| Year |
Student |
Title |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2021 |
Schallwig, Alaina |
Judgements in the Dark: Identifying and Advocating for the Inherent Nonrationalities in Law |
| 2021 |
Sheng, Tianjiao |
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| 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 |