# Dissertations 2025-2011

**Source**: https://german.fas.harvard.edu/recent-dissertations
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## 2025

Bastian Lasse - Erzählweisen des Vergessens Ellipsen im Roman von Theodor Fontane bis W. G. Sebald

Philip Liston-Kraft - Portrait of the *arzet*: The Doctor in German Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages

## 2024

Jonas Hermann - Das Buch von geistlicher Armut: Überlieferung, Armutskonzept, Rezeption

## 2023

Hans Pech - Grounding Community: On the Reception of Eckhartian Mysticism in Reformist and Revolutionary Texts from the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle.

Robert Rößler - Die poetische Struktur des Unbewussten. Zur Verdichtung des psychologischen Vokabulars im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Rebecca Stewart - Theory and Practice of Sublime Vulnerability in the Works of Friedrich Schiller.

Robert Stone  - Ordering the World: The Scientist and the Search for German Identity in Literature

## 2022

Sebastian Brass - Fakt, Fiktion und Transparenz. Modi autobiographischer Selbstreferenz im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Anne Dymek - The Code of *Phantasia*: Philosophical Investigations into the Literary Imagination and Its Future Forms

Lauren Geppi - Bodies, Technology, and Emerging Notions of Subjectivity in the Poetry of Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Griinbein

Jermain Heidelberg - The Whole Earth. Poetics and Planetary Ecology, 1950-1990

Sina Hoche - Scripting Space: Affective Topographies in VALIE EXPORT, Elfriede Jelinek, and Ulrich Seidl

Christian Struck - A Walk Through the Text. On the Materiality and Impact of Textual Marks

## 2021

Catrina de Rivera – Abject Legacies: Guilt, Shame, and Transgenerational Trauma

## 2020

Anne Maike Röhrborn - „Das Wird Man Wohl Noch Sagen Dürfen!“ Political Correctness-Diskurse in Deutschsprachiger Literatur Und Kabarett, 2010–2020

## 2019

Anton Chaevitch - Goethe and Law: Advancement Through Narrative and Arbitration

Alexander Lambrow - Theogony *Ab Ovo:* Carl Schmitt's Early Literary Writings

## 2018

Steven Lydon - Visions in Sand: The Sound Figures in Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

Gernot Waldner - What Counts. On the Reception of Statistics in Early Twentieth Century Prose

Miriam Wray - Ornament und Mode in Kafka's *Der Verschollene* (1911-1914), Broch's *Die Schlafwandler* (1930) und Musil's *Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften* (1930)

## 2016

Nicole Burgoyne - Bureaucracy and Dissent: East German Subjectivity and Socialist Realism in the Context of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Romania

Arndt Luemers - Resonantes Erzählen - Zu einem formsemantischen Prinzip bei Alfred Döblin

## 2015

Richard Cole - The Jew Who Wasn't There: Studies on Jews and their Absence in Old Norse Literature

Seth Peabody - Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in Weimar Cinema

## 2013

Jillian DeMair - Telling about the Truth: Negotiations of Credibility in German Narratives

Kristin Jones - Revitalizing Romanticism: Novalis' "Fichte Studien" and the Philosophy of Organic Nonclosure

Thomas Siefert - Translation in Foreign Language Pedagogy: The Rise and Fall of the Grammar Translation Method

Ian Fleishman - An Esthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Haneke

## 2012

Hang-Sun Kim - "Unser Dasein starrt von Buechern": Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Crisis of Authorship

Emily Jones - *Verschachtelte Räume*: Writing and Reading Environments in W. G. Sebald

Sonja Graber-Magocsi - Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands”: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende

## 2011

Daniel Bowles - Satire after Satire: The Afterlife of Satiric Practices in German Literature and Literary Theories since 1950

Pascale LaFountain - Flaws, Mistakes, Misreadings: Error and the Human Sciences in Drama around 1800