Dissertations from 2022
Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery, Siobhan M. Mei, Comparative Literature
The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity, Mehtap Ozdemir, Comparative Literature
EMBODIMENT AND GENDERED SUBJECTIVITY IN UKRAINIAN WOMEN’S FILM, POETRY, AND PROSE DURING PERESTROIKA (1985-1991), Sandra J. Russell, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2021
NEW HORIZONS IN TRANSLATION THEORY: CHINESE CLASSICS AND THE DAO OVER TIME, Xuefei Bai, Comparative Literature
BETWEEN THE VISUAL AND THE VERBAL: AN AESTHETIC OF OPEN WOUNDS IN POST-TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR (1980-1988), Maryam Ghodrati, Comparative Literature
Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity, Alexander S. Ponomareff, Comparative Literature
Never-lasting Effects: John Williams, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bruno Jasieński, and Non-redemptive Failure, Krzysztof W. Rowinski, Comparative Literature
DIRTY MINDS & FAILED ENDINGS: USES OF THE BAWDY IN JEWISH COMEDY, AMERICAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES, Eyal Tamir, Comparative Literature
WORDS IN MOTION: EPISTOLARY AND TRANSLATORY PRACTICES IN US MIGRANT WRITING, Una Tanovic, Comparative Literature
PROSTITUTES, TEMPORARY WIVES, AND MOTREBS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEX WORK IN IRANIAN FILM AND FICTION FROM THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION (1906-1911) TO THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION (1979), maryam zehtabi sabeti moqaddam, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2020
COMMUNITY OF PATHOS: RESISTANCE THROUGH REPRESENTATION IN MIGRANT ART, Shastri Akella, Comparative Literature
Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary, Daniel M. Armenti, Comparative Literature
Time Bound. Gauchesca and its Print Culture, 1872-2011, Manuela Borzone, Comparative Literature
A PARROT PERCHED ON A RIFLE: MILITARY INTERPRETERS IN THE KOREAN CONFLICT 1945-1953, Hyongrae Kim, Comparative Literature
AGENCY IN THE MARGINS: READERS AND COLLECTORS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA, Fan Wang, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2019
ENGAGED, MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUALISM IN THE MILLENNIAL WORKS OF MARYSE CONDÉ AND ZADIE SMITH, Nicole Calandra, Comparative Literature
The Matrix of Imperial Rome in Modernist and Postcolonial Literature, Sara Ceroni, Comparative Literature
THE BODY (RE)PUBLIC: WOMEN ON/AS THE LANDSCAPE OF MODERNITY, FROM ZOLA’S AU BONHEUR DES DAMES TO VARDA’S CLÉO DE 5 À 7, Christine Gutman, Comparative Literature
TRANSLATOR AGENCY IN TURKEY UNDER CENSORIAL CONSTRAINTS: 1990s to the PRESENT, Inci Sariz Bilge, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2018
GOLDEN PALIMPSESTS: AMERICA, CERVANTES, AND THE INVENTION OF MODERNITY/COLONIALITY, Antonia Carcelen-Estrada, Comparative Literature
The Texture of Reading / Reading Textures: Poetic, Visual, Material, and Inter-medial Dimensions of Textuality in Arabic Poetry, French Picturebooks, and North American Bookarts, Lara Matta, Comparative Literature
THE ELOQUENCE OF AUTOMATA: SOCIO-POLITICAL COMMENTARY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE ON ARTIFICIAL HUMANOIDS, Madalina Meirosu, Comparative Literature
Bodies Under Siege: Intersections of Warfare and HIV/AIDS, Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Comparative Literature
"A PAGE FROM THE SONG OF SONGS": ÉTUDES IN ALLEGORESIS, Andres Wilson, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2017
Translation, Rewriting, and Fan Fiction: A Literary History of Transformative Work, Shannon K. Farley, Comparative Literature
A Poetics of Subtraction: The Autobiographical Films of Frampton, Tarkovsky, and Álvarez, Alexander B. Joy, Comparative Literature
THEATERS OF VOICE, BODY, AND PAGE: BECKETT, SOPHOCLES, HOMER, JOYCE, Barry A. Spence, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2016
THE SUBJECTS OF FATİH AKIN'S MELODRAMAS: A GENEALOGICAL READING THROUGH THE FILMS OF R.W. FASSBINDER, YILMAZ GÜNEY AND ATIF YILMAZ, Emir O. Benli, Comparative Literature
Rumi, the Poet of Universal Love: The Politics of Rumi's Appropriation in the West, FATMA B. CIHAN-ARTUN, Comparative Literature
Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion, Lara R. Curtis, Comparative Literature
Deconstruction of the Sacred, Ontologies of Monstrosity: Apophatic Approaches in Late Modernist Cinema, scott d. vangel, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2015
Documenting the (Un)Documented: Diasporic Ecuadorian Narratives in Southern/Mediterranean Europe, Esther A. Cuesta, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2014
Transgressing Space And Subverting Hierarchies: A Comparative Analysis Of Street Theatre Groups In Sri Lanka, India, And The United States, Kanchuka N. Dharmasiri, Comparative Literature
ARTHUR’S HEIRS: SITUATING MEDIEVAL WELSH, SPANISH, AND SCANDINAVIAN TEXTS IN THEIR LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Comparative Literature
"Io Scrittore": Authorial Construction in the Italian Medieval Renaissance Novella and Its Translation into English, Anna Strowe, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2013
The Fusion of Migration and Science Fiction in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Matthew David Goodwin, Comparative Literature
Enigmatic Realism: Doing Justice through Photography and Figuration in Sebald, Marias, and Hemon, Daniel Pope, Comparative Literature
Translating Trickster, Performing Identity: Representations Of The Monkey King (Sun Wukong) In Chinese And Asian American Rewritings, Hongmei Sun, Comparative Literature
Adventures in Fictionality: Sites along the Border between Fiction and Reality, Rhona Trauvitch, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2012
Sitting-There: Embodied Perception, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Reading Pain in Dance Spectatorship, Brandon W Shaw, Comparative Literature
Sitting-there: Embodied perception, kinesthetic empathy, and reading pain in dance spectatorship, Brandon W Shaw
Dissertations from 2011
Translation in Vietnam and Vietnam in Translation: Language, Culture, and Identity, Loc Quoc Pham, Comparative Literature
Latin American Decolonial Aesthetics: Antipoetry, Nueva Cancion, And Third Cinema As Counterculture (1960-1975), Juan Ramos, Comparative Literature
Con-Scripting the Masses: False Documents and Historical Revisionism in the Americas, Frans Weiser, Comparative Literature
Dissertations from 2009
The Curse Of The Traveling Dancer: Romani Representation From 19Th- Century European Literature To Hollywood Film And Beyond, Nikolina Ivantcheva Dobreva, Comparative Literature
The curse of the traveling dancer: Romani representation from 19th-century European literature to Hollywood film and beyond, Nikolina Ivantcheva Dobreva
Dissertations from 2008
Brazilian women writers in English: Translation of culture and gender in works by Clarice Lispector, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Ana Maria Machado, Lilian Passos Wichert Feitosa
Un -domesticated mothers: Private and public female subjectivities in the journalism of Alfonsina Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mariela E Mendez de Coudriet
Specters of war: Reclamation, recovery, and return in southeast Asian -American literature and history, Bunkong Tuon
Dissertations from 2007
Brussel - Bruxelles - Brussel: Brussels in the Flemish literary mirror from 1830 to 1932, Caroline M. P. C Dothee
Children of the socialist paradise: Redefining social and esthetic values in post Cold -War Cuban cinema, Enrique Garcia
New history, new language: Biblical intertextuality in the poetry of Rahel Bluvshtain, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller
Translation and nation: Negotiating “China” in the translations of Lin Shu, Yan Fu, and Liang Qichao, Li Lu
The image of the assassins in medieval European texts, Meriem Pages
Dissertations from 2006
Javier Marías's postmodern praxis: Humor and interplay between reality and fiction in his novels and essays, Karen E Berg
Wor(l)ds in progress: A study of contemporary migrant writings, Alessandra Di Maio
Queer across the Atlantic: Homo/sexual representation in the United States and France, 1977–2001, Neil C Hartlen
Mobility and home: Shifting constructions of gender, race, and nationality in Chinese diasporic literature, Shuchen Susan Huang
Headscarves and mini-skirts: Germanness, Islam, and the politics of cultural difference, Beverly M Weber
Dissertations from 2004
Border crossings and multicultural whiteness: Nationalism in the global production and United States reception of vampire films, Dale M Hudson
The nostalgia for novelty: Revivals of the eighteenth century novel, genuine and spurious, Jonathan B Sadow
Acting the child: Separating the infantile from the masculine in film and literature, 1835–1985, Shawn R Smolen-Morton
Dissertations from 2003
Cynthia Ozick and Jewish literature: A reader, Daniela Fargione
The quiet revolution: Integration, difference, and the new French women directors: 1990–2000, Corinne D Oster
Dissertations from 2002
Nationalism as an ethical problem for postcolonial theory, Hussein Y Ibish
Culinary scapes: Contesting food, gender and nation in South Asia and its diaspora, Anita Mannur
Magic realism and social protest in Spanish America and the United States: These illusions called America, Jennifer Clare Rodgers
Dissertations from 2001
The marginalia of Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible: Providential discovery, literary reasoning, and historical consequence, Roger A Stritmatter
Translations of “The Tempest” in Germany and Japan, Friederike von Schwerin-High
Dreams of the wild frontier: Imaginary geographies and the American West, Aaron Boyd Walker
Dissertations from 2000
Nomadism, diaspora and deracination in contemporary migrant literatures, Jana Evans Braziel
Rubble trouble: History and subjectivity in the ruins of fascism, Siobhan S Craig
“Here is a cabinet of great curiosities”: Collecting the past on the American frontier, Theo Padnos
Cormac McCarthy at home and abroad: Translation, reception, interpretation, Lynn Alison Prince
Dissertations from 1998
Pothos and eyes of blank stone longing and absence in ancient Greece, John Michael Degener
Aesthetics of the "third way": Realisms in the modern European cinema, Carol Ann Donelan
Performing saints' lives: Medieval miracle plays and popular culture, Diana Lucy Murphy
Dissertations from 1997
Poetic experience: Generative criticism as a new aspect of literary analysis, Rajmund Horvath
Aphoristic thoughts, Dirk Michael Schepers
Dissertations from 1996
Earthly spirituality: An historical study of Neo-Daoism and Tao Yuan-Ming's works, Jin-Tang Peng
Constructing the historical discourse of traditional Chinese fiction, Liang Shi
Dissertations from 1994
Those precious bonds: A psychoanalytic study of sister relationships in twentieth-century literature and film, Eva Rueschmann
Dissertations from 1993
Social criticism in traditional legends: Supernatural women in Chinese zhiguai and German Sagen, Jennifer Lynn Fyler
Dissertations from 1986
LITERARY UTOPIA & CHINESE UTOPIAN LITERATURE: A GENERIC APPRAISAL, HUI-CHUAN CHANG
Dissertations from 1985
THE PROBLEM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THEODOR W. ADORNO, BOB HULLOT-KENTOR
Dissertations from 1984
ERKLAERUNG DES VATERUNSERS. A CRITICAL EDITION OF A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MYSTICAL TREATISE BY MAGDALENA BEUTLER OF FREIBURG (GERMANY), KAREN GREENSPAN