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Dissertation Defenses

Summer 2023 Dissertation Defenses

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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

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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

 

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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

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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

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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

 

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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

 

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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

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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