Graduates and Dissertations
Student |
Dissertation Director |
Dissertation Title |
Date |
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2024 | |||
John Darowski |
Dawn Heinecken (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) |
“The Superhero Gothic: The Monstrous Hero to the Heroic Monster in the Twentieth Century” |
05/2024 |
Beau Kilpatrick |
S. Matthew Biberman (English) |
“The Affable Raphael: Milton's Surrogate Instructor in Paradise Lost” |
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Flora Schildknecht |
Ian Stansel (English) Ranen Omer-Sherman (Humanities) |
“The Impersonation Artist: A Novel, with Critical Afterword: Displacement and Dissent in Fiction and Art” |
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2023 | |||
Emily Denton |
Deborah Lutz (English) |
“The Red Deeps: A Retelling of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” |
05/2023 |
Cody Gault |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“The Well-Tempered Android: Philosophical Posthumanism in Science Fiction Cinema” |
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Eduard Ghita |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“Paragons of Art and Nature in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory” |
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Robert Jones |
Delin Lai (Art & Design) |
“The Conceptual Compression of Space and Time as Intimated in the Depiction of the Horse in China, Circa 1250 BCE–CE 400” |
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2022 | |||
James Gregory Clark |
Julie Peteet (Anthropology) |
“Reaching Syrians in Need: An Analysis of Humanitarian Aid in the 21st Century” |
12/2022 |
Christopher Rickels |
Guy Dove (Philosophy) |
“A New Direction for Public Understanding of Science: Toward a Participant-Centered Model of Science Engagement” |
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Derek Carpenter |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“Cultivating the Human Narrative: On Nietzsche, Science Fiction, and the Aesthetics of Life” |
08/2022 |
Kathryn Lafferty Danner |
Ranen Omer-Sherman (Humanities) |
“The A-Word: Destigmatizing Abortion in American Culture” |
|
Eve Carlisle Polley |
D. A. Masolo (Philosophy) |
“Unraveling DNA and Identity: A Humanistic Perspective on Epistemologies and Ethics of Genetic Ancestry Testing” |
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Robert Eric Shoemaker |
Alan Golding (English) |
“As Above, So Below: Magical Poetics and Queer Alchemy” and “A Planetary Spell” |
05/2022 |
Joshua Simpson |
John Gibson (Philosophy) Aaron Jaffe (English, Florida State University) |
“Kurt Vonnegut, Modernity, and the Self: A Guide to the Good Life” |
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2021 | |||
Elizabeth Glass |
Paul Griner (English) |
“Explosive Family Dinners: Bipolar Disorder, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy & Me” |
08/2021 |
Kelly Hill |
Deborah Lutz (English) |
A Home for Friendless Women and “But What Was She Wearing?” |
05/2021 |
2020 | |||
Darrell Johnson |
Simona Bertacco (Humanities) |
“White Moves First: Unearthing White Privilege in the Modern Board Game” |
05/2020 |
Bamba Ndiaye |
Dismas Masolo (Philosophy) Tyler Fleming (Pan-African Studies) |
“Contemporary Francophone West African Social Movements in the Rise of Neo Pan-Africanism: The Case Study of the Y’en a Marre Movement in Senegal” |
|
Denise Watkins |
Catherine Fosl (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) |
“The Long Journey Down Market Street: An Oral History–Based Biography of Mary B. Craik” |
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2019 | |||
Treva Hodges |
Lara Kelland (Humanities) Susan Jarosi (Art History, Hamilton College) |
“The Captivity Narratives of Cynthia Ann Parker: Settler Colonialism, Collective Memory, and Cultural Trauma” |
08/2019 |
Erin O’Reilly |
Gregory Hutcheson (Classical and Modern Languages) |
“Reading the Readers: Analyses of Shakespearean and Cervantine Characters as (Dys)functional Readers” |
05/2019 |
Carol Stewart |
Ann Hall (Humanities) Albert Harris (Theatre Arts) |
“Under Construction: Acting, Creativity, Collaboration, and SITI Company” |
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Jennifer White |
Nancy Theriot (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) |
“Vile Transgressor of the Womb: Prosecution and Persecution for Concealment in Puritan Massachusetts” |
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2018 | |||
David Buckner |
Thomas Maloney (Philosophy) George Shields (Philosophy) |
“The Emperor’s New Clothes: How the New Atheists Are Reminding the Humanities of Their Place and Purpose in Society” |
12/2018 |
Ghina Kheir |
Julie Peteet (Anthropology) |
“Arab-Islamic and Folk Health Models: New Perspectives on Syrian Refugee Resettlement in the US” |
|
William Simpson |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“Transcending the Panels: Varieties of Experience and Selfhood in Comics” |
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Kathryn Green |
Blake Beattie (History) |
“Breaking with Tradition(?): Female Representations of Heroism in Old English Literature” |
05/2018 |
Sarah Ivens Moffett |
Ranen Omer-Sherman (Humanities) |
The New Elizabethans: A Novel-in-Stories, with critical afterword, “Modifying Motherhood in a New Motherland: Artistic Approaches to Communicating Change in Female and National Identity during Elizabeth II’s Reign” |
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2017 | |||
Lydia Kowalski |
Ann Hall (Humanities) |
“The Art of Silence” |
12/2017 |
Kendra Sheehan |
Patrick Pranke (Humanities) |
“The Otaku Phenomenon: Pop Culture, Fandom and Religiosity in Contemporary Japan” |
|
Nathan Gower |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
Don’t Go Unless You Mean It: A Novel, with critical afterword, “Heteronormative Masculine Performance in Contemporary Fictions of the Rural American South” |
05/2017 |
Virginia Hosono |
Chris Fulton (Fine Arts) |
“Lacanian Gaze, Semiotics, and the Enigma of Bosch” |
|
Jessica Hume |
Nancy Potter (Philosophy) |
“Unthink Pink: Master Narratives and Counterstories of Breast Cancer” |
|
Tiffany Hutabarat Nelson |
Ann Hall (Humanities) |
“Fantastical Body Narratives: Cosplay, Performance, and Gender Diversity” |
|
Megan McDonough |
Ben Hufbauer (Fine Arts) |
“From Damsel in Distress to Active Agent: Female Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Fiction” |
|
Lynda Mercer |
Susan Ryan (English) Aaron Jaffe (English, Florida State University) |
“American Emergency: Catastrophe and Culture in the USA, from the Civil War to Hurricane Katrina” |
|
Lindsey Okoroafo |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Breaking the Cycle of Silence: The Significance of Anya Seton’s Historical Fiction” |
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David Orberson |
Patrick Pranke (Humanities) |
“Thomas Merton: Evil, Suffering, Zen, and the Purified Soul Theodicy” |
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Katie Wagner |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“Dead Places: American Horror, Placelessness, and Globalization” |
|
Nadeem Zaman |
Simona Bertacco (Humanities) |
I. In the Time of the Others: A Novel II. “Out of East Pakistan: Postcolonial Colony” “Bangladesh as a Case Study of Postcolonial State and Postcolonial Nation-State from East Pakistan to Independence through the Liberation War of 1971: A Critical Analysis” |
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2016 | |||
Britney Broyles |
Simona Bertacco (Humanities) |
“Crime and Culture: A Thematic Reading of Sherlock Holmes and His Adaptations” |
12/2016 |
Rebekah Dement |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Patchwork: A Southern Family Portrait” |
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Justy Engle |
Blake Beattie (History) |
“To Write a Life: Three Women in History” |
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Jessica Cresseveur |
Jong Woo Jeremy Kim (Fine Arts) |
“The Queer Child and Haut-Bourgeois Domesticity: Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt” |
05/2016 |
Jennifer Fraley |
Shelley Salamensky (Humanities) |
“9/11 Memorials: Contested Memory, Competing Narratives, and Healing” |
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2015 | |||
Lisa Shugoll |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“The Pedagogy of Medical Humanities: Using Literature and the Visual Arts to Help Future Caregivers Maintain Their Compassion and Resilience” |
12/2015 |
Feng Yi |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Dramatizing Trauma in Resistance to Postcolonial Hegemonic Culture: A Magic(al) Realist Reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love and Frida Kahlo’s Selected Paintings” |
08/2015 |
Alton Frabetti |
Diane Pecknold (Women’s and Gender Studies) |
“Youth Graffiti Vandalism: Liminal Perspectives in the Light of Masculinity, Social Contract Theory, and Transformative Process” |
|
Adam Noland |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“The Being of Art and the Art of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf” |
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Quintin Chipley |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“William Faulkner and Alcoholism: Distilling Facts and Fiction” |
05/2015 |
Brandon Harwood |
Annette Allen (Humanities) Patrick Pranke (Humanities) |
“Do-Something Zen: Creative, Holistic, and Socially Engaged Mysticism of Hakuin Ekaku” |
|
Monica Krupinski |
Mark Blum (History) |
“Building Castles in the Air: A Discussion of the Architectonic Language of Thought” |
|
2014 | |||
James Leary |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“A Magical Country: Stories from Appalachia” |
12/2014 |
Brian Barnes |
Osborne Wiggins (Philosophy) |
“Critical Thinking Structures for Business Ethics” |
08/2014 |
Leslie Harper |
Suzette Henke (English) |
“‘They Had No Key That Would Fit My Mouth’: Women’s Struggles with Cultural Constructions of Madness in Victorian and Modern England and America” |
05/2014 |
Lin Wenshuang |
Mark Blum (History) |
“The Rise of Bulgarian Nationalism and Russia’s Influence upon It” |
|
Steve Watkins |
Mary Ann Stenger (Humanities) |
“An Analysis of the Creation Museum: Hermeneutics, Language, and Information Theory” |
|
2013 | |||
Wang Heng |
Osborne Wiggins (Philosophy) |
“Cultural Interpretations of Socratic and Confucian Education Philosophy” |
12/2013 |
Ke Jing |
Mark Blum (History) |
“The Four Others in Ismail Kadare’s Works: A Study of Albanian National Identity” |
08/2013 |
Jeremy Killian |
John Gibson (Philosophy) |
“A Paradox of American Tragedy: Long Day’s Journey into Night and the Problem of Negative Emotion in Theatre” |
|
Anna Jo Paul |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“An Examination and Comparison of the Themes in the Antilynching Dramas of Black and White Women Authors of the Early Twentieth Century (1916–1936)” |
|
Sara Shafer |
Mark Blum (History) |
“Gesture and Silence in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century German and Jewish Literature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Focusing on the Works of Franz Kafka and His Writings on Abraham” |
|
John Dryden |
Robert Kimball (Philosophy) |
“The Feeling of Faith: A Thomistic Approach to Religious Emotions” |
05/2013 |
Erin McCoy |
Mary Makris (Classical and Modern Languages) |
“The Historical and Cultural Meanings of American Music Lyrics from the Vietnam War” |
|
Elijah Pritchett |
Aaron Jaffe (English) |
“The Autodidact: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque and the Limits of the Posthumanities” |
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2012 | |||
Jennifer Goldberg |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“The Art of Natality: Virginia Woolf’s and Kathe Kollwitz’s Aesthetics of Becoming” |
12/2012 |
Su Lezhou |
Li Zeng (Classical and Modern Languages) |
“Narrative of Modern Chinese Masculinity in Ha Jin’s Fiction” |
08/2012 |
Julie Wade |
Catherine Fosl (Women’s and Gender Studies) |
“Queering the Bildungsroman: The Missing Sister and Other Stories” |
|
Wang Zhenping |
Osborne Wiggins (Philosophy) |
“A Sartrean Reading of American Artists: Walker Percy, Edward Hopper, and Mike Nichols, 1940–1970” |
|
Huang Hong |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Fusheng liu ji: Gaps, Literati Identity, and Meaning of Artistic Creation” |
05/2012 |
Janna Tajibaeva |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Consumer Culture, Material Desires, and the Images of Women in American Novels and Art at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century” |
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2011 | |||
Yalonda Green |
Karen Chandler (English) |
“That Terrifying Center: Poetry, Language, and Embodied Subjectivities” |
12/2011 |
Kathryn Jacobi |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Embodied Consciousness in Nonfiction Illness Narratives: A Phenomenological and Sociological Approach” |
|
Shi Tongyun |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“Working Class in British Films, 1950s–2000s: Identity, Culture, and Ideology” |
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Anna Stamp |
Suzette Henke (English) |
“An(Other) Gender: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of War-Torn France and Great Britain in Which Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf Redefine ‘Woman’” |
08/2011 |
Todd Edmondson |
Annette Allen (Humanities) Mary Ann Stenger (Humanities) |
“Priest, Prophet, Pilgrim: Types and Distortions of Spiritual Vocation in the Fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy” |
05/2011 |
Song Nan |
Mark Blum (History) |
“An Analysis of the Shift in the Understanding of Liberty in 1930s America” |
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2010 | |||
He Jing |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Seeking a Spiritual Home for Women: A Comparative Study of Chen Ran’s and Amy Tan’s Fiction” |
12/2010 |
Jiang Chun |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“The Content and Critical Metaphor Analysis of Illustrated Print Advertisements in China” |
|
Ma Qin |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“The Social and Cultural Constructions of the Self-Identity of White American Corporate Businesswomen in Historiography, Literature, and Popular Culture (1963–1985)” |
|
Ma Yingxin |
Mark Blum (History) |
“Developing Chinese Students’ Critical Thinking in English Education, Based on Analysis of Critical-Thinking Theories and Their Application” |
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Sara Northerner |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“From Edmund Husserl’s Image Consciousness to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh and Chiasm: The Phenomenological Essence of Image” |
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Derek Penwell |
Nancy Potter (Philosophy) |
“The Manifestation of All Life: Intersections of Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of Emotion, and Philosophy of Literature” |
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Sun Xiujie |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“Intercultural Encounters between the Chinese Dynasties and European Missionaries: Study of Conflict and Understanding in the Visual Arts” |
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Heather Thiessen |
Mary Ann Stenger (Humanities) |
“Utopian Discourse in the Work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray, and Giorgio Agamben” |
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Amy Tudor |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“More Real than Real: An Anthropological and Phenomenological Exploration of Imagistic Sacred Space” |
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Jia Ning |
Osborne Wiggins (Philosophy) |
“Freedom in Middle French Enlightenment: Interpreted through a Picturesque Garden” |
08/2010 |
Caroline Ma |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Female Gothic, Chinese and American Styles: Zhang Ailing’s Chuanqi in Comparison with Stories by Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers” |
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Ma Lin |
Nancy Potter (Philosophy) |
“Postmodern Advertising and Its Reception: A Cross-Cultural Perspective” |
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2009 | |||
Sue Bentley |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Friedrich Schiller’s Play: A Theory of Human Nature in the Context of the Eighteenth-Century Study of Life” |
12/2009 |
Wu Lihong |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“Comparative Study of Female Archetypes between East and West from Six Folk Narratives” |
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Ding Yajuan |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“Cultural Identity of Hong Kong Reflected in Jackie Chan’s Performances and Movies” |
08/2009 |
Michael Hagan |
Mary Ann Stenger (Humanities) |
“The Creative Non-essential Self: An Argument for the Self as a Radical Creative Act through Explication, Comparison, and Synthesis of Self and World Ontology in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy, Kyoto Zen Buddhism, and G. H. Mead’s Social Theory” |
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2008 | |||
Becky Meadows |
Glynis Ridley (English) |
“The Consciousness of Damnation: A Hermeneutical Phenomenology of the Fall of the Self in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk |
12/2008 |
Kerri Horine |
Robert St. Clair (Communications) |
“The Tyranny of the Spectacle: Tattooed Bodies in Contemporary Visual Culture” |
08/2008 |
Tara Tuttle |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“‘Biting Temptation’: An Examination of the Eden Myth in the Southern Fiction of William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison” |
05/2008 |
2007 | |||
Michael Williams |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
Trajan’s Arch |
08/2007 |
Allan McGuffey |
Mark Blum (History) |
“The Concept of Peace: Tracing Its Development through Three Historical Periods in the West, Using Artistic and Literary Evidence” |
05/2007 |
2006 | |||
Dale Golden |
Annette Allen (Humanities) |
“The Burghers of Calais: A Chamber Ballet” |
12/2006 |