Projects are invited in the following domains:
American literature and culture, especially:
19th and 20th century literature
Gender studies, feminism, queer theory
African American literature and culture
American Gothic, Fantastic or Science Fiction
Popular Culture or Media Studies
Vietnam War, War Literature, War and Film
Eco-criticism, Environmental Issues, Eco-Gothic and Eco-Utopia
Doctoral Thesis Recently Completed
2017 Roxane Hughes, Ambivalent Orientalism: Footbinding in Chinese American Literature and Art
2017 Isis Giraldo, Contemporary Fantasies of the Colombian Nation: Beauty, Citizenship and Sex
2013 Joanne Chassot, Ghosts in Contemporary African Diasporic Literature: Re-visioning History, Memory and Identity
Current Doctoral Theses in Preparation
- Ana Gomes Correia, Masculinity, Military Identity, and Femininity: Monstrosityand Changes in Representation in Literature and Popular Culture, from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror
- Cécile Heim, Native American Crime Fiction. (with Prof. Valérie Cossey, Gender Studies)
- Elodie Rogliardo, Black Women’s Afropean Identity: Construction, Exploration and Promulgation at the Crossroad of Relations in Leonora Miano’s, Laura Nsafou’s and Kiyemis’ Afropean Narratives.