Previous Senior Theses
Class of 2008
Catherine Adams, L’amor che qui raffina La lettura dantesca nei film di Roberto Benigni
Kathryn Andersen, Il Gusto del Piacere e della Salute. Italian Gastronomy in Platina’s De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine and in Carlo Petrini’s Slow Food Movement
Michael Cutright, Ceci n’est pas une thèse. Théorie et Pratique du Neutre
John Edwards, L’Orazio Dantesco: Satirica Nella “Commedia”
Philip Farinacci, The Impact of China on a Fragile Italian Economy Past, Present, and Future
Marina Isgro, The Fantastic Atlas: Metaphors of Mapping in Calvino’s Ekphrastic Writing
D. Lara Klainerman, Influx and Intervention: The Appeal of English Lexical Borrowings in France and Italy
Laura Peterman, Role Paying: Identity, Opportunity, and the French School in Beur and Francophone Literature.
Arti Sheth, Sleeping Beauties and Silver Noses. Fairy Tale Transmission and Translation from Basile to Calvino
Alexis Tucker, From Baudelaire to “Bling”. Hip-Hop’s Role in French Politics and Culture.
Amber Wedges, “J’ai Deux Amours” African Americans in Paris in the 20th Century
Lisa Zivkovic, L'idéale pragmatique: La Bibliothèque américaine à Paris et ses avatars. De la Grande Guerre à la Libération
Class of 2006
Tracy Lee Fossas, True Humanitarianism as an Ideal: Financial Independence , Témoignage, and Sans-Frontièrisme in the Work of Médecins sans Frontières
Jessica Gasiorek, The French State and the State of French : An Examination of Current French Linguistic Legislation, Policy, and its Implications
Paul Lyons, Immoral Female Characters in Madame Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Le Père Goriot
Joanna Mukai, Madame de La Fayette’s Vision of the Institution of Marriage in La Princesse de Clèves
Nicole Totino, A Call for Abstinence: Communion and Liberation’s Alliance with the Catholic Church in a Voting Plea to Italy
Class of 2005
Aaron Cooper, L’Art de la préface: les préfaces de Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, François Mauriac et Romain Gary entre 1945 et 1968
Caroline James, Alberti e Catone: il tema del De Agricultura nel Della Famiglia
Jinha Kim, All Grown-Ups Were Children First: The Universality of The Little Prince
Paul Koepp, Je rappe donc je suis: Issues of Identity in le rap marseillais
Rena Paris, Radicalization of the Image: The Emergence of the Irrational Self in Rimbaud’s Poetry and Surrealist Art
Daphne Putka, Le Portrait de la femme dans Pride and Prejudice et Le Rouge et le Noir
Antoinette Seaberry, C’est l’heure! Why the End Draws Near for France ’s 35 hour Workweek
Lauren Siciliano, From Valle Giulia to the Latin Quarter : Conservative Media Bias and the Student Revolts of 1968
Anne Throdahl, Monarchy and the French National Identity: The Lasting Impact of the Hundred Years’ War