Dissertations in ProgressYou may also view Recently Defended Dissertations. Nicola Louise Agate Terrains Vagues: Naturalist Landscapes in Flux Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth Matthew H. Amos 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 |

