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Recent PhD Dissertations

Postdramatic African Theater and Critique of Representation Oluwakanyinsola Ajayi

Troubling Diaspora: Literature Across the Arabic Atlantic Phoebe Carter

The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France Joseph Gauvreau

Of Unsound Mind: Madness and Mental Health in Asian American Literature Carrie Geng

Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish between Warsaw and Buenos Aires Rachelle Grossman

Blindness, Deafness, and Cripping the Grounds of Comparison in Comparative Literature Kathleen Ong

Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel Elisa Sotgiu

Red Feminism: The Politics and Poetics of Liberation Botagoz Ussen Correlative Object Ontology: Pragmatism and Objects of Literary Interpretation Mehmet Yildiz

‘Through the Looking Glass’: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali Aisha Dad

Indeterminate “Greekness”: A Diasporic and Transnational Poetics Ilana Freedman

Imagined Mothers: The Construction of Italy, Ancient Greece, and Anglo-American Hegemony Francesca Bellei

The Untimely Avant-Garde: Literature, Politics, and Transculturation in the Sinosphere (1909-2020) Fangdai Chen

Recovering the Language of Lament: Modernism, Catastrophe, and Exile Sarah Corrigan

Beyond Diaspora:The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel Lana Jaffe Neufeld

Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs Nina Begus

Music and Exile in Twentieth-Century German, Italian, and Polish Literature Cecily Cai

We Speak Violence: How Narrative Denies the Everyday Rachael Duarte Riascos

Anticlimax: The Multilingual Novel at the Turn of the 21st Century Matylda Figlerowicz

Forgetting to Remember: An Approach to Proust’s Recherche Lara Roizen

The Event of Literature:An Interval in a World of Violence Petra Taylor

The English Baroque:The Logic of Excess in Early Modern Literature Hudson Vincent

Porte Planète; Ville Canale –parisian knobs /visually/ turned to \textual\ currents Emma Zofia Zachurski

‘…not a poet but a poem’: A Lacanian study of the subject of the poem Marina Connelly The Tune That Can No Longer Be Recognized: Late Medieval Chinese Poetry and Its Affective Others Jasmine Hu The Invention of the Art Film: Authorship and French Cultural Policy Joseph Pomp Apocalypticism in the Arabic Novel William Tamplin The Sound of Prose: Rhythm, Translation, Orality Thomas Wisniewski

The New Austerity in Syrian Poetry Daniel Behar

Mourning the Living: Africa and the Elegy on Screen Molly Klaisner

Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art Brut, and the Avant-Garde from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet (1922-1949) Raphael Koenig

Words, Images and the Self: Iconoclasm in Late Medieval English Literature Yun Ni

Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migrations Argyro Nicolaou

Voice of Power, Voice of Terror: Lyric, Violence, and the Greek Revolution Simos Zenios

Every Step a New Movement: Anarchism in the Stalin-Era Literature of the Absurd and its Post-Soviet Adaptations Ania Aizman

Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: Avant-Garde Documentary in Japan, France, and the USSR Julia Alekseyeva

Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System Peli Grietzer

Year of the Titan: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Ancient Poetry Benjamin Sudarsky

Metropolitan Morning: Loss, Affect, and Metaphysics in Buenos Aires, 1920-1940 Juan Torbidoni

Sophisticated Players: Adults Writing as Children in the Stalin Era and Beyond Luisa Zaitseva

Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions into History in 20th Century China Guangchen Chen

Pathways of Transculturation: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia and Japan (1880-1930) Xiaolu Ma

Beyond the Formal Law: Making Cases in Roman Controversiae and Tang Literary Judgments Tony Qian

Alternative Diplomacies: Writing in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Istanbul, and Beyond? Alice Xiang

The Literary Territorialization of Manchuria: Rethinking National and Transnational Literature in East Asia from the Frontier Miya Qiong Xie World Literature and the Chinese Compass, 1942-2012 Yanping Zhang

Anatomy of ‘Decadence’ Henry Bowles

Medicine As Storytelling: Emplotment Strategies in Doctor-Patient Encounters and Beyond (1870-1830) Elena Fratto

Platonic Footnotes: Figures of Asymmetry in Ancient Greek Thought Katie Deutsch

Children’s Literature Grows Up Christina Phillips Mattson

Humor as Epiphanic Awareness and Attempted Self-Transcendence Curtis Shonkwiler

Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and Ancestry in the Early Iron Age Aegean as Background to and through the Lens of the Iliad Guy Smoot

The Modern Stage of Capitalism: The Drama of Markets and Money (1870-1930) Alisa Sniderman

Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma Emmanuel Ramírez Nieves

The “Poetics of Diagram” John Kim

Dreaming Empire: European Writers in the Fascist Era Robert Kohen

The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean Isabelle Levy

Renaissance Error: Digression from Ariosto to Milton Luke Taylor

The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms Rita Banerjee

Be an Outlaw, Be a Hero: Cinematic Figures of Urban Banditry and Transgression in Brazil, France, and the Maghreb Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Bāgh-e Bi-Bargi: Aspects of Time and Presence in the Poetry of Mehdi Akhavān Sāles Marie Huber

Freund-schaft: Capturing Aura in an Unframed Literary Exchange Clara Masnatta

Class, Gender and Indigeneity as Counter-discourses in the African Novel: Achebe, Ngugi, Emecheta, Sow Fall and Ali Fatin Abbas

The Empire of Chance: War, Literature, and the Epistemic Order of Modernity Anders Engberg-Pedersen

Poetics of the unfinished: illuminating Paul Celan’s “Eingedunkelt” Thomas Connolly

Towards a Media History of Writing in Ancient Italy Stephanie Frampton Character Before the Novel: Representing Moral Identity in the Age of Shakespeare Jamey Graham

Transforming Trauma: Memory and Slavery in Black Atlantic Literature since 1830 Raquel Kennon

Renaissance Romance: Rewarding the Boundaries of Fiction Christine S. Lee

Psychomotor Aesthetics: Conceptions of Gesture and Affect in Russian and American Modernity, 1910s-1920s Ana Olenina

Melancholy, Ambivalence, Exhaustion: Responses to National Trauma in the Literature and Film of France and China Erin Schlumpf

The Poetics of Human-Computer Interaction Dennis Tenen

Novelizing the Muslim Wars of Conquest: The Christian Pioneers of the Arabic Historical Novel Luke Leafgren

Secret Lives of the City: Reimagining the Urban Margins in 20th-Century Literature and Theory, from Surrealism to Iain Sinclair Jennifer Hui Bon Hoa

Archaic Greek Memory and Its Role in Homer Anita Nikkanen

Deception Narratives and the (Dis)Pleasure of Being Cheated: The Cases of Gogol, Nabokov, Mamet, and Flannery O’Connor Svetlana Rukhelman

Aesthetic Constructs and the Work of Play in 20th Century Latin American and Russian Literature Natalya Sukhonos

Stone, Steel, Glass: Constructions of Time in European Modernity Christina Svendsen

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Constructing Selfhood Through Fantasy: Mirror Women and Dreamscape Conversations in Olga Grushin’s Forty Rooms , Grace Marie Alger

Eugene O’Neill Returns: Theatrical Modernization and O’Neill Adaptations in 1980s China , Shuying Chen

The Supernatural in Migration: A Reflection on Senegalese Literature and Film , Rokhaya Aballa Dieng

Breaking Down the Human: Disintegration in Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Benjamin Mark Driscol

Archetypes Revisited: Investigating the Power of Universals in Soviet and Hollywood Cinema , Iana Guselnikova

Planting Rhizomes: Roots and Rhizomes in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove and Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville , Rume Kpadamrophe

Violence, Rebellion, and Compromise in Chinese Campus Cinema ----- The Comparison of Cry Me a Sad River and Better Days , Chunyu Liu

Tracing Modern and Contemporary Sino-French Literary and Intellectual Relations: China, France, and Their Shifting Peripheries , Paul Timothy McElhinny

Truth And Knowledge In A Literary Text And Beyond: Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna At The Intersections Between Selves, Culture, And Paratext , Angelina Rubina

From Roland to Gawain, or the Origin of Personified Knights , Clyde Tilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Afro-Diasporic Literatures of the United States and Brazil: Imaginaries, Counter-Narratives, and Black Feminism in the Americas , David E. S. Beek

The Pursuit of Good Food: The Alimentary Chronotope in Madame Bovary , Lauren Flinner

Form and Voice: Representing Contemporary Women’s Subaltern Experience in and Beyond China , Tingting Hu

Geography of a “Foreign” China: British Intellectuals’ Encounter With Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945 , Yuzhu Sun

Truth and Identity in Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov and Prince Myshkin , Gwendolyn Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Postcolonial Narrative and The Dialogic Imaginatio n: An Analysis of Early Francophone West African Fiction and Cinema , Seydina Mouhamed Diouf

The Rising of the Avant-Garde Movement In the 1980s People’s Republic of China: A Cultural Practice of the New Enlightenment , Jingsheng Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

L’ Entre- Monde : The Cinema of Alain Gomis , Guillaume Coly

Digesting Gender: Gendered Foodways in Modern Chinese Literature, 1890s–1940s , Zhuo Feng

The Deconstruction of Patriarchal War Narratives in Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War , Liubov Kartashova

Pushing the Limits of Black Atlantic and Hispanic Transatlantic Studies Through the Exploration of Three U.S. Afro-Latio Memoirs , Julia Luján

Taiwanese Postcolonial Identities and Environmentalism in Wu Ming-Yi’s the Stolen Bicycle , Chihchi Sunny Tsai

Games and Play of Dream of the Red Chamber , Jiayao Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Convertirse en Inmortal, 成仙 ChéngxiāN, Becoming Xian: Memory and Subjectivity in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Verde Shanghai , Katherine Paulette Elizabeth Crouch

Between Holy Russia and a Monkey: Darwin's Russian Literary and Philosophical Critics , Brendan G. Mooney

Emerging Populations: An Analysis of Twenty-First Century Caribbean Short Stories , Jeremy Patterson

Time, Space and Nonexistence in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry , Daria Smirnova

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Through the Spaceship’s Window: A Bio-political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction , Juan David Cruz

The Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Arab Women’s Literature: Elements of Subversion and Resignification. , Rima Sadek

Insects As Metaphors For Post-Civil War Reconstruction Of The Civic Body In Augustan Age Rome , Olivia Semler

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Flannery O’Connor’s Art And The French Renouveau Catholique: A Comparative Exploration Of Contextual Resources For The Author’s Theological Aesthetics Of Sin and Grace , Stephen Allen Baarendse

The Quixotic Picaresque: Tricksters, Modernity, and Otherness in the Transatlantic Novel, or the Intertextual Rhizome of Lazarillo, Don Quijote, Huck Finn, and The Reivers , David Elijah Sinsabaugh Beek

Piglia and Russia: Russian Influences in Ricardo Piglia’s Nombre Falso , Carol E. Fruit Diouf

Beyond Life And Death Images Of Exceptional Women And Chinese Modernity , Wei Hu

Archival Resistance: A Comparative Reading of Ulysses and One Hundred Years of Solitude , Maria-Josee Mendez

Narrating the (Im)Migrant Experience: 21st Century African Fiction in the Age of Globalization , Bernard Ayo Oniwe

Narrating Pain and Freedom: Place and Identity in Modern Syrian Poetry (1970s-1990s) , Manar Shabouk

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Development of ‘Meaning’ in Literary Theory: A Comparative Critical Study , Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Ahmad Elkordy

Familial Betrayal And Trauma In Select Plays Of Shakespeare, Racine, And The Corneilles , Lynn Kramer

Evil Men Have No Songs: The Terrorist and Literatuer Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925 , Irina Vasilyeva Meier

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Resurrectio Mortuorum: Plato’s Use of Ἀνάγκη in the Dialogues , Joshua B. Gehling

Two Million "Butterflies" Searching for Home: Identity and Images of Korean Chinese in Ho Yon-Sun's Yanbian Narratives , Xiang Jin

The Trialectics Of Transnational Migrant Women’s Literature In The Writing Of Edwidge Danticat And Julia Alvarez , Jennifer Lynn Karash-Eastman

Unacknowledged Victims: Love between Women in the Narrative of the Holocaust. An Analysis of Memoirs, Novels, Film and Public Memorials , Isabel Meusen

Making the Irrational Rational: Nietzsche and the Problem of Knowledge in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita , Brendan Mooney

Invective Drag: Talking Dirty in Catullus, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid , Casey Catherine Moore

Destination Hong Kong: Negotiating Locality in Hong Kong Novels 1945-1966 , Xianmin Shen

H.P. Lovecraft & The French Connection: Translation, Pulps and Literary History , Todd David Spaulding

Female Representations in Contemporary Postmodern War Novels of Spain and the United States: Women as Tools of Modern Catharsis in the Works of Javier Cercas and Tim O'Brien , Joseph P. Weil

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Poetic Appropriations in Vergil’s Aeneid: A Study in Three Themes Comprising Aeneas’ Character Development , Edgar Gordyn

Ekphrasis and Skepticism in Three Works of Shakespeare , Robert P. Irons

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Role of the Trickster Figure and Four Afro-Caribbean Meta-Tropes In the Realization of Agency by Three Slave Protagonists , David Sebastian Cross

Putting Place Back Into Displacement: Reevaluating Diaspora In the Contemporary Literature of Migration , Christiane Brigitte Steckenbiller

Using Singular Value Decomposition in Classics: Seeking Correlations in Horace, Juvenal and Persius against the Fragments of Lucilius , Thomas Whidden

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas , Florencia Cornet

Representation of Women In 19Th Century Popular Art and Literature: Forget Me Not and La Revista Moderna , Juan David Cruz

53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film , Jana -. Fedtke

Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century , Julia Lujan

Male Subjectivity and Twenty-First Century German Cinema: Gender, National Idenity, and the Problem of Normalization , Richard Sell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry , Evangelin Grace Chapman-Wall

Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce , Liang Meng

Dryden and the Solution to Domination: Bonds of Love In the Conquest of Granada , Lydia FitzSimons Robins

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Family As the New Collectivity of Belonging In the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri , Sarbani Bose

Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric. , Larry Grant Hamby

Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction , Mohamad Subhi Hindi

Re-Visions: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy In German and Italian Film and Literature , Kristina Stefanic Brown

Plato In Modern China: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Platonists , Leihua Weng

Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary , Kimberly Wickham

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

The Mirrored Body: Doubling and Replacement of the Feminine and androgynous Body In Hadia Said'S Artist and Haruki Murakami'S Sputnik Sweetheart , Fatmah Alsalamean

Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus , Casey Catherine Moore

Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South , Brittany Powell

Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros , Jennifer Lyn Slobodian

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Dissertations in Comparative Literature have taken on vast number of topics and ranged across various languages, literatures, historical periods and theoretical perspectives. The department seeks to help each student craft a unique project and find the resources across the university to support and enrich her chosen field of study. The excellence of student dissertations has been recognized by several prizes, both within Yale and by the American Comparative Literature Association.

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Dissertations from 2022 2022.

Ghost (Hi)stories: Fiction as Alternative History in Brodber, Valdés, Cisneros, and Condé , Kristina Suzette Gibby

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Flirt, Fight, or Flight: Spatial and Power Dynamics in Three Courtship Motifs in Modern European, American, and Latin American Literary Works and Musicals , Amy Lynne Catania

Remembering in Spite of All: The Construction of Collective Memory of State Terrorism in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile , Telba Espinoza-Contreras

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: The Words and Faces of the Chinese of North America , Pengyi Huang

Poetics of Integration and the Making of Modern Chinese Drama: Cao Yu amongst Playwrights , Jingyuan Liu

Dissertations from 2016 2016

(Re)Writing History in Maryse Condé, Femi Euba, and Reinaldo Arenas , Lázara Bolton

The Politics of Sensations: Body and Texture in Contemporary Cinema and Literature (Argentina - Cuba - Ireland) , Guillermo Abel Severiche

Re-examining and Redefining the Concepts of Community, Justice, and Masculinity in the Works of René Depestre, Carlos Fuentes, and Ernest Gaines , Jacqueline Nicole Zimmer

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Dwelling Poetically, Proceeding Orphically: The Platonic Tradition and the Heideggerian Humanism of Ernesto Grassi , Geoffrey Alexander Leeves Bain

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Southern Bellas: the construction of Mestiza identity in Southern narratives , Wendy Aimee Braun

Short story cycles of the Americas, a transitional post-colonial form: a study of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street, Ernest Gaines's Bloodline, and Garbriel Garcia Marquez's Los Funerales de Mama Grande , Benjamin Sands Yves Forkner

Trans-Atlantic circulation of black tropes: Èsù and the West African griot as poetic references for liberation in cultures of the African diaspora , Jean-Baptiste Meunier

Virgil's shipwreck: how a Roman poet made and unmade the epic in the west , Jesse Bryan Burchfield Russell

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Hear (no) evil, see (no) evil, speak (no) evil: artistic representations of Argentina's "Dirty War" , Juliana Theresa Reineman

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Reading Out of Doors: How Nature Becomes Text and Vice-Versa , Richmond Minor Eustis

More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies , Rachel Nicole Spear

Theses from 2009 2009

City as prison: negotiating identity in the urban space in the nineteenth-century novel , Anita Michelle Dubroc

Theses from 2008 2008

Ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew agrarianism: an ecocritical study of Hesiod's Works and Days and the Book of Proverbs , Ernest Nathan Manning

Native Spiritualities As Resistance: Disrupting Colonialism in the Americas , Kirstin Lea Squint

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Displacement and the text: exploring otherness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish , Melody Boyd Carriere

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Reading trauma in postmodern and postcolonial literature: Charlotte Delbo, Toni Morrison, and the literary imagination of the aftermath , Sylviane Finck

Repression and reduction: the apparatchik's discourse in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge and George Orwell , Jason Paul Juneau

Money and tragedy in the nineteenth-century novel , Clany Soileau

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Exile as severance , Alexandru Boldor

Dissertations from 2004 2004

Haunted by the uncanny - development of a genre from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century , Alexandra Maria Reuber

The figuration of Caliban in the constellation of postcolonial theory , Paulus Sarwoto

Dissertations from 2003 2003

Politicizing the reader in the American lyric-epic: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Pablo Neruda's Canto general , William Allegrezza

Perspectives on comparative literature , Alexandru Boldor

Translating "Hebrew" into "Greek": the discursive hermeneutics of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic readings , Matthew Wayne Guy

An Africanist-Orientalist discourse: the other in Shakespeare and Hellenistic tragedy , Haegap Jeoung

Theses from 2002 2002

Stefan Zweig and Russia , Lidia Zhigunova

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Gods, Men and Their Gifts: a Comparison of the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the "Aeneid" and "Paradise Lost" , Paul Norman Anderson

Rights of Passage: a Cross -Cultural Study of Maroon Novels by Black Women. , Randi Gray Kristensen

Slain in the Spirit: a Vodun Aesthetic in Selected Works of Simone Schwarz -Bart, Zora Neale Hurston, and Paule Marshall. , Maria Thecla Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Family Portraits: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Nuclear Family. , Tamra Lynn Horton

Dark Phoenix: The Representation of Black Woman in "Je Suis Martiniquaise" by Mayotte Capecia and "Mon Examen De Blanc" by Jacqueline Manicom. , Sybil Shevron Jackson

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Representations of Class, Gender, Race, and Religion in the Novels of Somerville and Ross, 1894-1925. , Nicole Pepinster Greene

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

The Myth of Narcissus and the Narcissistic Structure. , Joachim Conrad hermann Vogeler

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

The Amazon Myth in Western Literature. , Bruce Robert Magee

Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993

The Poetry In-Between: Presence and Absence in Whitman, Rimbaud, and Hopkins. , Jonathan Flint Alexander

Discourses of Maternity and the Postmodern Narrative: A Study of Lessing, Walker, and Atwood. , Janet J. Montelaro

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This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Comparative Literature, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Other Is Speaking: Aesthetics and Politics of Desublimation in the Reconstruction of the Past by Contemporary Mainland Chinese and Chinese North American Women Writers , Hui Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

CIVILIZING THE STAGE: Reform and Theatrical Aesthetics in Colonial Western India (1850-1914) , Abhimanyu Acharya

Unfolding Infinity: Expressionism in Sufi Cosmopoiesis and the Poetics of Islamic Art and Architecture , Amany Dahab

A Haven of Peace: Justice and Hesed in the Book of Ruth and its Retellings in Spanish Drama, European Visual Arts, and Latin American Poetry , Luigi De Angelis Soriano

Indian and British Women’s Contributions to Modern Theatre in Punjab: 1830s -1940s , Ramanpreet Kaur

The Limits of the Law: Recent Fiction on the West German Prosecution of Nazi Atrocities , Pascal Michelberger

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency: Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Contemporary Novels and Films in The Americas , Victoria Jara

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Veni, Pati, Scripsi: The Maghrebi Diaspora in Driss Chraïbi’s Les Boucs and Salah Methnani-Mario Fortunato’s Immigrato , Mohamed Baya

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Embodiment of Creative Thought and Visual Logic in Bookmaking: An Example of Intermediality in Word-Picture Adaptation , Diana Bychkova

Between a Harmless Game and a Bittersweet Disease: Forms of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe , George A. Condrache

Shame and Its Other Family Members in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater and Everyman and Pierre Lemaitre's Au revoir là-haut , Shahrzad Izadpanah

I Ran to Write: Travel, Translation, and Journalism on Persian Spaces , Emadeddin Naghipour

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Moloch's Children: Monstrous Techno-Capitalism in North American Popular Fiction , Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard

Re-presenting Violence in the works of Jorge Amado, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ariel Dorfman , David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa

Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community , Rosario Pollicino

The Amphibian, Melioristic Agenda for Dividuals: Tropological Oscillations versus Tropological Settlements , Donatas Sinkunas

Kurdish Narratives of Identity: A Comparative Reading of Novels from Turkey and Iraq , Persheng Yari

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Subjectivity in Young Adult Literature (Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis , Zohre Javaheri

Cultural Memory and the Traumatic Past: Examining the Voids in Contemporary German and Uruguayan Literature, Museums, and Film , Jessica Paola Marino

Romance, Politics and Minor Art: A Nomadology of Inamoramento de Orlando and Star Wars , Andrea Privitera

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Let Me Tell You What It Means: Reading Beyond Humor in Selected Iranian-American Memoirs, Stand-up Comedy, and Film in the Post-9/11 Era , Reza Ashouri Talooki

“Walking around with broken hearts on their hands:” Intimate Writings in Contemporary Comics , Gabriella Colombo Machado

Being Gender/Doing Gender, in Alice Munro and Pedro Almadovar , Bahareh Nadimi Farrokh

Exploring Kitsch: Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five , Parastoo Nasrollahzadeh

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Organizations of Knowledge about the Orient in German and British Romanticism 1780-1820 , Naqaa Abbas

"I" am not "I" anymore: Negation, Doubling and Identity in Roman Polanski's The Tenant and Max Frisch's Stiller , Parastoo Alaeddini

Saturnine Constellations: Melancholy in Literary History and in the Works of Baudelaire and Benjamin , Kevin Godbout

Representing Modern Female Villain: On Feminine Evil, Perverse Nationhood, and Opposition in Rómulo Gallegos’ Doña Bárbara and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children , Barbara Guerrero

The Entelechial Thinker in Space: ‘Worlds within Worlds’ in Durrell, Flaubert, and Carroll , Sheena M. Jary

Cosmography and Topography: A Comparison of André Thevet’s "Les Singularités de la France Antarctique" and Jean de Léry’s "Histoire d’un Voyage Faict en la Terre du Brésil" , Driton Nushaj

From Dispossession to the Grotesque: Deterritorializing Human Identity in Cobra, El obsceno pájaro de la noche and The Unnamable , Sandra Paola Preciado

Inhuman and Heroic Women: Femininity in the Odyssey and the Arthurian Vulgate , Alexandra Salyga Reynolds

Discussions of Diaspora: Cultural Production and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Literature , Rachel L. Wong

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

In the Thick of National Consciousness: Difference and the Critique of Identity in Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children , Karim Abuawad

"More or Less" Refugee?: Bengal Partition in Literature and Cinema , Sarbani Banerjee

Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetic Play in Diasporic Iranian Visual Literature: Neshat, Satrapi, Bashi, Soltani , Mehraneh Ebrahimi-Eshratabadi

Who's the Fairest of Them All? Defining and Subverting the Female Beauty Ideal in Fairy Tale Narratives and Films through Grotesque Aesthetics , Leah Persaud

Peri Algeos: Pain in Aeschylus and Sophocles , Anda Pleniceanu

Paradise Lost: Astronomy, Scepticism, Perspective , Yanxiang Wu

Scintillating Scotoma: Migraine, Aura, and Perception in European Literature, 1860-1900 , Janice Y. Zehentbauer

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film , Aviva Atlani

Unmasking the Protester: The Meanings and Myths of Collective Civil Resistance Movements in African American and Polish Postresistance Prose Fiction , Agnieszka Herra

The Evolution of Indifference: Locating Stoic Influence in Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Du Dandysme et de Georges Brummell" and Charles Baudelaire's "Le Peintre de la vie moderne" , Aurie Zeran

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

From Nizam to Nation: The Representation of Partition in Literary Narratives about Hyderabad, Deccan , Nazia Akhtar

Enunciation and Plurilingualism in the Francophone and Anglophone African Novel , Ndeye F. Ba

Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett , Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

Mobilizing Insurgent Pasts Toward Decolonial Futures , Patrick Crowley

Magic(infra)realism: Jetztzeiten of Believability and Latin American History in García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and Otoño del patriarca. , Katarzyna Jasinski

Through the Carnival Looking Glass: A Carnivalesque Reading of Bruno Schulz's A Street of Crocodiles and Guy Davenport's A Table of Green Fields , Tamara A. Kowalski

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Burying Dystopia: the Cases of Venedikt Erofeev, Kurt Vonnegut, and Victor Pelevin , Natalya Domina

Human Automata, Identity and Creativity in George Du Maurier's Trilby and Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus , Adrienne M. Orr

The Gospel According to José Saramago: a Comparative Study of Critical Reception in Portugal, United States, and Canada , Bruna Reis

Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov , Meng Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857 , Nida Sajid

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Comparative Literature dissertations put our doctoral students in dialogue with disciplines across the University, and the dissertation committees they assemble reflect the rigor of their specialist training and the interdisciplinary reach of their thinking.

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Recent Dissertations

2023 Graduates

Duygu Ergun , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificates in Film, Television, & Media and German Studies

Dissertation: The Making of an Aesthetic Domain: An Archive of Lived Relations after Postwar Turkish-German Media Initiatives

Chairs: Kristin Dickinson (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature)

Committee: Andreas Gailus (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Johannes Von Moltke (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

Graham Liddell , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificate in Critical Translation Studies

Dissertation: Narrative Wayfinding: Author-izing Arab and Afghan Migration across Morphing Borderscapes

Chairs: Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature),  Andrew Shryock (Anthropology)

Committee: Cameron Cross (Middle East Studies), Michèle Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures)

Genta Nishku , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificate in Critical Translation Studies 

Dissertation: How the Silence Sounded: Writing Trauma in Albanian and Post-Yugoslav Literatures

Chair: Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature)

Committee: Hakem Al-Rustom (Anthropology), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature)

2022 Graduates

Alexander Aguayo , PhD in Comparative Literature

Dissertation: (De)formations of the 'I': Contemporary Black Women Poets of the Americas Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Romance Studies, Duke University), Antoine Traisnel (Comparative Literature), and Gillian White (English Language and Literature)

Tameekia (Imani) Cooper Mkandawire , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificate in Digital Studies Dissertation: Ancestors and Algorithms Ethnocomputing AI with African and African Diasporic Heritage Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Irina Aristarkhova (Art & Design), Lisa Nakamura (American Culture), and Afua Ansong, (Africana Studies. Mount Holyoke College) Karl Gaudyn , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: A Sensuous Love of the Unseen: Beauty and Ordinary Life in the Works of Gautier, Pater, Proust, and Bellow Chair: Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature) Committee: Danny Herwitz (Comparative Literature), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Mariane (Mari) Stanev , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificate in Museum Studies Dissertation: How to Hear Noise in Times of Peace: Listening to the Abolitionist Transimperial Cultural History of Pacification in the U.S. and Latin America Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African Studies), Daniel Nemser (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Tiffany Ng (Music, Theatre & Dance) Peter Vorissis , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Tableau Vivant and the Aesthetics of Modernity Chair: Michèle Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Vincenzo  Binetti (Romance Languages and Literatures), Daniel Herwitz (Comparative Literature), and Artemis Leontis (Comparative Literature) Xiaoxi Zhang , PhD in Comparative Literature, with Certificates in African Studies and World Performance Studies Dissertation: De-centering Modern Language(s): The Case of Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kelly Askew (Anthropology), Marlyse Baptista (Linguistics), Daniel Herwitz (Comparative Literature), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and David Porter (Comparative Literature)

2021 Graduates

Lauren Benjamin , PhD in Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature Dissertation: Feral Modernisms Chair: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Joshua Miller (English Language and Literature) Committee: Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African Studies), Anita Norich (Judaic Studies), Antoine Traisnel (Comparative Literature)

Ali Bolcakan , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Language of Politics, Politics of Language: Political Literature in Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Chair: Artemis Leontis (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kevork Bardakjian (Middle East Studies), Kristin Dickinson (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Elizabeth Wingrove (Political Science)

Vedran Catovic , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Satirical Literature in Context: Journey and Dissent in West and East Europe Chair: Enoch Brater (English Language and Literature), and Olga Maiorova (Slavic Languages and Literature) Committee: Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature), Michele Hannoosh(Romance Languages and Literatures), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

Yael Kenan , PhD in Comparative Literature with Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies Dissertation: States of Mourning: Nationalism and Mourning in Palestinian and Israeli Literatures After 1948 Chair: Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Committee: Maya Barzilai (Middle East Studies), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), and Anita Norich (Judaic Studies) Grace Zanotti , PhD in Comparative Literature with Graduate Certificate in Classical Reception Studies Dissertation: Beyond Retribution: Re-theorizing Justice through Greek Tragedy Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Antoine Traisnel (Comparative Literature), Elizabeth Wingrove (Political Science)

2020 Graduates

Sahin Acikgoz , PhD in Comparative Literature with Graduate Certificate in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Queer Studies Dissertation: Transgender in Translation: A Transnational Category of Socio-Cultural Analysis. Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African Studies), Jarod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Trish Salah (Queen’s University)

Maximillian Alvarez , PhD in Comparative Literature and History Dissertation: Technologies of Resistance: Media, Anarchy, and Radical Politics in Early 20th-Century Mexico Chair: Gareth Williams (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Howard Brick (History), Geoff Eley (History), Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature), and Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Megan Berkobien , PhD in Comparative Literature with Graduate Certificate Program in Museum Studies Dissertation: (E)co-translation: Toward a Collective Task Chairs: Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature) and Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature), Ingrid Diran (Comparative Literature), and Juli Highfill (Romance Languages and Literatures)

Adrienne Jacaruso , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Encyclopedic Form in the Modern French Novel Chair: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature) Committee: Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Antoine Traisnel (Comparative Literature)

Shira Schwartz , PhD in Comparative Literature with Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies Dissertation: Yeshiva Quirls: A Textual Ethnography of Jewish Gender, Sex and Reproduction Chair: Rafe Neis (Judaic Studies) Committee: Elizabeth Roberts (Anthropology), Naomi Seidman (Religion, University of Toronto), Megan Sweeney (English Language and Literature), and Ruth Tsoffar (Comparative Literature)

2019 Graduates

Will Runyan , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Critical Translation Studies Dissertation: Global Form and Fantasy in Yiddish Literary Culture: Visions from Mexico City and Buenos Aires Chair: Misha Krutikov (Slavic Languages and Literature) Committee: Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature), Anita Norich (Judaic Studies), and Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)

Duygu Ula , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificates in LGBTQ Studies and Film, Television, and Media Studies Dissertation: Towards a Local Queer Aesthetics: Queer Cultural Productions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey Chair: Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature) and Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Caryl Flinn (Film, Television and Media Studies) and Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature)

2018 Graduates Harry Kashdan , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Judaic Studies Dissertation: Eating Elsewhere: Food and Migration in the Contemporary Mediterranean Chair: Karla Mallette (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Pamela Ballinger (History), Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies), Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature), and Devi Mays (Judaic Studies) Leigh Korey , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Aging Bodies, Hairy Bodies, Barely Human Bodies: Three Essays on Contemporary Iranian Literature Chairs: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature) and Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kathryn Babayan (Middle East studies) and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

2017 Graduates Mélissa Gélinas , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Screen Arts and Cultures Dissertation: Heterolanguage in Twenty-First-Century Cinema and Literature: Transnational Mediations Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Nilo Couret (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures), Daniel Herbert (Film, Television, and Media Studies), and Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature) William Stroebel , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Fluid Books, Fluid Borders Modern Greek and Turkish Book Networks in a Shifting Sea Chair: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) Committee: Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature), Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature), Artemis Leontis (Comparative Literature), and Karla Mallette (Middle East Studies)

2016 Graduates Etienne Charrière , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: “We Must Ourselves Write About Ourselves.” The Trans-Communal Rise of the Novel in the Late Ottoman Empire Chair: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kevork Bardakjian (Middle East Studies), Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature)

Emily Goedde , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Sound of Bombs – Translating Chinese Poetry from the Second World War Chair: Xiaobing Tang (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and John Whittier-Ferguson (English Language and Literature)

Sara Grewal , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Urdu Through its Others: Ghazal, Canonization, and Translation Chair: Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kathryn Babayan (Middle East Studies), Rajeev Kinra (History, Northwestern University), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Farina Mir (History) Cassie Miura , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Humor of Skepticism: Laughter in Early Modern Literature from Montaigne to Milton Chair: Trevor Douglas (English Language and Literature) Committee: George Hoffmann (Romance Languages and Literatures), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Michael Schoenfeldt (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Mei-Chen Pa n, PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Museum Studies Dissertation: From Empire to Motherland: Writings and the Politics of Translation in the Literatures of Transcolonial Taiwan, 1937-1960 Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) and Jonathan E. Zwicker (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Anne C. Herrmann (Women’s and Gender Studies), Youngju Ryu (Asian Languages and Cultures), and Xiaobing Tang (Asian Languages and Cultures)

2015 Graduates Olga Greco , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination Chair: Valerie Kivelson (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Committee: Paolo Asso (Classical Studies), Basil Dufallo (Classical Studies), and Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature) Hilary Levinson , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Disturbing Translations: Distance, Memory, and Representation in Contemporary Latin American Literature Chair: Katharine Jenckes (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Amy Carroll (English Language and Literature), Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), and Victoria Lagland (Romance Languages and Literatures) Rostom Mesli , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Women’s Studies Dissertation: In Defense of Identity Politics: A Queer Reclamation of a Radical Concept Chair: David Halperin (Comparative Literature) Committee: David Caron (Women’s and Gender Studies), Lisa Disch (Political Science), and Gayle Rubin (Women’s and Gender Studies)

Richard Pierre , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Lyric Petrologies: Language of Stone in Rilke, Trakl, Mandelstam, Celan, and Sachs Chair: Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature) Committee: Andreas Gailus (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Sofya Khagi (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature)

2014 Graduates Basak Çandar , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Representing Censored Pasts: State Violence in Twentieth Century Turkish and Spanish Literature Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature) Committee: Gottfried Hagen (Middle East Studies) and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Genevieve Creedon , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Worlds of Wonder: National Parks, Zoos, Disney, and the Genealogies of Wonder in U.S. Culture Chair: June Howard (American Culture) and Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature) Committee: Phillip DeLoria (American Culture), Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature), and Patricia Yaeger (English Language and Literature)

Mandy Ann Davis , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: "A Puzzle View From Within": Problems with and Alternatives to Humanitarianism and Savior Narratives for Ethiopia and Rwanda Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Omolade Adunbi (Afroamerican and African Studies), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), Miriam Ticktin (Anthropology)

Maria Hadjipolycarpou , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Intersubjective Histories in the Mediterranean and Beyond: The Poetics of Self in Postcolonial Life Writing Chair: Artemis Leontis (Comparative Literature) and Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), Daniel Herwitz (Comparative Literature), and Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature)

Spencer Hawkins , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Foundational Ambiguities: Metaphor, Translation, and Intertextuality in Hans Blumenberg’s Metaphorology Chair: Andreas Gailus (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature) Committee: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature), Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature), and Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Christopher Meade , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Writing Inter-American Space: History, Fiction and Territory in Cather, Carpenter, Delany and Borges Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) and Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Gregg Crane (English Language and Literature) and Katharine Jenckes (Romance Languages and Literatures) Michael Pifer , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Stranger’s Voice: Acts of Appropriation in Anatolian Literature and Society Chair: Kevork Bardakjian (Middle East Studies) Committee: Kathryn Babayan (Middle East Studies), Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature), and Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature)

Shannon Winston , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Interrupted Visions: Seeing and Writing the Mediterranean of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Chair: Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature) Committee: Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures), Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature), and Karla Mallette (Romance Languages and Literatures)

2013 Graduates Efrat Bloom , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificates in Critical Translation Studies and Judaic Studies Dissertation: This Place of Poetry: Writing, Displacement, and the Poetics of the Mother Tongue in H. Leyvik, Paul Celan, and Sargon Boulus Chair: Daniel Herwitz (Comparative Literature) and Anita Norich (Judaic Studies) Committee: Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), Shachar Pinsker (Judaic Studies), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Suphak Chawla , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Thinking the Good Without the True: Pedro Paramo and the Value of Magical Realism Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) Committee: Katharine Jenckes (Romance Languages and Literatures), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Amr Kamal , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Empires and Emporia: Fictions of the Department Store in the Modern Mediterranean Chair: Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies) and Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Mona Domosh (Geography, Dartmouth), Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

Matthew Pfaff , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century Experimental Poetics Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Classical Studies), Basil Dufallo (Classical Studies), Joshua Miller (Judaic Studies), and Gillian White (English Language and Literature) Mikey Rinaldo , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Breaking the Letter: Illegibility as Intersign in CY Twombly, Steve McCaffery and Susan Howe Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Matt Biro (History of Art), Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Alex Potts (History of Art)

Ramon Stern , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Geographies of Escape, Pathologies of Attachment: Diasporic Difference and Arab Ethnicity Re-Examined Chair: Cristina Mereiras-Menor (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Ruth Tsoffar (Comparative Literature) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), Elliot Colla (Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Patrick Ton ks, PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Cannibal Routes: Mapping the Atlantic as a Network of Appropriations. Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) & Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: George Hoffman (Romance Languages and Literatures), Paul Johnson (History), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature)

2012 Graduates Sebastian Ferrari, PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Imagining the Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolano and Alfredo Jaar Chair: Katharine Jenckes (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), Michele Hannoosh (Romance Languages and Literatures), Daniel Noemi (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Gareth Williams (Romance Languages and Literatures) Alexandra Hoffman , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Judaic Studies Dissertation: Laughter Through Tears: Politics, Identity and Humor in the Work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sholem Aleichem and Mordkhe Spector Chair: Anita Norich (Judaic Studies) Committee: Sandra Gunning (American Culture), Mikhail Krutikov (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and Joshua Miller (Judaic Studies)

John Rowland , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Virtual Realities: Virtue and Fantasies of Social-Material Community in British Poetry and Criticism, 1725-1785 Chair: Clement Hawes (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Committee: Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature), David Porter (Comparative Literature), and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature) Corine Tachriris , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Branding World Literature: The Global Circulation of Authors in Translation Chair: Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature) Committee: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature), Jennifer Wenzel (English Language and Literature)

Orian Zakai , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Zion of Their Own: Hebrew Women’s Nationalist Writing (1896-1956) Chair: Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies) Committee: Shachar Pinsker (Judaic Studies), Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), and Ruth Tsoffar (Comparative Literature)

2011 Graduates

Christopher Davis , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Scribes and Singers: Latin Models of Authority and the Compilation of Troubadour Songbooks Chair: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature) Committee: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature), Alison Cornish (Romance Languages and Literatures), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Elizabeth Sears (History of Art) Nahoko Fukushima , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: “Sharebon” and the Courtesans: A Phase Edo Aestheticism as the Potlatch/Splash of Ideology Chair: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Alina Clej (Comparative Literature), Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), Shuen-Fu Lin (Asian Languages and Cultures), and David Porter (Comparative Literature)

Alan Itkin, PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W.G. Sebald Chair: Basil Dufallo (Classical Studies) and Julia Hell (Germanic Languages and Literatures) Committee: Maya Barzilai (Middle East Studies) and Johannes Von Moltke (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

Corina Kesler , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Hail Utopia: Communist, Mystical and Post-Colonial Voices: Retrospectives and Future Promises Chair: Eric Rabkin (English Language and Literature) Committee: Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature), Elliott Ginsburg (Middle East Studies), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

2010 Graduates Sayan Bhattacharyya , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Reading Dialectically: The Political Play of Form, Contingency and Subjectivity in Rabindranath Tagore and C.L.R. James Chair: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), Daniel Herwitz (Comparative Literature), Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature), and Jennifer Wenzel (English Language and Literature) Maria Gonzalez , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Translating Quechua Poetic Expression in the Andes: Literature, the Social Body and Quechumara Movements Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) and Philip Deloria (American Culture) Committee: Bruce Mannheim (Anthropology), Javier Sanjines (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Gustavo Verdesio (Romance Languages and Literatures) Marcelo Hamam , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Freedom, Speech and Inequality in Rousseau’s Philosophical Rhetoric from the Deconstructive Interpretation to the Foundations of his Political Thought Chair: Arlene Saxonhouse (Political Science) and Richard Velkley (Philosophy, Tulane University) Committee: Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Classical Studies) and Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature)

Michael Kicey , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Risk and Responsibility: Ancient and Modern Dialogues on Interpretation Chair: Ross Chambers (Comparative Literature) and James Porter (Comparative Literature) Committee: Dean C. Hammer (Classics, Franklin and Marshall College), Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature), and Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature)

Monica Lopez-Lerma , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Screen Arts and Cultures Dissertation: Re-Imagining Justice: A Study of Ethics, Politics, and Law in Spanish Contemporary Fiction Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Dario Gaggio (History), Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Ruth Tsoffar (Comparative Literature)

Liansu Meng , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Inferno Tango: Gender, Politics, and Poetry in China 1919-1980 Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) and Lydia Liu (Comparative Literature) Committee: Shuen-Fu Lin (Asian Languages and Cultures) and Wang Zheng (Women’s and Gender Studies)

2009 Graduates Nicole Bishop , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Women’s Studies Dissertation: Toward Holistic, Ethical Scholarship in Literature (Or, Taking off my Glasses to “See” Jamaica Kincaid) Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), Richard Mann (Psychology), and Jonathan Metzl (Culture, Health, and Medicine) Neil Doshi , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Revolution at the Crossroads: Street Theater and the Politics of Radical Democracy in India and Algeria Chair: Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature) Committee: Ross Chambers (Comparative Literature), Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature), and William Worthen (Theatre and Drama)

Seunghei (Clara) Hong , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Writing Pain, Erasing Cult: The Politics of Memory in Partition Literature Chair: Christi Merrill (Comparative Literature) Committee: Anne Herrmann (Women’s and Gender Studies), Leslie Pincus (History), and Youngju Ryu (Asian Languages and Cultures) Christopher Love , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Creating Tragic Spectators: Rebellion and Ambiguity in World Tragedy Chair: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) and Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) and John Whittier-Ferguson (English Language and Literature)

Nicholas Theisen , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Reading and Ignorance: Poetic Constraints of Lyric Chair: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Joseph Reed (Classical Studies)

2008 Graduates

Sylwia Ejmont , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Troubadour Takes the Tram: Experience in Polish Poetry and Music Chair: Bozena Shallcross (Slavic Language & Literatures, University of Chicago)and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) Committee: Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Benjamin Paloff (Comparative Literature), and Brian Porter (History) Jonah Johnson , PhD in Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages and Literatures Dissertation: A Battle as Not Yet Fought: The Tragic Consequences of Early German Idealism Chair: James Porter (Comparative Literature) and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature) Committee: Andreas Gailus (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature), and Mika Lavaque-Manty (Political Science)

Adeline Koh , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Inventing Malayanness: Race, Education and Englishness in Colonial Malaya Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Mamadou Diouf (Afro-American and African Studies) , Simon Gikandi (English Language and Literature), and Andreas Kalyvas (Political Science)

Stanton McManus , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Film Studies Dissertation: Democracy in Transición: Politics, Melodrama, History Chair: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) and Cristina Moreiras-Menor (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Catherine Benamou (American Culture), Juli Highfill (Romance Languages and Literatures), Frederic Jameson (Comparative Literature, Duke University), and Johannes Von Moltke (Film, Television, and Media Studies)

2007 Graduates Abraham I. Acosta , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Thresholds of Illiteracy: Orality and Biopolitics in Modern Latin America Chair: Gareth Williams (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Javier Sanjines (Romance Languages and Literatures), Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), and Gustavo Verdesio (Romance Languages and Literatures) Maria Cristina Hamill , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Changing Paradigms in the Caribbean: An Analysis of Julia Alvarez’s Saving the World and In The Name of Salomé and Maryse Condé’s Tree of Life and I, Tutuba, Black Witch of Salem Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), Larry LaFountain-Stokes (Women’s and Gender Studies), and Richard Rosa (Romance Studies, Duke University) Zehra Asli Igsiz , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Repertories of Rupture: Recollecting the 1923 Greek-Turkish Compulsory Religious Minority Exchange Chair: Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies) and Vassilis Lambropoulos (Comparative Literature) Committee: Gottfried Hagen (Middle East Studies), Kader Konuk (Comparative Literature), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

2006 Graduates

Laura Halperin , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Narratives of Transgression: Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature Chair: Frances Aparicio Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago). and Maria Cotera (American Culture) Committee: Rosario Ceballo (Women's and Gender Studies), Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), and John Gonzalez (English, University of Texas, Austin) Charise Y. Hastings , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy Dissertation: The Performer’s Role: Storytelling in Ballades of Chopin and Brahms Chair: Marion A. Guck (School of Music) Committee: John Ellis (School of Music), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), Kendall Walton (Philosophy), and Steven Whiting (School of Music)

Jing Jiang , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Racial Mimesis: Translation, Literature, and Self-Fashioning in Modern China Chair: Lydia Liu Committee: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), David Porter (Comparative Literature), and David Rolston (Asian Languages and Cultures) Meredith Martin , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetic Form and English National Culture, 1880-1920 Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kali A.K. Israel (History), Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature), and John A. Whittier-Ferguson (English Language and Literature) Ronit Ricci , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Translating Conversion in South and Southeast Asia: The Islamic “Book of One Thousand Questions” in Javanese, Tamil and Malay Chair: Nancy Florida (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Alton Becker (Linguistics), Barbara Daly Metcalf (History), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

Renee Silverman , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Terrain of Poetry and Cultural Memory in the First Spanish Avant-Garde (1914-1925) Chair: Tobin Siebers (English Language and Literature) Committee: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature), Juli Highfill (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature)

2005 Graduates Anis A. Memon , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: A Look at the Use of Popular Language in Certain exemplary Mid-20th Century French and Italian Novels as an Index of the Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism Chair: Vincenzo Binetti (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Alina Clej (Comparative Literature) Committee: Alison Cornish (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

Charles Daniel Sabatos , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Minor Tragedies: National Identity as Cultural Translation in the Czech and Slovak Novel Chair: Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature) and Scott Spector (Germanic Languages and Literatures) Committee: Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), Jindrich Toman (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Herbert Eagle (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

2004 Graduates

Lily V. Chiu , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Women’s Studies Dissertation: Alternative: Imagining and Performing the Native Woman in Francophone and Vietnamese Literature Chair: Jarrod Hayes (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), Simon Gikandi (English Language and Literature), Panivong Norindr (French & Comparative Literature, University of Southern California), and Jack Yeager (Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University)

Sean Jeffrey Cotter , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Living Through Translation: Lucian Blaga, T.S. Eliot, and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Modernism Chair: Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature) and John Whittier-Ferguson (English Language and Literature) Committee: Mircea Borcila (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and Katherine Verdery (Anthropology)

Madelaine Hron , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Translation of Pain in Immigrant Texts Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Zdenka Brodska (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), Tobin Siebers (English Language and Literature), and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature)

Katherine Kong , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Epistolary Positions: Gender and Authority in Medieval and Early Modern French Letters Chair: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature) and Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature) Committee: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature), George Hoffmann (Romance Languages and Literatures), and Charles Witke (Classical Studies)

Margaret Wickins Lynch , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Stories, Saints, and Dreams: The Literary Uses of Dreams in Early Medieval Hagiography Chair: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature) Committee: Alison Cornish (Romance Languages and Literatures), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), Catherine Sanok (English Language and Literature), and Charles Witke (Classical Studies)

Sheila Skaff, PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The History of Cinema in Poland and the Transition from Silent to Sound Film 1896-1939 Chair: Richard Abel (Film, Television, and Media Studies), Bogdana Carpenter (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Anita Norich (Judaic Studies) Committee: Alina Brodzka (Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Hubert Cohen (Film, Television, and Media Studies), Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature), Piotr Michalowski (Middle East Studies), and Tobin Siebers (English Language and Literature)

2003 Graduates Susan Florence Gorman , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Generic Ideologies: The Intersection of Empire, the Epic and the Novel in French West African and Latin Literatures Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Mamadou Diouf (History), Simon Gikandi (English Language and Literature), David Porter (Comparative Literature), and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature)

2002 Graduates Monika Irene Cassel , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Poetesses at the Grave: Transnational Circulation of Women’s Memorial Verse in Nineteenth-Century England, Germany and America Chair: Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) Committee: Kali Israel (History), Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature), and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature) Leah Chang , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Printing the Muse: Book Production and the Construction of Female Authorship in Renaissance France Chair: Domna Stanton (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Catherine Brown (Comparative Literature), George Hoffmann (Romance Languages and Literatures), Peggy McCracken (Comparative Literature), and Valerie Traub (Women’s and Gender Studies) Justin Read , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Forms of Transculturation: The Cultural Aesthetics of Modernist/Vanguard Poetry of the Americas Chair: Juli Highfill (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Jossianna Arroyo (Romance Languages and Literatures), George Bornstein (English Language and Literature), Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature), and Marjorie Levinson (English Language and Literature)

Nirmala Singh-Brinkman , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Representation of Seville’s Female Cigar-Maker in Andelusian Regionalism and in Nineteenth-Century French and Spanish Literature Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) and Juli Highfill (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Alina Clej (Comparative Literature), Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Romance Languages and Literatures), Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (American Culture), and Claudia Ritter (Political Science)

2001 Graduates Heather Bowen-Struyk , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Rethinking Japanese Proletarian Literature Chair: Ken Ito (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Markus Nornes (Asian Languages and Cultures), Leslie Pincus (History), James Porter (Comparative Literature), and Alan Wald (American Culture)

Shai P. Ginsburg , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Trapped in Language: Nation, Space, and Subject in Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Literary Criticism, and Jewish National Ideologies Chair: Hannan Hever and James Porter (Comparative Literature) Committee: Tim Bahti (Comparative Literature), Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

Martin R. Heggestad , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: “Gebildet Genug, Um Zu Lieben Und Zu Trauern”: Bildung and Irony in the Literature of the Goethezeit Chair: Frederick Amrine Committee: Timothy Bahti (Comparative Literature), Alina Clej (Comparative Literature), James Porter (Comparative Literature), and Patricia Anne Simpson (Germanic Languages and Literatures) Eric M. Kligerman , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Scenes of Witnessing in Paul Celan, Anselm Kiefer and Daniel Libeskind Chair: Julia Hell and James Porter (Comparative Literature) Committee: Matthew Biro (History of Art), Andrei Markovits (Political Science), and Silke-Maria Weineck (Comparative Literature)

Pei-Jing Li, PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: The Politics and Poetics of Wo/Man/Ufacture: Male Representations of Woman in Chinese Han Fu and Roman Love Elegy Chair: Shuen-fu Lin (Asian Languages and Cultures) Committee: Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker (Asian Languages and Cultures), Donka Markus (Classical Studies), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), and David Rolston (Asian Languages and Cultures)

Jeffrey Joe Romero Middents , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Film Studies Dissertation: Hablemos de Cine: Locating the Film Journal in the Development of Peruvian National Cinema Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) and Carina Yervasi (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Catherine Benamou (American Culture) and Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado

Katarzyna (Kashia) Pieprzak , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Which Way to the Modern Art Museum? Cultural Discourse on Art and Modernity in Post-Colonial Morocco Chair: Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature) Committee: Richard Candida-Smith (History), Matthew Connelly (History), Simon Gikandi (English Language and Literature), and Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature)

2000 Graduates Suzanne Black , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: A Voice Sought in Order: Poetry, Science and Knowing Self in W.H. Auden, Fernando Pessoa, Francis Ponge, Paul Valery, and William Carlos Williams Chair: Timothy Bahti (Comparative Literature) Committee: Frederick Amrine (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Thomas Dunn (Chemistry), Laurence Goldstein (English Language and Literature), and William Paulson (Romance Languages and Literatures) Rachel Gabara , PhD in Comparative Literature with Certificate in Film Studies Dissertation: Je de Miroirs: French and Francophone Autobiography from Split to Screened Selves Chair: Carina Yervasi (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: David Caron (Romance Languages and Literatures), Simon Gikandi (English Language and Literature), Stuart McDougal (English Language and Literature), and James Porter (Comparative Literature) Deborah Starr , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Absent Presence: Inscriptions of the Egyptian Jewish Identity Since 1956 Chair: Carol Bardenstein (Middle East Studies) Committee: Anita Norich (Judaic Studies), Anton Shammas (Comparative Literature), and Sasson Somekh (Arabic Language and Literature, Tel Aviv University) Melissa Waldman , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: A History of Remembering: The French and Spanish in Florida, 1562-1565 Chair: Jose Rabasa (Romance Languages and Literatures) Committee: Steven Mullaney (English Language and Literature), James Porter (Comparative Literature), Domna Stanton (Romance Languages and Literature) Margaret (Marcy) Wheeler , PhD in Comparative Literature Dissertation: Street Level: Intersections of Modernity in the Czech, Argentine, and French Feuilleton Chair: Santiago Colas (Comparative Literature) Committee: Ross Chambers (Comparative Literature), Herb Eagle (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Frieda Ekotto (Comparative Literature)

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