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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2006-2009)

Title

Author

Committee


A Quest Beyond Enlightenment:  Buddhism as Counter-Enlightenment and Modernity's Other Being in the Practices of
Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Xingjian Gao

 


Yu-Shian (Ivy) Lin

October 200
9


David Savran, Chair,
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Claudia Orenstein , Hunter College, CUNY

 


The Lost Apple Plays:
Performing Operation Pedro Pan



Kimberly Ramirez

May 200
9

Jean Graham-Jones, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

 


Carmen Rivera: 
Theatre of Latinidad

 


Jason Ramirez

May 200
9

Gloria Waldman, Chair, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Juan Flores, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

 

Race and Realism in Edward Harrigan's Mulligan Guard Series

 

Michael Aman
May 200
9

David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
John Graziano, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

 


Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

 

 

Amy Hughes
May 200
9

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNYHeather Nathans,University of Maryland


 

 

Performing the 'Ben Comune':  The Political Functions of Performance in the Republic of Siena (1260-1555)

 

 

Jenna     Soleo-Shanks
May 2009

Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNYJudith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
James Saslow, The Graduate Center, CUNYRonald Herzman,Geneseo College, SUNY


 

 

The Powerful Voice of Women Dramatists in the Arab American Theatre Movement

 

 

Dalia Basiouny
May 200
9

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY
Pamela Sheingorn, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Alisa Solomon, Columbia University

 

Staging Alterity: The Ethics of Performing Difference(s)

 

Joshua Abrams
October 2008

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Peter Hitchcock, The Graduate Center, CUNY


 


Human/Nature:  Eco-Theatre Politics and Performance

 


Sarah Standing

May 2008

 

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY
Una Chaudhuri, New York University



The Pays The Thing:  Intellectual Property and the Political Economy of Contemporary American Theatrical Production

 

 

 

Kimon Keramidas
May 2008

David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
William Boddy, Baruch College, CUNY
Richard Maxwell, Queens College, CUNY
Stuart Ewen, Hunter College, CUNY

 


The Plays of Ricardo Monti and the Production of Space

 


Milton Loayza
May 2008

Jean Graham-Jones, ChairThe Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gloria Waldman, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

 

 

Crowd Pleasing Moves:  Acting Technique, Social Performance, and the Popularization of the Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

 

 

 

Samuel T. Shanks
February 2008

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh
 

 

 

Nyoriquenas in the House:  Performing Identity Through Hip Hop, Poetry, and Theatre

 

 


Patricia E. Herrera
October 2007

David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gloria Waldman, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY

Diana Taylor, NYU
Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth  College

 


Reframing Bollywood

 


Ajay Gehlawat
May 2007

Peter Hitchcock, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Giancarlo Lombardi, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
 


Reflexive Songs in the American Musical, 1898 to 1947

 


Michael G. Garber
May 2006

David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 
 


Sensual Bodies and Devotional Encounters:  The Influence of Performance on Lay Visual Piety in Late Medieval York

 

 

Jill Stevenson
May 2006

Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 




Danjûrô Girls: The Ichikawa Family and Women on the Kabuki Stage

 



Loren Edelson

May 2006

Samuel Leiter, Chair, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center CUNY
 
 


The New Religious Movements of Europe and America from the Nineteenth Century to Present

 


Edmund Lingan
May 2006

Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

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