Dissertations

A Sampling of Dissertations

• Hanna Laruelle, "Rictus Grin: Poetics of Cruel Humor in Screen Adaptations of "L'homme qui rit" (2022)
  

• Nathalie Lacarrière, "Compilation, Reception, and Authority: Anthologizing Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens moraux in the Middle Ages and Renaissance" (2022)

• Jared Miller, "Romance Auctoritas in Le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris and Jehan de Saintré" (2022)

• Trask Roberts, "Writing and Wronging: Prerogatives of the Self-Translator" (2022)

• Fiona Moreno, "The Making of a Distinguished Reader: Francophone Stories of Literary Initiation" (2020)

• Andrea Lloyd, "Writing Verdicts: French and Francophone Narratives of Race and Racism" (2019) 

• Sterling Kouri, "Reading Houellebecq and his Fictions" (2018)

• Marla Epp, "Les chercheurs d'histoire: The Historical Investigator in the Contemporary French Novel." (2018)

• Romain Delaville, “Face Value: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and the Making of Subjectivity in Francophone Literature and Visual Culture" (2017)

• Melissa DunLany, "The Aesthetics of Waste: Michel Tournier, Agnes Varda, Sabine Macher"  (2017)

• Ben Baker, "Uncertain Boundaries: Dispositive Techniques in Prevost's Novels" (2016)

• Adam Cutchin, "The Mysteres of Paris and Montreal: Crime, National Identity, and the City in Nineteenth-Century Urban Mysteries and the Popular Press" (2016)

• Arabella Hobbs, "Calvary or Catastrophe? French Catholicism's First World War" (2016)

• Samuel Martin , "The Dilation of the Poem (Philippe Jaccottet)"  (2016)

• Lisa Bromberg, "Geographies of Exile and the Making of French Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century" (2016)

• George MacLeod, "Approaching the Witness: Narratives of Trauma in Sub-Saharan African Literature and Film" (2015)

• Caroline Grubbs, "Cultures of Time in Fin-de-siecle France: The Popular Literature and Graphic Art of Albert Robida (1848-1926)" (2014)

• Charlotte Ritzmann, "Fictions of Identity in the 13th century: The Example of the Lancelot proper" (2014)

• Anne Bornschein, "Heirs of the Round Table: French Arthurian fiction from 1977 to the present" (2013)

• Lucas Hollister, "Problematic returns: On the romanesque in contemporary French literature" (2013)

• Kathleen Kasten, "Writing luxury: Mirrors, silk, lace, and writing desks in French literature, 1660--1715" (2013)

• Matthew Pagett, "Money plays: Performing currency in seventeenth-century French comedy" (2013)

• Sara Phenix, "Designing women: Fashion, fiction, and femininity in Second Empire France" (2013)

• Ekaterina Alexandrova, "Outlandish fictions: The eighteenth-century French novel and marriage on women's terms" (2012)

• Ian McConnon, "Substance and providence in the Old French theological romance" (2012)

• Lucy Swanson, "Bringing out the undead: Reinventing the zombie in contemporary fiction of the Francophone Caribbean" (2012)