Dissertations

Friedrich Hölderlin, “Über die verschiedenen Arten zu dichten” (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart)
Friedrich Hölderlin, “Über die verschiedenen Arten zu dichten” (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart)

Dissertations are arranged by year, according to defense date.

2020

"Reading with Belief: Literary Romance in Goethe, Shakespeare, and Hitchcock"
Ethan Chesney Blass
January, 2020

 

"The Gift of Metamorphosis: Goethe's Poetic Science of Form"
Daniel Carranza
June, 2020

 

"Censorship, Secrets, Correspondences, and Freedom: The Literary Public in the Viennese Biedermeier"
Tamara Kamatovic
August, 2020

 

"Classical Music on Screen: Affect and Ambivalence in Nazi Film"
Emily Dreyfus
August, 2020

 

2019

"Fragile Räume: Eingriffe in den Mythos des Zuhauses (1905 - 1936)"
Mirjam Berg
December, 2019

 

"Reading Recognition: The Poetics of Poetic Realism"
Jessica Resvick
June, 2019

 

"Trials by Water: Law, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism"
Alexander Sorenson
April, 2019

 

2018

"Irreversible: Kleist, Kafka, and the Present's Past"
Matthew Jake Fraser
July, 2018

 

"Theater against the Turn: Acting Dialectics at Frank Castorf's Volksbühne"
Amy Carolyn Stebbins
October, 2018

 

"A Philosophy to Live By: Goethe's Art of Living in the Spirit of the Ancients"
Georginna Anne Hinnebusch
October, 2018

 

"Tradition, Transmission, Translation: Narrative Frames in Nineteenth-Century German Novellas"
Maeve Catherine Hooper
November, 2018