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The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University proudly presents the senior theses of the Class of 2019. Congratulations to all graduates and their advisors on the completion of this project.
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University presents the senior theses of the Class of 2019. Congratulations to all the graduates and their advisors on the completion of this project.
Benjamin Bieser, Advisor: Matthew Sandler Expressive Flesh: Semiotic Afterlives, Insistent Excess
Kayla Schiffer, Advisor: Dennis Tenen
Endometriosis Storytelling through Self-Tracked Data: An Integrative Analysis of Digital Experience, Illness Narratives, and Clinical Encounters
Claudia Focacci Polgar, Advisor: Brian O’Keeffe Narrative, Trauma, and the Female Brain: An Analysis of Post-Concussion Syndrome via Trauma Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Medical Science.
Alessandra Gest, Advisor: Valentina Izmirlieva
“And in the land of the dead, delightful sunburn arms don’t exist”: Crossing the River Styx in Osip Mandelstam’s Tristia
Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, Advisor: Julie Crawford
The Mesh: Joyning Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl
Anna Hennigan, Advisor: Mark Anderson
Monument and Memory: Hans Haacke and W.G. Sebald Engaging Architecture
Michael Ivan Pusic, Advisor: Branka Arsic
The Necessary Angel: The Epistemology of the Hero in Wallace Stevens’s Parts of a World
Clare Jamieson, Advisor: Vasily Lvov
Articulating Gender in Contemporary Russia
Emma Kenny-Pessia, Advisor: Matthew Jones
Not a Genetic Panopticon, but a Genetic Highway: Using a Deleuzian Framework to Illuminate the Paradox of Freedom and Control in the Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Sector
Ralitsa-Kona Kalfas, Advisor: Ronald Bayer
Investigation of the Urban-American Public Health Framework: Implications of the Revival of the Tuberculosis Epidemic in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s
Rylee Carrillo-Waggoner, Advisors: Joseph Slaughter, Sarah bin Tyeer, Dennis Tenen
The Centre Cannot Hold: The Significance of Things Fall Aparton Western Lists of Literature
Sofia Nina-Bernardes Martins, Advisor: Karen Benezra
A New Nation in the Lens: Embrafilme, Cinema and
State Cultural Policy During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
