| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| AbdSamad, Arshad | Second Language Instruction and the Use of Semantic and Syntactic Input Cues | Northern Arizona [1999] | Joan Jamieson & Dean Mellow |
| Adamson, Brent M | Naturalistic versus Formal Foreign Language Learning: An Analysis of Upper-Division German Students' Oral Proficiency in Nominal Inflection and Word Order | Texas | Frank Donahue & Mark Louden |
| Al-Jubeir, Nawal | Deutsche Wörter arabischen Ursprungs: Eine kulturhistorisch-linguistische Studie des Einflusses von Arabisch auf Deutsch zwischen 700-1200 | Georgetown | Kurt R. Jankowsky |
| Allison, Kirk C | Gottfried Benn's Medical Exotics: Proximities in Literature, the Body, and Ethos | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Ames, Eric C | Where the Wild Things Are: Locating the Exotic in German Modernity | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Amkraut, Brian D | Let Our Children Go: Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1932-39 | New York | David Engel |
| Augustyn, Prisca S | The Semiotics of Fate, Death, and the Soul in Germanic Culture: The Christianization of Old Saxon | California, Berkeley | Irmengard Rauch |
| Baer, Hester | Gender, Spectatorship, and Visual Culture in West Germany, 1945-62 | Washington Univ | Paul M. Lützeler |
| Benner, Steven | Collectives in Crisis: Male Bonding in Bertolt Brecht's Plays | Ohio State | Helen Fehervary |
| Berwald, Olaf | Visuelle Gewalt und Selbstverlust bei Günderrode, Hölderlin und Fichte | North Carolina | Alice Kuzniar |
| Bohlke, Olaf E | A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Output Produced by Learners of German in a Chatroom and Face-to-Face Discussion Group, and Its Potential Implication for Foreign Language Instruction | Michigan State | Thomas Lovik |
| Brayton, Elise | Almost German: Race and Representation in Contemporary Germany | Georgetown | Jeffrey M. Peck |
| Brumbaugh, Angelika | Schichte Treve: Diener und Herren bei Theodor Fontane | Middlebury [DML] | Jocelyn Koelb |
| Bühler-Dietrich, Annette | Theaterentwürfe deutschsprachiger Autorinnen im 20. Jahrhundert | Virginia | Renate Voris |
| Campbell, Judith G | The Cultural Inventory: A Student-Centered Approach to Cultural Analysis in Foreign Language Programs | Maryland | Guenter Pfister |
| Carey, Stephen M | Medieval Literary Consciousness and Narrative Innovation in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival | Washington Univ | James Poag |
| Cava, Margaret T | Second Language Learner Strategies and the Unsuccessful Second Language Writer | Columbia [1999] | Mordecai Rubin |
| Clarke, Robert D | Bending the Light: Paul Celan's Todesfuge | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Crawford, Karin L | Love, Music, and Politics in Thomas Mann's Tristan, Der Zauberer, and Dokter Faustus | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Darhower, Martin, Jr | Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in the Intermediate Foreign Language Class: A Sociocultural Case Study | Pittsburgh | Bruce Stiehm |
| de Noma, Elizabeth A | Multiple Melodrama: The Making and Remaking of Three Selma Lagerlöf Narratives in the Silent Era and the 1940s | U of Washington | Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams |
| Deiulio, Laura C | The Promise and the Body: Marriage in German Literature around 1800 | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Dillman, Gabriele | What Cannot Be Remembered Cannot Be Left Behind: A Self-Psychological Interpretation of Ingeborg Bachmann's Work | California, Los Angeles | Janet R. Hadda |
| Dreisonstok, Mark | The Pagan-Christian Concept of Wealth and Its Relationship to Light in the Heiland and in Beowulf, with Consideration of Additional Anglo-Saxon Works | Georgetown | G. Ronald Murphy |
| Ebert, Reika D | Vom Barbaren zum aufgeklärten Herrscher: Zur Entwicklung des Türkenbildes im deutschprachigen Drama des 17. Jahrhunderts | Washington | Jane Brown |
| Endres, Nikolai | Failures of Love: Plato and Platonism in E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann, and Andre Gide | North Carolina | Cecil Wooten |
| Erlin, Matthew C | Topographies of Tolerance: City, History, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Berlin | California, Berkeley | Hinrich Seeba |
| Eto, Hiroyuki | Philologie vs. Sprachwissenschaft: Historiographie einer Begriffsbestimmung im Rahmen der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts | Georgetown | Kurt R. Jankowsky |
| Fisher, Jaimey R | Rejuvenating Germany from the Ground Up: The Discourse about Youth in the Early Postwar Period | Cornell | Peter Hohendahl |
| Francis-Stack, Aine M | The Portrayal of the Child and Childhood in Selected Works of Marie Luise Kaschnitz | Kansas | Leonie Marx |
| Freeman, Veronica G | The Poetization of Mystical Constructs in the Work of Novalis | Florida | Franz Futterknecht |
| Fryksen, Birgitta | Rilke und kein Ende: Zur Rilkerezeption in Schweden von 1904 bis in die 1960er Jahre | Massachusetts | Sigrid Bauschinger |
| Gabor, Olivia G | The Stage as Der Spielraum Gottes: A Search for Divine in Selected Modern German Dramas | Michigan | Roy Cowen |
| Ganeva, Mila | A Forgotten History of Modernity: Fashion in German Literature, the Illustrated Press, and Photography, 1918-33 | Chicago | Katie Trumpener |
| Gaug, Christa | Situating the City: The Textual and Spatial Construction of Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and Vienna in City Texts by Theodor Fontane and Daniel Spitzer | Texas | Katherine Arens |
| Gliesche, Jules D | Van der Scheppung van Coellesch: Netherlandic Features of the Dialect of Cologne | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Gordon, Terri J | The Aesthetics of the Demi-Nu: Modernist Representations of the Dancer in Paris and Berlin from the Fin-de-Siäcle to the Nazi Period | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Gross, Steven | The Role of Abstract Lexical Structure in First Language Attrition: Germans in America | South Carolina | Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Grothe, Anja | The Re-Inscription of Female Antiquity by Contemporary Russian and German Women Authors | CUNY | Amy Mandelker |
| Hallett, Richard W | Simplified Input: An Investigation of Foreigner Talk/Teacher Talk in Vocabulary Acquisition | South Carolina | Bruce Pearson |
| Hall, Sara F | The Subject under Investigation: Weimar Culture and the Police | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Hayworth, Amy J | An Ecofeminist Perspective: Ecology and Feminism in the Works of Reinig, Maron, Morgner, and Wolf | Illinois | Karl-Heinz Schoeps |
| Heckner, Elke | Unruly Bodies: Geschlecht in Kleist, Hegel, Freud, and Brecht | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele |
| Heggestad, Martin R | Gebildet genug, um zu lieben und zu trauern: Bildung and Irony in the Literature of the Goethezeit | Michigan | Frederick Amrine |
| Heintzelmann, Matthew Z | The Acts of Pilate as an Isolating Force in the Frankfurt Passion Play of 1493 | Chicago | Kenneth Northcott |
| Holmgren, Janet B | Die Horen haben jetzo wie es scheint ihr weibliches Zeitalter...: The Women Writers in Schiller's Horen: Friederike Brun, Amalie von Imhoff, Sophie Mereau, Elisa von der Recke, and Caroline von Wolzogen | California, Irvine | Meredith Lee |
| Holsinger, David J | Lenition in Germanic: Prosodic Templates in Sound Change | Wisconsin | Joseph Salmons |
| Hoskins, Susan S | Discrimination of Novel Minimal Pairs by 31- to 35-Month-Olds | Delaware | Roberta Golinkoff |
| Jobatey, Francine | Afro-Look: Die Geschichte einer Zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen | Massachusetts | Sara Lennox |
| Johnson, Gary C | Figures of Speech: Character in Thomas Mann, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Nathanael West | North Carolina | Clayton Koelb |
| Kallin, Britta | Staging Ethnicity, Gender, and Nation: German-Language Drama by Female Playwrights (1990-96) | Cincinnati | Sara Friedrichsmeyer |
| Kellman, Ellen D | The Newspaper Novel in the Jewish Daily Forward (1900-40): Fiction as Entertainment and Serious Literature | Columbia | Arthur Goren |
| Kim, Jung-Tae | The Initial State of Second Language Syntax: An Investigation of L2 WH-Movement and Null-Subjects from the Minimalist Perspective | Texas | Lisa Green |
| Kim, Yookang | Prosody and Prosodically-Motivated Processes from Germanic to Middle English | Wisconsin | Joseph Salmons |
| Krapp, Peter O | Déjà vu: Aberrations of Memory in Literature and Media² | Laurence Rickels |
| Krupp, Anthony L | Autonomy and Development in the Works of Karl Phillip Moritz | Johns Hopkins | Bianca Theisen |
| Kube, Lutz | Zwischen Heimat Brandenburg und Sozialismus: Wege der Identitätsfindung im Werk Günter de Bruyns | North Carolina | Siegfried Mews |
| Leeman, Jennifer | Towards a New Classification of Input: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Recasts, Negative Evidence, and Enhanced Salience on L2 Development | Georgetown | Alison Mackey |
| Lewin, Ross D | Shylock in Germany | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Libbon, Stephanie | Frank Wedekind's Fantasy World: A Theater of Sexuality | Ohio State | Barbara Becker-Cantarino |
| Lightfoot, Douglas J | On the Grammaticalization of a Nominalizing Suffix in German: (--)tum | California, Los Angeles | Christopher M. Stevens |
| Lode, Imke | Between Body and Space: Modern Vision and the Premonition of the Cinematic in E. T. A. Hoffmann's wirkliches Schaven | New York | Friedrich Ulfers |
| McFarland, Robert B | Reading the Other Berlin: Flanerie, Vision, and the Poetics of Urban Space | California, Berkeley | Hinrich Seeba |
| McMillan, Clare A | The Ends of Detection: Allegories of Germanness in Recent German Detective Fiction | Cornell | David Bathrick |
| Mikoltchak, Maria | A Comparative Analysis of Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Effi Briest: A Feminist Approach | South Carolina | Wiebke Strehl |
| Miller, Keith J | The Lexical Choice of Prepositions in Machine Translation | Delaware | Catherine Ball |
| Mladek, Klaus | The Ethics of Writing: Law, Violence, and the Modern Subject (Kant, Kleist, Hoffmann, Benjamin, and Kafka) | California, Santa Barbara | Wolf Kittler |
| Montecalvo, Rolando | Between Empire and Papacy: Aeneas Silvius and German Regional Historiography | California, Berkeley | Elaine Tennant |
| Naqvi-Peters, Fatima | The Rhetoric of Victim and Perpetrator: Austrian Literature and Film, 1986-95 | Harvard | Judith Ryan |
| Noebel, Daniela A | The Hidden Faces of Racism: Humanität and the Monkey: Images of Otherness in Herder's Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit | California, San Diego | William O'Brien |
| Noma, Elizabeth de | Multiple Melodrama: The Making and Remaking of Three Selma Lagerlof Narratives in the Silent Era and the 1940s | Washington | Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams |
| Novero, Cecilia | Eating Bodies, Eating Text: Metaphors of Incorporation in Benjamin, Dada, and Futurism | Chicago | Katie Trumpener |
| Ogger, Sara J | Secret Hölderlin: The Twentieth-Century Myth of the Poet as Authored by the George Circle, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger | Princeton | Stanley Corngold |
| Painter, Kirsten B | 'Flint on a Bright Stone': The Sharp Image and Suppressed Self in Russian, American, and German Post-Symbolist Poetry | Columbia | Boris Gasparov |
| Park, Hyeson | Grammatical Theories and Second Language Acquisition | Arizona | Rudolph Troike |
| Park, Julie K | The Effects of Forms and Meaning: Focused Instruction on Second Language Phonological Acquisition | Pennsylvania | Teresa Pica |
| Pellettieri, Jill L | Interaction, the Internet, and Second Language Acquisition | California, Davis [1999] | Robert J. Blake & Cecilia M. Colombi |
| Pinkert, Anke | Literary Intellectuals and the East German State: Legitimation and Dissent in Works by Christa Wolf and Franz Fühmann | Chicago | Katie Trumpener |
| Powell, Larson | The Nature of History: Society and Subjectivity in Modern German Literature, 1900-41 | Columbia [1999] | Andreas Huyssen |
| Raymond, Hilary C | Learning to Teach Foreign Languages: Case Studies of Six Preservice Teachers in a Teacher Education Program | Ohio State | Charles R. Hancock |
| Rieger, Sylvia H | Janusbilder: Der Diskurs um Frauen und Juden in der bürgerlichen ôffentlichkeit des deutschen Kaiserreichs | Washington | Richard Gray |
| Rilling, Sarah | The Language of Composition Classrooms: Teaching Diverse Students in Traditional and Computerized Classes | Northern Arizona [1998] | Douglas Biber & Mary McGroarty |
| Rinäre, Monique | Transformations of the German Novel: Simplicissimus in Eighteenth-Century Adaptations | Princeton | Michael Curschmann |
| Roesch, Ulrike M. C | On Edge with Franz Kafka's Short Prose: Exposing the Dynamic Movement between Text and Reader | California, Berkeley | Winfried Kudazus |
| Rölz, Eckhard | Genderless Childhood: Narrative Literature and the Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Germany | North Carolina | Jonathan Hess |
| Russo, Eva-Maria | Auf keinen Teufel gefasst: The Discourse of Seduction and Rape in Eighteenth-Century German Literature | California, Los Angeles | Ehrhard Bahr |
| Sager, Alexander J | Van ìstrit allenthalbin: Images of Eastern Europe in Medieval German and Hungarian Literary Culture, 1050-1300 | Cornell | Arthur Groos |
| Sasson, Sarah J | Between Pariah and Parvenu: The Dialectic of the Self and of the Other in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature | Columbia | Michael Riffaterre |
| Schattschneider, Laura E | 'Received into the Arms of Civil Society': Founding Narratives in England, France, and Germany, 1740-1840 | California, Berkeley | Mary Gallgher |
| Schmidt, Gary | The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature | Washington Univ | Paul M. Lützeler |
| Scribner, Charity | Working Memory: Mourning and Melancholia after Communism | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Shah, Ismail | The Sheltered Classroom as a Context for Second Language Learning Process and Outcomes | Pennsylvania [1999] | Teresa Pica |
| Skolnik, Jonathan S | Who Learns from Heine?: The German-Jewish Historical Novel as Cultural Memory and Minority Culture, 1824-1953 | Columbia [1999] | Mark Anderson |
| Spalding, Almut M. G | Elise Reimarus (1735-1805), the Muse of Hamburg: A Woman of the German Enlightenment | Illinois | Mara Wade |
| Spencer, Bruch H | Variation, Standardization, and Language Shift: The Decline of Low German in the Early Modern Period | Michigan | Robert Kyes |
| Sroda, Mary S | Relevance Theory and the Markedness Model in SLA: Cognitive Approaches to Pragmatics and Second Language Acquistion | South Carolina | Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Steyer, Brigitte | Traumadarstellung und deren Implikationen in Ingeborg Bachmanns Todesarten-Projekt | California, Los Angeles | Kathleen R. Komar |
| Stricker, Terri L | A Comparative Study of Femme-Fatale Imagery and Its Significance in Selected Fin-de-Siäcle Art and Literature | Arkansas | Brian Wilkie |
| Sutcliffe, Patricia C | Friedrich Max Müller and William Dwight Whitney as Exporters of Nineteenth-Century German Philology: A Sociological Analysis of the Development of Linguistic Theory | Texas | Mark Southern & Robert King |
| Sylvor, Jennifer A | Literary Impersonations: On the Development of National Prose Traditions in Russian and Yiddish | California, Berkeley | Robert Alter |
| Sy-Quia, Hilary A. C | The Body Politic in a Contested Present: Christa Wolf and the Making of History | California, Berkeley | Robert C. Holub |
| Tang, Chenxi | Writing World History: The Emergence of Modern Global Consciousness in the Late Eighteenth Century (1760-90) | Columbia | Andreas Huyssen |
| Thornton, Dan F | Dualities: Myth and the Unreconciled Past in Austrian and Dutch Literature of the 1980s | North Carolina | Siegfried Mews |
| Tunkle, Eph H | Gothic Forefield Syntax: Focus, Repair, and Wackernagel's Law | Georgia | Jared S. Klein |
| Wang, Ruizhong | The Effects of Native Language Influence and Target Language Overgeneralization in Second Language Acquisition | Northern Arizona [1996] | William Grabe |
| Watzke, John L | History of Foreign Language and Secondary Education Reform: Prospects for Achieving Standards-Based Goals | Iowa | Michael Everson |
| Weinstein, Valerie | Mistaken Identity in wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Film | Cornell | David Bathrick |
| Wergin, Jan | Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften: Verbildlichung, Erhöhung und Kunstwerdung im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft, Dilettantismus und Kunst | Washington | Hellmut Ammerlahn |
| Wilke, Ann S | Existential there and Its Counterparts in German | Iowa | Sarah Fagan |
| Wiwczaroski, Troy | Desire, Ambiguity, and the Problem of Evil: Approaches to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan | Washington Univ | James Poag |
| Young, James D | Die anderen erfinden mich: AIDS: Homophobia in Germany and Its Reflexes in German Gay Literature | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand & James Steakley |
