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 theses appear here.
Theses from 2024
When Critics Are Artists: Ekphrasis in Erotic Art Criticism, Joanna A. Ligon
Between Mirrors: Comparative Visions of Uncanny Doubles, Emma R. Lloyd
Theses from 2023
Only for the Pleasure of Telling: Filling the Void in Pasolini's Trilogia della vita, Courtney Munson
Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction, Emma Navarro
Theses from 2022
The Life and Legacy of Edwin Greenlaw: “Teacher and Scholar”, Mykelin Higham
Theses from 2021
The Problem of Leisure: A Modern History of Work and Idleness, Lea S. Sanchez
Theses from 2020
Topics of The Sky: Ashbery's Involving Search for The Poem, Tom M. Carlson
Theses from 2016
The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's Morte Darthur, Elsa K. Anderson
An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson, Antoine N. Rideau
Locked In: Melancholia in the Modern American Prison Literature of R. Dwayne Betts and Jarvis Jay Masters, Johnna Scrabis
Theses from 2015
Confronting Moral and Literary Perspectives in 'La fuerza de la sangre', José Nayar Rivera Méndez