2025

• Reading Wang Xiaobo Through Italo Calvino’s Literary Values / Kejian Li

2024

• Digital Poetics and Languages of Refusal: Enunciation, Narration, and the Technomediated Question of Palestine / Rana Sharif
• World Vampires and World Literature / Vlad Sirbu
• The Model Translator in Kalīlah and Dimnah: A Study of the Arabic and Castilian Translator-Authors / Clare O’Brien
• Transformative Fictions: Futurities for Trans/Queerness in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century French Works / Ashley Merryman
• The Desire Called Uchroia: Time Travel Narratives in Chinese Speculative Fiction / Yilun Fann
• Ethics Unbound: Traversing Memory, Narratives, and Borders in the Aftermath of the Chongqing Heavy Bombing / Jamie Liu

2023

• The Aesthetics of French Taste: How French Colonial Epistemologies Shapeshift into Class-Oriented Practices in Modern Egypt in the 1826-1950 Period / Najah Azzouzi
• Cultural Representations of Youth in 1960s-1970s South Korea / Soonyoung Lee
• States of Revolution Language Beyond the Rhetoric of International Law in Arabic and Francophone Literature/ Leen Kawas
• Poetry as Dreaming, Dreaming as Poetry: The Dialogue Between Dream of the Red Chamber (Hongloumeng 紅樓夢 Story of the Stone 石頭記) and Middle Tang 中唐 and Late Tang 晚唐 Poetry Focusing on the Poetry of Li He 李賀, Li Shangyin 李商隱, and Wen Tingy / Kevin Wilson
• Sardigna no est Italia: Resistance as Sardinian Identity / Cherie Hamilton
• Assimilating ‘Comfort Women’: The Appropriation of Korean Sexual Trauma in Korean American Literature / Eun-joo Lee.
• Like a Mask Dancing: Visuospatial Geographies in West African Anglophone Literature / Utitofon Inyang.
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2022

• Securitize This!: Race, World, and Visuality in the Era of Security / Jared Gee.
• The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Narrator: Studies of Lu Xun, Shi Zhecun, Sun Li, and Wang Zengqi / Tao Peng.
• An Apologia for Anger with Reference to Early China and Ancient Greece / Alba Curry.
• Encountering Community: Nationalism, Race, and Humanity in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature / Walter Merryman.

2020

• The Damned of the Anthropocene: Performatively Modeling Energy Aesthetics for a New Structuralism / Sean Matharoo.
• Becoming-With: Ecological Ethics and the More-Than-Human Worlds of Russian and American Horror / Brittany Roberts.
• Poetic Philosophy in Plato and Zhuangzi / Ryan Harte.

2019

• Justice and Punishment: A Comparative Study of Inherited Responsibility in Ancient Greece and Early China / Duluo Nie.
• The Liquid Eye: A Deleuzian Poetics of Water in Film / Amy Hough.

2018

• Vietnamese Sorrow: A Study of Literary Discourse in Popular Music Life / Minh Nguyen.
• State of Perpetual Emergency: Legally Codified State Violence in Post-Revolutionary Iran and the Contemporary U.S. / Shabnam Piryaei

2017

• Divided: Four States, One Imagination Discourses on National Division and Unification in Korea and Germany / Birgit Geipel
• Shades of Sepia: Examining Eurocentrism and Whiteness in Relation to Multiculturalism in Steampunk Iconography, Fandom, and Culture Industry / Jaymee Goh Sook Yi
• Chronotopes and Intertexts: Nation-Making in the Literary Representations of the Philippine Revolution of 1896/1898 / Gloria Luz Gonzales

2016

• From the Bronx to the Banlieues: The Cross-Cultural Commodification of Hip-Hop / Susannah Copi
• Visible Invisibility: the Case of Indians in Vietnam / Chi P. Pham

2015

• Playing Along Infinite Rivers: Alternate Readings of a Malay State / Syed Husni bin Syed Abu Bakar
• Beyond New Waves: Gender and Sexuality in Sinophone Women’s Cinema from the 1980s to the 2000s / Kang Kai
• Theory of the Strange Towards the Establishment of the Zhiguai as a Genre / Mingming Liu
• Debt Sentences: The Poetics and Politics of Credit Culture in India, Italy, and the Inland Empire / Tanya Rawal

2014

•  A/Effective Landscapes: Transnationalism, Affect and Feminism in Transnational Literature and Film / Carmen Braun
  
• Children of Alchemy: (Un)Covering the Significance of the Hermetic Art in Literary Texts, East and West / Angela Chung
  
• The Intrusion Story and Lessons from the Fantastic: A Cross-Cultural Study / Fontaine Lien
• Uncertain Satire in Modern Chinese Fiction and Drama: 1930-1949 / Xi Tian

2013

•  Collaborative Aesthetics and the Politics of Trans-Subjectivity / April Durham
• Benjamin’s Bards: Myth, Memory, and Zeitgeist in the Making of the Modern Storyteller / Sue Hertzog
• Moments of Realization: Meditations in the Reality of Fiction / Jonathan Lee
• “Always as Though for the First Time” : Embodiment, Mediation, and Speculation in Contemporary Transnational Narratives / Regina Yung Lee

2012

• Transnational Negotiations and the Interplay Between Chinese and Western Detective Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Ruijuan Hao
• North Korean Literature: Margins of Writing Memory, Gender, and Sexuality / Immanuel Kim
• A Quest for Insularity: Thomas Forrest’s Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas / Panida Lorlertratna
• Performing Perversion: Decadence in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature / Hongjian Wang

2011

• The Architecture of Homelessness: Space, Marginality, and Exile in Modern French and Japanese Literature / Jane Correia
• Errancies of Desire: Subjectivity, Difference, and Proximity in Transnational Film and Literature / Vartan Messier
• Echoing Across the Mediterranean and the Pacific: Cinematic Resonance and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Contemporary European and East Asian Cinema / Flannery Wilson

2010

• The Motif of Fate in Homeric Epics and Oedipus Tyrannus / Chun Liu

2009

• The City in Wang Anyi’s Novels: A Comparative Perspective / Ying Li
• Dwelling in Dreams: A Comparative Study of Dream of the Red Chamber and Finnegan’s Wake / Mingming Zhang

2006

• Roddenberry’s Faith in Star Trek’s Humanism as an American Apocalyptic Vision of the Future / Bernd Janzen
• Trauma Erupts: Aesthetic Innovation in Writing and Visualizing the Unspeakable / Mark Frederick
• Self and Gender: Women, Philosophy, and Poetry in Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial China / Jie Chai
• Sign – Image – Myth The Interrelation of Sign-Systems and the Construction of Meaning / Sabine Thuerwaechter
• Heroes in Love: A Comparative Study of Jin Yong’s Novels / Jie Li

2004

• A Poetics of Time in the 24 Hour Text / Pamela Kuhlken

2003

• Postmodern Rootedness : Identity In Twentieth Century Women’s Fiction And Film / Julie Ann Dennis Hlad
• All Under Heaven : The Portrayal Of Chinese Women In Pearl S. Buck’s Writing / Ruiqi Ma

2002

• Disenchanted Journeys / Robert Randall Van Cleave

2001

• From The Center To The Circumference : Encyclopedic Topologies In Literature From Dante Through Mode / Pekka Johannes Kuusisto

1999

• Chicano Translative Poetics : A Comparative Inquiry / Edith Morris-Vasquez
• At A Loss For Words : A Prolegomenon Towards One Theory Of The Esoterics Of “Literature As/And Philosophy” / Steven Lee Reinhart
• Material And Creative Forces In The City : A Comparative Study Of French And American Novels (1839-1936) / Isabelle Josiane Schaffner
• Role Of Psychological Research In The Interpretation Of Literature / Virginia Lyn Unger
• The Song Of Solomon : Linguistic Problems And Cultural Considerations / Clare Van Loon

1998

• The Aesthetics Of Collaboration : Adaptation And Creation In The Musical And Film Guys And Dolls / Jeffrey Winn Combe
• Postmodernist Intertextuality : Artistic Clonage, Anthropophagic Pastiche, Or What? / Denize Correa Araujo
• Saul Among The Prophets : The Thematology Of King Saul / Barry Craig Crawford
• Gender And The Comic In The Works Of Alessandro Piccolomini / Ann Lizbeth Langston
• Mulatto In German Literature And Beyond : A Comparative Study Of The Mulatto Character In German, American and Spanish-American literature / Christian Meng Mahoney

1997

• Biomythography As Genre : The Narratives Of Women Of Colour / Darnetta Elaine Bell
• Displacing National Literature : Consequences Of Diaspora For The Monumental Idea Of Egypt In Albert Cossery, Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Soueif / Robert William D’Alo
• Exploring Arab Concepts Of Homosexuality / Ramzi M. Salti

1996

• Transformations In Representation : Painting Turns To Writing / Kevin Paul Bongiorni
• Strange Bedfellows : A Study Of A Famous Misinterpretation Of German Literature / Carol Anne Sheehan

1995

• Confluence, Bakhtin, And Alejo Carpentier’s Contextos In Selena And Anna Karenina / Grant Calvin Carner, Sr.
• The Breakdown Of Rhetoric In Early Modernism : Franz Kafka And T.S. Eliot / Robert Randall Van Cleave
• Knowledge Of The Nerves : Argument, Epistemology, And Narrative In Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Literature / L. Edwin Knutson
• Experience And Knowledge In Eighteenth-Century Literature And Science : Denis Diderot And Benjamin Franklin / Cheryl Anne Lambert
• Men Dream While Women Struggle : Educational Paradigms In The Bildungsroman / Susanne Marshall
• Othering In Edmond Jabes And Isaac Bashevis Singer, Or, Creating A New Midrash / Chaya Schubert-Yablenski

1994

• “The Rise And Fall Of Many:”  A Socio-Narratological Analysis Of Women In Luke-Acts / James Malcolm Arlandson
• Surprise, Coincidence, “Near Death” Episode, And Comic Tone : English Tragicomedy In The Seventeenth Century and Chinese Drama in the Yuan (1260-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) Dynasties / Tsuo-Wen Chao
• The Rhetoric Of Intertextuality And Doubtful Authority : A Comparative Study Of William Faulkner, Houshang Golshiri, and Alain Robbe- Grillet / Diana Darab
• Tragic Daughters : Women, Contemporary Drama And The Tradition Of Domestic Tragedy / Carolina Molina
• Romancing Visual Women : From Canon To Console / Roberta Sterman Sabbath
• The Aesthetic Hero And Fin-De-Siècle Critical Fiction / Harold Swindall
• A Statistical Survey And Evaluation Of The Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalog / Alain Veylit

1993

• Paul Bowles, The Sadness Of Contact : The Intermediary In The Post-Colonial Situation / Robert William D’Alonzo
• Enemies Of The Rational Soul : Confrontations With The World, The Flesh, And The Devil In Selected Works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Literature of the Fantastic / DawnEllen Jacobs

1992

• A Comparative Study Of Time Presentation In Elizabethan And Yuan- Ming Drama / Jingsong Chen
• The Marxian Hermeneuties Of Fredric Jameson / Christopher Anthony Wise

1991

• Literature’s Challenge To History : The Trilogies Of Alfred Döblin And Josephine Herbst / Jeanette La Porte
• The Criminal In The Nineteenth-Century Novel / Margaret Mary Turlo

1990

• Eurydice : The Lost Voice / Alida Louise Allison
• The Aesthetics Of The Marvelous : Baroque “Meraviglia” And Marino’s Galeria / Terri Lee Frongia
• Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Victor Vasarely : Théorie Littéraire Et Perception Des Textes Et Visuels /  Louise-Hélène L. Le Ster
• Female Protagonists In The Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Novel : A Study Of Richardson, La Roche, and Burney / Rose-Marie Northcutt

1989

• The Fantastic In The Works Of Elena Garro : Questioning The Limits Of Reality / Susan Spagna. SPANISH

1988

• Carmen Martín Gaite Y La Narración : Teoría Y Práctica / by Mercedes Jiménez González. (1988) SPANISH

1987

• Gender And Desire In Contemporary Drama : Lillian Hellman, Natalia Ginzburg, Franca Rame And Ntozake Shange / Serena Anderlini.
• African Views Of The United States In The Works Of Achebe, La Guma, And Ngugi / Lisa Hope Iyer.
• Poetry And Politics : Spanish American Poets And The Spanish Civil War / René Francisco Pagán

1986

• Au Nom Du Pére, Le Fils Se Veut Sain D’esprit : Psychobiographie De Jean Racine / Jacques Benzakein.
• Tennessee Williams And Greek Culture : (With Special Emphasis On Euripides) / Athena Coronis
• Vorticist Interart Relations : Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr And Enemy Of The Stars As Literary Equivalents Of Vorticist Art / Edward Ross Perez

1985

• Temas Y Técnicas Narrativas En La Novela Española E Hispanoamericana Contemporánea / María Antonia Beltrán-Vocal. SPANISH

1984

• The Game Of Poetics : Play In Postmodern Fiction / Ruth Ellen Eileen Burke
• Becoming A Heroine : A Study Of The Electra Theme / Lois Mary Cech
• Social And Political Alienation In The Novels Of Gabriel García Márquez / Carmen Maldonado Decker
• Sociological Approaches And Comparative Literature /  Horst Helmut Hoffmann.
• From Existential Angst To Spy Thriller : Italo Calvino And John Barth On Two Paths To Contemporary Modernism / Nan Claire Tynberg.

1983

• El Teatro Chileno Desde 1941 Hasta 1981 / Rebeca Torres-Rivera. SPANISH

1982

• The Crisis Generation : Marxist Aesthetics In The United States, 1929-1939 / Ronald Lee Balestrieri
• Holiness In Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I : Its Theological Definition And Implications For The Narrative / Debra Jean Brown
• Towards A Definition Of, And Critical Approaches To Chicano(A) Literature / Evangelina Enríquez
• Samuel Johnson On The “Mental Anatomy” Of Man / Robert Alan Harris
• Le Récit Itératif Et Flaubert / Danièle Chatelain Slusser
• La Evolución Del Mito De Orfeo En La Literatura Y La Música / Rafael S. Valdés Camín

1977

• Beethoven In Western Literature / Donna Ann Beckage