Romance Languages and Literatures
The graduate program in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures offers students outstanding opportunities to pursue work in the French and Francophone, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish and Latin American traditions, alone or in combination, leading to Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
After the first two years of graduate study, students receive practical training in teaching both language and literature courses.
The Romance languages and literatures faculty is committed to interdisciplinary work, including history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film studies, gender studies, literary theory, literary history, and philology. Students are encouraged to situate literature in the broad context of cultural productions, ranging from the canonical to alternative modes. The Harvard program provides students with the opportunity to work in a range of periods, genres, and approaches, and to formulate individual study plans with the help of their advisors. While students take courses primarily with members of the department, they may also participate in courses and seminars with faculty working in related areas in other departments of the University.
Graduate students are encouraged to teach beginning in the third year of the program. Options include teaching a section of an undergraduate language course or leading a discussion section of a literature course taught by a professor. Teaching opportunities in the Core Program and other departments are also available. Harvard provides its teaching fellows with state-of-the-art classroom resources, guidance, and regular evaluations by permanent faculty members. Such ample teaching opportunities reflect a departmental philosophy of nurturing strong candidates for the academic job market.
Master of Arts (AM)
The AM requirements are considered an integral part of the PhD program. Normally, applicants who wish to pursue only the AM are not admitted. However, a terminal AM may be conferred on students who will not be completing requirements for the PhD.
All students are examined at the end of their second term of study in the department. The full section faculty will evaluate each student's performance in the examination, as well as in courses taken during the first year. This evaluation determines whether further coursework will be required for the AM, and in exceptional cases, whether the student should continue in the program. The same evaluation determines what credit the department will approve for previous graduate work at other universities. Note: The ultimate decision regarding transfer of credit rests with the registrar of the Graduate School.
All course work for the AM must be completed by the end of the second year of graduate study. Successful completion of all AM requirements is a prerequisite for the PhD program.
General Requirements for the AM
1. One year's residence at Harvard and a program of eight courses, to include three 200-level half-courses.
2. Proficiency in the oral and written use of the chosen Romance language, to be demonstrated either by examination upon entrance or by performance in course work during the period of residence.
3. The ability to read Latin, demonstrated by successful completion (B- or better, or grade of SAT) of Harvard Latin A and Latin B, or their equivalent elsewhere. Any work offered in satisfaction of this requirement must be taken in addition to the eight half-courses required for the AM degree.
a. For students in Hispanic literatures: Reading knowledge of Latin or another language related to the student's chosen field of expertise (French, Italian, Catalán, Quechua, etc.) demonstrated by a grade of B- or better in a Harvard language course (or an equivalent course at another university, approved by the Department).
4. Sound knowledge of the major aspects of one Romance literature, to be tested by the examination at the end of the first year of study.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
General Requirements for the PhD
1. All students entering the PhD program should expect to take two full years of course work (16 half-courses), including course work done in fulfillment of the AM requirement. The 16 half-courses must include:
1. One half-course in the history of the major Romance language.
2. One half-course in a second Romance literature at the 100 or 200 level. Certain other options (e.g., German, Greek, Romance Studies) may be considered in place of this requirement by petition to the Curriculum Committee and with the approval of the student's advisor.
3. For students specializing in literature of the Medieval or Renaissance, an additional term of Latin beyond the requirement for the AM.
Note: Students should consult with their advisors before registering for 320-level (Supervised Reading and Research) courses for credit.
2. Normally, all students teach for at least one year at Harvard as part of their graduate program. Those teaching courses lettered or numbered below 70 in the Harvard Language Program must take Romance Languages 200, which includes a practicum on teaching techniques; Romance Languages 200 (or an equivalent approved by the Director of Language Programs) will count as one of the 16 required half-courses.
3. The passing of a PhD general examination (see Examinations), which should be taken no later than the end of the third year of graduate studies.
4. A dissertation on a subject chosen by the student in consultation with the advisor, to be completed by the end of the sixth year of graduate studies. Following the general examination (at the latest), the student chooses a dissertation director; together they select a committee to supervise the research and writing of the PhD dissertation. The committee, chaired by and including the dissertation director, is made up of three (exceptionally four) faculty members, chosen by the student in consultation with the dissertation director. Two of the three readers must be members of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Visiting professors with renewable term appointments may serve on dissertation committees, but not chair them. Ordinarily, two members of the committee represent the student's language and field; a third may come from another language or discipline. This committee approves the dissertation prospectus, establishes the schedule for completion, and reviews the student's progress. The dissertation may be written in English or in the appropriate Romance language. The final manuscript must conform to the requirements described in the booklet The Form of the PhD Dissertation. PhD candidates are required, after acceptance of the dissertation by the committee, to make an oral presentation to faculty and students, followed by a question and answer period.
Specific Requirements for the PhD by Language Section
1. French and Francophone, and Italian Literatures. Through a combination of course work, seminars, and individual study, candidates are expected to acquire a general familiarity with major figures, works, and trends in the history of French and Francophone, and Italian literature from the earliest texts to the present day. This competence will be tested at the PhD general examination.
2. Hispanic Literatures. Candidates for the degree are expected to prove evidence of general understanding of the Hispanic literatures. For examination purposes, the field is divided into six areas, three in Spanish Peninsular literature (Medieval, Golden Age, and 18th-20th centuries) and three in Latin American literature (Colonial, 18th-19th centuries, and 20th century).
1. Each student is examined in all six fields, choosing one as a special field. The two parts of the examination (general and special field) may be taken separately.
2. Students of Spanish are required to complete the equivalent of one half-course at the 100 or 200 level in Portuguese or Brazilian literature. (Note: This does not fulfill the requirement for a graduate level literature course in a second language.)
3. Hispanic Literature with a Minor in Portuguese
1. Proven oral and written proficiency in the Portuguese language.
2. A minimum of 18 courses (instead of the standard 16) distributed as follows:
* 14 courses in Spanish, including the required course of History of the Language and Romance Languages.
* Four courses in Portuguese. At least two of those four should be graduate seminars (200 level); the other two may be advanced undergraduate courses (100 level).
3. A general reading list of 24 Portuguese texts (selected by the Director of Graduate Studies in Portuguese). Reading lists of Hispanic texts will remain the same for all students.
4. The general exam will be prepared as follows: a two-hour component of Portuguese literature will be added to the second part of the written exam, that is, to the portion on the student's field of specialization in Hispanic literature. The rest of the exam will not change.
5. The dissertation topic must address significant issues from both Spanish and Portuguese literature.
4. Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures. Candidates for this degree are expected to acquire a detailed knowledge of four fields: Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Literature; Colonial Brazilian Literature; Portuguese Literature from the 18th to the 20th Century; and Contemporary Brazilian Literature.
1. Students specialize in one of these fields.
2. Competence in the chosen field of specialization and two other selected fields will be tested in the general examinations. Requirements for the fourth field can be met by taking one course in this field before the examinations.
3. Students of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures are required to complete one half-course at the 100 or 200 level in Spanish. (Note: This does not fulfill the requirement for a graduate level literature course in a second language.)
5. Other programs in one Romance literature with a minor in another Romance literature may be arranged in consultation with the Directors of Graduate Study in both languages.
Examinations
Oral and Written Language Proficiency Examinations for Incoming Students
These are scheduled during the week preceding the first day of classes of the fall term. Incoming students will receive a mailing during the summer prior to entrance specifying the exact time and place of these examinations.
1. First-year Examination. See the General Requirements for the AM section.
2. PhD General Examinations. The General Examinations are made up of written and oral parts; the precise format differs by section. The exams are given twice each year according to schedules established by each section. Students must take these exams by the end of the third year of graduate study.
3. In the case of unsatisfactory performance, the student may, if the examining board so recommends, take all or part of the PhD Examination a second time, within one year of the first. Failure to pass the PhD General Examination the second time will result in automatic withdrawal from the PhD program.
4. Students have six weeks following formal written notification of their General Exam grade in which to constitute their dissertation committees. When the committees have been constituted, students must submit a contract bearing the signatures of all their committee members, indicating they have agreed to meet the deadline for prospectus turn-in. Electronic signatures are acceptable.
The prospectus, which should be approximately 15 pages in length, should include a statement or outline of the problem to be addressed, a preliminary indication of argument and method, and a representative bibliography. Students have six months from the date on which they receive a grade for their general exams (including the summer for those taking generals in May) in which to complete the prospectus, in consultation with members of their committee. The prospectus will then be reviewed by the committee for formal approval in a meeting at which the student is present.
Important University and Departmental Regulations
1. The Graduate School requires that students maintain a B average in order to remain in good standing.
2. The Departmental faculty strongly discourages students from taking an Incomplete in a course. The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures adheres strictly to the policies established by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences regarding unfinished course work. Graduate students in Romance Languages and Literatures may commit to writing a maximum of three article-length research papers per term. Students assigned such papers in 100-level courses should petition for an alternate assignment, such as an exam, a series of smaller papers, etc. Students should consult the Graduate Coordinator regarding administrative procedures for this.
3. Students must make up Incomplete grades before sitting for examinations.
4. Students must satisfy the Latin requirement before taking examinations.
5. Students who have not met all the requirements for the AM degree may not hold appointments as teaching fellows.
6. Detailed regulations concerning residence requirements and credit for work done elsewhere may be found in the current Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook.
Financial Aid
1. Financial aid is awarded on the basis of merit and need.
2. Awards may take a variety of forms, including grants-in-aid toward tuition, cash stipends, summer travel subsidies, teaching fellowships, loans, exchanges with universities abroad, etc., to be determined by the personal circumstances and academic progress of the individual graduate student.
3. All initial awards of financial aid to incoming students will be guaranteed for the first four years of residence providing that satisfactory performance is maintained. Again subject to satisfactory performance, graduate students in this department can expect coverage of tuition and fees for the year in which they complete the dissertation.
4. Graduate students are encouraged to compete for several prizes and traveling fellowships for work in Romance languages and literatures. Information may be obtained from the Graduate Coordinator.
5. For further details, see the Financial Aid section of the GSAS Guide to Admission and Financial Aid.
Application Procedures
Further information regarding courses and programs of study in Romance languages and literatures may be obtained by visiting the Department's Website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll or by writing to the:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
406 Boylston Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
Applications for admission and financial aid may be obtained by writing to the:
Admissions Office
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Holyoke Center 350
1350 Massachusetts Ave,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
They are also available online (https://apply.embark.com/grad/harvard/gsas/22) beginning each year in the early fall.
Applications for admission should be accompanied by a recent sample of the student's written work (e.g., a term paper, senior thesis, master's essay, etc.) in English or the appropriate Romance language, treating a topic in the Romance literature of interest.
The GRE General Examination is required; applicants should be sure to take this test in time for results to arrive by January 2.
Non-native speakers of English who do not hold degrees from English-speaking institutions are required to take the TOEFL examination.
Details concerning special requirements, curriculum and examination procedures in these areas may be obtained from the appropriate Director of Graduate Studies or the Graduate Coordinator.
Faculty List
French
Janet Beizer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
BA, Cornell University; PhD, Yale University.
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French Literature, Feminist Studies, Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis and Literature, Cultural Studies, Literature and Medicine, Biography/Autobiography.
Tom Conley, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
MA, Columbia University; PhD, University of Wisconsin.
Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection of Literature and Graphic Imagination.
Verena Conley, Visiting
Professor of Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures, BA,
MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Interests: Modern French and
comparative literature; contemporary cultural theory; ecology and technology.
Alexia Duc, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
DEA and Maîtrise, Lettres Modernes, Université Lyon III, France; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.
Interests: 17th-century literature, Early Modern memoirs and moralist writing, Classical Theater; Theater and politics; Comedy and Discourse; Travel literature in colonial New France; Literature and language pedagogy in multimedia environments.
Virginie Greene, Loeb Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Interests: Medieval Literature.
Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of
Afro-American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, AB,
University of London; Certificat de Professeur de Français à l’etranger,
University of Paris; PhD, University of Paris (Sorbonne).
Interests: Contemporary thought in French-speaking Africa;
Francophone African and Caribbean literature;
Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement
Alice A. Jardine, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
AB, Ohio State University; AM, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University.
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Fiction; Feminist Theory; Cultural Criticism and Politics; Women and Technology.
Christie McDonald, Smith Professor of the French Language and Literature
BA, Mount Holyoke College; PhD, Yale University.
Interests: 18th- and 20th-century French literature; Literary theory and cultural studies; Feminism; Questions of change in thought; The dialogue of literature and criticism with other disciplines.
Mylène Priam, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Maîtrise in English Studies, DEA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise; PhD, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Interests: Francophone literature.
Susan R. Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature
AB, Barnard College; AM, PhD, Harvard University.
Interests: 20th-century French Literature and Culture; Avant-garde Movements and Theories of the Avant-garde; Feminist Theory; Problems of Narrative; Writers and Politics; Film and Literature of the Holocaust.
Italian
Francisco Erspamer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Diploma di perfezionamento in Filologia moderna, Università di Roma.
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature (Svevo, Pirandello, Tondelli); Renaissance literature (Tasso).
Franco Fido, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Dottore in Lettere, University of Pisa; Libero Docente, Letteratura Italiana, Rome.
Interests: Renaissance Prose and Theater; 18th- and 19th-century Literature and Theater
Lino Pertile, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Dottore in Lettere, University of Padua.
Interests: Dante and the Latin Middle Ages; Bembo and the "questione della lingua"; Renaissance Literature in France and Italy; Foscolo and Leopardi; Contemporary Italian Novel.
Portuguese
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Languages and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature
AB (Law), University of Pará, Brazil; AM, PhD (Hispanic Studies), University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Interests: Comparative Literature; Hispanic Literature; Camões; Fernando Pessoa; Machado de Assis; Theory and Practice of Translation.
Spanish
Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, Universidad Austral de Chile; AM, University of Oregon; PhD, Cornell University.
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture; Intersections between Literary, Cultural, and Economic Discourses; Cultural Theory and Critique in the Americas; Studies of Gender and Sexuality; Latin American Poetry and Poetic Thought of all periods.
Bradley Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
AB, Wake Forest University; AM, University of Virginia; PhD, Brown University.
Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Narrative; Catalán Language and Literature; Critical Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film; Modernism and Post-Modernism; Queer Studies; Immigration; Theories of the City.
Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, Universidad Complutense, Madrid; PhD, Princeton University.
Interests: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature; 19th-century Narrative; Romantic Thought; Autobiography; Cultural Studies; Travel Literature; The City; The Body.
Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, Wellesley College; AM, Middlebury College; PhD, Harvard University.
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Latin American Colonial Literature; Hispanic Poetry of all periods; Poetics; Literary Theory; Romance Literatures of the Early Modern Period.
Luis Girón Negrón, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, MTS, PhD, Harvard University.
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature; Comparative literature (Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Romance Languages and literatures of the Middle Ages); religion and literature.
Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Ph.D, New York University. Interests:
Latin America in modernity and the discourses
of globalization.
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, Douglas College; PhD, Rutgers University.
Interests: 19th-century Narrative in Latin America, Aesthetics, Bilingualism, Gender.
Diana Sorensen, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
AB, in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires; AM, PhD, Columbia University.
Interests: 19th-century prose and poetry, with emphasis on Argentina; 20th-century prose and poetry, with emphasis on Argentina; the 1960s cultural scene; postcolonial studies; critical theory; cultural memory.
Francisco Márquez-Villanueva, Arthur Kingsley-Porter Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Licenciado and PhD, University of Seville.
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Moors and Jews; Cervantes-Lope-Mateo Alemán; History of the Spanish Languages; Gabriel Miró.
Recent Dissertations Completed
2005-06
Marco Arnaudo (Italian): Chi ha incastrato Don Quijote? Il tema della biblioteca nella letteratura moderna. Advisor: Franco Fido [Lino Pertile, Francesco Erspamer]
Kim Beauchesne (Spanish): Narrativas de la América marginada: La construcción discursiva de la periferia en el imaginario colonial. Advisor: José Antonio Mazzotti, [Doris Sommer, Tom Conley]
Jennifer Brown Ickentstein (Italian): Tommaso Landolfi: between the Giubbe rosse and middle Europe: 1930-1945. Advisor: Franco Fido [Lino Pertile, Francesco Erspamer]
Mahalia Gayle (French): An Imperiled Inheritance: The Decline of Politeness in 20th Century French Literature. Advisor: Susan Suleiman [Christie McDonald, Tom Conley.]
Regine Jean-Charles (French): Gendering Violence: Francophone Women Writers, Representations of Violence, and the Violence of Representation. Advisor: Alice Jardine [Abiola Irele, Verena Conley, Odile Cazenave.]
Dieter Kühl (Spanish): Elementos de tradicionalidad popular en Tirso de Molina. Advisor: Francisco Márquez [Samuel Armistead, Luis Girón Negrón.]
Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum (Spanish): Visible e invisible: La doble violencia en dos ciudades Latinooamericanas. Advisor: José Antonio Mazzotti [Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nelson Vieira (Brown Univ.)]
Santiago Morales Rivera (Spanish): Los Pretextos de la Culpa: Javier Marías, Juan José Millás y el compromiso de la novela posfranquista con el azar. Advisor: Luis Fernández Cifuentes [Brad Epps, Mary Gaylord.]
Wanda Rivera-Rivera (Spanish): Literatura Presa LiberArte: la escritura de cuatro prisioneros politicos latinamericanos. Advisor: Doris Sommer [José Antonio Mazzotti, Diana Sorensen, Julio Ramos.]
Jennifer Talbot (Italian): The English Garden in Italy: a Literary, Cultural and Artistic Debate. Advisor: Franco Fido [Lino Pertile, Francesco Erspamer]
Meriel Baines Tulante (Italian): The Impulse to History: The Novels of Sebastiano Vassalli. Advisor: Lino Pertile [Franco Fido, Diego Zancani.]
2004-05
Patrick Bray (French): Novel Selves: Mapping the Subject in Stendhal, Nerval, and Proust. Advisor: Janet Beizer, [Tom Conley, Christie McDonald]
Jérôme Brillaud (French): French Tragedies from 1759 to 1789. Advisor: Christie McDonald [Alexia Duc, James Engell]
Maria Colbert (Spanish): Reading the Ideology of Domesticity: Woman, Identity, and the Marketplace in Restoration Madrid. Luis Fernandez Cifuentes [Brad Epps, Elena Delgado.]
Daniela Difrancesco (Italian): Language and style in Vincenzo Consolo’s novels. Advisor: Franco Fido [Lino Pertile, Dante della Terza.]
Maggie Flinn (French): Architectures of social being: Space in French cinema of the 1930s. Advisor: Tom Conley [Susan Suleiman, Virginie Greene.]
Daniel Frost (Spanish): Cultivating the City: Perspectives on the Garden in Spanish Literature, 1833-1934. Advisor: Brad Epps [Luis Fernandez Cifuentes, Jo Labanyi.]
Ji-Hyun Philippa Kim (French): Pour Une Littérature Medievale Moderne. Advisor: Virginie Greene [Janet Beizer, Kevin Brownlee; J. Cerquiglini-Toulet.]
Michelle Mielly (French): Werewere Liking and the Aesthetics of Necessity: Re-Considering Culture and Development in Post-Colonial Africa. Advisor: Samba Diop, [Susan Suleiman, Verena Conley, Odile Cazenave.]
Viviane Mahieux (Spanish): Popularizing the Intellectual: the crónicas of Roberto Arlt, Mario de Andrade and Salvador Novo. Advisor: Doris Sommer [Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante.]
Amelia Moser (Italian): The ‘Fantastic’ in the Writings of Anna Maria Ortese. Advisor: Franco Fido [Laura Benedetti, Paolo Valesio, Dante Della Terza.]
Francisco Ramírez (Spanish): Mateo Alemán’s Diagnosis of Humanity: Medical Discourse in ‘Guzmán de Alfarche. Advisor: Francisco Márquez [Luis Girón, Antonio Carrena.]
Cintia Santana (Spanish): Influence in Translation: Realismo Sucio in Spain. Advisor: Luis Fernández Cifuentes [Doris Sommer, Dru Dougherty.]
Phil Usher (French): The Holy Lands in Early Modern Literature: Negotiations of Christian Geography and Textual Space. Advisor: Tom Conley, [Virginie Greene, Michael Randall.]
John Walsh (French): What the Other Children Say: Accounts of Childhood in the French Antilles and Francophone Africa. Advisor: Tom Conley, [Susan Suleiman, Samba Diop, Abiole Irele]
2003-04
Susan Antebi (Spanish): “Grotesque Morphologies: the Monstrous Body in Contemporary Latin American Literature.” Advisor: Doris Sommer [Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Rachel Adams]
Paolo De Ventura (Italian): “Il dialogo nella. Commedia di Dante.” Advisor: Lino Pertile [Franco Fido, Dante Della Terza]
Irit Kleiman (French): “Traitor, Author, Text: Four Late Medieval Narratives of Betrayal.” Advisor: Tom Conley [Virginie Greene, Dominique de Courcelles]
Natasha Lee (French): “Unsettling Signs Nature, Society and the Novel in the French Enlightenment, 1760-1802.” Advisor: Christie McDonald [Tom Conley, Lynn Festa]
Jenny Lefcourt (French): “The Uses of the Cinema: French Cinema and Everyday Life, 1918-1932.” Advisor: Tom Conley [Susan Suleiman, Christie McDonald]
Brian Martin (French): “Uniform Manhood: Literary/Military Masculinity in France, 1870-1914.” Advisor: Tom Conley [Alice Jardine, Emily Apter]
Gina Miele (Italian): “Stretta e’ la foglia: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italian Folktales from Luigi Capuana to Italo Calvino.” Advisor: Franco Fido [Laura Benedetti, Maria Tatar]
Timothy Tomasik (French): “Textual Tastes: The Invention of Culinary Literature in Early Modern France.” Advisor: Tom Conley [Steven Greenblatt, Mary and Philip Hyman]
Claret Vargas (Spanish): “Marxism and a Poetics of the Human: Esthetic Responses to Epistemiological Crises in the Poetry of Cesar Vallejo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.” Advisor: José Antonio Mazzotti [Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes]
2002-03
Sharon Bhagwan (French): A Logic of Distraction: Spectacle, Thought and Capital in French New Wave Cinema. Advisor: Susan Suleiman [Tom Conley, Brad Epps.]
Gabriela Carrión (Spanish): The Making and Unmaking of Marriage in Spanish Golden Age Drama. Advisor: Mary Gaylord [Abby Zanger, Anthony Cascardi.]
Catalina Espinosa (Spanish): Palabras, palabras y nada mas que palabras. Advisor: Doris Sommer [José Antonio Mazzotti, Ted MacDonald.]
Nicola Cooney (Portuguese): The Image of the ‘Dama Fatal’ in the Lyrical Universe of Cesário Verde. Advisor: Joaquim-Francisco Coelho [Doris Sommer, Helder Macedo.]
Ombretta Frau (Italian): Appunti di Paesaggio nel Taccuino Houghton. Advisor: Laura Benedetti [Fido, Pertile, Dante della Terza.]
Cristina Gragnani (Italian): Studio di Alcuni Taccuini Pirandelliani. Advisor: Laura Benedetti [Fido, Pertile, Dante della Terza.]
Rosemary Peters (French): Aux Voleurs! Theft and Thieves in the French19th Century. Advisor: Tom Conley [Barbara Johnson, Alice Jardine.]