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Author:

Kismet Bell, Ipek

Title:

Rampant Modernism and its Cityscapes: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Modernism
the modern city
social modernity
Austrian literature
German literature
Alfred Döblin
Turkish literature
Robert Musil
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

File:

Download Ipek_Kismet_Bell_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Djelal Kadir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Djelal Kadir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nergis Erturk Lennon, Committee Member
Martina Kolb, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member

Author:

Brust, Imke

Title:

Narrating the Imagination of Unified Nations in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Wall Germany

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Africa
Europe
South African literature
German literature
nationalism
trans-nationalism

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Cary Fenton Fraser, Committee Member
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member

Author:

Kirschner, Luz Angélica

Title:

DIASPORA AND REPRESENTATION: JEWISH ARGENTINE, TURKISH GERMAN, AND CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Chinese American literature
German literature
Latin American literature
Jewish literature
diaspora
representation
feminist theory
transnationalism
globalization

File:

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Committee Members:

Sophia A Mcclennen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Djelal Kadir, Committee Member
Bettina Mathes, Committee Member
Véronique M. Fóti, Committee Member

Author:

Zajdowicz, Rebecca Ann

Title:

Engaging with the Nation: German Women Writers of the Vormärz and Constructions of National Identity

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Ida Hahn-Hahn
Louise Aston
Fanny Lewald
nationalism
German literature
Vormärz

File:

Download ZajdowiczDissertation2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Committee Member
Dr Martina Kolb, Committee Member

Author:

Amano, Yuka

Title:

Reading as Ritual: Desire for Textual Community in Works by Jeremias Gotthelf, Izumi Kyōka,yanagita Kunio and Annette von Droste-hülshoff

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

reading
ritual
textual community
performance
Japanese literature
German literature
modernity

File:

Download Y_Amano_Dissertation_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Reiko Tachibana, Committee Member
Martina Kolb, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson, Katherine Elizabeth

Title:

Foreign Writing Agency: Abbas Khider and María Cecilia Barbetta Writing Towards Catharsis in German as a Foreign Language After Trauma

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

multilingualism in literature
Chamisso
migration literature
psychic trauma in literature
trauma narrative
foreign language writing
German literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas O. Beebee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas O. Beebee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Purdy, Committee Member
Samuel Frederick, Committee Member
Susan Strauss, Outside Member
Elisabeth Herrmann, Special Member

Author:

Lien, Duncan Gullick

Title:

Allotropes of Realism: The Bilingual Political Imaginary of Turkish-German Literature (1972-2015)

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Turkish-German Studies
German literature
Turkish literature
Peripheral realism
Comparative modernisms
Literary multilingualism
Translation Studies
Untranslatability
Migration literature
Working-class literature

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Committee Members:

Nergis Erturk, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shuang Shen, Major Field Member
Thomas Beebee, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Brian Lennon, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sabine Doran, Minor Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weihe, Will

Title:

Race in (Counter)Revolution: Imagining Modern Germany through Colonial Genocide and Resistance in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

colonialism
racialization
genocide
German literature
eighteenth century
Heinrich von Kleist

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Committee Members:

Samuel Frederick, Major Field Member
Jonathan Abel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Purdy, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Sabine Doran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carrie Jackson, Program Head/Chair