PhD Theses

Completed PhD theses

• Laura GERDAY, “Where Does the "Postcolonial" Stand in Twenty-First-Century "Global" English Linguistics and Anglophone Literary Studies? An Analysis of the Concepts of Variety (of English) and World (Literature)”, 2024.
• François Dassise Kheyane TINE, “Allegorical Home, Trauma and Abjection in Toni Morrison’s Post-Nobel Literary Texts”, 2020.
• Emilie HERBERT, “Le Cinéma des Réalisatrices Black-British : Entre Invisibilité et Stratégies de Résistance”, 2019.
• Christophe DONY, “Vertigo's Rewriting Ethos: The Poetics and Politics of a Comics Imprint”, 2017.
• Marie HERBILLON, “Beyond the Line: Murray Bail’s Spatial Poetics”, 2016.
• Mathilde MERGEAI, “Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction”, 2013.
• Cindy GABRIELLE, “The Unharnessed World: Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought”, 2012.
• Delphine MUNOS, “After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri”, 2012.
• Jawhar DHOUIB, “The Experience of the Black Diaspora on Distant Shores: Shattered Subjects and Fragmentation in the Writing of Caryl Phillips”, 2011.
• Daria TUNCA, “Style Beyond Borders: Language in Recent Nigerian Fiction”, 2008.
• Valérie BADA, “Mnemopoetics: Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama 1939-1989”, 2003.
• Bénédicte LEDENT, “Exile and Caribbeanness in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction”, 1997.
• Pierre FRANÇOIS, “The Myth of the Fall in Contemporary Fiction in English. Near-Eastern Mythology, William Golding, Patrick White, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Wilson Harris (Companions of the Day and Night)”, 1995.
• Marc DELREZ, “The Frame of Memory: a Post-Cultural Approach to the Novels of Janet Frame”, 1993.

PhD theses in progress

See the “PhD student profiles” page.