Department of Romance StudiesYour dissertation committee will usually be the same faculty members who served on your Portfolio Examination committee. With the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), you may have two faculty members as co-directors in lieu of a second reader. In addition, a penultimate draft of the dissertation should be sent to the other three (or four) readers well in advance of the defense in order to anticipate any problems and take into account relevant criticisms in preparing the final version of the dissertation. You should check with the chair of your committee to see how far in advance the complete draft should be sent before the exam. You should also bear in mind the need for time for revisions of the thesis between the defense date and the deadline for submission of the finalized thesis in order to graduate on time.
