Senior Theses and Advisers
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Class of 2025
Bella J. Butler\ \ Senior Thesis: DISRUPTING THE IMAGE: The Reinstatement of Female Subjectivity in the Work of VALIE EXPORT\ \ Adviser: Devin Fore
Lena A. Molyneux\ \ Senior Thesis: A Study of Oskar Schlemmer’s Diagrams\ \ Adviser: Barbara Nagel
Magnus A. Von Ziegesar\ \ Senior Thesis: Resistance and Play in David Benjamin Sherry’s American Monuments\ \ Adviser: Joel B. Lande
Annie Xiong\ \ Senior Thesis: Illustrated Magazines, Ethnographic Museums, and Human Zoos: Contextualizing Hannah Höch’s Aus einem ethnographischen Museum Ser\ \ Adviser: Brigid Doherty
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Class of 2024
William Daniels\ \ Senior Thesis: Neue Ansichten über Bachmanns Malina im Kontext des weiblichen Bildungsromans\ \ Advisor: Johannes Wankhammer
John Ehling\ \ Senior Thesis: Schreber, Remixed: Four Adaptations of Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken\ \ Devin Fore
Kristiana Filipov\ \ Senior Thesis: Only the Gods Are Real, Mythology and Postmodern Philosophy in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods\ \ Advisor: Barbara Nagel
Tommy Goulding\ \ Senior Thesis: “Die Bandenführer schreiten daher wie Staatsmänner”: Reading Theories of Bonapartism in Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht\ \ Advisor:Hal Foster
Ezra Y. Shin\ \ Senior Thesis: Two Case Studies in the Cartographicity of Movement\ \ Advisor:Susan Morrow
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Class of 2023
Corinna Brueckner\ \ Reimagining the Revival: The Case for a Contemporary Staging of Haydn’s Opera Der Apotheker\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Charles Murphy\ \ Soccer in Germany: On the Power of a National Sport\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Grace Rosenberg\ \ The Shmatte Siddur: Tattered Order, Ordered Tatters, And Queering Yiddishkeit\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Ava Vilensky\ \ “Dies Buch ist ausschließlich für die Frau geschrieben”: Unmasking Gender Ideology in the Health Rhetoric of Bess Mensendieck’s Körperkultur der Frau\ \ Advisor: Susan Morrow
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Class of 2022
Julian Chang\ \ “Ideology and Anxiety: Familiarity in Capitalism and the Strangeness Thereof”\ \ Advisor: Johannes Wankhammer
Autumn Martin\ \ “Surrealist Woman, Dismembered Doll, Horror Victim: Hans Bellmer’s Puppe Photographs”\ \ Advisor: Barbara Nagel
Noam Miller\ \ “Wissenschaftlichkeit in Freud: Scientific Reduction and the Ghost of the Entwurf”\ \ Advisor: Brigid Doherty
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Class of 2021
Molly Banes\ \ “Painting the New Woman: On the Late Weimar Paintings of Lotte Laserstein” \ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin and Michael Jennings
Adam Bear\ \ A Taxonomy of Trumpism: On the Contemporary Application of ‘fascism’,\ \ Advisor: Adam Oberlin
Christina Chun\ \ “Human as Woman: by Lou Andreas-Salomé: A Translation,\ \ Advisors: Devin Fore and Barbara Nagel
Joshua Judd Porter\ \ Out of the Trenches and into the Factories: Der Arbeiter and Ernst Jünger’s Martial Modernity\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Jason Qu\ \ The Κᾰτέχων in Carl Schmitt’s Philosophy of World History Nonconceptuality, Weaponisation, and Politics of a Metaphorical Constellation\ \ Advisor: Joel Lande
Nicholas Shashkini\ \ Staatsferne, Nichtkommerzialität, and Aufklärung: A Media-political Case Study of the West German Broadcasting System\ \ Advisor: Barbara Nagel
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Class of 2020
Janice Cheon\ \ “Against the Malaise of Time”: Embodied Fragmentation and the Temporalities of the Dada Creaturely, 1919-1937\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Mason Cox\ \ “Alexander Kluge, Registrations of Capitalist Conditions, and Constructions of History”\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Jaclyn Hovsmith\ \ Making the Future Tense: An Exploration of Sexual Violence and Temporality in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra\ \ Advisors: Inka Muelder-Bach and Barbara Nagel
Thomas A. Jankovic\ \ Pre-figurative Political Strategies for Change in the West German Green Movement from 1968 to 1985\ \ Advisor: Ann Marie Rasmussen
Leland Ko\ \ Method in Madness: A Close Reading of Beethoven’s Late String Quartets from a Performer’s Perspective\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Estibaliz Matulewicz\ \ “What Unites and Divides Humankind?” by Magnus Hirschfeld: A Critical Translation\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Danny Pinto\ \ Zwischen Chilenidad und Ostalgie: Hybridität, Solidarität, und das Fremde: Chile-DEFA Films as Transnational Sites of Medialized Remembrance\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
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Class of 2019
Hileman, Ryan J.\ \ Störtebeker through the Ages: The Political Afterlife of a Folk Hero\ \ Advisor: Joel Lande
Keiser, William Samuel\ \ Trance Dance, Berlin to Tel Aviv: The Roots of Modern Israeli Dance Aesthetics in Early 20th Century German Dance\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Lawson, Christian Alwyn\ \ The Historical Multi-Image of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD-Trilogie\ \ Advisor: Joseph Vogl
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Class of 2018
Decitre, Marc\ \ The Ecological Paradox: A Critique of Recent Environmental Discourse\ \ Advisers: Michael Jennings and Thomas Y. Levin
Fleming, Allison\ \ Mediated Bodies: Technologies of Communication and the Human Form Around 1900\ \ Adviser: Devin Fore
Hadley, Spencer\ \ Am Rande des Sagbaren: Rainer Maria Rilkes Sonette an Orpheus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal und der deutsche Stimmungsbegriff\ \ Adviser: Nikolaus Wegmann
Lee, Sang\ \ “At the Gate(s) of Mercy”: Reading Celan’s Jerusalem-Gedichte\ \ Adviser: Michael Wood
Robinson, Alexander\ \ An Ambivalence of Signs: The symbolic, literary, and psychoanalytic in Paul Klee’s 1920 Pandora constellation\ \ Adviser: Brigid Doherty
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Class of 2017
Baker, Charles Carr\ \ War is Not an Earthquake: Capitalism, Virtue and Resistance in Mother Courage and her Children\ \ Adviser: Michael Jennings
Casserly, Isabel Lockett\ \ Criminal Chronotopes: The Effect of Crime on Narrative Structure\ \ Adviser: Devin Fore
Knight, Jackson D.\ \ A European Crusade: An Analysis of the Saxon Wars and Charlemagne’s Efforts to Christainize the Pagan Tribes of Medieval Germany\ \ Adviser: Sara S. Poor
Nuckols, Chad Logan\ \ Lifting the Veil of Phantasmagoria: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert as a Guide for the Critical Reader\ \ Adviser: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
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Class of 2016
Albarran, Eleanor\ \ A Modern Art of Education and the Education of Modern Artists: Comparing Waldorf and Bauhaus Pedagogies\ \ Adviser: Michael Jennings
Morris, Colby\ \ Die Flucht in den Rausch: Das Problem des Gehirnprinzips in Gottfried Benns Rönne-Novellen\ \ Adviser: Devin Fore
Nelson, Andrew:\ \ “Auf die Art und Weise kommt alles an” Approaching a Walserian Ethic in Jakob von Gunten\ \ Adviser: Barbara Nagel
Smith, T.J.\ \ Degenerate Aesthetics\ \ Adviser: Devin Fore
Tuckwell, Richard\ \ Heidegger’s Concept of World\ \ Adviser: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
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Class of 2015
Aupiais, Juan-Jacques\ \ Eros, Mythology, Subjectivity: Topoi in Hölderlin’s Early Odes\ \ Advisor: Joel Lande
Mooney, Philip D.\ \ Er hat es nicht angenommen: Karl Jaspers’ Metaphysical Guilt and Germany’s Modern Sonderweg\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
O’Neil, Cody Lee\ \ “Die Zeichen meines Morgens”: A Heliographic Account of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra\ \ Advisor: Sarah Pourciau
Pinkerton, Byrd\ \ “Hear Yourself as Others Hear You” On the Aesthetic Politics of Gramophonic Self-Recording\ \ Adviser: Thomas Y. Levin
Veltri, Gerardo\ \ In-Betweens in Middle High German Arthurian Romance\ \ Adviser: Sara S. Poor
Yuen, Hoi Ki\ \ The Idea of Integration: The Naturalisation of Middle Eastern Immigrants in Germany\ \ Advisor: Barbara Nagel
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Class of 2014
Burgher, Regina Ann\ \ Melos in Drama: Exploring the Musical Mind through Melodrama in Wagner, Brecht, and Sirk\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Seongcheol, Kim\ \ Theory, Organization and Milieu in the West German Extra-Parliamentary Left, 1966–78\ \ Advisor: Jan-Werner Müller
Kowalski, Jamie\ \ Der Bildungsbergriff im Zeitalter seiner Auflösung: Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin and the German Tradition of Bildung\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Schwartz, Lauren Isabel\ \ Poetry and Practical Purpose: Literary Encounters with the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland\ \ Advisor: Sarah Pourciau
Telljohann, Lillian G.\ \ Of Modernity and on Modernity: Explorations of Meaning and Personhood in Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief and Contemporary Literature\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
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Class of 2013
Kerck, Antoine\ \ Germany’s Protestant Ethics and the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis: A Weberian Perspective\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Lebsack, Victoria\ \ The ‘Vremde’ and the Fantastic in “Wolfdietrich”\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Stolzenberg, Stephen\ \ Killer Communications: The Terror Attack as Medium and its Representations through Film\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
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Class of 2012
Hendren, Lieve\ \ Life as Art: Radical Social Change in Nietzsche\ \ Advisor: Christiane Frey
Kurwa, Shelina\ \ Illusions of India: the Distant Shore of the German Imagination\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Reilly, Kelly\ \ Objective Gaze in Nature and the Nature of Objective Gaze: Rilke’s Aesthetics in the Context of Cézanne\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Walsh, Matthew\ \ Society Finds Closeness: Increasing the Cultural Relevance of Opera for Mass Audiences through the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Live in HD’ Broadcasts\ \ Advisor: Christiane Frey
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Class of 2011
Benitez, Robert Loen\ \ The Construction of a Life Worth Living in German Queer Literature: 1919–1933\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Hopkins, Nicole Lynn\ \ Father/Mother/Secret Lover: A Jungian Analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Loewenstein, Jacob\ \ Integrest State Support of the Culture Industry from UFA to Media: Televisual Policy to Resist Americanization\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Muenzel, Johannes\ \ The “Private” Detective: Public and Domestic Masculinities in the West German Crime Film of the 1950’s\ \ Advisor: Brian Hanrahan
Parks, Rebecca K.\ \ Painting Politics: George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and the Experience of Germany’s Interwar Art and Politics\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Ziegler, Jayden\ \ Generalization and Productivity in Morphological Paradigm Gaps: Varying Type Frequency and Competition\ \ Advisor: Adele Goldberg
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Class of 2010
Chaney, Justine Mary\ \ Contorting the Invisible: the Emergence of Corporal Punishment in German Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century\ \ Advisor: Christiane Frey
Chereches, Anca\ \ Combinatory Categorical Grammar and German Local Scrambling\ \ Advisor: James Rankin
Denz, Jacob\ \ ‘Wichtig zu Lernen’: Einverständnis and Body Politics in Brecht’s “Lehrstücke”\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Madole, Robert\ \ The Specter of Automation: The Organic and its Limits in Robert Musil’s “Man Without Qualities”\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Porter, Allen\ \ Immanence and Transcendence\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
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Class of 2009
Colgan, Brendan\ \ Nation Branding and National Identity: Making Euros and Sense of German Identity\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Harper, Jason\ \ Datamoshing: Aesthetics of the Glitch\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Kim, Christine\ \ More than Meets the Eye: Connections between Phenomenology and Art\ \ Advisor: Arnd Wedemeyer
Kowen, Michael\ \ Speculations about Speculation (about Speculation): Text as Text, Text as Theory\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
May-Gamboa, Julio\ \ Navigating the Metropolis: Advertising, the Bauhaus, and Objectification in Weimar Germany\ \ Advisor: Brigid Doherty
Plaku, Bora\ \ Faust as a Political Tool in National Socialism; Faust as a Political Tool in Resistance, with an Example by Klaus Mann\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Schlegel, Christian\ \ Musil, Criticism, Musil-Criticism\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
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Class of 2008
Frankle, Elissa P.\ \ Iher Wege als Deutsche und Juden: Constructions of Identity in Jewish Museums in Bavaria\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Nunan, Timothy\ \ Leopold Schwarzschild, Das Neue Tagebuch and Anti-Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe 1933–1941\ \ Advisor: Anson Rabinbach
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Class of 2007
Burkle, Arthur\ \ Love and Terrorism in Heiner Müller’s “Quartet”\ \ Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Lampert, Marcus\ \ Walter Benjamin’s Fracture Cosmos: A Reading of “Einbahnstrasse”\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Langer, Abigail E.\ \ Verschiedene Gehirne: Medical Observation and Social Self-Destruction in the Poetry and Prose of Gottfried Benn\ \ Advisor: Devin Fore
Stolzenberg, Emily\ \ “Der Sinn von Politik ist Freiheit”: Conceptions of Politics and Freedom in Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt\ \ Advisor: Arnd Wedemeyer
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Class of 2006
Dillon, Maggie Blair\ \ The Threat of the Blur: Stress and Rupture in Gerhard Richter’s ‘October 18, 1977’\ \ Advisor: Brigid Doherty
Fockele, Kenneth E.\ \ The Poetics of Physical Love in Heinrich von Morungen and Walther von der Vogelweide\ \ Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Purdie, Denise Rita\ \ Technische Nothilfe: The Evolution of Perception in the Works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Benjamin and Robert Musil\ \ Advisor: Michael Jennings
Shimp, Scott\ \ Online Offentlichkeit: A Habermasian Analysis of the Blogosphere\ \ Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Voute, Thomas M.\ \ Shields and Swords: Stasi Surveillance through the Use of Informants\ \ Advisor: Walter Hinderer
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