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Recent PhD Dissertations
 

2011

  • Emine Selmin Kara
    “Reassembling Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality”
    Advisor:  Richard Grusin
     
  • Kimberly Lacey
    “Making Memory: Techne, Technology, and the Refashioning of Contemporary Memory”
    Advisor: Richard Marback
     
  • Jill Morris
    “Gender and Race, Online Communities and Composition Classrooms”
    Advisor:  Richard Marback

 2010

  • Victoria Abboud
    ‘Eve’s Apples’: Growing Ladies in the Brontëan Sublime, 1826-1853
    Advisor:  Anca Vlasopolos
     
  • Sarah Delahousse
    “Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination of Crime, Modernity and the New Woman in Early French and American Crime Films in the U.S. During the 1910s”
    Advisor:  Robert Burgoyne
     
  • Laura Ann Estill
    “The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts”
    Advisor:  Ken Jackson
     
  • Tara Hayes
    “Jonson and Women”
    Advisor: Arthur F. Marotti
     
  • Cara Kozma
    “Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical and Service Learning Pedagogies with Globalization Theory”
    Advisor: Gwen Gorzelsky
     
  • Kyoung Hee Lee
     “Staging Witchcraft: The Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Appropriation of The Witch-Lore and Witch-Hunt”
    Advisor:  Arthur Marotti
     
  • Erik Marshall
    “Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship in the Age of Digital Media”
    Advisor: Robert Burgoyne
     
  • Anne Nichols
    “Woman’s Sphere in the Law of God”: Biblical Women and Domesticity in the Writings of Felicia Hemans, Grace Aguilar, Harriet Beech Stowe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Advisor:  Michael Scrivener
     
  • Thomas Trimble
    "Rhetorical Outcomes: A Genre Analysis of Student Service-Learning Writing"
    Advisor:  Gwen Gorzelsky
     
  • Sandy Valensky
    Composition Under Review: A Genre Analysis of Book Reviews in Composition Journals, 1939-2007
    Advisor: Ellen Barton
     
  • Justin Vidovic
    Teaching with Spirit: Freire, Dialogue and Spiritual Discourse in the Composition Classroom”
    Advisor:  Gwen Gorzelsky
     
  • Nicole L. Wilson
    “From Baby Formula to Solid Food: How the Influence of Media has Nourished Children’s Literature”
    Advisor:  John Reed

2009

  • Ellesia Blaque
    “Imagined Identities: Adapting White Imaginings of Black Female Identity in African American Literature before the Renaissance”
    Advisor:  Renata Wasserman
     
  • Sarah Burcon 
    “Re-remembering the Past: Feminist Storytelling Appropriations in the Fiction of Eudora Welty, Gayl Jones, Julia Alvarez and Octavia Butler”
    Advisor: Ross Pudaloff
     
  • Kim Davis 
    “Personal Writing, Academic Writing, and Critical Pedagogy in the Community-Based Classroom”
    Advisor:  Gwen Gorzelsky
     
  • Jonathan Brown Gillham
    “The Laugh of the Oppressed Creature:  Early Twentieth Century American Magazine Humor as Affective Adaptation to Modernity”
    Advisor: Richard Grusin
     
  • Gregory Lattanzio
    “Fictive Systems: Interfaces in the Postmodernist Avant-Garde”
    Advisor:  Barrett Watten
     
  • Carrie E. Nartker
     “Gender, Sexuality, and Masquerade: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity in Restoration Breeches Dramas”
    Advisor:  Ken Jackson
     
  • April Pitts
    “Democracy and Dystopia in Post-Watergate American Fiction”
    Advisor:  Barrett Watten
     
  • Justin Prystash
     “Time’s Menagerie: Evolutions in Victorian Sex and Subjectivity”
    Advisor:  Robert Aguirre
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