Department of Romance StudiesGraduation with Distinction:
Victoria Johnson, French Studies
Advisor: Helen Solterer
Thesis: L'art et la terreur dans l'après-attentats, Paris 2015 – Fred Le Chevalier et Renald Luzier
Jailene Vazquez, Romance Studies (Graduation with Distinction in a Field Outside the Student's Major)
Advisor: Michele Longino
Thesis: Fictionalized Italian Gender Relations Through Ferrante and Ammaniti
Graduation with Highest Distinction:
Emily Aarons, Spanish Studies
Advisor: Joan Clifford
Thesis: Comunicación y confianza: La influencia cultural en la comunicación entre doctores y pacientes latinos en Durham
Lydia Bradford, Romance Studies
Advisor: Deborah Jenson
Thesis: Lavi pwezi kreyòl ayisyen soti nan lane 1975 rive 2000: yon vitrin idantite ak rezistans lengwistik
Benjamin Brissette, Spanish Studies
Advisor: Elvira Vilches
Thesis: La República de las Letras: De escribanos y letrados a escribientes y lectores
Daniel Lam, French Studies
Advisor: Julie Tetel
Thesis: Une perspective non-créoliste de la complexité des créoles: Une analyse comparative de la complexité cachée en créole haïtien et en vietnamien
Vania Ma, Spanish Studies
Advisor: Richard Rosa
Thesis: Come be my guest (or not): National Identity, Hospitality, and Construction of a Literary Genealogy of Haitian-Dominican Bordering Ideologies in Three Dominican Foundational Fictions
Hannah Morris, French Studies
Advisor: Helen Solterer
Thesis: Une Biographie Critique de Marie-Thérèse Eyquem : Pionnière du Sport, du Féminisme, et de la Politique