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
Slaven Svetinovic.  "Anywhere I Lay My Head: Politics and Poetics of Private Space in Early Soviet Literature and Film." Diss., 2021.  Graduate, Dissertations
Barbara Krystal. "Saltwater Language: Making Sense of Ourselves Through the Science and Art of Marine Invertebrates." Diss., 2021. Graduate, Dissertations
Carolina M. Toscano. "Migrant Mothering in Spanish and US Fiction, 1990-2020." Diss., 2021 Graduate, Dissertations
Raja Althobaiti. "In Defense of the Imagination: The Historical Reciprocity of Shahrazad and Modern Storytelling in Arabic Literature." Diss., 2021.   Graduate, Dissertations
Kristen Seifert (Co-Chair), "Brecht Between Mediums." Diss., 2019. Graduate, Dissertations
Katherine Morrow. "Urban and Rural Encounters in Chinese Postsocialist Film and Media." Diss., 2019 Graduate, Dissertations
Ungsan Kim. "Cruising the Cityscape: Queer Temporality in Contemporary East Asian Cinema." Diss., 2019. Graduate, Dissertations
Yasaman Naraghi. "A Natural History of Genius: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Totalitarianism." Diss., 2018.  Graduate, Dissertations
Bradley Gerhardt. "Genealogical Modernism: Family Structures, Identity, History, and Narrative in the 20th-Century Long Novel." Diss., 2018.  Graduate, Dissertations
Paul Morton. "The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect." Diss., 2018 Graduate, Dissertations
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
Yizhong Gu."The Myth of Voluntary Death: The Representation of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Maoist Films (1949-1976)." Diss., 2017. Graduate, Dissertations
Andrea Schmidt."Screening the Museum Aesthetic: Auteurs in Transnational Heritage Film." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations
Laura Eshleman. "Pacific Crossings: Travel, Writing, and Literary Transition in the Sino-American Nineteenth Century." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations
Milan Vidakovic. "Questions in Narratives from Oral Tradition to Literature." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations
Norma G. Kaminsky. "Impure Memory, Imperfect Justice: A Comparison of Post-Repression Fiction Across the South Atlantic." Diss., 2016.  Graduate, Dissertations
Xiqing Zheng. "Borderless Fandom  and Contemporary Popular Cultural Scene in Chinese Cyberspace." Diss., 2016. Graduate, Dissertations
Rachel Graf.  "Comics Explosion: Representations of Persecution in Graphic Narratives, 1995-2015."  Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations
Adam Nocek. "Animate Biology: Data, Visualization, and Life's Moving Image." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations
Jacinthe Ahmed Assaad. "Feminine Plural: Representations of Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities of Representations - Narratives of Women in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema."  Diss., 2015.  Graduate, Dissertations
Annie Fee. "Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations
Cuauhtemoc Mexica. "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations
William Arighi. "This Humble Work:' Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires." Diss., 2015. Graduate, Dissertations
Jamal Gabobe. "Elmi Bodari and the Construction of the Modern Somali Subject in a Colonial and Sufi Context." Diss., 2014. Graduate, Dissertations