Dissertations
Source: https://german.princeton.edu/department/research/dissertations Parent: https://german.princeton.edu/
In Progress
Contested Assemblage: Remapping the Genealogy of Modern Landscape
Advisers:\ Johannes Wankhammer, Devin Fore
“The Persistence of Nostalgia: Modernity’s Pathology”
Adviser:\ Devin Fore
Verschollenheit: Figuren der Rechts(un)fähigkeit im Werk Kafkas
Advisers:\ Devin Fore, Barbara Nagel
“The Other Among Us: Early Modern German Discourses on Atypical Bodies, 1500-1770”.
Adviser:\ Joel B. Lande
“Manuscript and Medium: The Amanuenses of the Age of Goethe”
Adviser:\ Joel B. Lande
2025
Anat Benzvi
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT VALUE:
ROBERT MUSIL’S MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Inka Mülder-Bach
Mareike Peschl
Uncommon Realities: Cultural Perspectives on Illusions
Advisers:\ Barbara Nagel, Thomas Macho
Ron Sadan
Near Sense Literary Opacity through the Feuilleton Form In Texts and Manuscripts of Robert Walser
Adviser:\ Barbara Nagel
Kritische Theorie und DDR. Ein Versuch
Adviser:\ Johannes Wankhammer
Current Position:
Researcher, Universität Gießen and Wien
2024
“Phenomenology of Video Games: Space, Time, and Perspective”
Advisers:\ Barbara Nagel, Paize Keulemans, Ervin Malakaj
Julian Petri
The Fiction of Agency and the Agency of Fiction: Kleist’s Poetics of Action
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
2023
Artistry, Agency, and the Everyday in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg’s Works
Adviser:\ Barbara Nagel
Current Position:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies
Mary Grayson Brook
“Mutterherz: Motherhood and Dedifferentiation in German Realism”
Adviser:\ Barbara Nagel
Current Position:
Princeton University Postgraduate Research Associate
Alexander Draxl
On Schicksal: The Return of Tragedy in Modernity
Advisers:\ Brigid Doherty, Joseph Vogl
Andreas Strasser
“Die Idylle in der Literatur der deutschen Nachkriegszeit”
Adviser:\ Devin Fore
2021
Andrew Dechet
The Economics of Sight: Early Photography and Commodity Capitalism, 1839-1867
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
How to Do Sleep with Words: Sleep Experiments in Literature, Science, and Society, 1899–1929
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Joseph Vogl
Current Position:
Matthews Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford
Mathematik ist immer Geist: The Persistence of Mathematical Humanism and Aesthetic Rationality in Postwar Germany
Adviser:\ Devin Fore
Current Position:
College Fellow at Harvard University
2020
World Literature in Practice: The Orientalist’s Manuscript between the Ottoman Empire and Germany
Advisers:\ Nikolaus Wegmann, Anthony Grafton
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Georgia
Anton J. Bunia
Happy Endings: On Affirmative Art, PhD 2020
Advisers:\ Nikolaus Wegmann, Inka Mülder-Bach
Current Position:
European Commission
Sean Toland
Concert Halls & Weekly Journals. Fictive Music Criticism in German Romanticism
Advisers:\ Joel B. Lande, Inka Mülder-Bach
2019
Alice Christensen
Touching Temperature: Questions of Measurement and Feeling, 1870–1930
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Daniel Heller-Roazen
Old Books, New Times: Medieval Manuscripts and German Literature around 1800
Advisers:\ Sara S. Poor, Nikolaus Wegmann
Current Position:
Amherst College
Phlogisticated Relations: Lichtenberg and Ritter’s Readings of Chemistry
Advisers:\ Joseph Vogl, Michael Gordin
Current Position:
Freelancer NYC area
The Science of Expression: Ausdruckskunde and Bodily Knowledge in German Modernist Culture
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Sigrid Weigel
Current Position:
The Warburg Institute
2018
Readers' Lore. Media, Literature, and the Making of Folk-Lore
Advisers:\ Nikolaus Wegmann, Thomas Y. Levin
Current Position:
University of Texas, Austin
The Romance of Love and Law: Marriage in Twelfth-Century German Romance
Adviser:\ Sara S. Poor
Current Position:
Illinois State University
2017
Rough Surfaces The Collage Works of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
University of Michigan
Collaborating with the Enemy Wartime Analyses of Nazi Germany
Advisers:\ Nikolaus Wegmann, Michael Gordin
Current Position:
Institut für Germanistik, Universität Regensburg,
2016
Borrowing Werther: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Advisers:\ Christiane Frey, Joseph Vogl
Current Position:
Ohio State University
Reading as Listening: The Birth of Cultural Acoustics 1764–1803
Adviser:\ Nikolaus Wegmann
Current Position:
Yonsei University
2015
Scenographies of Perception: Recasting the Sensuous in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, Proust
Advisers:\ Brigid Doherty, Claudia Brodsky
Current Position:
Dozent, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, ETH Zürich
Schools for Seeing: German Photobooks between 1924 and 1937 as Perception Primers and Sites of Knowledge
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Sigrid Weigel
Current Position:
weißensee school of art and design-Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2014
Stories from Earth Adalbert Stifter and the Poetics of Earth History
Advisers:\ Joseph Vogl, Nikolaus Wegmann
Current Position:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Alana King
Mysticism & Confessional Conflict in Post-Reformation Germany: The Mystical Theology of Valentin Weigel (1533–1588)
Adviser:\ Sara S. Poor
Cinema Non Facit Saltus: Early German Film and the Cinematic Psyche
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
Current Position:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Early German Cinema and Dogmatic Jurisprudence
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
Current Position:
Self-employed
2012
Horror Vacui: A Cultural History of Air Around 1900
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Joseph Vogl
Current Position:
University of Chicago
Original Compiler: Notation as Textual Practice in Theodor Fontane
Adviser:\ Nikolaus Wegmann
Current Position:
Dartmouth College
Eschatology and the Reinvention of History: Theological Interventions in German Modernism, 1920–1938
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
Dartmouth College
Conceiving Generation: The Novel and the Nuclear Family around 1800
Advisers:\ Brigid Doherty, Joseph Vogl
2011
Mark Ilsemann
Creaturely Lives: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Natural History
Adviser:\ Stanley Corngold
Current Position:
University of Virginia
2010
Lisa Cerami
Ineffable Histories: German Mysticism at the Jahrhundertwende
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Earwitnesses: Noise in German Modernist Writing
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Daniel Heller-Roazen
Current Position:
Duke University
Rehabilitationen Roms: Die Römische Antike in Der Deutschen Kultur Zwischen Winckelmann und Niebuhr
Adviser:\ Walter Hinderer
Current Position:
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2009
Grounding Fictions: Systematic Skepticism and Critical Doubt 1792–1807
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Nikolaus Wegmann
Current Position:
University of South Carolina
2008
Epistemic Strategies in Twentieth-Century German Theatre: Brecht, Weiss, Müller
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
Bard College
The Archimedean Podium: Public Speeches in Postwar Germany, 1953–1967
Advisers:\ Brigid Doherty, Barbara Hahn
Current Position:
University of Oregon
Sociability and Its Enemies Political Theory and Literature in West Germany After 1945
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
Duke University
Tobias Wilke
Medien der Unmittelbarkeit: Dingkonzepte und Wahrnehmungstechniken 1918–1939
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
2007
Ein Unendlicher Dialog: Das Projekt Der Frühromantik In Den Athenaeums-Fragmenten
Advisers:\ Barbara Hahn, Arnd Wedemeyer
Current Position:
Ohio State University
Explications: Etymology as Language Science, 1822–1941
Advisers:\ Michael Jennings, Barbara Hahn
Current Position:
Duke University
Moving Bodies: Poetic Theatricality in the Late Enlightenment
Advisers:\ Barbara Hahn, Arnd Wedemeyer
Current Position:
Bard College Berlin
2006
Word and Image in the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk Manuscript and Cultural Contexts for the Vernacular Volume I and II
Adviser:\ Michael Curschmann
Current Position:
Montclair State University
2005
Gewalt Der Musik Literatur und Musikkritik UM 1800
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
Current Position:
Universität Basel
Matthew Niednagel
New German Documentary: The Discourse of Personal Non-Fiction in the Age of Media Convergence
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
2004
Marton Dornbach
Acts of Understanding: Spontaneous Subjectivity, Hermeneutic Receptivity, and the Consequences of German Idealism
Adviser:\ Stanley Corngold
Günter Schmidt
The Legacy of Chronos: Temporality of Revolution in Culture, Sciences, and Politics
Adviser:\ Thomas Y. Levin
Current Position:
University of Freiburg
Jutta Schmitt
Historical Fictions: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Salons
Adviser:\ Barbara Hahn
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity From Romanticism to Freud
Adviser:\ Stanley Corngold
Current Position:
Wabash College
2003
The Space Between the Pictures: Photography, Literature, and the Late-Weimar Photo-Essay
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2002
Gelegenheitsdichtung und Geselligkeitsdichtung an Herzogin Anna Amalias Hof in Weimar und in Tiefurt (1754–1807) I & II
Adviser:\ Walter Hinderer
Current Position:
Western University, Ontario, Canada
Constellation Nietzsche/Benjamin
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
Vanderbilt University
Heidi Swanson
Written Friendship Hannah Arendt, Brigitte Reimann, Christa Wolf
Adviser:\ Barbara Hahn
Current Position:
Self-employed
Forms of Disenchantment: Kant and Neo-Kantianism in the Early Work of Walter Benjamin
Adviser:\ Michael Jennings
Current Position:
The Evolution Institute
2000
Ahmet Bayazitoglu
Motion Sickness: Literatures of Migration and Minority
Adviser:\ Barbara Hahn
Current Position:
The Hun School, Faculty
The Promise and the Body: Marriage in German Literature around 1800
Adviser:\ Stanley Corngold
Current Position:
Christopher Newport University
Transformations of the German Novel: Simplicissimus in Eighteenth-century adaptations
Adviser:\ Michael Curschmann
Current Position:
Licensed Psychoanalyst