2009 - Present
COLT honors theses are stored in Rauner library - after 2023 please search the digital theses here.
2025
- Lukas Dunford, The Fangs of Philosophy: Religious Experience as a Persuasive
Device - Shena Han, Plague as Race-Maker in Chinese America
- Jenny Oh, Sacred Bodies and (A)historical Testimony: Han Kang's Human Acts
- Anne Rhee, "Beyond was Blossom and Death": Speculative Futurities
- Aimilia Tsopela, Violent Tenderness
2024
- Michelle Sun, Modern Bodies: Globalizing Media Cultures and the Representation of Ideal Beauty
- Tiffany Chang, Loving 바리데기: A Traveler's Guide to Anthologizing the 여성 시인
- Fabriozio Lopez Cochachi, From History to Memory: Comparative Discourse of Proust's Le Temps Retrouvé and Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Francaise
- Matthew Skrod, Representing the Occupation: Subversive Memory and History in Two Postwar French Films
2023
- Hannah Kadin, Apocalyptic Surpluses
- Pumho Karimi, Postcolonial Intertextual Hantology: Exploring Legacies of Enlightenment Thought on Postwar Understanding of the Human in Heart of Darkness and Hunter x Hunter
2022
- Ryan Ellis, State Power and Body Politics in Neoliberal Times: Diamela Eltit's Sumar and Basma Abdel Aziz's al-Ṭābūrs
2021
- Theodore Friedman, Witnessing and Remembrance: The Rhetoric of Loss in the Old Testament and Latin-American, Jewish Memoir Writers
- Julianne Mehra, An Arrangement: Music and Literature in Diderot, Rousseau, and Rameau
- Abigail Mihaly, The Displaced Poet: Forced Cosmopolitanism and the Reimagining of Nation in Transatlantic Exile Poetry
- Raam Tambe, Post Diluvial Man and the Origins of Humanitarianism
2020
- Joseph Estrada, Time regained in the great war
2019
- Hannah Gallen, The Question of Aesthetic Newness in Joyce and Apollinair
- Ji Hyun Shin, Tawada Yoko and Bae Suah
- Madeleine Walker, Reinventing the Wagnerian Aesthetic: the Leitmotif in Proust's À la recherche du temps perduand Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschten
2018
- Timothy Messen, Fragments of a Babble-onion Analysis Interminable "Dora Bruder" and "Notes from the Underground"
- Ava Tichnor, Through Hell and High Water: The Southern Louisiana Trickster Narrative as an Ontology of Resilience
2017
- Malcolm Salovaara, That Corpse You Planted: An Agrarian Perspective on the Mortality of Texts
- Elise S. Wien, Third Night: An Original Play with Dramaturgical Analysis
2016
- No presenters this year
2015
- Benjamin Randolph, Toward a Decolonial Critical Theory
- Gabriela Josebachvili, The Stories They Tell: Fictional Representations of the Spanish Civil War
- Paul C. Chang, Entering the Mind of a Genius: Yi Sang
- Tom Owen, Spatial Fictions: Contemporary Representations and Theorizations of Urban Space
2014
- Pedro Hurtado Ortiz, Fictional Character in Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie and Julio Cortázar's 62: Modelo para amor
- Olumayowa A. Willoughby, But the Color Stayed: 'Afro Türk' Presence within the Turkish Nation Construction
2013
- Chanon Praepipatmongkol, Insufficient Utopias: The Politics of Participatory Art from Post-1997 Thailand
- Krista Oehlke, Writing Art in Latin America: The Spectacular Society and Movie Stars in Cortázar and Puig
- Andrew Huh, Intellectual Masculinity and Masculine Intellectuals
- Alexis Monroe,"Abstract Painting is Abstract": A Semiotic Analysis of Abstraction in Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art
2012
- Hilary C. Krutt, The Tensions of Literary Space: Janet Flanner's New York, Colette's Provinces, and the Paris They Shared
- Maxwell A. Moran, Hunting the Spanish Civil War: An Exploration of the "Human" and the "Animal" in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Carlos Saura's La Caza
- Madeline L. Sims, Crafting a New Political and Social History: A Study of Christine de Pizan
- Renee L. Phillip, The Ideal of Hybridity: Rethinking the Theory within the Context of Albert Camus, José Luandino Vieira and their Selected Works
2011
- Rahul Malik, William Methwold and the Great Palaces of Europe
- Johanna Meyer, Schiller Als Arzt: The Theater As Clinic, Pharmacy and Madhouse
- Wallace Jones, Debilitating Dichotomies: The Fragmented Nationalist Endeavor of the Gaucho Literary Genre
- Cannon Biggs, Paradoxes of the Postwar Body in The Face of Another
- Matthew Rodriguez, On the Threshold of the Archive: The Madeleine and the Bartlett Pears
- Therese Korndorf, Überzähliges Dasein: Language and Being in the Poetry of Rilke and Mallarmé
2010
- Alexander J. Lambrow, Revolutionary Late-Weimar Objectivity and the "State of Exception"
- Emily K. Kane, Unveiled Stories: Desire, Representation and Resistance in Feminist Counter-Cinema
- Abigail R. Alexander, Adventures in Writing: Extraordinary Voyages with E.A. Poe and J.Verne
- Hermanjit S. Bajwa, Into the Cave with the Marquis de Sade: From Degradation to Translation
- Maya C. Nathan, Nisi Vinceris: Parody and Intertextuality in Titus Andronicus
2009
- Ying Cheng, Narratives of the Desiring Subject: An Analysis of Gender, Desire and Agency in Marguerite Duras' The Love and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
- Amaury Boscio Colon, Four Authors in Quest of Utopia: Cortazar, Duras, Carpentier, Perec
- Silvia Ferreira, Resistance from Within: Literary Negotiations of Female Identity in the Space of the Postcolonial Home
- Alexander Fidel, In No Unmediated Terms: History, Memory, and Representation in MAUS and W ou le Souvenir d'Enfance
- Andrew Gates, Being and Beauty: Mystical Experience and Poetic Self-Affirmation
- Kirby Liu, The Cities of St. Petersburg
- Annabel Seymour, The Passionate Spectator: Cinematic 'Flânerie' in Bennett Miller's The Cruise and Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronique d'un Été
- Marisa Taney, Utopia and Revolution