Recent Dissertations
Explore the depth of research and breadth of interests through the lens of completed dissertations below.
2019
Decolonizing Translation Practice as Culture in Postcolonial African Literature and Film in Setswana Language.
—Keith Phetlhe, 2019
Contested Identities: Song and Prayer of the Zimbabwean Jews.
—Lior Shragg, 2019
The Radif as Musical Syntax: Instrument Revival in Persian Traditional Music.
—Behzad Namazi, 2019
2018
Historiography, The Global Contemporary, and Street Arts of the Egyptian Revolution (more)
—Katherine Hammond, 2018
2017
Unfolding Time to Configure a Collective Entity: Alternative Digital Movies as Malaysian National Cinema (more)
—Hsin-Ning Chang, 2017
Witnessing Violence, (Re)Living Trauma: Online Performance Interventions in the Digital Age (more)
—Jenna Altomonte, 2017
Onstage Transformation and Identity Politics in Contemporary Asian American Theater (more)
—Yining Liu, 2017
Sensing Security through Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Encounters (more)
—Jena Seiler, 2017
Performing Postcolonial Nationhood: Islamic Literature, Popular Music, and the Negotiation of a Tolerant Muslim Culture in Senegal (details)
—Samba Camara, 2017
2016
Anthropogenic Moods: American Functional Music and Environmental Imaginaries (more)
—Joshua Ottum, 2016
The Mahabarata in Dialogue: Literary (Re) Conceptualizations of the Concepts of the Author, History, and Race in Context of the Sanskrit Epic (more)
—Ranga Kalugamitiya, 2016
Walking the Gentrifying Streetscape: Artistic Practice in San Francisco’s Mission District (2006-2016)
—Astrid Kaemmerling, 2016
Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema (more)
—Gordon Briggs, 2016
Molten Steel: The Sound Traffic of the Steelpan (more)
—Kristofer W. Olsen, 2016
2015
Dancing in the Seminary: Reconstructing Dances for a 1749 Viceregal Peruvian Opera
—Peggy Murray, 2015
Sonic Overlook: Blackness Between Sound and Image
—Charles Linscott, 2015
Pieces of the Body, Shards of the Soul: the Martyrs of Erik Ehn
—Rachel Linn, 2015
Towards a History and Aesthetics of Reverse Motion
—Andrew Tohline, 2015
Progress Restoration and the Life of Rock after Alternative
—Josh Moon, 2015
Transcending Dystopian Spaces: Mobility and the Representation of African Postcolonial Crisis in Film and Literature
—Abobo Kumbalonah, 2015
2014
Mapping the Cultural Landscape: A Rephotographic Survey of W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project
—Matthew Conboy, 2014
Participatory Art and Urban Space in the Twenty-First Century
—Lily Wei, 2014
Another Way of Being: The performative practices of contemporary Colombian female artists.
—Monica Gontovnik, 2014
Performing Sonic Archives: Listening to Berea, Sun Ra, and the Little Cities of Black Diamonds
—Brian P. Harnetty, 2014
H.P. Lovecraft’s Literary “Supernatural Horror” in Visual Culture
—Nathaniel R. Wallace, 2014
Spheres of Ambivalence: The Art of Berni Searle and Body Politics of South African Coloured Identity
—Erin M. Schwartz, 2014
Historical Trauma and the Discourse of Indonesian-ness Contemporary Indonesian Horror Films
—Anton Sutandio, 2014
2013
Whose Fantasy Is This? Postfeminist American Popular Culture
—Shannon A. Harry, 2013
Sound and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Theater
—Daniel Dennis, 2013
2012
The Making and Unmaking of Freedom: Sound, Affect, and Beijing
—Adel Wang, 2012
The 'Art' of Class Building in Late Medieval Siena
—Laura Dobrynin, 2012
The Representation of Globalization in Contemporary Films about Africa
—Abdullah Mohammad, 2012
2011
The Artistic Patronage Of Albrecht V In Counter-Reformation Munich
—Adam Gustafson, 2011
2010
The Plow That Broke The Plains: An Analysis Of American Musical Identity Through Function, Context, And Association
—Jason Hartz, 2010
Body Of Tradition: Becoming A Woman Dalang In Bali
—Jennifer Goodlander, 2010
Steve Biko And Black Consciousness In Post-Apartheid South African Poetry
—Spree MacDonald, 2010
2009 AND BEYOND
The Historical Thought of Film: Terrence Malick and Philosophical Cinema
—Steve Rybin, 2009
The Responsibility of Forms: Social and Visual Rhetorics of Appalachian Identity
—Cari Massey, 2009
Labyrinthine Depictions and Tempting Colors: The Synesthetic Dance of Loie Fuller as Symbolist Choreography
—Caroline Kappel, 2007
Convent Spaces and Religious Women: A Look at a Seventeenth-Century Dichotomy
—Liz jones, 2007
The "Looouvre" From China: A Critical Study of C.T. Loo and the Framing of Chinese Art in the United States, 1915-1950
—Daisy Wang, 2007
Cuban Zarzuela and the (Neo)Colonial Imagination: a Subaltern Historiography of Music Theater in the Caribbean
—Henry MacCarthy, 2007
The Soul That Thinks: Essays on Philosophy, Narrative and Symbol in the Cinema and Thought of Andrei Tarvkovsky
—Dan Jones, 2007
Thsic Behind the Image: A Study of the Social and Cultural Identity of Jazz
—Koren Heather Pinson, 2007
Mirrors, Morality, and Musings: A Study of Elizabeth Layton's Visual Dialectic
—Alesa Mansfield, 2007
A Disposition of Transcendence: Christian Platonism and Personalism as Prolegomena for Approaching Art snd Life
—Pamela Rossi-Keen, 2007
The Dawn is Behind Your Picture: Musical Cubism and Surrealism in Francis Poulenc's Le Travail Du Pentre
—Laura Fry, 2007
Queerly Masculine: Disrupting the Myth of the Naturalness of the American Masculine Ideal Through the Performance of the Mormom Patriarch
—Liz Ruchti, 2006
Nine Paintings by Charles Sheeler: a Study in the Literary and Aesthetic Influences upon Sheeler’s Expression of the Local
—Heather Stark, 2006
Constructing the Category “Entartete Kunst”: the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 and Postmodern Historiography
—Mike McKeon, 2006
Ana Mendieta: Form and Content in Displacement
—Isabel Graziani, 2005
The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Dancer in the Painting of Jean Leon Gerome and the Films of Farid Al-atrash
—Rihab Bagnole, 2005
Symbolist Films
—Anna Ma, 2005
The Art of Diego Rivera Through the Lens of Existential Psychology
—Jonathan Maffay, 2005
The Signs of Comedy: A Semiotic Approach to Comedy in the Arts
—Matthew Turner, 2005
Blurred Boundaries and Return to Authenticity: Image Politics of Art in Cyberspace
—Aaron Chiu, 2005
Bonds
—Carolina Conte, 2005
'Oz' Wide Shut: Cinematic Mythos in Stanley Kubrick's Final Film
—James Caplinger, 2004
Affinity Between Chant and Image: a Study of a Late Fourteenth-century Florentine Antiphonary/gradual (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, Ms. W153)
—Dale Hoover, 2004
Whistler's Application of Musical Terminology to His Paintings: The Search for a Synaesthetic Response
—Jo Sager, 2004
Ogam and the Integumenta of Word and Image in the Book of Durrow
—Lacey Thompson, 2004
Chaos Theory and Robert Wilson: A Critical Analysis of Wilson's Visual Arts and Theatrical Performances
—Shahida Manzoor, 2003
Unveil the Veiled: An Interdisciplinary Study of Aesthetic Ideas in the Works of Piet Mondrian and Samual Beckett
—Chinhong Lim Chang, 2003
Intervention, Activation and Rupture: in Hans Haacke's Hommage A Marcel Broodthaers and Mac Wellman's Crowbar at the Victory
—Rosemarie Basile, 2002
Maurice Maeterlinck and Edvard Munch: A Comparative Study of Form and Idea
—Masoud Nourizadeh, 2001
Eugene O'Neill as Composer: the S.S. Glencairn Cycle
—Richard Sater, 2001
The Art Of Cora Sandel: A Norwegian Painter and Writer, Alison Aune-Hinkel The Confessional Form: A Structuring Device in Albert Camus' "La Chute" (1957) and Irving Pichel's "They Won't Believe Me" (1947)
—Larry Ranney, 2000
The Golden Proportion: Is It an Integral Compositional Element in George Bellows' "The Sawdust Trail" and the First Movement of Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony in Three Movements?"
—Pat McCoy, 1999
Joseph Beuys and Werner Herzog: Giving Voice to a Collective Silence
—Scott Boyd, 1999
Logos as Number and Proportion in Amiens Cathedral and in the Kyrie of the "Messe De Nostre Dame" by Guillaume De Machaut
—Dominique Bardet, 1999
The Eye of the I: The Eye as Organizing Principle in the Metafictions of Samuel Beckett and Federico Bellini
—Bill Cook, 1999
A Concept of Immediacy as Seen in Lin Fengmian's Painting and W. C. Williams' Poetry
—Youzhuang Geng, 1998
"The Divine Providence" A Ceiling Decoration at the Palazzo Barberini, and in "The First Anniversarie and The Second Anniversarie"
—Mohammad Ali Bhatt, 1998