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French and Francophone Studies PhD Dissertations 1990 - Present
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Name & Degree Date |
Dissertation Title & Director |
| Benjamin Fancy Ph.D. 2020 |
Within Limits: Seeking Interiority in Seventeenth-Century French Fiction Director: Lewis Seifert |
| Brigitte Stepanov Ph.D. 2020 |
In-Human: Visions of Cruelty in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Texts Director: David Wills |
| Christopher Robison Ph.D. 2019 |
From Romantic Teleology to Decadent Animal Activism: Human-Animal Sympathy in the 19th-Century French Novel Director: Gretchen Schultz |
| Sonja Stojanovic Ph.D. 2017 |
Spectral Preoccupations: Reading through Post-War French Fiction Director: Thangam Ravindranathan |
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Anne-Caroline Ph.D. 2016 |
The Good Woman Abroad: Female Travel and French Citizenhood (1860-1910) |
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Valentine Balguerie Ph.D 2015 |
Démasquer la femme au XVIIème siècle: remise en cause de la personne féminine dans les nouvelles historiques |
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Sarah Bernthal Ph.D 2015 |
Last Words on the Scaffold: “Condemned” Speech as Romantic Revolt |
| Joshua Baylock Ph.D 2014 |
Through a Glass Darkly: Secrecy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century French Novella |
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Yuri Kondratiev Ph.D 2014 |
Unruly Body or the ‘New Normal’: Renaissance Pathology and the Literary Imagination. |
| Sylvain Montalbano Ph.D 2014 |
Narcisse dis-joint: la création de moi(s) postmoderne(s) dans le roman contemporain français et francophone Directors: Réda Bensmaïa and Lewis Seifert |
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Michael Clinton Bruce Ph.D 2013 |
D’un Atlantique à l’autre: traversées littéraraires de l’Atlantique francophone après la Révolution haïtienne. |
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Allison Fong |
Errance: Wandering and Straying in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Literature. |
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Pauline DeTholozany |
L’école de la maladresse: de J.J. Rousseau à J.J. Grandville, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles |
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Maria Moreno |
Aesthetic Experimentation and the Search for a Caribbean Idiom. |
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Kathryn Chenoweth |
Writing in French “et non autrement” 1529-1592. |
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Sharon Larson |
Femme de Siècle: Malevolent Female Sexuality, Masculinity and Linguistic Authority in the Decadent Novel. |
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Elizabeth Ferreira |
Transcending Nature and the Ordinary: Portrayals of the Female Adolescent in Montherlant’s Theater. |
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Dorothy Pendleton Helm Arthur |
Autour de Cénie: Le témoignage épistolaire de Françoise De Graffigny sur son succès théâtral en 1750. |
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Shahrzad Zahedi |
Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative. |
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Adele Parker |
The Immobile Voyage: Textual Movements in Contemporary French-Language Poetry. |
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Claudia Esposito |
Mediterranean Imaginaries: Writing Transcultural Subjectivities in Contemporary Francophone Literature. |
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Jean François Fournier |
Présence du rire et du sourire dans les œuvres poétiques de Charles Baudelaire. |
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Heidi Brevik-Zender |
From Fashion Writing to Writing Fashion: Modernity, Gender and La Mode in the Literature of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. |
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Meadow Dibble-Dieng |
Liberation Journals: 20th Century Francophone Literary Journals and the Struggle for Sovereignty. |
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Katharine Harrington |
Writing Outside the Box: Exploring a Nomadic Alternative in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. |
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Jean-Frédéric Hennuy |
Des iconoclastes heureux et sans complexe : Pour une dialectique des littératures francophones. |
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Nanette Fornabai |
(In)Humanizing Norms: Machines, Fantoms and Detectives in Modern French Popular Culture. |
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Lisa Walters |
Teaching the Nation: Pedagogical Strategies of Postcolonial Francophone Women Writers and Filmmakers |
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Heather McCoy |
Staging the Algerian War: Theatrical Responses To The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name |
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Aaron Prevots |
Poetry as Authentic Speech: Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Réda. |
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Marie-Chantal Killeen |
Au seuil de l’indicible: le “jeu insensé d’écrire” chez Jabès, Blanchot et Duras. Essai sur l’indicible, Jabès, Blanchot, Duras. |
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Nadia Sahely |
Unity, Dissymmetry, Utopia: Visions of the Couple in Modern France. |
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Eduardo Antonio Febles |
Explosive Narratives: Anarchy and the Demise of Naturalism in Zola’s “Germinal,” “Paris,” and “Travail.” |
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Christine Marie Gaspar |
The Female Literary Quest: The Intertextual Community of Women Writers in Maryse Condé’s “La Migration des coeurs” and Marguerite Duras’s “Emily L.” |
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Ran-E Hong Ph.D 2000 |
L’impossible social selon Molière. |
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Seth Adam Whidden |
Subversions in Figure and Form: The Post-Parnassian Women and Versification of Arthur Rimbaud and Marie Krysinska. |
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Thomas Armbrecht |
Autres Voix: Sexuality and Literary Genre in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Green. |
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Deborah Julie Hahn |
The School for Widows: Gender, (Re)Marriage, And Comedy On The Absolutist Stage. |
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Jacinta Wright |
Reigning Men: Constructions of Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. |
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Laurence Huughe |
“Regard interdit, son coupé”: problématique du regard et représentation chez les romancières algériennes et beures d’Assia Djebar à Nina Bouraoui. |
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Robyn Brothers |
Literary Ethics and the Problem of Moral Rationalism in Proust and Sartre. |
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Laura M. Knowlton |
Healthy Appetites: Diet and the Representation of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France |
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Anne Richardot |
Le rire des Lumières |
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Valerie Key Orlando |
Beyond postcolonial discourse: New problematics of feminine identity in contemporary Francophone literature |
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Angelina Overvold |
La mère de son père: George Sand entre l’autobiographie et l’autofiction. |
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Marjorie Salvodon |
Shifting Boundaries: The Interplay of Place and Displacement in Selected Contemporary Francophone Narratives. |
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Lucie Ashraf |
Le défi sollersien. |
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Jennifer Gage |
The Translator Translated: Fictional Economies of Translation. |
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Felicia Kirk |
Visual Incriminations: Female Criminality in French Naturalist Fiction. |
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Jody McQuillan |
The Games Fools Play: Multivalence in the Sottie. |
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting |
Through the White Male Gaze: Black Venus |
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Anna Klosowska Roberts |
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. |
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Eileen Angelini
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L’écriture de soi: Strategies of “Writing the Self” in the Works of Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. |
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Annabelle Cone |
Write at Home: Representations of Domestic Space in Sand, Colette and Duras. |
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Nathalie Rogers
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Fictions du scandale: l’héroïne romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle. Fictions du scandale: corps féminin et réalisme romanesque au dix-neuvième siècle. |
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Annie K. Smart |
“Submersive” Mothers: Statehood and the Ideal of Motherhood from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Flora Tristan. |
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Debra Terzian
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Growing Up Female in Fiction: Reading Women’s Developmental Narrative in Madame de Lafayette, Germaine de Staël, and George Sand. |
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Carol Lee Wilson |
Exotica: Narratives of the Exotic Body and the Fin-de-siècle. Director: Pierre Saint-Amand |
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Marie-Dominique Boyce |
Le dialogisme dans le roman rustique. |
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Sylvia Hatcher-Smith |
Religion in Ousmane Sembène’s Novels and Films. |
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Ana-Maria Ramirez |
Autobiography as an Experience of Communication. |
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Scott R. Russell |
Héroïsme et bâtardise: Alexandre Dumas, Georges. |
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Laurent Ditmann
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La guerre et ses mots: problématique et pratique du roman de guerre chez Julien Gracq, Robert Merle et Claude Simon. |
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Les Essif
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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. Director: Jean-Joseph Goux |
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Deborah Jean Lee |
From Fission to Fusion: The Evolution of the Reader’s Role from Modernists to Postmodernist French Fiction. |
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Chiara Leone |
Chrétien de Troyes, Gautier D’Arras et les débuts du roman. |
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Barbara Miskell |
Beckett and Duras: A Study of Subjectivity. |
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Mary Snider |
Les métaphores animales dans les atlas linguistiques et ethnographiques de la France. |
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Marie Lathers |
Villiers de l’lsle-Adam’s L’Eve future: sculpture, photography, and the feminine. |
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Gerard Lavatori |
Language and Money in Rabelais |