2026, Andrea Martínez Teruel, “El istmo dudoso: Constructing Contemporary Central America in the Hemisphere.” (Advisors: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra/Judith Sierra-Rivera)
2026, Amy Omolo, “Negotiating Adulthood: Waithood and Public Life in Contemporary Kenya.” (Advisor: Rosemary Jolly)
2026, Hyun Jung Kong, “Haunted Archives: Testimony and Militarized Intimacy in the 20th Century Transpacific.” (Advisor: Charlotte Eubanks/Jooyeon Rhee)
2026, Merve Sen, “Hospital Encounters: Literary and Visual Mobilities of Care Across Borders.” (Advisor: Nergis Ertürk)
2026, Andrew Emerson, “Chinese Allegories: How They Work and Why They Matter.” (Advisor: Eric Hayot)
2025, Casey Tilley, “Grassroots Ecopoetics in Development Discourses: China and Brazil, 1990-2024.” (Advisor: Shuang Shen)
2024, Qiyu Chen, “The Making and Unmaking of African Literary Canons: Circulation, Genre, and Gender during the Cold War.” (Advisor: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra/Maha Marouan)
2024, Hanan Al-Alawi, “Embodied Knowledges: Visceral and Parietal Poetics in Contemporary Arabic & Persian Literature of the Gulf.” (Advisor: Anna Ziajka Stanton/ Mara Marouan)
2024, Dina Mahmoud, “Reading Literatism and (Il)Literacies across the Sudanese and Lebanese Civil Conflicts.” (Advisors: Anna Ziajka Stanton/Charlotte Eubanks)
2024, Tembi Charles, “The Phenomenology of Migration: Humanizing Makwerekwere in South African Migration Literature and Visual Art.” (Advisor: Rosemary Jolly)
2024, Vasilije Ivanovic, “Anthropocene Imaginaries. Science Fiction as Method for Ecological Reading.” (Advisor: Jonathan Abel)
2023, Camila Gutiérrez Fuentes, “The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures.” (Advisor: Charlotte Eubanks/Scott Smith)
2023, Jonathan Correa, “Caught in a Bad Romance: Race and Ontologies of the Human in Middle English Literature.” (Advisor: Robert Edwards).
2023, Kendra McDuffie, “Constructing Whiteness: Racialized and Gendered Depictions of Korea in Transwar Japan.” (Advisor: Charlotte Eubanks)
2023, Liz Schoppelrei, “Speculative Formations: Queer and Trans Communities in the Long Twentieth Century.” (Advisors: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra/Tracy Rutler).
2023, Wayne Yeung, “Democracy and its Doubles: Representing the People in Sinophone and Francophone Extraterritoriality”. (Advisors: Nicolai Volland/Shuang Shen).
2023, Duncan Lien, “Allotropes of Realism : The Bilingual Political Imaginary of Turkish-German Literature (1972-2015).” (Advisors: Nergis Ertürk/Tom Beebee)
2023, Eunice Lim, “Surfing Language Waves in Singapore’s Decolonial (Il)Literature.” (Advisors: Nicolai Volland/Shuang Shen).
2022, Ivana Ancic, “At The Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures.” (Advisor: Rosemary Jolly)
2021, Merve Tabur, “Ends of Language in the Anthropocene: Narrating Environmental Destruction in Turkish, Arabic, and Arab-Anglophone Speculative Fiction.” (Advisor: Nergis Ertürk)
2020, Aurelie Matheron, “Decolonizing Refuse: Ecologies of Waste in Contemporary Arts and Literatures.” (Advisor: Jonathan Eburne)
2019, Victoria Lupascu, “Disposability is in the Blood: Biopolitical Cultures of Health in Chinese, Romanian and Brazilian Literature and Documentary Films.” (Advisors: (Shuang Shen/Charlotte Eubanks)
2019, Alexander Fyfe, “Forms of Resilience: African Fiction and the Crisis of Capitalism.” (Advisor: Rosemary Jolly)
2019, Elizabeth Liendo, “Pain and Pleasure: Fictions of Erotic Violence from Ovid to Spenser.” (Advisor: Robert Edwards)
2018, Molly Appel, “The Students of Human Rights: Literature, Pedagogy, and the Long Sixties in the Americas.” (Advisor: Rosemary Jolly)
2017, Andres Amerikaner, “Market Realism: Latin American Literary Movements after the Boom.” (Advisor: Sophia McClennen)
2017, Max Jensen, “Archaic Modernism and Spanish Poetry, 1898-1975.” (Advisor: Jonathan Eburne)
2017, Lea Pao, “Informational Practices in German Poetry: Ernst Meister, Oswald Egger, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.” (Advisors: Jonathan Abel/Sam Frederick)
2016, Darwin Tsen, “Postsocialist Collectivities: Institutions, Aesthetics, Politics in the Sinophone Novel.” (Advisors: Eric Hayot/Shuang Shen)
2016, Angela San Martin Vasquez, “Inter-American Modern and Modernist Poetry: The Poetics of Reimagining the Americas.” (Advisors: Djelal Kadir/Aldon Nielsen)
2016, Kelly Lehtonen, “The Heroic Sublime in Renaissance Epic: Tasso, Spenser, Milton.” (Advisor: Patrick Cheney)
2016, Wei-chi Wang, “Intercultural Bodies: Politics of Performance in Modern Taiwanese Theater.” (Advisor: Charlotte Eubanks)
2016, Kristen Fisher, “Sites of Romantic Medievalism in the Writings of William Wordsworth, Germaine de Staël, and Lord George Gordon Byron.” (Advisors: Caroline Eckhardt/Jonathan Eburne)
2015, Morgan Bozick, “Before Lady MacBeth: Destructive Queens and the Periodization of Early British Literature.” (Advisor: Caroline Eckhardt)
2015, Micah Donohue, “The Whirlpool and the Mountain: Scenes of Cannibalistic Worlding in American Literature.” (Advisors: Thomas Beebee/Sean Goudie)
2015, Anouar El Younssi, “‘Al-Tajrīb’ (Experimentalism) in the Moroccan New Novel and the Debate over Legitimacy.” (Advisor: Jonathan Eburne)
2014, Hui-chuan Wu, “Miraculous Economies: Asian Values, Domesticity, and Transpacific Literature.” (Advisor: Eric Hayot)
2014, Yuka Amano, “Reading as Ritual: Desire for Textual Community in Works by Jeremias Gotthelf, Izumi Kyoka, Yanagita Kunio, and Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff.” (Advisor: Charlotte Eubanks)
2014, Jason Brooks, “Medea Unmasked: Innokentii Annenskii’s Proto-Feminist Translation of Euripides’ Medea.” (Advisor: Adrian Wanner)
2014, Juliana Chapman, “Boethian Music in Thomas of Britain, Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, and their Contemporaries, c. 1200-1600.” (Advisor: Caroline Eckhardt)
2014, Beyza Lorenz, “Travel and Translatio: Itinerant Writing across Ottoman Worlds.” (Advisors: Djelal Kadir/Nergis Ertürk)
2014, Michelle Decker, “African Genres: Literature, Geography, and Poetics in the Long East Coast.” (Advisor: Eric Hayot)
2013, Sara Marzioli, “Invisible Diasporas: Afro-Modernism in Italy.” (Advisor: Jonathan Eburne)
2013, Renae Mitchell, “Monuments of Culture and the Cult of the Monument.” (Advisor: Djelal Kadir)
2012, Mich Nyawalo, “From Trickster to Badman to “Gangsta”: Globalizing the Badman Mythoform in Hip-Hop Music.” (Advisor: Thomas Hale)
2012, Atia Sattar, “The Aesthetics of Experiential Medicine: Literature and Scientific Inquiry in the Nineteenth Century.” (Advisor: Jonathan Eburne)
2012, German Campos-Munoz, “Classical Conjunctions: The Greco-Roman Tradition in Latin America.” (Advisor: Sophia McClennen)
2012, Kerri Pierce, “Reconnection and/or Recommencement: Narrative Desire and the Blank Page in Anna Seghers’s Transit, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire and J. L. Borges’s “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” (Advisor: Djelal Kadir)
2012, Lisa Rothlisberger, “NAFTA Culture: Trade Policy and Cultural Exchange in the Global Era.” (Advisor: Sophia McClennen)
2012, Yuk Sunny Tien, “Literary Humor and Chinese Modernity: The Adaptation and Translation of Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw.” (Advisors: Thomas Beebee/Alexa Huang)
2011, Ipek Kismet Bell, “Rampant Modernism and Its Cityscapes: Alfred Doblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Robert Musil’s Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitusu.” (Advisor: Djelal Kadir)
2011, Annika Farber, “Ethical Reading and the Medieval Artes Amandi: The Rise of the Didactic in Andreas Capellanus, Jean De Meun, and John Gower.” (Advisor: Robert Edwards)
2010, Kyle Anderson, “Promises of Modern Renaissance: Italian Presences in Chinese Modernity.” (Advisor: Alexa Huang)
2010, Nathan Devir, “Archetypes and Avatars: A Case Study of the Cultural Variables of Modern Judaic Discourse through the Selected Literary Works of A. B. Yehoshua, Chaim Potok, and Chochana Boukhobza.” (Advisors: Djelal Kadir/Daniel Walden)
2010, Deberniere Torrey, “Set Apart by Mind and Soul: Subjectivity in the Writings of Early Korean Catholics.” (Advisor: Thomas Beebee)