Dissertation Defenses
Summer 2023 Dissertation Defenses

Guido Capaccioli, PhD Italian Studies
June 22, 2023
Guido Capaccioli, Italian Studies, Supervised by Douglas Biow and Maurizio Viroli. The Occult Machiavelli
Spring 2023 Dissertation Defenses

Marylise Rilliard, PhD French
April 6, 2023
Marylise Rilliard, French Linguistics, Supervised by Carl Blyth and Barbara Bullock. Contemporary Arabic Borrowings and Identity Formation in French: International, Variationist, and Pedagogical Perspectives

Rachel Poulin Dorsey, PhD French
April 7, 2023
Rachel Dorsey, Supervised by David Birdsong. Factors in Cognitive Control in Stroop Performance among early French-English Bilinguals in Montreal
Fall 2022 Dissertation Defenses

Francesca Beretta, PhD Italian Studies
November 16, 2022
Francesca Beretta, Italian Studies, Supervised by Paola Bonifazio. Gen Z is here! Where are we? Thinking UX in the Italian Language Classroom
Summer 2022 Dissertation Defenses

Karina High, PhD French
July 21, 2022
Karina High, French Linguistics, Supervised by Cinzia Russi. Non-Cyclical Change in Negation and Indefnites in Romance: A Case Study of Béarnese Gascon

Vanessa Fanelli, PhD Italian Studies
June 9, 2022
Vanessa Fanelli, Italian Studies, Supervised by Paola Bonifazio. Beyond the Casting Couch: A feminist recovery of female stars' experince in Italy

Tracey Adams, PhD French
June 7, 2022
Tracey Adams, French Linguistics, Supervised by Barbara Bullock. Perceptions of Ethnolinguistic Variation in Montreal
Spring 2022 Dissertation Defenses

Andrea Blatz, PhD French
April 4, 2022
Andrea Blatz, French Studies, Supervised by Hervé Picherit. A Chronotopic Guide to the Galaxy: Reading Spatiotemporal Aspects in Golden Age French Science Fiction