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Parkhurst, Anna, and Stephen Groening. Post-Genre, Post-Utopia : Contemporary Youtube Production Cultures. 2026. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, Digital Humanities, Law and Political Thought, Media Studies, New Media, Political Science, Popular Culture, Visual Culture
Li, Yandong, and Yomi Braester. Energy Objects : A Media Inquiry of Environmental Futures. 2026. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	Film/Cinema, Urban Studies
Pai, Gaurav, et al. ¡Subestándar! : Sub-Standard Small Gauge Cinema between Mexico and U.S.A. (1923-1960). 2025. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	Early Cinema, Film/Cinema, Science and Technology, Visual Culture
Dueholm, Amalie Goul, et al. Legal Imaginaries : Citizenship, Violence, and the Law in Contemporary Hindi Cinema. 2024, https://hdl.handle.net/1773/51741. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Law and Political Thought, Queer Studies, South Asian
Gilbert, Erin, et al. Feral Narratives : The Multispecies Worlds of Max Aub and Andrei Platonov. 2024. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	Comparative Literature, Ecocriticism, Latin American, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Modernism, Rhetoric and Composition, Russian, Slavic, Urban Studies
Shen, Jingsi, and Marshall Brown. Catastrophizing Humanism in Romantic Literature : Mary Shelley, Goethe, and Kleist. 2022. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Reception Studies, Romanticism, Science and Technology
López Vergara, Sebastián, et al. Archives of Post-Occupation : Indigenous Peoples and the Biopolitics of Modern Chile. 2023. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Comparative Literature, Latino/a Studies, Postcolonial
Anderson, Douglas Jason, and Jennifer M. Bean. “One Must Go Forth to Evil Houses” : Kitsch, the Aesthetic Sense, and the Ethics of Negative Thinking. 2023, http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50145. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	Comparative Literature, Media Studies, Modernism, Postmodern
Rubinsky, Leah, and Gary J. Handwerk. Mothering at the Margins : Place, Memory and Migration in Circum-Caribbean Women’s Writing. 2023, http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50651. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	Caribbean, Comparative Literature, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latin American, Literature, Postcolonial
Peng, Xin, and Jennifer M. Bean. Yellow Face, White Screen : Racial Performance, Media Technology, and Film Aesthetics in American Cinema, 1901-1949. 2022. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Asian American, Early Cinema, Film/Cinema, Media Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Lee, Hee Eun, and Charles LaPorte. The Burden of a Song : Victorian Women’s Poetics, Silence and Dissonance. 2022. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Comparative Literature, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Poetry and Poetics
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
Delgado, Andrea, et al. Indelible Practices of Hope : Worldbuilding 1990s Los Angeles. 2019, http://hdl.handle.net/1773/44686. [University of Washington Libraries].	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, Culture, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Race and Ethnicity
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