| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Ahrens, Thomas | Auf der Suche nach Heimat: Horst Bieneks Gleiwitzer Tetralogie | Indiana | Peter Boerner & Ingeborg Hoesterey |
| Al-Sharafi, Ali H. | An Investigation of the Beliefs and Practices of Foreign Language Teachers: A Case Study of Five American High School Foreign Language Teachers in Leon County | Florida State | Elizabeth Platt)
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| Apuzzo, Jason. | The End of the Millennium: Thomas Mann and the Last Romantic Generation | Stanford | Gerald Gillespie |
| Arensmeyer, John W. | Politics, Morality, and the Helvetian Farm Film: Interpretation, Adaptation, and Reception of Franz Schnyder's Gotthelf Films | Southern California | Cornelius Schnauber |
| Atkinson, Ursula | Anja Lundholm: Coming to Terms with the Past | Rutgers | Johanna Ratych |
| Barr-Harrison, Pat | A Study to Identify Program Standards, Goals, Objectives, and Projects in Existing High School Foreign Language Immersion Programs in the United States | Maryland | William De Lorenzo |
| Bernofsky, Susan | Writing the Foreign: Studies in German Romantic Translation | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Block, Richard O. | The Spell of Italy: The Goethe-Effect and the German Literary Imagination | Northwestern | Géza von Molnár |
| Bock, Robert A. | Unerhörte Metaphern: The Crisis of Language and the Salvational Potential of Metaphor in the Work of Robert Musil | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Bonner, Christina L. | Eichendorff in Kunstlieder: The Poems and Their Settings | Cincinnati | Richard Schade |
| Bos, Pascal | Writing against Objectification: German Jewish Identity in the Works of Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger | Minnesota | Jack Zipes |
| Brand, Mercedes | Violence and Character Development in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist: A Perspective from Social Psychology | Rutgers | Hildburg Herbst |
| Browne, Christine G. | Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Glauben und Aberglaube in den Novellen Theodor Storms | [DML] Middlebury | Jochen Richter |
| Champion, Elke L. | Der Briefwechsel zwischen Sidonie Nádhern und Albert Bloch [September 1947-September 1950]: Mit einer Einführung in die Widmungsgedichte von Karl Kraus an Sidonie Nádhern | Kansas | Frank Baron |
| Christensen, Kirsten M. | In the Beguine Was the Word: Mysticism and Catholic Reformation in the Devotional Literature of Maria van Hout [+1547] | Texas | David Price |
| Clark, Rex M. | Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction | Illinois | Herbert Knust |
| Courtemanche, Eleanor C. | Invisible Hand: Laissez-Faire and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel in Britain and Germany | Cornell | Peter Hohendahl |
| Cuvillier, Martine | Egon Wolff in a Political and Social Context: Technical and Thematic Devices from Brecht and Ionesco | South Carolina | Alejandro Bernal |
| Davis, Jacqueline F. | A Descriptive Case Study of a Foreign Language Teaching Methods Course | Georgia | Joan Hall |
| Delia, Rosemary | Fantasier of Identity: Kundry and the Redemption of Difference in Wagner's Willehalm | California, Berkeley | Robert Holub |
| Diessel, Holger | Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic and Diachronic Perspectives | SUNY Buffalo | Matthew Dryer |
| Dillon, Ernestine | 'Adelige, Bürgerliche, Wirtin, Bäuerin, Wirtschafterin, Magd, Aussenseiterin, Waldfee...': Frauen in ausgewählten Prosawerken von Peter Rossegger | Indiana | Giles Hoyt |
| Eden, Monica M. | German at the University of Minnesota: A Case for Articulation and Accountability in a Proficiency-Based System | Minnesota | Ray Wakefield |
| Francsali, Cheri L. | Magnet Schools and Student Achievement: Equal Education Opportunity for All? | Columbia | Robert Crain |
| Freelund, Bettina F. | Midrash, Aggada, and Shibboldth: Heine's "Jewish Anti-Canon" | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Geissler, Christoph J. | Tucholsky: Rezeption in der DDR | Florida | Keith Bullivant |
| Getty, Michael | A Constraint-Based Approach: The Meter of Beowulf | Stanford | Orrin Robinson |
| Gjestvang, Ingrid L. | Machtworte: Geschlechterverhältnisse und Kommunikation in dramatischen Texten [Lenz, Hauptmann, Bernstein, Streeruwitz] | Wisconsin | Klaus Berghahn |
| Gregory-Moores, Colin | Guardians of the Moment: The Custodial Rhetorics of Friedrich Gundolf, Julius Petersen, and Eduard Spranger | [1997] Illinois | James M. McGlathery |
| Griesshaber-Weninger, Christl | Literatur, Rasse und Geschlecht: Eine Studie zum Diskurz um die Jahrhundertwende | Washington, St. Louis | Lynne Tatlock |
| Grimm, Catherine C. B. | 'Der Mensch-Metapher': Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg [Novalis] | Northwestern | Géza von Molnaacute;r |
| Grollman, Stephanie | Das Bild des 'Anderen' in den Tagebüchern und Reiseberichten Luise Rinsers | Iowa | Wolfgang Ertl |
| Hamilton, Elizabeth C. | Disabling Discourses in German Literature from Lessing to Grass | Ohio State | Dagmar Lorenz |
| Hardison, Debra M. | Acquisition of Second-Language Speech: Effects of Visual Cues, Context, and Talker Variability | Indiana | Robert Port |
| Hartman, Matthew T. | Commonplaces: Towards a Political Topogeography of Culture: Carl Schmitt, Kant, and Topics in Political Philosophy | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Hempel, Nele | Marlene Streeruwitz: Eine kritische Einführung in das dramatische Werk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Gewalt und Humor | Massachusetts | Susan L. Cocalis |
| Henschel, Rebecca B. | The National Socialist Past in Women's Novels of the 1970s and 1980s | North Carolina | David Pike |
| Herteis, Michael G. | Roman Jakobson's Poetic Function of Language: The Historic Theory of Equivalence Projections from the Axis of Selection into the Axis of Combination | Southern California | Gerhard Clausing |
| Hock, Lisabeth M. | Replicas of a Female Prometheus: The Textual Personae of Bettina von Arnim | Washington, St. Louis | Lynne Tatlock |
| Horstmann-Nash, Ursula | Die Grenzen der Nation: Nationale Identität und Fremdheit in literarischen Diskursen deutscher Vereinigungen, 1870-71 und 1989-90 | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Humphreys, Gillian M. | Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm: Kinship and Terramer: A Comparison with the M-Version of Aliscans | Washington, St. Louis | James Poag |
| Ireton, Sean M. | The Existential Grounding of Death in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger | Washington, Seattle | Hellmut Ammerlahn |
| Janzon, Anjouli E. | Contested Historiography: Women Writers of Spain and the Former German Democratic Republic | California, Berkeley | Dru Dougherty |
| Jernigan, Harriet | The Descending March of Humanity: Masochism and the Modernist Imaginary | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Keenan-Greene, Shannon | Dramatic Images: The Visual Performance of Gryphius's Tragedies | Pennsylvania | Liliane Weissberg |
| Keller, James | The Role of Political and Sexual Identity in the Works of Klaus Mann | CUNY | Burton Pike |
| Ketcham, Greg | The Construction of the Revolutionary Writer in the Autobiographical Works of Stefan Heym | Indiana | Albrecht Holschuh |
| Kirby, William | Dein und mein Gedächtnis ein Weltall: A Metahistorical Avenue into Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer's Literary World of Women | Massachusetts | Sigrid Bauschinger |
| Kordela, Aglaia K. | The Great What's It: Capital Punishment and Redemption: German Baroque in Global Capitalism | Cornell | Biddy Martin |
| Krimmer, Elisabeth | Offiziere und Amazonen: Frauen in Männerkleidung in der deutschen Literatur um 1800 | Massachusetts | Susan L. Cocalis |
| Kuttenberg, Eva | The Tropes of Suicide in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose | New York | Fred Ulfers |
| Langbehn, Volker M. | Textual Politics in Arno Schmidt's Zettles Traum | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Lassahn, Elke H. R. | Bodies at Court: Experiencing the Body in the Context of Minne and Chivalry in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival | Pennsylvania State | Francis Gentry |
| Lefko, Stefana | Female Pioneers and Social Mothers: Novels by Female Authors in the Weimar Republic and the Construction of the New Woman | Massachusetts | Susan L. Cocalis |
| Lockin, Blake S. | Orientalism and the Nation: Asian Women in Spanish American Literature | Cornell | Debra Castillo |
| Lunte, Gabriele M. | The Catholic Bohemian German Dialect of Ellis, Kansas | Kansas | William Keel |
| Lurbke, Anna M. | Visions of Mexico by German Writers in Exile: B. Traven, Gustav Regler, and Anna Seghers | Southern California | Gerhard Clausing |
| Madler, Jennifer L. | The Literary Response of German-Language Authors | Illinois | Rochelle Wright |
| Maier-Katkin, Birgit E. | Complicity, Defiance, and Indifference: Women and Everyday Life in Hitler's Germany as Reflected in Selected Exile Works of Anna Seghers and Irmgard Keun | Pennsylvania State | Ernst Schurer |
| Manteghi, Christine M. | Witz in Enlightenment Thought and in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Critical Theory and Literary Practice | Pennsylvania State | Markus Winkler |
| Mareske, Irina | '...als wolle sie aus sich selbst heraus': Die Darstellung weiblicher Körperlichkeit in Pose, Bewegung, und Raum im fiktionalen [Früh]Werk Richarda Huchs und Lou Andreas-Salomés | California, Davis | Anna Kuhn |
| Mast, Thomas A. | The Prose Author Johann Rist: A Contextualized Study of His Non-Dramatic Oeuvre | Maryland | Richard Walker |
| Matthias, Bettina U. | Masken des Lebens, Gesichter des Todes: Zum Verhältnis von Tod und Darstellung im erzählerischen Werk Arthur Schnitzlers | Washington, Seattle | Richard Gray |
| Maurer-Haas, Andrea | Women Role Models in Plays of Austrian Women Dramatists from the French Revolution to the First World War | Connecticut | Gerhard Austin |
| McBride, Patrizia C. | The Ethos of Aesthetic Judgment: Robert Musil's Defense of Modernity | Indiana | William Rasch |
| McCaffrey, Charles A. | Moving Words, Moving Pictures: A Comparison of the Portrayal of Alienation in the Novels and Films Death in Venice, Swann in Love, Under the Volcano, and Last Exit to Brooklyn | Illinois | Nancy Blake |
| McChristian, M. K. | A Historiography of Foreign Language Instruction: Lessons from History | Purdue | Alan Garfinkel |
| McDowell, Neil | The Sixteenth-Century German Plague Text and Its Role in Early Modern Medical Discourse | Pennsylvania | Francis B. Brévart |
| Meerholz-Haerle, Birgit | Teachers Talking Shop: A Discourse Study of TA Coordination Meetings | Arizona | Mary Wildner-Basset |
| Mennel, Barbara C. | Seduction, Sacrifice, and Submission: Masochism in Postwar German Film and Literature | Cornell | David Bathrick |
| Mering, Sabine von | Women's Tragedy: From Gottsched to Günderrode | California, Davis | Gail Finney |
| Mieszkowski, Jan M. | Beyond the Imperative Principle: Ethical and Aesthetic Languages of Freedom after Kant | Johns Hopkins | Werner Hamacher |
| Miller, David J. | Textual and Pictorial Representations in the Introductory German Textbook: An Inclusionary Perspective | Pennsylvania | Karl F. Otto, Jr. |
| Norton, Sydney J. | Modernity in Motion: The Performance Art of Mary Wigman and Valeska Gert in the Weimar Republic | Minnesota | Richard McCormick |
| Novak, Simone | The Return of the Medea: Bridging Dichotomies in Contemporary German Culture | California, Davis | Anna Kuhn |
| Nutzel, Daniel C. | Case Loss and Morphosyntactic Divergence in Haysville East Franconian | Purdue | Joseph Salmons |
| Ogden-Wolgemuth, Linda | Visions of Women in the Life and Works of Sigmund Von Birken | Pennsylvania | Karl F. Otto, Jr. |
| Oosterhoff, Jenneke A. | 'Die Männer sind Infam, Solange sie Männer sind': Die Konstruktion der Männerlichkeit in den Werken Arthur Schnitzlers | Washington, St. Louis | Lynne Tatlock |
| Pollack, Howard | Die Poesie des Unendlichen: Novalis and the Mathematics of Redemption | Indiana | William Rasch |
| Prang, Christoph | Semiotic Discourses and the Production of Literary Texts: Joseph Roth, Ernst Jünger, Gert Hofmann | North Carolina | Clayton Koelb |
| Rademann, Eckard | Abfall und Abfälligheit als Thema und Strukturprinzip in Heinrich Bölls Werk | Cincinnati | Erhard Fridrichsmeyer |
| Raihala, Lorelle M. | A Treacherous Haven: Heinrich von Kleist's Representation of Marriage, Family, and Gender Relations | Washington, St. Louis | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Rankin, Walter P. | The Literate Citizen and the Pedagogical State: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Campe's Robinson der Jüngere, and Lessing's Nathan der Weise | Georgetown | Peter Pfeiffer |
| Reed, Kenneth W. | Bestimmung und Beschreibung des sprachlichen Feldes: Ein Beitrag zur Anwendung des Wortfeldprinzips | Georgetown | Alfred Obernberger |
| Risko, Agnes J. | 'Gott zu Ehren, dem Neben-Christen zum Nutz': Anna Elisabeth Horenburg's Manual for Midwives [1700] | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Roessler, Norman | Naturalist Theater and the Cultural Domains of the Late Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Family: Towards a Historical Poetics of German Naturalism | Pennsylvania | Frank Trommler |
| Rott, Susanne | The Effect of Exposure Frequency and Reading Comprehension on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention through Reading for Learners of German as a Foreign Language | [1997] Illinois | John F. Lalande, II |
| Saatjian, Mark | Pictograms: Discourses on Creation in Eighteenth-Century Germany | California, Santa Barbara | Wolf Kittler |
| Sands, Tracey R. | Heliga Katarine och Liten Karin: The Cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Its Resonances in Medieval and Post-Reformation Sweden | Washington, Seattle | Patricia Conroy |
| Saunders, Carol | The Effect of the Study of a Foreign Language in the Elementary School on Scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and an Analysis of Student-Participant Attitudes and Abilities | Georgia | Thomas Cooper |
| Schoefer, Gianfranca M. | Südtirol: Die deutsche Minderheit in Italien: Eine historische, sprachsoziologische Darstellung | Georgetown | Alfred Obernberger |
| Sharkey, Emmett J. | Linguistic Skepticism in the Twentieth-Century Novel: Applications of Gadamer and Wittgenstein to Cortázar, Kafka, and Joyce | California, Davis | Robert Torrance |
| Shockey, Gary C. | Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes: A Comparison of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône | California, Davis | Winder McConnell |
| Simon, Britta | Höfisch-Heroisch-Fragmentiert: Körpergebundene Kommunikation im Nibelungenlied | Washington, Seattle | Stephen Jaeger |
| Sneeringer, Kristine K. | Ein dinc âne underscheide: Honor, Love, and Isolde in Gottfried's Tristan | Washington, St. Louis | James Poag & Gerhild Williams |
| Soldovieri, Stefan V. | Negotiating Censorship: GDR Film at the Juncture of 1965-66 | Wisconsin | Marc Silberman |
| Starkey, Kathryn | Discourses of Interaction: Word, Image, and Reception in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm | California, Berkeley | Elaine Tennant |
| Svenmo, Karin | Just a Business Deal: Kafka, Strindberg, and the Discourse of Economy | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kudszus |
| Szalay, Eva L. | Negotiating Constructions of Femininity, Subjective Agency, and Resistance in Selected Fiction by Kaschnitz, Bachmann, and Wolf | Georgetown | Friederike Eigler |
| Tautz, Birgit G. | Texture and Color: Ethnic Difference in the Enlightenment | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Tekavec, Valerie | 'God's Little Rascal': A Feminist Theological View of Else Lasker-Schüler's Prose | CUNY | Tamara Evans |
| Thonus, Terese | What Makes a Writing Tutorial Successful: An Analysis of Linguistic Variables and Social Context | Indiana | Albert Valdman |
| Thresher, Tanya L. | Seductive Strategies for Female Subjects: How Contemporary Scandinavian Women Dramatists Represent Women on Stage | Washington, Seattle | Jan Sjavik |
| Tozcu, Angel | The Effects of Teaching Sight Vocabulary with Computer-Assisted Instruction [CAI] on Vocabulary Gain, Decrease in Reaction Time for Frequent Word Recognition, and Reading Comprehension | Arizona | Frank Pialorsi |
| Tseng, Tin-Yu | Emilia Galotti and Its Aesthetic Response: A Case Study for Reader-Response: Criticism | Southern California | Cornelius Schnauber |
| Van Ornam, Vanessa J. | 'Werde Weib, Sophie!': Negotiating Social Discourses: Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Femininity in the Work of Fanny Lewald | Washington, St. Louis | Lynne Tatlock |
| Vogele, Yvonne A. | The Reluctant Witches in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmärchen der Deutschen [1789-92] | Washington, Seattle | Diana Behler |
| Volz, Sabrina R. | Women and Sacrifice in Eighteenth-Century German Drama: Lessing's Emilia Galotti, Goethe's Stella, and Schiller's Räuber | Pennsylvania State | Markus Winkler |
| Voss, Christine | Projektionsraum Mythos bei Christa Wolf: Von der Kassandra zur Medea: Eine literarische Analyse der feministisch-mythographischen Konzepte in diesen Werken | Rutgers | Frederick Lubich |
| Ward, Sean | Madame Palatine's Princely Conversations: Four Essays in the Sociology of Knowledge | Stanford | Hans Gumbrecht |
| Weber, Tilo | Shared Background and Repair in German Conversation | Colorado | Barbara Fox |
| Wheeler, Brett R. | Aesthetic Reënchantments: The Work of Art and the Crisis of Politics in German Modernism | California, Berkeley | Robert Holub |
| Whitmore, Lisa | Between Dissidence and Co-Optation: Avant-Garde and Underground Writers in the Final Decade of the GDR | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Wild, Christopher J. | Repraesentatio immaculata: Zur Theatralisierung des jungfräulichen Körpers im deutschen Drama des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts | Johns Hopkins | David E. Wellbery |
| Zaccardo, Patricia | The Difficulty of Modernism: Barnes and Kafka | CUNY | David Kleinbard |
| Ziarnik, Andrew R. | Wanderlust Reexamined: Analysis of Examples from the Fiction of Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, and Hoffmann | [1997] Illinois | James M. McGlathery |
