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Author:

Schriempf, Alexa

Title:

Material Witnesses: A Feminist Disability Theory of Testimonial Voices

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

neo-materialist feminism
testimony
epistemology
disability

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Shannon Sullivan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Jennifer Mensch, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

White, Christopher T.

Title:

Animals, Technology, and the Zoopoetics of American Modernism

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

american literature
modernism
animal
ecocriticism
American studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Clarke, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Nicotra, Jodie A.

Title:

The Force of Habit: Rhetoric, Repetition, and Identity From Darwin To Drugs

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric and composition
rhetoric of science
habit
subjectivity
identity

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Jenell M.

Title:

Echoes of the Soul: A Rhetorical History of Lobotomy

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric of Science
lobotomy

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Leisha J.

Title:

Girling the Girl: Visual Culture and Girl Studies

Graduate Program:

Special

Keywords:

performativity
Visual Culture
Women's Studies
Girl Studies
Gilles Deleuze
feminism

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member

Author:

Sparling, Nicole Lynn

Title:

Womb Genealogies: Conceiving the New World

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

reproduction
biopolitics
bare life
twentieth century
Margaret Atwood
Ariel Dorfman
Carlos Fuentes
Toni Morrison
Clarice Lispector
Diamela Eltit
inter-American
comparative literature
Americas
America
1980s
female body
womb
fetus
gender
nation

File:

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Committee Members:

Sophia A Mcclennen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sophia A Mcclennen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Djelal Kadir, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Laurence E Prescott, Committee Member

Author:

Gervais, Sarah J.

Title:

When Her Whole Equals Her Parts: Seeing Women as Objects Rather than Persons

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

stereotypes
gender
objectification
object recognition

File:

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Committee Members:

Theresa K Vescio, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
Cathleen Moore, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Walters, Shannon Kelly

Title:

A Rhetoric of Touch: Disability and the Reshaping of Rhetorical Bodies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Disability Studies
Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Chatterjee, Sushmita

Title:

Fictive Images and the Feminist Democratic Imagination

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

visual politics
cartoon
transnational feminism
democratic imagination
art spiegelman
9/11

File:

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Committee Members:

Prof Nancy Love, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Professor Nancy Love, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Landes, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Professor Mrinalini Sinha, Committee Member
Professor P J Brendese, Committee Member

Author:

Briceno, Mia E

Title:

Engendering the Pageant: Rhetorical Constructions of Identity and Citizenship Through Drama and Contest, 1900-present

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

pageant
identity
citizenship

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Sattar, Atia

Title:

The Aesthetics of Experiential Medicine: Literature and Scientific Inquiry in the Nineteenth Century

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Nineteenth Century
Medicine and Literature
Claude Bernard
Frederick Treves
Grant Allen
Medical Humanities
Alfred Binet

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Eburne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Committee Member
Robert Lougy, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member

Author:

Birge, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Surviving the Narrative Self: Cognitive Disability in Contemporary Fiction

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

disability studies
cognitive disability
selfhood
neurofiction

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Merrill Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Chloe Silverman, Committee Member

Author:

Zawadzki, Matthew Jason

Title:

Examining an Intervention to Reduce Under-diagnosis of Cad for Older Women

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Coronary Artery Disease
Emotion
Stereotypes
Under-diagnosis

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephanie A Shields, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
William Gerin, Committee Member
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Jenkins, Stephanie

Title:

Disabling Ethics: A Genealogy of Ability

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Foucault
genealogy
ethics
disability

File:

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Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member

Author:

Russell, Camisha Ann

Title:

The Assisted Reproduction of Race: Thinking Through Race as a Reproductive Technology

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

race
critical philosophy of race
assisted reproductive technologies
technology
bioethics

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Wong, Cori Lin

Title:

Positive Philosophy: A Feminist Practice of Affective Therapy and Political Resistance

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

philosophy
feminist philosophy
affect theory
social justice
therapy
political resistance
positive philosophy

File:

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Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Ladelle Mc Whorter, Special Member

Author:

Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren

Title:

From Private Tragedy to Public Health: Public Health and the Rhetorics of Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
communication
public health
health campaigns
health policy
infant mortality
maternal mortality

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Mannon, Ethan Bruce

Title:

Reading the Earth Workers: The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-century American Literature and Writing

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Georgic
Pastoral
Agriculture
Farming

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Committee Members:

Robert Edwin Burkholder, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ian Stuart Marshall, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Sally Mcmurry, Committee Member
James Eisenstein, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Special Member

Author:

Dicaglio, Sara Theresa

Title:

Diagnosing Growth: The Problem of Development in Reproductive Culture

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

feminist theory
reproduction
medical rhetoric
pregnancy

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Merrill Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Erin Allyson Heidt Forsythe, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Michelle Nancy

Title:

Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American literature
posthumanism
feminist science studies
American literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Outside Member