Alumni

Dissertation: "Community of Pathos: Resistance through Representation in Migrant Art" (2020)

Dissertation: "Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary" (2020)

Dissertation: "Literature Before the Catastrophe: the Armenian Question and the Jewish Question in the Works of Raffi (Hakob Melik Hakobian), Theodor Herzl, Arthur Schnitzler, and Franz Werfel" (2024)

Thesis: "Colonialism, Education, and Gabon: an Examination of the Self-translation of Gabonese Citizens in Their Post-colonial Space Through Education and Language" (2016)

Thesis: "Antifascist Autobiographical Writing by Three Southern European Women Writers: Natália Correia, Concha Zardoya, and Ludovica Ripa di Meana" (2023)

Dissertation: "New Horizons in Translation Theory: Chinese Classics and the Dao over Time," (2021)

Dissertation: "Subjects of Fatih Akin’s Melodramas: A Genealogical Reading through the Films of R.W. Fassbinder, Yilmaz Guney and Atif Yilmaz" (2016).

Dissertation: "Time Bound. Gauchesca and its Print Culture, 1872-2011" (2020)

Dissertation: “Naves inventoras de regiones: Spanish American Colonial Epic Poetry and the Invention of America” (2025)

Dissertation: "Engaged, Multicultural Individualism in the Millennial Works of Maryse Condé and Zadie Smith," (2018)

Dissertation: "Golden Palimpsests: America, Cervantes, and the Invention of Modernity/Coloniality," (2016)

Dissertation: "The Matrix of Imperial Rome in Modernist and Postcolonial Literature," (2019)

Dissertation, "Rumi, the Poet of Universal Love: The Politics of Rumi's Appropriation in the West," (2015)

Dissertation: “Documenting the (Un)documented: Diasporic Ecuadorian Narratives in Southern/Mediterranean Europe,” (2014)

Dissertation, “Writing, Resistance, and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion,” (2016)

Dissertation: “Transgressing Space and Subverting Hierarchies: A Comparative Analysis of Street Theater Groups in Sri Lanka, India and the United States” (2014)

Dissertation: "Creolizing Mestizaje: Cultural Hybridity and Nurture Kinship in Latin American Literature" (2023)

Dissertation, “Translation, Rewriting, and Fan Fiction: A Literary History of Transformative Work,” (2015)

Dissertation: "Partitions and Palimpsests: Transgressions of Form and Territory in Postcolonial Urdu and Arabic Writing" (2023)

Thesis: "Translation and Consolidation of Post-Soviet Identity in Uzbekistan: From Russian Domination towards Independence" (2015)

Dissertation: "Between the Visual and the Verbal: Aesthetics of Open Wounds in Post-traumatic Experiences of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)" (2020)

Dissertation: “The Fusion of Migration and Science Fiction in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States,” (2013)

Dissertation: "The Body (Re)Public: Women on/as the Landscape of Modernity, from Zola’s 'Au bonheur des dames' to Varda’s Cléo's 'De 5 à 7,'" (2019)

Dissertation: "Mapping Modernism: Translation and Travel in Twentieth Century Indo-Persian letters" (2024)

Thesis: "'Vielleicht hier, um zu sagen': Bildung and Elegy in the 'Duineser Elegien,' 'Du côté de chez Swann,' and 'Misérable miracle'" (2016)

Thesis: "A Translation of Shusaku Endo's 'Menamugawa no Nihonjin'" (2012)

Thesis: "A Translation of Yun-T'aek Yi's 'Faust in Blue Jeans'" (2012)

Dissertation, "A Poetics of Subtraction: The Autobiographical Films of Frampton, Tarkovsky, and Álvarez," (2016)

Thesis: "A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process" (2020)

Dissertation: "A Parrot Perched on a Rifle: Military Interpreters in the Korean Conflict 1945-1953" (2020)

Thesis: "Collaborative Approaches to Translation in Social Change Movements" (2016)

Dissertation: “Chinese Allegory: Speaking Otherwise in Non-Modern Literary Networks” (2024)

Thesis: “Ghar Ki Baat: Narratives of Domestic Violence Trauma in Indian Literature and Film” (2025)

Dissertation: "The Texture of Reading / Reading Textures: Poetic, Visual, Material, and Inter-medial Dimensions of Textuality in Arabic Poetry, French Picturebooks, and North American Bookarts" (2018).

Thesis: "Reimagining and Rewriting the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library: Translation, Ideology, and Power" (2016)

Thesis: "Rethinking Intersemiotic Translation through Cross-Media Adaptation in the Works of Joss Whedon" (2013)

Dissertation: "Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery" (2022)

Dissertation: "The Eloquence of Automata: Socio-political Commentary in Nineteenth-century Literature on Artificial Humanoids"
(2018)

Dissertation: "The Eloquence of Automata: Socio-Political Commentary in Nineteenth-Century Literature on Artificial Humanoids," (2017)

Dissertation: "Prostitutes, Temporary Wives, and Motrebs: A Comparative Study of Sex Work in Iranian Film and Fiction from the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) to the Islamic Revolution (1979)" (2021)

Thesis: "Languages of Exile in the Poetry of Aria Aber and Solmaz Sharif" (2023)

Dissertation: “Bodies Under Siege: The Language of Warfare in HIV/AIDS Narratives,” (2017)

Thesis: "Women On Trial: Translating Femininity Through Journalism" (2017)

Dissertation: "Arthur’s Heirs: Situating Medieval Welsh, Spanish, and Scandinavian Texts in Their Literary and Historical Contexts" (2014).

Thesis: "A Translation of the Introduction and Part III of 'Free Jazz/Black Power'" (2013)

Dissertation: "The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity" (2022)

Dissertation: “The Subaltern Charm of the Fantastic: Geopolitical Adventures of a Minor Genre” (2025).

Dissertation: “Translation in Vietnam and Vietnam in Translation: Language, Culture, and Identity,” (2011)

Dissertation: "Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity," (2020)

Dissertation: “Enigmatic Realism: Doing Justice through Photography and Figuration in Sebald, Marias, and Hemon,” (2013)

Thesis: "The Diaries of Käthe Kollwitz: 1916-1917," (2023)

Dissertation: “Latin American Decolonial Aesthetics: Antipoetry, Nueva Cancíon, and Third Cinema as Counterculture (1960-1975),” (2011)

Thesis: "'Choose a Language Like a Wedding Ring': Polysystems, Norms and Pseudotranslation in Lea Goldberg’s Poetry & Prose" (2019)

Dissertation: "Never-lasting Effects: John Williams, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bruno Jasieński, and Non-redemptive Failure" (2021)

Dissertation: "Embodiment and Gendered Subjectivity in Ukrainian Women's Film, Poetry, and Prose during Perestroyka (1985-1991)"
(2022)

Thesis: "Translating Arab Cuisine into English: 101 Recipes" (2018)

Dissertation: "Translator Agency in Turkey Under Censorial Constraints: 1990s to the Present," (2019)

Thesis: "Songs of Ishq, Freedom and Rebellion: Selected Kafis of Bulleh Shah in Translation" (2016)

Thesis: "Towards a Neopragmatist Understanding of Translation: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Medial Survey" (2013)

Dissertation: “Sitting-There: Embodied Perception, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Reading Pain in Dance Spectatorship,” (2012)

Thesis: "Re-Envisioning a Discipline: Martin Wickramasinghe’s Contribution to Comparative Literature" (2016)

Dissertation: "Theaters of Voice, Body, and Page: Beckett, Sophocles, Homer, Joyce" (2017)

Dissertation: "‘Io scrittore’: Authorial Self-Construction in Renaissance Italian Literature and its Translation into English,” (2014)

Dissertation: “Translating Trickster, Performing Identity: Representations of the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) in Chinese and Asian American Rewritings,” (2013)

Dissertation: "Dirty Minds & Failed Endings: Uses of the Bawdy in Jewish Comedy, American and Israeli Perspectives" (2021)

Dissertation: "Words in Motion: Epistolary and Translatory Practices in U.S. Migrant Writing" (2021)

Dissertation: “Adventures in Fictionality: Sites along the Border between Fiction and Reality,” (2013)

Thesis: “Naves inventoras de regiones: Spanish American Colonial Epic Poetry and the Invention of America” (2025)

Thesis: "A Translation of Vera Gherarducci’s Giorno Unico" (2019)

Dissertation: “Deconstruction of the Sacred, Ontologies of Monstrosity: Apophatic Approaches in Late Modernist Cinema,” (2016)

Dissertation: “Slippages of the Collective Present: The Aesthetic and Political Frictions of Oil in the Twenty-First Century” (2024)

Dissertation: "Agency in the Margins: Readers and Collectors in Late Imperial China" (2020)

Dissertation: "Con-Scripting the Masses: False Documents and Historical Revisionism in the Americas," (2011)

Dissertation: "A Page from the Song of Songs": Études In Allegoresis," (2018)

Thesis: "Translating Travel in the Spanish Sahara: English Versions of Sanmao's Stories of the Sahara" (2015)

Dissertation: “Prostitutes, Temporary Wives, and Motrebs: A Comparative Study of Sex Work in Iranian Film and Fiction from Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) to the Islamic Revolution (1979)” (2021)

Thesis: "Translating Gender and Sexuality in The Awakening by Kate Chopin" (2023)