2024, Zhiwen Hu, "Cofutures of Creativity: Posthuman Creation in Science Fiction." Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu. 2024, Khuram Waseem, "A Metaphorological Approach to the Concepts, Principles, and Conditions of Hope." Major Professor: Dezso Benedek. 2024, Elliot Shaw, "The Apperceived Self: A Framework for Theories of Subjectivity." Major Professor: Peter O'Neill. 2023, Xiaoyan Liu, "A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn." Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu. 2023, Andrew Simmons, "Classics and the Times in Early America: Self Fashioning Ideals of Manhood, Virtue, and Model Citizenship in H.H. Brackenridge, J. Barlow, and F.S. Key." Major Professor: Dezsö Benedek. 2022, Meltem Safak, "The Redemptive Power of Literature: Armenian-Turkish Perspectives for a Postmemory-Informed Dialogue." Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu. 2022, Dong Yang, "Minimi Affectus: Counterstrategies for Affective Life in Philosophy and Global Cinema." Major Professors: Dorothy Figueira and Richard Neupert. 2021, Chuan-haur Liu, "Shakespeare’s Broken Banquets and Beyond: Hospitality, Reciprocity, Forgiveness, and Identity." Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu. 2020, Satish Kumar, "An Ethics Of Empathy and an Aesthetics of Alterity: The Other and Otherness in the Study of Literature." Major Professor: Dorothy Figueira. 2020, Kristina Sutherland, "Conduct and Carnival: Domestic Soft Power in Early Modern Comedies." Major Professor:Dorothy Figueira. 2020, Sabnam Ghosh, "Alterity, Madness and the Liminal in Asian American Diaspora Literarure." Major Professors: Mihai Spariosu and Carolyn Medine. 2019, Xuan Wang, "Allegory and Chinese Literature." Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu.
