Recent Dissertations

Dirk Lehmann (2007): “German in Every Particular? From Historic Settlement to Theme Towns: Example of “Little Germanies” in America”

Nina Vyatkina (2007): “Development of Second Language Pragmatic Competence: The Data-Driven Teaching of German Modal Particles Based on a Learner Corpus”

Paul Nissler (2006): “Overlapping Aesthetic Perspectives as international, Revolutionary Space in Presentations from the German Revolution to the Spanish Civil War”

Ying Tang (2006): “Christa Wolf: The Making of an Intellectual Woman”

Theresa Ganter (2005): “Heiner Műller and the Geschichtsdrama: Searching for a New German Identity in the Post-World War II (Germania Tod in Berlin) and Post- Reunification Eras (Germania 3 Gespenster am Toten Mann)” 

Dorothee Schuetz (2005):Cultural Models and Cultural Self-Awareness: A Discourse Analytical Approach to the Language of Students' Online Journal Entries”

Birger Sachau (2004):Individual Psychology in the Teaching of Foreign Language and
Literature: A New Approach in Foreign Language Pedagogy and an Adlerian Interpretation of Selected Works by Thodor Storm”

Heide Crawford (2004): “The Origins of the Literary Vampire in German Horror Ballads of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”

Tim Osborne (2003): “The Third Dimension:  A Dependency Grammar Theory of Coordination for English and German” 

Melanie Manzer: (2002) “Der Gesang, dem keiner Widersteht: Music in the Life and Works of Rainer Maria Rilke”

Christiane Eydt-Beebee (2002) “Reception and Translation: The Work of Heinrich von Kleist in America and England”

Anne Huntley Speare (2001):  “Wolfram’s Willehalm and Triuwe:  A Model for Society”