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Author:

Kahle, Shannon Miller

Title:

Visualizing the Chaotic Body in Popular Culture

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

visual rhetoric
the body
popular culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Oberhardt, Suzanne

Title:

Frames Within Frames: The Pedagogy of the Art Museum as Cultural Artifact

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art museum
popular culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Joe L Kincheloe, Committee Member
Majorie Wilson, Committee Member
Paul E Bolin, Committee Member
Charles Richard Garoian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sandoe, Kathryn Jeanne

Title:

Why Barbie Will Never Be President: Popular Culture Pedagogies and the Political Glass Ceiling in America

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

Critical cultural studies
pedagogy
feminism
politics
myths
popular culture
Barbie
Commander in Chief
Twilight
24

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter Jones Kareithi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Peter Winch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

Presidential Imaginaries: Narrative, Phantasia, and the Historical U.s. President in Fictional Film

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

U.S. presidents
film
popular culture
narrative
phantasia
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mcgee Yinger, Megan Colleen

Title:

The Gray Lady, the Peacock, and the Mouse: Corporate Media Influence in American Popular Culture

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

television
film
animated film
Walt Disney
NBC
New York Times
newspapers
corporate media
popular culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Charity Dawn Fox, Committee Member
Richard S Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Sandoe, Kathryn Jeanne

Title:

Hungry for Justice: The Hunger Games and Developing an Activist Identity in Women Fans

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
informal learning
popular culture
fan activism
The Hunger Games
social justice
public pedagogy
convergence culture
poststructural feminism
social movements
fan studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Committee Member
Holly Angelique, Committee Member
Peter J. Kareithi, Outside Member

Author:

Sessoms, Amber Michelle

Title:

The Merging of the Personal and the Collective: Reimagining Black Natural Hair Care Digital Spaces as Sites of Critical Public Pedagogy

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

natural hair
black hair
black women
african american women
digital spaces
blogs
critical public pedagogy
identity development
adult learning
adult identity development
blogging
online learning communities
critical consciousness
identity formation
popular culture
adult education
african american hair
black womanhood

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Outside Member

Author:

Clark, Brittany

Title:

Behind the Counter and On Screen: Representations of Retail Work in Popular Media

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

popular culture
retail
advertisements
television
memoirs
film
memes
retail employee

File:

Download BClark_-_Dissertation_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Mary Zaborskis, Committee Member
Ozge Aybat, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glass-Heffner, Andrea

Title:

Gentrification, Interrupted: Place-Based Identity, Vanishing Landscapes, and the War on Gentrification in Urban America

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Urban Studies
Gentrification
digital culture
gender and sexuality
spatial justice
memory
space and place
popular culture
visual culture
folklore
vanishing landscapes

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Outside Member

Author:

Morel, Annamarie

Title:

Glamour, Guns, And Glitter: Selfie-Empowerment and Self-Representation Online

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

photography
self-portraits
selfies
social media
digital culture
visual culture
gender
identity
vernacular photography
glamour
fashion
popular culture
folklore
influencer
beauty
firearms

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Committee Members:

Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Jeffrey A Tolbert, Committee Member
Russell Frank, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair