Previous Dissertation Defenses
Robert Kilpatrick: "Le Soulier de Theramenez: Theory and Practice of the Adage in Erasmus and Montaigne" Friday, July 17, 2009, at 10:00am in Ballantine Hall 141. Chair: Eric MacPhail.
Shannon Halicki: "L2 Knowledge of Target Phonotactics: Judgements of Frehch Word Transformations" Thursday, May 28, 2009, at 10:00am in Ballantine Hall 137. Chair: Laurent Dekydtspotter.
Audrey Liljestrand Fultz: "Prosody in Lexical and Syntactic Disambiguation in English-French Interlanguage" Thursday, December 18, 2008, at 9:30am in Chemistry A400. Chair: Laurent Dekydtspotter.
Tamara Lindner: "Attitudes toward Cajun French and International French in South Louisiana: A study of high school students" Thursday, December 11, 2008, at 10:00am in Kirkwood Hall, room 200. Chair: Albert Valdman.
Fabio Benincasa: "Barocco e neo-Barocco. Percorsi autoriali nel cinema italiano. Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini" Thursday, October 16, 2008, at 2:30pm in Ballantine Hall, room 606. Chair: Peter Bondanella.
Bryan Donaldson: "Discourse Competence in Near-Native Speakers of French" Monday, April 28, 2008, 1:00pm, Room 4204, Wright Education Building, Co-Chairs: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (855-9877) and Laurent Dekydtspotter 855-2221).
Riccardo Chiaruttini: “Esilio, migrazione e frontiere nella letteratura italiana contemporanea” Friday, April 25, 2008, 11:00 am, Ballantine Hall 606, Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli (812-855-6029)
Tamara Pollack: "Light and Mirror in Dante's Paradisio: Faith and Contemplation in the Lunar Heaven and the Primo Mobile" Friday, April 18, 2008, 10:30 am, Ballantine Hall 606, Chair: H. Wayne Storey (812-855-7035)
Beatrice Arduini: "Il Convivio: da progetto incompiuto a icona editoriale" Monday, March 24, 2008, 11:00 am, Room 4112, Dean's Suite, Wright Education Building, Chair: H. Wayne Storey (812-855-7035)
Stefano Gulizia: "Mercurio a teatro. Cultura testuale e poetica del comico tra Medioevo e Umanesimo" Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 004, Chair: Massimo Scalabrini (812-855-8044)
Toruun Haaland: "Strolling the Streets of Modernity: Vision of flânerie and Cityscape in Italian Postwar Cinema" Monday, September 24, 2007, 3:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 622. Chair: Peter Bondanella (435 673-0322).
Marco Pacioni: "Michele Ranchetti’s Work in the Second Half of Twentieth-Centnury Italian Poetry and Contemporary Poetical Theory" Friday, August 24, 2007, 3:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 622. Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli (855-5458)
Philip Balma: "Literature in Transit: The Fiction of Edith Bruck" Thursday, August 23, 2007, 10:00 am, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli (855-5458)
Giovanni Spani: "Narrare, Copiare e Leggere la Cronaca Toscana nel Trecento" Monday, August 6, 2007, 3:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: H. Wayne Storey (855-7035)
Caroline Fache: "Tissage du métissage: construction et création des personnages et textes métisses dans la littérature contemporaine francophone" Friday, July 20, 2007, 10:00 am, Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Chair: Professor Michael Berkvam (855-1088)
Joseph Edward Price: "The Status of French among youth in a bilingual American-Canadian border community: The Case of Madawaska, Maine" Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 1:00 pm, Wright Education Building. Chair: Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
Benjamin Hebblethwaite: "Intrasentential Code-Switching among Miami Haitian Creaole-English Bilinguals" Monday, July 16, 2007, 6:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 011. Co-chairs: Associate Professor Barbara Vance (855-2702) and Associate Professor Julie Auger (855-7958)
Valérie Saugera: "Lexical Borrowing Outside of Community Dynamics. Characteristics and Integration of Lone English-Origin Words in the Bilingual Written Discourse of a Low-Density Network of French Immigrants in the United States" Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 10:00 am., Ballantine Hall 205. Chair: Associate Professor Julie Auger (855-7958)
Margaret M. Dempster: "Writing, Punishment and the Self: A Study of Five Twentieth-Century Novels" Friday, January 12, 2007, 1:30 pm., Hoosier Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Chair: Prof. Michael Berkvam (855-1952)
Dawn Allison Strickland: "The Decline of Interrogative Pronominal Inversion in the History of French" Monday, October 9, 2006, Room 004, Ballantine Hall, 2:00 pm. Chair: Prof. Barbara Vance (855-2702)
Kimberly Anne Bankart Swanson: "Acquisition versus Suppression of Phonological Processes in the Second Language Acquisition of French and English" Monday, September 4, 2006, 3:00 pm., Charter Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Co-Chairs: Prof. Daniel Dinnsen (855-7948) and Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
Marrero, José A.: "Personaggi particolari: The Making of the Perfect Protagonist in Anna Banti's Fiction" Monday, March 22, 2004, 10:00 am, Ballantine Hall, Room 642. Chair: Prof. Andrea Ciccarelli (855-1952).
Berberi, Tammy: "Les Phenomènes engendrés par la chute: Pathology and Caricature in Fin-de-Siècle France" Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 1:00 pm, Ballantine Hall, Room 606. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1249).
Chaguinian, Christophe: "L'Alba Occitane: Une Edition Critique" Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 2:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 606. Chair: Samuel Rosenberg (855-7438)
Lerat-Schmitz, Catherine: "Identité féminine et mémoire culturelle dans le théâtre de Colette, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Duras, et Andrée Chedid" Monday, May 19, 2003, 10:00 am, Ballantine Hall, Room 606. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1249)
Sax, Kelly: "Acquisition of Stylistic Variation by American Learners of French" Monday, March 31, 2003, 4:00 pm, Ballantine Hall, Room 105. Chair: Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
Kovacevic, Predrag: "Reading and Cultural Implications in the Late Nineteenth Century Italian Novel" Wednesday, November 20, 11:00 am., Ballantine Hall, Room 642B. Chair: Professor Andrea Ciccarelli (855-5458).
Ricci, Andrea: "The Awful Mess of Noir in Italian Cinema Between the Modern and the Postmodern Era: The Development of a Genre from Underrated to Sublime" Thursday, October 17, 2002, 4 pm, Ballantine Hall, Room 622. Chair: Prof. Peter Bondanella (855-3127)
Scheiber, Elizabeth: "Characters as Markers of Ethics: A Psychoanalytic Study of Novels by Rochefort, Beauvoir, Mallet-Joris and Harpman" Friday, October 4, 2002, 3:30 pm, Ballantine Hall, Room 004. Chair: Prof. Michael Berkvam (855-3982)
Baker, Julie A.: "The Childhood of the Epic Hero: A Study of the Old French Enfances Texts in Epic Cycles" Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 2:00 pm, Ballantine 004. Chair: Prof. Emanuel Mickel (855-8253)
Anderson, Bruce: "The Fundamental Equivalence of Native and Interlanguage Grammars: Evidence from Argument Licensing and Adjective Position in L2 French" Monday, April 29, 2002, 2:30 p.m., Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter (855-2221)
Juel, Kristin E.: "Loving the Creator and His Creations: Ethical Reflections on the Nature of Love in the Fourteenth-Century Echecs Amoureux" Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 1:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Emanuel Mickel (855-8253)
Moses, John G.: "The Development of Future Expression in English-Speaking Learners of French" Friday, December 14, 2001, 2 pm, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
Coburn Holtman, Kristi: "The Acquisition of the Speech Act of Complimenting by Second Language Learners of French" Friday, December 14, 2001, 9:30 am, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
Rodríguez Mojica, Amaryllis: "The Art of Creating the Libretto, Temistocle Solera and the Italian nineteenth-century" Thursday, December 6, 2001, 1 pm, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Andrea Ciccarelli (855-5458)
Johnston, Joyce Ann Carlton: "Laughing Fit to Kill: Aspects of Wit in the Works of Delphine Gay de Girardin" Friday, August 31, 2001, 3 pm, Ballantine Hall 335. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1952)
Etienne, Corinne: "A Sociolinguistic Study of the Lexical Particularities of French in the Haitian Press" Monday, December 11, 2000, 2:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 004. Chair: Prof. Albert Valdman (855-4988)
McCullough, Heather: "Negotiating a Voice: Desbordes-Valmore's Poetic Persona and Authority" Thursday, October 5, 2000, 3:00 p.m., Ellison Room, Lilly Library. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1249)
Roche, Daria M.: "From Object to Subject: Language and the Body in Novels by Marie Cardinal, Christiane Rochefort, Marie-Claire Blais, and Marie Darrieussecq" Friday, September 29, 2000, 4:00 pm, Ellison Room, Lilly Library. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1249)
White, Sheryl E.: "Conversation and Feminine Identity in Selected Novels of Catherine Rihoit, Isabel Marie, and Marie-Claire Blais" Friday, September 1, 2000, 4:00 pm, Charter Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Chair: Prof. Rosemary Lloyd (855-1249)
Dennis-Bay, Laura L.: "Silent Object or Speaking Subject? Variations on the Theme of La Vieille in Early Seventeenth-Century French Texts" Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 2:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 618. Co-Chairs: Prof. Leonard Hinds (855-6164) and Prof. Russell Pfohl (855- 6596)
Shiffman, Jody: "Be Amazed at Everything: A Study of the Marvelous in Le Divisament Dou Monde" Monday, August 14, 2000, 2:00 pm, Seminar Room, Fine Arts Library. Chair: Prof. Peter Bondanella (855-3280)
Starrett, Katherine Paesani: "Explaining the Passe Surcompose in Modern French: The Syntax and Semantics of an Elusive Verb Form" Thursday, August 3, 2000, 2:00 pm, Library Reading Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union. Co-Chairs: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter (855- 2221) and Prof. Barbara S. Vance (855-2702)
Hirchi, Mohammed: "The Rewriting of History in Postcolonial Literatures" Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 2:00 pm, University Club Library. Co-Chairs: Prof. Michael Berkvam (855-3982) and Prof. Eileen Julien (856-0500).
Yoder, Wendy Carson: "The Abbe Provost's Unconventional View of Friendship" Thursday, April 27, 2000, 2:00 pm, Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Chair: Prof. Diana Guiragossian Carr (855-1088)
Vos-Camy, Jolene E: "The Art of the Novel Through Theatrical Lenses: Paul Scarron's Romant Comique" Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 1:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 606. Co-Chairs: Prof. Michael Berkvam (855-3982) and Prof. Leonard Hinds (855-6164)
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