Students Awarded Doctoral Degrees in French Studies, 1990-2009
| Maria Moreno Ph.D 2009 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Aesthetic Experimentation and the Search for a Caribbean Idiom |
| Kathryn Chenoweth Ph.D 2009 Director: Réda Bensmaïa & Virginia Krause |
Writing in French "et non autrement" 1529-1592. |
| Sharon Larson Ph.D 2009 Director: Gretchen Schultz |
Femme de Siécle: Malevolent Female Sexuality, Masculinity and Linguistic
Authority in the Decadent Novel.
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| Elizabeth Ferreira Ph.D 2009 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Transcending Nature and the Ordinary: Portrayals of
the Female Adolescent in Montherlant's Theater. |
| Dorothy Pendleton Helm Arthur Ph.D 2008 Director: Gretchen Schultz |
Autour De Cénie: Le Témoignage Éistolaire De Françoise De Graffigny Sur Son Succs Théâral En 1750. |
| Shahrzad Zahedi Ph.D 2008 Director: Michel-André Bossy |
Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative. |
| Adele Parker Ph.D 2008 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
The Immobile Voyage: Textual Movements in Contemporary French-Language Poetry. |
| Claudia Esposito Ph.D 2007 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Mediterranean Imaginaries: Writing Transcultural Subjectivities in Contemporary Francophone Literature. Assistant Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages University of Massachusetts-Boston More info |
| Jean François Fournier Ph.D 2007 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Présence du Rire et du Sourire Dans Les Oeuvres Poétiques de Charles Baudelaire. Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Languages, Literatures & Linguistics Syracuse University |
| Heidi Brevik-Zender Ph.D 2006 Director: Gretchen Schultz |
From Fashion Writing to Writing Fashion: Modernity, Gender and La Mode in the Literature of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature University of California at Riverside More Info |
| Meadow Dibble-Dieng Ph.D 2006 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Liberation Journals: 20th Century Francophone Literary Journals and the Struggle for Sovereignty. Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Colby College. More Info |
| Katharine Harrington Ph.D 2005 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Writing Outside the Box: Exploring a Nomadic Alternative in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. Assistant Prof. of French, University of Maine at Fort Kent. More info |
| Jean-Frédéric Hennuy Ph.D 2004 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Des iconoclastes heureux et sans complexe : Pour une dialectique des littératures francophones. Member of the Faculty, Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures, Bennington College. More Info |
| Nanette Fornabai Ph.D 2003 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
(In)Humanizing Norms: Machines, Fantoms and Detectives in Modern French Popular Culture. Assistant Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, University of California at Irvine. More info |
| Lisa Walters Ph.D 2003 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Teaching the Nation: Pedagogical Strategies of Postcolonial Francophone Women Writers and Filmmakers . |
| Heather McCoy Ph.D 2003 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
"Staging the Algerian War: Theatrical Responses To The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name" French Program Language Coordinator, Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, The Pennsylvania State University. More Info |
| Aaron Prevots Ph.D 2002 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Poetry as Authentic Speech: Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Réda. Assistant Prof., Dept. of Modern Languages, Southwestern University. More info |
| Marie-Chantal Killeen Ph.D 2001 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Au seuil de l'indicible: le "jeu insensé d'écrire" chez Jabès, Blanchot et Duras. Essai sur l'indicible, Jabès, Blanchot, Duras . Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2004. Rhodes Trust D.M. Stewart Fellow in Modern Languages and Tutor in French, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. More info. |
| Nadia Sahely Ph.D 2001 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Unity, Dissymmetry, Utopia: Visions of the Couple in Modern France. Assistant Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Baldwin-Wallace College. More Info |
| Eduardo Antonio Febles Ph.D 2000 Director: Edward Ahearn |
Explosive Narratives: Anarchy and the Demise of Naturalism in Zola's "Germinal," "Paris," and "Travail." Associate Prof. Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Simmons College.More Info |
| Christine Marie Gaspar Ph.D 2000 Director: Inge Crosman Wimmers |
The Female Literary Quest: The Intertextual Community of Women Writers in Maryse Condé's "La Migration des coeurs" and Marguerite Duras's "Emily L." |
| Ran-E Hong Ph.D 2000 Director: Michel-André Bossy |
L'impossible social selon Molière . Collection Biblio 17, 2002, N o 135. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. |
| Seth Adam Whidden Ph.D 2000 Director: Edward Ahearn |
Subversions in Figure and Form: The Post-Parnassian Women and Versification of Arthur Rimbaud and Marie Krysinska. Marie Krysinska. Rythmes pittoresques: édition critique établie par Seth Whidden. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2003. Associate Prof., Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Villanova University. More info |
| Thomas Armbrecht Ph.D 1999 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Autres Voix: Sexuality and Literary Genre in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Green. Associate Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin at Madison. More info |
| Deborah Julie Hahn Ph.D 1999 Director: Lewis Seifert |
The School for Widows: Gender, (Re)Marriage, And Comedy On The Absolutist Stage. Coordinator of Scholarships and Fellowships, Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Brandeis University. More Info |
| Jacinta Wright Ph.D 1999 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Reigning Men: Constructions of Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Lecturer in French Language and Literature, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Intercultural Studies Section, Dublin City University. More info |
| Laurence Huughe Ph.D 1998 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
"Regard interdit, son coupé": problématique du regard et représentation chez les romancières algériennes et beures d'Assia Djebar à Nina Bouraoui. Teacher of French, Milton Academy. |
| Robyn Brothers Ph.D 1997 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Literary Ethics and the Problem of Moral Rationalism in Proust and Sartre. |
| Laura M. Knowlton Ph.D 1997 Director: Edward Ahearn |
Healthy Appetites: Diet and the Representation of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France |
| Anne Richardot Ph.D 1997 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Le rire des Lumières . Paris: Champion, 2002. Femmes et libertinage au XVIII e siècle ou les caprices de Cythère . Ed. Anne Richardot. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2003. Maîtresse de conférences en littérature française à l'Université de Lille III |
| Valerie Key Orlando Ph.D 1996 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Beyond Postcolonial Discourse: New Problematics of Feminine Identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature. Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity In Francophone Literature of the Maghreb . Athens : Ohio University Press, 1999. |
| Angelina Overvold Ph.D 1996 Director: Henry Majewski |
La mère de son père: George Sand entre l'autobiographie et l'autofiction. The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African literature . Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. |
| Marjorie Salvodon Ph.D 1996 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
Ph.D. 1996 - Shifting Boundaries: The Interplay of Place and Displacement in Selected Contemporary Francophone Narratives. Associate Prof., Dept. of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University . More info |
| Lucie Ashraf Ph.D 1995 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Le défi sollersien. |
| Jennifer Gage Ph.D 1994 Director: Réda Bensmaïa |
The Translator Translated: Fictional Economies of Translation. Professional Translator and Cataloguing Assistant, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University |
| Felicia Kirk Ph.D 1994 Director: Naomi Schor |
Visual Incriminations: Female Criminality in French Naturalist Fiction . |
| Jody McQuillan Ph.D 1994 Director: Michel-André Bossy |
The Games Fools Play: Multivalence in the Sottie . |
| T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Ph.D 1994 Director: Edward Ahearn |
Through the White Male Gaze: Black Venus. Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Negritude Women . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002. |
| Anna Klosowska Roberts Ph.D 1994 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Le thème de l'inceste dans le roman français du Moyen Age: Roman du comte d'Anjou, Roman de Thèbes. Queer Love in the Middle Ages . New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Violence against Women in Medieval Texts . Ed. Anna Roberts. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Assistant Prof., Dept. of French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio |
| Eileen Angelini Ph.D 1993 Director: Inge Crosman Wimmers |
L'écriture de soi: Strategies of "Writing the Self" in the Works of Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Strategies of Writing the Self in the French Modern Novel: C'est moi, je crois . Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2002. Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY |
| Annabelle Cone Ph.D 1993 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Write at Home: Representations of Domestic Space in Sand, Colette and Duras. Senior Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College. |
| Nathalie Rogers Ph.D 1993 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Fictions du scandale: l'héroïne romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle. Fictions du scandale: corps féminin et réalisme romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle . West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1998. Associate Professor, French Department, Wellesley College |
| Annie K. Smart Ph.D 1993 Director: Henry Majewski |
"Submersive" Mothers: Statehood and the Ideal of Motherhood from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Flora Tristan. Associate Prof., Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Saint Louis University. |
| Debra Terzian Ph.D 1993 Director: Naomi Schor |
Growing Up Female in Fiction: Reading Women's Developmental Narrative in Madame de Lafayette, Germaine de Staël, and George Sand. Associate Director, Programs Management, International Education Administration, Boston University |
| Carol Lee Wilson Ph.D 1993 Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
Exotica: Narratives of the Exotic Body and the Fin-de-siècle . |
| Marie-Dominique Boyce Ph.D 1992 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Le dialogisme dans le roman rustique. Lector, French, Yale University |
| Sylvia Hatcher-Smith Ph.D 1992 Director: Camille Bauer |
Religion in Ousmane Sembène's Novels and Films . |
| Ana-Maria Ramirez Ph.D 1992 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Autobiography as an Experience of Communication. Visiting Assistant Prof., St. Mary's College, MD |
| Scott R. Russell Ph.D 1992 Director: Henry Majewski |
Héroïsme et bâtardise: Alexandre Dumas, Georges . |
| Laurent Ditmann Ph.D 1991 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
La guerre et ses mots : problématique et pratique du roman de guerre chez Julien Gracq, Robert Merle et Claude Simon . |
| Les Essif Ph.D 1991 Director: Jean-Joseph Goux |
The Theatricality and Sociocultural Relevance of Surrealist Hypersubjectivity in the French Nouveau Théâtre. Empty figure on an empty stage : the theatre of Samuel Beckett and his generation . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2001 Prof., Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.More info |
| Deborah Jean Lee Ph.D 1991 Director: Inge Crosman Wimmers |
From Fission to Fusion: The Evolution of the Reader's Role from Modernists to Postmodernist French Fiction. Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts |
| Chiara Leone Ph.D 1991 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Chrétien de Troyes, Gautier D'Arras et les débuts du roman . |
| Barbara Miskell Ph.D 1991 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Beckett and Duras: A Study of Subjectivity . |
| Mary Snider Ph.D 1991 Director: Sanda Golopentia |
Les métaphores animales dans les atlas linguistiques et ethnographiques de la France. Mary Snider, David Bachner, and Laurence Malone. Learning Interdependence: A Case Study of International/Intercultural Education of First-Year College Students University of South Carolina, 2001. Associate Professor of French, Chair of Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Hartwick College.More Info |
| Marie Lathers Ph.D 1990 Director: Naomi Schor |
Villiers de l'lsle-Adam's L'Eve future: sculpture, photography, and the feminine. The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers's L'Eve future. Chapel Hill: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1996. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French, Director of the interdisciplinary Program in French Studies, Dept. of modern languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University. More Info |
| Gerard Lavatori Ph.D 1990 Director: Jean-Joseph Goux |
Language and Money in Rabelais . New York: P. Lang, 1996. Prof., Chair of French Program, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of La Verne |