Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Masculinity, After the Apocalypse: Gendered Heroics in Modern Survivalist Cinema, Sean Michael Swenson
Caribbean Traditions in Modern Choreographies: Articulation and Construction of Black Diaspora Identity in L'Ag'Ya by Katherine Dunham, Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Spectatorial Shock and Carnal Consumption: (Re)envisaging Historical Trauma in New French Extremity, Christopher Butler
Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, and Trauma in Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Nora Szegvari
Refiguring Indexicality: Remediation, Film, & Memory in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media, Janine Marie Villot
The Sopranos Experience, Eli Benjamin Weidinger
The Black Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights Labor Organizing in the Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Industry, Jennifer Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media, Justin Alan Brecese
More than Words: Rhetorical Devices in American Political Cartoons, Lawrence Ray Bush
Postcolonial Religion and Motherhood in the Novels by Louise Erdrich and Alice Walker, Kateryna Chornokur
Butterbeer, Cauldron Cakes, and Fizzing Whizzbees: Food in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Leisa Anne Clark
The Early Works of Velázquez Through a Phenomenological Lens, Elyse June Cosma
Tales of Empire: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature, Brittany Renee Griffin
When Bad Things Happen to Good Mothers: Rethinking Motherhood Through the Single Mother Image in American Films from the 1930s to the 1970s, Tanna Alice Mancini
"You Understand Me Now": Sampling Nina Simone in Hip Hop, Amanda Renae Modell
Monstrous Dialogues: THE HOST and South Korean Inverted Exile, James Lloyd Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
_Alien_ Thoughts: Spectatorial Pleasure and Mind Reading in Ridley Scott's Horror Film, Cecilia Madeline Bolich
Sexually Explicit, Socially Empowered: Sexual Liberation and Feminist Discourse in 1960s Playboy and Cosmopolitan, Lina Salete Chaves
Shifting Blackness: How the Arts Revolutionize Black Identity in the Postmodern West, Reginald Eldridge Jr
Sorting Through the Junk Box: Dickens's Objects and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Audrey Raymi Grounds
Fantasy, Leisure, and Labor: A Story of Temple Terrace's Historic Architecture, Rachelle Hostetler
"Take Another Look At 'Em": Passing Performances of Gender in the Junior-Freshman Weddings of Florida State College for Women, 1909-1925, Sarah Lynne Jünke
The Return of the 1950s Nuclear Family in Films of the 1980s, Chris Steve Maltezos
The Holistic Complementary Structure of Western Bio-Medicine and Traditional Healing and Achieving Complete Health, Candace Gail Oubre
The Hippocratic Corpus and Soranus of Ephesus: Discovering Men's Minds Through Women's Bodies, Megan Michelle Slaughter
The Abjection of the Pythia, Alaina Dyann Tackitt
Painting Parisian Identity: Place and Subjectivity in Fin-de-siecle art, Chelsea Anne Watts
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Closet Space: Investigating Gay Identity through Advertising in Gay Media, Jonathan A. Hanna
The Sunshine State's Golden Fruit: Florida And The Orange, 1930-1960, Scott D. Hussey
“Some Marvelous Thing”: Leonardo, Caterina, and the Madonna of the Rocks, Michael Thomas Jahosky
Struggle In The Sunshine City: The Movement For Racial Equality In St. Petersburg Florida 1955-1968, Peyton L. Jones
Visionary of Control: The Efficiency, Expertise, and Exclusion of Alexander James Inglis, Heidi Tilney Kramer
Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art, Maria Cristina Serrano
Artemisia Gentileschi : The Heart of a Woman and the Soul of a Caesar, Deborah Anderson Silvers
From Night to Dawn: The Cultural Criticism of George A. Romero, Christopher Paul Wagenheim
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
"Which Way to the Honky-Tonk?" An Analysis of the Bakersfield and Nashville Sounds, Matthew Arnold
Natural Audiotopias: The Construction Of Sonic Space In Dub Reggae, John Baker
Myth Management: The Nature of the Hero in Callimachus’ Hecale and Catullus’ Poem 64, Oraleze D. Byars
New Port Richey: Myth and History of a City Built on Enchantment, Adam J. Carozza
Fantasies of Metal and Wires: Battling Corporate Hegemony and the Achievement of Posthuman Masculinity in Recent Superhero Cinema, Joseph J. Cook
Constructing a New Nationalism from Below: The Dalit Movement, Politics and Transnational Networking, Lisa A. Daily
Penn State: Symbol and Myth, Gary G. DeSantis
Communication, Consumption and Manipulation: The Body as Language in the Films of Jan Švankmajer, Amanda Marie Dowd
Altman…Now, More Than Ever: Social Conflict in the Films of Robert Altman, Walker Hicken
Southern Rock Music as a Cultural Form, Brandon P. Keith
Shadows Fall on Main Street: Film Noir Travels Out of the City, Anthony LaPorte
Cars, Collisions, and Violence in Southern Literature, Bryan Thomas McCabe
The Daily Show: Journalism’s Jester, Mark R. McCarthy
The Daily Show: Journalism’s Jester, Mark R. McCarthy
Architectural Chastity Belts: The Window Motif as Instrument of Discipline in Fifteenth-Century Italian Conduct Manuals and Art, Jennifer Megan Orendorf
Does Michelangelo's Poetic Veil Shroud a Secret Luther?, Edith Carolyn Phillips
Cultural Response to Totalitarianism in Select Movies Produced in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland between 1956 and 1989, Kazimierz Robak
The Mashup as Resistance? A Critique of Marxist Framing in the Digital Age, Adam Rugg
Workin’ from Cain to Cain’t: Challenges within Florida’s Gulf Coast Oyster Industry, Diane Marie Wakeman
Shaping the Dream: A Survey of Post-World War II St. Petersburg, 1946-1963, Jon L. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Artist Colonies in Europe, the United States, and Florida, Jennifer L. Aldrich
The Builders versus the Birds: Wetlands, People and Public Policy in the United States, Florida and Hillsborough County, Allyson R. Bennett
Mirrors, Wolves and Tornadoes-Oh My! An Intertextual Exploration of Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Pamela Painter DeCius
Public Perceptions of the Separation of Church and State, Donald Foster
Reconstructions: The Contemporary Southern Landscape by Its Photographers, Natalie Kersey Gillis
Beyond the Dutiful Daughter: An Examination of the Role and Representation of Daughters in the Renaissance, Lisa Emmeluth Hanes
The Channel for Gay America? A Cultural Criticism of The Logo Channel’s Commercial Success on American Cable Television, Michael Johnson Jr.
Identity, Desire and Spectatorship: An Examination of Germaine Dulac’s La Coquille et le Clergyman, Jennifer A. Melko
Florida Expressways and the Public Works Career of Congressman William C. Cramer, Justin C. Whitney
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Yogi-ing Purists, Trail Magic and Men in Skirts: An Analysis of Appalachian Trail Culture, Shellie L. Andrews
Ecological Art: Ruth Wallen and Cultural Activism, Susan Birchler
Mounted on a Pedestal: Bertha Honoré Palmer, Hope L. Black
Kitsch and Southwest Hybridity in the Art of Ted De Grazia, Karen Jeanne Dalton
A Maslovian Approach To The Motivations Of Shakespeare’s Transvestite Heroines In The Two Gentelmen Of Verona, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice, Angela Eward-Mangione
Philosophy of New Jazz: Reconstructing Adorno, Dustin Bradley Garlitz
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Tampa’s Lafayette Street Bridge: Building a New South City, Lucy D. Jones
Spring Break: Image, Identity, and Consumer Culture in a Florida Rite of Passage, Meeghan Kane
Menendez Versus Mickey: A Study Of Heritage Tourism In Florida, Monica Rowland
How to Hear the Unspoken: Engaging Cross-Cultural Communication Through the Latin American Testimonial Narrative, Elena Flores Ruiz-Aho
Selling St. Petersburg: John Lodwick and the Promotion of a Florida Paradise, Nevin D. Sitler
“This is Not a Politburo, But a Madhouse,” The Post World War II Sovietization of East Germany Up to the 1953 Worker’s Uprising, Rush H. Taylor
“Trust Yourself to God:” Friar Francisco Pareja and the Franciscans in Florida, 1595-1702, Albert William Vogt
Tolstoy and the Woman Question, Jeanna Marie Whiting
Awakening Days at Dead River, Edward Curry Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Reframing The National Football League: An Organizational Analysis Of The Construction Of A Modern Spectacle, Scott Charles Lewis
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Heavenly Venus: Mary Magdalene In Renaissance Noli Me Tangere Images, Michelle Lambert-Monteleon
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Effect of Digital Technology on Late 20th Century and Early 21st Century Culture, Jennifer Clarke
Organizational Office Space in the Virtual Age: The Role of Shared Space in Communication, Sheila Gobes-Ryan
