Thesis Topics A.B. Recipients 2005-06
Jess Burkle (French): Diagnosing the Universal Themes in the Theatricality of a Production of Jules Romains’ KNOCK.
Adviser: Tom Conley. Tutor: Gloria Pastorino.
Peter Emmet (French and Italian): Presence and Absence: The Silence of God in 20th Century French and Italian Literature.
Adviser: Alice Jardine. Tutor: RoseMary Peters.
David Foster (Latin American Studies): The place of desire: Cristina Peri Rossi and Silviano Santiago on Exile and Sexuality.
Adviser: Diana Sorensen. Tutor: Clara Masnatta.
Virginia Garmendia (Romance Studies): Flowers of Chaos and Streets in Eternity: Tracing Metropolitan Conduits of Passage across Baudelaire, Drummond de Andrade, and Queneau.
Advisers: Nicolau Sevcenko and Clémence Jouët-Pastré. Tutor: Patricia Vieira.
Diana Garvin (Romance Studies): The Treatises of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and Pellegrino Artusi: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Two Gastronomic Paths to National Identity.
Adviser: Elvira DiFabio. Tutor: Walter Valeri.
Joanna Goldstein (French): Representations of Transgressive Heroines in the 18th-Century French Novel and 20th-Century Film.
Adviser: Alice Jardine. Tutor: Lison Baselis-Bitoun.
Rebecca Hammer (Latin American Studies): Religion and Sexuality in Carpentier’s El siglo de las luces and Arenas’ El mundo alucinante.
Adviser: Doris Sommer. Tutor: Juan-Pablo Rivera.
Stephanie Ursula Hodges (Latin American Studies): Appreciating the personal and collective reality of the Dirty War through fiction: An examination of the Southern Cone in the 1970’s through the lens of Conversación al sur and Beso de la mujer araña.
Adviser: Diana Sorensen. Tutor: Clara Masnatta.
James Pautz (Portuguese): Translating the Sonnets of Paulo Henriques Britto and Glauco Mattoso.
Adviser: Clémence Jouët-Pastré. Tutor: Jessica Callaway.
Mary Robinson (French): The Questing Student: Models and Methods of Education in the Literature of Medieval France.
Adviser: Virginie Greene. Tutor: RoseMary Peters.
Eduardo Saldaña (Spanish): La producción del ‘yo’ en los espacios posmodernos.
Adviser: Diana Sorensen. Tutor: Cristina Schulze.
Natasha Smalky (Spanish): “El Llanto de la Guitarra”: the Role of Music and the Folk Tradition in the Poetry and Drama of Federico García Lorca.
Adviser: Mary Gaylord. Tutor: Juan Silva.
Vanessa Tiradentes (Latin American Studies): Oral Tradition in the Works of Milton Hatoum and Raduan Nassar: Creating a Future, Changing the Past.
Adviser: Nicolau Sevcenko. Tutor: Fares Alsuwaidi.
Daniel Williams (English/French): ‘Human-kindness’ and the ‘Poor in World’: Animals & Compassionate Attention in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee.
Adviser: Philip Fisher. Tutor: François Proulx.
**This year RLL is fortunate to have two Hoopes-Prize winners among our thesis-writers. Congratulations to James Pautz and Daniel Williams !
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Last updated on September 18, 2007