Dissertations

Princeton Dissertations 2004-2012

Jutta Schmitt Adams (PhD 2004), “Historical Fictions: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Salons” (Hahn)

Angiras Arya, Ek-stasis: Emotion and Displacement in Rilke, Kafka, and Musil (Jennings)

Timothy Attanucci, Geo-Poetics: Adalbert Stifter, Earth and Life Sciences in the mid-19th century (Vogl / Wegmann)

Florian Becker (Ph.D. 2008), “Epistemic Strategies in Twentieth-Century German Theatre: Brecht, Weiss, Müller” (Hinderer / Jennings)

Alison Beringer, (Ph.D. 2006), “Word and Image in the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk Manuscript and Cultural Contexts for the Vernacular Volume I and Volume II” (Curschmann)

Sonja Boos (Ph.D. 2008), “The Archimedean Podium: Public Speeches in Postwar Germany, 1953—1967” (Doherty / Hahn)

Mary Campbell, Modes of Proof in the Literature of the High Middle Ages: Authenticating Relics, Using Ordeals, and Proving Sanctity (Poor)

Ingrid Christian (Ph.D. 2012) “Horror Vacui: A Cultural History of ‘Air,’ 1890-1930” (Jennings / Vogl)

Lisa M. Cerami (Ph.D. 2010), “Ineffable Histories: German Mysticism at the Jahrhundertwende” (Jennings)

Marton Dornbach (Ph.D. 2004), “Acts of Understanding: Spontaneous Subjectivity, Hermeneutic Receptivity, and the Consequences of German Idealism,” (Corngold)

Sarah Eldridge (Ph.D. 2012), “Conceiving Generation: The Novel and the Nuclear Family around 1800,” (Doherty / Vogl)

Daniel Fehr, Writing Conversion: Religious and Political Conversions in German Modernity (Wegmann)

Kata Gellen Norberg (Ph.D. 2010), “Earwitnesses: Noise in German Modernist Writing (Heller-Roazen / Jennings)

Nicola Gess (Ph.D. 2005), “Gewalt der Musik. Literatur und Musikkritik um 1800,” (Levin; co-tutelle with Hartmut Böhme, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

Mladen Gladic, Dispatches: War Reporting as a Media Genre (Wegmann)

Joshua Gold (Ph.D. 2004), “’In Stürmen der Zeit’: Poetics and Revolution in the Works of Friedrich Hölderlin” (Corngold)

Angela Holzer (Ph.D. 2011), “Rehabilitation Roms: Die römische Antike in der deutschen Kultur zwischen Winckelmann und Niebuhr,” (Wegmann / Weigel)

Michael House (Ph.D. 2009), “Grounding Fictions: Systematic Skepticism and Critical Doubt 1792-1807” (Jennings / Wegmann)

Mark Ilsemann (Ph.D. 2011), “Creaturely Lives: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Natural History” (Corngold)

Christian Jany, Sense Perception and Narrative Apperception in 19th-Century Theory and Literature (Brodsky / Doherty)

Jeffrey Kirkwood, Intervals and Continuities: Early German Cinema and Psychology (Levin)

Peter Kuras, Early Cinema and Dogmatic Jurisprudence (Levin)

May Mergenthaler (Ph.D. 2007), “Ein Unendlicher Dialog: Das Projekt der Frühromantik in den Athenaeums-Fragmenten,” (Hahn / Wedemeyer)

Michael McGillen (Ph.D. 2012), “Eschatology and the Reinvention of History: Theological Interventions in German Modernism, 1920-1938,” (Jennings)

Jakob Norberg (Ph.D. 2008), “Sociability and its Enemies, Political Theory and Literature in West Germany After 1945,” (Hahn / Jennings)

Sarah Pourciau (Ph.D. 2007), “Explications: Etymology as Language Science, 1822-1941,” (Hahn / Jennings)

Günter Schmidt (Ph.D. 2004), “The Legacy of Chronos: Temporality of Revolution in Culture, Sciences, and Politics,” (Levin)

Petra Spies (Ph.D. 2012), “Original Compiler: Notation as Textual Practice in Theodor Fontane,” (Wegmann)

Mareike Stoll, ‘Schule des Sehens:’ German Photobooks as reading machines and sites of knowledge in the 1920s and 1930s (Jennings / Weigel)

Michael Taylor (Ph.D. 2007), “Moving Bodies: Poetic Theatricality in the Late Enlightenment,” (Hahn / Wedemeyer)

Brian Tucker (Ph.D. 2004), “Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud,” (Corngold)

Tobias Wilke (Ph.D. 2008), “Medien der Unmittelbarkeit. Dingkonzepte und Wahrnehmunstechniken 1918-1939” (Levin; co-tutelle with Dorothee Kimmich, Universität Tübingen)