| Degree Awarded to: | Title of Dissertation | Granting Institution | Dissertation Director |
| Anderson, Donovan | From Conversation to Discipline and Beyond: A Cultural History of Early Germanistik, 1790-1850. | Michigan | Helmut Puff |
| Barkemeyer, Karen | Versuche des Mitseins: Hölderlin, Heidegger und die Gemeinschaft der Sterblichen. | California, Santa Barbara | Elizabeth Weber |
| Barry, Kelly | The Play of Poetry: Spiel as Aesthetic Concept and Literary Figure. | Johns Hopkins | David Wellbery |
| Bashaw, Rita | Witz at Work: The Comic and the Grotesque in Edgar Hilsenrath, Jakov Lind, and George Tabori. | Minnesota | Jack Zipes |
| Bell-Corrales, Maritza | The Role of Negative Feedback in Second-Language Instruction. | Florida | Joaquim Camps |
| Bernhardsson, Haraldur | Verner's Law in Gothic. | Cornell | Jay Jasanoff |
| Bjornstad, Jennifer | Humor and the Holocaust in German Literature: Edgar Hilsenrath, Günter Grass, and Jurek Becker. | Wisconsin | Hans Adler |
| Bornholdt, Claudia | The Beginning of Bridal-Quest Narrative in Medieval German and Scandinavian Literature. | Indiana | Kari Gade |
| Broszeit-Rieger, Ingrid | The Novel as Performance: Poetological Allegories in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister Novels. | Virginia | Benjamin Bennett |
| Bryan, David | Robert Musil: Politics, Poetic Language, and the Authoritarian State. | North Carolina | Clayton Koelb |
| Butler, Henry | Writing and Vampires in the Works of Lautréamont, Bram Stoker, Daniel Paul Schreber, and Fritz Lang. | Yale | Michael Holquist & David Quint |
| Calvert, Natalia | Representations of Violence in Medieval German Literature. | Stanford | Theodore Andersson |
| Carr, Richard | The Mythology of Fundamental Social Transformation: Christa Wolf's Medea (1996) in the Tradition of Her Kassandra (1983). | Virginia | Lorna Martens |
| Chahpa, Cynthia | Through the Looking Glass: Overcoming Language in the Works of Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ilse Aichinger. | Ohio State | John Davidson |
| Cleaveland, Sarah | Painting the Poetic Image: Laokoön Reconsidered. | North Carolina | William Harmon |
| Colclasure, David, II | Literary Rationality and the Political Public Sphere: Post-Unification Germany and the Persistent Aesthetics of Authenticity. | Washington Univ. | Paul Lützeler |
| Condray, Kathleen | Das Gehirn unsrer lieben Schwestern: Women Writers of the Journal Jugend from 1919 to 1940. | Illinois | Karl-Heinz Schoeps |
| Cooledge, Susan | Making Sense of a Text: A Study of L2 Reading Behavior and Comprehension in a Hypertext Environment. | Arizona | Robert Ariew |
| Davis, Clare | Defining Identity through Difference: Aspects of Contemporary German-Language Jewish Literature. | Washington Univ. | Paul Lützeler |
| Dickerson, Ann | Thinking Difference: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Crisis of German Romanticism. | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Dixon, Richard, Jr | From Theatrical Politics to Political Theatrics: The Evolution of Peter Turrini's Dramatic Vision. | North Carolina | Siegfried Mews |
| Drescher, Barbara | The Vanishing Female Protagonists in the Weimar, Exile, and Postwar Fiction of Irmgard Keun, Dinah Nelken, and Ruth Lanshoff-Yorck. | Minnesota | Arlene Teraoka |
| Eigen, Sara | Generating the Good: Fictions of Literature, Law, and Science in Eighteenth-Century Germany. | Harvard | Peter Burgard |
| Ewald, Jennifer | Listening to Learners' and Teachers' Voices: Pedagogical Theory Encounters Reality in Collaborative Group Work in the Language Classroom. | Minnesota | Carol Klee & Bill Johnston |
| Fleming, Paul | The Dissonant Whole: Witty Affinities, Affective Intensities, and Humorous Incongruities in Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. | Johns Hopkins | Rainer Nägele |
| Folio, Marta | An Occidental Workshop: Eugene Jolas and 'Transition,' Bridging European and American Modernism. | Vanderbilt | Helmut Pfanner & Dieter Sevin |
| Fritz, Daniela | Language Socialization, Communicative Competence, and Identity: Literary Representations of the Language Learner in Twentieth-Century German Literature. | California, Berkeley | Claire Kramsch |
| Fritzsche, Sonja | Alternate Worlds, Alternate Visions: Cultural Politics and Socialist Critique in East German Science Fiction. | Minnesota | Jack Zipes |
| Gebhardt, Paul | Paul Celans Gedichtband Mohn und Gedächtnis: Allegorien an der Grenze des Sprechens. | Kansas | Frank Baron |
| Gracanin, Maja | Über allen Menschen und Dingen lag . . .ein Hauch von Zwiespältigkeit: Dualism and Division in the Novels of Marlen Haushofer. | Cincinnati | Jerry Glenn |
| Gram, Ole | Evacuated Totality: Utopian Memories in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. | Minnesota | Jochen Schulte-Sasse |
| Grill, Genese | Ecstatic Experience, Crime, and Conversion in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. | CUNY | Burton Pike |
| Hammonds, Phillip | The Directive Speech Acts in Conflict Situations among Advanced Non-Native Speakers of English. | Arizona | Grace Fielder |
| Hassall, Meredith | Dialect Focusing and Language Transfer in Sixteenth-Century Germany. | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Heingk, Penelope | The Other Side of the Tracks: Representations of Gender in Early Railroad Turmoil. | Oregon | Karla Schultz |
| Henry, Sean | August von Platen in the Discourse of Homosexuality: From the Age of Goethe to Thomas Mann, 1821-1936. | Kansas | Frank Baron |
| High, Jeffrey | Schillers moralphilosophisches Revolutionskonzept vor 1789 im Hinblick auf seine Reaktionen auf die französische Revolution. | Massachusetts | Wilfried Malsch |
| Hilgendorf, Suzanne | Language Contact, Convergence, and Attitudes: The Case of English in Germany. | Illinois | Frederick Schwink |
| Huener, Rachael | Reklamemarken in Wilhelmine Germany: Consuming Fictions. | Minnesota | Gerhard Weiss |
| Huntley-Speare, Anne | Wolfram's Willehalm and Triuwe: A Model for Society. | Pennsylvania State | Vickie Ziegler |
| Hyner, Bernadette | Exploring I's: Relocation and the Self in Works by Sophie von La Roche and Elisa von der Recke. | Vanderbilt | John McCarthy |
| Jacobsen, Eric | Monism: The Evolution of a World View in Germany from 1770 to 1930. | Wisconsin | Jost Hermand |
| Jacobson, Karen | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Selected Late Nineteenth-Century Fictions (Herman Melville, Thomas Mann). | North Carolina | Lilian Furst |
| Jaeger, Dagmar | Theater im Medienzeitalter: Das postdramatische Theater von Elfriede Jelinek und Heiner Müller. | Massachusetts | Sara Lennox |
| Jamison, Anne | Form as Transgression: Structuring a Modern Poetics. | Princeton | Claudia B. Lacour |
| Jannausch, Ulrike | A Case Study of Native Speakers of English Composition in German. | Purdue | Tony Silva |
| Karolle, Kristen | The Role of Language in the Construction of Identity and the Swiss Crime Novel in Friedrich Glauser's Gourrama, Der Tee der drei alten Damen, and Schlumpf Erwin Mord. | Wisconsin | Nancy Kaiser & Robert Howell |
| Kinsella, Tanya | Obscured Origins: The Early German Art Film and Eighteenth-Century Classical Aesthetics. | North Carolina | Alice Kuzniar |
| Klaus, Eric | Engineering Souls: Humanism, Allegory, and Specularity in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Gorky's Mother. | Brown | Thomas Kniesche |
| Kligerman, Eric | Scenes of Witnessing in Paul Celan, Anselm Kiefer, and Daniel Libeskind. | Michigan | James Porter & Julia Hell |
| Koch, Arne | Local Voices of Poetic Realism: Nineteenth-Century Regional Literature and the Paradox of German Identity, 1842-97. | North Carolina | Eric Downing |
| Kopp, Kristin | Contesting Borders: German Colonial Discourse and the Polish Eastern Territories. | California, Berkeley | Anton Kaes |
| Kuechler-Williams, Christiane | Die Entdeckung des erotischen Paradieses: Eine Untersuchung der europäischen Südseerezeption im 18. Jahrhundert. | Northwestern | Helmuth Müller-Sievers |
| LaFond, Larry | The Pro-Drop Parameter in Second-Language Acquisition Revisited: A Developmental Account. | South Carolina | D. Eric Holt |
| Lee, Kwang-Og | Three ESL Teachers' Reflections upon Their Beliefs toward Communicative Language Teaching and Classroom Practices: A Multiple Case Study. | Nebraska | Aleidine Moeller |
| Liu, Haoming | Transformation of Childhood Experience: Rainer Maria Rilke and Fei Ming. | Yale | Cyrus Hamlin |
| Lohmeyer, Enno | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach als Sozialreformerin. | Kansas | Leonie Marx |
| Mani, Venkat | On the Question, 'What Is Turkish-German?' Minority Literatures and the Dialectics of Exclusion. | Stanford | Russell Berman |
| Mantero, Miguel | The Reasons We Speak: A Sociocultural Discourse Analysis of Text-Based Talk in a University-Level Foreign Language Classroom. | Florida State | Frederick Jenks |
| McGlothlin, Erin | Remembering Memory: Imagining the Holocaust in the Second Generation. | Virginia | Renate Voris |
| McMurray, David | 'Conserving Individual Autonomy in Exile': Hans Habe's Struggle against Totalitarianism. | Vanderbilt | Helmut Pfanner |
| Morris, Ralph | Vowels in Sixteenth-Century Stuttgart. | Wisconsin | Robert Howell |
| Mullens, Margaret | Body and Soul: Deafness and Identity in Ruth Schaumann's Autobiographical Novel Das Arsenal. | Maryland | Elke Frederiksen |
| Nelson, Erika | Reading and Re-Presenting Rilke: Orphic Identity and Poetic Invention. | Texas | Katherine Arens & Hubert Heinen |
| Nestingen, Andrew | Why Nation? Globalization and National Culture in Finland, 1980-2000. | Washington | Thomas DuBois |
| Newcomb, Christine C | August Wilhelm Schlegel: Poet, Critic and Translator. | Washington, 2000 | Diana Behler |
| Niazi, Mohammed N | Elegies toward Being (Rainer Maria Rilke). | Washington | Richard Gray |
| Ochola, Eunita | A Sociopragmatic Approach to the Use of Meta-Discourse Features in Effective Non-Native- and Native-Speaker Composition Writing. | South Carolina | Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Owens, Jason | Changing Constructions of Germanness in Namibia: The 'GDR Kids.' | Georgetown | Jeffrey Peck |
| Paddock, Mary | Of Me I Sing: The Staging of the Artist by the Traveling Singer of the High Middle Ages and the Turn-of-the-Century German Cabaret Performer. | Yale | Ingeborg Glier |
| Pickford, Henry | The Sense of Semblance: Modern German and Russian Literature after Adorno. | Yale | Karsten Harries, Winfried Menninghaus & William Todd |
| Pomerantz, Anne | Beyond the Good Language Learner: Ideology, Identity, and Investment in Classroom Foreign-Language Learning. | Pennsylvania | Nancy Hornberger |
| Presner, Todd | Jewish Transport through German Modernism, or How the Railway Transformed the Geography and Literature. | Stanford | Jeffrey Schnapp |
| Rajan, Gita | Labyrinths of the Colonial Archive: Unpacking German Missionary Narratives. | Michigan | Frederick Amrine |
| Reeves, Eva | Purloined Letters: Detecting Gender in Poe, Lacan, Derrida, and Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein. | Cornell | Geoffrey Waite |
| Rice, Michael | Nazis and Jews: Three Exile Works by Friedrich Torberg. | Cincinnati | Jerry Glenn |
| Richardson, Michael | Political Allegory and Its Ends--The End of Political Allegory: Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR. | Cornell | David Bathrick |
| Rippey, Theodore | Massography and Weimar Culture. | Wisconsin | Marc Silberman |
| Rowe, Charles | Genesis and Evolution of an Email Sibling Code. | North Carolina | Edna Andrews |
| Roy, Matthew | August Strindberg's Perversions: On the Science, Sin, and Scandal of Homosexuality in August Strindberg's Works. | Washington | Ann-Charlotte Adams |
| Scheffer, Julia | Die Sprache aus dem Bret reissen: Feminist Satire in the Works of Elfriede Jelinek and Isolde Schaad. | Washington | Sabine Wilke |
| Scricco, Frank | The Use of Technology in the Modern Foreign Language Classroom: A Contructivist Approach Using a Secondary School Test Case. | SUNY, Stony Brook [DA] [2000] | Mike Ledgerwood |
| Semones, Lara | An Examination of the Effects of Peer Interaction in a Computer-Mediated Environment during the Early Phase of the Writing Process. | Vanderbilt | Virginia Scott |
| Shuck, Gail | Imagining the Native Speaker: The Poetics of Complaint in University Student Discourse. | Arizona | Jane Hill |
| Siklos, Csanad | The Rhetoric of Resistance: A Study of Pär Lagerkvist's Prose and Drama, 1933-44. | Washington | Lars Warme |
| Smith, David | Taking Students to Task:Task-Based, Computer-Mediated Communication and Negotiated Interaction in the ESL Classroom. | Arizona | Robert Ariew |
| Sotiropoulos, Carol | Frictions, Fictions, and Forms: Woman's Coming of Age in Eighteenth-Century Educational Discourses. | Connecticut | Margaret Higonnet |
| Taylor, Susanne | Public and Private: A Matter of Exclusion? The Search for Identity in Three Novels: Stille Zeile sechs, Nada, and Eva Luna. | Arkansas | Kay Pritchett |
| Thiel, Anne | Verhinderte Traditionen: Märchen deutscher Autorinnen vor den Brüdern Grimm. | Georgetown | Susanne Kord |
| Vail, Amy | The Last of the Homeridae: Goethe's Road to Hermann und Dorothea. | Ohio State | Duane Roller |
| Van Vliet, JoAnn | Apocalypse and the Poetics of Collection: Ingeborg Bachmann's Die gestundete Zeit. | Virginia | Beth Bjorklund |
| Vance, Adam | Nietzsche and Baudelaire: At the Threshhold of Our Esthetic Modernity. | Washington, 2000 | Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen |
| Vees-Gulani, Susanne | The Experience of Destruction: Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II. | Illinois | Michael Palencia-Roth & Nancy Blake |
| Walsh, Michael | Grimm's Kinder und Hausmärchen in Postmodern Contexts. | Wayne State | Donald Haase |
| Wapole, Colleen | Phonological Awareness and Second-Language Reading. | Northwestern | Rae Moses |
| Welge, Jobst | Hidden Natures: Subjectivity and Authority in Early Modern Literature. | Stanford | Stephen Orgel |
| White, Christina | Gender and the German Autumn: The Representation of Terrorism and the Female Terrorist in Social Discourse, Literature, and Film. | Minnesota | Arlene Teraoka & Rick McCormick |
| White, Paul | Non-Native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas. | Indiana | Kari Gade |
| Witte, James | Syntax and Semantics of Path-Denoting Particles and Prepositional Phrases in German. | Illinois | Elmer Antonsen |
| Yamada, Yuko | The Effect of Immersion Learning Experiences in Japan: A Biographical Study of Four American Women. | Nebraska | Aleidine Moeller |
| Zapata-Bercerra, Argenis | Overcoming Plateaus in Second-Language Acquisition. | Kansas | Paul Markham |
| Zastrow, Claus von | The Ground of Our Beseeching: The Guiding Sense of Place in German and English Elegiac Poetry. | Yale | Paul Fry & Cyrus Hamlin |
