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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

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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

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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

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Don't Shoot the Messenger: Anastrophe in Sophocles' Antigone and Griselda Gambaro's Antigona furiosa, Charles Pletcher

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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

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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

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LYING BY OMISSION? A Comparative Analysis of Jorge Luis Borges's Palmeras salvajes and William Faulkner's Wild Palms, Amber Gode

n/a, Amber Gode

Paintbrushes to Pixels: Poetry Publication in the Cartonera and Virtual Commons, Elizabeth Gray

Assembling Tiles, Exploding Roofs: The Home in Octavio Paz’s Basho An and Elizabeth Bishop’s Jerónimo’s House, Roy Guzman

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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

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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

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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

Exceptional States of Exception: The Fragmented Political in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Ying Cheng

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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

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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

"Uncanny Fluency in Another's Tongue": Philippine National Literature of José Rizal and Carlos Bulosan, Anna Juan

"… 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

Living Language: Emergent Voices in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia and Jacques Godbout's Salut Galarneau!, Kyle Stepa

Comedia sin título: Federico García Lorca's Epic Shakespearean Theater, Carson Thomas

Between Tradition and Traditionalism: The Heritage of "Classical" in the Marcus Aurelius Equestrian Statue and in Richard Meier's Museum for the Ara Pacis Augustuae, Filippo Trentin

Diagnosing the Female Reader: Metaphors of Infection in The Heavenly Twins, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Rachael White

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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

Writing at the Borders of Europe: Language, Originality and Exile in the Works of Panait Istrati and Jorge Semprún, Oana Castu

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

Subversive/Subverting Meta-Narratives: Religious Rhetoric and the Fictional Journal in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Journal d'un cure de campagne, Jason Lewallen

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

Negotiating the In-Between: Cartographies of Feminine Spaces in Soraya Nini's Ils disent que je suis une Beurette, Nassera Chohra's Volevo diventare Bianca, and Igiaba Scego's Rhoda, Judith Arnold

"The Eurhythmy of a Branch Outlined Against the Sky": Translation and the Failed Return in Los pasos perdidos and La muralla verde, Allison Cook

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

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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

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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

Relocating the Self: Place and Personal Identity in Juan José Millás's Volver a casa (1990) and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001), Michael Hoyer

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