French Program
Italian Program
REMS Program
Spanish Program
Graduate Students in French
Research Interests
Timothy Allen: Mystères, fabliaux and the history of dictionariesMary Angelo: Nineteenth-century French literature
Jennifer Barnhill: Nineteenth-century French literatureJulia Chamard-Bergeron: Depiction of private virtues; action and intention in early modern literature; habits and inner life in the novel
Kendra Drischler: Modern French poetry, critical theory, and immigration in French literatureIsabelle Faton: Medieval and seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century French literature
Clovis Gladstone: Seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century French literature Aurore Labenheim: Seventeenth- and twentieth-century Francophone literature; melancholia and the Baroque; Tristan L'Hermite; translationEmily Sambrook: Medieval and renaissance French literature
Dissertations in progress or recently defended
| Proposed Title | Director |
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|---|---|---|
| Corinne Bayerl | "Reforming the Self: Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Work of Pierre Nicole" | Thomas Pavel |
| Emmanuelle Bonnafoux | "Cilz lions que je remembre: Allégorie politique et représentation animale dans La Fiction du Lyon d’Eustache Deschamps" | Daisy Delogu |
| Dana Currier | "L’école des peres: Rethinking Fatherhood in 18th Century French Literature" | Robert Morrissey |
| Mireille Dobrzynski | "French Classical Literature in the Cinema of Eric Rohmer" | Larry Norman |
| Colleen Donagher | "Meraugis de Portlesguez by Raoul de Houdenc: A New Edition and Translation" | Peter Dembowski |
| Mary Druyvesteyn | "Lamartine’s Romanticism: From Poetry to Politics and the Revolution of 1848" | Françoise Meltzer |
| Sylvie Goutas | "Etude du don dans le roman français de la première moitie du XIXe siècle: La Charité et la philanthropie dans La Comédie humaine d’Honoré de Balzac et chez certains de ses contemporains" | Thomas Pavel |
| Nancy Knezevic | "'Fragments Paradoxaux du Discours du Comédien': Ethical and Esthetic Paradoxes of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century French Theater" | Françoise Meltzer |
| Julie Meyers | "Emblematic Figures and Human Agency in Michelet" | Robert Morrissey |
| Glenn Roe | "Au Coeur même de L’événement” Charles Péguy Between History and Literature" | |
| Timothee Schellenberg | "L’Informe et le retour. De l’écriture de Blanchot à la pensée nomade de Deleuze" | Françoise Meltzer |
| Véronique Sigu | "Du manuscrit à la bibliothèque: La Littérature médiévale dans la Bibliothèque universelle des romans (1775-1789)" | Robert Morrissey |
Graduate Students in Italian
Research Interests
Miriam Aloisio: Twentieth-century Italian literature, postmodern novels, filmJustin Anderson: Twentieth-century Italian literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera
Karolina Bandurski: Renaissance literatureRyan Calabretta-Sajder: Queer and feminist theory in modern Italian literature and cinema, Sicilian Literature and cinema, immigration/emigration
Sarah E. Christopher: Medieval and renaissance Italian literature, poetry, women writersElizabeth Fiedler: Eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Italian literature
James Michael Fortney: Twentieth-century Italian literature and cinema, gender studies and the gay Italian novelRyan Gogol: Contemporary literature, dialectology, history of Italian
Cynthia Hillman: Twentieth-century literature and cinemaElana Kranz: Twentieth-century Italian literature, cinema, and cultural studies
Roni Kubati: Contemporary Italian literature and cinema, contemporary philosophy, creative writing, journalismClelia Masciello: Italian literature
Chiara Montanari: Eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Italian literatureRaffaello Palumbo Mosca: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature
Michael Subialka: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, modern philosophy and social/political theory, film, aesthetics and mythElizabeth Webber Porretto: Twentieth-century Italian literature, women writers, Italian cinema
Dissertations in progress or recently defended
Proposed Title |
Director |
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|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Anderson | "Petrarch and His Friends: Friendship and Poetic in the Canzoniere and Triumphs" | Justin Steinberg |
| Lisa A. Barca | "Vento sulla Mezzaluna: Divine Eclipse and the Lineaments of Poetic Modernism (Pascoli, Montale, Dickinson, Rilke)" | Rebecca West |
| Jacob Blakesley | "History and Analysis of 'Quaderni di traduzioni'" | Rebecca West |
| Emanuela Carney | "Mary as Storyteller: Enselmino da Treviso and 'Pianti Della Vergine' in Italy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century" | Armando Maggi |
| Maggie Fritz-Morkin | "Excrement Imagery and Rhetoric in Medieval Italian Literature" | Justin Steinberg |
| Jennifer Haraguchi | "Educating Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: The Pedagogical Writings of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo" | Elissa Weaver |
| Rocco Lacorte |
Graduate Students in REMS
Research Interests
Fernando Riva
Graduate Students in Spanish
Research Interests
Kevin Anzzolin: Journalism and literature, nineteenth-century MexicoAnamaría Ayala: Latin American literature, the uncanny in contemporary short stories
Juan Camilo Acevedo: Spanish literature and languagesJesus Botello: Medieval and Spanish Golden Age
Lily Casanova-López: Spanish literatureJeffrey Coleman: Latin American literatures and cultures
Anita Damjanovic: Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, specifically the supernatural and the visual in theaterTraci Dybdahl: Twentieth-century and contemporary peninsular literature and culture; the Spanish Civil War; Catalan studies; translation
Jason Fowler: Medieval and Golden Age Iberia
Dana Gordon: Twentieth-century and contemporary peninsular literatureVictoria Grefer: Spanish Golden Age
Olivia Nuñez Hackman: Twentieth-century Latin American literatureThelma Jimenez: Spanish literature
Jenna Leving: Twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American literatureAlejandro Maya: Colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American and peninsular literatures, Latina/o literatures and cultural studies
Felipe Rojas: Spanish Golden Age theater and queer studies
Erika Tanacs: Colonial Latin American literature and culture, transatlantic studiesDissertations in progress or recently defended
| Proposed Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|
| Jorge Abril Sánchez | "Witches, Ghosts, Demons and Goblins: The Palmpsestitic Demonology of the Spanish Golden Age" | Frederick de Armas |
| Heather Allen | "Literacy and the New World: Reading, Writing and Texts in Spanish American Colonial Historiography" | Lisa Voigt |
| Marcela Brusa-Daly | "Cocinando el género: el menú fundacional en la obra de Juana Mañuela Gorriti" | René de Costa |
| Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo | "Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in the Contemporary Spanish Novel" | Mario Santana |
| Lourdes Fernández-Bencosme | "Mirroring Modernity: Mass Culture in Recent Latin American Fiction" | René de Costa and Miriam Hansen (Dept. of English) |
| Tànit Fernández de la Reguera | "Encuentros estéticos entre Cuba y Cataluña entorno a 1868 y 1898: el teatro cómico popular como medio transactor de identidades nacionales" | Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Mario Santana |
| Timothy Gaster | "A Japanese Revolution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Nations" | Mario Santana |
| Daniel Lorca | "Neo-stocism and skepticism in Part I of Don Quijote" | Frederick de Armas |
| Carmela Mattza | "From Estrella to Isabel de Borbón: Reading Life is a Dream as 'speculum reginae'" | Frederick de Armas |
| Novia Pagone | "Emergence of Women Intellectuals: Women, Journalism, and Shaping Identity during the Spanish Transition" | Mario Santana |
| Anna Min-Hee Proffit | "Representing the Child in Spanish Film from Raza to El laberinto del fauno" | Mario Santana |
| Neringa Pukelis | "Modes of Creation: Mimesis, 'Inventio', and the Chronicling of History in La saga/fuga de J.B." | Mario Santana |
| Reynaldo Riva | "La poética del sueño en cuatro fundadores de la Nueva Narrativa Hispanoamericana" | René de Costa |