| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Allen, Julie D. | Determining Their Own Destiny: The Portrayal of Women's Emancipation in Lou Andreas-Salomé's Fenitschka and Arthur Schnitzler's Frau Berta Garlan . | U of Washington | Sabine Wilke |
| Anton, Christine | Selbstreflexivität der Kunsttheorie in den Künstlernovellen des Realismus. | North Carolina | Siegfried Mews |
| Antonek, Janis L. | Interactive Homework: Linking Parents to the Foreign Language Learning of Their Children. | Pittsburgh | Richard Donato |
| Appl, Cynthia | Heinrich Schirmbeck and the Two Cultures: A Post-War German Writer's Approach to Science and Literature. Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Ashley, Keith | Intersubjectivity in Narration: The Peripheral-Subject Situation in Jean Paul, Franz Grillparzer, and Christa Wolf. | Ohio State | Mark Roche |
| Atherton, Geoffrey H. | Disiciendi membra poetae: Virgil and the Germans in the Eighteenth Century. | Princeton | Theodore Ziolkowski |
| Banks, Gaia B. | Imaging the Other and Staging the Self: German National Identity and the Weimar Exotic Adventure Film [1918-24]. | California, Irvine | John Smith |
| Bansleben, Erik P. | Jakobson Revisited: The Use of Metaphor in the German Realist Novel. | North Carolina | Clayton Koelb |
| Barrette, Catherine M. | An Assessment of the Effects of the Use of Self-Selected Texts from the World Wide Web on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension. | Arizona | Karen Smith |
| Bergström, Stefan S. | Dark Mirrors: Fantastic Elements in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Die Serapionsbrüder . | Kansas | Warren Maurer |
| Bingham, Elizabeth R. | Accommodation and Foreigner Talk in an Experimental Setting. | Texas | Keith Walters |
| Boe, David R. | Parameter Resetting in Adult Second-Language Acquisition: Inflectional Richness and the Null Subject Parameter. | Indiana | Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig |
| Bomer, Kika | The House, the Labyrinth, and Fluid Forms: Spatial Construction in Twentieth-Century German and Italian Literature. | U of Washington | Diana Behler |
| Bourodimos, Lambro | Todorovsche Kategorien des Phantastischen in Christoph Martin Wielands Die Abenteuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalva und Das Hexameron von Rosenhain. | Kansas | Henry Fullenwider |
| Brooks, Amanda W. | Examination of Native Language Processing in Foreign Language Writing. | Vanderbilt | Virginia Scott |
| Brown, Steven R. | Reading as Prereading Activity: An Investigation into Connecting Texts. | Pittsburgh | Richard Donato |
| Bubser-Wildner, Siegrun T. | 'Der Traum nach vorwärts': Utopie als funktionaler Prozess in Irmtraud Morgners Roman Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz. | Iowa | Wolfgang Ertl |
| Chiang, Yung-Tao | The Roles of Grammatical and Discourse Competences in Communicative Language Proficiency. | Pennsylvania State | Grant Henning & Jeannette Bragger |
| Collison, Scott | Performing Culture: Carnival and the Carnivalesque. | California, Berkeley | Frederic Tubach |
| Coury, David N. | The Return of the Storyteller: Narration in the Novels of Peter Handke and the Films of Wim Wenders. | Cincinnati | Sara Friedrichsmeyer |
| Cushman, Jennifer | Unorthodox Icons: Russian Avant-Garde Impulses in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke. | Ohio State | Hugo Bekker |
| David Blumberg | 'Singen möcht ich...': Hölderlin's Echo in New Music. | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kadszus |
| DeVore, Carol A. | François Hemsterhuis' Vereinigungsphilosophie in Friedrich Hölderlin's Novel Hyperion: Conceptual Parallels and Textual Correpondences. | Iowa | Wolfgang Ertl |
| DeVries, Herman J. | Nicolaus Selnecker's Psalter Commentary [1565]: A Documentary Study in Psalm Versification. Cincinnati | Richard Schade |
| Erb, James | Peforming at the Bar: Reconstructing the Nuremberg Fastnachtspiel of the Fifteenth Century. | California, Berkeley | Elaine Tennant |
| Fraiman, Sarah B. | God and Judaism in the Lives and Works of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Lion Feuchtwanger. | Brandeis | Harry Zohn |
| Fullard, Katja C. | Maria Magdalena, Mutter und Medusa: Das Bild der Frauen in den Werken von Dieter Wellershoff. | Florida | Keith Bullivant |
| Gabriel, Hans | 'Das kleine Perspektiv': The Structure of the Novelle and Literary Representation in German Realism. | Virginia | Walter Sokel |
| Gailus, Andreas | Ruling Exceptions: Heinrich Von Kleist and the Emergence of the Modern German Novella. | Columbia | Dorothea von Mücke |
| Gogrof-Voorhees, Andrea | A Confrontational Reading of Nietzsche and Baudelaire: Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence. | U of Washington | Ernst Behler |
| Golb, Raphael H. | The Problem of Privacy and Trust in Modern Literature and Their Relation to the Idea of Freedom. | Harvard | Dante Della Terza & Maria Tartar |
| Graber, David S. | National Solutions to Cultural Decline in Russian, Polish, and German Literature at the End of the Great War: Russian Scythianism, Waclaw Berent's Living Stones, and Thomas Mann's Reflections . | U of Washington | James West |
| Haibach, Helga E. | The West German Postwar Democratization Process 1945-85, A Commitment to the Ideal of Evolutionary Democracy: A Neofunctionalist Systems Approach. | Missouri [1995] | NL |
| Hiki, Kurumi | A Study of Second-Language Learners' Judgments on Context-Sensitive Lexical Choice: The Case of Verbs of Perception. | Indiana | Beverly Hartford |
| Hill, Susanne A. | 'Wenn Ihr schweigt, dann werden die Steine schreien': Eine Untersuchung zum dialogischen Prinzip bei Christoph Hein. | Florida | Keith Bullivant |
| Hoebusch, Harald | Kunst und Kritik beim frühen Thomas Mann: Thomas Manns Aesthetik 1893-1913. | California, Irvine | Herbert Lehnert |
| Hoecherl-Alden, Gisela | Germanisten im 'Niemandsland': Die exilierten Akademiker und ihre Wirkung auf die amerikanische Germanistik [1933-55]. | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Holsinger, Bruce | Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Literature and Culture 1150-1400. | Columbia | Caroline Bynum |
| Horzen, Deborah L. | 'Weiter durch die Zeit': Past Meets Present in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestag and The New York Times. | Florida | Keith Bullivant |
| Humpa, Gregory J. | Retention and Loss of Bernese Alemannic Traits in an Indiana Amish Dialect: A Comparative-Historical Study. | Purdue | Joseph Salmons |
| Itangaza, Muhangu | The Effect of Referential Questions on Learners' Target Language Linguistic Output and Accuracy. Arizona | Renate A. Schulz |
| Jackson, Laura M. | Negotiating Identity: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Novels by Jutta Heinrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch, and Helga Novak. | U of Washington | Sabine Wilke |
| Jonsson, Johannes G. | Clausal Architecture and Case in Icelandic. | Massachusetts | Hagit Borer |
| Jung, Thomas | Jurek Becker: Writing between Judaism and Socialism. | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Kaewnetr, Malinee | Urbanization and Modern Drama: A Thematic Study of Selected German, Irish, and American Plays 1920-30. | Indiana | Breon Mitchell |
| Kagel, Martin | Sünder und Soldat: Studien zur Aesthetik von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. | Wisconsin | Hans Adler |
| Kassouf, Susan M. | Writing Masculinities around 1800. | Cornell | Carolyn A. Martin |
| Kawatsu, Susanne | Love and Reform: Johann Christoph Gottsched and Die deutsche Schaubuehne. | Chicago | Peter Jansen |
| Kinsch, Luc | The Songs of Dead Children--Kindertotenlieder: Childhood, History, and Art. Kaspar Hauser, Anatole Mallarmé, Marcel Proust. | Yale | Cathy Caruth & Shoshana Felman |
| Klee, Siegbert | Georg Kaisers Dramenwerk vor dem ersten Weltkrieg: Forminnovation und Heldenbild im Frühexpressionismus. | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Krick, Kirsten A. | History in Fiction: Ingeborg Bachmann and the Folktale Tradition. | California, Santa Barbara | Torborg Lundell |
| Lazda-Cazers, Rasma I | Die livländische Reimchronik: Probleme und Hintergründe der literarischen Gattung. | Minnesota | Anatoly Liberman |
| Lee, Mei-hwa | The Interplay of Buddhism and Taoism in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Hermann Hesse's Demian . | South Carolina | Meili Steele |
| Lee, Mei-ling | The Effects of Narrow Reading on EFL Learners' Comprehension of Expository Texts. | Texas | Janet Swaffar |
| Lefcourt, Renata H. | Die drei jüdischen Figuren in Heinrich Heines Bäder von Lucca. | SUNY, Buffalo | Peter Heller |
| Lipp, Thomas J. | Kurt Tucholosky in Publicistic Contexts during the First Phase of the Weimar Republic [1918-23]. | Kansas | Leonie Marx |
| Loeffler, Bertina M. | Reactionary Romanticism: The Figure of Italy and the Desire for Social Privilege in the Writings of Goethe, Ludwig Tieck, and Dorothea Schlegel. | California, San Diego | William O'Brien |
| Mangiafico, Lara F. | The Relative Effects of Classroom Demonstration and Individual Use of Interactive Multimedia on Second Language Listening Comprehension. | Vanderbilt | Virginia Scott |
| Martin, Wendy | Transference Occasions 1880-1930: From Freud to the Cultural Field. | Yale | Peter Brooks & Jennifer Wicke |
| Maurice, Keith | Perceptions of Administrators Regarding Student Feedback and Its Impact on Decision-Making of Intensive English Program Administrators. | Florida State | Frederick Jenks |
| McGlashan, Ann | Creating Women: The Female Artist in Fin-de-Siècle Germany and Austria. | Indiana | Marc Weiner |
| McLary, Laura A. | The Fragmented Body and the Repression of Memory: The Recurrence of the Incest Story in the Works of Georg Trakl. Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Millet, Kitty J. | To Survive Outside the Law: An Analysis of Holocaust Women Survivors' Testimonies. | Minnesota | Ronald Sousa |
| Mitschke, Cherie | A Rationale for the Assessment of Cultural Competence in Beginning French Foreign Language Classes. | Texas | Mario Benitez |
| Mueller, Isolde M. | Norms vs. Narrative: The Impossibility of Representing Femininity in Late Eighteenth-Century German Literature. | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Nassar, Anthony A. | Rudolf Borchardt's Construction of European Literature. | Cornell | Leonard Olschner |
| Natale, Giuseppe | Poetry and Translation. | U of Washington | Stephen Jaeger |
| Nathenson, Cary A. | Joseph Roth in the Tension of Modernity. | Washington U | Egon Schwarz |
| Nenno, Nancy | Masquerade: Woman, Nature, Modernity. | California, Berkeley | Anthony Kaes |
| Nkimba, Kato | The Representation of Labor Literature in Der Spiegel 1960-90. | Wayne State | Alfred Cobbs |
| Omura, Yoshihiro | The Role of Translation in Second Language Acquisition: Do Learners Automatically Translate? | Texas | John Bordie |
| Partsch, Cornelius I. | Jazz in der Weimarer Republik: Eine Kulturgeschichte. | Brown | Carol Poore |
| Peterson, Dori | Feedback System Factors and Their Effects on Attitudes, Perspectives, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge of University Foreign Language Teachers. | Arizona | Karen L. Smith |
| Pohl, Rosa | Cold Blooded Tales of Women with Tails in the Works of Johannes Praetorius [1630-80]. | Pennsylvania | Karl Otto, Jr. |
| Queen, Robin | Intonation in Contact: A Study of Turkish-German Bilingual Intonation Patterns. | Texas | Manfred Krifka |
| Reaves, John A. | The Development of an Ecologically Critical Sorbian Literature as a Consequence of the German Democratic Republic's Dependence on Soft Coal as an Energy Source. | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Redding, John G. | The Stylistic and Formal Development of Guenter Kunert's Prose. | Cincinnati | Erhard Friedrichsmeyer |
| Redmann, Jennifer | Imagining Selves: Gender and Identity in the Work of Else Lasker-Schüller. | Wisconsin | Nancy Kaiser & Klaus Berghahn |
| Richeldt, Melinda | An Investigation of First Language and Second Language [English] Composition Theory and Pedagogy at the Secondary Level in Germany. | Purdue | Tony Silva |
| Richter, Gerhard | Vital Inscriptions: Walter Benjamin and the Scene of Autobiography. | Princeton | Michael Jennings & Stanley Corngold |
| Rochelle Tobias | Paul Celan and the End of German Literature. | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kudszus |
| Romann, Marita | Alternative Fictions: German Women Writers and the Discourse on Femininity around 1800. | California, San Diego | Todd Kontje |
| Schroeter, Katrin | Identities in Transit: An Analysis of East and West German National Identity in German 'Wall' Films of the Eighties. | Brown | Katherine Goodman |
| Seong, Sang | Extended Semantic Typology with Reference to German, English, and Korean. | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Shaffer, Clint S. | Wise Innocence: Matthias Claudius and an Epistemo-Theology of Enlightenment Poetics. | North Carolina | Christoph Schweitzer |
| Shandley, Robert R. | Graven Images: German Trümmerfilme and the Reconstruction of Narrative in Postwar Germany. | Minnesota | Jack Zipes |
| Shields, Susanne | Die literarische Thematik der Reform in Prosawerken des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts. | Pennsylvania | Horst Daemmrich |
| Sivertson, Randal | The Conflict of Loyalties in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: With a Concentration on the Problem of Service for Riches. | Wisconsin | Salvatore Calomino |
| Solomon, Angela | The Crime Narrative as Social Literature in Nineteeth-Century Germany. | Rutgers | Erna Neuse |
| Steinhagen, Virginia I. | Educating Rita and Her Sisters: The Female Bildungsroman in the German Democratic Republic. | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Strathausen, Roger | Philosophische Fiktion zur modernität postmoderner Romane. | Stanford | Kurt Mueller-Vollmer |
| Tasaka, Wakaba | The Quasi Father-Daughter Relationship as an Established Literary Theme. | Pennsylvania State | Gerhard Strasser |
| Ter Horst, Eleanor | From Hermaphrodite to Amazon: The Transformation of Gender Paradigms in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. | Michigan | Frederick Amrine |
| Thorson, Helga M. | Re-Negotiating Borders: Responses of German and Austrian Middle-Class Women Writers to the Medical Discourses on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality at the Turn of the Century. | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Wade, Elizabeth | History and Fortuna in Heinrich Steinhöwel's Appolonius | [1995], Illinois | Marianne E. Kalinke |
| Wambach, Annemarie Hedwig | Georg Wickrams Von guten und bösen Nachbarn: Eine literarische Utopie. | Illinois | Marianne E. Kalinke |
| Webster, Marilyn W. | Mechthild von Magdeburg's Vocabulary of the Senses. | Massachusetts | James Cathey |
| Wolf, Greg | The Ethics of Suicide and Self-Sacrifice: Problems in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Zakim, Eric | The Project of Expression in Modernist Literature and Music: David Fogel, Arnold Schoenberg, and David Grossman | California, Berkeley | Robert Alter |
