Dissertations

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Yuta Kaminishi. "The Transforming Mediascape in Postwar Japan: A Media History of Oshima Nagisa." Diss., 2021 Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Art History, East Asian, Film/Cinema, Japanese, Media Studies, Television, Visual Arts, Visual Culture
Slaven Svetinovic.  "Anywhere I Lay My Head: Politics and Poetics of Private Space in Early Soviet Literature and Film." Diss., 2021.  Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Film/Cinema, Literature, Russian, Slavic
Barbara Krystal. "Saltwater Language: Making Sense of Ourselves Through the Science and Art of Marine Invertebrates." Diss., 2021. Graduate, Dissertations Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Literature
Carolina M. Toscano. "Migrant Mothering in Spanish and US Fiction, 1990-2020." Diss., 2021 Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Caribbean, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American, Social Justice
Raja Althobaiti. "In Defense of the Imagination: The Historical Reciprocity of Shahrazad and Modern Storytelling in Arabic Literature." Diss., 2021.   Graduate, Dissertations Arabic
Kristen Seifert (Co-Chair), "Brecht Between Mediums." Diss., 2019. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Drama, Film/Cinema, Media Studies, Performance Studies, West European
Katherine Morrow. "Urban and Rural Encounters in Chinese Postsocialist Film and Media." Diss., 2019 Graduate, Dissertations Chinese, East Asian, Film/Cinema, Media Studies
Ungsan Kim. "Cruising the Cityscape: Queer Temporality in Contemporary East Asian Cinema." Diss., 2019. Graduate, Dissertations 21st Century, Aesthetics, Chinese, East Asian, Film/Cinema, Korean, Queer Studies
Yasaman Naraghi. "A Natural History of Genius: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Totalitarianism." Diss., 2018.  Graduate, Dissertations 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Intellectual History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science
Bradley Gerhardt. "Genealogical Modernism: Family Structures, Identity, History, and Narrative in the 20th-Century Long Novel." Diss., 2018.  Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, English, French, German, History, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction
Paul Morton. "The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect." Diss., 2018 Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Balkan Studies, Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian, East European, Film/Cinema, Violence and Trauma, Visual Culture
Matt Boyd, "From the Other Side by Other Means: Politics, Neoliberalism and Resistance in the Socialist Punk and New Wave of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union," Dissertation, 2017. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Critical Theory, Culture, Literature and Other Arts, Music, Slavic
Yizhong Gu."The Myth of Voluntary Death: The Representation of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Maoist Films (1949-1976)." Diss., 2017. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Culture, Drama, Film/Cinema, Literature and Other Arts, Visual Culture
Andrea Schmidt."Screening the Museum Aesthetic: Auteurs in Transnational Heritage Film." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, American, Comparative Literature, Film/Cinema, German, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Media Studies, West European
Laura Eshleman. "Pacific Crossings: Travel, Writing, and Literary Transition in the Sino-American Nineteenth Century." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Modernism
Milan Vidakovic. "Questions in Narratives from Oral Tradition to Literature." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 20th Century, Ancient, Classics, Comparative Literature, Folklore and Mythology, Slavic, West European
Norma G. Kaminsky. "Impure Memory, Imperfect Justice: A Comparison of Post-Repression Fiction Across the South Atlantic." Diss., 2016.  Graduate, Dissertations Comparative Literature
Xiqing Zheng. "Borderless Fandom  and Contemporary Popular Cultural Scene in Chinese Cyberspace." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations Chinese, Popular Culture
Rachel Graf.  "Comics Explosion: Representations of Persecution in Graphic Narratives, 1995-2015."  Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations 21st Century, African American, Comics, Jewish Studies
Adam Nocek. "Animate Biology: Data, Visualization, and Life's Moving Image." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations Critical Theory, Media Studies, Philosophy, Science and Technology
Jacinthe Ahmed Assaad. "Feminine Plural: Representations of Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities of Representations - Narratives of Women in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema."  Diss., 2015.  Graduate, Dissertations Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Annie Fee. "Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Film/Cinema, French, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History
Cuauhtemoc Mexica. "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations American, Global and Transnational Studies, Latin American, Novel/Prose Fiction
William Arighi. "This Humble Work:' Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, 20th Century, Caribbean, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Global and Transnational Studies, Philippine and Filipino American, Spanish, Tagalog
Jamal Gabobe. "Elmi Bodari and the Construction of the Modern Somali Subject in a Colonial and Sufi Context." Diss., 2014. Graduate, Dissertations Arabic, Poetry and Poetics