Completed Dissertations.
2009
Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva. "Meyerhold and Stanislavsky at Povarskaia Street: Art, Money, Politics and the Birth of Laboratory Theatre"
Matthew Daube, “Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor: Race and the Body in Stand-up Comedy”
Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, “(In)Between Nation and Diaspora: Rendering Indigeneity and Africa in Contemporary Xican@ and Mexican@ Cultural Production”
Rachel Joseph, “Screened Stages: Representations of Theatre within Film”
2008
Michael Hunter. "Bodies at Work in Bodies of Work: Ronald Firbank and the Corpus of Modernist Authorship"
Elizabeth Nordt. “Performance, Politics, and Play in Guatemala’s La Huelga de Dolores”
2007
Kyle Gillette. "Stages of Locomotion: the Space and Time of Railway Travel in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Theater"
Shawn Kairschner. "Staging Visibilities: Stanislavsky's System, Photography, and Epistemologies of the Body, 1870-1938"
Anthony Barrett Kendall. "Changing American Minds: Performances of Evangelism in the Early Republic"
James Charles Lyons. "Image of Tragedy"
Kris Salata. "Directing the Unwritten: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski"
2006
Alma Martinez. “¿Un Continente, Una Cultura? The Political Dialectic for a United Chicana/O and Pan-American Popular/Political Theatre Front, Mexico City, 1974”
Zack. “Non-Representational Performance and Spectating Consciousness: The Play of Dis-plays”
2005
Faedra Chatard Carpenter. “Embodying Anxieties: Race, Culture, and Identity in Contemporary American Performance”
Irma Mayorga. “Constructing Stages of Hope: Performance and Theatricality in the Aesthetic Logics of Chicana Expressive Culture”
Mimi McGurl. “S/he’s Her Own Man: Women in Cross-Gender Theatrical Performance”
2004
Brandi Wilkins Catanese. “Casting Away Tradition: The Performance of Race in Contemporary American Culture”
Jisha Menon. “Performance of Nationalism: Evoking and Erasing Partition”
2003
Telory Williamson Davies. "Performing Disability: Representations of Disability and Illness in Contemporary American Performance"
2002
Venus Opal Reese. “Initiating Acts: The Role of Ruptures in the Formation of North American Cultural Identities”
2001
Margaret Booker. “Defining A New American Identity—Transformation From Within: Lillian Hellman and August Wilson”
Jac Royce. “The Theater of Image, Sense, and Memory: The Chamberlain’s and the King’s Men, 1594–1619”
Shannon Steen. "Racing Modernity: Orientalism, Primitivism, and Whiteness in Modernist Performance"
Evan Darwin Winet. "Facing Indonesia: Character, Actor and Nation in Jakarta's Modern Theatre"
2000
Aleksandra Wolska. "Shakespeare's Enchanted Objects: A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship Between Language and Materiality in the Plays of Shakespeare"
1999
Phaedra Daley Bell. “Dialogic Media: Theatrical and Filmic Images in Conversation”
Thomas Anthony Freeland. “The National Entertainment: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and the Pageant of American Empire”
1997
Kirstie Gulick Rosenfield. "Theatricks, Theatrix, Theatrics: Witchcraft, Female Sexuality, and Antitheatricality in Shakespeare's Plays"
Christopher Lloyd Salter. "Unstable Events: Theater at the Verge of Complexity"
Volker Schachenmayr. “The Aesthetics of Archaeology in Neoclassical Performance Culture”
Judith Michelle Williams. "Nineteenth-Century Stage Images of Black Women"
1996
Judith Anne Dolan. “Performing Theory on Designing Men: The Subversive Role of the Woman Director-Designer”
Sonja Kuftinec. “(De)Constructing the American Cabin: Cornerstone Theater and Transactions of Community”
Lance Barry Miller. “Gone West: Landscapes of the Imaginary in Modern American Drama”
Richard Walter Schoch. "'The Homestead of History': Medievalism on the Mid-Victorian Stage"
Jarrett Thomas Walker. "The Phenomena of Tragedy"
1995
Matthew Causey. “Postorganic Performance (...Only The Accidents Remain...) The Metempsychosis Of Performance Ontology Through The Techno-Cultural Systems Of Cyberspace”
Thomas Lindblade. “Tactical Measures: The Interaction of Drama with Music”
1994
Geoffrey Eroe. “The Stage Designs of Traugott Muller in Relation to the Political Theatre of Erwin Piscator and the Weimar Republic”
1993
Alexander Brietzke. “Nothing Is But What Is Not”
Denise (Boling) King. “Operatic Appropriations: Transformations of Stage Direction of Opera in the Twentieth Century”
James Loehlin. “Revisionist Shakespeare: Henry V in Twentieth-Century Production”
Claudia Orenstein. “Festive Revolutions”
David Saltz. “The Reality of the Theater Event”
1992
Claudia Orenstein. "Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theater Forms"
1991
Robert Humphrey Gyde. “Speaking Apart”
Edward Isser. “The Probable, the Possible, and the Ineffable”
1990
Robert Baker-White. “Popular Theatre and Literary Text in Contemporary Drama”
Denise Chuk. “The Semiotic Interaction of Image and Word in Theatre”
1989
Oliver Gerland. “Ibsen’s Narrative of Conversion”
1988
Johanna [Dickey] [Kleeberg] Rian, “Strategies of Menace in the Plays of John Whiting, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard”Geoffrey Proehl. “Coming Home Again”
Stephen Weeks. “Alternative Histories”
Joylynn Wing. “Techniques of Opposition in the Work of Dario Fo”
1987
Fritz Brun. “The Man in the Kremlin: The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Historical Drama”
Michael L. Quinn. “Signs on Stage: The Prague School Semiotics of Theatre” (deceased)
1986
Jim Carmody. “Molière and Theatricality: Realist and Post-Realist Mise en Scène of L’Ecole des femmes and Le Tartuffe”
Ronald A. Davies. “Christian Dietrich Grabbe and the Third Reich”
David McCandless. “The Winter’s Tale: Summary and Summit of Shakespeare’s Canon”
1985
Rush Rehm. “The Agon and the Audience: A Study of Euripides’ Medea, Heracles and Ion”
Timothy B. Sanford. “The Search for Lost Time in Contemporary Drama: From Proust to Pinter”
Steve Vineberg. “Method in Performance: Fifty Years of American Method Acting”
1984
Susan E. Bales. “Elektra: From Hofmannsthal to Strauss” (deceased)
Lorne M. Buchman. “From the Globe to the Screen: An Interpretive Study of Shakespeare”
Mary Karen Dahl. “The Ethics of Violence as Political Strategy in Contemporary Drama”
John S. Rouse. “Bertolt Brecht’s Interpretational Model and Its Influence on West German Theater Directing”
1983
Robert L. Lane. “The Devil in Crystal: A Study of Moral Ambiguity in the Tragedies of John Webster”
Cornelia Ellen Mease. “Genet and the Phenomenology of Criticism”
Miriam Yahil-Wax. “Patterns of Ritual and Symbols in the Plays of Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, and Edward Bond”
1981
Michael Hackett. “Cymbeline and the Late Plays: Shakespeare’s Use of Dramatic Structure”
1980
Gilbert Leslie Muchmore. “A Study of Jean Genet: The Actor in Society”
William L. Sealy. “Social Teaching Without Dogma: Moral Vision in Four Plays of Euripides”
Elliott F. Sroka. “The Other Side of Experience: The Radical Theater of Euripides”
1979
Douglas R. Arthur. “Frank Wedekind’s Social Theatre”
London G. Green. “Cibber’s Richard III: A Study of Its Leading English Performers”
Robert H. Kieft. “The Correspondent Self: A Reading of August Strindberg”
Barbara Offutt Mathieson. “Patterns of Misogyny in Jacobean Tragedy”
Sandra L. Richards. “Amiri Baraka: The Dramatic Work”
Robert G. Ware. “Edward Albee’s Early Plays: A Dramaturgical Study”
1978
David J. McDonald. “The Presence of Absence: Studies in the Theory of Tragic Structure”
Janelle G. Reinelt. “New Solutions in Form and Technique: The Novels and Plays of David Storey”
Richard V. Riddell. “Wilfried Minks and The Bremer Stil: Study of A Contemporary German Stage Designer”
1977
Michael Bloom. “The Transformation of Realism in the American Avant-Garde Drama of the Nineteen-Sixties”
Andrew Mendelson. “Stereotypes of Women in the British Theatre 1888–1916: The Relation Between Popular Morality, Theatrical Convention, and Social Change” (deceased)
Elton C. Wolfe. “The Analysis of the Language in Five Plays by Ed Bullins”
1974
Roger W. Oliver. “Humor in the Theatre: The Dramatic Art of Luigi Pirandello”