Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Sitting with Wounds: The Visual Poetics of Grief in Charlotte Salomon’s Graphic Life Narrative Life? or Theater?, Franziska Finkenstein
Staging Suffering: Depictions of the Family Space in German Naturalist Drama, Kimberly Annas
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Durch den kulturellen Spiegel: Adaptionen einer Serienmörderin des 19. Jahrhunderts in den populären Medien, Patricia Elisabeth Margarethe Maurer
JAGEN-STERBEN-TÖTEN. ANIMALISCHE FRAUEN IN HEINRICH VON KLEISTS DIE HERRMANNSSCHLACHT, Julian Severin Rey
Narrative Networks—Network Narratives: The Function of Space, Characters, and Sequence In Neuro-Novels Published between 1990 and 2010, Tobias Feldmann
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Faszination Mond – Das Mondmotiv in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartslyrik vor dem Hintergrund seiner literarischen Tradition, Lara-Mareen Foerster
Mediating the Colonial Other in the German Empire, Peter A. Ogunniran
The Cyborg Animal in the Anthropocene: Nonhuman Species’ Narratives of Survival in Contemporary German and North American Literature, Rebecca Jordan
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
„Kopfschmerzen, Familiensorgen": Urszenen-Konfigurationen, Psychotherapie-Parodie und Sublimierungspraktiken in Kafkas "Proceß", Anna Lynn Dolman
Riding the Bahn, Reading Berlin: Berlin in Transit(ion) from Reichshauptstadt to Weltstadt (1871-1930), Mikael Olsson Berggren
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Inwiefern sind Lehrwerke eine adäquate Bereicherung für den modernen Sprachunterricht? Sprachunterricht ohne Lehrwerk, Daniela Rudeau
The Counter-Discourses of Fictional and Autofictional Contemporary German Refugee Narratives: The Slow Violence of Postponement, Bethany Morgan
Who is Germany now? Literary (Re)Negotiations of Belonging in Contemporary German Literature by Authors of Former Eastern-Bloc Countries, Adeline Bauder
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Die Poetik der Abweichung: Menschen mit Behinderung und ihre Familien in der deutschen und ̦sterreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Anna-Rebecca Nowicki
Gender- und Genrekonfigurationen in Irmgard Keuns "Das kunstseidene Mädchen", Anna Vasilev
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Adaptation Artists: Aesthetic and Social Adaptation in the Work of Turkish German Author Yadé Kara, Claire Amanda Ross
Adaptation Artists: Aesthetic and Social Adaptation in the Work of Turkish German Author Yadé Kara, Claire Amanda Ross
Impossible Communities in Prague’s German Gothic: Nationalism, Degeneration, and the Monstrous Feminine in Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem (1915), Amy Michelle Braun
Meta-Epic: Generic Interplay in Goethe's Faust and its Significance for Weltliteratur, Heidi Nada Grek
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
„Die Schweden stehn vor Eger! Laßt uns eilen!“: Eine Analyse der Schweden in Schillers Wallenstein, Kalle Mikael Gustav Nyman
Ernst Blochs utopischer Nietzsche: Von der Tragödien- zur Marxismustheorie, Ursula Beata Baur
Literarische Filmsimulation: Heinrich Eduard Jacobs medienphilosophische Filmästhetik in "Blut und Zelluloid", Paula Vosse
Melancholie in Uwe Timms Romanen "Rot" und "Morenga", Darina Stamova
Seltsame Worte, seltsamer Wahn? Erzählstimme und Geschlecht in Ingeborg Bachmanns Malina (1971), Caroline Jebens
(Un)Doing and (Un)Becoming: Temporality, Subjectivity, and Relationality in Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Film, Simone Pfleger
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Critique of Pedagogy in Goethe’s "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (1795): Linking the Tower Society and the Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza, Mary Le Gierse
Dienerinnen des Rechts? Zu Geschlechts-, Familien- und Rechtsdiskursen in den Werken Friedrich Hebbels, Antonia Villinger
Die Verzauberung der Welt - eine Studie zur transgressiven Sakralität an Beispielen der zeitgenössischen Serienkultur, Christine Bernshaus
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Ästhetiken der Störung. Störungsphänomene bei Kroetz, Turrini und Mitterer, Manuel Foerderer
Berlin Transfer – The City on Roads and Rails, Mikael A. Olsson Berggren
Imagination, Emotion, and Adolescent Socialization in German Literature from Romanticism to 1901, Brooke Shafar
Lebendige Puppen und imaginierte Phantasmen. Imagination, Animation und Gender bei E.T.A. Hoffmann, Alina Boy
On the Role of Sublimation in the Works of Gabriele Reuter, Maria Skene-Björkman
Shame in the Nineteenth-Century Village Tale in the German-Speaking Context, 1843-1897, Angineh Djavadghazaryans
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Anxious Telling: Narrative Modes and German Literary Production, 1871-1900, Ervin Malakaj
Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933, Melissa Lee Olson Meeks
Form - Inhalt - Medialität: Eine dreidimensionale Analyse des crossmedia Projekts ABOUT:KATE, Vanessa Ossa
The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss, Corey Lee Twitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Ästhetische Grenzgänge. Das weiblich Erhabene in Schillers 'Jungfrau von Orleans' und Kleists 'Penthesilea', Miriam Zeh
Die Raumsemantik in Ferdinand von Saars Schloß Kostenitz und Adalbert Stifters Brigitta - Ein Vergleich, Anna-Rebecca Nowicki
Ebner's Ethical Creatures: Animals and Humanity in the Work of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Sarah Hillenbrand Varela
Feeling Doctrine: Religious Meanings of Emotion in Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Georgia Anna Leeper
Representations of Memory in Texts by Turkish-German Authors, Jocelyn Maree Aksin
Revisions of Violence in West German Cinema, 1960-1980, Lisa Haegele
Waldlektüren. Zur Figuration und Funktionalisierung des Waldes bei Ludwig Tieck und Adalbert Stifter, Florian Stocker
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Begehrenskonflikte: Bruderliche Liebe zwischen Regress und Rivalität, Annekatrin Sommer
Coloring Catastrophe: De/Coding Color in Representations of the Holocaust, Russell Alt-Hakker
Krieg der Zeichen. Schrift, Akustik und Poetologie in Wilhelm Raabes "Odfeld", Vanessa Elisabeth Höving
Nature in Contemporary German Photography, Anne Elizabeth Jost-Fritz
"Nur eine Hausfrau": Continuities and Discontinuities in Women's Advice Writing from 1865-1916, Norma Jane Suvak
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Reading Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century Young Adult Literature, Nancy Lorene Twilley
Tales of Talismans: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Fetishism, Melissa Krugler Laugallies
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Text, Medium, Afterlife: Intertextuality and Intermediality in the Works of Yoko Tawada, Suzuko Mousel Knott
Topographies of Sexuality: Space, Movement, and Gender in German Literature and Film Since 1989, Necia Chronister
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Illusions of Armor: The Haptic Body in Ernst Junger's Early Works, Julia Kleinheider
(S)elective, Mimetic Aphasia: Stutter and Silence in Fin-de-siecle Critical Modernist Literature, Erika Hille Rinker