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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2009-2011)

Title

Author

Committee

 


The Roots of American Improvisation:  Play, Process, and Pedagogy



Margaret M. Duffy
May 2011

Jane Bowers, Chair
John Jay College, CUNY
Daniel Gerould
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Claudia Orenstein
Hunter College, CUNY

 


Displaced Conversations:  A Genealogy of Feminist Performance



Constance Zaytoun
May 2011

David Savran, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jean Graham-Jones
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Alisa Solomon
Columbia University
Julie Malnig
New York University

 


"Real American Entertainment":  Performance and Nationalism in Branson, Missouri



Jennifer Worth
May 2011

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

 


The Pleasure Gardens of Antebellum America and the Performance of American Identities



Naomi Stubbs
May 2011

Judith Milhous, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Heather Nathans
University of Maryland

 

Fashioning Performance Careers in New York, 1869-1899:  How Female Performers Negotiated Changing Ideas of Womanhood



Celia Braxton
May 2011

Judith Milhous, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Kathleen McCarthy
The Graduate Center, CUNY



Without Papers:  Legal Identity, Legal Consciousness, and Performance



Gad Guterman
February 2011

Jean Graham-Jones, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sally Engle Merry, NYU

 

Devouring Metaphors: Neoliberal Consumption in Argentine and Brazilian Theatre



Elisa Legon
February 2011

Jean Graham-Jones, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

Exporting America: Theatre, Gay Male Identities, and Anti-Americanism in Denmark and West Germany



Ken Nielsen
February 2011

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

 

"A Spectacle to the World:" The Performance of Christian Virgins and Monks in Late Antiquity



William Conte
October 2010

Pamela Sheingorn, Chair
Emerita, CUNY
Judith Milhous
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

Staging the Volk:  Nazi Policy and the Reality of Theatrical Production in Three Berlin Theatres, 1933-1944


Hillary Rosenberg
October 2010

Marvin Carlson, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Judith Milhous
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould
The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

The Circulation of Blackface:  Nostalgia and Tradition in US Minstrel Performance of the Early 1920s



Kevin Byrne
May 2010

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

 

Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter's Theatre:  A Symbolist Legacy

 

Graca M. Correa
May 2010

Daniel Gerould, Chair              The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jean Graham-Jones
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Mary Ann Caws
The Graduate Center, CUNY



The Foundations of American Regional Theatre

 


Tomoko Aono

May 2010


Judith Milhous, Chair

The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Pamela Sheingorn, Emerita
The Graduate Center, CUNY



Contemporary Site-Specific Theatre in New York City:  Performance, the City, and Spatial Politics

 


Bertie Ferdman

May 2010


Judith Milhous, Chair

The Graduate Center, CUNY
Marvin Carlson
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY



Staging Fat:  Dramaturgy, Female Bodies, and Contemporary American Culture

 


Jennifer Scott Mobley
May 2010

Judith Milhous, Chair
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Pamela Sheingorn, Emerita
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Maurya Wickstrom
Coll., of Staten Island CUNY
David Savran
The Graduate Center CUNY


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, GC, 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, CUNY
Heather 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, CUNY
Judith Milhous
The Graduate Center, CUNY
James Saslow
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ronald 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

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