Recent Dissertations

Anthony Contreras, “Tant Ai Fet Mal: Reflections on Violence in the Old French Cycle of Guillaume d’Orange” (2021)
Nathan Dize, “The F/Utility of Care: Haitian Literature and the Practice of Mourning” (2021)
Jacob Abell, “Medieval and Postmodern Virtual Realities: Purgatory, Disembodiment, and the Ends of Experience from Marie de France to Dante to Merleau-Ponty” (2021)
Kathryn Devine, “Un Je[u] de langage: La folie féminine et l’écriture de soi au XXIem siècle” (2021)
Abby Broughton, “Social Reading: Developing a Multi-Literate Community in the French Classroom” (2020)
Bonnie Griffin, “Voyages Towards Utopia: Mapping Utopian Spaces in Early-Modern French Prose” (2020)
Carlos Amado, “Immigration, Space & Identity Transformation in Contemporary French War Film: (2020)
Cara Wilson, “Tondues, Rasées, Défrisées: The Therapeutic Re-memberings of Francophone Women’s Hairstories” (2019)
Caroline Farrior Boone Rockefeller, “Madame de Lafayett’s Exploration of Religious Toleration in La Comtesse de Tende, La Princesse de Montpensier, and La Pricesse de Clèves” (2019)
Roxane Pajoul, “Identités contrôlées : exposer les tabous dans la littérature et culture antillaises” (2018)
Raquelle K. Bostow, “Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies”(2017)
Jamie Kathryn Butler, “The L2 Motivational Self System in the American University Foreign Language Classroom” (2016)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, “Subverting Empire: Gendered Narratives of Anti-colonial Resistance in Francophone Literature and Politics, 1939-1960 (2015)
Julian Ainsworth Ledford, “Performing the Novel: Vocal Poetics of Novelistic Discourse” (2014)
April Eileen Stevens, “Staging the Americas in Eighteenth-Century France and its Colonies” (2014)
Rachel Elizabeth Pope (nee Early), “Modes of personal Presence in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes” (2014)
Laura Nelson, “Diabolic Deeds: Transgression and Corporeality in the Histories Tragiques” (2013)
David Santiago Mora, “Guests of Existence, Hosts of Poetic Dewelling, Mallarmé & Blanchot” (2013)
Daniel Ridge, “Pierre Louÿs, jeune homme de lettres”(2012)
Robert J. Watson, “Cities of Origin, Cites of Exile: Maghrebi Jewish Diasporic Life-Writing in French, 1985 – 2011” (2012)
Eva Marguerite Suzanne Dessein, “Learner Identity Development in Multilingual Context: A Case Study of the Study Abroad Experience” (2012)
Lisa Olivia Grenvicz,“Redefining the “Supplement” in 18^th-century French Travel Literature: 1750-1789” (2012)
Louis Betty, “Houellebecq, Philosophe: Reading Michel Houellebecq as Philosophy, Theology , and Ideology” (2011)
Rachel Nisselson, “Remembering the Future: Francophone Perspectives on the Israel-Palestine Conflict” (2010)
Leah Tolbert Lyons, “Making Sense of Madness: A Study of the Theme of Madness in Selected Novels by Mariam Bȗ, Ken Bugul and Myriam Warner-Vieyra” (2007)
Shirin Esther Edwin, “Négocier pour (sur) vivre: la preprésentation de l’Islam dans les productions romanesque francophones de l’Afrique de l’Ouest” (2005)
Julie Ann Huntington, “Transcultural Rhythms: An Exploration of Rhythm, Music and the Drum in a selection of Francophone Novels from West Africa and the Caribbean” (2005)
Alistaire Tallent, “Defying Domesticity: Prostitute-Heroines of Eighteenth-Century French Memoir Novels and the Public Sphere (2005)
Heather J. Garrett, “Nothing to Say: Disclosures of Silence in the Narratives of Louis-Rene des Forets, Julién Gracq, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Fritz Lang” (2004)
Bérénice Virginie Le Marchand, “Mise en scène du miroir: le spectaculaire dans les blasons et emblems de la renaissance et les contes de fees du dix-septième siècle en france” (2004)
Deborah Barnard, “Marginality and Mixed Marriage in the Works of Albert Memmi” (2003)
Cècile Guillard, “Baudelaire malgré tout: Présence de Baudelaire dans l’oeuvre d’Yves Bonnefoy poète/critique d’art” (2002)
Lara Semones, “An Examination of the Effects of Peer Interaction in a Computer-Mediated Environment during the Early Phase of the Writing Process” (2001)