Dissertations Recently Defended

2009

Amer Latif, "Qur'anic Narrative and Sufi Hermeneutics: Rumi's Interpretations of Pharaoh's Character"

2008

Ketty Thomas, "The Lazarus Crisis: Subjectivity, Language and Sacrifice in Cultural Narratives"

Xiaoning Lu, "Biopolitics and Cinema: Practices, Representations, and the Moulding of the Socialist Subject in China, 1949-1966"

2007

Emilia Bakola, "The Paranoiacs Who Knew Too Much: Postmodern Knowledge and Hollywood Cinema"

Hyo Kwang Kim: "In Search of a Past Future: Repoliticizing Asia American Identity and Culture"

Stephen M. Szolosi: "Labyrinthine Passages: The Reader through the Text"

Agieszka Skrodzka-Bates: "Peripheral Modernity: Regional Identity in the Literature and Cinema in Eastern Central Europe"

Maya Lang: "The Hyperchondriac: Bodies in Protest from Herman Melville to Toni Morrison"

2006

Jennifer A. Albanese: "Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Modern Politics of Avant-Garde and Workers Culture"

2005

Andrea Fabry: "I'm Your Dream" Hungarian Modernism and the Dual Monarchy."

Michael Pittman: "G.I. Gurdjieff: Textualizations of Medieval Oral Storytelling and Modern Teachings on the Soul."

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 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"