Graduate Studies in French

Dissertations Recently Defended

• "Acts of Resistance: Visual Arts and Textual Practices in the Works of
  Henri Michaux and Michel Butor"
• "Everyday Optics.  Representations of the French Quotidian 1945-2000"
• "Le Coeur Capable et L'Ame Saine: Landscape, Virtue and the Origins of
  Sensibility"
• "Masculine Dimensions: Gender and Migration in Francophone Literature and Culture"
• "The New Thirteenth Century Hagiography: Royalty, Sainthood, and Writing"
• "Racine's Imperfect Monarchs: Models of Kingship in Bajazet, Iphigenie and Phedre"
• "Restoring the Golden Age: Mythology in Revolutionary Ideologies and
  Culture"
• "Telling Pictures: The Traffic of Images in Contemporary French Fiction"

Dissertations In Progress

• "'Enfant de collabo': Children of French WWII Collaborators and Their Literary Confrontations with a Controversial Legacy"
• "Fashionable Femininity: Modernity and la Mode in the Realist Novel of the Second Empire"
• "Gender and Power in Medieval French Myths of Empire, BN fr 60, ca. 1330"
• "Hysterographies: Writings on Women's Reproductive Body Image in Contemporary French Fiction "
• "Mother Tongue: The Maternal Subject in the Works of Christine de Pizan"
• "Novel Intimacies: Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Fiction, Film, and Photography"
• “Paradoxes of Insularity: Re-navigating the Island through the contemporary, francophone, Mauritian novel”
• "The Logic of Allegory:  Scholasticism, Exegesis and an emerging vernacular tradition"
• "The Other Side of Modernity: Female Types and the Invention of the Modern Artist in Nineteenth-Century France"
• Transgressions Postcoloniales. Frontières du roman africain.

For Further Information

Lisbeth Dennis
Graduate Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
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