Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Questioning Modernity’s Episteme: A Comparative Literary Analysis towards Planetary Spiritualism, Pumho Karimi
Geotransformación and Overcoming Underdevelopment in Socialist Cuba, Danny Meza Keane
ME AND MS JONES - The Androgyny of Black Women, Lethokuhle Msimang
Marvelous Ordinariness: Re-engaging with Realism’s Social Function, Miranda Ochoa Natera
Star Power: An Analysis of Digital Astrology Content as an Instrument of Political Tractability, Aliza Phillips
Transcreation in World of Warcraft’s China Localization: Echoes of Poetry across Two Worlds, Yilu Ren
Displaced Ukrainian Writers After 2014, a Postcolonial Perspective, Sophie Ivanka Shields
Mending Wounds: A Reparative Feminist Analysis of the Japanese Film Series Guinea Pig, Mikayla Walker
Troubling Waters: Anthropocene Marine Gothic in the 19th-Century Anglo-American Fiction, Phoenix Guqing Wang
Self-Effacement in Christian Mysticism: A Case Study of Teresa of Ávila and Simone Weil, Zihan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Inhumanity Restored: Digital Play & Poetic Drama, Ali Emir Dağlar
The Problem With Asian American Literature, Sophie G. Huang
‘The Ultimate Share of Babel’: Silence in Mohammed Abdalbari’s (1985) Crescents, Hussain Laghabi
From Nihilation to Redemption: Profanations and Overlaps in Claudio Magris’ Danube, Nicola Mazzotti
Bound to a Mast: Matelotage and the Queer Contract in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Agnese Palumbo
Colonial Translation Turned Vietnamization: Phạm Quỳnh and the Discourse of Transculturation, Camellia Pham
Burden of Performance: Totalitarianism in Self, Ziyin Qian
The birds that embrace both illusions: an intersemiotic translation of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan, Veronika Yadukha
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
“Whenever we crossed a mountain / on this Earth, yet another one appeared”: Circumstantial Poetry in ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s (d. 1143/1731) Travelogues, Tom J. Abi Samra
“For Now We See in a Mirror, Dimly”: Dialectical Wholeness in Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell, Mari Aida
The City of Nightmares: Occultism, Ecstasy, and the Literature of Late-Victorian London, Sophie Labenski
Out of the Gutter, Into the Gram: A Comical Message and a Digital Medium, Tala Majzoub
"I Am Not Alive": A Bionian Reading of Life and Death in Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert and Tynianov's Podporuchik Kizhe, Andres Meraz
Imaginative Mimesis: Childhood Experience in Rafael Alberti's La Arboleda Perdida and José Gomes Ferreira's Calçada do Sol, Emily Oliveira
Gambling: The Dialogue of Excess in Lanval and The Franklin’s Tale, Fanrui Shao
Unended Middle Passage: The Exhausted Flesh of a Resistant Enslaved Woman, Yipu Su
The Wailing of the Streets: Novelistic Form and the Everyday in Voyage in the Dark and Voyage au bout de la nuit, Tutkunur Vatansever
The Idyllic Houses of Collective Trauma Reading Home and World War II in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung, Victoria Wirtz
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Woolf as Window: A View into Martín Gaite’s Treatment of Alienation in El cuarto de atrás, Elizabeth Cornick
banal/QUEER/spectacular: Reframing Blue is the Warmest Color, Sophie Frank
Sites of Interpretation in the “Gaza” of Johannes de Alta Silva, James Johnson
Spaces for Becomings? Heterotopic Fictions in Preciado’s Testo yonqui, Caroline King
Translatio materiae: Spenser, the Humanists, and a Poetics of Matter, Victoria Florio Pipas
Interlingual Morphology and Wakean Topology, Stephen Valeri