Dissertations Defended

DISSERTATIONS RECENTLY DEFENDED

2004

Debbie Gilbert: “Articulating Identity in Literary Struggles Over Land: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.”

Steve Edwin: "Cultural Healing: Gender, Race, and Trauma in Literature of the Americas."

Chingling Wo: "Re-Orienting the British Enlightenment."

Raphael Dalleo. "From Anti-Colonial to Postcolonial: Authority and Masculinity in the Caribbean Literary Field."

2003

Andrew Slade. "The Force of the Sublime: Lyotard, Beckett, Duras."

David Anshen. "Reaching for the Real in a Period of Historical Absence. "

Cristina Mathews. "Home, Nation, and Novels of Domestic History."

Michael Janis. "Quixotic Exoticism: From Modernism to Multiculturalism."

2002

Youngjeen Choe. "Rethinking Time in the Cinematic Epistemology: Gilles Deleuze and the Cinema of Time."

Mary Diaz. "The Conflict Between the Novel and the Eastern Concept of the Private Self: The Literary Responses of Natsume Soseki and Mori O gai."

Stuart Kendall: "Implicating Others: Autobiography as Activism in Georges Bataille and William S. Burroughs."

Laury Silvers: "Tawlid in Early Sufism: The Life and Work of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti (d. ca. 320/932)"

Jong-In Kim: "Wonhyo and the Limits of Language"

2001

Tsung-yi Michelle Huang: "Amidst Slums and Skyscrapers: The Politics of Walking and the Ideology of Open Space in East Asian Global Cities"

Chi-she Li: "The Historical Imagination in the Age of Globalization"

Fusami Ogi: "Reading, Writing, and Female Subjectivity: Gender in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls (Shoujo)"

Maria Mercedes Andrade: "The Interior and Modernity: A Reading of Colombian Texts"

William Marderness: "How to Read a Myth, and the Case of Mythic Homeland Narratives"

Kathryn Kleypas: "Rewriting the Nation: Edna O'Brien, Patrick McCabe and the Second Wave of Modern Irish Fiction"

2000

Ritch Calvin: "A Feminism of Their Own: Escritoras mexicanas, Chicana Writers, and Autochthonous Feminisms"

Max Statkiewicz: "Teatrum Platonicum: New Perspectives on the Old Quarrel between Philosophy and the Theater"

1999

Yanmei Wei: "The Representation of Femininity and Mother-Daughter Relationships in Chinese Literature"

Mary Leming: "The Mine & The Mirror: Orpheus, Creativity, & the Denial of Death"

Cary Henderson: "Lidiia Chukovskaia and Christa Wolf: (Re)Writing History"

1998

Eleonora Maria Falco Scheuch: "Family Conversation in the Novel: Four Twentieth Century Women Writers"

Rosa Maria Juarbe i Botella: "Framing Conflict and Opposition in the Medieval Spanish Sendebar"

Jin Young Park: "Deconstructive Framing: Son Buddhism and Postmodern Thought"

John Lutz: "Ethics and History: Moral Progress in Marx, Dostoevsky, and Camus"

1997

Isabel Hathorn: "The Liminality of the Hellenistic Prose Romance: Identity, Strategy and Context"

Suzanne Kaebnick: "Transgendered Subjects, Rewritten Gender: Prose and Politics of Liberation"

Salah Moukhlis: "The Subject of the Maghreb: Authenticity, Modernity, and Fictional Identity"

Evdokia Nikolaidou: "Narrativity and the Continuity of Experience in 20th Century Literature and Painting"

Leslie Hurley: "The Question of Gender in Contemporary Plays and Performances by Women"

Yi-Chun Lin: "Translating Cultures and Re-Writing Boundaries: Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha"

1996

Damian Ward Hey: "Divining the Gap: Postmodern Textuality in Rimbaud, Beckett and the Internet"

John Joseph Krapp: "An Aesthetics of Morality: Pedagogic Voice in Mann, Camus, Conrad, and Dostoevsky"

Ana Moran: "Medieval Amatory Discourses: Transgressive Lovers"

Aili Mu: "Mao Zedong's Aesthetic Ideology and Its Function"

Walter Mucher: "Self-Temporalizing the Self: Ontological Fictions of Spacetime"

Alla Rostovskyaya: "Neo-Classicism in Soviet Theater"

Luca Somigli: "Towards a Theory of the Avant-Garde Manifesto"

Yona Shapira: "A Postmodernist Reading of the Biblical Book of Ester: From Cultural Disintegration to Carnavalesque Texts"

Tamara M. Teale: "The Liberty-Genocide Paradox: American Indians in European and American Travel Literature, 1795 to 1991"

Kenneth John Alexander Wishnia: "Border Incidents: Narrative, Cultural Production and Translation in Twentieth-Century Ecuadorian and American Literature"

1995

Pamela Lee Moore: "An Insoluble Mystery is Standing on Your Hearthrug: Investigations of Female Bodies in Sensation Fiction"

Lori Rogers: "Feminine Nation: Performance, Gender and Resistence in the Works of Neil Jordan and John McGahern"

1994

Andrew Alan Levy: "An Art of Writing: Assemblage and Participation"

Shailja Sharma: "Writers of the Diaspora in Britain and France"

Woncheol Yun: "On the Theory of Sudden Enlightenment and Sudden Practice in Korean Buddhism: Texts and Contexts of the Subitist/Gradualist Debates Regarding Sonmun chongno"

1993

Grace Russo Bullaro: "Gender Role and Sexual Identity in the Works of D. H. Lawrence, Lina Wertmuller, and Jean Genet"

Seung-Ryul Lee: "The Politics of Representation: Ideology, Speech Acts, Class"

Wenchi Lin: "The Performance of Identity in Sister Carrie, A Passage to India, The Lover, and A City of Sadness"

William Donald Melaney: "Deconstruction and Poetic Truth: A Theory of the Modernist Text"

Albert Charles Muller: "Hamho Kihwa: A Study of His Major Works"

George L. Noble: "Critical Interventions In and About Postmodernism"

Claudia Montilla Vargas: "History and Narrative: The Latin American Experiment"

1992

Mao Chen: "Hermeneutics and the Implied May Fourth Reader: A Study of Hu Shih, Lu Xun and Mao Dun"

1991

Shereen Broido: "The Virtual Realm in Music and Literature: An Analysis of the Imaginal Dimension of Susanne Lauger's Theory of Art in Feeling and Form"

Kyung Jay Lee: "Difference and Nothingness"

Ciro Alfonso Sandoval-Becerra: "Poetic and Dystopic Visions of Technological Society: The Essays of Eduardo Caballero Caldern, AldousHuxley, and Michel Serres"

Tatyana Ivanovna Shamkovich: "Saintly Hero: Mythological, Epic and Ecclesiastical Perspectives on the Image of the Saint in Medieval Hagiography"

1990

Elizabeth Ligon MacNabb: "The Fractured Family: The Second Sex and Its (Dis)Connected Daughters"

David Donald Seelow: "Radical Modernism and Sexuality: A Study of Freud, Reich and D. H. Lawrence"

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