Previous Outcomes
Previous Ph.D. Recipients
Summer 2020
French Linguistics
- Joshua Griffiths. Assisting Teaching Professor in French at Northeastern University of Boston. A Comprehensive Reanalysis of Schwa Realization in Contemporary Metropolitan French
Spring 2020
French Linguistics
- James Law. Assistant Professor in the French & Italian Department at Bringham Young University. Diachronic dynamics of metonymy in French semantic frames
- Elizabeth Mayne. Lecturer in French at The University of Texas at Austin. An Old Tradition in a New Space: A Critical Discourse Analysis of YouTubers' Metalinguistic Commentary on Quebec French
- Rozen Neupane. Researcher for the Department of Cultural Heritage of Canada. A multidisciplinary approach to studying language attitudes and language use in the Ottawa-Gatineau region
French Studies
- Stephanie Brynes. Director of Outreach and Development, Niki Jones Agency. Aesthetic Suicide in Avant-Garde Literature of the 1920s: Portraits of Self-Destruction by Breton, Gide, and Cocteau
- Maxence Leconte. Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity University. Modernity Beyond the Ring: Visual, Artist and Literary Portraits of Boxers in France (1903-1938)
Summer 2019
French Studies
- Laetitia Zembski. Mes Tissages: Self-Fashioning and Performance in the Autobiographical Work of Sand, Bernhardt and Colette
Italian Studies
- Altina Hoti. Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Intellectuality: The Paradozes of Dora D'Istria and the Gendering of Risorgimento Italy
Spring 2019
French Linguistics
- Fanny Macé. Social Science/Humanities Research Associate IV within LAITS at The University of Texas at Austin. #Présidentielle2017 A Critical Discourse Analysis of the 2017 French Presidential Campaign on Twitter
French Studies
- Ashley Voeks. Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Harvard Business Publishing. Pourquoi Me Persecutes-Tu?: Martyrdom and Religious Violence in French Literature, 1554-1643
Italian Studies
- Amanda Bush. Assistant Professor of Instruction, Italian Studies; Italian Language Program Director at The University of Texas at Austin. Self-Presentation, Representation, and a Reconsideration of Cosa nostra through teh Expanding Narrative of Tommaso Buscetta
Summer 2018
French Studies
- Clemence Ozel. Director of Education at Freestyle Languages. Queer Topographies iN Contemporary French Cinema: The Films of Celine Sciamma, Verginie Despentes, and Emilie Jouvet
Spring 2018
French Studies
- Yasmina Fawaz. Social Science/Humanities Research Associate IV within LAITS at The University of Texas at Austin. Re-Imagining Environmental Waste: An Ecocritical Reading of Contemporary African Women Writers
- Ryan Swankie. Lecturer in French Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Aesthetic Activism: The Poetics of Stage Direction in the Theaters of Apollinaire, Artaud, and Genet
- Jocelyn Wright. Learning Experience Designer Manager at Red Six Marbles. Beur, Blanc, Black: The Banlieue Talks Back in Novels, Films, and Graphic Novels
Summer 2017
French Linguistics
- McBride, Adam. Assistant Professor, Bringham Young University. The Denasalization of French Nasal Vowels in Liaison
French Studies
- Valérie Masson. Former French Lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX.
Italian Studies
- Paola D'Amora. Senior Instructional Designer at Planet. Cinematic representations of Italian office workers from the death of the travet to Fantozzi, 1952-1983
- Elizabeth Florea. Turning the Tables on Romance: Rustichello Da Pisa Invents a New Chivalric Table in His Arthurian Complication
Spring 2017
French Linguistics
- Stephanie Russo. Financial Analyst II at The University of Southern California. The Imparfait Lorrain in the Context of Grammaticalization
French Studies
- Audrey Doussot. Mediated Authority: Portraits of the Writer in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction from Baudelaire to Beigbeder
Italian Studies
- Stephanie Hotz. Graduate Studnet Affairs Supervisor at UCLA. The Italian Musciarello: Youth, Gender, and Modernization in Postwar Popular Cinema
Fall 2016
French Studies
- Nicholas Spinelli. Geo Content Producer @ Apple. Family-Friendly: Homo-Affinity in the French Sentimental Novel, 1770-1850
Graduates Prior to Fall 2016
Bacuez, Nicholas. Senior Taxomony Analyst at Indeed.com, 2013 Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation Award.Automated Pattern Recognition for Intonation (Print). An Essay On Intonational Phonology and Categorization. Fall 2012
Bethel, Marnie. World Languages Faculty, Albuquerque Academy. Rachel, the Circulation of the Image, and the Death of Tragedy. Fall 2012
Boerm, Michael L. Senior Lecturer of French, Baylor University. Pourquoi 'Pas': The Socio-Historical Linguistics Behind the Grammaticalization of the French Negative Marker. Fall 2008
Bosworth, Yulia. Assistant Professor of French Linguistics, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Weight and Feet in Quebecois. Spring 2011
Burkhart, Claire.Reading and Writing Women: Representing the Femme de lettres in Stendhal, Balzac, Girardin, and Sand. Spring 2011
Burnett-Henderson, Beth. Temporary Lecturer of French, Baylor University. Bourdieu's Linguistic Market and The Spread of French in Protectorate Morocco
Dalola, Amanda J. Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina. Un drôle de bruit_hhh: A sociophonetic examination of the production and perception of final vowel devoicing among L1 and L2 speakers of French. Spring 2014
de Mattos, Rudy F.The Discourse of Women Writers in the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and Constance de Salm. Spring 2007
Demos, Melissa. Instructional Assistant Professor of Italian, Illinois State University. (Formerly Assitant Professor, Hamilton College.) Time and the Experience of Narrative in Italian Renaissance Art. Fall 2015
Dow, Anna Troyansky. Mother Daughter Tongue: The Language Use of North African Women in France. Summer 2016
Gaskill, Anne. Information Technology Manager at The University of Texas at Austin. Italian Metaphony in Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains. Fall 2013
Gertken, Libby.Priming of Relative Clause Attachment During Comprehension in French as a First and Second Language. Spring 2013
Gott, Michael R. Assistant Professor, The University of Cincinnati. Re-Charting French Space: Transnationalism, Travel and Identity From the Postcolonial Banlieue to Post-Wall Europe. Spring 2011
Gray II, Richard J. Associate Professor, Carson-Newman College. French Radio Drama from the Interwar to the Post-War Period (1922-1973). Spring 2006
Green, Viola. Instructional Assistant Professor of French at the University of Houston. Native and Non-Native Intuitions on the Phonology of Binomial Locutions. Summer 2016
Guilloteau, Nancy. Distinguished Senior Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin. Modification of Phonetic Categories in French as a Second Language: Experimental Studies with Conventional and Computer-Based Intervention Methods. Spring 1997
Jones, Claire C. Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin. From the Countryside and City to Edges and Interstices: Places and Spaces of the Quotidien in Contemporary French Film and Literature. Spring 2013
Katz Bourns, Stacey L. Professor of French and the Director of the World Languages Center, Northeastern University. The Syntactic and Pragmatic Properties of the C'est-cleft Construction
Marshall (Keating), Kelle L. Associate Professor of French Studies and French Studies Program Coordinator, Pepperdine University. Le Centre Culturel Aberdeen: Minority Francophone Discourses and Social Space. Spring 2011
LeBoeuf, Ava C. Faculty, George Ranch High School. The Proverbe Dramatique Before Carmontelle - Spring 2010
Lehman, Meredith. Head of Education at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Out of Place: Exilic Absence in the Writing and Photography of Hugo, Zola, and Loti. Spring 2016
Mabrey, Beatrice. (Re)Membering the Past: WWII - The Years of Lead in Contemporary Italian Literature, Theater, and Cinema. Fall 2015
Marchetti, Ettore Associate Lecturer, University of Exeter. Silenzio In Sala: Parla Il Cinema Italiano! New Linguistic Tendencies And The Language Of Contemporary Italian Comedy. Spring 2015
McCreary, Anne M. Development Director, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin. Women in Circulation: Tracing Women and Words in Medieval Literary Economies - Spring 2014
Megharbi, Nora. An Acquisition of the Perfective/Imperfective Aspectual Distinction in French: Output-Based Instruction vs. Processing Instruction. Spring 2007
Mignot, Charles A. Professor of Practice in French, Tulane University. The Semantic Import of the French Preposition à 'At/To' in Verbal Argument Alternations. Spring 2013
Monty, Julie A. French Teacher, Carl Hayden Community High School, Pheonix, AZ. Textualizing the Future: Godard, Rochefort, Beckett, and Dystopian Discourse. Fall 2006
Myers, Lindsy L. Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, The University of Missouri at Kansas City. WH-Interrogatives in Spoken French: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Their Form and Function. Summer 2007
Oprea, Megan. Managing Editor for the Texas National Security Review. The Language Attitudes of Second-Generation North Africans in France: The Effects of Islam, National Identity and Proficiency. Summer 2015
Paik, Jee G. Lecturer, The University of California at Santa Cruz. Expressing Emotions in a First and Second Language: Evidence From French and English. Fall 2010
Parent, Sabrina. Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles. West African Representations of World War II: Rewriting Thiaroye. Fall 2008
Pellet, Stephanie H. Associate Professor, Wake Forest University. The Development of Competence in French Interlanguage Pragmatics: The Case of the Discourse Marker Donc. Fall 2005
Post, Rebekah The impact of communication mode and social factors on the use of French in code-switching by young adult speakers of Moroccan Arabic. Spring 2015
Rabatin, Matthew. Senior Program and Outreach Coordinator at the Center for European Studies , The University of Texas at Austin. O, Partigiano, Portami Via! Men, Sexuality and the Italian Resistance. Spring 2016
Reichle, Robert V. Director of Undergraduate Research at The University of Texas at Austin. Syntactic Focus Structure Processing: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence from L1 and L2 French. Fall 2008
Rey, Cécile H. Assistant Professor, University of Virginia. Planning Language Practices and Representations of Identity Within the Gallo Community in Brittany: A Case of Language Maintenance. Fall 2010
Schleppe, Beatriz. Associate Professor of Instruction in French at the University of Texas at Austin. Empowering New Identities in Postcolonial Literature by Francophone Women Writers. Spring 2003
Shariat, Mehrak. Linguistic Politeness in Medieval French. Fall 2012
Shoemaker, Ellenor M. Adjunct Associate Professor of French and Director of Lyon Summer Program, The University of Texas at Austin. Acoustic Cues to Speech Segmentation in Spoken French: Native and Non-Native Strategies. Spring 2009
Skidmore, Melissa E. Assistant Professor of Instruction, French, at The University of Texas at Austin. Consuming Cultures: The Culinary Poetics of Francophone Women's Literature. Spring 2005
Troyansky Dow, Anna. Mother Daughter Tongue: the Language Use of North African Women in France. Summer 2016
(Wright) Robinson, Meredith N. Director of Operations & Essay Specialist at Mayfield College Advising. Tras a Memwa: The Emergence and Development of French Carribean Cinema. Spring 2010