Faculty Spotlight
NEWS FLASH:
BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI, Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature has just received the Warren I. Susman award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013
Congratulations to the following faculty:
Core Faculty
KAREN BISHOP was appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
EDYTA BOJANOWSKA received the 2013-2014 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and will spend the year in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
ANDREW PARKER was appointed Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers
RICHARD SERRANO was promoted to Professor I in French
JANET WALKER received the SAS award for Distinction in Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Professor Category
Affiliate Faculty
PAOLA GAMBAROTA received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Italian
MARTHA HELFER was promoted to Professor I in German
Graduate Student Awards
Comparative Literature is proud ofTARA COLEMAN, winner of a 2012 Mellon Summer Research Grant;
BEN DE WITTE, winner of a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant;
CAROLINE GODART, winner of a 2012-2013 Bevier Fellowship;
MARIA KAGER, winner of a 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship; also awarded the International James Joyce Foundation Fritz Senn Award to attend the XXIIIrd International James Joyce Symposium at Trininty University, Dublin
ALESSIO LERRO, winner of Bevier Fellowship for his dissertation "From baroque Chiaroscuro to Romantic Sublime: Images, Writing and Subjectivity in Tesauro, Vico, and Novalis"
MATTHEW MANGOLD, winner of of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Advanced Russian at the KORA Center in Vladimir, Russia;
ENMANUEL MARTINEZ, winner of the 2012 Ford Foundation Fellowship, Predoctoral Competition;
JENNIFER RATERMAN, winner of 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship;
CAROLYN UREÑA, winner for Best Essay in a graduate seminar in the Department of German Studies;
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Ph.D.s 2000 - Present2011-2012Monica E. Filimon Dissertation: Divide, Conquer, Entertain: Film Melodrama and Authoritarianism in Europe Committee:* Susan Martin-Marquez, Fatima Naqvi, Alan Williams (French) Melanie Holm Dissertation: Useful Fictions and Necessary Idols: The Comedy of Enlightenment Understanding Committee: *Michael McKeon, Lorraine Piroux, Nicholas Rennie, James Chandler, Lynn Festa (English)
2010-2011Tamas DemenyDissertation: Hungarian Roma and African American Autobiographies in Comparative Perspective: Lakatos, Peline Nyari, Wright, and Hurston Committee: *Janet Walker, Gerald Pirog, Marie J. Diamond, Kathleen Dubs (Pazmany Peter Catholic University) Jacqueline Loeb Dissertation: Between Symptom and Symbol: Freud, Psychoanalysis and the Jewish Mystical Text Committee: *Jerry Flieger, Mary Gossy, Ed Cohen, Louis Sass (GSAPP) Jennifer McBryan Dissertation: Gauguin, Gilgamesh, and the Modernist Aesthetic Allegory: The Archaeology of Desire in Noa Noa Committee: *Ben-Sifuentes, Elin Diamond, Janet Walker, Susan Sidlauskas (Art History) Salvatore Pappalardo Dissertation: The United States of Europe: Musil, Svevo, Joyce and the Literary Invention of a Postcolonial Community Committee: *Fatima Naqvi, Paola Gambarota, Martha Helfer, Elizabeth Leake (Italian) Kenneth Sammond Dissertation: Exile and Empire: Post Imperial Narrative and the National Epic a Comparative Study of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Virgil's Aeneid Committee: Steven Walker, Janet Walker, Marie J. Diamond, Riggs Alden Smith (Baylor University) Kathleen Sclafani Dissertation: 'Border Consciousness' and the Re-Imagination of Nation in the Films of Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Christian Petzold Committee: *Fatima Naqvi, Susan Morton-Marquez. Sandy Flittermen-Lewis, David Gramling (University of Arizona) Sandra Sokowski Dissertation: Subversive Bodies in 19th Century Narratives of Paris and London Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Janet Walker, Martha Helfer, Geoffrey Baker (California State University-Chico) 2009-2010Kael AshbaughDissertation: Literary Ludics in 20th Century Latin American Fiction: Playful Folly in Works by Borges, Cabrera Infante, and Cortazar Committee: *Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Cesar Braga-Pinto, Nicholas Rennie, Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky (Colgate University) Joshua Beall Dissertation: The Poetics of Subversion: Irony and the Central European Novel Committee: *Jerry Aline Flieger, Janet Walker, Louis Sass, Alessandro Vettori, Irene Sywenky (University of Alberta) Patricia Ferrer-Medina Dissertation: Ecological Difference and The Ecology of Subjectivization In Sixteenth Century Nonfiction Travel Narrative to the Caribbean Committee: Jorge Marcone, Josephine Diamond, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) Yingjiu Lu Dissertation: Vernacular Modernism: Zhang Ailing and High and Low Modern Fiction in Urban China Committee: *Ban Wang, Dietrich Chanz, Janet Walker, Weijie Song (Asian Languages Cultures) Susan Silvia Navarre Dissertation: "The Poetics of Everyday Life": The Sublime as as Aesthetic Force in the Lyric Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Annette Von Dorste-Hulshoff Committee: William Galperin*, Josephine Diamond, Nicholas Rennie, Martha Nell-Smith (University of Maryland) Christopher Rivera Dissertation: Agency, Identity, and "Outness" in Latin America Committee: * Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Abena Busia, Carlos Decena, Jasbir K. Puar Mahriana Rofheart Dissertation: Don't Abandon "Our Boat": Shifting Perceptions of Emigration in Contemporary Senegalese Literature and Song Committee: *Richard Serrano, Ousseina Alidou, Cesar Braga-Pinto, Elieen Julien (Indiana University-Bloomington) Tolonda Tolbert Dissertation: To Walk or Fly?: The Folk Narrative of Community and Identity in Twentieth Century Black Women's Literature of the Americas Committee: *Abena Busia, Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Marie J. Diamond, Simone A. James Alexander (Seton Hall University) Kalliope Valadakis Dissertation: Daughters Out of Line: The Marriage Plot In Three Paradigmatic Texts of the Cretan Renaissance, Erotokritos, Panoria and Vasileus O Rodolinos Committee: Marie J. Diamond, Janet Walker, Steven Walker, Marla Segol (Skidmore College) Ping Zhu Dissertation: The Shadow Subject in Chinese Literary Modernity, 1915-1936 Committee: *Ban Wang, Janet Walker, Alessandro Vettori, Xun Liu (History) 2008-2009Jie ChenDissertation: Nation, Ethnicity, and Cultural Strategies: Three Waves of Ethnic Representation in Post-1949 China” Committee: *Ban Wang, Dietrich Tschanz, Louisa Schein, Jiayan Mi (College of New Jersey) Yen-Chen Chuang Dissertation: "When Coldness Traps This Suffering Clay": Mourning, Death, and Ethics in Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Joyce Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Elizabeth Grosz, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Craig Dworkin (University of Utah) Barbara Hamilton Dissertation: Vision and Revision: The Female Mystics as Writers In Late Medieval Northern Europe Committee: *Alessandro Vettori, Janet A. Walker, Steve Walker, Christine Chism (English) Ignacio Infante Dissertation: Poetics of Transfer: Translation, Cosmopolitanism and The Intermedial In Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Poetry Committee: *William Galperin, Nicholas Rennie, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Richard Sieberth (NYU), Jacques Lezra (NYU) Chadley Loewen-Schmidt Dissertation: The Politics of Pity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Committee: *Michael McKeon, M. Josephine Diamond, William Galperin, Lynn Festa (English) Xin Ning Dissertation: The Lyrical and the Crisis of Modern Chinese Selfhood in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1949 Committee: *Ban Wang, Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University) 2007-2008Flor Gregara De LeonDissertation: A Country Where Everyone Was Happy: Incest, Trauma, and The Missing Father in the Memory of Post-War Spain Committee: *Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Susan Martin-Marquez, Elin Diamond, Yeon-Soo Kim (Spanish/Portuguese) Hana Muzika Kahn Dissertation: Modern Guatemalan Mayan Literature in Cultural Context: Bilanguaging in the Literary Works of Bilingual Mayan Authors Committee: *Janet A. Walker, César Braga-Pinto, Jorge Marcone, Laura Martin (Cleveland State University) Yukari Yanagino Dissertation: Psychoanalysis and Literature: Perversion, Racism and Language of Difference Committee: *Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Jerry Flieger, Martin Gliserman, Alan Bass (The New School) 2006-2007Tatjana AleksićDissertation: Mythistory In a Nationalist Age: A Comparative Analysis of Serbian and Greek Postmodern Fiction Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Gerald Pirog, John McClure (English), Vangelis Calotychos (Columbia University), Tomislav Longinovic (University of Wisonsin-Madison) Marie Barchant Dissertation: Translating the Body in Violent Tongues: The “Sacrificial Body” in Narratives by Contemporary Women Writers and Performance Artists Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, *Abena Busia, Gerald Pirog, Atreyee Phukan (University of San Diego) Shreerekha Subramanian Dissertation: Women Resisting Violence: Locating Community in Contemporary Novels from the Americas and South Asia Committee: *César Braga-Pinto, Abena Busia, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Sonali Perera (English) Anne Xu Dissertation: Engaging China, Engaging the World: China I the Works of Malraux, Brecht, and Lu Xun Committee: *Stephen Bronner, Ban Wang, Janet A. Walker, Donald Petrey (Columbia University) 2005-2006Kristen AbbeyDissertation: Recipe for Narrative: Representations of Culture in Culinary Literature Committee: * Janet A. Walker, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Steven Walker, Mark Manganaro (English) Sanja Bahun Dissertation: Modernism and Melancholia: History as Mourning-work Committee: *Jerry A. Flieger, Janet A. Walker, Gerald Pirog, Maria DiBattista (Princeton University) Geoffrey Baker Dissertation: The Limits of Realism: Empire, Empiricism, and Enchantment in Honoré de Balzac, Anthony Trollope, and Theodor Fontane Committee: *William C. Donahue, M. Josephine Baker, Uri Eisenzweig, Bruce Robbins (Columbia University) Molly Burke Dissertation: Discursive Interventions: the Rape Survival Memoir in the United States and France Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Kate Ellis, Janet A. Walker, Harriet Davidson (English) Sujatha Moni Dissertation: The Performance of Desire: Postcolonial Drama On India Committee: *Elin Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Aparna Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Atreyee Phukan Dissertation: East Indianness in the West Indies: Representations of Post-Indentureship in Indo-Trinidadian Literature Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Abena P. Busia, Jorge Marcone, Renée Larrier (French) Iva Popovicova Dissertation: New Body Politic: Czech and Polish Women's Art of the 1990's Committee: *Elin Diamond, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ed Cohen, Joanna Regulska (Women’s and Gender Studies) Caterina Romeo Dissertation: Rewriting the Nation: Migrant and Post-Migrant Women Writers in Italy Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Abena P. Busia, Mary Gossy, Graziella Parati (Dartmouth College) 2004-2005April Michelle DolataDissertation: Miscegenation and the Making of the American Nation: A Comparative Examination of Interracial Relationships in Early Republican Historical Romances Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, César Braga-Pinto, Janet A. Walker, Louise Barnett (English) Jen-Yi Hsu Dissertation: Melancholic Flâneries: Urban Images and Utopian Imagination In The Works of Charles Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf, Zhu Tianxin, and Tsai Ming-Ling Committee: *Ban Wang, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Shuang Shen (English) Yianna Liatsos Dissertation: Historical Catharsis and the Ethics of Remembering the Post-Apartheid Novel Committee: *Derek Attridge, Abena Busia, M. Josephine Diamond Marinos Pourgouris Dissertation: Odysseus Elytis: Poetic Metaphysics Committee: *Steven Walker, Janet A. Walker, Antonia Tripolitis, Kostas Myrsiades (West Chester University) V.G. Julie Rajan Dissertation: Rewriting Nation: Post-Independence Narratives of Resistance Written by Women from India and Pakistan Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Drucilla Cornell, Abena Busia, Charlotte Bunch (Women’s and Gender Studies), Sonali Perera (English) 2003-2004Chia-ju ChangDissertation: The Chinese Snake Woman: Mythology, Culture and Female Expression Committee: *Steve Walker, *Ban Wang, Dietrich Tschanz, Janet A. Walker Helen Fazio Dissertation: Hindu Nationalism: Revisiting Mythology in Indian Fiction and Art Committee: *Janet A. Walker, Richard Serrano, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Edwin Bryant (English) Kathleen Hobbs Formosa Dissertation: Romance and The Formation of Ethnic Identities in England and Wales, c. 1050 to c. 1200 Committee: *Andrew Welsh, Mary Speer, Janet A. Walker, Susan Crane (Columbia University) Robert Newlin Dissertation: Cunning Ambassadors: The Animal Envoy in Medieval Literature Committee: *Andrew Welsh, Steven F. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Stephen Hopkins (Swarthmore College) Kevin Ruth Dissertation: Toward a Vision of the Devil’s Rights in The Theater of Late Medieval Europe Committee: *Steven F. Walker, Andrew Welsh, Alessandro Vettori, Marlene Ciklamini (Germanic, Russian & East European Languages & Literatures) Donatella Saroli Dissertation: Generatio Aequivoca: Towards a Genealogy of Mannequins Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Mary Gossy, Janet A. Walker, Ida Dominijanni (University of Rome III) Jebaroja Singh Dissertation: The Spotted Goddess: The Dalit Woman In Classical Brahminical Literature, and In Modern Fiction, Memoirs and Songs from Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Steven F. Walker, K. P. Singh, Jiwei Xiao Dissertation: Memory and Woman In Modern Chinese Literature: Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi Committee: *Ban Wang, M. Josephine Diamond, Peter Li, Rujie Wang (College of Wooster) 2002-2003Joseph ChavesDissertation: The Domestication of Politeness, 1711-84 Committee: *Myra Jehlen, James Swenson, Michael McKeon, Michael Warner (English) Leslie Trueman Dissertation: Images of The Center in Schizophrenia: Myth, Text, Theory Committee: *Steven Walker, Louis Sass, Janet A. Walker, Martin Gliserman (English) Mathew Spano Dissertation: The Fall and Rise of A Puer Personality; Hermann, Hesse's Use of German Romanticism and Indian Spirituality, During His Midlife Crisis Committee: *Steven Walker, *Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Gunter H. Gottschalk (University of California-Santa Barbara) Sara Warner Dissertation: Mythic Proportions: The Medea Project Theater for Incarcerated Women and The Art of Creative Survival Committee: *Elin Diamond, *Alicia Ostriker, Drucilla Cornell, Rena Fraden (Pomona College) 2001-2002Jennifer Lynne FrenchDissertation: The Invisible Empire: Neo-Colonialism and The Spanish-American Regionalist Writers Committee: *Jorge Marcone, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Spanish and Portuguese, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, M. Josephine Diamond, John McClure (English) Norma Lozano Jackson Dissertation: The Heroic Voice in Black Slave Narratives and Its Reconstruction of The Black Slave Community: Talking About, To, and Through Whiteness Committee: *Abena Busia, Jorge Marcone, M. Josephine Diamond, Renée Larrier (French) Sailaza Easwari Pal Dissertation: Narration, Sexual Discourse, and Telugu Modernity: A Reading of Gudipati Venkata Calam’s Maidanam Committee: *Steven Walker, Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Velcheru Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Weixing Su Dissertation: The Hieratic and the Homely: Philippe Jaccottet’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry of Place Committee: *Alicia Ostriker, *Richard Serrano, Janet A. Walker, Mary Ann Caws (Graduate CenterCUNY) 2000-2001Justyna BraunDissertation: Improvising a National Identity: Polish Theater in International Contexts Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, *Gerald Pirog, Serge Sobolevitch, Daniel Gerould (New York University) Richard Lee Dissertation: Guards, Prisoners, and Textuality: A Study of South African and American Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives Committee: *Derek Attridge, M. Josephine Diamond, Abena Busia, Neville Choonoo (SUNY, Oneonta) Frances Negrón Muntaner Dissertation: Passing Memories: Puerto Rican Culture as American Entertainment Committee: *Bruce Robbins, Mary Gossy, M. Josephine Diamond, Chon Noriega (University of California-Los Angeles) Marla Segol Dissertation: Religious Conversion, History, and Genre In Floire et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Karl Morrison, Mary Gossy, Andrew Welsh, Patricia Grieve (Columbia University) Nina Sonenberg Dissertation: Earning Her Keep: Women and Money in The Post-Colonial Novel Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Abena Busia, Mary Gossy, Susan Cohen (Nightingale-Bamford School) Nikola Stojsin Dissertation: The Novel and Postmodern Ethics Committee: *Gerald Pirog, Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Vadim Liapunov (Indiana University) Eugene Thacker Dissertation: Bioinformatic Bodies: Biopolitics, Biotech, and The Discourse of the Posthuman Committee: *Ed Cohen, Samira Kawash, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Steven Shaviro (University of Washington) Ph.D.s 1999 - 20001999-2000Simone James AlexanderDissertation: Mother/Motherland/Mother Country Trichotomy: Negotiating Maternity and Maternal Spaces in The Works of Afro-Caribbean Women Novelists Committee: *Abena Busia, M. Josephine Diamond, Renée Larrier, Gerard Aching (Cornell University) 1998-1999Michael EskinDissertation: Encounters: Ethics and Dialogue in The Works of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, Osip Mandelshtam and Paul Celan Committee: *Derek Attridge, Gerald Pirog, Michael Holquist (Yale University), Frederick Lubich (Old Dominion University) Klara Lutsky Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Unfinalizability: Boundary Subjectivity and Loophole Narrative in the Novels of Kundera and Gombrowicz Committee: *Gerald Pirog, Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Karen Von Kunes (Yale University) Lara Merlin Shapiro Dissertation: Body Magic: Witchcraft and Polymorphous Perversity In Women’s Postcolonial Literature Committee: *Mary Gossy, Drucilla Cornell, M. Josephine Diamond, Gerard Aching (Cornell University) Jacqueline Zubeck O’Donoghue Dissertation: Murder in the Name of Theory Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, *Gerald Pirog, Janet A. Walker, Caryl Emerson (Princeton University) 1997-1998Richard Garcia-CaloDissertation: Linking Service-Learning and The Multicultural World Mythology Classroom: The Future of a Throwaway Course In a Weekend Discipline Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Gerald Pirog, D. Michael Shafer (Cornell University) Brunda Moka-Dias Dissertation: Cultural Collage: Narratives of South Asian Women In America Committee: *Abena Busia, M. Josephine Diamond, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Meena Alexander (New York University) Marjorie Warmkessel Dissertation: Sites of Revelation: Landscape In The Nineteenth-Century British and French Realist Novel Committee: *Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Serge Sobolevitch, Martin Gliserman (English) Bouriana Zaharieva Dissertation: The Rhetoric of The Organic and the Mechanical in Modernist Discourse (Soviet Russia and The West) Committee: *Elin Diamond, M. Josephine Diamond, Paul Schalow, Michael Wood (Princeton University) 1996-1997Stefan MeyerDissertation: The Contemporary Arabic Novel In The Levant: A Case Study in the Development of Literary Modernism Committee: *Abena Busia, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania) Yichin Shen Dissertation: Images of Maleness In Fiction by Male Chinese American Writers Committee: *Janet A. Walker, Peter Li, M. Josephine Diamond, Amy Ling (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Andre Stipanovic Dissertation: The Cause of War In Ezra Pound’s Poetry Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, M. Josephine Diamond, Andrew Welsh, George Kearns (English) 1995-1996Felice RoncaDissertation: After Baudelaire: French Poetry and The Aesthetics of Ezra Pound, 1908-1920 Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Martin Gliserman (English) 1994-1995Paola GiuliDissertation: Enlightenment, Arcadia, and Corilla: The Inscription of Eighteenth-Century Italian Women Writers in Literary History Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Harriet Davidson, Umberto C. Mariani (New York University) Mohja Kahf Dissertation: The Muslim Woman In Western Literature from Romance to Romanticism Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, John McClure, Mary Gossy, Bruce Robbins, Elise Manganaro (Fairleigh Dickenson University) Ronald E. Kostar Dissertation: Form and Selfhood In Le Spleen De Paris and Leaves of Grass Committee: *Steven Walker, Mary Gossy, Janet A. Walker, Mary Shaw (French) Janice Faye Siegel Dissertation: Child-Feast and Revenge: Ovid and The Myth of Procne, Philomela and Tereus Committee: *Steven Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Thomas Figueira (Classics) 1992-1993Joseph ConsoliDissertation: Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography Committee: *James J. Wilhelm Nancy Shawcross Dissertation: The Intertexts of La Chambre Claire: Barthes, The Photograph, and The Interstice of Time Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, William Galperin, Uri Eisenzweig, Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania) Rujie Wang Dissertation: The Transparency of Chinese Realism: A Study of Texts by Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Mao Dun, and Lao She Committee: *Janet A. Walker, Bruce Robbins, Peter Li, Theodore D. Huters (University of California, Irvine) Wenjia You Dissertation: Toward A Methodology of Freudian Influence: A Consideration of Paradigmatic Asian and Western Texts Committee: *Janet A. Walker, Steven Walker, Peter Li, Andrew Gordon (University of Florida) 1991-1992Michael HartDissertation: The Spirit of Reconciliation: James Joyce, Catholicism, and the European Romantic Tradition Committee: *Steven Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Derek Attridge, Mary Shaw (French) 1990-1991Laurence L. MurphyDissertation: Hermeneutics of the Lebenswelt, A Study in Phenomenological Poetics In the Heart of Darkness, Nadja, and the Tao Te Ching Committee: *Jean Parrish, John Fizer, Steven Walker, Bruce Wilshire (Philosophy) 1989-1990Vincenzo BollettinoDissertation: Giovanni Boccaccio, Life of Dante (Vita Trattatello in Laude di Dante) Translation with commentary and notes Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, John Fizer, Jean Parrish, Forrest S. Smith Meng Meng Dissertation: Configuration of a Lyrical World: A Study of Tao Yuan-ming's Poetics from a Comparative Perspective Committee: *Ching-I Tu, Peter Li, Janet A. Walker, Yu-kung Kao (Princeton University) 1987-1988Marilyn RyeDissertation: The Fictional Autobiography: First Person Narratives As Narratives of Power in The Blithedale Romance, Le Grand Meaulnes, and Great Expectations Committee: *Jean Parrish, Steven Walker, James J. Wilhelm, Uri Eisenzweig (French) 1986-1987Carol ColatrellaDissertation: The Tragedy of The Human Beast: The Romans-Fleuves of Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner Committee: *John O. McCormick, Serge Sobolevitch, Janet A. Walker, Julian Moynahan (English) Neil Donahue Dissertation: Spatial Form in Modern German Prose: The Tradition of Abstraction In Prose from Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's Ein Brief (1902) to Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947) Committee: *John O. McCormick, Janet A. Walker, James J. Wilhelm, Ralph Ley (German, Russian and Eastern European Languages and Literature) Irene Gnarra Dissertation: Philippe de Remis’ La mankine, Text and Translation Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, Serge Sobolevitch, Steven Walker, Susan Dannenbaum (English) Thomas Kiddie, Jr. Dissertation: Eros and Ataraxy: A Study of Love and Pleasure in The Fiction of Zola, Cambaceres, and Fontane Committee: *John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Janet A. Walker, M. Josephine Diamond (French) Diane Marting Dissertation: Female Sexuality in Selected Latin American Novels of The Twentieth Century Committee: *Janet A. Walker, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, Frank Dauster (Spanish) Virginia Phelan Dissertation: Euripides' Alcestis and T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party: Two Ways of Life and Death Committee: *Steven Walker, Janet A. Walker, Jean Parrish, Anna Benjamin 1985-1986Dong-Sheng YangDissertation: A Study of The Poetry of Su Dongpo, With Comparisons to The Poetry of Wordsworth Committee: *John O. McCormick, Ching-I Tu, Janet A. Walker, Hans Frankel (Yale University) 1984-1985Joan AcocellaDissertation: The Reception of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes by Artists and Intellectuals In Paris and London, 1909-1914 Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Dale Harris Nancy Díaz Dissertation: Metamorphosis from Human to Animal Form In Five Modern Latin American Narratives Committee: *Nathaniel Tarn, Janet A. Walker, Steve Walker, Frank Dauster (Spanish) 1983-1984Helen DochneyDissertation: Sordello and Fin'amors Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, Serge Sobolevitch, Steven Walker, Mary Speer (French) Eugenia M. Gunner Dissertation: T.S. Eliot and Romanticism: Tradition's Anti-Traditional Elements Committee: *John O. McCormick, S. Sobolevitch, Steven Walker, James J. Wilhelm, George Kearns (English) Muriel Onni Dissertation: Elopements, Seductions, Abductions and Secret Marriages in The Bourgeois Theatre in France and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, John Fitzell (Princeton University) 1982-1983Lawrence BlonquistDissertation: L’Art D’Amours: A Translation with Critical Introduction Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, Janet A. Walker, Jean Parrish, William Keach (English) Barbara Hochman Dissertation: The Moral Realism of Theodore Dreiser Committee: *John O. McCormick, Nathaniel Tarn, Janet A. Walker, David Weimer Marshall Peterson Dissertation: Adolescence as Invention and Vehicle in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Studies in The Subject, The Concept of Openness and The Artistic Possibilities With Exemplary Analyses of Robert Musil's Die Verwirrungen Des Zoglings Torless and Henry De Montherlant's Les Bestiaires Committee: *John O. McCormick, Steven Walker, Jean Parrish, John Gillis (History) 1981-1982Philip PastrasDissertation: A Clear Field: The Idea of Improvisation in Modern Poetry Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, Antonia Tripolitis (Classics) Marie Tamas Dissertation: Black Suns and Blue Flowers: Ritualistic Pattern and Poetic Convention In 19th and 20th Century Color Imagery Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, Janet A. Walker, John Fitzell (Princeton) 1980-1981Janis FormanDissertation: The Literature of Confession Committee: *John O. McCormick, Janet A. Walker, James J. Wilhelm, Jean Parrish, Umberto C. Mariani (New York University) 1979-1980Nathaniel WallaceDissertation: John Skelton, Ein Kurzweilig Lesen Von Dyl Ulenspiegel, The Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum and Francois Rabelais: An Inquiry into the Literary History and Historical Context of Renaissance Satire Committee: *Jean Parrish, John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Marlene Ciklamini (Greman, Russian, and Eastern European Languages and Literatures) 1978-1979Jeanette AinsworthDissertation: The Welsh Troelus A Chresyd: Toward a Better Understanding Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, Jean Parrish, Serge Sobolevitch, Robert A. Fowkes Candace Granger Dissertation: The Representation of Perfection in Castiglione’s Il Libro del Cortegiano Committee: *Jean Parrish, John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Guido Guarino Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Dissertation: “The Shāhnāmeh of Firdawsī in France and England 1770-1860: A Study of The European Response to The Persian Epic of Kings Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, Serge Sobolevitch, Jerome Clinton (Princeton University) Fred Lasser Dissertation: The Drunken Boats of Coleridge and Rimbaud: A Comparative Study Committee: *Nathaniel Tarn, Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, Alicia Ostriker (English) 1977-1978Marilyn KalletDissertation: Honest Simplicity in the Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard and William Carlos Williams Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, Nathaniel Tarn, Alicia Ostriker (English) Doris Sommer Dissertation: Mann, Midrash, and Mimesis Committee: *John O. McCormick, Ernest Dunn, Jean Parrish, B. Hill 1976-1977Jan FeidelDissertation: The Poetry of Keats and Baudelaire Committee: *John O. McCormick, Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, Donald Gibson (English) Judith Roumani Dissertation: The Role of Organic Nationalism in Some Recent Novels of Spanish America and French-Speaking North Africa: A Comparative Study Committee: *John O. McCormick, Nathaniel Tarn, Serge Sobolevitch, Michael Adas Bohdan Rubchak Dissertation: Man is a Metaphor: Poetic Knowledge as Grounded in Perception, Imagination and Language Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, John Fizer James Ruddy Dissertation: In Defense of The Classical Notion of Action: A Study of Parts and Wholes and Their Interrelation Committee: *John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Nathaniel Tarn, Robert Anderson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 1975-1976Ann LinderDissertation: The Devil in The Garden: The Vision of Paradise in European Romantic Literature Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, Elton Anglada, John Fitzell Robert Scanlon Dissertation: Complete Action: An Examination of Three Modern Plays in The Light of Aristotle's Poetics Committee: *Francis Fergusson, Jean Parrish, Serge Sobolevitch, William Fortenbaugh 1974-1975Marga BrockhagenDissertation: The Concepts of Relation and Separation in the Work of Friedrich Hölderlin and John Keats Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, Ralph Freedman 1973-1974Eva Barczay-MillerDissertation: La Princesse de Cleves and The Tragic Dimension of Classicism Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Jean Parrish, Nathaniel Tarn, Milton Seiden Mark Bernheim Dissertation: The Monastery and The Fortress: Broch's Die Schlafwandler and The Rehumanization of Modern Art Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, Lothar Zeidler Alan Cheuse Dissertation: Memories of The Future: A Critical Biography of Alejo Carpentier Committee: *John O. McCormick, Elton Anglada, Nathaniel Tarn, L. Santamarina 1972-1973Ray EllenwoodDissertation: André Breton and Freud Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, Ralph Freedman, Nathaniel Tarn, John Fizer Richard Koffler Dissertation: The Job of Living (Diary 1935-1950). An Annotated Translation of Cesare Pavese's Diary, Il Mestiere Di Vivere Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, Glauco Cambon, Franco Ferrucci Ann Krausz Dissertation: Toward Romantic Plant Analogy in The Early Poetic Writing of Christoph Martin Wieland Committee: *John O. McCormick, Jean Parrish, James J. Wilhelm, John Fitzell Charles E. Sherry Dissertation: The Poetics of Disclosure: Heidegger and Rilke Committee: *John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Ralph Freedman, Serge Sobolevitch 1970-1971Charles B. AycockDissertation: The Journal of Dislodgement: The Possibilities and Their Use by Rilke and Sartre Committee: *John O. McCormick, Serge Sobolevitch, Ralph Freedman, Graham Wood Larry Andrews Dissertation: The Complete Poetry of D. V. Venevitinov; Translation with Critical Introduction: “Venevitinov’s Romantic Image of the Poet” Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, James J. Wilhelm, Ludmilla Turkevich, John O. McCormick 1969-1970Ann KaplanDissertation: Hawthorne and Romanticism: A Study of Hawthorne’s Literary Development in The Context of the American and European Romantic Movements Committee: *John O. McCormick, Serge Sobolevitch, Audra Adelberger, Walter Bezanson Stephen Miller Dissertation: Studies in the Idea of The City in Western Literature Committee: *John O. McCormick, James J. Wilhelm, Serge Sobolevitch, David Weimer 1968-1969Edward BlodgettDissertation: The Poetry of Renewal: A Study in Early Carolingian Politics and Literature Committee: *James J. Wilhelm, Serge Sobolevitch, A. L. Kellogg, Quincy Howe, Jr. Barbara Rogers Dissertation: The Poems of Venantius Fortunatus Committee: James J. Wilhelm, John O. McCormick, Palmer Bovie, Jerome Mandel Bruno Santonocito M.A., Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations, Columbia Law School, New York City, NY Maxim D. Shrayer Rutgers M.A., Yale Ph.D., Professor of Russian and English and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages at Boston College, Boston, MA Constance Sekaros M.A., ESL Instructor, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Renee Baigell M.A., author of “Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women Artists in Post-Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia. The First Decade” Henry Schwarz Rutgers M.A., Duke Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program on Justice and Peace, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Deborah Narin-Wells Poet; formerly an English instructor at Lane Community College; currently teaches Creative Writing workshops through the Young Writers Association. A chapbook, Birds Flying Through, was published by Traprock Books in February, 2006.
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