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Research
 
Faculty |  Graduate Students  | Completed Dissertations
 
Completed Dissertations
 
Scholar Dissertation Title
Completed
Cavender, Ingrid Helen Reading constructions of whiteness in California literature
2005
Davis, Cynthia Caroline So close to goddess: Myth, history, and the power feminine in Ana Castillo's novel 'So Far From God'
2004
Kunz, Joy Elizabeth Bodies of work: New York School Abstract Expressionists' images of men and women, 1940--1960
2004
Stern, William Alan Being queer, seeing queer: A gay body of work (Thomas Eakins)
2004
Vazquez, David James Representing the self, re-presenting the nation: Nations, nationalism, and the Latino/a personal narrative
2004
Coronado Sybert, Marc In other words: The politics of multiethnic rhetoric
2003
Garner, Jeffrey David The fine arts and Hollywood visual culture: Art practices and artistic identity in the California southland of the nineteen-thirties (Delmer Daves, Paul Landacre, Gordon Newell, Barse Miller)
2003
Davis, Jeff S. Riding the formula Western subgenre over the divide between popular literature and 'high' literature: Genre influence in the Western American novel
2002
Ek, Auli Anneli Criminal identities in the war on crime: Race and masculinity in contemporary American prison narratives
2002
Wietzel, Eric James Stein and Steinese: Experimental literature and popular culture (Gertrude Stein)
2002
Carbone, Cristina Marie Building propaganda: Architecture at the American National Exhibition in Moscow of 1959 (Russia)
2001
Mujcinovic, Fatima Latina literature: Differential and politicized hybrid identities
2001
Alvarez, Alma Rosa Liberation theology in Chicano literature: Manifestations of feminist and Chicano identities (Ana Castillo, John Rechy, Gloria Anzaldua, Richard Rodriguez, Sandra Cisneros)
2000
Schedler, Christopher Modernist borders of our America: Intercultural readings in American literary modernism
1999
Chow, Karen Har-Yen Imagining Asian Americans: From mono-ethnic to transnational community identity in Asian American literature and film (Maxine Hong Kingston, Toshio Mori)
1998
Williams, Angela Noelle Parody and the enactment of community: Eighteenth-century satire and twentieth-century minority literature (Jonathan Swift, Jessica Hagedorn, Rosario Ferre, Puerto Rico, Maxine Hong Kingston)
1998