Name |
Defense Date |
Dissertation Title |
Director |
| Rodriguez-Villar, Alejandra | 6/19/2017 | "Memory, Will and Understanding in El veneno y la triaca by Calderón de la Barca: A Cognitive Approach". | Margaret Greer & Deborah Jenson |
| Dandridge, Eliza | 6/15/2017 | "Cowboys and Indians in Africa: The Far West, French Algeria, and the Comics Western in France" | Laurent Dubois |
| Suhey, Amanda | 11/15/2016 | "Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship" | Esther Gabara |
| Patterson, Reginald D. | 7/28/2016 |
"Commandeering the Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fables in Flight" |
Laurent Dubois & Michaeline Crichlow |
| Prigiotti, Giuseppe | 10/28/2015 | "Judaism and Catholicism in Italy during the Belle Époque: A Comparative Approach" |
Roberto Dainotto |
| Cangiano, Domenico | 10/16/2015 | "Wanderers in Contradiction. The Italian Road to Modernism (1903-1922)" | Roberto Dainotto |
| Daniel Astorga Poblete | 4/29/2015 | "La Colonización del Tlacahuitl: La invención del espacio en México (XVI-XVII)" | Walter Mignolo |
| Jeannette Acevedo-Rivera | 7/28/2014 | "Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain." | David Bell & Stephanie Sieburth |
| Repinecz, Martin |
6/7/2013 |
"Southern Europe Unraveled: Migrant Resistance and Rewriting in Spain and Italy" |
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Colon, Eglantine |
5/6/2013 |
"Récits des bords des villes. Renouveaux esthétiques dans la littérature et le cinéma français contemporains" |
David Bell |
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O'Halley, Meaghan |
4/9/2013 |
"Placing Islam: Alternative Visions of the Morisco Expulsion and Spanish-Muslim-Christian Relations in the Sixteenth Century.” |
Margaret Greer |
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Castroverde, Aaron |
4/5/2013 |
"Jose Rizal and the Spanish Novel" |
Walter Mignolo & Stephanie Sieburth; Co-Chairs |
|
Dieudé, Aude |
4/2/2013 |
"Toussaint Louverture and Haiti’s History as Muse: Legacies of Colonial and Post-Colonial Resistance in Francophone African and Caribbean Corpus." |
Deborah Jenson & Achille Mbembe; Co-Chairs |
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Heitzman, Brenna |
4/1/2013 |
"Motherhood and the Eighteenth Century Novel: Transformations and Transgressions in the Works of Sophie Cottin." |
Philip Stewart |
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Reinaga, Lucia |
3/29/2013 |
“Caja negra y Por favor, rebobinar: cine de culto, blockbusters, rock, pop, e intervenciones sobre el campo cultural.” |
Richard Rosa |
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Gloag, Oliver |
4/13/2012 |
"Représentations coloniales de Lahontan à Camus." |
Fredric Jameson |
|
Wu, Joyce |
4/10/2012 |
“Baudelaire's Responses to Death: (In)articulation, Mourning and Suicide.” |
Deborah Jenson |
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Chirila, Ileana Daniela |
4/6/2012 |
"La République réinventée. Littératures transculturelles dans la France contemporaine. In english: Re-Inventing the Republic. Transcultural Literatures in Contemporary France." |
Deborah Jenson |
|
Mahon, Margaret |
4/6/2012 |
“Questioning the Writing Cure: Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa Trauma Fiction.” |
Laurent Dubois |
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Doriott Anderson, Vanessa |
3/26/2012 |
"Subjects of History: Identity and Memory in the First Person Narratives of Patrick Modiano, Assia Djebar, and Hervé Guibert." |
Alice Kaplan |
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Bacarreza, Leonardo |
3/14/2012 |
"Food, Eating, and the Anxiety of Belonging in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature and Art." |
Margaret Greer |
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Ozierski, Margaret |
12/14/2011 |
"Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject. " |
Michael Hardt |
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Nicholson, Brantley |
9/9/2011 |
"A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Contemporary Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of '72". |
Ariel Dorfman & Walter Mignolo; Co-Chairs |
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Gleisner, Nichole |
8/19/2011 |
"Toward a Poetics of Witness: Apollinaire, Cendrars and the French Soldier-Poets of the First World War" |
Alice Kaplan |
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Curtis, Lesley |
5/6/2011 |
“Utopian (post)colonies: Rewriting race and gender after the Haitian Revolution.” |
Deborah Jenson |
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King-Scheu, Ashley |
4/5/2011 |
“What Can Philosophical Literature Do? The Contribution of Simone de Beauvoir.” |
Toril Moi |
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O'Neil-Henry, Anne Therese |
3/31/2011 |
"Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola." |
David Bell |
|
Mallory, Heather Alison |
3/1/2011 |
"Plating the Revolution: Expressions of National Anxieties and Aspirations in French Culinary Discourse 1969 - 1996" |
Michael Hardt & Linda Orr; Co-Chairs |
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Rodriguez-Balanta, Beatriz Eugenia |
9/24/2010 |
"Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 -1907" |
Esther Gabara |
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Erwin, Zachary |
9/10/2010 |
"Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)." |
Stephanie Sieburth |
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Barros, Joanna Maria |
5/17/2010 |
“Re-membering Identities: Terror, Exile and Rebirth in Hispanic Film and Literature” |
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián |
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Cobian, Laura |
4/6/2010 |
“Transcending Borders: The Transnational Construction of Mexicanness, 1920-1935”. |
Esther Gabara |
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Fernandez Osco, Marcelo |
12/8/2009 |
"El Ayllu y La reconstitucion Del Pensamiento Aymara." |
Walter Mignolo |
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Ingram, Rebecca |
12/7/2009 |
"Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Moderinzation, 1905-1933." |
Stephanie Sieburth |
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Menendez-Conde, Ernesto |
11/17/2009 |
"Arte abstracto e indeologias esteticas en Cuba" |
Fredric Jameson |
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Amin, Kadji |
10/30/2009 |
“Agencies of Abjection: Jean Genet and Subaltern Socialities.” |
Marc Schachter & Michele Longino; (co-chair) |
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Lopez-Martin, Francisco Javier |
5/5/2009 |
“Representaciones temporales en la construcción del espacio y el sujeto atlántico en el siglo XVII” |
Margaret Greer |
|
Kushner, Scott |
4/10/2009 |
"Transnational Blogospheres: Virtual Politics, Death, and Lurking in France and the U.S." |
Linda Orr |
|
Serwer Secrist, Karen |
1/16/2009 |
"Construyendo nuestro pedacito de patria: Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago" |
Antonio Viego |
|
True, Micah |
1/15/2009 |
"Writing Amerindian Culture: Ethnography in the Seventeenth Century Jesuit Relations from New France" |
Michele Longino |
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Junguito Pope, Andrea |
12/2/2008 |
“Genealogía de imaginarios geográficos Colombianos: Representaciones culturales, espacio, estado y desplazamiento en el proceso de (des)integración nacional (1850-2008)” |
Gabriela Nouzeilles & Walter Mignolo; (co-chair) |
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LaMarca, Mary Ann |
12/2/2008 |
"The Theater of Sartre and Giraudoux: Guilt and the War Within" |
Alice Kaplan |
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Cabezas, Oscar |
8/8/2008 |
“Soberanía y Subalternidad: El agotamiento de la Izquierda” |
Teresa Vilaros |
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Pouzet, Virginie |
4/14/2008 |
"L'impressionisme litteraire: capture d'un insaisissable" |
David Bell |
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Sadek, Isis |
4/14/2008 |
"Tierras, regiones y zonas: poéticas y políticas de espacios no-urbanos en los sesenta en Brasil y Argentina" |
Gabriela Nouzeilles |
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Canteli Vigon, Marcos |
4/7/2008 |
"Transitar el Parpadeo: Seis Poetas Españoles" |
Ariel Dorfman |
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Dupont, Nathalie |
12/6/2007 |
“Poèmes délirants, sujets disloqués: Déviance, négativité et réflexivité dans l'écriture contemporaine française” |
Toril Moi |
|
Garcia Soormally, Mina |
9/20/2007 |
"Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire". |
Margaret Greer |
|
Saenz de Vigera, Luis |
8/8/2007 |
"Dena Ongi Dabil! Todo Va Dabuten!: Tensión Y Heterogeneidad de la Cultura Radical Vasca en el Límite del Estado Democrático (1978-...)" |
Teresa Vilaros |
|
Illas, Edgar |
5/23/2007 |
"The Euphoric Politics of Postmodern Barcelona". |
Teresa Vilaros |
|
Krauel, Javier |
7/7/2006 |
"Spiritual Bonds and the Singularity of Literature: Foundations, Language, and Intellectuals in Spain, 1892-1945" |
Alberto Moreiras |
|
Hernandez-Salvan, Marta |
7/6/2006 |
"Tiempo Muerto: Poéticas del Trauma en la Postrevolución Cubana" |
Alberto Moreiras |