Current and Recent Princeton Dissertations
Angiras Arya
Ek-stasis: Emotion and Displacement in Rilke, Kafka, and Musil (Doherty / Jennings)
Timothy Attanucci
Geo-Poetics: Adalbert Stifter, Earth and Life Sciences in the mid-19th century (Vogl / Wegmann)
Florian Becker (Ph.D. 2007; Assistant Professor, Bard College)
Epistemic Strategies in Twentieth-Century German Theater: Brecht, Weiß, Müller, Handke (Hinderer / Jennings)
Sonja Boos (Ph.D. 2008; Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College)
The literary prize speech and the construction of German society; Bachmann, Celan, Enzensberger, Johnson (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
A Cultural History of “Air,” 1890-1930 (Jennings / Vogl)
Lisa Cerami
Convulsion: the recrudescence of mysticism in early German modernist literature, philosophy, and visual arts (Jennings)
Marton Dornbach (Ph.D. 2005; Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
The problem of self-understanding in Kant, Fichte, and Schlegel (Corngold)
Kata Gellen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University)
Earwitnesses: Writing Noise in German Modernism (Jennings / Heller-Roazen)
Nicola Gess (Ph.D. 2005; Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Institut für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität, Berlin)
The figure of violence in literature and music around 1800 (Levin)
Joshua Gold (Ph.D. 2004; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut)
Poetics and politics in Hölderlin (Corngold)
Michael House
The philosophy of skepticism and Romantic literature; Schultze, Maimon, Tieck, Brentano (Jennings / Wegmann)
Mark Ilsemann (Lecturer, University of Virginia)
Ground: thought and physical substance in Hölderlin, Schelling, and Hegel (Corngold)
May Mergenthaler (Ph.D. 2007; Assistant Professor, Ohio State)
The role of dialogue in early Romantic literature and community (Hahn / Wedemeyer)
Jakob Norberg (Ph.D. 2008; Assistant Professor, Duke University)
"Sociability and its Enemies, 1945-1965;" Carl Schmitt, Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, Jürgen Habermas, Alexander Kluge (Hahn / Jennings)
Sarah Pourciau (Ph.D. 2007; Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center)
Etymology: words and wordplay in philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory (Hahn / Jennings)
Günter Schmidt (Ph.D. 2004; Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Technische Universität, Munich; Geschäftsführer, Excellence Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität, Berlin) Revolution: the history of a figure in astronomy, literature, and politics (Levin)
Michael Taylor (Ph.D. 2007; Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduierten-Kolleg “Figur des Dritten,” Universität Konstanz; Assistant Professor, University of Calgary)
Bodiliness, spectatorship, and drama in 18th-century literature and philosophy; Diderot, Kant, Lessing, Wieland, Goethe, and Büchner (Hahn / Wedemeyer)
Brian Tucker (Ph.D. 2005; Assistant Professor, Wabash College)
The figure of the riddle as epistemological resistance in Romantic literature and philosophy (Corngold)
Tobias Wilke (Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität, Berlin)
Philosophy of perception and the apprehension of things after 1900; Simmel, Mach, Musil, Kafka, Rilke, Moholy-Nagy (Levin)