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
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Greater than Zero: Censorship and the Missing Pages of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Zero, Bivona Kristol
Angels in the Mirror: Performance and Speech Acts in Sab by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Dulceany Roger David
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The last word unfinished: Dantean Intertextuality in the Poetry of Timothy Liu, Shanahan Charif
Women's Bodies and the Birth of the Nation in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Judith Rauscher
The Marquis de Sade and the Dialectic of Liberation, Kathrin Spiller
'O poeta e um fingidor': the Pessoan Concept of fingimento, Daniela Vasquez
Ancient country, new mandate': Reading Mao 235 as a Ritual Song, Jian Wang
The Future in the Past: Pound's Poetic Innovation in 'In a Station of the Metro', Xia Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Everyone Can Cook: La scienza in cucina and the Making of Italy, Ben Huber
"… and bear fruit with patient endurance": The State of Exception, Anomie, and Religious Rebellion in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Norbert Kleinwaechter
The Power of Poetry: Confronting the Imperial in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Aimé Césaire, Patricia Lamberti
The Representation of the Displaced Child in Literature and Film, Andrea Seubert
A Clinging Dress: The (Un)traslatability of Wordplay in the Priapea, Alec Wall
On Killing Elephants, Thomas Wisniewski
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Recuperating the English past in the two fictional versions of Havelok, Raul Ariza Barile
Contesting the Canon: Parody and Gender in the Comic Lyric of Cecco Angiolieri, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
Ever-Present, Ever-Absent: The Four Female Faces in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Diana Dukhanova
Italian Immigration Literature: Contemporary Rome as Cultural Palimpset, Enzy Montas
Requiem for Oneself: Death and Authorship in Luidmila Petrushevskaya's The Time: Night, Olga Permitina
Polvo de estrella; Una traducción del libro de poesía Star Dust por Frank Bidart, Jennifer Rowell
Words on the American Shot: Renegotiating Reality, Identity and Space in Spanish Contemporary Narrative, Alba Sanchis Alvarez
Comedia sin título: Federico García Lorca's Epic Shakespearean Theater, Carson Thomas
Diagnosing the Female Reader: Metaphors of Infection in The Heavenly Twins, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Rachael White
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Post-Script: Textual performances of friendship and mourning in Being and Time and L'Arret de mort, Genevieve Amaral
Rewriting Troy: Hélisenne de Crenne's Apple of Discord and Trojan Horse, Christina Elefteriades
Lost in the Love Trance: Authenticity and Translation of Sappho 31, Todd Foley
"Idole Faire": the Making of the False Florimell, Wei Hu
Dismembered Lives: Women Remaking Memory in Argentina and Chile, Katherine Paarlberg
"Fate for Sale": Mark(et)ing Domestic Violence in Central Asia, Christina Stoltz
Aporia, Violence, and National Consciousness in Lu Xun and Frantz Fanon, Duncan Yoon
Reading Palimpsets, Constructing Identities, Emory Zink
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The politics of dis-identification in Elfriede Jelinek's die Klaviespielrin and Kathy Acker's Bloods and Guts in High School, Silke Adamitza
The Death Knell: Temporality and Figurations of the Self in Proust and Heidegger, Brandon Granier
Narrative Structure and Productive Contradiction in Perceval and Parzival, Claire Jones
Between Ashes and Roses: al-Andalus in Mahmoud Darwish's Eleven Planets and Juan Goytisolo's Conde Don Julián, Lillian Kanso
Classics Illustrated? The Relation of Comics and the Literary in Prado's Trazo de tiza and Simmonds's Gemma Bovery, Aaron Kashtan
Trading Bulls for Gold: Strategies of National Narrative in Contemporary "Traditional" Ping Opera, Rachel Kunze
Chronotype of the East-West Encounter: Byron and Lermontov's Deviation in Orientalization of Women, Hwa Jung Lee
Postmodern Ovid, Jennifer Levitt
Flaubert and Lawrence, David Mora
Impossible Dialogs: A Discursive Analysis of La Chanson de Roland and La Canso de la Crozada, Jason Moreau
Adaptation as Creation in Marina Tsvetaeva's Tsar-Devitsa and Phaedra, Lana Putintsev
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Sonorous Silence: Debussy translates Mallarmé, Anna Bachman
Biafra: Discussion of Post-colonialism and Nationalism in Chinua Achebe's Girls at War and Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra, Nenad Filipovic
title unknown; pertained to Brazilian television, Steven Gonzagowski
Going to Intertexual Hell, Francisco Nahoe
Performing Gendered Piety: Cross-dressing the Confraternity and Convent, Christine Scippa
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
n/a, Ekaterina Alexandrova
Integrating the Irrational: Hypertrophy and Autoeroticism in Lolita and The Nose, Natalia Ivanova
Tracing the Shadows of Present Foremothers: The Textual Performance of Embodied Memory in Ana Historic and La Maison Trestler, Jennifer James
The Poet and his Song, Meredith Kolar
Germanness in Nineteenth-century Russian Literature, Yunhui Lu
Witnessing the Trauma of Basque National Identity in the Films of Julio Medem, Benjamin Pearson
Cartographies of Crossing: Poetics of Resistance and the Construction of Fluid Identity in the *c3E Poetry of Federico García Lorca and Langston Hughes, Evelyn Scaramella
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
title unknown; pertained to the French romance novel, Kelly Fender
n/a, Annegret Hector
