Senior Thesis Title Archive
| Year | Student | Title |
| 2023 | Bernstein, Alyx | Death Without, Terror Within: Narrating Illness in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism |
| 2023 | Kully, Kendall | Hostile or Hospitable? |
| 2023 | Li, Chen | Allegorical Reading and Narrative Desire in The Plum in the Golden Vase |
| 2023 | Nelson, Aynika | Translation and Commentary, "Quando il mondo era tutto azzurro" |
| 2023 | Tolda, Julia | Jocasta's Claim: Recuperation and Redemption of the Oedipal Plot in Incendies and The Darker Face of the Earth |
| 2023 | Zhou, Jiaxier (Coco) | What is a Book? |
| 2022 | Bi, Tianyu April | Ye Shengtao's Development of Children's Literature: Educating Cheng to the Modern Child in China and Beyond |
| 2022 | Hou, Xinle | Education on emotions in Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights |
| 2022 | Tran, Angela | Cleansed and Adored: Feminine Coming-of-Age Narratives in East Wind, West Wind by Pearl S. Buck and l'amant by Marguerite Duras |
| 2021 | Arnade-Colwill, Jac | Behind Black Bars: Redaction as Dialect after Prison in Tazmamort and Felon |
| 2021 | Drucker, Blythe | (En)Acting Aesthetic Violence: Revolutionary Techniques of Interwar Dramas in the US and Spain |
| 2021 | Liu, Asteria | Love, Betrayal and Death: Reading East-West Crossings in Men's Cross-dressing Performances of Tragic Heroines |
| 2021 | Sang, Iris |
The Endurance of History: Pastoral Realism in George Orwell's Coming Up for Air and Shen Congwen's Long River |
| 2021 | Schallwig, Alaina | Judgements in the Dark: Identifying and Advocating for the Inherent Nonrationalities in Law |
| 2021 | Sheng, Tianjiao | The Poetics of Homelessness in John Clare and Haizi |
| 2021 | Wechsler, Zoe | Gaslighter, Denier: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Self-Reconciliation by a Male Pen |
| 2021 | Xu, Jessica | Out of Place and Out of Time: The Anxieties of Cosmopolitanism in Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night |
| 2020 | Arellano, Sulema | La villa and O Cortiço: Representations of Peripheral Communities in Latin American Literature |
| 2020 | Bowditch, Lyric | Writing Home: Subverting Binarisms in Hisham Matar’s The Return and Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué |
| 2020 | Hoffman, Emma | The New Ages of Pan: Anthropocentrism and Temporality in the Works of Pavese and Pynchon |
| 2020 | Juran, Colette | No Saints, No Mystics, No Mercy: Establishing Balance between Representation and Authentic Analysis of Female Suffering in Christian Narratives |
| 2020 | Oliver, Caroline | The Abject Body Narrated: A Reading of Crises of Objectivity and Collectivity through the Literature and Film of the Uncanny |
| 2020 | Rebitzer, Elana | Recreating Esther in Their Own Images: Midrash across Rabbinic, Converso, and Feminist Jewish Literatures |
| 2020 | Richardson, Inem | Rapping for the Revolution: Francophone and Lusophone West African Rap Responds to Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral’s Theories of National Culture and Liberation |
| 2020 | Sappington, Stella | Awakening in me the Mother’: Maternal Figures in the Works of Virginia Woolf, Sophie Calle and Francesca Woodman |
| 2020 | Wilmore, Lauren | Found in Translation: A Revision-Based Methodology for the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry into French |
| 2019 | Li-Schwartz, Cleo | Reading the Streets and Writing the Self: The Flâneuse in Eileen Chang and Jean Rhys |
| 2019 | Kaisla, Emma | Geo-Emotional Fieldwork: The Poetics of Place in Aleksandr Vampilov and Georges Perec |
| 2019 | Kaplan, Jennifer | A New Genre: How Queer Francophones and Anglophones Express Non-Bonary Identities in Binary Languages |
| 2019 | McClenton, Arlena | Resistance and Assimilation: A Conversation Between the Harlem Renaissance and the Négritude Movement on Racial Passing, Language, and Power |
| 2019 | Gottlieb, Juliette | The Language of Laughter: How Humor and Translation Converge within OuLiPian Writing |
| 2019 | Peet, Victoria | Coming from Forever, Going Everywhere: Transcending Time in the Poetry of Mallarmé and Adunis |
| 2018 | Abeyta, Danielle Luz | The Moral Anarchist: Reckoning with Violence, Anarchism, and Nihilism in late Nineteenth- to mid-Twentieth Century Literary Narratives |
| 2018 | Ausseil, Rébecca | The Crypt, the Opening, and Intersemiotic Translation: Reading Derrida's Glas as a Text on Translation |
| 2018 | Schweitzer, Elizabeth | The Beauty is the Beast: Feminity and its Grotesque Doubles in Leonora Carrington's "La Débutante" and Carlos Fuentes' "La Muñeca Reina" |
| 2018 | Shan, Tina Zhuangchen | Voicing Silence: A Conversation Between Maurice Blachot, Nathalie Sarraute, and Virginia Woolf |
| 2017-18 | Fujioka, Kanako | Constructing Postwar Japanese Identity through Self-Sacrifice in Patriotism (1966) and Extreme Private Eros Love Song 1974 (1974) |
| 2017 | Kennedy, Falls (Mary) | A Sound Translation: Using Sound Notation Techniques to Translate Ana Maria Matute's "El rey de los zennos" |
| 2017 | Al-Murad, Maryam | The Politics of Representation: Formulations of Self and Other in Heart of Darkness and Seasons of Migration to the North |
| 2017 | Glikad, Kristina | Absurdism is the New Humanism: A Journey from the Death of God to the Russian Soul |
| 2016 | Belghiti, Zineb | Desire and Jouissance in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Marguerite Duras’ Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein |
| 2016 | Cassens, Chloe | Always Crashing In The Same Car: The Rhetoric of Drug Addiction, Detoxification, and Rehabilitation in Jean Cocteau’s Opium and Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 2016 | Fazli, Jessamine | A Philosophy across Borders and Imagined Realities: How Persian Literary Humanism Met the 18th-Century French Enlightenment |
| 2016 | Gester, Kate | Ghosts of the Past: Myth, Fiction, and History in Absalom Absalom and Cien años de soledad |
| 2016 | Gorla, Erasmia | The Wicked Witch: Exploring Medea, Sula, and Tituba as Figures of Deviance and Non-Normativity |
| 2016 | Kalikoff, Eva | Rejecting or Accepting Jewishness in Immigrant Life: Language, Class, and Identity in Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep and Irène Némirovsky’s David Golder |
| 2016 | Lee, Joo Kyung | Foreign Flowers: Understanding Exile through the Young Female Experience |
| 2016 | Mahoney, Alice | The Existential and Psychoanalytic Self: A Lacanian Reading of Albert Camus' L'Étranger and Ernesto Sábato's El Túnel |
| 2015 | Schwarz, Rebecca | Feral, Feminine, and Ferociously Fluid: Multiplicities of Being in the Works of Djuna Barnes and Leonora Carrington |
| 2015 | Chen, Fangdai | For the gardens at Jo-run are full of new nightingales: Western Modernism's Literary Encounters with China in Ezra Pound's Cathay and Victor Segalen's Stèles |
| 2015 | Leventhal, Cassidy | Interpreting Ethics: Genesis, Ontology, and the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Lord Byron |
| 2015 | Diez de Baldeon Cerv, Laura | Cruelty, Literature and Survival |
| 2015 | Villodas, Lauren | The Individual as an Aggragate: Approaching Identity Beyond Postmodernism in Don DeLillo's White Noise and Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules elementaires |
| 2014 | Albir, Manuela | The Codes of Sentimentality in 19th Century French and Italian Literature |
| 2014 | Pagni Sitta, Ludovica | Reinventing Language: The Dream of a Universal Language in Il Sorriso Dell'Ignoto Marinaio and Midnight's Children |
| 2014 | Strawn, Juliana | Russian and American Modernisms: Acmeism, Futurism, and Imagism |
| 2014 | Whitlum-Cooper, Jessica | Modernism, Metafiction and Murder: Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman and Miguel de Unamuno Niebla |
| 2013 | Allen-Mossman, Anayvleyse | Circling the Void: Power and Dysfunction in Boca de lobo and Extension du domaine de la lutte |
| 2013 | Borgman, Jordan Lee | This is the Opressor's Language, Yet I Need It to Talk to You: Power and Voice in English and Marathi in Maharashtra |
| 2013 | Fanboy-Labrenz, Marin | Gifts of Breath and Skin: Animations and Materialization of the Signifying Body in Lispector's Um sopro de vida (pulsações) and Almodóvar's La Piel Que Habito |
| 2013 | Heyison, Brenda Claire | How Journalism Shaped the Arab Spring: Comparative Representations of the Self-Immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in French and Arabic Media |
| 2013 | Kassapidis, Vickie | The Post-9/11 Production in Greece and in the U.S.: The poetic response from the collection 110 Stories New York Writes after September 11 and Yiannis Efthumiadis' collection "27 or the man who falls |
| 2013 | Lytle, Phoebe | Daughters to the Mother(land): The Dilemma of Recognition I Luis Rafael Sánchez's La Pasión Según Antígona Perez and Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance |
| 2013 | Rogers, Ray | Expanding Boundaries through Language: Jean Toomer's Cane and Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal |
| 2013 | Rossiter, Jacqueline R. | Many-Headed Monsters: Subject Formation, Hybridity and Non-Representational Politics |
| 2013 | Stein, Rachael | Gothic Feminism and Female Power: A Study of Brontë's Wuthering Heights, McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye and Allende's La casa de los espríritus |
| 2012 | Baron-Moore, Diana | Narrating Evil: 20th Century Detective Novels of England and the Southern Core |
| 2012 | Casa, Olivia | Modernist Montage and the Crisis of Representations: A Comparative Study of John Dos Passos's USA and Carlos Fuentes's La región más transparente |
| 2012 | Delsener, Mary | St Katherine of Alexandria: Sainthood, Self, and Society Through Text |
| 2012 | Fourteau, Rebecca | Three walks through Paris: illegibility of the city in Baudelaire, Aragon and Rilke |
| 2012 | Gittleman, Marlena | Reinventing Exile: The Semiotics of Postmodernism in Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita amd Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes |
| 2012 | Kaufman, Kaitlin | The Crisis of the Artist in Honoré de Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece and Henry James' The Madonna of the Future |
| 2012 | Margulies, Hadas | Inanimate Imagination: How the Puppet Theatres of Zurich and New York Toppled Cultural Walls |
| 2012 | Newman, Lena | Border Crossings: Translation and Resistance in Renè Philoctète's Le Peuple des Terres Mêlées |
| 2012 | Parent, Elissa | The Representation of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Prose |
| 2012 | Wallace, Lisanna | The Representation of Art in Nineteenth Century French and English Literature |
| 2012 | Wang, Shaowei | (En)gendered through the Other (Space): Locating Shaonian China in Late Qing “Women Warrior” Fiction and Shōjo Japan in the Yaoi genre |
| 2011 | Atkinson, Shira | Feminisms of Second Class Citizen and Une si longue lettre |
| 2011 | Daly, Emelyn | "Translating" Liminal Realities: The Imaginative Subject in the Lyric Poetry of Paul Eluard and the Short Fiction of Julio Cortázar |
| 2011 | Davis, Rebecca | The Writing of Words, Images, and Bodies: A Theory of Pleasure Across Genres |
| 2011 | Hirshman, Nora | Before the Law, Between the Lines: Representations of Power and Knowledge in short Modernist Prose |
| 2011 | Itzkoff, Sarah | Representation and Rivalry in Two Fin-de-Siècle Decadent Novels |
| 2011 | Jones, Melanie | Demons of the Pit" and "Mon Bon Ange": The Foreign Female in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature |
| 2011 | Malawar, Michelle | Warlike Texts, Rebellious Texts”: Writing the Feminine in Marguerite Duras’s Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood |
| 2011 | Meyers, Penelope | (De)allegorizing Antigone: A New Reading of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone and Athol Fugard’s The Island |
| 2011 | Smith, Madelin | Indeed I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Meursault, Mouth, and the Via Moderna |
| 2009 | Albanese, Mary Grace | The failure of representation: abyssal narratives in James' The Sacred Fount and Balzac's Louis Lambert |
| 2009 | Boggs, Alexandra | how to burn maps/…becoming…/the (in)visible text/…becoming…/they told us stories/…becoming…/open rings/…becoming…/…the kiss…: a "Post Modern" talk of revolutions, bodies, words, and worlds |
| 2009 | Cespedes, Helen | The Whole and its Many Moving Parts: Remapping the Bilungsroman in Noir and Middlemarch |
| 2009 | Conneighton, Maeve | Searching the City: Flânerie in Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Du Côté de Chez Swann |
| 2009 | Francis, Tiara | The Liminal Self in the Age of "Harmonization and Dissonance": Reconciling Identity in La Haine and This is England. |
| 2009 | Krishok, Timea Meiko | The Theory and Practice of "our difficult becoming…": Storytelling and Orality in tye Postcolonial Caribbean |
| 2009 | Pederson, Meg | I do not fear ghost: The Liminal Spaces of Dream, Death, Body in Katherine Anne Portar's "Pale Hourse, Pale Rider" and Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux |
| 2009 | Seldin, Erica | Building Nature, Building Nation: The Poetry of Walt Whitman and André Bello |
| 2009 | Wells, Hallie | A Culture of Messages: Slam Poetry, Community, and Individuality in Madagascar |
| 2008 | Borkowski, Mary Elizabeth | A Platform and a Couple of Passions: Jakob Bidermann's Cenodoxus and Frank Wedekind's Erdgeis / Die Büchse der Pandora |
| 2008 | Li, Janet | The City That Won't Let Go: The Cultivation of Hong Kong Subjectivity from 1984-1997 in History's Fiction and Chungking Express |
| 2008 | Najem, Maria | Edgar Allen Poe, Nikolai Gogol, and the Growth of Periodicals in the Nineteenth Century |
| 2008 | Pearlman, Hillary | Nuruddin Farah's Gifts + Nicolás Guillen's Diario que a Diario: Cutting up Newspapers, Unlocking Spaces, Pasting Words, and Emerging Voice, Song, and Story |
| 2008 | Sheffler, Susan | Bridging Binaries, Building Return and Constructive Identities: The Power of Women's Myths in Ovid, Boccaccio, and Calvino |
| 2008 | Vick, Judith B. | Across From Hiawatha's Tent: Mul Ohel Timmura |
| 2008 | Wildman Wade, Elizabeth | Strange New World: Writing (Through) Tijuana |
| 2007 | Downs, Abigail | Unveiling Utopia: Fictional Testimony in the Bildungsroman, Their Eyes Were Watching God and La nada Cotidiana |
| 2007 | Kazhdan, Abigail | The Account of a Ruined Woman in Anna Karenina & Madame Bovary |
| 2007 | Looney, Rosamund | Diverse Identities in Germany: Contemporary Turkish-German Film and Literature |
| 2007 | Reynolds, Aline | Examining the Painted Word: An Analysis of Selected Folksongs and Lieder by Ludwig Van Beethoven and Frantz Schubert |
| 2006 | Bezirdjian, Melina | Poets and Playas: Dante, OutKast, and the Poetics of Alienation |
| 2006 | Carley, Erica | Literary Independence: Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire and the Quest for an Alternative Literary Tradition |
| 2006 | Gillies, Ariana | Fairy Tales and Orientalism: Representation of the Imaginary |
| 2006 | Golestaneh, Seema | Writing Towards Silence: An Inquiry into the Thematics of Paradox and Formlessness in the French and Persian Literary Avant-Garde |
| 2006 | Kelly-Nacht, Zoe | Joyce and Eliade, O'Flaherty, Ford and Carpentier |
| 2006 | Krinsky, Lisa | La Lengua de la Danza: a Comparison of Flamenco Dance and Spanish Writings in Illustrating Dance as a Language |
| 2006 | Straus, Jennifer | Recovering the Whole Self: Censorship and Obscenity in Madame Bovary, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Ulysses |
| 2006 | Tollosa, Jigsitu | Lost in Translation (Nabokov) |
| 2005 | Coleman, Tara | Borderline Nationalism: The Power of Literature to Negotiate the Nation in Transnational Modernism |
| 2005 | Hogan, Louise | The Work of Ousmane Semebene as Political Commentary: Women, Modernity, Sovereignty in African Film |
| 2005 | Kalamakis, Nassia | Alternating Narratives and Determining Approaches |
| 2005 | Leal, Angeli | Naming and Overdetermination: A Study of Absalom, Absalom! and Cien años de Soledad |
| 2005 | Nicolazzo, Sarah | "I am not I, pitie the tale of me": Love as self-obliteration and the staging of textual function in Astrophil and Stella, Edward II, and DieLeiden des jungen Werther |
| 2004 | Flamm, Melanie Jessica | Evading Trauma: Re-Victimization and Complicit Viewing in Schindler's List |
| 2004 | Mimran, Masha | The Coming of "The End": The Novel and Narrative Striptease |
| 2004 | Weber, Rachel | Soldiers at the Front: The Effects of War on the Individual |
| 2003 | Baker, Allison | Writing for a Helen: The Inscription of Desire in Omeros and Don Quixote |
| 2003 | Gasparetto, Suzanna | Perspectives in Time and Space in Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges |
| 2003 | Lee, Diana | Screenwriters and Their Roles in Adaptations From Novels to Films |
| 2003 | Mamdani, Zehra | The Construction, Codification and Creation of Language: Premchand & the Hindi/Urdu Language Debate |
| 2003 | Mamelok, Laura | Between Mechanism and Spontaneity: the Melancholy Buffoon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou |
| 2003 | Marchiori, Giulia | Diagnosing the Human Condition: Boccaccio, Camus, and Saramago's Treatments of Community and Lucidity |
| 2003 | McConnell, Meaghan | Film in Translation: Derrida's Des Tours de Babel and Atom Egoyan's Calendar |
| 2002 | Aviles, Victoria | Jorge Luis Borges: the Translator of "Song of Myself" |
| 2002 | Kalamakis, Irini | The Cavafian Graveyard and Its Mode of Extreme Translation |
| 2001 | Bevington, Rickey | When Walking: Reverie |
| 2001 | Chun, Maureen | Paul Celan and Translation: Reconceptualizing the Carrying-Through |
| 2001 | Dewan, Sonya | Female Excision in Francophone Africa |
| 2001 | Perez, Milena | Theories of Language in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino |
| 2001 | Rogers, Charlotte | A Cross-Cutlural Study of Bereavement in The Catcher in the Rye and No One Writes to the Colonel |
| 2001 | Schabloski, Alyssa | L'Ajustement Cultural de la Vie Feminine a Abidjan |
| 2001 | Skubikowski, Anna | Representations of the Italian Immigrant in the Novelistic Output Surrounding Italian Migration to Argentina |
| 2001 | Varlet, Camille | The Gitana: Thief of Identity and Social Liberator |
| 2001 | Yamamoto, Miyabi | The Many Faces of Kaguya-hime |
| 2000 | Barchfield, Jenny | El Sujeto Floreciente: Expresiones de la Sexualidad Naciente en Textos del Personaje Adolescente Femenino |
| 2000 | Brownell, Jean Blair | The Literary Kinship Between Don Quixote and Lolita |
| 2000 | Chase, Liz | The Poetic Polis: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism |
| 2000 | D'Ambruoso, Sarah | The Way to K.: Architecture, mise-en-abime, and the Transmission of Knoweldge in Kafka's The Trial |
| 2000 | Jordan, Bianca | Shadows of Happiness: A study of Sentimentality in Great Expectations and Madame Bovary |
| 2000 | Keister, Mallika | Pierrotic Pantomime in Nineteenth-Century Paris |
| 2000 | Lee, Kylene | Aime Cesaire: The Historical Significance of His Theater and His Role in the Movement of la Negritude. |
| 2000 | Mishiwiec, Denise | Modern Myth Making in Soviet and American Literature: Fyodor Gladkov's Cement and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| 2000 | Nizami, Amber | Martyrs of Love: The 'Udhri Romance of Majnun Layla in Arabic, Persian & Urdu Poetry |
| 2000 | Reich, Liz | The Terms of Testimony: The Delivery of No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn |
| 2000 | Rosenberg, Idra | Different Shades of Exile: The Experience of Exile in the Literature of James Baldwin and Carlos Cerda |
| 2000 | Tropper, Hadassah | A Woman of Valor |
| 1999 | Ekberg, Johana | Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Nation's Clown or Critic? |
| 1999 | Hollander, Noemi | Metapoetry in the Lyrical Tradition: Catallus's Carmina 64 and Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" |
| 1999 | Liviakis, Christina | Orality, textuality, and violence in Cretan mantinathes |
| 1999 | Rosenberg, Yael | David and Draft: A Jewish Child's Coming of Age |
| 1999 | Tavis, Jennifer | Vernacular Eloquence: Arnaut Daniel & the Critical Tradition |
| 1999 | Walsh, Lauren | Italian Futurist Manifestors: Literary Style and Technological Implications |
| 1998 | Becker, Caroline | The French Approach to America and its Literature: The Novel Between 1920-1960 |
| 1998 | Bodemann-Ostow | Strangers in a Strange Land: Life in the Colonies as Portrayed by Albert Camus, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, and Marguerite Duras |
| 1998 | Reid, Rachel | Word: Toward a Poetics of Performance Poetry |
| 1998 | Tronrud, Wendy | A translation of space(s) |
| 1998 | VandenBroek, Kate | Reconciling Personal Identity and the Politics of Sexuality: Keun, von Sternberg, and the Performance of Gender |
| 1997 | Chaker, Anne-Marie | Liberte, Egalite, Feminite: The Influence of George Sand's Nineteenth Century Feminist Discourse on Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda |
| 1997 | Critchell, Vanessa | The Flaneur Figure as Painter and Poet: A Rendering of Modernity in 1860s Paris |
| 1997 | Newbold-Stein, Anna | Transforming the Shadowy Passage of French Symbolism: Arthur Symons |
| 1996 | Kazakina, Katya | Russian Futurism in Poetry and Painting |