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recent dissertations
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
Bassiri, Nima
Dislocations of the Brain: Subjectivity and Cerebral Topology from Descartes to Nineteenth Century Neuroscience
Rogers, James Bradley
Integration and the American Musical: From Musical Theatre to Performance Studies
Hill, Angela
"This Modern Day Slavery": Sex Trafficking and Moral Panic in the United Kingdom
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Huber, Amy
The General Theatre of Death: Modern Fatality and Modernist Form
Paulsen, Kristina
Real Time over Real Space: Television, Telepresence and Contemporary Art
Pearl, Colleen
Sans Retour: Subjectivity, Ethics and the Question of Survival in the work of Semprun, Levinas and Derrida
Thiem, Annika
Fate, Guilt and Messianic Interruptions: Ethics of Theological Critique in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin
Winter, Yves
Beyond Blood and Coercion: A Study of Violence in Machiavelli and Marx
Kendall, Sara
Contested Jurisdictions: Legitimacy and Governance at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Jamgochian, Amy
Tentative Futures: Ethics and Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Morgan, Benjamin
The Matter of Beauty: Materialism and the Self in Victorian Aesthetic Theory
Barnes, Todd
Immanent Shakespearing: Politics, Performance, Pedagogy
Harker, James
The Limits of the Mind: Cognition and Narrative Form in the Modernist Novel
Davies, Jessica
Life Expectancies: Late Victorian Literature and the Biopolitics of Empire
Napolin, Julie Beth
The Acoustics of Narrative Involvement: Modernism, Subjectivity, Voice
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
Cha, Yoon Sook
The Ethical Bind in the Writings of Simone Weil
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Burgess, Sarah
Standing Before the Law: Recognition, Power, and the Limits of Identity
Perta, Litia
Archiving Self: Effacement, Erasure, Disappearance
Roberts, Mark
Masumura Yasuzo and the Cinema of Social Consciousness
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
Drabinski, Kathryn
Ancient Bodies, Contemporary Selves: Reading Gender in Late Antique Christian Asceticism
Feola, Michael
Reason, Aesthetics and Solidarity: Hegel and Adorno on the Reparation of Modernity
Muse, John
The Rhetorical Afterlife of Photographic Evidence: Roland Barthes, Avital Ronell, Roni Horn
Patterson, Elizabeth
Visionary Machines: A Genealogy of the Digital Image
Pedretti, Mark
Dead Time: Narrative Form and Historical Knowledge in the Era of the Cold War
Schneider, Erik
The Question of Ethics for the Metonymically Restless, as posed by Giles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gertrude Stein
Yost, Benjamin
Thou Shalt Not Kill?: Legal Normativity and the Problem with Capital Punishment
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Carrico, Norman Dale
Pancryptics: Technological Transformations of the Subjects of Privacy
Shcherbenok, Andrey
Trauma and Ideology in the Soviet Film of 1929-1945
Zilliax, Amy
Seeing it Again: Repetition and Exposition in the American Film Flashback
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
Feldman, Mark
Narrating, Displaying & Spectating the Animal: Frank Norris, Jack London and the Urban Zoo
Uroskie, Andrew
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Warhol, Expanded Cinema, and the Emergence of the Moving Image in American Art, 1963-1965
Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
Chong, Sylvia
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and the Asian Male Body in American Moving Images in the Vietnam Era, 1968-1985
Cooper, Julie
Self-Assertion and Self-Effacement in Modern Political Theory
Gurley, Jennifer
Emerson's Platonic Dialogue: Negotiating the American Individual
Murray, Stuart
A Style of Life: Spectral Subjectivity and the Limits of Sacred Life
Nathan, Aaron
The Concept of the Living
Salazar, James
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age American Literature
Stauffer, Jill
This Weakness is Needed: An Intervention in Social Contract Theory
Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
Hartman, Forrest
Heidegger's Tasks: The Many Ways to Being
Lewen, Jody
The Fantastic Subject: On the Role of Images of Matter and Space in Psychic Life, Literature and Psychoanalysis
Meltzer, Eve
Art After Words: Conceptualism, Structuralism, and the Dream of the Information World
Salamon, Gayle
Assuming a Body: Transgenderism and Rhetorics of Materiality
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
Fulmer, Jacqueline
Strategies of Indirection in African American and Irish Contemporary Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and Mary Lavin to fil's Ni' Dhuibhne
Guyer, Sara
Surviving Figures: Romantic Rhetoric and Post-Holocaust Writing
Iwamura, Jane
The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture: Race, Religion, and Representation in the Age of Virtual Orientalism
Kaplan, Brett
The Aesthetics of the Worst: Remembering and Forgetting in French, Yiddish, and Architectural Holocaust Representations
King, Homay
Effaced Figure: Authorship and the American Cinema
Lo, Meng Yu Marie
Fields of Recognition: Reading Asian Canadian Literature in Asian America
Oh, Sandra Si Yun
Martyrdom in Korean American Literature: Resistance and Paradox in East Goes West, Quiet Odyssey, Comfort Woman and Dictee
Pahl, Katrin
Tropes of Transport: The Work of Emotionality in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Raskolnikov, Masha
Subject to Debate: Gender, Self and Allegory in the Middle English Poetry of Disputation
Rigsby, Ellen
Vagaries of the Republic: Classical Republicanism and Millennialism in Three Nineteenth-Century Utopian Communities
Shanske, Darien
Thucydides and the Metaphysical Foundations of History
Zimmer, Catherine
Film on Film: Self-reflexivity and Moving Image Technology
Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
Chin, Vivian Fumiko
Authentic Reproductions: The Making and Re-making of More Asian Americans in Donald Duk, Bone, and Native Speaker
Fisher, Jacob S.
Foucault and his Authors
Miller, Jennifer
Heart Murmurs: Narrating Reliable Work, Enacting a Technical World
Rojas, David Alfonso-Jose
The Making of Zoot Suiters in Early 1940s Mexican Los Angeles
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