Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Constructing Selfhood Through Fantasy: Mirror Women and Dreamscape Conversations in Olga Grushin’s Forty Rooms, Grace Marie Alger
The Supernatural in Migration: A Reflection on Senegalese Literature and Film, Rokhaya Aballa Dieng
Breaking Down the Human: Disintegration in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Benjamin Mark Driscol
Archetypes Revisited: Investigating the Power of Universals in Soviet and Hollywood Cinema, Iana Guselnikova
Planting Rhizomes: Roots and Rhizomes in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove and Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville, Rume Kpadamrophe
Tracing Modern and Contemporary Sino-French Literary and Intellectual Relations: China, France, and Their Shifting Peripheries, Paul Timothy McElhinny
From Roland to Gawain, or the Origin of Personified Knights, Clyde Tilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Afro-Diasporic Literatures of the United States and Brazil: Imaginaries, Counter-Narratives, and Black Feminism in the Americas, David E. S. Beek
The Pursuit of Good Food: The Alimentary Chronotope in Madame Bovary, Lauren Flinner
Form and Voice: Representing Contemporary Women’s Subaltern Experience in and Beyond China, Tingting Hu
Geography of a “Foreign” China: British Intellectuals’ Encounter With Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945, Yuzhu Sun
Truth and Identity in Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov and Prince Myshkin, Gwendolyn Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Postcolonial Narrative and The Dialogic Imagination: An Analysis of Early Francophone West African Fiction and Cinema, Seydina Mouhamed Diouf
The Rising of the Avant-Garde Movement In the 1980s People’s Republic of China: A Cultural Practice of the New Enlightenment, Jingsheng Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
L’ Entre- Monde: The Cinema of Alain Gomis, Guillaume Coly
Digesting Gender: Gendered Foodways in Modern Chinese Literature, 1890s–1940s, Zhuo Feng
The Deconstruction of Patriarchal War Narratives in Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War, Liubov Kartashova
Taiwanese Postcolonial Identities and Environmentalism in Wu Ming-Yi’s the Stolen Bicycle, Chihchi Sunny Tsai
Games and Play of Dream of the Red Chamber, Jiayao Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Convertirse en Inmortal, 成仙 ChéngxiāN, Becoming Xian: Memory and Subjectivity in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Verde Shanghai, Katherine Paulette Elizabeth Crouch
Between Holy Russia and a Monkey: Darwin's Russian Literary and Philosophical Critics, Brendan G. Mooney
Emerging Populations: An Analysis of Twenty-First Century Caribbean Short Stories, Jeremy Patterson
Time, Space and Nonexistence in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry, Daria Smirnova
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Through the Spaceship’s Window: A Bio-political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction, Juan David Cruz
Insects As Metaphors For Post-Civil War Reconstruction Of The Civic Body In Augustan Age Rome, Olivia Semler
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Flannery O’Connor’s Art And The French Renouveau Catholique: A Comparative Exploration Of Contextual Resources For The Author’s Theological Aesthetics Of Sin and Grace, Stephen Allen Baarendse
The Quixotic Picaresque: Tricksters, Modernity, and Otherness in the Transatlantic Novel, or the Intertextual Rhizome of Lazarillo, Don Quijote, Huck Finn, and The Reivers, David Elijah Sinsabaugh Beek
Piglia and Russia: Russian Influences in Ricardo Piglia’s Nombre Falso, Carol E. Fruit Diouf
Beyond Life And Death Images Of Exceptional Women And Chinese Modernity, Wei Hu
Archival Resistance: A Comparative Reading of Ulysses and One Hundred Years of Solitude, Maria-Josee Mendez
Narrating the (Im)Migrant Experience: 21st Century African Fiction in the Age of Globalization, Bernard Ayo Oniwe
Narrating Pain and Freedom: Place and Identity in Modern Syrian Poetry (1970s-1990s), Manar Shabouk
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Development of ‘Meaning’ in Literary Theory: A Comparative Critical Study, Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Ahmad Elkordy
Familial Betrayal And Trauma In Select Plays Of Shakespeare, Racine, And The Corneilles, Lynn Kramer
Evil Men Have No Songs: The Terrorist and Literatuer Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925, Irina Vasilyeva Meier
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Resurrectio Mortuorum: Plato’s Use of Ἀνάγκη in the Dialogues, Joshua B. Gehling
The Trialectics Of Transnational Migrant Women’s Literature In The Writing Of Edwidge Danticat And Julia Alvarez, Jennifer Lynn Karash-Eastman
Unacknowledged Victims: Love between Women in the Narrative of the Holocaust. An Analysis of Memoirs, Novels, Film and Public Memorials, Isabel Meusen
Making the Irrational Rational: Nietzsche and the Problem of Knowledge in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Brendan Mooney
Invective Drag: Talking Dirty in Catullus, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid, Casey Catherine Moore
Destination Hong Kong: Negotiating Locality in Hong Kong Novels 1945-1966, Xianmin Shen
H.P. Lovecraft & The French Connection: Translation, Pulps and Literary History, Todd David Spaulding
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Poetic Appropriations in Vergil’s Aeneid: A Study in Three Themes Comprising Aeneas’ Character Development, Edgar Gordyn
Ekphrasis and Skepticism in Three Works of Shakespeare, Robert P. Irons
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Role of the Trickster Figure and Four Afro-Caribbean Meta-Tropes In the Realization of Agency by Three Slave Protagonists, David Sebastian Cross
Putting Place Back Into Displacement: Reevaluating Diaspora In the Contemporary Literature of Migration, Christiane Brigitte Steckenbiller
Using Singular Value Decomposition in Classics: Seeking Correlations in Horace, Juvenal and Persius against the Fragments of Lucilius, Thomas Whidden
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas, Florencia Cornet
Representation of Women In 19Th Century Popular Art and Literature: Forget Me Not and La Revista Moderna, Juan David Cruz
53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film, Jana -. Fedtke
Male Subjectivity and Twenty-First Century German Cinema: Gender, National Idenity, and the Problem of Normalization, Richard Sell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry, Evangelin Grace Chapman-Wall
Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce, Liang Meng
Dryden and the Solution to Domination: Bonds of Love In the Conquest of Granada, Lydia FitzSimons Robins
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Family As the New Collectivity of Belonging In the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sarbani Bose
Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric., Larry Grant Hamby
Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction, Mohamad Subhi Hindi
Re-Visions: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy In German and Italian Film and Literature, Kristina Stefanic Brown
Plato In Modern China: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Platonists, Leihua WENG
Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary, Kimberly Wickham
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Mirrored Body: Doubling and Replacement of the Feminine and androgynous Body In Hadia Said'S Artist and Haruki Murakami'S Sputnik Sweetheart, Fatmah Alsalamean
Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus, Casey Catherine Moore
Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South, Brittany Powell
Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros, Jennifer Lyn Slobodian