| Student Name | Dissertation Date | Dissertation Title |
| Yoojin Soh | August 2012 | Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction |
| Miaowei Weng | August 2012 | Franco's children: Representations of Franco-era Childhood in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cinema |
| Victori Rust | May 2012 | “Fashioning Women under Totalitarian Regimes: “New Women” of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia” |
| Ruxandra Looft | May 2012 | “Mobile Ideas and (Im)mobile Subjects: Women Writers and Women’s Fashion Magazines in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Austria” |
| Erika Conti | May 2012 | Memory and Oblivion in the Second World War: Lyrical Memoirs and Collective Memory of Post-War Italy |
| Christopher Boehm | May 2012 | The Dark Heart of Main Street: Fantasy and the Small Town |
| Robert Neblett | Summer 2011 | Dramaturgical Crossroads and Aesthetic Transformations |
| Birgit Noll | Spring 2011 | A Monstrous Compound of Carlyle and Jean Paul? Hertman Mehlville and the German Roman |
| Curtiss Short | May 2009 | Antidotal Measures: Constructions and Deployments of the Shocking Image |
| Richard Dale Reitsma | December 2007 | Homosexuality and Race on the Plantation: Deconstructing Myths of National Identity in the American South, Cuba, and Puerto Rico |
| Anastasia Lakhtikova | December 2007 | The Multiple Russian Contexts of Nabokov's Onegin |
| Vassiliki Rapti | December 2006 | Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond |
| Kamaal Nisarul Haque | May 2006 | The Dynamics of Space in Goethe's West-Oestlicher Divan |
| Bonnie Black Taylor | December 2005 | Crossing Boundaries: The Prostitute in Jacobean City Comedy |
| Giorgio Mobili | May 2005 | Close Encounters With the Real: Representing the Body in Pynchon, Puig, and Volponi |
| Daniel L. Medin | December 2005 | Three Sons. Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W.G. Sebald |
| Roberta Vassallo | May 2004 | Heinrich von Kleist and Ugo Foscolo: Two Kindred Spirits United Against Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Cynthia Ann Richards | May 2003 | Laughing at Language: Conversational Behavior and the Dialogic Humor of Dramatic Comedy |
| Namphueng Padamalangula | December 2003 | The Play of Undecidability: A Deconstructive Analysis of Traiphum Phra Ruang (Three Worlds According to King Ruang) |
| Mark Andrew Ferguson | August 2003 | Alienation Effects and Plitics in the Works of Richard Foreman and Heiner Müller |
| Rebecka Rychelle Rutledge | May 2001 | Metaphors of Mediation: Race and Nation in Black Atlantic Literature |
| Mohamed-Salah Omri | December 2001 | Issues in World Literature: The Cultural Politics and Poetics of Mahmud Al-Mas Adi |
| Regina Möller Young | December 2000 | The Romantic/Transcendental Quests of Emerson and Hugo |
| Gavin Miles Foster | May 2000 | The Politics of Interpretation: Reading and Rewriting Epic and Theater in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century England |
| Anne Dempsey Craver | August 2000 | The Persistence of Vision in Andree Chedid's Poetry |
| Paul Joseph Abeln | August 2000 | William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism, 1887-1920 |