Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Programs

Milad Azarm’s dissertation focuses on postmodern theater, a concept he was introduced to in one of Dr. Matthew Cornish’s classes.

“I found that around 1970 and onward, a new form of theater emerged in the United States from the works of Robert Wilson and The Wooster Group,” Azarm said. “I found that those are completely different from dramatic, classical structures. Then, I tried to understand whether we still are in that period of the post-dramatic era or not.”

More About Azarm's Work

• Interdisciplinary Arts Ph.D. candidate Chen Wang’s paper “Damaged Nations and Women as National Allegory: Trans-Generational Wartime Memory in ‘Story of Women and Germany, Pale Mother’” explored trauma and delayed mourning in New German Cinema.
• Ph.D. candidate Jonah Mathison-Regan’s “Another Side of New Hollywood: Sidney Lumet and the Institutional Approach to 1970s American Cinema,” challenged prevailing notions about director Lumet’s place in the auteur canon.
• And Baldwin Wallace Lecturer and Ohio University Ph.D. candidate Paul Peters’ “Hollywood’s ‘Privileged Gaze’: How Mainstream Movies Construct the American Cultural Status Quo,” brought both quantitative and qualitative analysis to bear on new millennia mainstream Hollywood film.

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