Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Fictions of the Death Penalty, Matthew Kufta
Anastrophē: Repetition and Interpretation in the Antigone of Sophocles, Charles Pletcher
Don't Shoot the Messenger: Anastrophe in Sophocles' Antigone and Griselda Gambaro's Antigona furiosa, Charles Pletcher
Don't Shoot the Messenger: Anastrophe in Sophocles' Antigone and Griselda Gambaro's Antigona furiosa, Charles Pletcher
The Museum of Futurity: Temporality in Walter Benjamin’s Moscow and Vladimir Nabokov’s A Guide to Berlin, Jessica Resvick
The Translation Which Is Not One: Nancy Huston’s Limbes/Limbo and the Status of the Bilingual Text, Rachel Starr
Traveling Through Fantastic Modernity: Reconsidering Time Travel as a Landmark of Historical Fiction, Baoli Yang
Traveling Through Fantastic Modernity: Reconsidering Time Travel Fiction as a Landmark of History Fiction, Baoli Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Translating Lise Gauvin's Letters from an Other: Can the Subaltern Be Translated and Can Roxane Speak?, Sahin Acikgoz
Let America Be America Again' (Langston Hughes): Toward a Postcolonial Citizenship, Nathan Bullock
Beyond Petersburg - there is nothing': Chaos and the Formless Void in Andre Bely's Petersburg, Isobel Markham
Speak to Avoid Speaking: A Derridean Reading of Meister Eckhart's Vernacular Sermons, Yun Ni
Legal Discourses and Identities: The Effects of the Dysfunctional Mixed Court in Late Imperial China, Yun (Rain) Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
n/a, Amber Gode
Paintbrushes to Pixels: Poetry Publication in the Cartonera and Virtual Commons, Elizabeth Gray
Oblomov and Hegel: Circles of Time and Structure in Dialectical Progression, Victoria Juharyan
Oblomov, Hegel, and Circles of Time and Structure, Armine (Victoria) Juharyn
Greater than Zero: Censorship and the Missing Pages of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Zero, Bivona Kristol
THE TASK OF THE SURVIVOR IN RUTH KLUGER'S WEITER LEBEN (1992) AND STILL ALIVE (2001), Darrah Lustig
The Task of the Survivor in Ruth Kluger's weiter leben (1992) and STILL ALIVE (2001), Darrah Lustig
SCHlLLER ALS ARZT: THE THEATER AS CLINIC, PHARMACY AND MADHOUSE, Johanna Meyer
The Clinic in the Playhouse, Johanna Meyer
Angels in the Mirror: Performance and Speech Acts in Sab by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Dulceany Roger David
A Theory of Musicality: Verlaine's Rhythmic Influence on Debussy, Lara Roizen
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The last word unfinished: Dantean Intertextuality in the Poetry of Timothy Liu, Shanahan Charif
Melodrama in Performance: Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano, Pauline Gonzales
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
Diagnosing the Female Read: Metaphors of Infection in The Heavenly Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Rachel 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 Palimpsests, 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
Chronotope of the East-West Encounter: Byron and Lermontov's Deviation in Orientalization of Women, Hwa Jung Lee
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
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
