Rhetoric Department





	PhD Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

	Amy Bender Huber The General Theatre of Death: Modern Fatality and Modernist Form Kristina Paulsen Real Time over Real Space: Television, Telepresence and Contemporary Art Colleen Pearl Sans Retour: Subjectivity, Ethics and the Question of Survival in the work of Semprun, Levinas and Derrida Annika Thiem Fate, Guilt and Messianic Interruptions: Ethics of Theological Critique in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin Yves Winter Seeing Emptiness: Berlin, Nevada, and the Space of New Media
	PhD Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
	Yoon Sook Cha The Ethical Bind in the Writings of Simone Weil
	PhD Fall 2007 – Spring 2008

	Sarah Kathryn Burgess Standing Before the Law: Recognition, Power, and the Limits of Identity Litia Perta Archiving Self: Effacement, Erasure, Disappearance Mark Downing Roberts Masumura Yasuzo and the Cinema of Social Consciousness
	PhD Fall 2006 – Spring 2007

	Kathryn Summer Drabinski Ancient Bodies, Contemporary Selves: Reading Gender in Late Antique Christian Asceticism Michael Samuel Feola Reason, Aesthetics and Solidarity: Hegel and Adorno on the Reparation of Modernity John Hancock Muse The Rhetorical Afterlife of Photographic Evidence: Roland Barthes, Avital Ronell, Roni Horn Elizabeth Marjorie Patterson Visionary Machines: A Genealogy of the Digital Image Mark Samuel Pedretti Dead Time: Narrative Form and Historical Knowledge in the Era of the Cold War Erik Martin Schneider The Question of Ethics for the Metonymically Restless, as posed by Giles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gertrude Stein Benjamin Schertz Yost Thou Shalt Not Kill?: Legal Normativity and the Problem with Capital Punishment
	PhDs Fall 2005 - Spring 2006

	Norman Dale Carrico Pancryptics: Technological Transformations of the Subjects of Privacy Andrey Shcherbenok Trauma and Ideology in the Soviet Film of 1929-1945 Amy Pearce Zilliax Seeing it Again: Repetition and Exposition in the American Film Flashback
	PhDs Fall 2004 - Spring 2005

	Mark Bennett Feldman Narrating, Displaying & Spectating the Animal: Frank Norris, Jack London and the Urban Zoo Andrew Uroskie Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Warhol, Expanded Cinema, and the Emergence of the Moving Image in American Art, 1963-1965
	PhDs Fall 2003 - Spring 2004

	Sylvia Shin Huey Chong The Oriental Obscene: Violence and the Asian Male Body in American Moving Images in the Vietnam Era, 1968-1985 Julie Elizabeth Cooper Self-Assertion and Self-Effacement in Modern Political Theory Jennifer Anne Gurley Emerson's Platonic Dialogue: Negotiating the American Individual Stuart John Murray A Style of Life: Spectral Subjectivity and the Limits of Sacred Life Aaron Matthew Nathan The Concept of the Living James Bradford Salazar The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age American Literature Jill Elizabeth Stauffer This Weakness is Needed: An Intervention in Social Contract Theory
	PhDs Fall 2002 - Spring 2003

	Forrest A. Hartman Heidegger's Tasks: The Many Ways to Being Jody Nan Lewen The Fantastic Subject: On the Role of Images of Matter and Space in Psychic Life, Literature and Psychoanalysis Eve Meltzer Art After Words: Conceptualism, Structuralism, and the Dream of the Information World Gayle Salamon Assuming a Body: Transgenderism and Rhetorics of Materiality
	PhDs Fall 2001- Spring 2002

	Jacqueline Fulmer Strategies of Indirection in African American and Irish Contemporary Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and Mary Lavin to fil's Ni' Dhuibhne Sara Emilie Guyer Surviving Figures: Romantic Rhetoric and Post-Holocaust Writing Jane Naomi Iwamura The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture: Race, Religion, and Representation in the Age of Virtual Orientalism Brett Kaplan The Aesthetics of the Worst: Remembering and Forgetting in French, Yiddish, and Architectural Holocaust Representations Homay King Effaced Figure: Authorship and the American Cinema Meng Yu Marie Lo Fields of Recognition: Reading Asian Canadian Literature in Asian America Sandra Si Yun Oh Martyrdom in Korean American Literature: Resistance and Paradox in East Goes West, Quiet Odyssey, Comfort Woman and Dictee Katrin Pahl Tropes of Transport: The Work of Emotionality in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Masha Raskolnikov Subject to Debate: Gender, Self and Allegory in the Middle English Poetry of Disputation Ellen Moore Rigsby Vagaries of the Republic: Classical Republicanism and Millennialism in Three Nineteenth-Century Utopian Communitie Gayle Salamon Assuming a Body: Transgenderism and Rhetorics of Materiality Darien Shanske Thucydides and the Metaphysical Foundations of History Catherine Zimmer Film on Film: Self-reflexivity and Moving Image Technology
	PhDs Fall 2000-Spring 2001

	Vivian Fumiko Chin Authentic Reproductions: The Making and Re-making of More Asian Americans in Donald Duk, Bone, and Native Speaker Jacob S. Fisher Foucault and his Authors Jennifer Lynn Miller Heart Murmurs: Narrating Reliable Work, Enacting a Technical World David Alfonso-Jose Rojas The Making of Zoot Suiters in Early 1940s Mexican Los Angeles