| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Ahern, Therese E. | Staging the Subject: Disruption and Difference in Modern German Tragedy | California, Santa Barbara | Elisabeth Weber |
| Alexander, Mark R. | Mask and Discourse: Tragicomedy in German Exile Drama | Pennsylvania State | Ernst Schürer |
| Arens, Hiltrudis M. | Eine Herausforderung für die Germanistik: 'Kulturelle Hybridität' und literarische Texte von Einwanderinnen in den achtziger Jahren | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Arons, Wendy | Sophie Goes to the Theater: Performances of Gender and Identity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing | California, San Diego | Todd Kontje |
| Aures, Inge E. | 'Komm, sieh die Welt mit meinen Augen': Ehe/Paare im Exil: Ein Vergleich der weiblichen mit den männlichen Perspektiven in Exilautobiographien | Vanderbilt | Helmut Pfanner |
| Bachelder, Francoise D. | The Effects of Instruction on French Achievements in the Sciences and Technology on Qualitative Measures of Attitude and Motivation in French Classrooms | Purdue | Alan Garfinkel |
| Baer, Gregory W. | Wie ich ein Deutscher wurde: Constructing Identity in the Works of Jurek Becker | Washington U | Paul M. Lützeler |
| Ballew, William D. | The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri | Kansas | William Keel |
| Bamberger, Uta | 'Einsolch unerträgliches Gemisch von Helldunkel': Frankheit und tragikomisches Genie bei J. M. R. Lenz | Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Bauer, Agnès S. | Play-within-a-Play and Audience-Response Theory: A Comparative Analysis of Contagious Dramas by Gatti, Stoppard, and Weiss | Purdue | Sidney Pellissier |
| Blumenthal, Erika | Science as Metaphor in Frank Gerhard Zillinger's Dramatic Works | Rutgers | Joanna Ratych |
| Breithaupt, Fritz A. | Eidolatrie: Das Trugbild und die Revisionen des Bildlichen bei Goethe | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Campbell, Gary M. | 'And the Word Was Made Flesh': Voice and Body in the Thought of Johann Georg Hamann and Mikhail Bakhtin | Wisconsin | Hans Adler |
| Chamberlin, Richard W. | The Marvelous as Allegory in Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet | Michigan | Harald Scholler |
| Conrad, Dennis | Self-Reported Opinions and Perceptions of First- and Fourth-Semester Foreign Language Learners toward Their Language Learning Experience: A Cross-Sectional, Cross-Linguistic Survey | Illinois | Alice Omaggio Hadley |
| Crosby, Matthew P. | Literature and Urban Experience: Modernity, Decadence, Postmodernity | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer L. | Geographic and Socio-Political Influences on Language Ideology and Attitudes toward Language Variation in Post-Unification Germany | Michigan | Rosina Lippi-Green |
| Dederichs, Teresa D. | 'Weltansicht': Ein semantisch-konnotiver Vergleich zwischen westdeutschen und russlanddeutschen Jugendlichen | Georgetown | Kurt R. Jankowsky |
| Denni, William P. | Transcendence Lost: Desire for Inaccessible Noumenon in the Short Fiction of Gogol and Kafka | North Carolina | Eric Downing |
| Dhawan, Sangeeta | A Phenomenological Case Study of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants' Beliefs | Pennsylvania State | Jeannette Bragger |
| Donahue-Bombosch, Timothy | Building the Nation: Fascist Mass Spectacle as Worker Culture | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Duffaut, Rhonda R. | Beyond Definition: Language, Games, Gender, and Nationality in Ingeborg Bachmann's Prose | California, Irvine | John Smith |
| Einel, Erik M. | The Works of Karl Philipp Moritz as Alternate Discourse of the Public Sphere | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Fahey, Mary F. | Imaginary Castles in Western European Literature | California, Davis | Robert Torrance |
| Ferreira, Vivaldo | Vir[ac]tualities in the Works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Claude Debussy | Brandeis | Luis Yglesias & Edward Kaplan |
| Findlay, Roger L. | The Reception of Gerhart Hauptmann's Dramas in Russia | Kansas | Warren Maurer |
| Finger, Anke K. | The Poetics of Cultural Unity: Gesamtkunstwerk and the Discourse on National Arts in German and American Culture | Brandeis | Stephen Dowden |
| Fischer, Monika | Intercultural Alterity or Borderland Experience: Minor Literatures of Germany and the United States | Oregon | Alan Wolfe |
| Fisher-McPeak, Janet | Video im Fremdsprachenunterricht [DML] | Middlebury | Robert DiDonato |
| Fleming, Heather | Wolf Biermann: Poetry, Volkssprache, and East German Cultural Politics | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Fourman, Garry L. | The Domains of Time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg | Cincinnati | Erhard Friedrichsmeyer |
| Frame, Lynn-Marie H. | Forming and Reforming the New Woman in Weimar Germany | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Fuller, Janet M. | 'Pennsylvania Dutch with a Southern Touch': A Theoretical Model of Language Contact and Change | South Carolina | Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Garloff, Katja | Not of This Time, Not of This Place: Diasporic Imagination in Peter Weiss, Nelly Sachs, and Paul Celan | Chicago | Sander L. Gilman |
| Gelbin, Catherine S. | The Indelible Seal: Race, Hybridity, and Identity in Elisabeth Langgaesser's Writings | Cornell | Sander Gilman |
| Gelencser, Doris K. | Das Bild der Familie in Hermann Hesses Frühwerk, 1899-1915 | SUNY, Buffalo | NL |
| Gibson, Courtenay St. John | Icelandic Phonology in Optimality Theory | Iowa | Catherine Ringen |
| Goertz, Karein K. | General Representations of the Holocaust: Trauma, Memory, and the Imagination | Texas | Christopher Middleton & Mia Carter |
| Gonzalez-Zenteno, Gloria E. | La Metáfora de lo desconocido en Kafka, Arreola y Monterroso | SUNY, Stony Brook | Antonio Vera-León |
| Gorla, Gudrun | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: 100 Jahre später: Eine Analyse aus der Sicht des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts mit Berücksichtigung der Mutterfigur, der Ideologie des Matriarchats und formaler Aspekte | Rutgers | Erna Neuse |
| Grabois, Howard B. | Love and Power: Word Associations, Lexical Organization, and L2 Acquisition | Cornell | James Lantolf |
| Gray, Thomas E. | Piecing It All Together: Montage and the Public Sphere in Weimar Photomontage, Film, and Essay | Princeton | Michael Jennings |
| Guthrie, Neal P. | Rainer Maria Rilke and Sprachskepsis: The Role of Metaphor in Saying the Unsayable | Georgetown | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Haase, Christine | Das gehängte Lachen: Lachen als Widerstandsform in der Literatur | Virginia | Renate Voris |
| Hagen, Patrick G. | 'Deutscher ohne gesellschaftliche Legitimation...Jude ohne Zugehörigkeit': Cultural Mediation in Jakob Wassermann's 'Franconian' Novels | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn & James Steakley |
| Hale, Geoffrey A. | 'Fragmentary Extravagance': Modernist Readings of Kierkegaard in Kafka, Rilke, and Adorno | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Hansen, Michaela M. | Zukunftsbewältigung als Ausdruck der modernen Apokalypse | Kansas | Warren Maurer |
| Harwell, Xenia S. | Images of the Female Adolescent in Exile in Select Works of Russian and German Women Writers | Tennessee | Carolyn Hodges |
| Hayer, Holly J. | Input Enhancement for Explicit Knowledge in a Communicative Foreign Language Classroom: Effect on Semi-Spontaneous Oral Production and Explicit Knowledge | Georgetown | Ronald Leow |
| Held, Kristina von. | Evas Erbe: Mythenrevision und weibliche Schöpfung in der Lyrik Rose Ausländers | Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Henry, Nora. | Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder | Southern California | Cornelius Schnauber |
| Hierl, Ernst S. | The End of the Road: Nihilism, Pleasure in the Text, Postmodernism, and Tradition in Thomas Bernhard and John Barth | South Carolina | Meili Steele |
| Holtman, Bradley A. | Present Perfect Usage in Early New High Cologne German | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Hussong, Marion | Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus im österreichischen Roman, 1945-69 | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Hutfilz, William G. | Pastoral Politics: German Pastoral Literature and Court Culture, 1200-1800 | Washington | Stephen Jaeger |
| Israel, Stephen E. | Early New Low German: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Change in a Failed Literary Language | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Ittzes, Zsuzsanna | Written Conversation: Investigating Communicative Foreign Language Use in the Written Form in Computer Conference Writing Group Journals | Arizona | Mary Wildner-Bassett |
| Janssen, Carmen V. | Textile in Texturen: Lesestrategien und Intertextualität bei Goethe und Bettina Brentano-von Arnim | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Johnson, Christa | Engendering Space: Architectures of Sexual Difference in Early Twentieth-Century Germany | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Johnson, Laurie R. | Memory in Fragments: Gedächtnis and Erinnerung in Early Romanticism | Washington U | Paul M. Lützeler |
| Kaewnetr, Malinee. | Urbanization and Modern Drama: A Thematic Study of Selected German, Irish, and American Plays, 1920-30 | Indiana | Breon Mitchell |
| Kautz, Elizabeth A. | The Fruits of Her Labor: Working Women and Popular Culture in the Weimar Republic | Minnesota | Richard McCormick |
| Kershaw, Priscilla K. | The One-Eyed God: Odin and the [Indo] Germanic Männerbünde | Cornell | Jay Jasanoff |
| Kim, Eun Joo | The Sensitive Period for Second-Language Acquisition: A Reaction-Time Study of Maturational Effects on the Acquisition of L2 Lexico-Semantic and Syntactic Systems | Illinois | Molly Mack |
| Koglin, Denise | The Effects of Picture and Title Advance Organizers on Second Language Comprehension and Production as Measured by a Dictation Task and a Recall Task | Illinois | Alice Omaggio Hadley |
| Kucaba, Kelley | [Behind] the Scenes, [Behind] the Signs: Some Pragmatic Reflections on Courtliness in Gottfried's Tristan | Washington | Stephen Jaeger |
| Lee, Haemoon | The Effects of Interactional Modification of Input in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition | Georgetown | Catherine Doughty |
| Lenckos, Frauke E. | The Marvelous and the Sublime: The Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century German and British Women Poets, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff and Christina Rossetti | Michigan | Martha Vicinus |
| Listen, Paul | The Emergence of German Polite Sie: Cognitive and Sociolinguistic Parameters | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Luscher, Jean A. | The Rhetoric of Female Confession: An Investigation of Female Religious Self-Expression in Selected German Confessional Autobiographies and Bekenntnisse, 1698-1806 | Indiana | Ferdinand Piedmont |
| Lyon, John B. | 'Sie haben mich nach und nach verstummelt': The Wounded Body and the Literary Self in Works of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Büchner | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| MacDonald, Robin L. | Das Medium Video im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache als Teil eines kommunikativen Unterrichts: Einleitung zu einem Lehrbuch [DML]. Middlebury | Robert DiDonato |
| Maier, Anne M. | The Oath in Schiller's Drama | Pennsylvania State | Barton Browning |
| Marshall, Jennifer C. | The Beloved Sacrifice: Violence and the Construction of Intergender Social Alliances in Nineteenth-Century German Prose | Yale | Jeffrey Sammons |
| Mercer, Julie A. | Exoticism, Gender, and Social Criticism in German Literature from Expressionism to Exile: A Case Study on Paul Zech | Texas | Katherine Arens |
| Meyer, Kelly S. | Mountain Passages: An Underexplored Metaphor for Modernity in Büchner's Lenz, Stifter's Bergkristall, and Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra | Ohio State | Mark Roche |
| Moreland, Susan | Reflective Strategies and the Construction of a Teaching Philosophy [Prior to Student Teaching] | Maryland | William E. De Lorenzo |
| Mueller, Agnes C. | Brücken zur neuen Welt: Rezeption und Wirkung zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Lyrik in der Bundesrepublik | Vanderbilt | John McCarthy |
| Noob, Joachim | Non vitae sed schlae discimus: Der Schülerselbstmord in der Literatur um die Jahrhundertwende | Oregon | Kenneth Calhoon |
| Okay, Jale | Poetic Politics: Heine, the Romantics, and the Fantastic | Yale | Jeffrey Sammons |
| Orton, Marie | De-Storying, Re-Storying: Inscriptions of Violence in the Autobiographical Acts of Auschwitz Survivors, Immigrants, and Political Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Italy | Chicago | Rebecca West |
| Owanisian-Wagner, Wendy | Georg Büchners evangelischer Religionsunterricht, Darmstadt 1821-31 | Massachusetts | Sigrid Bauschinger |
| Palmer, Craig B. | The Significance of Homosocial Desire in Modern German Literature | Washington U | Lynne Tatlock |
| Paslick, Erica K. | Martin Heidegger und die Sprache: Aufriss mit Texthinweisen und Kommentar | Michigan | Fred Amrine |
| Penningroth, Ann P. | Making Meaning the Second Language Reading: The Case of an Advanced Learner in German in the Foreign Language Classroom | Georgetown | Heidi S. Byrnes |
| Powell, Morgan | The Mirror and the Woman: Instruction for Religious Women and the Emergence of Vernacular Poetics, 1120-1250 | Princeton | Michael Curschmann |
| Rao, Shanta | The Political Aesthetic of Elfriede Jelinek's Early Plays | Massachusetts | Susan Cocalis |
| Rastalsky, Hartmut M. | No Exit? Hegemony and Hopelessness in Kafka, Beckett, and Handke | Michigan | Stuart McDougal |
| Reich, Gerhard | Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur in New York nach 1933 | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Reidy, Ann E. | Histories of Realism: Stifter, Storm, and Meyer in the Age of Ranke | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Richards, Kirby | Sibylline Rhapsodies: Johann Georg Hamann's Apocalyptic Rhetoric | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Riehl, Ester | 'Die fähige Hausfrau erhält den Staat': Family, Nation, and State in Nineteenth-Century German and Austrian Literature | Ohio State | Dagmar Lorenz |
| Schell, Renée | The Power to Look: Gender and Identity Politics in Selected Works of Heinrich von Kleist | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Schneider, Jeffrey A. | Militarism, Masculinity, and Modernity in Germany, 1890-1914 | Cornell | Carolyn A. Martin |
| Shields, Susanne | Die literarische Thematik der Reform in Prosawerken des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts | Pennsylvania | Horst Daemmrich |
| Silvestri, Linda M. | The Effect of Additional Pronunciation on Students' Confidence, Motivation, and Overall Comprehensibility in the Second Language Classroom | SUNY, Buffalo | NL |
| Smith, Arden | Germanic Linguistic Influence on the Invented Languages of J. R. R. Tolkien | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Smith, Trevor D. | Die thematische Entwicklung des Begriffs Übertretung hin zu Erlösung und Transzendenz in Hermann Hesses Werk bis 1919 | SUNY, Buffalo | NL |
| Sokolosky, Jane E. | Rosa Mayreder: The Theory in Her Fiction | Washington U | Paul M. Lützeler |
| Song, Grace U. | Cross-Linguistic Differences in the Expression of Motion: Implications for Second Language Acquisition | Northwestern | Beth Levin |
| Southern, Mark R. V. | The Wandering S: The Problem of the S-Mobile in Germanic and Indo-European Languages | Princeton | Robert Ebert |
| Steingroever, Reinhild M. | Thomas Bernhards philosophische Affinitäten: Sum an-spielerischen Umgang mit Heidegger, Schopenhauer, und Friedrich Schlegel in Korrektur, Der Untergeher, und Alte Meister | SUNY, Buffalo | NL |
| Straehle, Carolyn A. | German and American Conversational Styles: A Focus on Narrative and Agonistic Discussion as Sources of Stereotypes | Georgetown | Heidi Hamilton |
| Strum, Arthur C. T. | Legislators and Midwives: Kantian Pedagogy and the Project of Enlightenment | Cornell | Peter Hohendahl |
| Svoboda, Claudia | Narrative Illusion: Textual Ambiguity and Problems of Seeing in Four Novellas of Heinrich von Kleist | Harvard | Maria Tatar |
| Swender, Elvira | The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview in the Workplace: The Testing and Training of Advanced Heritage Speakers [DA]. Syracuse | Harold Jones |
| Todd, Jeffrey D. | Stefan George's Dante Translations: Past Perspectives and Future Itineraries | Cincinnati | Jerry Glenn |
| Vahlbusch, Jefford B. | German Marxist Critiques of Nietzsche, 1890-1900: Essays on the Theory in Practice | Michigan | Ingo Seidler |
| Vanchena, Lorie A. | 'Was die deutsche Leier sang, nun das deutsche Schwert errang!': Political Poetry in Periodicals and the Shaping of German National Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century | Washington U | Lynne Tatlock |
| Wager, Jans B. | Femmes fatales and Femmes attrapées: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir | California, Davis | Seth Schein |
| Wagner, Francis F. | Humilitas and Mechthild von Magdeburg's Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit | Washington U | James Poag |
| Washbourne, Richard J. | A Complicity without Reserve: Hegel and Derrida | Northwestern | Géza von Molnár |
| Williams, Kirk A. | Antitheatrical Spectacles: Self-Fashioning on the German Stage from Gottsched to Lessing | Harvard | Karl S. Guthke |
| Woodson, Karen C. | Learner-Centered Input Processing: Bridging the Gap between Foreign Language Teachers and Classroom SLA Researchers | Georgetown | Catherine Doughty |
| Worley, Athanasia L. | The Renaissance Reception of Terence: Grüninger's Editions of Terence, Strasbourg 1496-99 | Illinois | John Newman |
| Wright, David | Promoting Positive Attitudes in the Foreign Language Classroom: An Analysis of Culture Learning and the Strategies Students Use to Acquire Multicultural Perspectives | Arizona | Mary Wildner-Bassett |
| Xu, Ping | Thinking/Writing/Thinking: Heidegger, the Fenollosa-Pound Encounter, and the Question of Chinese Traditional Writing | SUNY Binghamton | Christopher Fynsk |
| Yee, Kevin F. | Identification, Patriarchy, and Aesthetic Homosociality in Wackenroder's and Tieck's Works | California, Irvine | William Lillyman |
| Ying, Hongguang | Knowledge of Reconstruction in a Second Language | Arizona | Janet Nicol & Andrew Barss |
