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Dissertations in Progress




Nicola Louise Agate
  
Terrains Vagues: Naturalist Landscapes in Flux
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth


Matthew H. Amos
Sharing Absence: Dialogues of Experience in and around Maurice Blanchot
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier

Alexandre Bonafos  
Heritage in Print: Textual and Iconographic Representation of Historical Monuments in French Travel Writing (1800-1850)
Directors: Prof. Stéphane Gerson and Prof. Richard Sieburth


Christopher Bonner
Negations of Negritude: Marxism, Cold War Geopolitics and the Ideology of Literary Form in French Caribbean Literature
Director: Prof. J. Michael Dash


Anne Brancky
Marguerite Duras: Rewriting the Crime
Director: Prof. Emily Apter


Iris Brey
Monstrous Mothers in French Contemporary Cinema
Directors: Prof. Emily Apter and Prof. Ludovic Cortade


Aurélie Chatton              
Oeuvres gémellaires théâtre et cinéma: les cas Marguerite Duras, Robert Lepage et Wajdi Mouawad
Directors: Prof. Ludovic Cortade and Prof. Judith Miller


Steven Todd Crumb
  
Autonomizing the Collection in Contemporary French Literature: Michel Butor, Jacques Roubaud, Denis Roche
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth


Niamh Helena Duggan
 
Solitary Relation: Huysmans, Colette, Rachilde, and Natalie Clifford Barney
Director: Prof. Emily Apter


Laura Hughes
"For Life": Cixous's and Derrida's Shared Archives
Director: Prof. Emily Apter


Julie Hugonny
Le Dernier Homme: Littérature d’anticipation apocalyptique du début du XIXème siècle à la Première Guerre Mondiale
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth


Joshua Jordan 
 
Henri Michaux and the Potential of Politics
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier


Lindsay Fara Kaplan  
When Fiction Made History: Cultural Memory and Fictional Representations of October 17th, 1961
Directors: Prof. Denis Hollier and Prof. Herrick Chapman


Whitney Krahn
Novel Architecture: The Fictional Writings of Viollet-le-Duc
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth and Prof. Stéphane Gerson


Kathrina LaPorta   
The Pamphlet's Appeal: The Politics of Late 17th-century Anti-Monarchical Pamphlet Literature
Director: Prof. Henriette Goldwyn


Virginie Lauret

Jacques Rivettes, comédies humaines
Directors: Prof. Ludovic Cortade and Prof. Emily Apter


Seth Lobdell 
Entre l'amour et la mort: the psychoanalytic novels of Pierre Jean Jouve
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth


Phoebe Maltz Bovy
 
Jews and Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century France
Director: Prof. Claudie Bernard


Kevin McCann
The Innocence of Immanence
Director: Prof. Emily Apter


Fredrik Goran Ronnbäck 
Mourning the Sacred: Bataille, Leiris, Blanchot
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier


Megan Russell
Jean Vigo and Documentary in Avant-Garde French Cinema of the 1920s
Director: Prof. Ludovic Cortade


Julie Sage

The Figure of the Recumbent Man in Modern French Literature: From Paul Valéry to Georges Bataille
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier


Maximillian Shrem
Cuisine and the French Social Imaginary: Tracing the Origins of Gastronomic Discourse in Early 19th-Century France
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney


Raphaël Sigal 
Artaud, le sens de la lecture
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier


Maria Soledad Sklate  
Embodying Resistance and Resisting "the Body" in Caribbean Literature
Directors: Prof. J. Michael Dash and Prof. Judith Miller


Dane Thomas Stalcup  
Totalities in Fragmentation: The Literary and Musical Autobiography of Hector Berlioz
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth


Emily Craighead Teising  
Unmasking Lawyers: Representations of the Legal Professions in Popular French Literature, 1830 - 1850
Directors: Prof. Stéphane Gerson and Prof. Claudie Bernard


Stella Amelie Vincenot  
Célébrer, Honorer, Commémorer: Democratic Political Culture in Post-Emancipation Guadeloupe
Directors: Prof. Stéphane Gerson and Prof. Myriam Cottias (EHESS)


Sophia Wilson
Making Myths New: Musical Drama in the Interwar French Theatre
Director: Prof. Eugène Nicole


Natalia Eva Wodnicka  
The New Mythic Theatre in French

Director: Prof. Judith Miller