Recent Dissertation Titles

2007

Peter Becker, "The Perpetrators'  Past: Consciousness and Conscience in the Historical Novel."

Talaya Adrienne Delaney, "Performing History: History and Politics in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Naomi Wallace, and Charles Mee."

Salamishah Margaret Tillet, "Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the American Cultural Imagination."

Diana Irene Williams, "'They call it marriage': The Interracial Louisiana Family and the Making of American Legitimacy."

Dagmawi Woubshet, "Figurations of Catastrophe: The Poetics and Politics of AIDS Loss."

2006

Mark Gillies Hanna, "The Pirate Nest: The Impact of Piracy on New Port, Rhode Island and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1670-1730."

Laura Isabel Serna, "'We're going Yankee': American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935."