5 RS PhD Students Defend Dissertations

A big congratulations to all five Romance Studies PhD students who successfully defended their dissertations this spring!

French

Tiffany Bailey

Dissertation Title:  Girl Gang: Black Girlhood in France Represented Through Contemporary Film and Literature

Brittany Bernard

Dissertation Title:  Revenants: Gendered Memories of Trauma in the Works of Leïla Sebbar, Diane Kurys, Alice Zeniter, and Mati Diop

Joanna Ducey

Dissertation Title:  Ontological Exiles & Returns:  Memory & Mourning in 21st Century Francophone Literatures & Film

Spanish

Braden Clinger

Dissertation Title:  Mediations of Popular Belief in the Southern Cone: Museums, Prose, New Media, and Film on the Traditional Guarani Frontier

Natanael Saraí García Santos

Dissertation Title:  Ficciones sobre la infancia. La semilla de la identidad nacional en el México posrevolucioinario (1920 – 1950)