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.

Note: The graduate program in Germanic Languages & Literatures is housed in the Comparative Literature program. Accordingly, Germanic Languages & Literatures dissertations appear here.

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Dissertations from 2024

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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Yulia Greyman

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Contemporary World-Novels and their Collective Protagonists, Leonardo Nolé

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Shaping Art Cinema Canon: The Venice Film Festival's Evolution and Influence (1946–1968), Luca Zamparini

Dissertations from 2023

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Genres of Labor: Wageless Work and the Aesthetics of Stagnation, Martin A. Jensen

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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”, Laura Malhotra

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Urban Space, Genre and Subjectivity in African and Latin American Cinema, Matthew Marcus

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Marriage Stories: Legal Reform and the Novel in France and Britain, 1780–1860, Tatiana Nunez-Bright

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doc/u/ment: Affinities in 20th and 21st-Century Documental Poetics, Katherine Payne

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The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro

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Insidious Fibs: Early Stories of Henry James, Katherine Shloznikova

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Literature, Development, and the Reaches of Literacy, 1979 to the Present, Stephen Tremaine

Dissertations from 2022

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“El inglés y el spánich”: Translating the Heterolingualism of La Frontera–A Critical Translation of Luis Humberto Crosthwaite’s Estrella de la calle sexta, Nora E. Carr

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Female Spaces and Exceptional Women Under Fascism: Anna Banti’s Early Writings (1930s–1940s), Matilde Fogliani

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Robert Rosen and Relational System Theory: An Overview, James Lennox

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The Storytelling Cure: Medicine and Narrative from Galen to Shahrazad and Rousseau, Ryan A. Milov-Cordoba

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A House of One’s Own: Challenges and Re-Definitions of Female Subjectivity and Domestic Space in Italian Women Writers from the 1950s to the Early 2000s, Nicole Paronzini

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Homotextualité réaliste: Cryptosexualité et subculture homosexuelle masculine chez Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Vincent Sallé

Dissertations from 2021

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Quod Inane Vocamus: Lucretius’ Void in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Carlo Bottone

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The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi, Jason Collins

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The Master's Voice: Close Readings of James, James Curley-Egan

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Prophecy, Emanation, and the Mediterranean Middle Ages, Alberto Gelmi

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Object Expression: Diligent Realism in the Works of Roland Barthes, Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Valeria Luiselli, and W. G. Sebald, John Knight

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The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky

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Critical Climates: Stimmung, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989, Marc Cesar Rickenbach

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Nation(s) and Narrative(s) in Forms of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei

Dissertations from 2020

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The Twilight of the Absolute: Russian Symbolism and the Romantic Project, Evgeniya A. Koroleva

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The Problem of Literary Development in Russian Formalism and Digital Humanities, Basil Lvoff

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Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia

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Narrating Intensity: History and Emotions in Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante, Stefania Porcelli

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Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland

Dissertations from 2019

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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization, Ashna Ali

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Staging English Affairs in Early Modern Italy: History, Politics, Drama, Fabio Battista

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The Subject of the Novel: Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, Jin Chang

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The Body and Its Signifiers: Bodily Depictions in Niccolò de’ Conti and Odorico da Pordenone, Antonella Dalla Torre

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Ang Lee's America: A Study of Adaptation and Transculturation, Yu-Yun Hsieh

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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War, Nataliya Karageorgos

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Magic Performances: Rituals and Practice in Italian Theatre and Culture, 1520–1650, Erika Mazzer

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The Urban Domestic: Homosocial Domesticity, Literature, And Culture in 19th and 20th Century New York City, Krystyna Michael

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Unlearning Don Carlos: Historical and Fictional Elements of Innovation in César Vichard de Saint-Réal’s 'Dom Carlos, nouvelle historique,' Friedrich Schiller’s 'Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien,' and Giuseppe Verdi’s 'Don Carlos', Maria-Cristina Necula

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Transfigurations of the News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer

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Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers

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The Ends of Plot: Rupture and Entanglement in L’amica geniale, Victor X. Zarour Zarzar

Dissertations from 2018

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The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Laura R Feola

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Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film, Michael D. Phillips

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Diagnosing the Will to Suffer: Lovesickness in the Medical and Literary Traditions, Jane Shmidt

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Dostoevsky as a Translator of "Eugénie Grandet", Julia Titus

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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900, Nicole Zeftel

Dissertations from 2017

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Transferring Paremias. Cultural, Linguistic, and Literary Transitions of Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by Vincenzo Brusantino, Pompeo Sarnelli, and John Florio, Daniela D'Eugenio

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Not My Queer: Queer Representation in Contemporary Italian Serial Television, Julia Heim

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Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading of L’Esclusa, Bradford Masoni

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The Short Story and the Photographic: Twentieth-Century Imagetexts In and Of the Americas, Lucienne Muller

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Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel, Santiago Parga Linares

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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald, Agata Szczodrak

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Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri

Dissertations from 2016

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Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications and the Poetics of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio

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Dialogic Faiths: Multi-Genre Expression in Religious Narrative, Rosemary L. Demos

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Interfictional Identities: Transformation and Dissimulation in the Early Modern Period, Yael Nezer Lavender-Smith

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Il dilemma del prigioniero. Luciano Bianciardi e il disincanto del moderno, Ilaria Muzzi

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Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta. An Analysis of Anger in Italian and Spanish Women Writers of the Early Modern Era, Luisanna Sardu Castangia

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A Passage from Brooklyn to Ithaca: The Sea, the City and the Body in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas

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Between Life and Literature: The Influence of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary on Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction, Victoria Tomasulo

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“Über die Liebe”: Love and Sex According to Eduard Von Keyserling, Caroline Urvater

Dissertations from 2015

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The Mystification of Christian Salvation: On the Anxiety of Redemption in Renaissance Poetry and Drama, Kimberly Paige Ambroziak

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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency, Doris Barkin

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Neoliberal Dystopias: Postmodern Aesthetics and a Modern Ethic in Four Pairs of Plays by Argentine and Irish Playwrights (1990-2003), Noelia Diaz

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Sisters in Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage, John Martin Pendergast

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Contemporary Albanian-Italian Literature: Mapping New Italian Voices, Anita Pinzi

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Modern Era Centaur: the Fusion of Art and Religion, Isabel Sobral Campos

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The Labyrinths of Venice: Environment and Identity in Anna Pavignano's Novel "Venezia, un sogno" and Other Works in Literature and Film, Viviana Torrero

Dissertations from 2014

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Mapping Italian Women's Filmmaking: Urban Space In The Cinema Of The New Millennium, Laura Di Bianco

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Jean Sénac, Poet of the Algerian Revolution, Kai G. Krienke

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If You See Something, Say Something: A Look at Experimental Writing on Art, Charlotte Lucy Latham

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All At One Point: The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Thomas Rinaldi

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Kafka's German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity, Abraham Ariel Rubin

Dissertations from 2012

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(Re)Forming Italians: Children's Literature in Italy, 1929-1939, Marisa Giorgi

Dissertations from 2010

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A Critical and Cultural Poetics of the End: Self, Space, and Volatility in Los Angeles, Pamela Albanese

Dissertations from 2009

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Beyond Observation: Literature and Science in Kafka, Rilke, Mann and Musil, Katya Ilina

Dissertations from 2003

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Renaissance and Reformation: From Private Morals to Public Policy in Alonso De Ercilla’s "La Araucana" and Edmund Spenser’s "The Faerie Oueene", Cyrus Moore

Dissertations from 1999

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A Theater of Anxiety: The Irrepresentable in Shelley's "The Cenci" and in Musset's "Lorenzaccio", Remy Joseph Roussetzki

Dissertations from 1995

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From Idyll to Exile: The Transformed Self in the Early Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Powers

Dissertations from 1993

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The Romance of Narrative: Design and Desire in the Odyssey, the Aithiopika, and Don Quixote, Susan Brockman

Dissertations from 1987

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Gestus in the Theaters of Brecht and Beckett, Barry Joseph Batorsky

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Eustache Deschamps' "L'art de dictier", Deborah M. Sinnreich

Dissertations from 1977

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Montemayor's "Diana": A Translation and Introduction, RoseAnna M. Mueller