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.
鈥擪eith Phetlhe, 2019
Contested Identities: Song and Prayer of the Zimbabwean Jews.
鈥擫颈辞谤&苍产蝉辫;厂丑谤补驳驳, 2019
The Radif as Musical Syntax: Instrument Revival in Persian Traditional Music.
鈥Behzad Namazi, 2019
2018
Historiography, The Global Contemporary, and Street Arts of the Egyptian Revolution ()
鈥擪atherine Hammond, 2018
2017
Unfolding Time to Configure a Collective Entity: Alternative Digital Movies as Malaysian National Cinema ()
鈥擧sin-Ning Chang, 2017
Witnessing Violence, (Re)Living Trauma: Online Performance Interventions in the Digital Age ()
鈥擩enna Altomonte, 2017
Onstage Transformation and Identity Politics in Contemporary Asian American Theater ()
鈥擸ining Liu, 2017
Sensing Security through Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Encounters ()
鈥擩ena Seiler, 2017
Performing Postcolonial Nationhood: Islamic Literature, Popular Music, and the Negotiation of a Tolerant Muslim Culture in Senegal ()
鈥擲amba Camara, 2017
2016
Anthropogenic Moods: American Functional Music and Environmental Imaginaries ()
鈥擩oshua Ottum, 2016
The Mahabarata in Dialogue: Literary (Re) Conceptualizations of the Concepts of the Author, History, and Race in Context of the Sanskrit Epic ()
鈥擱anga Kalugamitiya, 2016
Walking the Gentrifying Streetscape: Artistic Practice in San Francisco鈥檚 Mission District (2006-2016)
鈥擜strid Kaemmerling, 2016
Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema ()
鈥擥ordon Briggs, 2016
Molten Steel: The Sound Traffic of the Steelpan ()
鈥擪ristofer W. Olsen, 2016
2015
Dancing in the Seminary: Reconstructing Dances for a 1749 Viceregal Peruvian Opera
鈥擯eggy Murray, 2015
Sonic Overlook: Blackness Between Sound and Image
鈥擟harles Linscott, 2015
Pieces of the Body, Shards of the Soul: the Martyrs of Erik Ehn
鈥擱achel Linn, 2015
Towards a History and Aesthetics of Reverse Motion
鈥擜ndrew Tohline, 2015
Progress Restoration and the Life of Rock after Alternative
鈥擩osh Moon, 2015
Transcending Dystopian Spaces: Mobility and the Representation of African Postcolonial Crisis in Film and Literature
鈥擜bobo Kumbalonah, 2015
2014
Mapping the Cultural Landscape: A Rephotographic Survey of W. Eugene Smith鈥檚 Pittsburgh Project
鈥擬atthew Conboy, 2014
Participatory Art and Urban Space in the Twenty-First Century
鈥擫ily Wei, 2014
Another Way of Being: The performative practices of contemporary Colombian female artists.
鈥擬onica Gontovnik, 2014
Performing Sonic Archives: Listening to Berea, Sun Ra, and the Little Cities of Black Diamonds
鈥擝rian P. Harnetty, 2014
H.P. Lovecraft鈥檚 Literary 鈥淪upernatural Horror鈥 in Visual Culture
鈥擭athaniel R. Wallace, 2014
Spheres of Ambivalence: The Art of Berni Searle and Body Politics of South African Coloured Identity
鈥擡rin M. Schwartz, 2014
Historical Trauma and the Discourse of Indonesian-ness Contemporary Indonesian Horror Films
鈥擜nton Sutandio, 2014
2013
Whose Fantasy Is This? Postfeminist American Popular Culture
鈥擲hannon A. Harry, 2013
Sound and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Theater
鈥擠aniel Dennis, 2013
2012
The Making and Unmaking of Freedom: Sound, Affect, and Beijing
鈥擜del Wang, 2012
The 'Art' of Class Building in Late Medieval Siena
鈥擫aura Dobrynin, 2012
The Representation of Globalization in Contemporary Films about Africa
鈥擜bdullah Mohammad, 2012
2011
The Artistic Patronage Of Albrecht V In Counter-Reformation Munich
鈥擜dam Gustafson, 2011
2010
The Plow That Broke The Plains: An Analysis Of American Musical Identity Through Function, Context, And Association
鈥擩ason Hartz, 2010
Body Of Tradition: Becoming A Woman Dalang In Bali
鈥擩ennifer Goodlander, 2010
Steve Biko And Black Consciousness In Post-Apartheid South African Poetry
鈥擲pree MacDonald, 2010
2009 AND BEYOND
The Historical Thought of Film: Terrence Malick and Philosophical Cinema
鈥擲teve Rybin, 2009
The Responsibility of Forms: Social and Visual Rhetorics of Appalachian Identity
鈥擟ari Massey, 2009
Labyrinthine Depictions and Tempting Colors: The Synesthetic Dance of Loie Fuller as Symbolist Choreography
鈥擟aroline Kappel, 2007
Convent Spaces and Religious Women: A Look at a Seventeenth-Century Dichotomy
鈥擫iz 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
鈥擠aisy Wang, 2007
Cuban Zarzuela and the (Neo)Colonial Imagination: a Subaltern Historiography of Music Theater in the Caribbean
鈥擧enry MacCarthy, 2007
The Soul That Thinks: Essays on Philosophy, Narrative and Symbol in the Cinema and Thought of Andrei Tarvkovsky
鈥擠an Jones, 2007
Thsic Behind the Image: A Study of the Social and Cultural Identity of Jazz
鈥擪oren Heather Pinson, 2007
Mirrors, Morality, and Musings: A Study of Elizabeth Layton's Visual Dialectic
鈥擜lesa Mansfield, 2007
A Disposition of Transcendence: Christian Platonism and Personalism as Prolegomena for Approaching Art snd Life
鈥擯amela Rossi-Keen, 2007
The Dawn is Behind Your Picture: Musical Cubism and Surrealism in Francis Poulenc's Le Travail Du Pentre
鈥擫aura Fry, 2007
Queerly Masculine: Disrupting the Myth of the Naturalness of the American Masculine Ideal Through the Performance of the Mormom Patriarch
鈥擫iz Ruchti, 2006
Nine Paintings by Charles Sheeler: a Study in the Literary and Aesthetic Influences upon Sheeler鈥檚 Expression of the Local
鈥擧eather Stark, 2006
Constructing the Category 鈥淓ntartete Kunst鈥: the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 and Postmodern Historiography
鈥擬ike McKeon, 2006
Ana Mendieta: Form and Content in Displacement
鈥擨sabel Graziani, 2005
The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Dancer in the Painting of Jean Leon Gerome and the Films of Farid Al-atrash
鈥擱ihab Bagnole, 2005
Symbolist Films
鈥擜nna Ma, 2005
The Art of Diego Rivera Through the Lens of Existential Psychology
鈥擩onathan Maffay, 2005
The Signs of Comedy: A Semiotic Approach to Comedy in the Arts
鈥擬atthew Turner, 2005
Blurred Boundaries and Return to Authenticity: Image Politics of Art in Cyberspace
鈥擜aron Chiu, 2005
Bonds
鈥擟arolina Conte, 2005
'Oz' Wide Shut: Cinematic Mythos in Stanley Kubrick's Final Film
鈥擩ames Caplinger, 2004
Affinity Between Chant and Image: a Study of a Late Fourteenth-century Florentine Antiphonary/gradual (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, Ms. W153)
鈥擠ale Hoover, 2004
Whistler's Application of Musical Terminology to His Paintings: The Search for a Synaesthetic Response
鈥擩o Sager, 2004
Ogam and the Integumenta of Word and Image in the Book of Durrow
鈥擫acey Thompson, 2004
Chaos Theory and Robert Wilson: A Critical Analysis of Wilson's Visual Arts and Theatrical Performances
鈥擲hahida Manzoor, 2003
Unveil the Veiled: An Interdisciplinary Study of Aesthetic Ideas in the Works of Piet Mondrian and Samual Beckett
鈥擟hinhong Lim Chang, 2003
Intervention, Activation and Rupture: in Hans Haacke's Hommage A Marcel Broodthaers and Mac Wellman's Crowbar at the Victory
鈥擱osemarie Basile, 2002
Maurice Maeterlinck and Edvard Munch: A Comparative Study of Form and Idea
鈥擬asoud Nourizadeh, 2001
Eugene O'Neill as Composer: the S.S. Glencairn Cycle
鈥擱ichard 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)
鈥擫arry 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?"
鈥擯at McCoy, 1999
Joseph Beuys and Werner Herzog: Giving Voice to a Collective Silence
鈥擲cott Boyd, 1999
Logos as Number and Proportion in Amiens Cathedral and in the Kyrie of the "Messe De Nostre Dame" by Guillaume De Machaut
鈥擠ominique Bardet, 1999
The Eye of the I: The Eye as Organizing Principle in the Metafictions of Samuel Beckett and Federico Bellini
鈥擝ill Cook, 1999
A Concept of Immediacy as Seen in Lin Fengmian's Painting and W. C. Williams' Poetry
鈥擸ouzhuang Geng, 1998
"The Divine Providence" A Ceiling Decoration at the Palazzo Barberini, and in "The First Anniversarie and The Second Anniversarie"
鈥擬ohammad Ali Bhatt, 1998