Recently Defended Dissertations

2024–25

Jacqueline Sarro
Le marché alimentaire parisien: Site of patrimony, pedagogy, and performance
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


Anna Cooper (Student Adviser at the University of Edinburgh)
Performance and reception of Le Roi d'Ys in Paris, New Orleans and London 1888 to 1901: A digital humanities approach to the global Francophone community
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


2023–24

Juliette Papadopoulos
Habiter le monde dans le roman africain francophone
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


Georgia Cristiani (Network Content Lead: English Language Learners, Firstline Schools)
Beyond resilience: Trauma, time, and recovery in post-disaster literature of Haiti and Louisiana (2005 – present)
Director: Prof. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev


2022–23

Sophie Delsaux (Instructor Success Manager at IMMERSE)
Résonances sociopolitiques de l’occulte: De la littérature du dix-neuvieme siècle aux médias contemporains
Director: Prof. Vaheed Ramazani


Jacyln Maraldo (Education Curator at Carlyle House Historic Park)
From francophone frontier to melting pot metropolis: Discovering expressions of French-Canadian and Métis identity in the Detroit River region
Director: Prof. Thomas Klingler


Kaitlin Sager (Head French Teacher at St. Mary's Dominican High School)
Embodied temporalities: Illness, reproduction, and chronobiopolitics in Medieval France
Director: Prof. Jonathan Morton


2021–22

Sophie Capmartin (Executive Director of Academics, Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans)
Dissonant Sauvages: Representations of Louisiana Indians in French Cultural Productions of the First 18th Century (1683-1753)
Director: Prof. Fayçal Falaky


Adèle Cenier
In-between: The hybrid women of materialist and sensationist eighteenth-century France
Director: Prof. Fayçal Falaky


Ryan Joyce (Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies at Ohio State University)
Maroon Utopias, Queer Utopias: Flights to Freedom in Circum-Caribbean Writing
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


2020–21

Emily Hathaway (French Teacher at Henrico County Public Schools)
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Representations of Quadroons in Louisiana Literature of Americanization
Director: Prof. Felicia McCarren


Nicole Horne (French Teacher at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts-NOCCA)
Disorienting Francophone Literature: Iranian Migrant Writing and Maghrebi Literature in French
Director: Prof. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev


2018–19

Leslie Anderson (Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Central Arkansas)
Erotic Tresses: Hair and Power in Medieval French Narrative.
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Heather Frost (French Teacher & Sophomore Class Dean at Santa Catalina School)
Radyo an Kreyol: Decolonial Projects on Haitian Radio.
Director: Prof. Tom Klingler


Erika Mandarino (Assistant Editor at Brill Publishers)
The Interplanetary Voyage of the French Enlightenment.
Directors: Fayçal Falaky


2016–17

Tamara Bentley Caudill (Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University)
Issi avint cum dit vus ai: The Old French Narrative Lay in Context.
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Annie Doucet (Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas)
The Language of the Heart in Troubadour Poetry
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe


Carole Trévise (Lecturer at Princeton University)
De L’anthropologie À La Littérature : Le Schème Sacrificiel Dans L’oeuvre Romanesque De Bazalc Et Barbey D’aurevilly
Directors: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima and Prof. Pierre Glaudes (Paris-Sorbonne)


2015–16

Alison Chanslor (French Teacher at Isidore Newman School)
Gastro-media: Media and French Gastronomy
Director: Prof. Felicia Mccarren


2014–15

Elsa Stéphan (Lecturer at Columbia University)
Techno-Utopias: Utopian and Virtual Spaces in the Literature of the Machine Age
Director: Prof. Jean-Godefroy Bidima


Nathan Rabalais (Joseph P. Montiel Endowed Professor of Francophone Studies at University of Louisiana Lafayette)
Contes Rendus: Sources and Development of Louisiana’s French and Creole Oral Tradition
Director: Prof. Elizabeth Poe