Graduate Studies

French Doctoral Dissertations Defended at OSU (2007-2008)

• "Changing of the Guard: The Evolution of the French Avant-Garde from Italian Futurism to Surrealism, Situationism, and Tel-Quel". Mary Laura Papalas. (Professor Jean-François Fourny)


• "Chess as a Philosophical Systematization and the Legacy of the Enlightenment". Florian Vauléon. (Professor Jean-François Fourny)


• "D'Iberville, de Léry, Laterrière, and Tocqueville: Quebec through the Prism of Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Romanticism". Virginia R. Donovan. (Professor Jean-François Fourny)


• "Identité nationale française à l'aube de la mondialisation: à la recherché d'une nouvelle cohesion". Roya Mesbah. (Professor Karlis Racevskis)


• "Selves and Shelves: Consumer Society and Identity in France". Laura Ioana Hetel. (Professors Danielle Marx-Scouras and Karlis Racevskis)


• "From Muse to Militant: Francophone Women Novelists and Surrealist Practice". Mary Anne Harsh. (Professor Danielle Marx-Scouras)


• "Representations of African Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Francophone Literature." Nancy E. Wardle. (Professor Eugene Holland)


• Nicoleta Bazgan. Irresistibly French: female stardom and Frenchness (Prof. Judith Mayne)

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