Recent Dissertations and MA Essays
Recent Dissertations & MA Essays
▶ 2025
Dissertations
- Baudoin Terán, Magela (Romance Languages)
“Escrituras autobiográficas en muchedumbre: desobediencia, arte y pensamiento en los laboratorios creativos de cuatro escritoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas (Carolina Maria de Jesús, Matilde Casazola, Violeta Parra y Cristina Rivera Garza)” - Agou, Sarah Françoise Éliane (Romance Languages)
“Souveraineté narrative contre les structures coloniales d’enfermement : Autrices et artistes de Cuba, d’Haïti et des nations autochtones au Québec en conversation”
MA Essays
- Van Oort, Katie (French)
“Du ‘bon sauvage’ a ‘la maudite sauvagesse’”
▶ 2024
Dissertations
- Clementi, Jordan (Romance Languages)
“Broken Boundaries: Alternative Futures in Women’s Literature of the Global South (1984–2006)” - Peñalosa Montero, Marina (Romance Languages)
“Un campo intelectual en tensión. El otro Borges” - Pisacane, Gerardo (Romance Languages)
“Netflix: Phenomenology of the Teen Drama Genre in Italy”
MA Essays
- Darvishi, Arezou (French)
“Veiling and Unveiling in Iran and in France; How French Feminism Interprets ‘Woman, Life, Freedom Movement’” - Frazzetta, Giacomo (Romance Languages)
“Cinema Paradiso: Projecting Nostalgia onto Italy” - O’Ryan, Alex (Spanish)
“Liberating Praxis Models: Spanish Heritage Language Education, Intercultural Bilingual Education, and Latin American Indigenous Ethnicization” - Rogers, Isabelle (Spanish)
“‘Yo libertaré a la inteligencia de semejante servilismo’: El legado sociopolítico de Mineros, de Carmen Conde y María Cegarra Salcedo” - Solórzano, Nereida (Spanish)
“The Impact of Language Ideologies on the Education System of California and Pedagogical Approaches to Combat Them”
▶ 2023
Dissertations
- Boyero Agudo, Lara (Romance Languages)
“Género y lengua: Literacidad crítica en el aula de español como lengua heredada” - Hadjivassiliou, Sheela Bora (Romance Languages)
“Reorienting the Utopian Island: Tropes, Toponymy and Transgression in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Indian Ocean and Caribbean Fictions” - Jaramillo, Jon Dell (Romance Languages)
“Viral Bodies: Aids and Other Contagions in Latin American Life Narratives” - Saedi, Maryam (Romance Languages)
“L’absurde engage: Parcours de l’absurde de la scène à l’écran à la suite de la seconde guerre mondiale en Iran et en France” - Sotelo, Elizabeth (Romance Languages)
“La crónica literaria urbana en Perú y México (1999–2022)” - Velasco Camacho, Javier (Romance Languages)
“Infraestructuras de modernidad: estéticas decadentistas y desarrollo urbano en Bolivia” - Vidal Collados, Yosa (Romance Languages)
“Memorias de la traición y la traición de la memoria: Narrativas de la traición en Chile y Argentina” - Youssefzadeh, Kiana (Romance Languages)
“Lines Re-Drawn: Envisioning Feminism and Islam in Francophone Fiction (1980–2019)”
MA Essays
- Geha, Rhone (French)
“Escaping the Colonial Labyrinth: From Cultural Alienation to Literary Independence in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's La plus secrète mémoire des hommes” - Kepple, Claire (Spanish)
“El más allá de apocalipsis: la relación y reunificación en Tú, la oscuridad y The Farming of Bones” - Pitkin, Gloria (Romance Languages)
“Moi, Maryse Condé... The Post-Colonial Disjuncture in Moi, Tituba... Sorcière noire de Salem” - Ramírez, Jesús (Romance Languages)
“El alférez, no la monja: Antonio de Erauso y la crisis de la masculinidad áurea” - Wakelam, Haley (Romance Languages)
““Trash,” or Thinking beyond Agency”
▶ 2022
Dissertations
- Regan-Maglione, Kevin (Romance Languages)
“Unbreaking Bonds: Queer Prison Testimonies from the Holocaust to Today” - Tweede, Cornesha (Romance Languages)
“The Significance of Black Women to Early Modern Iberian Literature”
MA Essays
- Bégu, Mathilde (French)
“Decolonizing materials for the L2 French classroom: moving away from standardization and simplistic representations of the francophone world”
▶ 2021
Dissertations
- Plescia, Mariko (Romance Languages)
“Time, Memory, and Justice in Chilean and Ecuadorian Documentary Film” - Tejada López, Macarena (Romance Languages)
“Combatientes fascistas de España: La División Azul a través de los estudios culturales”
MA Essays
- Behm, Catherine (French)
“Brutalisation humaine du non-humain : Pour une lecture antispéciste de Montaigne et Descartes” - Bertin, Aurélie (French)
“Une Rééducation du regard: ‘Portrait de la jeune fille en feu’ directed by Céline Sciamma (2019)” - Díaz Mendias, Yasmin (Romance Languages)
“The taste of food industrialism: The Apprehension of the Life of the Contadina and Campesina” - Steward, Senna (French)
“Entre les lignes ennemies : la violence et l’indépendance algérienne?” - Thompson, Chandler (Spanish)
“Una violencia crítica: la historia de la guerra contra las drogas mexicana a través de tres novelas de Élmer Mendoza”
▶ 2020
MA Essays
- Brusiloff Díaz Romero, Pedro (Romance Languages)
- Kwiek, Mateusz (Spanish)
“Ideology, Race, or Religion? Representations of Antisemitism and Anti-Masonry in Spanish Fascist Literature” - Reeves, Chad (Spanish)
“The Mariner’s Six Crafts: An Analysis of the 18th Century Spanish-Basque Captain Bruno de Hezeta’s Explorational Voyage along the Pacific Northwest coast in 1775” - Sanguino Rodríguez, Daniel (Spanish)
- Serrano-Torres, Pablo (Spanish)
“Mostrar lo innombrable en ‘El espíritu de la colmena’” - Soto Ruíz, Iris (Spanish)
“La construcción de un sujeto de referencia femenino en Desengaños amorosos” - Weaver, Jalin (Romance Languages)
“Power Dynamics of Master and Valet in ‘Don Quichotte’ and ‘Jacques le Fataliste’” - Williams, Haley (Spanish)
▶ 2019
Dissertations
- Cogan, Elizabeth (Romance Languages)
“A Mad Certainty: Narrative Instability, Insanity, and the Search for Answers in Late Nineteenth Century French Fiction” - Pérez-Ibáñez, Doralba (Romance Languages)
“En clave de Mujer: La construcción de la subjetividad femenina en el Caribe” - Sedano Naveira, Nagore (Romance Languages)
“Duelos disidentes: Voces de mujeres españolas y vascas exiliadas en Latinoamérica” - Serfozo, Eva (Romance Languages)
“Torn Cobwebs of Memory: Interweaving Film and Fiction in Post-Franco Spain and Post-Communist Hungary, Shifting Narratives of the Holocaust and Dictatorship in the Wake of Political Transition to Democracy”
MA Essays
- Edney, Drue (Spanish)
“Juan Latino's Austrias Carmen” - Garrido Pérez, Sandra (Romance Languages)
“Dificultades en la investigación sociolingüística de minorías hispanas en los Estados Unidos” - Holt, Chloe (Spanish)
“Colonial Aesthetics of Modernism and their Places in Literary Magazines” - Jiménez, Kenya (Italian)
“Patriarchal society & Gender performance in Ovid’s Metamorphosis & Boccacio’s Decameron” - Miranda, Lauren (Spanish)
“(des)Autorización del comportamiento lingüístico e identidad social en hispanohablantes de herencia en la Universidad de Oregón” - Pisacane, Gerardo (Italian)
“Gomorrah. The Series: Negotiating the Global and the Local”
▶ 2018
Dissertations
- Gallo, Erin (Romance Languages)
“International Interventions: Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) and Global Feminist Discourses”
▶ 2017
Dissertations
- Brenner, Natalie Rachel Kaftan (Romance Languages)
“Generating Geographies and Genealogies: Jewish Women Writing the Twentieth Century in French” - Del Barco, Valeria (Romance Languages)
“Diálogos transoceánicos coloniales: Poética criolla en negociación” - Rigby, Michael Brandon (Romance Languages)
“Interliminal Tongues: Self-Translation in Contemporary Transatlantic Bilingual Poetry” - Slave, Alexandra (Romance Languages)
“Écriture Artiste and the Idea of Painterly Writing in Nineteenth-Century France” - Tribit, Anthony Patrick (Romance Languages)
“Making Knighthood: The Construction of Masculinity in the ‘Ordene de chevalerie’, the ‘Livre de chevalerie de Geoffroi de Charny’ and the ‘Espejo de verdadera nobleza’”
▶ 2016
Dissertations
- Ares, Álvaro Moreno (Romance Languages)
“Monstruos familiares: Representaciones del miedo en la Guerra Civil and la posguerra en la literatura y el cine español contemporáneo” - Díaz Romero Paz, María Vania (Romance Languages)
“La Revolución de 1952 en la novela boliviana contemporánea escrita por mujeres” - Mefoude Obiono, Sandra (Romance Languages)
“La banalité de l’exclusion. Autopsie in vivo de quelques romans d’auteures caribéennes et subsahariennes (Condé, Mukasonga, Danticat et Miano)” - Zweifel, Aara (Romance Languages)
“Spiralist Interconnection and Environmental Consciousness in Caribbean Literature”