Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the German and Russian Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2022
Elyana Glass, Russian (RUSS) 2022, Soviet Femininity in Ice Dancing
Elliot Stork, German (GERM) 2022, Die Ablehnung der öffentlichen Machtstrukturen durch Geschlechtsausdruck: Charlotte von Mahlsdorfs Leben in der DDR
Submissions from 2021
Marcella Jurotich, German (GERM) 2021, Unrealized Dreams: The Impossibility of Traversing Boundaries in "Die größere Hoffnung"
Nicholas Rosen, Russian (RUSS) 2021, “You won’t strangle or kill this song:” Intertextuality and Power in the Music of Yanka Dyagileva
Ginnie White, German (GERM) 2021, Imagining Germany: Fairy Tales and Nation Building
Emily Wight, German (GERM) 2021, The Space Between: Gender Nonconformity in Weimar Queer Cinema
Submissions from 2019
Marly Schrom, Russian (RUSS) 2019, Russia’s Late-Night Vecherniĭ Urgant : How Does Humor Convey Russian Values and Pro-Kremlin Discourse?
Submissions from 2017
Jacob Robert Gunderson, German (GERM) 2017, Der Diktator und der Schriftsteller: Eine Analyse der Beziehung zwischen Stalin und Brecht durch Politik und Theater
Submissions from 2014
Jacob Scott Hoerger, Russian (RUSS) 2014, Hamlet. Act 0
Submissions from 2013
Danielle Alyssa Bennon, Sophia Catherine Davis, and Michael Mandelkorn, Russian (RUSS) 2013, Translation and Exploration: Buryat Cultural History through the Lense of Geser
Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, German (GERM) 2013, For Better or Worse in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna
Submissions from 2010
Tigan Michelle Harrison, Russian (RUSS) 2010, Battle of the Cold War Spies: A comparison of the espionage genre in literary and cinematic works within British and Russian cultures
Submissions from 2009
Kevin Kensler, Russian (RUSS) 2009, Aleksandr Vampilov's Last summer in Chulimsk: beyond the bounds of Chekhov
Brian Mason, Russian (RUSS) 2009, Oligarkhi: the development of a new cultural concept in post-Soviet Russia