Nicole McInteer, Associate Dean for Admissions at Wake Forest University, successfully defended her dissertation titled: “Writing the Edge of Empire: Joseph Roth’s Galicia” on October 10 2016. The dissertation compares Roth’s famous novel Radetzkymarsch with other ethnographic and historical writings on the Austrian province of Galicia, such as the Kronprinzenwerk and works by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Karl Emil Franzos.