PhDs Awarded in 2013
May 2013
Anthony Bart Chaney, Shall Not the Heart: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Long Sixties, 1956-1967
Chair: Daniel Wickberg
Yuehong Chen, The Fusion of Ecological Visions: Human Beings' Relationship to Nature in Twentieth-Century Eastern and Western Thought and Poetry
Chair: Ming Dong Gu
Ambronita Douzart, Troubled Journey: Choctaws, Slaves, and Freedmen
Chair: R. David Edmunds
S. Diane Durant, Between Here and Cool: Image-Text and Double Literacy in the American Road Story
Chair: Marilyn Waligore
Julienne A. Greer, Affective Connections: Performance Studies, Videogames, and Digital Characters
Chair: Monica Evans
Terje Saar-Hambazaza, Competing Loyalties: Negotiating Multiple Identities in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
Chair: Theresa M. Towner
Kyle N. Simmons, Emerson, The American Confucius: An Exploration of Confucian Motifs in the Early Writings (1830-1843) of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chair: J. Michael Farmer
August 2013
Sandra Glahn, The Ephesian Fragments: A Creative Dissertation
Chair: R. Clay Reynolds
December 2013
Philippe Baugh, Satchmo, Semiotics and the Signifyin(g) Monkey: Louis Armstrong and the Rise of African-American Modernism
Chair: Robert X. Rodriguez
Stacey Donald, "The Spell of Continuity was Consequently Broken": Third-Space Masculinity in Austen, Gore, Bronte and Eliot
Co-chairs: Patricia H. Michaelson + Michael Wilson
Brian Fennig, Mythic Image in Modern Pop Music and Technology
Chair: Robert X. Rodriguez
Christine Hand Jones, Bob Dylan and the End of the (Modern) World
Chair: Robert X. Rodriguez
Luke Lafitte, The Mechanical Man: The Fictive and Factual History of Mechanical-Man as Mythic Markers in the United States: 1844-1968
Chair: Thomas Riccio
Caroline Najour, Counter-narratives of Enlightenment Modernity: A Decolonial Reading of Westerners in Contemporary Arab Novels
Chair: Sean Cotter
Jack O’Connor, James Madison, Nature and the Early Republic
Chair: Daniel Wickberg
Deborah Ann Scally, Chihiro's Journey: Re-Imaging the Heroic Quest in the Anime of Miyazaki Hayao
Chair: Pamela S. Gossin
Barbara Vance, The Dialogue of Narrative and Media: How Expectations of Form and Function Shape Story Analysis
Co-chairs: David Parry + Kimberly Knight