Dissertations

Uncommon Realities: Cultural Perspectives on Illusions

Kritische Theorie und DDR. Ein Versuch

“Phenomenology of Video Games: Space, Time, and Perspective”

The Fiction of Agency and the Agency of Fiction: Kleist’s Poetics of Action

Artistry, Agency, and the Everyday in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg’s Works

“Mutterherz: Motherhood and Dedifferentiation in German Realism”

On Schicksal: The Return of Tragedy in Modernity

“Die Idylle in der Literatur der deutschen Nachkriegszeit”

The Economics of Sight: Early Photography and Commodity Capitalism, 1839-1867

How to Do Sleep with Words: Sleep Experiments in Literature, Science, and Society, 1899–1929

Mathematik ist immer Geist: The Persistence of Mathematical Humanism and Aesthetic Rationality in Postwar Germany

World Literature in Practice: The Orientalist’s Manuscript between the Ottoman Empire and Germany

Happy Endings: On Affirmative Art, PhD 2020

Concert Halls & Weekly Journals. Fictive Music Criticism in German Romanticism

Touching Temperature: Questions of Measurement and Feeling, 1870–1930

Old Books, New Times: Medieval Manuscripts and German Literature around 1800

Phlogisticated Relations: Lichtenberg and Ritter’s Readings of Chemistry

The Science of Expression: Ausdruckskunde and Bodily Knowledge in German Modernist Culture

Readers' Lore. Media, Literature, and the Making of Folk-Lore

The Romance of Love and Law: Marriage in Twelfth-Century German Romance

Rough Surfaces The Collage Works of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Collaborating with the Enemy Wartime Analyses of Nazi Germany

Borrowing Werther: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Reading as Listening: The Birth of Cultural Acoustics 1764–1803

Scenographies of Perception: Recasting the Sensuous in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, Proust

Schools for Seeing: German Photobooks between 1924 and 1937 as Perception Primers and Sites of Knowledge

Stories from Earth Adalbert Stifter and the Poetics of Earth History

Mysticism & Confessional Conflict in Post-Reformation Germany: The Mystical Theology of Valentin Weigel (1533–1588)

Cinema Non Facit Saltus: Early German Film and the Cinematic Psyche

Early German Cinema and Dogmatic Jurisprudence

Horror Vacui: A Cultural History of Air Around 1900

Conceiving Generation: The Novel and the Nuclear Family around 1800

Original Compiler: Notation as Textual Practice in Theodor Fontane

Eschatology and the Reinvention of History: Theological Interventions in German Modernism, 1920–1938

Creaturely Lives: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Natural History

Ineffable Histories: German Mysticism at the Jahrhundertwende

Earwitnesses: Noise in German Modernist Writing

Rehabilitationen Roms: Die Römische Antike in Der Deutschen Kultur Zwischen Winckelmann und Niebuhr

Grounding Fictions: Systematic Skepticism and Critical Doubt 1792–1807

Epistemic Strategies in Twentieth-Century German Theatre: Brecht, Weiss, Müller

The Archimedean Podium: Public Speeches in Postwar Germany, 1953–1967

Sociability and Its Enemies Political Theory and Literature in West Germany After 1945

Medien der Unmittelbarkeit: Dingkonzepte und Wahrnehmungstechniken 1918–1939

Ein Unendlicher Dialog: Das Projekt Der Frühromantik In Den Athenaeums-Fragmenten

Explications: Etymology as Language Science, 1822–1941

Moving Bodies: Poetic Theatricality in the Late Enlightenment

Word and Image in the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk Manuscript and Cultural Contexts for the Vernacular Volume I and II

Gewalt Der Musik Literatur und Musikkritik UM 1800

New German Documentary: The Discourse of Personal Non-Fiction in the Age of Media Convergence

Acts of Understanding: Spontaneous Subjectivity, Hermeneutic Receptivity, and the Consequences of German Idealism

The Legacy of Chronos: Temporality of Revolution in Culture, Sciences, and Politics

Historical Fictions: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Salons

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity From Romanticism to Freud

The Space Between the Pictures: Photography, Literature, and the Late-Weimar Photo-Essay

Gelegenheitsdichtung und Geselligkeitsdichtung an Herzogin Anna Amalias Hof in Weimar und in Tiefurt (1754–1807) I & II

Constellation Nietzsche/Benjamin

Written Friendship Hannah Arendt, Brigitte Reimann, Christa Wolf

Forms of Disenchantment: Kant and Neo-Kantianism in the Early Work of Walter Benjamin

Motion Sickness: Literatures of Migration and Minority

The Promise and the Body: Marriage in German Literature around 1800

Transformations of the German Novel: Simplicissimus in Eighteenth-century adaptations