Recently-Defended Dissertations Abad, Barbara
Imitation and the Case of Rétif de la Bretonne ou "le singe de Jean-Jacques"
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney Abiragi, Anthony
Call and Response: Maurice Blanchot and the Ethics of Dialogue
Co-directors: Prof. Michel Beaujour and Prof. Richard Sieburth Arganbright, Brian
Writing the People: Charles-Louis Philippe and the Culture of Populism during the Belle Époque
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Balavoine, Cécile
Lourdes, entre pureté et décadence
Director: Prof. Claudie Bernard
Barello, Simona
At the Margin of the Margin: Female Identity in Beur Literature and Cinema
Director: Prof. Judith Miller
Barr, Philippe
La poétique urbaine dans Les Nuits de Paris de Rétif de la Bretonne et Le Tableau de Paris de Louis Sébastien Mercier
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney
Bloom, Rori
Man of Quality, Man of Letters: Author, Public and Genre in the Novels and Newspaper of Antoine-François (l'abbé) Prévost
Director: Anne Deneys-Tunney Bratu, Cristian
The Emergence of the Author in French Medieval Historiography
Director: Nancy Regalado
http://homepages.baylor.edu/cristian_bratu/
Bowles, Elizabeth Boxley
Reading the French Caribbean with Edouard Glissant
Co-directors: Prof. J. Michael Dash
Carpentier, Marie-Hélène
L'oeuvre au noir de Jean-Patrick Manchette: D'une politique de détournement artistique à l'affirmation d'une littérature
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Cavaness, Shelley
Paul Claudel’s Oriental Theater: A Case Study of Mise en scene, Music and Dramaturgy
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Cavitch, Elizabeth Holly Johanna
The Value of Wealth in "Le Roman de la Rose"
Director: Prof. Evelyn Vitz
Cruse, Mark
Staging Chivalric Narrative: Compilation and Performance in MS Bodley 264
Director: Prof. Nancy Regalado
Denizot-Ghil, Michele
Poétique de la discontinuité dans l'œuvre lyrique d'Eustache Deschampsn
Director: Professor Nancy Regalado Ding, Xiaofu
Les rêveries de l’écriture chinoise
Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Henri
Michaux
Director: Prof. Michel Beaujour
Erickson, Michelle
Witness: Trauma, Aesthetics, and the Transmission of Memory in French Literary and Videotaped Holocaust Testimony
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Falaky, Fayçal
Masochist
Contract, Social Contract: Freedom and Submission in Rousseau’s Political
Philosophy
Director: Prof. Emily Apter
François, Anne
The Return to Africa Revisited: Voices of Three Guadeloupean Women Writers
Director: Prof. Sylvie Kandé
Froment, Nils
Dégénérescence, hygiène et maladies nerveuses autour des années 1850-60
Co-directors: Prof. Richard Sieburth and Prof. Ed Berenson Gordon, Jennifer
L'inspecteur de la frontière: Jean Potocki et le génie du lieu
Director: Prof. Michel Beaujour
Granger Remy, Maud
Le roman posthumain/The Posthuman Novel
Landfried, Carrie
Towards a Truly Tropistic Form: The Evolution of Orality in the Prose and Theater of Nathalie Sarraute
Director: Eugene Nicole Lawrence, Marilyn
Minstrel Disguise in Medieval French Narrative: Identity, Performance, Authorship
Director: Professor E.B. Vitz
Loysen, Kathleen
Hearing Voices: Representations of Conversations in Collections of 15th-16th Century French Nouvelle
Director: Professor Nancy Regalado
Magallañez, Michelle
Mirrors
of Glory: Spectacles of Chivalry and Aristocratic Identity in
Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Romance, Chronicle, and Chivalric Biography
Director: Nancy Regalado
Parker, Margaret P.
Literary
Tableaux: An Iconographical Study of Rousseau's "La Nouvelle Héloïse"
and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's "Paul et Virginie"
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney
Reeck, Laura
The Beur Bildungsroman: Learning Curves and Discursive Turns
Roche, Isabel
A Study of Character in the Novels of Victor Hugo: Appearance, Reappearance, Disappearance
Schreier, Lise-Ségolène
Écriture à quatre pieds: L'écrivain français et son compagnon de voyage en Orient au dix-neuvième siècle
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Shapiro, Stephen
B.A., Yale College; M.A., NYU; Ph.D., NYU
Fashioning of the Historical Narrative in the Memoirs and Contemporary History writing of 17th Century France
Sicart, Pierre-Alexandre
DEUG lettres modernes, Toulouse
II; DEUG d'anglais, Toulouse II; licence de lettres modernes, Toulouse
II; Licentiate of Integrated European Studies, University of St Andrews
, Scotland , UK; Maîtrise de Lettres modernes, Toulouse II; DEA de
Lettres, mention Littérature française moderne et contemporaine,
Toulouse II; Doctorat ès Lettres (mention très honorable, avec les
félicitations du jury), Toulouse II; PhD in French Literature (with
honors), New York University
Autobiographie, Roman, Autofiction
Directors: Prof. Eugène Nicole and Prof. Pierre Glaudes
Sohn, Michael
Aversion: André du Bouchet on Painting
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Small, Curtis
Through the Lens: Race, Class and Ideology in Textual Representations of the Haitian Revolution
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Stalnaker, Joanna
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., NYU; Ph.D., NYU
In Visible Words: Epistemology and Poetics of Description in Enlightenment France
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney
Therrien, Eve
De l'Autopsie a l'utopie: le rituel dans
le theatre experimental quebecois chez le collectif Momentum, Normand
Chaurette et Denis Marleau.
Director: Prof. Judith Miller
Thiers, Valérie
"A chacun son griot": le mythe du griot-narrateur dans la littérature et le cinéma d'Afrique de l'Ouest
Thompson, Celina (Lyn)
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., UC Santa Cruz; Ph.D., NYU
The Vicarious Voyage: Reading the Exotic in the Work of Pierre Loti
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Tissières, Hélène
Dits du non-dit: écritures fragmentaires et images nomades en Afrique (Maghreb - Afrique subsaharienne)
Trigian, Gina
Staging Violence in Romantic Drama: Dumas & Hugo (1829-1843)
Director: Prof. Charles Affron
Webster, Catherine Sheppard
The Playwright Turns Filmmaker: Pagnol, Guitry, and Cocteau Move from Theater to Cinema
Director: Prof. Charles Affron
Westbrook, John
Reinventions of the Literary Avant-garde in Interwar France: Documents Between Surrealism and Ethnography
Director: Prof. Michel Beaujour
Wood, B. Christopher
B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., NYU
Fictions galantes : le « roman sentimental » en France (1596-1610)
Director: Prof. Michel Beaujour Zhuo, Yue
À
l’écart du visible: anachronisme et imaginaires de
l’archéologique
à
partir de Barthes, Bataille, Quignard et Lacan
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
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