| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Abel, Brigetta M. | Identities in Flux. The Exile Novels of Adrienne Thomas, Irmgard Keun, and Anna Seghers | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Andersen, Stacy L. | Mnemosyne's Heirs: The Changing Ground of Historical Knowledge in the Novels of George Eliot and Wilhelm Raabe | Yale | Alexander Welsh & Jeffrey Sammons |
| Azinfar, Fatemeh | Doubt, Dissent, and Skepticism in the Literary Tradition of the Medieval Period | Harvard | Per Nykrog & Susan R. Suleiman |
| Babilon, Susan | Hugo Ball and the Development of Sound Poetry | CUNY | Martin Anderle |
| Baron, Desirée A. | Comparative Strategies for Managing Linguistic Repertoires: Examining Situational Code Choice among Adolescent Speakers in a Micro-Community in Austria | Michigan | Robert Kyes & James Milroy |
| Baumgartner, Karin | She Passes Judgment as Would a Man: Political Discourse in the Novels of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Bavar, Mansour | Aspekte der deutschsprachigen Migrationsliteratur: Die Darstellung der Einheimischen bei Alev Tekinay und Rafik Schami | New York | Friedrich Ulfers |
| Benedetti, Teresa A. | An Investigation of Peer Coaching in the Foreign Language Student Teaching Practicum | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| Bernstein, Jonathan E. | Parataxis in Heraclitus, Hölderlin, Mayakovsky | Yale | Benjamin Harshav & Winfried Menninghaus |
| Bidian, Ursula I. | Fluchtburg Familie? Das Konzept Familie in literarischen und filmischen Texten in Westdeutschland in den fünfziger Jahren | Minnesota | Richard McCormick |
| Birnie, Thomas | Echoes of Alexander L. Kielland in the Early Works of Thomas Mann: Privilege, Power, and Place | U of Washington | Richard Gray |
| Braxton, Macel A. | Adult ESL Language Learning Strategies: Influences of Culture and Preferred Learning Styles in an Academic Setting | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| Broussard, Kathleen M. | Developmental and Transfer Influences in Elementary Bilingual Writing | Georgetown | Donald Loritz |
| Buckholtz, Alexander M. | Rehearsing the Last Judgment: Politics, Penance, and Ritual Theatre in the Holy Roman Empire and Swiss Confederation, c.1400-c.1600 | Yale | Ingeborg Glier |
| Budzinski, Anna | The Effect of Reading a Text on the Speaking of Advanced Learners of English as a Second Language | Georgetown | John Staczek |
| Buyukyavuz, Oya | Turkish EFL Teachers' Perceptions of their Current English Skills and their Pre-Service Teacher Education | Ohio State | Keiko Samimy |
| Carrier, Karen A. | The Learner-Interlocutor Relationship as a Factor in Second Language Listening Comprehension: A Sociolinguistic Perspective | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Cloutier, Carole | The Effect of Task-Type on the Interactional Discourse of NNS-NNS Dyads: Jigsaw, Information-Gap, Problem-Solving, Decision-Making, and Opinion-Exchange Tasks | Georgetown | Andrea Tyler |
| Cormican, Muriel | Sex, Sexuality, and Gender: Cultural Critique in the Fictional Works of Lou Andreas-Salomé | Indiana | William Rasch |
| Couch, Richard A. | Friedrich Gerstäcker's Novels of the American Frontier | Iowa | Waltraud Maierhofer |
| Dabak, Shabangi | Images of the Orient in the Travel Writings of Ida Pfeiffer and Ida Hahn-Hahn | Michigan State | George F. Peters |
| D'Aquila, Louis | Computer Assisted Language Learning [DA] | SUNY Stony Brook | Mikle Ledgerwood |
| Dassier, Jean-Louis P. | Creating Simulations of the Target Code: How University Teaching Associates Create Contexts for Communication in Elementary French as a Foreign Language [1997] | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| DiBella, Inge A. | Kontextprobleme der Brieflyrik Clemens Brentanos | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Dickerson, Tona | Individual Interest and Subject-Matter Knowledge: Variables Affecting Second-Language Strategy Use in Reading a Science Article [1998] | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| DuBravac, Stayc H. | The Assessment of Aesthetic Appreciation of L2 Poems among Undergraduate French Learners | Pennsylvania State | John Angell |
| Eggert, Doris M. | (Gem)einsame Standpunkte Androgynie in der Literatur mit Schwerpunkt auf deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen von Frauen nach 1945 | Rutgers | Hildburg Herbst |
| Eilers, Nancy | Renderings of the City: Joseph Roth, Siegfried Kracauer, and the Literary Reportage of the Weimar Republic | New York | Avital Ronell |
| Eldridge, Marleen | The German Undergraduate Foreign Language Placement Process [DA] | SUNY, Stony Brook | Barbara Elling |
| Eren, Mine | Die Migration neu gedacht: Arabeske Textpraktiken als Reaktion auf dreissig Jahre Immigrationsgeschichte von Türkinnen | Brown | Carol Poore |
| Eyck, John R. J. | The Tragedy of Sentimentalism and Politics in Enlightenment Europe | Texas | Katherine Arens |
| Fenner, Angelica | Representing the Afro-German in Early West German Cinema. Robert Stemmle's Toxi | Minnesota | Arlene Teraoka & Richard McCormick |
| Fischer-Freelund, Bettina | Midrash, Aggada, and Shibboleth: Heine's 'Jewish Anti-Canon.' | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Franz, Heidrun | Uwe Johnson und Christa Wolf: Vergangenheits- und Gegenwartsaufarbeitung in ihren literarischen Werken | Georgetown | Friederike Eigler |
| Garatti, Marienella | The Role of Syntax Presentation Mode, Abstract Reasoning, and Learner Instructional Preference on Second Language Achievement | Ohio State | (Keiko Samimy & Charles Hancock |
| Gebel, Terri A. | A Survey of Spanish Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Teaching Reading in a Second Language | Iowa | Micheline Chalhoub-Deville & Leslie Schrier |
| Genung, Patricia B. | Subject-Verb Agreement in German Embedded Clauses: A Study of Classroom Learner Production | Cornell | James Lantolf |
| Gilgen, Peter A. | The Aporia of Recollection: From Lessing to Kiegel, and Beyond | Stanford | Kurt Mueller-Vollmer |
| Glajar, Valentina N. | Communism, National Socialism, and Imperialism: East Central Europe in German-Language Literature: Herta Muller, Erica Pedretti, and Gregor Von Rezzori | Texas | Peter Jelavich & Nina Berman |
| Goldwasser, James H. | Answering to the Name: German-Jewish Identity in Franz Kafka, Gustav Landauer, and Franz Rosenzweig | Princeton | Eric Santner |
| Griffin, Matthew | Text and Image in Heiner Müller's Theater Collaboration with Robert Wilson | New York | Bernd Hüppauf |
| Grimm, Geraldine A. | Peter Handke's Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht: Narrative and Place | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Grollman, Stephen | Narratives of Wilhelmine Germany in the Works of Heinrich Mann, 1895-1925 | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Gulielmetti, Angela | Berthold Auerbach and the German Nation: Educating the Male Citizen | Washington U | Lynne Tatlock |
| Gundermann, Christian A. | Transforming Modernity's Primitivisms: Hubert Fichte's Queer Ethnography in the Postcolonial Latin American Context | Cornell | Biddy Martin |
| Heitzman, Betty L. | The Autobiography of Childhood and Youth from Fontane to Carossa: Four Case Studies | Rice | Klaus Weissenberger |
| Iwand, Mark | Klaus Mann and Europe: Critical Visionary and Disappointed Idealist in the Twentieth Century | Washington U | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Jacewicz, Ewa | Phonological Context in the Acquisition of Second Language Vowels | Wisconsin | Joseph Salmons |
| Jacob, Hella | Zwillinge in der deutschen Prosa | SUNY Buffalo | Erika Metzger |
| Komm, Katrin G. | 'Gender,' 'Nation,' und Moderne in Deutschland um 1990: Hedwig Dohm und Elizabeth von Arnim | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Krause-Soriano, Sigrun | Weibliche Tugend und Männlicher Mut: Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischen Normen im Leben und Werk Johanna Schopenhauers | Rutgers | Hildburg Herbst |
| Layher, William T. | Queen Eufemia's Legacy: Middle Low German Literary Culture, Royal Patronage, and the First Old Swedish Epic (1301) | Harvard | Stephen Mitchell |
| Liebscher, Grit | Arriving at Identities: Voice and Positioning in German Talk Shows between 1989 and 1994 | Texas | Kirsten Belgum & Jürgen Streck |
| Lin, Angela H. | The Divided Rhetoric of Sentimentality: Critique and Self-Definition in Wagner, Nietzsche, and Schnitzler | Princeton | Barbara Hahn |
| Liontas, John | Developing a Pragmatic Methodology of Idiomaticity: The Comprehension and Interpretation of SL Vivid Phrasal Idioms during Reading | Arizona | Robert Ariew |
| Loentz, Elizabeth | Negotiating Identity: Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.) as German-Jewish Feminist, Social Worker, Activist, and Author | Ohio State | Dagmar Lorenz |
| Martin, Judith | German Women Writers Read Madame de Staël: Cultural and Sexual Politics in the German Novel from Romanticism to the Vormärz | Washington U | Lynne Tatlock |
| Maxim, Hiram H. | The Effects of Extensive Authentic Reading on First Semester German Students' Reading Comprehension, Cultural Horizon, and Language Proficiency | Texas | Janet Swaffar |
| Mellor, Scott A. | Function and Formula: An Analysis of Ten Poems from Codex Regius | Wisconsin | Richard Ringler |
| Metz, Joseph R. | Gendered States: On the Borders of Gender, Nation, and Identity in Stifter and Rilke | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Myers, Amy S. | Fictions of Theater: Theatrical Sensibility in Lessing, Rousseau, Schiller, Moritz | Johns Hopkins | David E. Wellbery |
| Nader, Andres J. | Emergency Poetry: Lyric Production in the Concentration Camps | Cornell | David Bathrick |
| Nelson, D. Julian | Transcendence and the Modern Novel: Technology, Circulation, and Restoration in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu | California, Davis | Robert Torrance |
| Nelson, John W. | Die Willkür der Ichsucht: Jean Paul's Clavis Fichtiana and the Critique of German Idealism | Rice | Klaus Weissenberger |
| Noe, Kathleen R. | Politics and Poetics in Yiddish Proletarian Literature | Maryland | Gabrielle Strauch |
| Ortquist-Ahrens, Leslie | Opening Pandora's Box: America and American Women in Films from the Weimar Republic | Indiana | James Naremore |
| Perera, Natsuko Shibata | The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition | Georgetown | James Alatis |
| Pickering, Lucy | The Analysis of Prosodic Systems in the Classroom Discourse of Native Speaker and Nonnative Speaker Teaching Assistants | Florida | Diana Boxer |
| Prager, Bradley J. | Writing Images: Visuality in German Romantic Literature | Cornell | Peter Uwe Hohendahl |
| Powik, Andreas C. | Goethe's Poetic Epistemology and the Visual Arts | U of Washington | Diana Behler |
| Reif, Edward T. | Goethe as a Visual Artist: The Painful Process of Personal Realization | Georgetown | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Rosa, Elena M. | A Cognitive Approach to Task-Based Research: Explicitness, Awareness, and L2 Development | Georgetown | Ronald Leow |
| Sager, Kurt | Death and the Wisdom of Solarljed [1998] | Rice | Joseph Wilson |
| Salyer, Jeffrey W. | The Expressionist Stage in Light of Bataillian Expenditure | U of Washington | Steven Shaviro |
| Schantz, Randy K. | In the Service of Revolution: Propaganda in Georg Büchner's Der Hessische Landbote and Dantons Tod | Wayne State | Donald Hasse |
| Schaumann, Caroline | Remembering Nazi Germany: Trauma and Testimony | California, Davis | Anna Kuhn |
| Schlipphacke, Heidi M. | The Daughter's Symptom: Female Masochism in Literary Works by G. E. Lessing, Sophie von La Roche, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Elfriede Jelinek | U of Washington | Richard Gray |
| Schueller, Jeanne M. | The Effects of Two Types of Strategic Training on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: An Analysis by Gender and Proficiency | Wisconsin | Monika Chavez |
| Shockey, Gary C. | Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes: A Comparison of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Heinrich von dem Tuerlin's Diu Crone | California, Davis | Winder McConnell |
| Shouse-Luxem, Leslie | Infanticide, Illegitimacy, and Abortion in Modern German Literature [1998] | Rice | Michael Winkler |
| Silver, Rita | Learning Conditions and Learning Outcomes for Second Language Acquisition: Input, Output, and Negotiation | Pennsylvania | Gay Washburn |
| Siriyothin, Peerasak | Investigating Test Performance in a Content-Area Course from a Second Language Perspective [1997] | Ohio State | (Keiko Samimy |
| Smith, Michael J. | Neurolinguistics and the Teaching of Foreign Languages: A Contemporary Reappraisal, 1985-95 [DML] | Middlebury | Jean Bernabé |
| Sohn, Joong-Sun | The Functional Evolution of the Reflexive Pronoun in Romance, Slavic, and Germanic | Kansas | Robert Rankin |
| Somerholter, Kerstin E. | Language Contact and Shift in the Soviet German Speech Community | Texas | Robert D. King & Mark Louden |
| Sopcak, Lorna J. | The Appropriation and Critique of the Romance Novel, Film, and Fashion in Irmgard Keun's Weimar Prose: Humor, Intertextuality, and Popular Discourse | Minnesota | Ruth-Ellen Joeres |
| Stoehr, Louise E. | The Effects of Built-In Comprehension Aids in a CALL Program on Student Readers' Understanding of a Foreign Language Literary Text | Texas | Frank Donahue |
| Sullivan, Joseph M. | Counsel in Middle High German Arthurian Romance | Texas | Hubert Heinen |
| Swanson, Christina M. | Narrative Temporality and the Aspect of Time in Franz Kafka's Short Fiction | California, Irvine | Jens Rieckmann |
| Szpara, Michelle Y. | Talk among Student Teachers in an Urban High School: Questioning Dimensions of Difference | Pennsylvania | Rebecca Freeman |
| Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen M. | Politeness in Native-Nonnative Speakers' Interaction: Some Manifestations of Persian Taarof in the Interaction among Iranian Speakers of German with German Native Speakers | Texas | Jürgen Streck & Mark Louden |
| Tate, Laura A. | Women's Emancipation and the German Ideal of Bildung in the Life and Writings of Helene Lange | Wisconsin | Nancy Kaiser |
