| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Acker, Geoffrey | The Codex Argenteus Upsaliensis: A Codicological Examination. | Illinois [1994] | James W. Marchand |
| Assis, Ana A. de | Peers as a Resource for Language Learning in the Foreign Language Context: Insights from an Interaction-Based Study. | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Axcelson, John W. | The Divine Breath of Irony: The Religious Consciousness of Romantic Literature. | Columbia | Karl Kroeber |
| Baer, Ulrich C. | Fractured Experience, Absolute Event: The Poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. | Yale | Geoffrey Hartman |
| Barnett, Deborah L. | The Effect of Multicultural Literature on the Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity of Freshman-Literature Students. | Arizona | Robert Ariew |
| Behl, Heike | Ohne Zahl Sind die Straben: Wege in Dichtung Paul Celans. | California, San Diego | James Lyon |
| Berducci, Domenic F. | Structure and Learning Opportunities in Science Mentoring: An Analysis Following Pike and Vygotsky. | Pennsylvania | Frederick Erickson |
| Bergstrom, Anna M. | The Expression of Past Temporal Reference by English-Speaking Learners of French. | Pennsylvania State | Jeannette Bragger & Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig |
| Bokel, Franz | Great Days in Germany: Third Reich Celebrities as Mediators between Government and People. | Texas | Katherine Arens |
| Boots-Ebenfield, Marc | The 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 Mawr | Richard Brecht & Dan Davidson |
| Bothe, Britta | Love and Work in Irmtraud Morgner's Salman Novels. | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Branch, Jessica A. | Performance Anxiety: Gender, Performance, Text. | Yale | Margaret Homans & David Marshall |
| Burrow, Steele D. | Risk and Insurance in the Writings of Franz Kafka. | California, Santa Barbara | Wolf Kittler |
| Chajla, Fatima | Articulation 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 State | Robert Lafayette |
| Cordero-Román, Arnaldo | Photography and Literature: Two Case Studies and a Portfolio of Cultural Encounters. | Maryland | John Fuegi |
| Cramer, Silke | Reisen und Identität: Autogeographie im Werk Hubert Fichtes. | California, Davis | Anna K. Kuhn |
| DeCamp, Richard M. | The Drama of Carl Orff: From Unerwünscht to Post-Modernity. | Iowa | Ford B. Parkes-Perret |
| Doering, Wolfgang | Glück und Gewalt bei Heinrich von Kleist: Die Frustrations-Hypothese als literaturpsychologischer Ansatz. | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Dong, Yu-Ren | Intensive, Highly Professional Training: Non-Native Graduate Students' Writing of Their Theses/Dissertations. | Georgia | Donald Rubin). |
| Doughty, Delbert O. | The Underground Hero in Modern World Literature. | Pennsylvania State | Earl Fitz |
| Ehrstine, Glenn E. | From Iconoclasm to Iconography: Reformation Drama in Sixteenth-Century Bern. | Texas | David Price |
| Einbeck, Kandace | Learning Styles and Successful Language Learning: The Case of German for Engineers at the University of Rhode Island. | Connecticut | Barbara Wright |
| Fast, Michael G. | Assessing Interaction in Fiber-Optic Networked, Multisite Foreign Language Instruction. | Iowa | Leslie L. Schrier & Michael E. Everson |
| Fiero, Petra | Schreiben gegen Schweigen: Grenzerfahrungen in Jean Amérys autobiographischem Werk. | Nebraska [1994] | Robert Shirer |
| Florez-Estrada, Nancy | Some Effects of Native-Nonnative Communication via Computer E-Mail Interaction on the Development of Foreign Language Writing Proficiency. | Pittsburgh | Herschel Frey |
| Frantz, Barbara F. | Gertrud Kolmar's Prose: Stories about Inferiority, Violence, Social Impotence, Maternal Bonds, and the Boundaries of the Self. | California, Santa Barbara | Ursula Mahlendorf |
| Fraunhofer, Hedwig | Postpaternalism and the Fear of the Feminine: The Economic and the Erotic in Strindberg, Brecht, Giraudoux, and Sartre. | Oregon | Linda 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, Berkeley | Elaine Tennant |
| Gerdeman-Klein, Ellen | The Dramaturgical Integration of Text and Music in Brecht's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg . | Illinois [1994] | Karl-Heinz Schoeps |
| Gerena, Natanael | Puerto Rican Students and Their ESL Teachers: Perceptions of the Influence of Classroom Management on Behavior and Academic Achievement. | Pennsylvania State | Thomas Dana |
| Gerl, Anneliese | Analyse der literarischen Beiträge im Ver Sacrum 1898-1903. | California, Los Angeles | Wolfgang Nehring |
| Ghawi, Mohammed | Developing Second Language Proficiency and Academic Competency: A Case Study of a Modified Adjunct Literature Course. | Arizona | H. Douglas Adamson |
| Glatz, Lawrence F. | Heinrich Böll als Moralist: Die Funktion von Verbrechen und Gewalt im Prosawerk. | Pennsylvania State | Manfred Keune |
| Grace, Caroline | Beginning CALL Vocabulary Learning: Translation in Context. | Arizona | Robert Ariew |
| Green, Anne Marie | The Women in the Novellas of Clemens Brentano. | Illinois [1993] | James M. McGlathery |
| Grossman, Elwira | The Drama of Deceit: A Comparative Study of Selected Twentieth-Century Polish and Western Drama. | Pennsylvania State | Stanley Weintraub |
| Halpine, Margarita | The Family as Aesthetic Category in the Picaresque. | Connecticut | Nelson Orringer |
| Hamm-Ehsani, Karin | Die Empfindsamkeit und der junge Ludwig Tieck: Eine Studie zu den Nachwirkungen der empfindsamen Gefühlskultur im Leben und Werk des 'Königs der Romantik.' | California, Los Angeles | Wolfgang Nehring |
| Hammermeister, Kai | Nietzsche's Knights, the Third Sex, and Other Inventions. | Virginia | Richard Rorty |
| Harries, Martin | Scare Quotes and Reenchantment: Shakespeare, Marx, Keynes. | Yale | David Marshall & Jennifer Wicke). |
| Harris, Kathryn | Social Milieu and Second Language Acquisition. | Northwestern | Rae Moses |
| Harrison, Mette | Irony, Utopia, and Beyond: A Critique of Bourgeois Gender Polarity in Two Late Eighteenth-Century Bildungsromane. | Princeton | Eric Santner & Slyvia Schmitz-Burgard |
| Hens, Gregor W. | Ditransitive Constructions in German. | California, Berkeley | Thomas Shannon |
| Herrmann, Mareike | Die Heimat in der Fremde, das Fremde in der Heimat: Ambivalenz als Ausdruck der Aussenseitererfahrung bei Heinrich Heine und Frederic Chopin. | Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Holdengräber, Paul | Portrait of the Artist as Collector: Walter Benjamin and the Collector's Struggle against Dispersion. | Princeton | Victor Brombert |
| Holian, Timothy J. | The German-American Community during the World War II Era, with a Focus on Cincinnati, Ohio. | Cincinnati | Don Heinrich Tolzmann |
| Holliday, Lloyd | NS Syntactic Modifications in NS-NNS Negotiations as Input Data for SLA of Syntax. | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Horrigan, Patrick E. | Out in the Open: Gay Identity and the Writing of Cultural Criticism. | Columbia | Ann Douglas |
| Isenberg, Noah | Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: The Rise of German Modernism and the Question of Jewish Identity. | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Jakar, Valerie S. | A Society Contained, a Culture Maintained: An Ethnography of Communication of SLA in Informal Education. | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Johnson, David C. | The Volga German Dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas. | Kansas | William Keel |
| Kaiser, Ingeborg | Die Nietzsche Rezeption Gerhart Hauptmanns. | Rutgers | Philip Mellon & Ralph Ley |
| Kallinger, Christine | Das Buch von Troya II. | City Univ. of New York | Edward Fichtner |
| Kathol, Andreas | Linearization-Based German Syntax. | Ohio State | Carl Pollard |
| Kenkel, Karen J. | The Emergence of Mass Discourse in Modern German Literature from Schiller to Hauptmann. | Cornell | Peter Hohendahl |
| Kirby, Rachel M. | History and Identity in Franz Werfel's Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh. | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Klein, Thomas | Umlaut in Optimality Theory. | Delaware | Irene Vogel |
| Konzett, Matthias B. | Cultural Space and Its Revision in Recent Austrian Writing. | Chicago | Peter Jansen |
| Langford, Barry F. | The Confines of the Subject: Brecht and the Theory of Tragedy. | Columbia | Martin Meisel |
| Lashgari, Mahafarid | Schiller's Gender Theory in His Classical Discourse. | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Linnell, Julian D. | Negotiation as a Context for Learning Syntax in a Second Language. | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Lysyk, Stephanie P. | On Subtlety: Interpretive Strategies in Theatre, Law, and Literature in Fifteenth-Century Europe. | Stanford | Brigitte Cazelles |
| Magedanz, Joseph | Salman und Morolf: An English Translation. | Nebraska [1994] | | Eveyln Jacobson |
| Manicke, Michelle E | From 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 State | Robert Lafayette |
| Marshall, Catherine C. | Men and Women, Goddesses and Mortals: A Thematic Study of Ilse Langner's Mythological Dramas. | Cincinnati | Jerry Glenn |
| Mauricio, Cabrera H. | Elaboration and Simplification of Listening Texts: Evidence from a Qualitative Study of College Students. | Ohio State | Charles Hancock |
| Mohr, Werner | Albert Bloch as Caricaturist, Social Critic, and Authorized Translator of Karl Kraus in America. | Kansas | Frank Baron |
| Moreira, Maria L. | On Listening Comprehension: Linguistic Strategies Used by Second-Language Learners in Non-Collaborative Discourse. | Illinois | Bill VanPatten |
| Moritz, Christine E. | Self-Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency: A Critical Analysis of Issues and a Study of Cognitive Orientations of French Learners. | Cornell | Linda Waugh). |
| Moyer, Alene | Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Phonological Acquisition: Evidence from Adult Learners of German. | Texas | Frank Donahue |
| Neeb-Crippen, Jerry | Vom bürgerlichen Lustspiel zum Ritterroman: Zur Unterhaltungsliteratur im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der frühen Werke Ernst August Klingemanns. | Illinois [1993] | | Herbert Knust
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| Obermeier, Karin C. | Private Matters Made Public: Love and the Sexualized Body in Karoline von Gunderrode's Texts. | Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Pan, David T. | Modernist Steps toward a Primitivist Aesthetics: Carl Einstein and the Primitivism of Friedrich Nietzsche, Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Kafka. | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Pavlou, Pavlos Y. | Assessing Different Speech Interactions in an Oral Proficiency Test. | Georgetown | Jeffrey Connor-Linton). |
| Plonien, Nikolaus | Re-Mapping the World: Travel Literature of Weimar Germany. | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Powers, Elizabeth | From Idyll to Exile: The Transformed Self in the Early Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. | City Univ. of New York | John Gearey |
| Pynes, Penelope J. | Development of Language Variety Awareness and Attitudes in School Children: Analysis of a Study Conducted in Sandhausen, Germany. | North Carolina | Helga Bister |
| Ram, Harsha | Geographies of Empire: The Poetics of Orientalism in Europe and Russia. | Yale | J. Michael Holquist |
| Reil, Harald | Siegfried Kracauers Jacques Offenbach: Biographie, Geschichte, Zeitgeschichte. Ein Beitrag zur Exilliteratur- forschung. | Vanderbilt | Dieter Sevin |
| Robinson, Jennifer L. | Second Language Learning in Social Context: An Ethnographic Account of an Academic Semester Abroad in Russia. | Maryland | William E. De Lorenzo |
| Rothberg, Michael | Documenting Barbarism: Memory, Culture, and Modernity after the 'Final Solution.' | City Univ. of New York | Nancy Miller |
| Sandberg, Glenn | The Genealogy of the Massenführer: Hermann Broch's Die Verzauberung as a Religious Novel. | Rutgers | Frederick Lubich |
| Santilli, Michael D. | The Quality of L2 Input in the FL Classroom. | Illinois | Diane Musumeci |
| Schestokat, Karin U. | German Women in Cameroon: Travelogues from Colonial Times. | Southern California | Dagmar Barnouw |
| Schlabaugh, Merle | Deutsche Welle Television in the Intermediate German II Classroom. | SUNY, Stony Brook | Barbara Elling |
| Schutjer, Karin | Community and the Individual Body: Kant, Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlin. | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Siehoff, John-Thomas | Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus: Studien zur Ästhetik der kritischen Theorie im Exil und Adornos Beitrag zur Kunsttheorie im Roman. | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Siribodhi, Tinsiri | Effects of Three Interactive Multimedia Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs on the Vocabulary Acquisition of Elementary-Level EFL Students. | Kansas | Paul Markham |
| Slane, Andrea | Family Values and Nazi Perversions: The Shift of Anti-Fascist Rhetoric on Sexuality in American Theory, Film, and Commentary [1930-95]. | California, San Diego | Page DuBois |
| Smith, Christa M. | 'Paläontologe werden': Politics, Narrative, and the Construction of Female Subjectivity in the German Novel of the 1970s. | Princeton | Michael Jennings |
| Snyder, William | Cognitive Strategies in Second Language Lexical Processing: Evidence from English Speakers' Spelling Errors in Spanish. | Northwestern | Rae Moses |
| Sperber, Richard | Modernism and Mass Culture in Botho Strauss and Antonio Muņoz Molina. | Univ. of Washington | Sabine Wilke |
| Stephan, Renate M. | Probleme autobiographischer Representation zur frühen Prosa Gottfried Benns. | Northwestern | Rainer Rumold |
| Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra C. | The Topography of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance. | Pennsylvania State | Francis Gentry |
| Stimilli, Davide | The Strategy of Immortality: A Study in the Physiognomical Tradition. | Yale | Peter Demetz & David Marshall |
| Stoneberg, Carla | An Ethnography of Older Adult Second Language Learners' Expectations for Success. | Ball State | Christopher Ely |
| Strand, Mary R. | I/You: Paradoxical Constructions of Self and Other in Early German Romanticism. | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Su, Tsu-Chung | The Writing of the Dionysian: The Dionysian in Modern Critical Theory. | Univ. of Washington | Steven Shaviro |
| Sullivan, Heather I. | The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works. | Univ. of Washington | Diana 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. | Cornell | Sander Gilman |
| Taylor, Lucas R. | The Role of Beliefs and Anxiety in the Attrition of African-American Students in Foreign Language Study. | Ohio State | Charles Hancock |
| Traverse, Elizabeth I. | Peasants, Seasons, and Werltsüeze: Cyclicity in Neidhart's Songs Re-Examined. | Pennsylvania State | Vicki Ziegler |
| Tweraser, Felix W. | The Dawn of an Old Age: Arthur Schnitzler's Critique of Monarchical Ideology and Institutions in First Republic Austria. | Indiana | Marc Weiner |
| Vandergriff, Ilona | A Study of German Conditionals: Domain, Verb Position, and Pragmatic Function. | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Weisman, Yaffa | Grotesque Transformations of the Mythical Woman from August Strindberg to Nissim Aloni. | Southern California | Moshe Lazar |
| Wilcox, Wilma | Music Cues from Classroom Singing for Second Language Acquistion: Prosodic Memory for Pronunciation of Target Vocabulary by Adult Non-Native English Speakers. | Kansas | Paul Markham |
| Wilkinson, Sharon E | Foreign Language Conversation and the Study Abroad Transition: A Case Study. | Pennsylvania State | Rebecca Kline |
| Wise, Gail | Ali in Wunderland: German Representations of Foreign Workers. | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Wolf, Robert H | A Yiddish Manichaean: The Dualistic Fiction of Lamed Shapiro. | Cornell | David Damrosch |
| Zinn, Gesa | Film, Fiction, and Feminism: Politics in Helke Sander's Cinematic and Literary Texts: Representation of Gender, Subjectivity, Humor, and Music. | Minnesota | Richard McCormick |