OSU Theses and Dissertations, 1986 -
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by generic call number for French and Italian (click on "other call number" and search using this formula: THE:ROM (code for Romance Languages) to retrieve titles from 1986 and after. Add year of publication + graduate degree to retrieve titles published in any given year. For example, the:rom2004ma brings all 2004 MA theses for 2004.
NOTE: Pre-1986 do not follow this call number model. It is easier to search by author name, or consult a librarian.
1986
Boyd-Buggs, Debra. Baraka: Maraboutism and Maraboutage in the Francophone Senegalese Novel. (Ph.D)
Shoos, Diane L. Speaking the Subject: The Films of Marguerite Duras and Alain Resnais. (Ph.D)
1988
Molnar, Julie A. (Ph.D. Advisor: Charles G. S. Williams). Out from under the Artists' Brush: Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis in Manette Salomon and L'Oevre. (Ph.D)
Nelson, Melinda M. (Ph.D. Advisor: Micheline Besnard). Feux d'artifice : Flaubert and the Decadents.
1989
Carroll, Denise Steppe. (M.A. Advisor:Richard Bjornson). A writing for synthesis in Les soleils des independances.
1990
Felton, Sandra Kay. (M.A. Advisor: Christiane Lauefer). Reverse interference in the speech patterns for initial stops of French-dominant English bilinguals.
1991
Kyoore, Paschal Baylon Kyiiripuo. (Ph.D Advisor: Richard Bjornson). The Francophone African and Caribbean Historical Novelist and the Quest for Cultural Identity.
Wilkins, James D. (Ph.D Advisor: Hans-Erich Keller). The Evolution of Prayer in French Medieval Literature: A Medium of Character Development and Projection in the Mystéres de la Passion.
1992
Kirk, Ella Wanetta. (Ph.D. Advisor: Ronald Rosbottom). Rereading for Gender: Alternative Interpretations of Guilleragues' Lettres portugaises and Charriére's Les lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie.
Niedwiedski, Lois M. (Ph. D Advisor: Hans-Erich Keller). The Miracles of Nostre Dame by Jehan Le Conte: A Critical Edition.
Philibert, Céline Lydia Germaine. (Ph.D Advisor: Judith Mayne). French Postmodern Cinema: Desire in Question.
1993
Boudreau, Douglas Leonard. (M. A. Advisor: Eugene Holland). A la recherche d'une salvatrice : le messianisme Quebecois de l'ere post ecclesiastique chez Carrier, Theriault, et Hebert.
Minkoff, Wendy R. (M. A. Advisor: Judith Mayne). Surpassing the Envy of Desire: Female Desire, Subjectivity and Visual Pleasure in Chantal Akerman's Cinema.
Page, Andrea M. (M. A. Advisor: Eugene Holland). The Feminist Political Unconscious in Colette's "La dame du photographe."
Karmarkah, Medha Nirody. (Ph. D. Advisor: Micheline Besnard-Coursodon). Madame de Charrière et la Révolution des idées.
Lowe-Dupas, Hélène Marie. (Ph D. Advisor: Micheline Besnard-Coursodon). Figures de la coupure : une etude de l'oeuvre fictionnelle de Charles Nodier.
Vanderboergh, David S. (Ph.D. Advisor: Charles G. S.Williams). Salon, family, and patrie : the memoirs and novels of Elénore-Adele D'Osmond, Comtesse de Boigne (1781-1866).
1994
Markey, Nikki Kaltenbach. (Ph.D. Advisor: Hans-Erich Keller). Le roman de jaufre : A Jungian Analysis.
Steinberg, Victoria S. (Ph.D. Advisor: Judith S. Mayne). The Primitive Mirror and the Films of Jean Cocteau.
1995
Poynter, Leah Jane. (M. A. Advisor: Judith Mayne). Rewriting Female Desire and Identity: Contemporary Representations of Écriture Féminine .
Ream, Jennier Anne. (M. A. Advisor: Robert Cottrell). Louise Labé and the Elegiac Tradition.
Schommer, Anne-Marie. (M. A Advisor: Micheline Besnard). Hypertext and Esthetics: The Example of Herodias.
Carrol, Denise Steppe. (Ph.D. Advisor: Robert Cottrell). Montaigne: Sacrifice a la Lettre, Subversion de la Lettre.
Garcia-Casado, Margarita. (Ph. D. Advisor: Danielle Marx-Scouras). A la croisée des chemins: écriture ett identité maghrebine. Etude du role de t'intertextualité à travers l'écriture de Rachid Boudjedra et Abdelwahab Meddeb.
Kemedjio, Cilas. (Ph.D. Advisor: F. Abiola Irele). From the Theories of Fiction to Creative Writing: Theoretical Issues in African and Antillean Literatures.
Woodrow, Kristina L. (Ph.D. Advisor: C. D. Minahen). Dialogue Of The Sphinx And The Chimera: The Dialectic Of Gautier's Poetics In EMAUX ET CAMEES.
1996
Baldauf, Stephen. (Ph.D. Advisor: Jean-François Fourny). Artaud: The New Pragmatic Body of the Anti-paradigmatic Text.
Bremer, Rose Mary. (M. A. Advisors: Judith Mayne & Jean-François Fourny). Screening Race, Class and Gender: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts.
Gyasi, Kwaku Addae. (Ph.D. Advisor: F Abiola Irele). Writing as Translation: Translation and The Postcolonial Experience - The Francophone African Text.
Spoiden, Stéphan. (Ph.D. Advisor: Jean-François Fourny). Malade Et Maladie: Dégradation Physique Et Écriture Fin-De- Siècle.
1997
Bolovan, Maragaret M. (PH. D. Advisor: Charles D. Minahen). A Mazing of the Text: The Search for Signification in the Labyrinth of French Poetics.
Ghose, Sumit. (Ph.D. Advisor: Judith Mayne). Treatment of Women in the Cinema of Jean Renoir.
Heysel, Garrett R. (Ph. D Advisor: Jean-François FOurny). Viewing things differently: Specularized Desire and the Avant-garde Body.
Isley, Edwin Lewis. (Ph.D. Advisor: Charles G. S. Williams). Noël le Breton de Hauteroche: Seventeenth-century Comic Playwright and Actor.
Van Ruymbeke Stey, MArie-Madeleine. (Ph.D. Advisor: Hans-Erich Keller). Au confluent du catharisme et du bogomilisme, le barlam et jozaphas occitan. approche culturelle et sémiologique.
1998
Baishanki, Jacqueline. (Ph.D. Advisor: Micheline Besnard). Un nouvel evangile? L'etranger et l'orient dans la pensee D'Albert Camus.
Dubois,Philippe. (Ph.D. Advisor: Judith Mayne). La surface du texte comme miroir. Roland Barthes : critique de l'image/image du critique.
Ndomaïna, Aiah K. (Ph.D. Advisor: Karlis Racevskis). Repetiton, Resistance, and Renewal: Postmodern and Postcolonial Narrative Strategies in Selected Francophone African Novels.
1999
Binkley, Susan Carpenter. (Ph.D. Advisor: Karlis Racevskis). The Individual at the Crossroads of Classical and Modern Thought: The Emergence of a New Concept of the Individual during the French Revolution.
Hall, Jennifer E. (Ph.D. Advisor: Charles D. Minahen). Metonymy's Subversion of Metaphor: (Dis)figuring the body in Flaubert, Celine, Sartre, and Ponge.
Mulala, Beatrice M. (Ph.D Advisor: Karlis Racevskis). African Women Writers and the Struggle for Emancipation: Image and Reality.
Ousselin, Edward H. (Ph.D Advisor: Jean-François Fourny). Comment peut-on être Européen? : Conceptions of Europe in French Literature and Film.
Wainwright, Danielle. (Ph.D Advisors: John Conteh-Morgan and Karlis Racevskis). Vers une problematique de l'alterite dans la construction de l'identite haitienne: etude de romans choisis de jean metellus et de marie vieux chauvet.
2000
Boudreau, Douglas L. (Ph.D. Advisor: Danielle Marx-Scouras). Conceiving the Nation: Literature and Nation Building in Renaissance France and Post-Quiet Revolution Quebec.
2001
Emery, Meaghan Elizabeth. (Ph.D Advisor: Jean-François Fourny). Writing the Fine Line: Rearticulating French National Identity in the Divides. A Cultural Study of Contemporary French Narrative by Jewish, Beur, and Antillean Authors.
Hoogstaaden, Ester J. (Ph.D Advisor: Charles D. Minahen). Le genre narratif comme réflexion sur l'histoire: une étude d'œuvres choisies de Flaubert, de Maupassant et de Zola.
Persson, Anne-Sophie B. (Ph.D Advisor: John Conteh-Morgan).Tracer l'enfance: poétiques autobiographiques Chez Maria Wine, Patrick Chamoiseau et Nathalie Sarraute.
2002
Aldstadt, David. (Ph.D Advisor: Judith Mayne). Imaginary Co-signatures: Collaboration, Authorship, and Star Personae in Films by Marcel Carné with Arletty and by Jean Cocteau with Jean Marais.
Camara, Sana. (Ph.D Advisor: F. Abiola Irele). La Poésie Sénégalaise d'expression francaise (1945-1982) rapports de la création littéraire au médium linguistique.
Romanczuk, Barbara. (Ph.D Advisor: Judith Mayne). Screening Zola's Women.
2003
[2003 - dissertations are also available electronically]
Damian, Nevine Nabil. (Ph.D Advisors: Charles D. Minahen and John Conteh-Morgan). Modernist Primitivism: Seeking the Lost Primitive Other in Works of Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and René Char.
Wolter, Jennifer Kristen (Ph.D Advisor: ). The Médan Matrix: Huysmans and Maupassant Following Zola's Model of Naturalism.
2004
Daniels, Brian. (Ph.D Advisor: Eugene Holland). Reification and Visual Fascination in Flaubert, Zola, Perec and Godard.
Fouts, Salome Wekisa. (Ph.D Advisors: John Conteh-Morgan and Karlis Racevskis). Werewere Liking, Sony Labou Tansi, and Tchicaya U Tam'si: Pioneers of "New Theater" in Francophone Africa.
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