Alumni
2001-present
2005
Elena-Maria Chandler
"Trauma as a Narrative Of the Sublime: The Semiotics of Silence"
Supervisor: Peter Hess
Vera Middelkamp
"''Wir Haben die Firma gewechselt, aber der Laden ist der alte geblieben'': Kurt Tucholsky and the Medialized Public Sphere of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)"
Supervisor: Kirsten Belgum
2004
Anne Reitz
"Reforming the State by Re-forming the Family: Imagining the Romantic Mother in Pedagogy and Letters, 1790-1813"
Supervisor: Katherine Arens
Agnieszka Barbara Nance
"Nation Without a State: Imagining Poland in the Nineteenth Century"
Supervisor: Katherine Arens
J. Ivan Eidt
"Deus Absconditus: Gnosticism, the Secularization Process, and Philosophical Modernity in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke"
Supervisor: Lars Gustafsson, Kirsten Belgum
Stefanie Christine Borst
"Context and Comprehension: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Germans and Americans Reading Authentic Texts"
Supervisor: Janet Swaffar
Harry Louis Roddy, Jr.
"Germany's Poetic Miscreants on the Road: From Beat Poetics to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Nicolas Born and Jürgen Theobaldy"
Supervisor: Janet Swaffar
Cecilia Pick
"Rhetoric of the Author Presentation: The Case of Maria Sibylla Merian"
Supervisor: Peter Hess
2003
Lisa Seidlitz
"Functions of Codeswitching in Classes of German as a Foreign Language"
Supervisor: Mark Southern
Laura Ducate
"Culture, Communication, Community: Co-Constructing Knowledge and Cultural Images Through Computer-Mediated Communication"
Supervisor: Frank Donahue, Zsuzsanna Abrams
John Mark Stewart
"The Fundamental Difference Between Child and Adult Language Acquisition: A Longitudinal, Naturalistic Study of Parameter Resetting in Swedish Interlanguage"
Supervisor: Mark Southern
Douglas Peter A. Sims
"Reconstructing an Oral Tradition: Problems in the Comparative Metrical Analysis of Old English, Old Saxon and Old Norse Alliterative Verse"
Supervisor: Mark Southern
Jennifer Elizabeth Roberts
"Examining the Cohesion of the Four-Year German Language Program: A Case Study of the University of Texas at Austin"
Supervisor: Frank Donahue, Zsuzsanna Abrams
David Randolph Franklin James
"The Second Generation: Language Use among Migrants in Berlin"
Supervisor: Hans Boas
2002
Marion Mike Arnold
"Computer-Mediated Communication: Writing to Speak Without Foreign Language Anxiety?"
Supervisor: Zsuzsanna Abrams
Perry Wayne Myers, Jr.
"The Double-Edged Sword:The Cult of Bildung in Fin-de-siècle Germany"
Supervisor: Katherine Arens
Lucinda Martin
"Women's Religious Speech and Activism in German Pietism (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2003, UT-Austin; Finalist, Council of Graduate Studies National Dissertation Award)"
Supervisor: Katherine Arens
2001
Erika Martina Nelson
"Reading and Re-Presenting Rilke: Orphic Identity and Poetic Invention"
Supervisor: Katherine Arens, Hubert Heinen