PhDs in Comparative Literature by year
* = dissertation director
2022-23
Joseph Sepulveda Ortiz
Dissertation: A Related Island: Afro-Queerness in Haitian and Dominican Literature
Committee: Laura Lomas (Rutgers-Newark), Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, *Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Xiaojue Wang
Ke "Coco" Xu
Dissertation: Post-Socialist Modernization in 1980s Chinese Radio Dramas
Committee: Lingchei Letty Chen (Washington University), Andrew Parker, Rhiannonm Welch, *Xiaojue Wang
2021-22
Gabriel Bámgbóṣé
Dissertation: In My Mother's House: African Women's Poets and the Radical Translation of Negritude
Committee: *Ousseina Alidou, Abena P.A. Busia, Olabode Ibironke, Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stonybrook), Andrew Parker
2020-2021
Virginia L. Conn
Dissertation: The Body Politic: Socialist Science Fiction and the Embodied State
Committee: Anindita Banerjee (Cornell), *Andrew Parker, Song Weijie, Wang Xiaojue
Lidia Levkovitch
Dissertation: Blurred Boundaries: Negotiating Normativity in Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Narratives about Alcohol
Committee: Edyta Bojanowska (Yale), Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia), Andrew Parker, *Emily Van Buskirk
Qingfeng Nie
Dissertation: Ordering Urban Space in Luoyang, 600-1000 CE
Committee: Sukhee Lee, Song Weijie, *Wendy Swartz, Wang Xiaojue
Josue Rodriguez
Dissertation: The Spontaneous Afterlife: Surrealism as Translation in Latin American Vanguard Poetry
Committee: Nicola Behrmann, *Karen Bishop, Ignacio Infante (Washington U in St Louis), Marcy Schwartz
2019-20
Gabriele Lazzari
Dissertation: New Geographies of the Contemporary Novel: Scale, Border, Semi-Periphery, World
Committee: Andrew Goldstone, David Kurnick, Andrew Parker, *Rebecca Walkowitz
Bernabe Mendoza
Dissertation: Mythic Fertility, Impurity, and Creolization in the Works of Octavia E. Butler
Committee: Emanuela Bianchi (NYU), *Drucilla Cornell, Elin Diamond, Michael Levine
Rafael Vizcaino
Dissertation: Decolonial Responses to Secularism from the Underside of Modernity
Committee: Linda Martin Alcoff (CUNY), Carlos Decena, *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
Jeong Eun "Annabel" We
Dissertation: Decolonizing Mobility in the Postwar Transpacific
Committee: Jae Won Chung, Theodore Hughes (Columbia), *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jasbir Puar, Janet Walker
2018-19
Yu-i "Yvette" Hsieh
Dissertation: Organizing Attention: Caring for Japanese Popular Culture in the New Political Economy
Committee: *Ed Cohen, Harriet Davidson, Paul North (Yale), Saturo Saito
Enmanuel Martinez
Dissertation: The Archipelago and the Archive: Transnational Archival Modes and Mediums in Caribbean Literatures and States
Committee: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, *Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Michelle A. Stephens
Lina Qu
Dissertation: A Genealogy of Hungry Women Writers and Artists: Rethinking Chinese Modernity through the Art of Female Hunger
Committee: *Weijie Song, Louisa Schein, Janet Walker, Tze-lan Sang (Michigan State)
Louis Segura
Dissertation: The Purge and the Codification of Memory in Postwar French Literature and Film
Committee: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Richard J. Golsan (Texas A&M), *Andrew Parker, Alan Williams
2017-18
Shawn Gonzalez
Dissertation: Translating Linguistic Conflicts: A Decolonial Perspective on Multilingual Caribbean Literature
Committee: *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Yolanda Martinez-San-Miguel, Michelle Stephens
2016-17
Matthew Mangold
Dissertation: Chekhov's Medical Aesthetics: Environments, Psychology, Literature
Committee: *Edyta Bojanowksa, Andrew Parker, Cathy Popkin (Columbia), Emily Van Buskirk
Huseyin Ekrem Ulus
Dissertation: Nationalism, Secularism, Belonging, and Identity in Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, and Orhan Pamuk
Committee: Dilek Direnc (Ege University,Turkey), *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Andrew Parker, Janet Walker
Carolyn Ureña
Dissertation: Invisible Wounds: Rethinking Recognition in Decolonial Narratives of Illness and Disability
Committee: *Ann Jurecic, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Susan Martin-Marquez, Michelle Stephens
2015-2016
Ben de Witte
Dissertation: Queer Visibility on the Transatlantic Modernist Stage
Committee: *Elin Diamond, Andrew Parker, Nick Salvato (Cornell), Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
2014-2015
Vaughn Anderson
Dissertation title: Disappearing Acts: Octavio Paz, John Cage, Haroldo De Campos, and the Silent Turn in Contemporary Poetry
Committee: César Braga-Pinto, Ryan Kernan, *Jorge Marcone, Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui
Caroline Godart
Dissertation: Space, Time, and Bodies: The Dimensions of Difference in Women's Cinema and Continental Philosophy
Committee: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, *Elizabeth Grosz, Susan Martin-Marquez, Steven Shaviro (Wayne State)
Hugo Rios
Dissertation: Permutations of Cinephilia: Aesthetics, Technology, and Social Consciousness
Committee:*Susan Martin-Marquez, Fatima Naqvi, Rhiannon Welch, Alan Williams
Sergey Toymentsev
Dissertation: Deleuze and Russian Film: Transcendental Exercise of the Faculties on the (Post-)Totalitarian Screen
Committee: Edyta Bojanowska, Richard Dienst, Susan Martin-Marquez, *Andrew Parker
2013-2014
Maria Kager
Dissertation: The Bilingual Imagination: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and the Making of Modern Fiction
Committee: *Myra Jehlen, Paola Gambarota, Elin Diamond, Jean-Michel Rabate (UPenn)
Alessio Lerro
Dissertation: From Baroque Allegory to Romantic Sublime: Writing, Images, and Subjectivity in Tesauro, Vico, and Novalis
Committee: *Paola Gambarota, Laura S. White, Martha Helfer, Alessandro Vettori
Shirli Sela-Levavi
Dissertation: Guests in their Own Homes: Homecoming, Memory and Authorship in A Guest for the Night by S.Y. Agnon and the Yash Novels by Jacob Glatstein
Committee: *Yael Zerubavel, Jeffrey Shandler, Alessandro Vettori
2012-2013
Jennifer A. Raterman
Dissertation: The Novel of Translation: Multilingualism and the Ethics of Reading
Committee: *Richard Serrano, David Kurnick, Rebecca Walkowitz
Chia-Chieh "Mavis" Tseng
Dissertation: Cultures of Glass in the Late Nineteenth-Century European Novel and Contemporary Sinophone Film
Committee: Yomi Braester (U Washington), Elin Diamond, *Andrew Parker, Song Weijie, Janet Walker
2011-2012
Monica E. Filimon
Dissertation: Divide, Conquer, Entertain: Film Melodrama and Authoritarianism in Europe
Committee: Elin Diamond, *Susan Martin-Marquez, Fatima Naqvi, Alan Williams
Melanie Holm
Dissertation: Useful Fictions and Necessary Idols: The Comedy of Enlightenment Understanding
Committee: James Chandler (Chicago), Lynn Festa, *Michael McKeon, Lorraine Piroux, Nicholas Rennie
2010-2011
Tamas Demeny
Dissertation: 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
Jacqueline Loeb
Dissertation: Between Symptom and Symbol: Freud, Psychoanalysis and the Jewish Mystical Text
Committee: *Jerry Flieger, Mary Gossy, Ed Cohen, Louis Sass
Jennifer McBryan
Dissertation: Gauguin, Gilgamesh, and the Modernist Aesthetic Allegory: The Archaeology of Desire in Noa Noa
Committee: *Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Elin Diamond, Janet Walker, Susan Sidlauskas
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
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, M. Josephine Diamond, Riggs Alden Smith
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 Martin-Marquez. Sandy Flittermen-Lewis, David Gramling
Sandra Sokowski
Dissertation: Subversive Bodies in 19th Century Narratives of Paris and London
Committee: *M. Josephine Diamond, Janet Walker, Martha Helfer, Geoffrey Baker
PhDs 2000-2010
2009-2010
Kael Ashbaugh
Dissertation: 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
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)
2008-2009
Jie Chen
Dissertation: 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
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)
2007-2008
Flor Gregara De Leon
Dissertation: 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)
2006-2007
Tatjana Aleksić
Dissertation: 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)
2005-2006
Kristen Abbey
Dissertation: 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 Diamond, 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
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
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)
2004-2005
April Michelle Dolata
Dissertation: 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)
2003-2004
Chia-ju Chang
Dissertation: 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, 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)
2002-2003
Joseph Chaves
Dissertation: 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)
2001-2002
Jennifer Lynne French
Dissertation: 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)
2000-2001
Justyna Braun
Dissertation: 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)
PhDs 1990-2000
1999-2000
Simone James Alexander
Dissertation: 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)
1998-1999
Michael Eskin
Dissertation: 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)
1997-1998
Richard Garcia-Calo
Dissertation: 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)
1996-1997
Stefan Meyer
Dissertation: 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)
1995-1996
Felice Ronca
Dissertation: After Baudelaire: French Poetry and The Aesthetics of Ezra Pound, 1908-1920
Committee: *Serge Sobolevitch, M. Josephine Diamond, Janet A. Walker, Martin Gliserman (English)
1994-1995
Paola Giuli
Dissertation: 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)
1992-1993
Joseph Consoli
Dissertation: 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)
1991-1992
Michael Hart
Dissertation: The Spirit of Reconciliation: James Joyce, Catholicism, and the European Romantic Tradition
Committee: *Steven Walker, M. Josephine Diamond, Derek Attridge, Mary Shaw (French)
1990-1991
Laurence L. Murphy
Dissertation: 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)
PhDs pre-1990
1989-1990
Vincenzo Bollettino
Dissertation: 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)
1987-1988
Marilyn Rye
Dissertation: 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)
1986-1987
Carol Colatrella
Dissertation: 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
1985-1986
Dong-Sheng Yang
Dissertation: 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)
1984-1985
Joan Acocella
Dissertation: 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)
1983-1984
Helen Dochney
Dissertation: 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)
1982-1983
Lawrence Blonquist
Dissertation: 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)
1981-1982
Philip Pastras
Dissertation: 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)
1980-1981
Janis Forman
Dissertation: The Literature of Confession
Committee: *John O. McCormick, Janet A. Walker, James J. Wilhelm, Jean Parrish, Umberto C. Mariani (New York University)
1979-1980
Nathaniel Wallace
Dissertation: 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)
1978-1979
Jeanette Ainsworth
Dissertation: 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)
1977-1978
Marilyn Kallet
Dissertation: 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
1976-1977
Jan Feidel
Dissertation: 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)
1975-1976
Ann Linder
Dissertation: 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
1974-1975
Marga Brockhagen
Dissertation: 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
1973-1974
Eva Barczay-Miller
Dissertation: 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
1972-1973
Ray Ellenwood
Dissertation: 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
1970-1971
Charles B. Aycock
Dissertation: 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
1969-1970
Ann Kaplan
Dissertation: 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
1968-1969
Edward Blodgett
Dissertation: 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.
