Ph.D. Dissertations

2008

Wakaba Futamura "Crossing Frames of Art and Identity: Baya, Cixous, and Béji" Bernard Aresu-Director

2007

Madalina Akli "Poietics of Autobiography and Poietics of Mind: Cognitive processes and the construction of the self" Michel Achard-Director

Natali Leduc "Divagation, interdit de divagation et divagation du texte." Jean-Joseph Goux-Director

2006

Roger Bruce King "Notions of Language in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy and New Interpretations of Existentialist Literature" Jean-Joseph Goux- Director

2005

Melissa Bailar, "The Mirrored Stage: Representations of the actress in nineteenth-century France and beyond," Deborah Harter, director

Zhen Ji, "La Chine subsersive: L'essai sur la modernité du discours chinois du XXe siècle," Jean-Joseph Goux, director

James David Kilpatrick, "Paul Smaïl's Casa, la casa: A Critical Translation," Bernard Arésu, director

Peter Stranges, "Rebellion and Nihilism in the Works of Leïla Sebbar and V.S. Naipaul," Bernard Arésu, director

2003

Eugenia Ershova, "L'adaptation cinématographique des oeuvres littéraires (l'example de Dostoievski)," Bernard Arésu, director

2001

Anthony Larson, "Territories of Thought: Recent Vicissitudes of French Thought and the American Academy," Philip R. Wood, director

2000

Vera Dernovsek, "La Morale en Peinture" Bourgeois and Feminist Discourses in the Paintings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze," Jean-Joseph Goux, director

Peirre Rivière, "La crise contemporaine du sujet, Histoire et symbolisation," Jean-Joseph Goux, director

1999

Maria Anagnostopoulou, "Subjectivités féminines et réécriture des histoires antillaises dans l'oeuvre," Bernard Arésu, director

1998

Georgeta Georgescu, "Les Visages du héros - l'initiation dans les romans de Chrétien de Troyes," Deborah Nelson, director

Elizabeth Pease, "Presence in the Work: Baroque Aesthetic and its 20th-Century Return in French Thought, Art and Letters," Jean-Joseph Goux, director