Professor Emerita of Germanics and Comparative LiteratureContact Informationbehlerdi@uw.edu Fields of Interest 18th Century19th CenturyGermanPhilosophyRomanticism BiographyPh.D. University of WashingtonResearch Selected Research Diana Behler. The Theory of the Novel in Early German Romanticism. Bern, Switzerland: 1978. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Eric Schaad. "The Romantic Outlaw Narrative." Diss., 2004. Melek Ortabasi. "Japanese cultural history as literary landscape: Scholarship, authorship, and language in Yanagita Kunio's native ethnology." Diss., 2001. Courses Taught Spring 2011 C LIT 396 A: Special Studies In Comparative Literature: The Fantastic in Literature of the 19th Century Affiliations Home Department: Germanics