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”