Recent Dissertations and Awards
Recently Defended Dissertations:
Beatrice Skordili
Defense Date: December 5, 2006
Title: "Destroying Time: Topology and Taxonomy in The Alexandria Quartet"
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Committee: Linda Shires, Gregg Lambert, Robert Gates, and Charles Watson
Examination Chair: Beverly Allen, Languages, Literature and Linguistics
Jonathon Butts
Defense Date: October 31, 2006
Title: Community and Social Justice in New Deal-Era Urban Literature"
Advisor:
Harvey Teres
Committee: Susan Edmunds, Crystal Bartolovich, Steven Cohan, Silvio Torres-Saillant
Oral Examination
Chair: Ann Mosher, Anthropology
Cindy Linden
Defense Date: October 26, 2006
Title: "An Element of Blank": Reading Silences in Post-World War
II American Narratives of Pain
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Committee: Susan Edmunds, Monika Wadman, Lennard Davis (Univ
of Illinois at Chicago) Silvio Torres-Saillant
Oral Chair: Maureen Schwarz, Anthropology
Murphree, Hyon-Joo Yoo
Defense Date: September 15, 2006
Title: Toward and accented Critique of Culture:
Theorizing Postcolonial East Asia
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Committee: Steven Cohan, Roger Hallas, Priya
Jaikumar (USC), Naoki Sakai (Cornell)
Examination Chair: Susan Wadley, Anthropology
Giglio, Katheryn M.
Defense Date: May 25, 2006
Title: Unlettered Culture: The Idea of Illiteracy In Early
Modern Writing
Advisor: Dympna Callaghan
Committee: Crystal Bartolovich, Christopher Kyle (History),
Michael Goode, Claudia Klaver Examination Chair: Susan Wadley, Anthropology
Parish, Christina M.
Defense Date: May 8, 2006
Title: Gender Dissonance and the Bourgeois Woman in the
Victorian Novel
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Claudia Klaver, Steven Cohan, Michael Goode, Michael
Davis (LeMoyne) ORAL Examination Chair: Diane Lynden Murphy, HSHP
Brinda Charry
Defense Date: June 17, 2005
Title: “”Threshold People – Representing Change and Exchange in the
Contact Zone”
Advisor: Dympna Callaghan
Committee: Crystal Bartolovich, Peter Mortenson, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Christopher Kyle
Maik Nwosu
Defense Date: May 26, 2005
Title: “The Reinvention of Meaning: Cultural Imaginaries and the Life of the Sign”
Advisor: Michael Echeruo
Committee: Gregg Lambert, Susan Edmunds, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Janis Mayes
Shelly Vye
Defense Date: March 24, 2004
Title: “Tourist Geographies: Spectatorship, Space, and Empire in England , 1830-1910”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Steven Cohan, Claudia Klaver, Mike Goode, Any Lang, and Priya Jaikumar
Corinne Zoli
Defense Date: October 29, 2003
Title: “The Modern Invention of ‘Culture': Empire, Globalism, and the Persistance of History, 1776-1876”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Claudia Klaver, Crystal Bartolovich, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Christian Thorne
Karen Hall
Defense Date: September 11, 2003
Title: “War Games and Imperial Posture's: Spectacles of Combat in U.S. Popular Culture, 1942-2001”
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Committee: Priya Jaikumar, Crystal Bartolovich, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Roger Hallas
Amy Vondrak
Defense Date: April 7, 2003
Title: “Strange Things: Hemingway, Woolf, and the Fetish”
Advisor: Susan Edmunds
Committee: Gregg Lambert, Claudia Klaver, Charles Watson, and Carl Eby
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Recently Defended Dissertation Prospectuses:
Cristina Stasia
Date: October 13, 2006
Title: "Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Feminity and the Female Action Hero"
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Nandini Sengupta
Date: December 3, 2004
Title: “Representations of Interracial Mixing in the Literature and Culture of British India : 1835-1885”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Sarah Russo
Date: December 2, 2004
Title: “Body Languages: The Female Body and Medical Discourse in First Person Women's Narratives in England and
America , 1850-1900”
Co-Advisors: Linda Shires and Amy Lang
Maik Nwosu
Date: April 19, 2004
Title: “The Reinvention of Meaning: Cultural Imaginaries and the Life of the Sign”
Advisor: Michael Echeruo
Hyon Joo Murphree
Date: April 9, 2004
Title: “Toward and ‘Accented' Critique of Culture: Theorizing Postcolonial East Asia ”
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Jonathan Butts
Date: May 9, 2003
Title: “Community and Social Justice in the New Deal Era Urban Literature”
Advisor: Harvey Teres
Cindy Linden
Date: February 27, 2003
Title: “'An Element of Blank:' Reading Silences in Post-World War II American Representations and Discourses of
Pain”
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
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Awards won recently by Graduate Students:
Master's or Doctoral Prizes 2003-04: Ioanna Zlateva (M.A.)
2001-2002: Josh Stenger (PhD)
Research and Creative Project Grants 2005
Creative Writing: Ling Na, Daniel Torday, Laura Farmer, Ivy Kleinbart, Lisa Nold, Michael Little, Celina
Martinez, Courtney Queeney, J. Peter Mishler, Sarah Harwell, Leeyanne Moore, Imogene Wallenfels, Benjamin Krier,
Emily Pulfer-Terino, and Erica McIninch PhD: Amata Schneider-Ludorff, Nandini Sengupta, Maik Nwosu, Cindy Linden,
Brinda Charry
Research and Creative Project Grants 2004:
Creative Writing: Debbie Urbanski PhD: Amata Schneider-Ludorff
Research and Creative Project Grants 2003:
Creative Writing: Nina Shope
Research and Creative Project Grants 2004:
Creative Writing: Stephanie Carpenter
PhD: Jonathan Butts, Katheryn Giglio, Amata Schneider-Ludorff
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