French and Francophone StudiesA Sampling of Dissertations
- Paule Carbonnel, "To the End(s) of the Earth with Jules Verne (and Beyond): Explorations of Limitedness in Nineteenth-Century France” (2024)
- Lauriane Guihard, "'Peut-on encore entendre de toi, troupe, quelque voix?' Le Chœur Tragique au XVIe siècle, ou la Renaissance d'un Medium Antique" (2024)
- Nicole Ferrari, "Skepticism, the Human, and Republics in Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables" (2023)
- Marcus Dominick, "Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France" (2023)
- Tristan Zhang, "From Fantaisie to Histoire: Applying an 'Alsatian Lesson' to China" (2023)
- Fariba Kanga, "The Construction of the Enemy in French Reformation Martyr Narratives, 1554-1616" (2023)
- Sophie Dolto, "'Il faudrait cesser d'écrire des romans' : Jean-Patrick Manchette et la politique" (2023)
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Hanna Laruelle, "Rictus Grin: Poetics of Cruel Humor in Screen Adaptations of "L'homme qui rit" (2022)
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Nathalie Lacarrière, "Compilation, Reception, and Authority: Anthologizing Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens moraux in the Middle Ages and Renaissance" (2022)
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Jared Miller, "Romance Auctoritas in Le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris and Jehan de Saintré" (2022)
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Trask Roberts, "Writing and Wronging: Prerogatives of the Self-Translator" (2022)
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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)