH. Douglas Adamson
Glatz, Lawrence F.Heinrich Böll als Moralist: Die Funktion von Verbrechen und Gewalt im Prosawerk.Pennsylvania StateManfred Keune
Grace, CarolineBeginning CALL Vocabulary Learning: Translation in Context.ArizonaRobert Ariew
Green, Anne MarieThe Women in the Novellas of Clemens Brentano.Illinois [1993] James M. McGlathery
Grossman, ElwiraThe Drama of Deceit: A Comparative Study of Selected Twentieth-Century Polish and Western Drama.Pennsylvania StateStanley Weintraub
Halpine, MargaritaThe Family as Aesthetic Category in the Picaresque.ConnecticutNelson Orringer
Hamm-Ehsani, KarinDie Empfindsamkeit und der junge Ludwig Tieck: Eine Studie zu den Nachwirkungen der empfindsamen Gefühlskultur im Leben und Werk des 'Königs der Romantik.'California, Los AngelesWolfgang Nehring
Hammermeister, KaiNietzsche's Knights, the Third Sex, and Other Inventions.VirginiaRichard Rorty
Harries, MartinScare Quotes and Reenchantment: Shakespeare, Marx, Keynes.YaleDavid Marshall & Jennifer Wicke).
Harris, KathrynSocial Milieu and Second Language Acquisition.NorthwesternRae Moses
Harrison, MetteIrony, Utopia, and Beyond: A Critique of Bourgeois Gender Polarity in Two Late Eighteenth-Century Bildungsromane.PrincetonEric Santner & Slyvia Schmitz-Burgard
Hens, Gregor W.Ditransitive Constructions in German.California, BerkeleyThomas Shannon
Herrmann, MareikeDie Heimat in der Fremde, das Fremde in der Heimat: Ambivalenz als Ausdruck der Aussenseitererfahrung bei Heinrich Heine und Frederic Chopin.MassachusettsSusan Cocalis
Holdengräber, PaulPortrait of the Artist as Collector: Walter Benjamin and the Collector's Struggle against Dispersion.PrincetonVictor Brombert
Holian, Timothy J.The German-American Community during the World War II Era, with a Focus on Cincinnati, Ohio.CincinnatiDon Heinrich Tolzmann
Holliday, LloydNS Syntactic Modifications in NS-NNS Negotiations as Input Data for SLA of Syntax. PennsylvaniaTeresa Pica
Horrigan, Patrick E.Out in the Open: Gay Identity and the Writing of Cultural Criticism.ColumbiaAnn Douglas
Isenberg, NoahBetween Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: The Rise of German Modernism and the Question of Jewish Identity.California, BerkeleyAnton Kaes
Jakar, Valerie S.A Society Contained, a Culture Maintained: An Ethnography of Communication of SLA in Informal Education.PennsylvaniaTeresa Pica
Johnson, David C.The Volga German Dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas.KansasWilliam Keel
Kaiser, IngeborgDie Nietzsche Rezeption Gerhart Hauptmanns.RutgersPhilip Mellon & Ralph Ley
Kallinger, ChristineDas Buch von Troya II.City Univ. of New YorkEdward Fichtner
Kathol, AndreasLinearization-Based German Syntax.Ohio StateCarl Pollard
Kenkel, Karen J.The Emergence of Mass Discourse in Modern German Literature from Schiller to Hauptmann.CornellPeter Hohendahl
Kirby, Rachel M.History and Identity in Franz Werfel's Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh.Washington UPaul Michael Lützeler
Klein, ThomasUmlaut in Optimality Theory.DelawareIrene Vogel
Konzett, Matthias B.Cultural Space and Its Revision in Recent Austrian Writing.ChicagoPeter Jansen
Langford, Barry F.The Confines of the Subject: Brecht and the Theory of Tragedy.ColumbiaMartin Meisel
Lashgari, MahafaridSchiller's Gender Theory in His Classical Discourse.California, Los AngelesEhrhard Bahr
Linnell, Julian D.Negotiation as a Context for Learning Syntax in a Second Language.PennsylvaniaTeresa Pica
Lysyk, Stephanie P.On Subtlety: Interpretive Strategies in Theatre, Law, and Literature in Fifteenth-Century Europe.StanfordBrigitte Cazelles
Magedanz, JosephSalman und Morolf: An English Translation.Nebraska [1994]Eveyln Jacobson
Manicke, Michelle EFrom Underling to Overdog: Literary Portraits of the Press in the Works of Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, and Karl Kraus.Illinois [1994]Herbert Knust
Maristany, Rosita M.Linguistic and Cultural Immersion and Second-Language Acquisition: International Young Student Exchange.Louisiana StateRobert Lafayette
Marshall, Catherine C.Men and Women, Goddesses and Mortals: A Thematic Study of Ilse Langner's Mythological Dramas.CincinnatiJerry Glenn
Mauricio, Cabrera H.Elaboration and Simplification of Listening Texts: Evidence from a Qualitative Study of College Students.Ohio StateCharles Hancock
Mohr, WernerAlbert Bloch as Caricaturist, Social Critic, and Authorized Translator of Karl Kraus in America.KansasFrank Baron
Moreira, Maria L.On Listening Comprehension: Linguistic Strategies Used by Second-Language Learners in Non-Collaborative Discourse.IllinoisBill VanPatten
Moritz, Christine E.Self-Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency: A Critical Analysis of Issues and a Study of Cognitive Orientations of French Learners.CornellLinda Waugh).
Moyer, AleneUltimate Attainment in Second Language Phonological Acquisition: Evidence from Adult Learners of German.TexasFrank Donahue
Neeb-Crippen, JerryVom bürgerlichen Lustspiel zum Ritterroman: Zur Unterhaltungsliteratur im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der frühen Werke Ernst August Klingemanns.Illinois [1993] Herbert Knust
Obermeier, Karin C.Private Matters Made Public: Love and the Sexualized Body in Karoline von Gunderrode's Texts.MassachusettsSusan Cocalis
Pan, David T.Modernist Steps toward a Primitivist Aesthetics: Carl Einstein and the Primitivism of Friedrich Nietzsche, Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Kafka.ColumbiaAndreas Huyssen
Pavlou, Pavlos Y.Assessing Different Speech Interactions in an Oral Proficiency Test.GeorgetownJeffrey Connor-Linton).
Plonien, NikolausRe-Mapping the World: Travel Literature of Weimar Germany.MinnesotaJochen Schulte-Sasse
Powers, ElizabethFrom Idyll to Exile: The Transformed Self in the Early Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.City Univ. of New YorkJohn Gearey
Pynes, Penelope J.Development of Language Variety Awareness and Attitudes in School Children: Analysis of a Study Conducted in Sandhausen, Germany.North CarolinaHelga Bister
Ram, HarshaGeographies of Empire: The Poetics of Orientalism in Europe and Russia.YaleJ. Michael Holquist
Reil, HaraldSiegfried Kracauers Jacques Offenbach: Biographie, Geschichte, Zeitgeschichte. Ein Beitrag zur Exilliteratur- forschung.VanderbiltDieter Sevin
Robinson, Jennifer L.Second Language Learning in Social Context: An Ethnographic Account of an Academic Semester Abroad in Russia.MarylandWilliam E. De Lorenzo
Rothberg, MichaelDocumenting Barbarism: Memory, Culture, and Modernity after the 'Final Solution.'City Univ. of New YorkNancy Miller
Sandberg, GlennThe Genealogy of the Massenführer: Hermann Broch's Die Verzauberung as a Religious Novel.RutgersFrederick Lubich
Santilli, Michael D.The Quality of L2 Input in the FL Classroom.IllinoisDiane Musumeci
Schestokat, Karin U.German Women in Cameroon: Travelogues from Colonial Times.Southern CaliforniaDagmar Barnouw
Schlabaugh, MerleDeutsche Welle Television in the Intermediate German II Classroom.SUNY, Stony BrookBarbara Elling
Schutjer, KarinCommunity and the Individual Body: Kant, Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlin.PrincetonStanley Corngold
Siehoff, John-ThomasThomas Manns Doktor Faustus: Studien zur Ästhetik der kritischen Theorie im Exil und Adornos Beitrag zur Kunsttheorie im Roman.California, Los AngelesEhrhard Bahr
Siribodhi, TinsiriEffects of Three Interactive Multimedia Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs on the Vocabulary Acquisition of Elementary-Level EFL Students.KansasPaul Markham
Slane, AndreaFamily Values and Nazi Perversions: The Shift of Anti-Fascist Rhetoric on Sexuality in American Theory, Film, and Commentary [1930-95].California, San DiegoPage DuBois
Smith, Christa M.'Paläontologe werden': Politics, Narrative, and the Construction of Female Subjectivity in the German Novel of the 1970s.PrincetonMichael Jennings
Snyder, WilliamCognitive Strategies in Second Language Lexical Processing: Evidence from English Speakers' Spelling Errors in Spanish.NorthwesternRae Moses
Sperber, RichardModernism and Mass Culture in Botho Strauss and Antonio Muņoz Molina.Univ. of WashingtonSabine Wilke
Stephan, Renate M.Probleme autobiographischer Representation zur frühen Prosa Gottfried Benns.NorthwesternRainer Rumold
Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra C.The Topography of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance.Pennsylvania StateFrancis Gentry
Stimilli, DavideThe Strategy of Immortality: A Study in the Physiognomical Tradition.YalePeter Demetz & David Marshall
Stoneberg, CarlaAn Ethnography of Older Adult Second Language Learners' Expectations for Success.Ball StateChristopher Ely
Strand, Mary R.I/You: Paradoxical Constructions of Self and Other in Early German Romanticism.MinnesotaJochen Schulte-Sasse
Su, Tsu-ChungThe Writing of the Dionysian: The Dionysian in Modern Critical Theory.Univ. of WashingtonSteven Shaviro
Sullivan, Heather I.The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works.Univ. of WashingtonDiana Behler
Taylor, Jennifer L.Writing as Revenge: Jewish-German Identity in Post-Holocaust German Literary Works: Reading Survivor Authors Jurek Becker, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.CornellSander Gilman
Taylor, Lucas R.The Role of Beliefs and Anxiety in the Attrition of African-American Students in Foreign Language Study.Ohio StateCharles Hancock
Traverse, Elizabeth I.Peasants, Seasons, and Werltsüeze: Cyclicity in Neidhart's Songs Re-Examined.Pennsylvania StateVicki Ziegler
Tweraser, Felix W.The Dawn of an Old Age: Arthur Schnitzler's Critique of Monarchical Ideology and Institutions in First Republic Austria.IndianaMarc Weiner
Vandergriff, IlonaA Study of German Conditionals: Domain, Verb Position, and Pragmatic Function.California, BerkeleyIrmengard Rauch
Weisman, YaffaGrotesque Transformations of the Mythical Woman from August Strindberg to Nissim Aloni.Southern CaliforniaMoshe Lazar
Wilcox, WilmaMusic Cues from Classroom Singing for Second Language Acquistion: Prosodic Memory for Pronunciation of Target Vocabulary by Adult Non-Native English Speakers.KansasPaul Markham
Wilkinson, Sharon EForeign Language Conversation and the Study Abroad Transition: A Case Study.Pennsylvania StateRebecca Kline
Wise, GailAli in Wunderland: German Representations of Foreign Workers.California, BerkeleyAnton Kaes
Wolf, Robert HA Yiddish Manichaean: The Dualistic Fiction of Lamed Shapiro. CornellDavid Damrosch
Zinn, GesaFilm, Fiction, and Feminism: Politics in Helke Sander's Cinematic and Literary Texts: Representation of Gender, Subjectivity, Humor, and Music.MinnesotaRichard McCormick

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