University of Minnesota
Cultural Studies & Comparaive Literature
cscl@umn.edu
612-624-8099


Department Name's home page.

Home > Graduate Studies > CSDS : Recent Doctoral Dissertation Titles

Recent Doctoral Dissertation Titles

Sample dissertation topics from recent years include:

  • 2009. Carlos Cordero-Cancio, On the Intellectuals of the Future and the Left 'Re-armed'
  • 2008. John Conley, Capital Cynicism: Literature and Production in the Post-Fordist Era
  • 2008. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson, Design for Living: German and Swedish Design in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 2008. Stephen Groening, Connected Isolation: Screens, Mobility, and Globalized Media Culture
  • 2008. Hans Skott-Myhre, Who Are We to Become If We Are Not This: Madness, Anti- Psychiatry and Literature
  • 2008. Brynnar Swenson, The Corporate Form: Capital, Literature, Architecture
  • 2008. Marjorie Weinstein, Reframing Law and Lens: Jacob Riis's Documentary Photography and Legal Discourse during the Progressive Era
  • 2007. Imed Labidi, Unlearning Western Pedagogy: Arab Schools in the Neocolonial Era
  • 2006. Thomas Haakenson, Grotesque Visions: Art, Science, and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
  • 2006. Kysa Hubbard, Civilizing Childhood: The Rational Alienation of Adult-Child Relations
  • 2006. Kjel Johnson, [Re]Framing Violence: Hollywood Cinema & Late Capitalism 1967-2001
  • 2006. Thomas Roach, Shared Estrangement: Foucault, Friendship, and AIDS Activism
  • 2006. Roni Shapira, Switched-on Deutschland: The Sounds of Germany
  • 2006. Jacqueline Spicer, Modern Texts: Autobiography and the Rise of the Individual
  • 2005. Mazher Al-Zo'by, Moderns and Others: The Location of Social Change
  • 2005. Douglas Julien, Bordello Dialectics
  • 2005. Cecily Marcus, The Molecular Intellectual: Cultural Magazines and Clandestine Life Under Argentina's Last Dictatorship
  • 2005. John Troyer, Technologies of the Human Corpse
  • 2004. Nicholas de Villiers, Opacities: Queer Strategies
  • 2004. Andrew Knighton, Idle Threats: The Limits of Productivity in 19th Century America
  • 2004. Gauti Sigthorsson, A Life of The Dead: Privacy, Data Subjects and Labor
  • 2003. David Jenemann, Transmissions: Adorno in America, 1938-1953
  • 2003. Adam Sitze, Articulating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Sovereignty, Testimony, Protest Writing
  • 2003. Craig Wilkins, A Nig(g)er Runs Through It: The Confluence of Race, Space, Architecture and Music
  • 2002. Jennifer Horne, The Conquest Archives; Cultural Theory and Edison's 1917 Conquest Program
  • 2002. Scott Sherer, The Aesthetics of Cruel Embodiment
  • 2001. Jose Artiles-Gil, Neoliberal Discourse and the Crisis of Politics and Culture: A Comparative Study of Dominican Republic and Costa Rica Grass-Roots Politics during the Eighties
  • 2001. Andrew Kincaid, Holding the Centre: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin
  • 2001. Daryl Lee, Suicide and the Subject of Modern Life
  • 2001. Stephen Macek, Urban Nightmares: The Panic over the Post-Industrial City in the Media and Public Discourse
  • 2001. Michelle Stewart, Sovereign Visions: Native North American Documentary
  • 2000. John Collins, Children of the Stones: The Intifada, Popular Memory, and the “Generation" of Palestinian Nationalism
  • 2000. Michelle Lekas, A Brief Epistemology of Seriality
  • 2000. John Stolle-McAllister, Golf, Zapata and Tepozteco King: Cultural Struggles in Contemporary Mexican Social Movements
  • 1999. Karyn Ball, Disciplining the Holocaust
  • 1999. Bruce Campbell, Art Up Against the Wall: Mexican Murals in Times of Crisis
  • 1999. Polly Carl, Making a Good Story: Feeling Good about Queer Theory
  • 1999. Martha Mockus, Sounding Out: Lesbian Feminism and the Music of Pauline Oliveros
  • 1998. Negar Mottahedah Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran