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Author:

Vincent, Amanda Shoaf

Title:

Parisian Landscapes: Public Parks and Art Urbain, 1977-1995

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Paris
France
landscape architecture
public parks
urban design
Bercy
André-Citroën
Promenade Plantée

File:

Download aas195_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Monique Yvonne Yaari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Sarah K Rich, Committee Member
Jean Pierre Le Dantec, Committee Member

Author:

Merfeld-Langston, Audra Lynn

Title:

The Villages du livre: Local Identity, Cultural Politics, and Print Culture in Contemporary France

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

France
book towns
print culture
cultural tourism
cultural politics

File:

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Committee Members:

Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Committee Member

Author:

Kulkarni, Amruta

Title:

Jean-Luc Godard: The Evolution of a Radical

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Jean-Luc Godard
French cinema
New Wave films
Motion pictures

File:

Download AKulkarni_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Member
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Member

Author:

Gotea, Claudia

Title:

COCTEAU BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: THE POTOMAK, THE EUGENES OF WAR, AND THE END OF THE POTOMAK

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

the two world wars
eugenism
parody
modernism
Cocteau

File:

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Committee Members:

Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Norris Joiner Lacy, Committee Member
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member

Author:

Hommel, Christian

Title:

REWRITING OF THE PAST AND PARADIGM OF THE FEMININE IN THE QUADROONS OF NEW ORLEANS BY SIDONIE DE LA HOUSSAYE

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Sidonie de La Houssaye
Quadroons
New Orleans
Race and gender studies
19th Century French Louisiana Literature
George Washington Cable
Tragic Octoroon
Creole
Pariah
Free people of color
prostitution
plaçage
slavery

File:

Download HommelDissertation4.pdf

Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee Member

Author:

McAnally, Deirdre Mary

Title:

GENDER AND JUSTICE IN NATURALIST NARRATIVES: ESPACES, MOMENTS, VIOLENCES

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

naturalism
time
space
rape
gender
violence

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Marie Grossman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Norris Joiner Lacy, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member

Author:

Blattner, Geraldine A

Title:

Processing Verbal Arguments in a First and Second Language: The Role of Immersion Experience

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

bilingual sentence processing
psycholinguistics

File:

Download FINAL_Dissertation_July2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa A Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member

Author:

Gresso, Hélène

Title:

SHIFTING THE LINES: THE 'FREINET' TEACHERS, 'CITOYENS' AND 'PEDAGOGUES' 'REPUBLICAINS'

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

citoyenneté et éducation
Parti Communiste Français (PCF)
Charles Maurras
Education in France
enseignants français
Mouvement Freinet
pédagogues et républicains

File:

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Committee Members:

Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Monique Oyallon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeannette Danielle Bragger, Committee Member
Christiane Jocelyne Makward, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member

Author:

Andrawiss, Helene

Title:

Cultural Dimensions of Foreign Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Crosscultural learning
Foreign language learning
French
Sociocultural Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeannette Danielle Bragger, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member

Author:

Olson, Kory Ernest

Title:

Mapping Modernity: Representations of Paris in the Early Third Republic, 1870-1900.

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Third Republic
Maps
Paris
Geography

File:

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Committee Members:

Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deryck William Holdsworth, Committee Member
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Member

Author:

Whitworth, Kathleen Farrell

Title:

ACCESS TO LANGUAGE LEARNING DURING STUDY ABROAD: THE ROLES OF IDENTITY AND SUBJECT POSITIONING

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

identity
subject positioning
agency
study abroad
second language
language socialization

File:

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Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Jeannette Danielle Bragger, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member

Author:

Eilderts, Luke L

Title:

Liberté, égalité, visibilité: Citizenship, Sexuality, and Visibility in Strasbourg's Marche de la visibilité

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

sexuality
citizenship
sexual citizenship
France
gay pride
Strasbourg

File:

Download Eilderts_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara E Bullock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Vera Mark, Committee Member
Heather Mccoy, Committee Member

Author:

Poehner, Matthew Edward

Title:

Dynamic Assessment of Oral Proficiency Among Advanced L2 Learners of French

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

second language acquisition
language assessment
Vygotsky
dynamic assessment
sociocultural theory

File:

Download Poehner_doctoral_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Gabriella Appel, Committee Member

Author:

Dalle, Matthieu

Title:

Les Ondes déchaînées: Analyse culturelle des radios libres françaises, 1977-1981 [Unchained Airwaves: A Cultural Analysis of Free Radio in France, 1977-1981]

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

underground radio
pirate radio
France - contemporary history
France - radio
France - cultural studies
France - media

File:

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Committee Members:

Vera Mark, Committee Member
Frank R Baumgartner, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member

Author:

Brookes, Nanci Christine

Title:

Translating Russia for the French Imagination, 1856-1894

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

France
Nineteenth Century
Franco-Russian relations

File:

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Committee Members:

Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vera Mark, Committee Member
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Adrian Johannes Wanner, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member

Author:

McLaughlin, Noah James

Title:

Strategies of the French War Film

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

War Film
Modern History
French
Cinema

File:

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Committee Members:

Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Matt Jordan, Committee Member
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Rachel Lynn

Title:

WOMEN TRANSLATORS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE: GENRE,GENDER,AND LITERARY CREATIVITY

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Madame Lesbazeilles-Souvestre
Victorine de Chastenay
Therese Bentzon
women translators
French women writers

File:

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Adrian Johannes Wanner, Committee Member

Author:

Petit-Rasselle, Roxane M

Title:

Sous l'oeil de Dionysos: _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ ou le mythe litteraire

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Semiosis
Perceptive semiosis
Umberto Eco
Literary myth
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas

File:

Download Roxane_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Adrian Johannes Wanner, Committee Member

Author:

Ableeva, Rumia

Title:

DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Listening Comprehension
Language Assessment
Sociocultural Theory
Dynamic Assessment

File:

Download Ableeva_PS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Member
Gabriela Appel Lantolf, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member

Author:

Perrais, Stéphanie

Title:

The Fantastic in French Arthurian Romances: Discourse Renewal and Timelessness

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

medieval French
arthurian studies
Chrétien de Troyes
fantastic
marvelous

File:

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Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Vickie Ziegler, Committee Member

Author:

Njoya, Wandia

Title:

In Search of El Dorado? The Experience of Migration to France in Contemporary African Novels

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

African Literature
France
Immigration
Francophone Literature
Tragedy

File:

Download Thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Pius Adesanmi, Committee Member
Ambroise Kom, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ying

Title:

DEVIANCE AND TRANSGRESSION: “MONSTRUOUS” BODIES IN NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMEN’S FICTION

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

structure narrative
genre sexuel
infirmité
Juliette Lamber
Disability Studies
Women’s Studies
roman
littérature féminine
Sophie Gay
Claire de Duras
Delphine de Girardin
norme
différence

File:

Download PhD_Diss_Ying_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Jeannette Elenora

Title:

Algerian, French, Refugees, Repatriates, Immigrants? Harki Citizens in Post-imperial France (1962-2005)

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Algerian War
Citizenship
Decolonization
France
Immigration

File:

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Committee Members:

Willa Zahava Silverman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Tobias Heinrich Albert Brinkmann, Committee Member
Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Member
Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Committee Member
Patrick Weil, Special Member

Author:

Siewe Seuchie, Patricia Angele

Title:

Titre LES DEFIS DE L’IMMIGRATION DANS LES ROMANS ÉCRITS PAR DES FEMMES FRANCOPHONES DU MAGHREB ET DE L’AFRIQUE SUBSAHARIENNE title THE CHALLENGES OF IMMIGRATION IN THE NOVELS WRITTEN BY FRANCOPHONE WOMEN FROM NORTH AND SUB-SAHARA AFRICA

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Key words Francophone Literature African Literature Immigration

File:

Download Dissertation_Patricia_Siewe__Seuchie1_8-6-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Albert Hale, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Albert Hale, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Ambroise Kom, Special Member

Author:

Kinne, Elizabeth Lee

Title:

Persuading The Polity: Authority, Marriage, and Politics in Late-Medieval France

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

conduct literature
French medieval literature
politics
mirrors for princes
marriage
authority

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_Elizabeth_Kinne_Penn_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Robert R Edwards, Special Member

Author:

Simeon, Sandrine P

Title:

“film-theater”: the (aporetic) Art Form of Filming Theater

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

film
théâtre

File:

Download eTD_Version_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jean Claude Vuillemin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Heather Mccoy, Committee Member
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Special Member

Author:

Khadraoui, Sophia Gaelle

Title:

Mémoires Sculptées: Commémorer l'Abolition de l'Esclavage en France Métropolitaine à travers le Monument, 1998-2012.

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Memory
Monuments
Slavery

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Eran Abel, Committee Member
Vincent Bruyere, Committee Member
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member

Author:

Picon, Fabrice

Title:

Claude Bourdet, intellectuel résistant: éthique contestataire et journalisme, de la Résistance à la nouvelle gauche (1928-1959)

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Claude Bourdet
French Resistance
New Left
Journalism
Combat
France Observateur
Neutralism
Anticolonialism
World War II

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Todd Shepard, Special Member

Author:

Hagins, Zachary Ryan

Title:

Visual Voices from the Banlieues: Twenty-First-Century Photographic Re-imag(in)ings of French Marginality

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

photography
France
banlieues
suburbs
riots
immigration
integration
postcolonial

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Brandy Nicole

Title:

The King's Other Court: Epic Transformations of Arthurian Space in Old French Chansons de Geste

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

French
medieval
literature
Arthurian

File:

Download DISSERTATION_BROWN_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Caroline Davis Eckhardt, Committee Member

Author:

Huet, Helene Irene

Title:

Le livre décadent : éditer, illustrer, lire.

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Decadence
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Jean Lorrain
Rachilde
Marcel Schwob
Book History

File:

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Committee Members:

Willa Zahava Silverman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
James L W West Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Rousseau, Sandra Emilie

Title:

Une drôle de mémoire: relations franco-algériennes et mémoire comique, 1954-2012.

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Memory
Humor
Algeria
France
Popular culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Jonathan Eran Abel, Committee Member
Richard S Fogarty, Special Member

Author:

Briand, Cedric B

Title:

Hermeneutics of the Lake: Lancelot's Masculinities and Hybridities in 12th- and 13th-Century Arthurian Romance

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Lancelot
Arthurian Studies
Medieval Studies
Arthurian Romance
French

File:

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Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rodriguez, Denise N

Title:

Deviant Approaches: The Experience of Relegation in the French Penal Colonies (1885-1953)

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Penal Colonies
Relegation
France
Empire
Colonization

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member

Author:

Call, Laura Kmonicek

Title:

Self and Refuse: Waste on the Human Scale in 21st-Century French Écriture de soi

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

French Autobiography
Ecocriticism
Waste Studies
Self-Writing

File:

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Committee Members:

Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stafford, Andrew Robert

Title:

Creative Gender and the Flaubertian Imaginary

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Gustave Flaubert
Gender identity
19th Century Literature
French Literature
Creative agency
Madame Bovary
Salammbô
Education sentimentale
Bouvard et Pécuchet

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Outside Member

Author:

Tilger, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

Pratiques d'Ecriture Transgenre: Writing the Transgender Body in Four Nineteenth Century Novels

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

transgender
gender studies
French literature
nineteenth century
LGBTQ

File:

Download Tilger_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Brock, Theresa Marie

Title:

Resisting Power, Subverting Discourse: Genre, Reception, and Women’s Subjectivation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

French
Heptaméron
literature
Early Modern
Genre
Reception Theories
Women's and Gender Studies

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Committee Members:

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bénédicte Monicat, Committee Member
Christine Clark-Evans, Committee Member
Thomas Beebee, Outside Member

Author:

Navrotskaya, Anna E

Title:

LA FONCTION MYTHIQUE DES ARTS DU SPECTACLE : L’IDENTITÉ DIASPORIQUE ET LA PRODUCTION ARTISTIQUE INTERCULTURELLE

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Performance
myth
art
creativity
intercultural artistic production

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Committee Members:

Prof. Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prof. Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof. Monique Yaari, Committee Member
Dr. Heather McCoy, Committee Member
Prof. Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Cornell, Carl Benjamin

Title:

Oikos: Sustainability, Dwelling, and Culture in Urban France

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Sustainability
Dwelling
Culture
Urban France
France
Contemporary France
Deindustrialization
Memory
Ecology
City

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Committee Members:

Monique Yaari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Monique Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Kathryn Grossman, Committee Member
Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Outside Member
Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Special Member