Theses from 2021
A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO VISUAL ANALYSIS OF DRESS: SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION OF CLOTHING COLOR, CUT, AND COMPOSITION THROUGH THE FRENCH FILM COSTUMES OF ANAÏS ROMAND, Leigh Danielle Honeycutt
L’écriture de la dissidence dans les œuvres littéraires de Werewere-Liking, Arnaud Tcheutou
Dissertations from 2020
The Venice Four Chanson de Roland: Transformations and the Artifice of Franco-Venetian, Thomas Martin
Theses from 2019
L'apport des écrivains catholiques du début du XXe siècle au roman d'analyse à travers leur étude du mariage, Edouard d'Espalungue d'Arros
Male Malady Modus Operandi: France's Evolving Gender Identity Crisis in the 19th Century, Victoria Rachelle Mosing
"If They Don't Tell You, the Hair Will": Hair Narrative in Contemporary Women's Writing, Darina Pugacheva
Theses from 2018
Bending Gender in French Literature, Jacey Flatte
Le Roman Policier Francophone : entre Esthétique et Politiques du Genre en Afrique et en Haïti, Lise Madeleine Mba Ekani
Dissertations from 2017
Francolouisianais in the 21st Century: Redrawing Identity Lines in a Community Experiencing Language Shift, Marguerite L. Perkins
Folie et Stratégies d'évasion dans les romans postcoloniaux au Maghreb (Maroc-Algérie) et à l'Île Maurice, Fouzilla Saady
Dissertations from 2016
Colonial, Anticolonial, and Postcolonial Myth and Memory in the French-Algerian Narratives of Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, and Assia Djebar 1942-1999, Gina Marie Breen
La Place de L'Honneur dans l'Evolution de la Guerre au Moyen Age, Nicolas Cyril Franchitti
La Philosophie Poétique d'Édouard Glissant, Un Monisme Vitaliste, David Llorca
Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante, Nadia Miskowiec
The Mnemonic Maid: Joan of Arc in Public Memory, Tara Beth Smithson
Dissertations from 2015
L'essentiel ou Lagniappe: The Ideology of French Revitalization in Louisiana, Albert Camp
Metamorphoses of the Pygmalion Myth in French Literature 1771 – 1886, Carrie L. O'Connor
The Plagues of Colonialism: Representations of Suffering in the Colonial and Postcolonial Francophone Algerian Novel from 1950-1966, Benjamin Jack Sparks
Jean Cocteau: Orpheus Narcissus, Gordon Elliott Walker
Theses from 2014
Construction de l'identité culturelle afro-antillaise : regards croisés entre Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau et Fabienne Kanor, Jeanne Jégousso
Avis de Recherche : Valentine Penrose, œuvre et vie d'une artiste surréaliste, Séverine Aline Orban
L'Envers de l'histoire de Jacques Collin: On a New Approach to Balzac's Most Infamous Criminal Mastermind, Lauren Elise Pendas
Bande Dessinée Récit de Voyage: Shifting History, Semiotics, Authorship, and Representation in Autobiographical Francophone Comics Travel Narratives, Brandon Matthew Thomas
Dissertations from 2013
Melancholic epistolarity : letters and traumatic exile in the novels of three Francophone women, Rosemary Harrington Courville
Un cadjin qui dzit bon dieu! : assibilation and affrication in three generations of Cajun male speakers, Aaron Emmitte
Metaphoric pens : exploring medieval conceptions of writing as technology in the twelfth-century renaissance and beyond, Melanie Anne Hackney
Theses from 2012
Le Nègre Blanc de Bel Air: la construction d'une identité hybride réunionnaise, Jessica Bombard
Literary expressions of Creole identity in Alfred Mercier's L'Habitation Saint-Ybars and Johnelle, Mary Florence Cashell
Simmering in the tombs: the role of the zombie in Patrick Chamoiseau's Chronique des Sept Misères and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ti Jean L'horizon, Andrew Walton Hill
The common struggle: locating the international connections of national spaces of conflict in the Francophone world, Mark Huntsman
La place et le rôle de la mère dans la construction identitaire de Ken dans Le baobab fou de Ken Bugul, Natacha Jeudy
De l'Autre Coté du Periph': Les Lieux de l'Identité dans le Roman Feminin de Banlieue en France, Mame Fatou Niang
Between bodies: (re)constructing the corps Québécois in Roch Carrier's La guerre, yes sir!, Tara Beth Smithson
Theses from 2011
Marriage in seventeenth-century French theater, Adam Michael Babin
Le minaret des sovenirs: representations litteraires, visuelles et cinematographiques de l'identite pied-noir, Jean X. Brager
Nonverbal communication among Pointe Coupee Creoles, Elsie Angelique Bergeron Gardner
The hegemony of language - literary writing and the quest for subjectivity in the works of Michel de Montaigne and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Carla Bota Vance
Theses from 2010
Louisiana's hope for a francophone future: exploring the linguistic phenomena of Acadiana's French immersion schools, Albert Sidney Camp
Staging polemics: Charles Palissot, Voltaire, and the "theatrical event" in eighteenth-century France, Logan James Connors
se réécrire: l'appropriation du langage du colonisateur, une lecture du Chemin des ordalies d’Abdellatif Laâbi, Nadia miskowiec
Student perspectives on study abroad: the case of Louisiana State University's summer internships in the French Alps, Terri Lee Schroth
Stereotype and representation of Near and Middle Eastern peoples in la bande dessinee, Brandon Matthew Thomas
Theses from 2009
Rejecting the Epistolary Woman: modern female protagonists in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre and Ying Chen's Les lettres chinoises, Rosemary Michele Harrington
Mightier than the sword: writing 19th-century crime, Megan Lawrence
Mais, I sin in French, I gotta go to confession in French: a study of the language shift from French to English within the Louisiana Catholic Church, Emilie Gagnet Leumas
Turn-taking and gaze behavior among Cajun French and Cajun English speakers in Avoyelles Parish, Andrew Mandell Riviere
Ananda Devi's Narrative Strategies and Subversions., Ritu Tyagi
Theses from 2008
Getting warm(er) an investigation into linguistic relativity and its significance in the translation of the English lexical term "warm" into French, Elizabeth Neuerburg Addison
Vassilis Alexakis: exorciser l'exil déplacements autofictionnels, linguistiques et spatiaux, Marianne Bessy
Postcolonial writing in Louisiana: surpassing the role of French traditionalism in Alfred Mercier's L'habitation Saint-Ybars, Mary Florence Cashell
Louis Aragon and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: Servility and Subversion, Oana Carmina Cimpean
Dissertations from 2007
How Legend Constructs French National Identity: Jeanne d'Arc, Stephanie Louise Coker
Les cuisines mères: une analyse historique des racines francophones de la gastronomie de la Nouvelle Orléans, Mark Huntsman
Claude Simon et Paul Ricoeur: identification et identité, Guy-Marcel Mbira
Local norms and innovations within the system of locative prepositions in Cajun French, Sibylle Maria Noetzel
Franc̦ais acadien, franc̦ais cadien: variation stylistique et maintenance de formes phonetiques dans le parler de quatre generations de femmes cadiennes, Carole Lucienne Salmon
Theses from 2006
Zachary Richard's "Faire récolte": a translation from the French, Michael D. Bierschenk
"Nos frères d'outre-golfe": Spiritualism, Vodou and the mimetic literatures of Haiti and Louisiana, Jean-Marc Allard Duplantier
Liminality in gender, race, and nation in Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Sidonie de la Houssaye, Christine Koch Harris
Attitudes des éducateurs envers le français et le créole: le cas d'Haïti, Lesly Jean-François
Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo, Catherine Afua Kapi
Voix, mémoire et écriture: transmission de la mémoire et identité culturelle dans l'oeuvre de Fadhma et Taos Amrouche, Nathalie Malti
The education of girls in nineteenth-century French literature: mother-daughter relations and portrayals of identity in George Sand and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Christina Grace Thomas
Theses from 2005
Marie Darrieussecq et ses Truismes, Carla Bota
Samuel Beckett and bilingualism: how the return to English influences the later writing style and gender roles of All that Fall and Happy Days, Julien F. Carriere
Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots and the Nouvelles autobiographies of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras: a comparison, Julie Driessen
Les implications de la littérature dans l'avènevement de la démocratie dans les pays du Golfe de Guinée entre 1988 et 1998, Bani Gouda Ningbinnin
La Grande Force est le D'sir: Guillaume Apollinaire's Rewriting of Merlin's Mother and the Dame du Lac in L'Enchanteur Pourrissant, Allison Bateman Roark
Theses from 2004
Vie et mort de la rhetorique dans Le conte du Graal ou le roman de Perceval, Oana Carmina Cimpean
"Ya know Frenchy, you talk a broken language": an analysis of syllable-coda phonetic realizations in Creole African American Vernacular English, Rachel Rose Mentz
19th and 20th century French exoticism: Pierre Loti, Louis-Ferdinand Cé́line, Michel Leiris, and Simone Schwarz-Bart, Robin Anita White
Dissertations from 2003
Reticent romans: silence and writing in La Vie de Saint Alexis, Le Conte du Graal, and Le Roman de Silence, Evan J. Bibbee
De la page d'écriture et du mythe de l'ancêtre rebelle: la problématique de l'écrite et de la parole dans le roman francophone ouest africain, Boubakary Diakite
L'Engagement dans la Litterature Africaine: etude du Mythe Poetique: Maieto Pour Zekia de Joachim Bohui Dali ou la Violence comme Symbole de l'amour, Souleymane Fofana
Assia Djebar. Le corps invisible: voir sans etre vue, Anna Rocca
Dissertations from 2002
La poetique du paysage dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant, de Kateb Yacine et de William Faulkner, Nabil Boudraa
Prelude to a text : the autobiography of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Ruth Louise Gaertner
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Hearsay, Testimony and Conference: Citationality in the Works of Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida., Mary Carla Criner
Memory, Time and Identity in the Novels of William Faulkner and Marcel Proust., John Stephen Larose
The Sociolinguistic Situation of Creoles in South Louisiana: Identity, Characteristics, Attitudes., Megan Elizabeth Melancon
Shaping the Subject in "La Chanson De Roland" and in Hermann Broch's "Der Tod Des Virgil", Thomas Lee Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Search for Senefiance: Contraires Allegories in the "Roman De La Rose", Camilla Rachal Pugh
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Rousseau and the Lyric Natural: The Self as Representation., Pamela Diane Gay
Functions of Liminality in Literature: A Study of Georges Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Julien Green's "L'Autre", and Assia Djebar's "L'Amour, La Fantasia"., Malynda Strother Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Le Temps Dans Les Oeuvres De Jorge Luis Borges, Edouard Glissant Et Saint-John Perse., Valerie Irene Loichot
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Legitimite Dans l'Oeuvre Biographique Et Autobiographique De Marguerite Yourcenar., Muriel Helene Placet
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
La Reconstruction De La Memoire Et Le Traumatisme De La Guerre Dans Le Roman Francais., Frederic Marie Pallez
Narrative and Representation in French Colonial Literature of Indochina., Jean Marie turcotte Walls
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Echoes of the Past in Flaubert's "L'Education Sentimentale", "Bouvard Et Pecuchet" and "Salammbo"., Deborah Lee trott Pierce
"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading and Study of the Process of Subjectivity in Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau
Fonctions De l'Ecriture Dans Les "Elements D'ideologie" d'Antoine Destutt De Tracy., Fabrice Gerard Teulon
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Dominance, Marginality, and Subversion in French (Post)colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester