As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Dissertations from 2024

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Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations of “Peau d’Âne” in Contemporary French and English Texts, Amy M. Martin

Dissertations from 2023

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Memory, Violence, and Detours: Strategies of Resistance to Epidermal Invisibility within the French Republic, Claudine E. David

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Discovering the Indian Diaspora in France and Beyond, Shweta Deshpande

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The Devil Is in the Details: Witchcraft Materiality and Systems of Belief in Early Modern France, Ryan Evelyn

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Political Economy in Lettres d'une Péruvienne: Françoise de Graffigny as Philosophe and Reformer, Marguerite J. Van Cook

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Body Check: Transgressive Body Politics of Gina Pane, Orlan, and Deborah De Robertis, Avant-Garde Performance Artists in France, 1960s–Present, Patricia Anne Winter

Dissertations from 2022

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Neither Invisible, nor Silenced: The India-Maghreb Connections in Female-Authored Cinema, Chandra Balkaran

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Armored Feelings: Romantic Love, Sexual Consent, and Gender-based Violence in French First World War Narratives (1914–1956), Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo

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Maurice Scève avant la Délie (1535–1544). Une étude des genres mineurs à l’origine d’une nouvelle esthétique poétique, Elizaveta Lyulekina

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Heritage Repair: Revisiting Familial and Collective Histories in Filiation Narratives by Dalila Kerchouche, Colombe Schneck and Martine Storti, Rebecca R. Raitses

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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature, Sara Rychtarik

Dissertations from 2021

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Enquêtes métaphysiques et identitaires dans la littérature policière et la fiction en France et en Afrique du Nord, Iziar De Miguel

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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France, Anna Soo-Hoo

Dissertations from 2020

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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation, Christopher Clarke

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Out of Home: Social Class in Women’s Writing, 1950–2016, Lisa M. Karakaya

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Queer Displacements: Minorities, Mobilities, and Mobilizations in French and Francophone Literature, Thomas Muzart

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Where Do We Go from Here? Québécois Identity in the Road Novel from 1964 to 2008, Antoinette Williams-Tutt

Dissertations from 2019

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The Subject of Jouissance: The Late Lacan and Gender and Queer Theories, Frederic C. Baitinger

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The Transformation of Women's Roles in Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France: Femininity, Fashion, and Frivolity in Fiction, Christine M. Carter

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African Childhood in Literature and Law: Between Traditions and Modernism, Parfait Kouassi Kouacou

Dissertations from 2018

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Rhetorique du Soi dans la litterature francophone haïtienne du XXe siècle. Manques et Manquements?, Jasmine Narcisse

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Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite

Dissertations from 2017

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La Symbolique païenne dans l'oeuvre de René Depestre, Wilson Decembre

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Collaboration Revisited: The Performative Art of Claude Cahun and Hannah Weiner, Phillip L. Griffith

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Albert Camus's Mediterraneanism in La Peste, Jacquelyn Libby

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Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939), Lauren Reches

Dissertations from 2016

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Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Third Space of Contemporary Chinese-Francophone Writers, Paula S. DelBonis-Platt

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How to Be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul

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Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries, Stephanie Grace Petinos

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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative, Eric Lynch

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Jules Verne Constructs America: From Utopia to Dystopia, Dana L. Radu

Dissertations from 2015

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Ni Francaise, Ni Juive, Ni Arabe: The Influence of Nineteenth Century French Judaism on the Emergence of Franco- Jewish- Arab Literature, Deborah Rosalind Gruber

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Engendering Islands: Representations of Difference in the Seventeenth-Century French Caribbean, Ashley Meredith Williard

Dissertations from 2014

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Nomadic Impulses, De-centered Bodies: Female Agency and Corporeality in the Cinema of French and Francophone Women Directors (1962–2007), Viral Bhatt

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The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma, Ruth Lipman

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Musical Landscapes: Theophile Gautier and the Evolution of Nineteenth Century French Poetry, Dana Milstein

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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne, Lucie Carmel Paul

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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence, Laila Pedro

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Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel, Joseph J.B. Rienti

Dissertations from 2013

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Le Bâillonnement de la Révolution haïtienne dans l’imaginaire occidental à travers des textes fictionnels des dix-neuvième et vingtième siècles, Claudy Delné

Dissertations from 2012

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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006, Sara C. Hanaburgh

Dissertations from 1998

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Tanbou Lwen Tini Bon Son: L'Oral Comme Reconstitution Historique dans L'Oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart, Frances J. Santiago Torres

Dissertations from 1979

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The Role of Memory in Stendhal: His Evolving Ideas, 1801-25, Pamela Park

Dissertations from 1977

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The Pursuit of Virtue: A Study of Order in "La Nouvelle Heloise", Jeanne Thomas Fuchs