Recently Completed Dissertations
Anthony Derveniadis-Hernández (Portuguese and French)
"Finding Beauty in Pain: Working through Pigment and Blood in the Works of Caio Fernando Abreu, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Hervé Guibert"
Émile Levesque-Jalbert (French)
"L'écologie du possible: Les écritures environnementales contemporaines en France et au Québec"
Roberto A. Talavera Pagán (Spanish)
"Scripts of Shame: Libro de Apolonio, Vida de Santa María Egipçiaca, and Libro de Buen Amor"
Caio Cesar Esteves de Souza (Portuguese)
“A History Written in Flesh: The Embodied Archive of the Sixteenth-Century Tupinambá”
Carlos A. González (French and Spanish)
“Facing the Monster: The Ethical Challenge of Weird Literature”
Lisa Anne Kostur (French)
“Choreographic Objects & Kinesis in a Social-Sensual Grand Siècle”
Juan Arias (Spanish)
"Humanity on Trial: Countering Anthropocentrism in Late Medieval Iberia"
Ignacio Azcueta (Spanish)
"Dislocaciones espectrales: Formas de la pesquisa en la literatura y el cine latinoamericano contemporáneo (2004-2018)"
Rachel Combs-Gonzalez (Latinx)
"Queering Apocalypse: Queer Latinx Approaches to History and Hope in the Unending End Times of Western Modernity"
Felicia Cucuta (French)
"Unsilencing the Past, Unsilencing the Present: Care Ethics in Wajdi Mouawad's Oeuvre"
Valentina Frasisti (Italian)
"History Needs to be Rewritten: Italian Feminist Bookstores in the 1980's. Three Case Studies."
Matthew Griffith (Italian)
"Video Party: Early Video Art in Italy and the Essence of Network Culture"
Maiara Knihs (Portuguese)
"Contradizendo os arquivos da nação: revisões da “mãe preta” na arte brasileira"
Alina Lazar (Portuguese)
"Mediated, Mitigated, Liberated: Hélio Oiticica’s Participatory Art and the Reinvention of the Public"
Mauro Lazarovich (Spanish)
"Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless and Refugee Literature in Latin America"
José de León González (Spanish)
"The Cuban Hypothesis: The Radical 1960s and their Aftermath"
Massiel Torres Ulloa (Latinx)
"Perverse Freedoms: Genealogies of Black Resistance in Hispaniola"
Therese Banks (French)
"(Hi)story-telling and Holy War: Narrating the Crusades from Medieval to Early Modern France"
Rodrigo Del Rio (Spanish)
"Running Out of Time: Developmentalism and the Latin American Boom"
Emily Epperson (French)
"A New Old World: The Invention of France in Early Modern Encounters"
Maria Gatti (French)
"Double Agent: Literature in Cold War Americas"
Aaron Litvin (Portuguese)
"Marriage in Contemporary Northeast Brazilian Popular Poetry and Comedy"
Isaac Magana (Spanish)
"Disputing the Acoustic Territory: Politics of Sound and Sonic Order in 16th- and 17th-century Mexico City"
Luca Politi (Italian)
"The Renewal of the Pastoral in Italy"
Anne Ratnoff (French)
"Writing Over the Referent: Autofiction and Subjectivity"
Emma Zitzow-Childs (French)
"Resounding Fantasies: Music as a Tool of Social Critique in the 20th- and 21st-century French Novel"
Matthew Barfield (French)
"A ‘Moraliste Moment’?: Ethics in Eighteenth-Century French Moralist Writing from Vauvenargues to Joubert"
Alberto Castilo Ventura (Spanish)
"The (Non)Modern Mesoamerican World: Literature and Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico and Central America"
Maria Gomez Lara (Spanish)
"Tocar con las palabras: poéticas de la voz en la poesía latinoamericana contemporánea"
Lucas Mertehikian (Spanish)
"Fake Originals: Collecting Latin America"
Nikhita Obeegadoo (French and Spanish)
"The Silence of the Seabed: Reimagining Traumatic Water Crossings in the Indian Ocean and Caribbean"
Natalie Ramirez (Spanish)
"In the Public Confessional: Empiricism and Truth in Latin American Autobiographical Writing, 1834-1843"
Bahij Tamer (French)
"The Crux of Luxury: Manufacturing Dreams Under the Sun King"
Hyun-Kyung Yuh (French)
"Maps, Migrants, Markets: International Economic Law and the Structural Violence of Borders"
Cristina Garcia (Spanish)
"Singing Against the Devil: Literature, Song and Nation in the Borderlands"
Amelia Linsky (Italian)
"The Sound of Persuasion: Vocal Enchantments Between Natural Philosophy and the Gerusalemme liberata"
Wilnomy Perez Perez (Spanish)
"Luces y sombras espirituales: el Mancebo de Arévalo y la tradición sufí"
Matthew Rodriguez (French)
"Enduring Images: Mourning and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Hervé Guibert)"
Kylie Sago (French)
"The Empire of Disgust: France's Colonies in the 18th and 19th Centuries"
Madeleine Wolf (French)
"The Noise of the Text: Writing Dissonance and Disruption in Nineteenth-Century French Literature"
Kacey Carter (Portuguese)
"The Wrong Side of the Wall: Experiencing Urban Exclusion Through Literatura Periférica"
Mariya Chokova (Portuguese)
"Colette, Teixeira, Aleramo: Three Philosophies on Female Sexuality"
Ifigenia Gonis (French)
"The Aesthetics of the Frontal Stage Dynamic in Relation to and as a Reflection of Sociocultural Urban Politics: A Case-Study of Four Paris-area Theatres"
Martin De La Nuez Thenesoya (Spanish)
"Insular Sintaxis: Towards a New Transatlantic Paradigm"
Anna White-Nockleby (Spanish)
"Crisis Aesthetics: Community and Critique in 21st-Century Argentine Performance"