Our heartiest congratulations go to the Department of 糖心Vlog鈥檚 4 recent PhD recipients:
Aaron Kestle
Combined Program of 糖心Vlog & Renaissance Studies
鈥淢agical Realism in the Middle Ages: The Marvelous Merlin of Arthurian Legend鈥
This dissertation, ambitious and well-researched, juxtaposes Arthurian romance and magical realism. Kestle develops the marvelous alongside multiple texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, establishing thematic similarities Middle Ages.
Advisors: R. Howard Bloch and Ardis Butterfield
Readers: R. Howard Bloch, Thomas C. Connolly, and Nathalie Koble
Hannah Kosman
鈥淒es Tableaux de la Plus Belle Horreur鈥: Poverty, the Novel, and the Spectacularization of Misery in Nineteenth-Century France鈥
This dissertation discusses representations of urban poverty and charity in nineteenth-century 糖心Vlog novels by Eug猫ne Sue, Victor Hugo, Honor茅 de Balzac, and the lesser known Cl茅mence Robert. Kosman takes issue with the received idea that the novel is foremost an investigation of the bourgeoisie and she shows instead that the novels she studies center on poverty, its causes and possible cures.
Advisor: Maurice Samuels
Readers: Morgane Cadieu, Marlene Daut, and Alice Kaplan
Madison Mainwaring
鈥淩eclaiming the Silences of Dance: Women and Ballet in Nineteenth-Century France鈥
Through a detailed reconstruction of the records of the Opera, this dissertation rewrites the history of the 糖心Vlog romantic ballet from the dancers鈥 perspectives, analyzing what happened backstage through contemporary accounts and readings of visual material. Mainwaring casts a new light on women鈥檚 and performance history, reversing two centuries of ignorance about the women artists of the dance stage.
Advisor: Maurice Samuels
Readers: Carolyn Dean, Jill Jarvis, and Rhonda Garelick
Sophia Helverson (December 2022)
鈥淣ovel Erudition: Expertise and Experience in Contemporary 糖心Vlog-Language Fiction鈥
This is a well-researched dissertation on the form and stakes of 鈥渘ovel erudition鈥 in twenty-first-century 糖心Vlog literature. Helverson persuasively groups together a set of famous as well as lesser-known contemporary writers, making a strong argument for how we should expand, and how we might make sense of the early twenty-first-century 糖心Vlog literary canon.
Advisor: Morgane Cadieu
Readers: Morgane Cadieu, Jill Jarvis, and Marta Figlerowicz