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    Selected Dissertations

  • Jee Hyun An, "'There Was a Whole Lot of Grayness Here': Modernity, Geography and 'Home' in Black Women's Literature, 1919-1959" (2003).
  • Colleen Boggs, "The American Translation: Language and National Literature, 1820-1860" (2000).
  • Kristina Bross, "'That Epithet of Praying': The Praying Indian Figure in Early New England Literature" (1997).
  • Elisabeth Ceppi, "Unnatural Bonds: Servitude, Rank, and the Family Covenant in Early American Culture, 1662-1790" (2000).
  • Marianne Conroy, "Playing Both Ends against the Middlebrow: Difference, National Identity, and Cultural Value in the Postwar American Film" (1993).
  • Leigh Anne Duck, "Race, Time, and Region: Segregation and the Literary Imagination, 1930-1938" (1999).
  • Brad Evans, "The Ethnographic Imagination in America: A Genealogy of Relativism, 1880-1920" (1997).
  • Jonathan Field, "The Grounds of Dissent: Heresies and Colonies in New England, 1636-1663" (2003).
  • Sean Francis, "'when all is become billboards': Modern American Poetry and 'PROMOTION,' 1855-1960" (1999).
  • Christopher Freeburg, "Dark Side of the Republic: Blackness, Imperial Knowledge and the Illusion of Self-Mastery in Herman Melville's America" (2006).
  • Beth Freeman, "The Wedding Complex: Sex Norms and Fantasy Forms in Modern American Culture" (1996).
  • Oliver Gaycken, "Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular" (2005).
  • Shaleane Gee, "Questions of Competence: Literary Testimony and Political Culture in Cold War America" (2002).
  • Paul Gilmore, "The Genuine Article: Race, Manhood, and Mass Culture in American Literature, 1826-1861" (1996).
  • David Grubbs, "Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording" (2005).
  • Sabine Haenni, "The Immigrant Scene: The Commercialization of Ethnicity and the Production of Publics, 1890-1915" (1997).
  • Andrew Hebard, "Everyday States: The Institutional Poetics and Literary Territories of American Sovereignty, 1870-1910" (2002).
  • Andy Hoberek, "White-Collar Culture: Work, Organization, and American Fiction, 1943-1959" (2000).
  • David Kadlec, "Restocking the Politics of Modernism: Anarchism Pragmatism, Popular Science" (1994).
  • Arthur Knight, "African-American Musical Performance and the Hollywood Musical" (1998).
  • Delia Caparoso Konzett, "Diasporic Modernism: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys" (1997).
  • Thomas Krise, "Representations of the British West Indies from the Restoration to the American Revolution: Prolegomena to the Field and a Critical Anthology of Early Jamaica" (1995).
  • Alison Landsberg, "Prosthetic Memory: The Logics and Politics of Memory in Modern American Culture" (1996).
  • Hana Layson, "Injured Innocence: Sexual Injury, Sentimentality, and Citizenship in the Early Republic" (2002).
  • Trish Loughran, "Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures of Print, 1776-1850" (2000).
  • Adam Lowenstein, "Shock Waves: Trauma, History, and Art in the Modern Horror Film" (1998).
  • Stacey Margolis, "The Age of Addiction: American Literature and the Limits of Desire, 1885-1915" (1997).
  • Rolland Murray, "Beyond Macho: Manhood, Liberation, and Discontent in the Era of Black Power" (2000).
  • Yolanda Padilla, "Identity and the Indigenous in Chicano Culture" (2003).
  • Yvette Piggush, "Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism 1790-1840" (2007).
  • Michelle Herman Raheja, "Screening Identity: Beads, Buckskins, and Redface in Autobiography and Film" (2001).
  • Matthias Regan, "Poetry for the People: The Poetics of Populism in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture” (2006).
  • Sarah Rivett, "Evidence of Grace: The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England" (2005).
  • Shari Roberts, "Seeing Stars: Feminine Spectacle, Female Spectators, and World War II Hollywood Musicals" (1993).
  • Pamela Robertson, "Guilty Pleasures: Camp and the Female Spectator" (1993).
  • Carolyn Russell, "May God Have Mercy on My Soul: Confessions of Sin and Guilt in America, 1790-1860" (1994).
  • Andrea Sanders, "Witnesses to the Cold War: A Literary and Cultural Analysis of Containments in 1950s Narratives by Hitchcock, Mailer, Kerouac, Ellison, Arnow, and Nabokov" (1996).
  • Hank Sartin, "Drawing on Hollywood: Warner Bros. Cartoons and Hollywood, 1930-1950" (1998).
  • Dana Seitler, "Degenerate America: Biomedicalization and the Technology of Abnormal Personhood in Modern American Culture" (2000).
  • Angela Sorby, "Learning by Heart: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Daily Life in America, 1855-1915" (1996).
  • Dave Stewart, "Reading American Sensationalism: Print, Pleasure, and the Disorder of Books, 1830-1870" (1997).
  • Jacqueline Stewart, "Migrating to the Movies: The Emergence of Black Urban Film Culture" (1999).
  • Fred Whiting, "Monstrous Desires: Psychopathy and Subjectivity in Cold War America" (2000).
  • Paul Young, "Virtual Fantasies, Public Realities: American Cinema and Rival Media, 1895-1995" (1998).



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