This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of World Languages and Cultures. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Starting World Languages in Elementary Schools, Seth A. Barnes-Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
PERSPECTIVAS DIALÓGICAS EN COLECCIÓN PRIVADA DE RAMÓN COTE, Diego Fernando Burgos-Gomez
LA MANZANA MORDIDA: SEXO Y RELIGIÓN EN EL CINE DE LUIS BUÑUEL, Micaela Downey
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian, Ellina Sattarova
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit through the Medium of Myth in Heinrich Böll's Short Stories Der Mann mit den Messern and Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit, Marcus James Cardarelli
La fotografía de un país en tres obras de Laura Restrepo, Nancy Pinzón
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
COMMENT PRENDRE UNE AUTRE FORME : UNE ÉTUDE SUR LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE ET LA VERSION CINÉMATOGRAHIQUE DU ROMAN BAISE-MOI DE VIRGINIE DESPENTES, Shandy April Lemperle
Duality and Reconciliation: Kleist, Hoffmann and German Romanticism, Melissa Ann Sheedy
Luis Buñuel por Luis Buñuel: La construcción de un personaje, Ciara Imelda Wadden
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish, Bret Gene Linford
Landscape and the Feminine Voice: Reclaiming Identity in the Works of Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Andre Schwarz Bart, Kathleen Marie Ruth
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz, Elisabeth Helen Rosemarie Belz
Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet, Arianne Nicole Margolin
Material and Social Relations in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Heinrich von Afterdingen, Robert Earl Mottram
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Prostitution chez Calixthe Beyala: race, corps, regard, Claire Angelique Mouflard
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Which Way for Catalan and Galician?, Jay Gordon Bostrom
Didactismo en las novelas de Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, Sonia Llacer-Arrastia
Landscaping the "Femme-Jardin" in Despstre's erotic trilogy, Anna Kristen Lokowich
Liberation du Maghreb a travers sa litterature, Jeremie S. Marrow
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Revolt in Le passe simple by Driss Chraibi and Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Joshua M. Blaylock
"Descendants" and "The Village on the Heath"| Translating the relationship between man and nature in Adalbert Stifter's prose, James McLellan
Polysemie de la revolte dans "Voyage au bout de la Nuit" de Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Mbaye Seck
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Revolutionary language| Films of Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Andrew Snustad
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Assessing computer programs for the secondary foreign language classroom : toward a common measure, Charles P. Byrne
De la fonction de la femme exotique dans quelques romans francais du dix-neuvieme siecle, Emilie Laurence Methy
Franco-Maghrebian youth in the works of Leila Sebbar| Between generations and cultures, Bethany S. O'Connell
Donde el amor inventa su infinito | una indagacion acerca de la creacion poetica en La voz a ti debida de Pedro Salinas, M. Christine Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Anglicismos en el habla espanola de los obreros migrantes mexicanos en el Valle del Flathead Montana, Daniel C. Lochridge
Personnage feminin dans les romans d'Echenoz, Pennac et Darrieussecq, Hassiba Maidi-Boualamallah
Du feminisme de Calixthe Beyala, Awa Coumba Sarr
"So spielen wir auf dem Friedhof" | Ilse Aichinger's "Die grossere Hoffnung" and "The Holocaust through the eyes of a child", Emily P. Sepp
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Corpus-based Spanish activities for the first year classroom, Linda C. Bailey
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Semiotique de l'epopee dans le discours narratif de Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Gilles A. Chosson
Subversion of gender roles in the existentialist science-fiction narrative of Rosa Montero's Temblor, Kim M. Hanley
Antonin Artaud| The essence of revolt, Kathleen C. Irwin
Problematique de l'identite culturelle dans Segou de Maryse Conde, Sadibou Sow
Subversion of the traditional narratives and themes in Cronica de desamor by Rosa Montero, Lillian E. Striker
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Chilean testimonial literature| The collective suffering of a people, Ramona K. Flightner
Destino de la mujer y el autodescubrimiento en la Espana de la transicion en Malena es un nombre de tango de Almudena Grandes, Christy K. Peeples
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Rise of the feminine voice and a renewed consciousness in Spanish contemporary literature "Cronica del Desamor" por Rosa Montero, Rhonda L. Moore
Power of memory and the presence of a collective history in Holocaust literature| Analysis of Jewish and German perspectives, Susan M. Morse
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Science and art in flux| The interaction between chaos theory and Alain Robbe-Grillet's early novels, Seth Buddy
(De)Presenting the self| Milan Kundera's deconstruction of the public persona through paradox, Paula S. DelBonis-Platt
Foreign language programs at the middle school level in the state of Montana, Debra Jukich-Cuccia
Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra, Christopher W. Minster
Contrastive phonological analysis of French and Mandinka, Fallou N'Gom
Intertextuality, dialogic, and carnival in "El General en su Laberinto", James H. Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Laughing towards a better world | an exploration of the transformative power of humor in Irmtraud Morgner's Beatriz, Ilka Becker
Quetzalcoatl without Jesus Christ, Steven P. Hartman
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Eine biographische annaherung an Christine Lavant, Susanne G. Bauer-Byrne
Unattainable happiness in the world of Alain-Fournier, Matthew W. Birkeland
Ecriture violente ou violence culturelle| Une lecture de Les soleils des inde dendances & Monne, outrages et defis de Ahmadou Kourouma, Koffi H. Lamewona
Buenas conciencias y las malas consecuencias, Sabrina I. Spannagel
Big picture under a big sky| Hispanic influences in the Northern Rockies, William J. VandenBos
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Cultural categorization and analysis of Anglicisms in contemporary French, Holly Jacqueline DasteÌ
Cultural history of Nahuatl people| The roots of racism and internationalized oppression, Bettina Escudero
Proficiency-oriented approach to reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's La siesta del martes, Maureen Agnes Flightner
African traits and conflict of identity in Cumboto, Alicia Gignoux
The ethnobotany of Capsicum in some new-world societies, Marcia J. Hass
Zola's Nana| Power in a prostitute's body, Sonja M. Olson
Revalorization of traditional practices in the novels of Aminata Sow Fall, Cathleen Waters
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Sign the body and ecriture in Roland Barthes, David Vincent Hagan
Cultural transition in colonial and postcolonial societies in three francophone West African novels by Ahmadou Kourouma, Francis Bebey and Mariama Ba, Kimberly Jill Parkash
Refranos como puente de dos culturas, Mei Hwa Shiu
Strength hidden in weakness| Feminist testimonial fiction in Mexico, Brenda Watts
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
An analysis of the teaching of object pronouns in elementary Spanish textbooks: A generative approach, Antonio Osa
Teaching syllabus : a contrastive analysis of three major first year French texts, Jeri L. Titus
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
French in action : theory and practice, Michael L. Dufner
History of French : an added dimension for language teaching, Marcia J. Hass
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
"Ce monde nouveau tant attendu, tant reve"| Ousmane Sembene's vision of post-colonial Francophone Africa, Patrick L. Day
Quebecois| languages and cultures in conflict, Gail Erica Simmons-Axvig
Harald Grill| Ein Oberpfalzer Dialektdichter unserer Zeit, Susanne E. Sturzl Forrest
Hungry dogs| A translation, Debra W. Weatherly
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Manuel de Almeida| The "Black Sheep" of Brazilian romanticism, Thomas Walter Christie
Anton Kuhs politische Feuilletons, 1914-1941| Der Wiener Kaffeehausliterat gewinnt ein politisches Bewusstsein, Shelley M. Nelson
Lost innocence in the poetry of Garci¸a Lorca, William G. Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Egalitarianism issue in eighteenth century France| Marivaux, Mary Margaret Randall
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Wedekind and Schnitzler| Social criticism and literary scandals in turn-of-the-century Munich and Vienna, Elizabeth Graff Ametsbichler
Evaluating oral proficiency and communicative competence in foreign languages, Paul Allen Beaufait
Evolution of Heberto Padilla's poetry, Berthica Rodriguez-McCleary
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Study of the feminine perspective in the works of Gabrielle Roy, Kathleen Johnstone
Pernette du Guillet| A woman poet in the male poetic tradition, Carol Ann Maxwell
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Verification of student learning in the foreign language classroom, Danny M. Blake
Germany 191-1921 "Im Hauch der Poesie"| The poetry in the family magazines "Die Gartenlaube", "Velhagen-und Klasings" and "Westermanns Monatshefte" at a time of crisis, Carolyn Brauer Leavengood
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Grub first, then ethics| The significance of food in six of Brecht's plays, Anne K. Dobney
Christine Nostlinger, children's advocate and social critic, Nancy Tillman Fetz
Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature, Teresa S. Longo
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Stress assignment in Spanish : a study of some linguistic views and their application to pedagogy, Suzanne Aubin-Harvey
There is a life before death: The Wolf Biermann story, John Shreve
Successful second language learner, Susan A. Talbot
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Montana Staats-Zeitung 1914-1917: A German newspaper in America during World War I, Marian Holter Brod
Obra poetica de Juana Melendez de Espinoza, Leda Fromer
Study of the theme of estrangement in the works of Anne Hebert, Theone J. Hewitt
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Livres d'enseignements| Five medieval books of manner for women, Daphne Anne Hedges
Function of the narrator in "Les bijoux indiscrets", Mariam Elizabeth McCall
Reality and the futility of escape in the early short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Benjamin Wieser