SELECTED MA THESES SUPERVISED, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL)
- Sigrid Preissl, "Spacewalks: Nasa’s Human Space Exploration and Science Fiction Film," MA Film Studies, 2012, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree.
- Jean-Philippe (JP) Blunt. Video and VHS, MA Film Studies, 2012, Degree with Merit.
- Lydia Burt, Asian Horror Cinema, MA Film Studies, 2012
- Peter Kent. Remakes of 1980s Horror Films, MA Film 2012, Degree with Merit.
- Benjamin Stevens, Letters in 1940s American Cinema, MA Film Studies, 2012.
- Jennifer Collinson, “Moralising Narration: Honour and Justice in Alexandre Dumas Père’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo,” Merit in MA French, 2011
- Sergina Stavroulaki, “‘I’ll Give You Something Better than Facts: I’ll Give You a Picture’: Film Noir and Crime/Police Photography, MA Film Studies, 2011
- Sylvia Vitaglione, “Experiments and Experience in Time and Space: Women, Post-Modern Dance and Film,“ Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, MA Film Studies, 2010
- Clinton Adas, “Traversing the American West: The Use of Landscape in US Painting and Cinema,” MA Film Studies, 2010
- Loïc Van der Heyden, “Mobile Frames: Bicycles in French Cinema from the 30s to the 60s” MA Film Studies, 2010
- Rebecca Harrison, “Mental Mapping: Alien Invasion and the Psychogeography of Cinematic London in the Swinging Sixties,” MA Film Studies, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2009
- Diya Banerjee, Domestic Space and Objects in the Films of Sayajit Ray, MA Film Studies, 2009
- Soonil Lee, The Reception of Korean Soap Opera, MA Film Studies, 2009
- Karolina Kendall-Bush, “Nostalgia Rides: Tram Travel in Cinema and its Representation in the Urban Imaginary,” MA Film Studies, Distinction in Dissertation and in Degree, 2008
- Fedra Vokali, “Bridges in Film: A Case Study of London and Paris,” MA Film Studies, 2008
- Hanne Graversen, “The Cinematic Taxicab: The Black Cab in London Crime Films (1946-1965)” MA Film Studies, Distinction in Dissertation and in Degree, 2007
- Jennifer Coan, “How does the Representation of the Gold Digger in Films made between 1930 and 1934 relate to Social Mobility?” MA Film Studies, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2007
- Jasmin Mirsal, “Kracauer’s Exile Writings,” MA Comparative Literature, Distinction on Dissertation, 2007
- Cassie Miller, “Becoming Woman: Makeovers in Hollywood Cinema,” MA Film Studies, 2007
- Kristin Irving, “‘Passé expectations of value, emotion or vulnerability’: Irony, artifice, and voice-over narration in recent American cinema,” MA Film Studies, 2007
- Wafa’a Halawi, “Beirut Re-Presented: representations of Beirut in Contemporary Lebanese Cinema,” MA Film Studies, 2007
- James Bower, “Going Up: How the Elevator Works in the Cinema,”MA Film Studies, Distinction in Dissertation and in Degree, 2006
- Stephanie Fuller, “Cartographic Cinema: More than Just Maps,” MA Film Studies, Distinction in Dissertation and in Degree, 2006
- Kate Prengel, “Literary and Historical Discourses on the Algerian Invasion during the July Monarchy in France,” MA Comparative Literature, Distinction in Dissertation and in Degree, 2006
- Kristina Mazurenko, “Short Films and Genre,” MA Film Studies, 2006
- Faye Fornasier, "Magic and French Cinema," MA Film Studies, 2006
- Berry Cochrane, “What Malls Mean to Movies and What Movies Mean To Malls,” MA Film Studies, Distinction on Dissertation, 2005
- Jonny Lowndes, “Bellows from the Voice of God” (on film trailers),” MA Film Studies, 2005, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree
- Pamela Jahn, “Homelessness and Gender in American Cinema 1960-1990,” MA Film Studies, 2005
- Minje Sung, “Screening Trauma and Reconstructing National Identity,” MA Film Studies, Distinction on Dissertation, 2005
- Emma Bielecki, “The Body in the Work of Isidore Ducasse,” MA French, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2004
- Mia Harlock, “Power Suits and Power Whores: Undressing the Femme Fatale,” MA Film Studies, 2004
- Denise Marie Huber, “Derrida, Pamuk, Optical Theories,” MA in Comparative Literature, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2004
- Jessica Winter, “Based on an Actual Event: The Ideology of Realism in Recent Hollywood Combat Films,” MA in Film, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2004
- Pei-Suin Ng, “The Matrix Reoloaded--Virtual Cinematography and the Digital Real: (Dis)Placing Cinema Between Reality and Simulacra,” MA Film Studies, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2003, Third Prize for thesis in Society for Cinema and Media Culture annual postgraduate prizes
- Shital Pravinchandra, “Rape, Race, and Colonialism: Alain Resnais’s Muriel and E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India,” MA Thesis in Comparative Literature, Distinction on Dissertation and in Degree, 2001
- Jennifer Burke, “Simone de Beauvoir,” MA Thesis in French, October 1999
BA HONORS THESES SUPERVISED, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
BA Honors Theses Supervised, Harvard University
- Hannah Feldman, “Theories of the Mirror: or, Reflections of a Doubled Self,” Comparative Literature Concentration, Summa Cum Laude, Hoopes Prize, Honorable Mention. 1992
- Daria Colombo, “Nationality, Narration, and a Fiction of the Foreign,” Comparative Literature Concentration, Summa Cum Laude (nominated for the Hoopes Prize), 1992
- Sharon Haimov, “Adultery in the Novel and Caricature of the July Monarchy,” French Concentration, Magna Cum Laude, 1993
- Mary Louise Kelly, “Sexual Harassment in France: Not a Feminist Concern,” Honors in Government and Romance Languages, Magna Cum Laude, 1993
- Anne Carman, “Camille Claudel,” French Concentration, Cum Laude, 1994
- Ellen Carr, “Biographical Theory, Henry James and Virginia Woolf,” Comparative Literature Concentration, Magna Cum Laude, 1994
- Elisabeth Remy, “Transforming Persephone through Music and Words” (on Stravinsky and Gide), Honors French Concentration and Honors Music Concentration, Magna Cum Laude, 1995
- Allison Weinberg, “Fictions of Paternity: La Recherche de la paternité in French Literature and Law, 1789-1804,” French Concentration, Summa Cum Laude 1995 (Hoopes Prize Nominee)
- Julie Suk, “Négritude: Historicizing the Poetics of Resistance,”French Concentration, Summa Cum Laude, Received Hoopes Prize, 1996
BA Honors Theses Supervised, University of Rochester
- Lisa Muskat, “Nineteenth-Century Prostitution and the Novel in France,” French Concentration, BA with Distinction, University of Rochester, 1989