Theses by Program
German Studies
This catalogue represents theses held in the collection of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. It is not a complete list of all theses completed by students of the school.
A complete collection of Master and PhD theses can be found in the Monash University Library (Honours theses are only available through the School.)
| Year | Title | Degree | Code |
| 2007 | Blurring the boundaries: History, memory and imagination in the works of W G Sebald | Hons. | 2007md |
| Contradictions of Memories and counter-memories. The significance of the Wenderoman in Post Reunification Germany | Hons. | 2007cv | |
| Ficken auf der Buhne: Self-conceptualisation in Christian Kracht's Faserland | Hons. | 2007or | |
| German (re)unification, Gunter Grass and Ein weites feld | Hons. | 2007bl | |
| Learning second language vocabulary with the help of Etymology: German as a not-so-foreign language for speakers of English | Hons. | 2007wa | |
| Liebeskonzepte in Fatih Akins Film "Gegan die Wand". | Hons. | 2007sd | |
| MAKING NATURE: Visions Of Mastery in Third Reich Cinema | PhD | 2007ng | |
| Will a süβess sexy girl chattn? English borrowings on a German youth website | Hons. | 2007gp | |
| 2006 | "Heimatslos unter fremden Menschen" Hanna Papanek and Experience in Exile Letters | Hons. | 2006kb |
| A comparative analysis of the Media Response to September 11, 2001, in Germany and Australia: An investigation into the print media debate | Hons. | 2006hj | |
| A critics discourse analysis of the 1968 West-German student movement | Hons. | 2006fa | |
| Coming to terms with Cultural Plurality: Responses to German-Turkish Literature since reunification. | Hons. | 2006dc | |
| Language Maintenance and Language shift in the Indonesian migrant community in Hamburg, Germany | Hons. | 2006er | |
| Managing Language diversities in an era of Globalisation: A critical analysis of the language policy and planning in India, Australia and Germany | Hons. | 2006ra | |
| Materialising Memory: An Enquiry into the Process of Public Memorialisation with Reference to the Rosenstrasse Protest | M.A. | 2006bk | |
| Normalisation and Historicisation as a means of Vergangenheitsbawaltigung in the post Wende German novel | Hons. | 2006be | |
| Switzerland's relationships with the European Union: A critical analysis of Switzerland's accession to the European Union | Hons. | 2006kn | |
| 2005 | Language, Culture and Ideology: Socio-cultural and ideological implications of the adoption of anglicisms in French and German | PhD | 2005am |
| Migrant Identites. The effects of diversity in the German context: integration, education, identity and language | Hons. | 2005cd | |
| Tales In Translation : A study of the German editions of the Grimms' Kinder-und Hausmarchen and their translation into English, with a detailed comparative analysis of ten translations of the tale of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. | M.A. | 2005kv | |
| The Construction of Cultural Identity: Germans in Melbourne | PhD | 2005es | |
| 2004 | Dramatic Anthroposophy | PhD | 2004aa |
| Fata Morgana - 'Vata Morgana': The ''absent father'' and problems of identity formation in german-language ''father books'' after the thrid Reich | PhD | 2004cn | |
| The public reception of Leni Riefenstahl | Hons. | 2004bp | |
| The writing's on the wall: A discourse analytical approach to graffiti | M.A. | 2004ma | |
| 2003 | BverfGE 66, 116 - Springer/Wallraff: ein Prozess und seine Folgen | Hons. | 2003ts |
| Communication of stereotypes in Austraian Emigration Circles | Hons. | 2003gc | |
| Deutsche Dialekteinstellungen: Eine intergenerationelle Studie | Hons. | 2003tc | |
| Intercultural Communication in Business | Hons. | 2003kp | |
| Lehrwerk facilitation of intercultural communicative competence | PhD | 2003oc | |
| Motivation in and out of the SLA classroom | Hons. | 2003ha | |
| Perspectives on Persecution: Post-War Accounts of the Sinti and Roma Under the National Socialists | Hons. | 2003gn | |
| Science Fiction: "Raumpatronille Orion" | Hons. | 2003gr | |
| 2002 | Advertising in Germany and Australia: A culturally based comparison of television advertisements in the two countries. | Hons. | 2002wl |
| Analysis of a series of letters written by Austrian-Jewish refugees attemepting to escape Vienna during 1938/9 to Melbourne, Australia | Hons. | 2002ha | |
| Erich KŠstner's Emil und die Detektive- A Study in Translation | Hons. | 2002gl | |
| Gender-Specific Discourse and Conversational Dominance: A Communication and Discourse Analysis of German Speakers in Relation to English-Speaking Research | Hons. | 2002lm | |
| Sprachvergleich Deutsch - Serisch. Eine Kontrastive sprachanalyse | PhD | 2002kj | |
| The Constitution of The Literary Field in Germany After 1871 | PhD | 2002mc | |
| 2001 | Bilingual Women and Terms of Address - A micor-level approach to language behaviour and the negotiation of identity | Hons. | 2001lb |
| Holocaust Tourism: Interpretation, Attraction and Visitor Dynamics | Hons. | 2001wl | |
| Paradigms of experiencing the new in Pacific voyages and explorations. | PhD | 2001lr | |
| Towards a Psychoanalytic Aesthetics of Contemporary Literature | PhD | 2001br | |
| 2000 | The Australian Reception of Austrian, German and Swiss Drama: Productions and Reviews between 1945 and 1996. | PhD | 2000gu |
| 1998 | Das fremde Ich Begegnungen im pazifischen Raum | PhD | 1998wc |
| 1997 | Linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of language contact: the case of Serbo-Croation in Victoria, Australia | PhD | 1997br |
| On the Writings of Rahel Levin Varnhagen - Eine deutsche Juedin aus der Romantik | Hons. | 1997sa | |
| 1996 | Changing Masculinities in Eastern Germany | Hons. | 1996br |
| 1995 | Colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial positions in the Ukrainian historical novel: 1934 - 1990 | PhD | 1995ba |
| The acquisition of noun phrases in two English-German bilingual brothers | Hons. | 1995ds | |
| 1993 | Ludwig Leichhardt: giving meaning to the foreign | M.A. Prelim. | 1993lr |
| 1993 | The fantastic in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann | Hons. | 1993wk |
| 1991 | Puer Senex as narrative topos in Audrei Belyi's Kotik Letaev | M.A. | 1991sp |
| Towards a curriculum for second langauge teaching and language maintenance based on Croation and Serbian/Serbo-Croation | PhD | 1991br | |
| 1990 | Alienation and criminality | M.A. | 1990la |
| 1989 | Polish education in Victoria in comparison with the conditions in Poland | Hons. | 1989gl |
| 1988 | Das Deutsch funf jugoslawischer Arbeitnehmer und zwei Arbeitnehmerinnen | Hons. | 1988hj |
| David Ernst Oppenheim 1881-1943. The man, his time, his work. | M.A. | 1988ld | |
| One Parent - One Language: an interactional approach | PhD | 1988ds | |
| 1985 | A Comparative Study of Georg kaiser's Gilles Und Jeanne and Michel Tournier's Giles et Jeanne. | Hons. | 1985sj |
| 1982 | The topos of the inexpressible. Poetic argumentation in Tieck, Novalis and Hoffmann | M.A. | 1982pm |
| 1980 | The effect of mixed marriage on language shift in the Dutch community in Australia | M.A. | 1980pa |
| 1971 | Aspects of German intonation - Fundamental frequency variations associated with stress and juncures in a sample of German speech | M.A. | 1971bd |
| 1967 | Some trends in the post Brechtean drama of West Germany | PhD | 1967tr |