2024

• / Rana Sharif
• / Vlad Sibru
• / Cherie Hamilton
• / Ashley Merryman
• The Desire Called Uchroia: Time Travel Narratives in Chinese Speculative Fiction / Yilun Fann
• / 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
• / 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.

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