Recent Honors Theses in German Studies 

These submitted from 2008 on can be downloaded from Wesscholar

2019    Caroline Adams, "Imagining 'Indianer': Karl May’s Winnetou and Germans’ Enduring Fantasies about Native Americans"

2019    Anna Apostolidis, "Is Bigger Better? Postcolonial Memory and the Politics of Expansion at the Humboldt-Forum"

2019    Will Bellamy, "lost clothes by Elfriede Gerstl, Translated from the German with an Introduction and a Translator’s Note"

2019    Lizzie Whitney, "The German Novel in the Wake of the Refugee Crisis"

2018    Jack Guenther,"'Gateway to the World':  Hamburg and the Global German Empire, 1881-1914"

2018   Sophia Shoulson, "All Tales are True:  Yiddish Folkloristics and the Competition for the Jewish Experience, 1908-1938"

2017    Ethan Yaro, "Herder: A World that We Each Create by Ourselves"

2016    Jeong Hein, "Dialectical Thinking and Talking"

2016    Nicholas Selden, "Emil Nolde and the Search for a German Modernism"

2015    Colin O'Connor, "Illusions from High to Late Capitalism"

2014    Mari Jarris, "Interrogating the Frankfurt School's Critique of Authority, From its Theoretical and    Historical Origins to its Contemporary Political Relevance"

2014    Madalene Huemer, "The Apolitical Activist: East Germany's New Forum and the History of German Grassroots Movements"

2014    Oscar Takabvirwa, "Stories in Transit: An Anthology of Texts by Exiles, Migrants, and Émigrés, translated from the German"

2013    James Gardner, "Strangers in their Heimat: A History of Afro-Germans from 1871 to 2013"

2013    Avery Trufelman, "Two Lives in Germany: The Autobiography of Hans Rosenthal, translated from the German with an Introduction and a Conclusion"

2012    Matthew Alexander, "LOST MODERN LOVE by Lord Schad, translated from the German and adapted"

2012    Lynn Heere, "From Spassguerilla to Stadtguerilla: The Theory and Praxis of the West German Student Movement"

2011    Willian Krieger, "The Art of Martin Kippenberger"

2011    Anya Olsen, “A Woman Apart: Gender and Society in Selected Works of Irmtraud Morgner, Christa Wolf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Heinrich Böll”

2010    Linnea Damer, “A Translation of Judas Women: Ten Cases of Female Denunciation in the Third Reich by Helga Schubert”

2010    Sarah Flynn, “History and Theory after ‘Auschwitz’”

2010    Heather Stanton, “Where German Hearts are Molded: Historical Memory and State Legitimation in the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1989”

2009    Jessica Green, “The Masks of Mephisto in Twentieth-Century Germany: Gustaf Gründgens, The Actor and the Legend”

2009    Andrew Kerwin, “Poetics of the Hieroglyph: Allegory and Media in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Fantastic”

2008    Marianna Foos, “A Translation of As Nature Never Intended” by Hilde Domin

2008    Charles Witherspoon, The Concert by Hartmut Lange, translated from the German

2008    Ethan Morse, “Thinking Particularity: Scotus and Heidegger on Metaphysics”

2007    Elisabeth Lauffer, "The Trip to Trulala by Wladimir Kaminer, translated from the German"

2007    Leif Weatherby, “The Claim of Literature: Nietzsche's Thinking”

2007    Rory Bradley, “Modernity Comes Quickly: An Anthology of Translations from Simplicissimus”