| Name | Defense Date | Dissertation/ Prospectus Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosado, Nasanin | In Progress | "Monstrous Mothers: The Womb as Grammar in the Francophone black Atlantic" | Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Felwine Sarr |
| Miled, Samar | In Progress | "The Representation of Resistance and Revolution in Tunisian Literature and Arts" | Felwine Sarr |
| Erickson-Kery, Ian | 11/18/2024 | "Contested Territories: The Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Design in Mexico and Brazil, 1963-88" | Esther Gabara |
| Starace, Lorenza | 5/30/2024 | "Gender, Genre, and the Novel" | Roberto Dainotto, Anne Garreta |
| Vargas, Laura | 4/3/2024 | "Toxic Narratives: The Role of Poisoning in Contemporary Caribbean Novels" | Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Richard Rosa |
| Rispoli, Tania | 4/2/2024 | "The Politics of Care: Feminist Infrastructures of Love and Labor" | Michael Hardt, Roberto Dainotto |
| Lopez-Madrigal, Ofelia | 4/1/2024 | "After the Skin: Representations of Black Womanhood in Cuban Literature (1882-1976)" | Lamonte Aidoo |
| Incoronato, Ciro | 3/26/2024 | "The Biopower of the Oldest Mafia: Economics, Biopolitics, and Ecology in the Mediterranean Society" | Michael Hardt, Roberto Dainotto |
| Bradley, Isabel | 7/17/2023 | “Mapping Manioc: Grounded Relations in the Caribbean” | Laurent Dubois, Deborah Jenson |
| Carnemolla, Cristina | 4/3/2023 | "From the "Southern Question" to the "Southern Thought": South as a Method" | Roberto Dainotto, Walter Mignolo |
| Chanod, Camille | 3/31/2023 | "The Sound and the Flurry of 1970s French and Italian Cinema" | Anne Garreta, Roberto Dainotto |
| Romera-Figueroa, Elia | 3/24/2023 | "Gendering Anti-Francoism: Cantautoras in Spain (1952-1986)" | Stephanie Sieburth, Jose María Rodríguez-García |
| Simoes Nogueira, Marcelo | 9/30/2022 | "Sound Matters in Poetry, Music, and Arts Under Dictatorship in Brazil" | Esther Gabara |
| Valderrama Negron, Ninel | 3/30/2022 | "Governing Infrastructures: Crafting Loyalty While Engendering Dissent in the Spanish Transpacific Empire" | Esther Gabara |
| Enloe, Caroline Joy (C.J.) | 3/18/2022 | "Molding “Economic Woman”: Conflicting Portrayals of Women’s Economic Roles in Magazines Published During the Franco Dictatorship" | Stephanie Sieburth |
| Mulligan, Joseph | 3/16/2022 | "Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism" | José María Rodríguez García |
| Tybinko, Anna Catherine | 3/30/2021 | "Urban Borderlands: African Writers in Precarious Spain, 1985-2008" | Lamonte Aidoo, Stephanie Sieburth |
| Nunn, Tessa Ashlin | 3/15/2021 | "Writing Women Dance" | Toril Moi |
| Maxymuk, Kathleen Kelsey | 3/3/2021 | "Resonant Wandering Forms: Tracing the Trajectories of the Cinemas of Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette" | Anne-Gaëlle Saliot |
| Dulceany, Roger David (David) | 6/30/2020 | "Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico" | Richard Rosa |
| Screpanti, Filippo Cornelio Frances (C. F.) | 6/2/2020 | "The representation of Barbary corso in the French and Italian early modern literature" | Michele Longino |
| Granacki, Alyssa Madeline | 3/31/2020 | "Boccaccio's Women Philosophers: Defining Philosophy, Debating Gender in the Decameron and Beyond" | Martin Eisner |
| Sánchez-Rodríguez, Nicolás | 3/30/2020 | "The Minted-City: Money, Value, and Crises of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (1822-1903)" | Richard Rosa |
| Whitehouse Gordillo, Matthew Steven | 3/25/2020 | "Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel" | Richard Rosa |
| Iber, Laurel Marie | 3/24/2020 | "Troubles in Representation: (Con)figuring Non-Binary Sex in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Art, and Medicine" | David Bell, Anne-Gaëlle Saliot |
| Blaise, Sandie | 5/9/2019 | "Transnational Trickster: Publishing, Representing, and Marketing Dany Laferrière" | Laurent Dubois |
| Bianchi, Pietro | 4/1/2019 | "The Restlessness of the Imaginary" | David Bell, Fredric Jameson |
| Serrano, Silvia | 3/22/2019 | "Intermedial Sutatenza: Media[ted] Narratives of Community Making in Rural Colombia" | Richard Rosa |
| Di Lorenzo, Fiammetta | 3/21/2019 | "Subaltern Readers in Nineteenth-Century French and Italian Novels" | Robero Dainotto, Anne Garreta |
| Castaldo, Achille | 3/19/2019 | "Narrative experience and social conflict. Italy, France, 1943-1977" | Roberto Dainotto; Chair, Anne-Gaëlle Saliot; Co-chair |
| Stempniak, Katarzyna (Kasia) | 3/18/2019 | "Outfitting Paris: Fashion, Space, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture" | Deborah Jenson; Chair & Danid Bell; Co-Chair |
| Ricco, Giulia | 3/1/2019 | "Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil" | Lamonte Aidoo, Robero Dainotto |
| Marini, Maria Candela | 5/14/2018 | "War, Photography, and Visual Citizens: Territorial and Visual Expansion in the Construction of Chile and Argentina (1860s-1880s)" | Esther Gabara, Richard Rosa |
| Ugarte Fernández, Ana Irene | 5/9/2018 | "Island Laboratories: Literary Monsters, Diseases, and Pharmacopeias in the Hispanic Caribbean” | Richard Rosa |
| Banella, Laura | 3/28/2018 | "Rewriting Dante: the Creation of an Author from the Middle Ages to Modernity" | Martin Eisner |
| Reist, Stephanie V | 3/23/2018 | “'Christ the Redeemer Turns His Back on Us:' Black Urban Struggle in Rio's Baixada Fluminense" | Walter Mignolo |
| 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" | Roberto Dainotto |
| Colon, Eglantine | 5/6/2013 | "Récits des bords des villes. Renouveaux esthétiques dans la littérature et le cinéma français contemporains" | David Bell |
| 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 |
| Castroverde, Aaron | 4/5/2013 | "Jose Rizal and the Spanish Novel" | Walter Mignolo, Stephanie Sieburth |
| 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 |
| Heitzman, Brenna | 4/1/2013 | "Motherhood and the Eighteenth Century Novel: Transformations and Transgressions in the Works of Sophie Cottin" | Philip Stewart |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bacarreza, Leonardo | 3/14/2012 | "Food, Eating, and the Anxiety of Belonging in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature and Art" | Margaret Greer |
| Ozierski, Margaret | 12/14/2011 | "Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject" | Michael Hardt |
| 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 |
| Gleisner, Nichole | 8/19/2011 | "Toward a Poetics of Witness: Apollinaire, Cendrars and the French Soldier-Poets of the First World War" | Alice Kaplan |
| Curtis, Lesley | 5/6/2011 | “Utopian (post)colonies: Rewriting race and gender after the Haitian Revolution” | Deborah Jenson |
| King-Scheu, Ashley | 4/5/2011 | “What Can Philosophical Literature Do? The Contribution of Simone de Beauvoir” | Toril Moi |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Barros, Joanna Maria | 5/17/2010 | “Re-membering Identities: Terror, Exile and Rebirth in Hispanic Film and Literature” | Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián |
| Cobian, Laura | 4/6/2010 | “Transcending Borders: The Transnational Construction of Mexicanness, 1920-1935” | Esther Gabara |
| Fernandez Osco, Marcelo | 12/8/2009 | "El Ayllu y La reconstitucion Del Pensamiento Aymara" | Walter Mignolo |
| Ingram, Rebecca | 12/7/2009 | "Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Moderinzation, 1905-1933" | Stephanie Sieburth |
| Menendez-Conde, Ernesto | 11/17/2009 | "Arte abstracto e indeologias esteticas en Cuba" | Fredric Jameson |
| Amin, Kadji | 10/30/2009 | “Agencies of Abjection: Jean Genet and Subaltern Socialities” | Marc Schachter, Michele Longino |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LaMarca, Mary Ann | 12/2/2008 | "The Theater of Sartre and Giraudoux: Guilt and the War Within" | Alice Kaplan |
| Cabezas, Oscar | 8/8/2008 | “Soberanía y Subalternidad: El agotamiento de la Izquierda” | Teresa Vilaros |
| Pouzet, Virginie | 4/14/2008 | "L'impressionisme litteraire: capture d'un insaisissable" | David Bell |
| 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 |
| Canteli Vigon, Marcos | 4/7/2008 | "Transitar el Parpadeo: Seis Poetas Españoles" | Ariel Dorfman |
| 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 |
