Recent Senior Essays in German and German Studies
2024
“The Ecstatic Bloom of Berlin Techno: The Historical and Sociocultural Significance of Techno In Berlin from the Partition of Germany to the Post-reunification Era”
Mars Adams
Advisors: Vanessa Ogle & Sophie Schweiger
“Stuck in the Mud Volker Braun, Der Schlamm and the Subversive Critique of the East German Government through Literature”
Liam Garrett
Advisor: Katie Trumpener
“The Alternative für Deutschland’s Dilemma With Women”
Sophia Hahn
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Allen
“Colours of Their Own Mixing: Zweig, Scott, and ‘Der Kampf um den Südpol’”
Sabrina Mellinghoff
Advisor: Kirk Wetters
2023
“Phänomenologie Des Griechischen Geistes: Die Antikenreise in Faust II”
Antonio Cilibrizzi
Advisor: Kirk Wetters
“Stigmatization and State Surveillance of Cisgender male Homosexuality in Former East Germany”
Evan Farmer
2022
“American Soldiers in West Germany: German-American Cooperation During the Cold War 1945-1955”
Advisor: Theresa Schenker
2017
“A Question of Hope: A Close Reading of Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
Helen Martin Tuggle
2016
“The Stasi: A Security Force Ahead of its Time”
Hannah Geressu
“Against Secularization: Cosmological Theories of Modernity in The Dialectic of Enlightenment and The Legitimacy of the Modern Age”
Courtney Hodrick
“The Possibility of Limited Freedom in Kafka’s ‘Report for an Academy’ ”
Yulia Vozzheva
“Democracy Behind Bars: The German Experience of British Re-Education at Wilton Park”
Anna-Sophia Harling
2015
“Fine-Tuning the Soprano: Mathilde Marchesi and the re-crafting of the late nineteenth-century opera singer”
Sylvia Leith