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
Dostoevsky as Bluesman in Baldwin’s Writerly Imagination, Nathan Leach
Translatio materiae: Spenser, the Humanists, and a Poetics of Matter, Victoria Florio Pipas
Interlingual Morphology and Wakean Topology, Stephen Valeri
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Hideous Men in the age of #metoo: On Wallace, Puig, and the specter of misogyny, Sage Engberg
Cite-Seeing: Parody, Narrative Desire, and Enchanted Castles in Orlando Furioso and Don Quijote, Diego Fleitas
‘Two commas with no words, at last, to keep you apart’: Trauma-induced convergence of self and other in ‘Ru’ and ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’, Annabel Jankovic
Goblin Market : Visuality, Adaptations, and the Price of Transformation, Michaela Jordan
Kejeli and Negotiated Statehood: Back to Africa High on Vibranium, Cherrie Kandie
Milton, Racine and the turn towards biblical tragedy: Thinking history in Athalie and Samson, Michel Klante
Riprap of Things: Allures and Ethical Stakes of Visual Reading, Yixuan (Vivian) Shi
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Georges Bataille's Kenotic Putrefaction, Arshy Azizi
Against Joyous Forms: Deleuze’s Fold and the Dark Background of the Baroque, Marcus Mamourian
The Task of Seeing and Un-forgetting, Yibei Qian
Daniil Kharms’s Last Laugh: Anti-Humor in Incidences, Stephen Sudia
Enchantingly Disenchanted: Failed Interpellation in Darwish and Kafka, Samir Abdalla Taha
Mary: Departure from the Cinematic Present and the Literary Past, Assel Uvaliyeva
Aesthetics and Author(s) of Utopia and the Epigrammata, Ryan Villegas
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Creating an Imaginary: Reading Aimé Humbert’s Le Japon Illustré, Marian Candela Baptiste
Graphic Self-Care in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? and Dominique Goblet’s Faire semblant c’est mentir, Meghan A. Collins
The Pull of Home: Revisiting Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall through Elefanten im Garten and Au Pays, Varol Kahvechi
Cracking the Old China: Karl Marx and the Chinese Civil War, Yan Liu
Singing the Femme Fatale; or, Materiality Under Erasure, Marcus Pyle
Reading the Unreadable: Salò and Its Significance, Michael Ramsey
On the Phantoms of (Nietzsche’s) Woman and the Matter of God, Raiany Romanni
Translation as Re-signification: How Playboy Transformed a Pushkin Poem into an Artifact ofthe Cultural Cold War, Tetiana Savchynska
Political Phlebotomy: The Poetics and Politics of Blood in Giambattista Marino’s La strage degliinnocenti, Evan Strouss
Mapping the Streets of London: Location and Dislocation in Early Dickens, Yihong Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified, Hannah Doermann
“Mon rire vole haut”: Joyce Mansour and Black Humor, Sarah Domenick
The Poetics and Politics of Dissolution: Beyond Queer Identities and Re-imagining the Nocturnal Community in Nightwood., Pan (Helena) Hu
Finding Esu: A Diasporic Approach to Luiz Gama and Brazilian Black Literary Tradition, Sughey Ramirez
The Poetics of Indian Feminine Migrant Identity in Sonali Dasgupta’s Altro Mondo, Prashansa Taneja
Domesticating the Foreign:Porcelain and Tea in Britain, Hua Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Civil Contracts And Archival Curation: The Photography of Rolf Blomberg in Equador, Sarah Foster
Fragmented Knowledge: The Riddle of Unknowability in Kafka's "In Unserer Synagoge" And "Die Sorge Des Hausvaters", Matthew Greene
Lying On The Stove: The Durak And Subversion In 19th Century Russian Literature, Andrew Molboski
Impossible Returns: Problematics Of Belonging In Turkish Cinema, Asli Ozyenginer
"The Vertu Of The Ryng;" Understanding Language In The Squires Tale, Huanming Pan
"As Seen From Inside the Building;" Space and Work Ethics in Giants and Toys, Xavier Sawada
The Inability Of Maps: Eclectic Atlases In Kai-Cheung Dung's Novel Atlas: The Archaeology Of An Imaginary City, Yingnan Shang
Geheime Gedichte, Секретные Стихи: The Role of Translation In International Samizdat Networks, Danielle Smith
Crisis of Signs: The Christ-Child Image In The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament, Quigyu Wang
Disappointed Dreamers: Ethnic Hegemony and Patriarchy In "Natsuyo" and Sonhos Bloqueados, Shannon Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Transing Translation and the Translatxrsation: On a Genderqueer Translation Praxis, Ariele Concilio
Cesare Pavese: Reception and Reconsideration, Jessica Rose D'Amora
Galician Intellectual Wars: The Battle over the Language of A esmorga, Adriana De Luca
Bodies “Becoming” as Borderlands, Bridges: Tracing Online Xicanismos and their Various Identity Crossings, Nicole Eitzen
Troubled Returns: Transformations of Nationalism in Mahmoud Darwish and Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Igrahim Khan
Transnational imaginary: nonlinear time as feminist temporality, Eremire Krasniqi
The Rite of Riff: Past the Postcolonial with Léonora Miano’s Contours du jour qui vient, Anna LaSala-Goettier
Seeing Beauty: How Marcel Proust and Caio Fernando Abreu Reevaluate Same-sex Desire, Anthony Otey-Hernandez
The Poetics of Drowning: Stéphane Mallarmé and Hart Crane, Michael Swingen
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Intimate Indifference of the Sun: Hesitant Heliocentrism in Italian Futurist Texts, Jarret Dury-Agri
Iterative Inaccessibility in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood, Georgina Emerson
Making Words Fail: Reimagining the Ready-Made in César Aira’s Fiction, Andrew Johnson
King of Redonda: Javier Marías’s Competition with Jorge Luis Borges to Make Fictional Kingdoms Real, David (Torrey) Peters
Whose Voice Is It? Dialogue with Nature in Ted Hughes’s Poems, Iryna Shuvalova
Reading Baudrillard in Istanbul, Merve Tabur
Traveling Through Fantastic Modernity: Reconsidering Time Travel as a Landmark of Historical Fiction, Audrey Zhang Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Diminished Immigrants and Postnostalgia in Latin, Laala Al-Jaber
Voice as the Locus of Happiness in Leandro Moratin’s El si de las niñas (The Maidens' Consent) and Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Shirley Anghel
A Rhetoric of “Theory” - Barthes, Foucault and the Hunting of the Author, Vinicius Castro
Lost in Cardenio: Authority and Rebellion in the Lost Play, Haifa Fersi
Consumption of Classics as a Dialogue of Literature and Paintings: The Tale of Genji and The Cloud Dream of the Nine, Yeogeun Kim
