Listed by year of graduation
2022
Jordan Bernsmeier, Visiting Lecturer (NTS), University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: "Aluminum Lesbians: Recycling Lesbian Legacy in Classical Hollywood"
- Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (English)
- Readers: Jules Gill-Peterson (English), Nancy Glazener (English), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
Adam Hebert, Visiting Lecturer (NTS), University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: "Process over Product: Kinesthetic Cinema, Sporting Bodies, and Media Milieux"
- Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (English)
- Readers: Randall Halle (German), Adam Lowenstein (English), Neepa Majumdar (English)
2020
Kelsey Cummings, Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication, Tulane University
- Dissertation: White Design: Engineering the Visualization of Race and Racism in Social Media
- Chair: Jinying Li (English) & Zachary Horton (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Brenton Malin (Communication), Elizabeth Reich (English)
Sonia Lupher
- Dissertation: From Women's Cinema to Women's Horror Cinema: Genre and Gender in the Twenty-First Century
- Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
2019
Olga Kim
- Dissertation: Soviet Tableau: Cinema and History under Late Socialism (1953-1985)
- Chair: Nancy Condee (Slavic)
- Readers: David Birnbaum (Slavic), Randall Halle (German), Neepa Majumdar (English), Marcia Landy (English), Vladimir Padunov (Slavic), Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Kuhu Tanvir, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Dissertation: Cinema in Fragments: Transmediating Popular Hindi Cinema on Small Screens
- Chair: Neepa Majumdar (English)
- Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Jinying Li (English), Aswin Punathambekar (Communication Studies, University of Michigan), Jennifer Waldron (English)
John Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Dissertation: The Interstate Logic: How Networks Change the Cinematic Representation of Time and Space
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Randall Halle (German), Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Neepa Majumdar (English)
2018
Katie Bird, Assistant Professor, Film Theory and Digital Media Production, University of Texas at El Paso
- Dissertation: "Quiet on Set!": Craft Discourse and Below-the-Line Labor in Hollywood, 1919-1985
- Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (English)
- Readers: Adam Lowenstein (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Randall Halle (German), Dana Polan (NYU), Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Kelsey Cameron, Assistant Professor, Communication and Emergent Media, Regis University
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Brenton J. Malin (Communication), Jinying Li (English), Jennifer Waldron (English)
Veronica Fitzpatrick, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University
- Dissertation: The Rehearsal for Terror: Form, Trauma, and Modern Horror
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Jeffrey Heinzl, Instructor, Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: FEEL IT ALL AROUND: ART MUSIC VIDEO, ART CINEMA, AND SPECTATORSHIP IN THE STREAMING ERA
- Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Randall Halle (German), Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Javier O'Neil-Ortiz
- Dissertation: The Cinematic Animal: Animal Life, Technology, and the Moving Image
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Neepa Majumdar (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Akira Lippit (Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California)
Laura Stamm, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
- Dissertation: Sustaining Life During the AIDS Crisis: New Queer Cinema and the Biopic
- Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Randall Halle (German), Marcia Landy (English)
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Dissertation: Pataphysical Networking: Virtuality, Potentiality and the Experimental Works of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, the Oulipo, and the Mouvement Panique
2017
Ljudmila Bilkic, Associate Professor, Kansas State University
- Dissertation: "Everything new is born illegal." Historicisizing Rapid Migration through New Media Projects
- Chair: Randall Halle (German)
- Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Sabine von Dirk (German), John B. Lyon (German)
- Chair: David Pettersen (French & Italian)
- Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Neil Doshi (French & Italian), Giuseppina Mecchia (French & Italian)
Jedd Hakimi, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Randall Halle (German), Jinying Li (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Julie Nakama, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
- Chair: Neepa Majumdar (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Jane Feuer (English), Brenton J. Malin (Communication)
Felipe Pruneda Senties, Director of the Writing Center, Hendrix College
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Neepa Majumdar (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Joshua Lund (University of Notre Dame)
John Rhym, Assistant Professor, Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute
- Co-Chairs: Adam Lowenstein (English), Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
- Readers: Neepa Majumdar (English), Marcia Landy (English)
Natalie Ryabchikova
- Dissertation: The Flying Fish: Sergei Eisenstein Abroad, 1929-1932.
- Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (Film)
- Readers: William Chase (History), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Randall Halle (Film), Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
Kelly Trimble
- Dissertation: The Celebrification of Soviet Culture: State Heroes after Stalin, 2017
- Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
- Readers: David Birnbaum (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Randall Halle (German)
2016
Dan Chyutin, Teaching Fellow, Tel Aviv University and Open University of Israel
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Adam Lowenstein (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Adam Shear (Religious Studies)
Richard Beach Gray, Media Analyst, Novetta Advanced Analytics
- Chair: Nancy Condee (Slavic)
- Readers: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic), Randall Halle (German), Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Natalia Ryabchikova, Lecturer, Moscow Art Theatre School, American Studio
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Dissertation: The Flying Fish: Sergei Eisenstein Abroad, 1929-1932
- Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), William Chase (History), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Randall Halle (German)
Anne Wesserling, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia
- Dissertation: Screening Violence: Meditations on Perception in Recent Argentine Literature and Film of the Post-Dictatorship
- Chair: Daniel Balderston (Hispanic Languages & Literature)
- Readers: John Beverley (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Gonzalo Lamana (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Adam Lowenstein (English)
2015
Kevin Flanagan, Term Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Adam Lowenstein (English), Colin MacCabe (English), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
Candice Wilson, Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of North Georgia-Gainsville
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Dissertation: Unseen Femininity: Women in Japanese New Wave Cinema
- Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
- Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Marcia Landy (English), Neepa Majumdar (English)
2014
Erin Alpert, Part-time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: Visualizing the Past: Perestroika Documentary Memory of Stalin-era
- Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
- Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), David J. Birnbaum (Slavic), Jeremy Hicks (Languages, Linguistics, Film)
Gavin M. Hicks
- Disseration: Soccer and Social Identity in Contemporary German Film and Media
- Chair: Randall Halle (German)
- Readers: John B. Lyon (German), Sabine von Dirke (German), Clark Muenzer (German), Gayle Rogers (English)
Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Stanford University
- Chair: Neepa Majumdar (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Marcia Landy (English), Ranjani Mazumdar (Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Kathleen Murray, Senior Writer/Editor, MarCom Group, Washington DC
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Brenton J. Malin (Communications)
Christopher Nielsen, Educator, Institute for Health and Socioeconomic Policy/National Nurses United
- Dissertation: Narco Realism in Contemporary Mexican and Transnational Narrative, Film, and Online Media
- Chair: Juan Duchesen-Winter (Hispanic Languages & Literature)
- Readers: John Beverley (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Joshua Lund (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Giuseppina Mecchia (French & Italian)
Seung-hwan Shin, Adjunct Instructor in East Asian Studies (NTS), University of Pittsburgh
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Dissertation: New Korean Cinema: Mourning to Regeneration
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Kyung Hyun Kim (East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine), Adam Lowenstein (English), Colin MacCabe (English)
John Trenz, Certificated Substitute, Los Angeles Unified School District
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Lucy Fischer (English), Randall Halle (German)
2013
Kristen Fallica, Digital Strategist, Chicago Humanities Festival
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Randall Halle (German Language), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
Yvonne Franke, Assistant Professor of German, Midwestern State University
- Dissertation: The Genres of Europeanization - Moving Towards the "New Heimatfilm"
- Chair: Randall Halle (German)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (Film), John B. Lyon (German), Sabine von Dirke (German)
Olga Kilmova, Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: Soviet Youth Films under Brezhnev: Watching Between the Lines
- Chair: Nancy Condee (Slavic)
- Readers: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic), David J. Birnbaum (Slavic), Lucy Fischer (Communication), Alexander V. Prokhorov (Slavic)
2012
Ryan Pierson, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, Media and Film, University of Calgary
- Chair: Daniel Morgan
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Scott Bukatman (Film & Media Studies, Stanford University)
Colleen Jankovic, Copyeditor, Grant Writer, and Writing Project Consultant
- Chair: Neepa Majumdar (English)
- Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Troy Boone (English), Todd Reeser (French & Italian)
Yahya Laayouni, Assistant Professor of Arabic and French, Bloomsberg University of Pennsylvania
- Dissertation: Redefining Beur Cinema: Constituting Subjectivity through Film
- Co-Chairs: Giuseppina Mecchia (French and Italian) & Randall Halle (German)
- Readers: Todd Reeser (French and Italian), Mohammed Bamyeh (Sociology & Religious Studies), Neil Doshi (French & Italian)
2011
Alison Patterson, Lecturer in English and Film Studies (NTS), University of Pittsburgh
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Troy Boone, Adam Lowenstein (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Randall Halle (German)
2010
Tanine Allison, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Emory University
- Dissertation: Screen Combat: Recreating World War II in American Film and Media
- Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Marcia Landy (English), Randall Halle (German)
Amy Borden, Assistant Professor of Film and Theater, Portland State University
- Dissertation: Modern Kinesis: Motion Picture Technology, Embodiment, and Re-Playability in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Giuseppina Mecchia (French & Italian)
Rick Warner, Assistant Professor (TTS), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Dissertation: Research in the Form of a Spectacle: Godard and the Cinematic Essay
- Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Marcia Landy (English)
2009
Kara Andersen, Assistant Professor of Film (TS), Brooklyn College
- Dissertation: Immaterial Materiality: Collecting in Live-Action Film, Animation, and Digital Games
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Randall Halle (German)
Molly Brown, Research Director, Wise Brother Media
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), Brent Malin (Communications)
Jill Dione, Retired
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Dissertation: Body Image: Fashioning the Postwar American
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Jane Feuer (English), Marianne Novy (English), Carol Stabile (English, University of Oregon)
- Dissertation: MARGINALIDAD Y VIOLENCIA JUVENIL EN MEDELLÍN Y BOGOTÁ: NARRATIVAS LITERARIAS Y FÍMICAS DE LOS AÑOS 80 Y 90 EN COLOMBIA
- Chair: Hermann Herlinghaus (Latin American Literature, University of Freiburg)
- Readers: Aníbal Perez-Linán (Political Science), Bobby J. Chamberlain (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Gerald Martin (Hispanic Languages & Literature)
Dawn Seckler, Associate Director of Development, Bridgeway Capital
- Dissertation: Engendering Genre: The Contemporary Russian Buddy Film
- Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
- Readers: David MacFadyen (University of California, Los Angeles), Lucy Fischer (Film), Nancy Condee (Slavic)
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, University of Chicago
- Dissertation: The Ethnic Turn: Studies in Political Cinema from Brazil and the United States, 1960-2002
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Adam Lowenstein (English), Shalini Puri, Neepa Majumdar (English), John Beverley (Hispanic)
Kyle Stevens, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Appalachian State University
- Dissertation: Acting Social: The Cinema of Mike Nichols
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Mark Anderson (English), Marcia Landy (English), Colin MacCabe (English), David Shumway (English, Carnegie Mellon University)
Kirsten Strayer
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Adam Lowenstein (English), John Beverly (Hispanic)
2008
Gregory Allen
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Troy Boone, Adam Lowenstein (English), Vernell Lillie (Africana Studies)
Manisha Basu, Associate Professor of English and African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dissertation: Fathers of a Still-Born Past: Hindu Empire, Globality, and the Rhetoric of the Trikaal
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English), Ronald Judy (English), Nancy Condee (Slavic)
2007
Amanda Klein, Associate Professor of Film Studies (TS), East Carolina University
- Dissertation: Excavating the Ghetto Action Cycle (1991-1996): A Case Study for a Cycle-Based Approach to Genre Theory
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Jane Feuer (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), Paula Massood (Cinema and Media Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY)
2006
Dana Och, Lecturer in English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: "The World Goes One Way and We Go Another": Movement, Migration, and Myths of Irish Cinema
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Adam Lowenstein (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Nancy Condee (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Daniel Wild
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Dissertation: The Writing on the Screen: Images of Text in the German Cinema from 1920-1949
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English), Lucy Fischer (English), Linda Shulte-Sasse (German, McAllister College)
2005
Anustup Basu, Associate Professor of English and Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dissertation: Mantras of the Metropole: Geo-Televisuality and Contemporary Indian Cinema
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English); Eric Clarke (English); Colin MacCabe (English); M. Prasad (Film Theory, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad)
Clare Connors, Instructor (NTS), University of Pittsburgh
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Dissertation: Hollywood Youth Narratives and the Family Values Campaign 1980-1992
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Troy Boone (English), Marcia Landy (English), Carol Stabile (Communications)
2004
Julia Turner
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Dissertation: Reading Scars: Circumcision as Textual Trope
- Chair: Philip Smith (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Mariolina Salvatori, Greg Goekjian (Portland State University)
2003
Emily T. Bauman, Master Teacher of Liberal Studies, New York University
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Dissertation: Dreaming in Crisis: Angels and the Allegorical Imagination in Postwar America
- Chair: Colin MacCabe (English)
- Readers: Ronald Judy (English), Jonathan Arac, Nancy Condee (Slavic)
Andrew C. Miller, Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Digital Culture, Sacred Heart University
- Dissertation: Laying Down the Rules: The American Sports Film Genre From 1872 to 1960
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Jane Feuer (English), Moya Luckett, Carol Stabile (Communications)
Elena Prokhorova
- Dissertation: Fragmented Mythologies: Soviet TV Series of the 1970s
- Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
- Readers: Carol Stabile (Communications), Jane Feuer (English and Film), Martin Votruba (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic)
2002
Michael G. Aronson, Associate Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
- Dissertation: Nickels and Dimes: The Movies in a Rampantly American City, 1914-1923
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Moya Luckett, Jane Feuer, Gregory Waller (University of Kentucky)
Hugh S. Manon, Associate Professor of Screen Studies and Director of the Screen Studies Program, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Clark University
- Dissertation: As Far As Anyone Knows: Fetishism and the Anti-Televisual Paradoxes of Film Noir
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Valerie Krips, James Knapp, Henry Krips (Communications)
Alexander Prokhorov, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary
- Dissertation: Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes in Thaw Culture
- Chair: Helena Goscilo (Slavic)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (Film), Mark Altshuller (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
2001
Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
- Dissertation: “Dig If You Will The Picture”: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Amy Villarejo (Cornell), Wahneema Lubiano (Duke)
2000
Patricia Caillé, Assistant Professor, (TTS) Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg and Institute of European Studies, Paris
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Dissertation: French Film Criticism, Authorship, and National Culture in the Mirror of John Cassavetes’s Body, His Life, His Work
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), James Knapp
Ellen Kreger, Instructor of Film, Westchester Community College
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Dissertation: In The Shadow of His Language: Language and Feminine Subjectivity in the Cinema
- Chair: Colin MacCabe (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Lynn Emanuel, Patrizia Lombardo (French and Italian)
David Sidore, Associate Professor, English, Macon State College
- Dissertation: Being In Control: The Ending Of The Information Age
- Chair: Paul Bové (English)
- Readers: Jonathan Arac, Marcia Landy, Carol Stabile (Communications)
1998
Patrice Fleck, Professor, English, Northern Virginia Community College
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Dissertation: The Emergence of Date Rape: Feminism, Theory, Institutional Discourse, and Popular Culture
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Nancy Glazener (English), Lucy Fischer (English), Carol A. Stabile (Communications)
1997
Anne Ciecko, Associate Professor, Communications, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Dissertation: Gender and the Politics and Practices of Representation in Contemporary British Cinema
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: James Knapp, Marcia Landy (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Sabine Hake (German)
Joy Fuqua, Associate Professor, Media Studies, Queens College
- Dissertation: Telling the Story of AIDS in Popular Culture
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Eric Clarke (English), Marcia Landy (English), Danae Clark (Communications)
Lori Shorr, Chief Education Officer, Mayor of Philadelphia’s Office
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Dissertation: Technology, the Natural and the Other: The Case of Childbirth Representations in Contemporary Popular Culture
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), Dana Polan, Iris M. Young (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh)
Amy Villarejo, Professor and Chair, Theatre, Film & Dance Department, Cornell University
- Dissertation: Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Gayatri Spivak (Columbia)
1995
Ellen Bishop, Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
- Dissertation: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Science Fiction: Gender and Ways of Thinking Otherwise
- Chair: Philip Smith
- Readers: Marica Landy (English), Lucy Fischer (English), Dana Polan, Tamara Horowitz (Philosophy)
Matthew Tinckom, Associate Professor of Communications, Culture, and Technology and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Georgetown University
- Dissertation: Camp and the Question of Value
- Chair: Jane Feuer (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Marcia Landy (English), Eric Clarke (English), Janet Staiger (University of Texas–Austin)
1994
Madhava Prasad, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Centre for European Studies, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (Hyderabad, India)
- Dissertation: Culture in a State of Crisis: A Historical Construction in Cinematic Ideology in India, 1919-75
- Chair: Marcia Landy (English)
- Readers: Paul Bové (English), Colin MacCabe (English), Keya Ganguly (Carnegie Mellon University)
1993
John Champagne, Professor of English, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College
- Dissertation: The Ethics of Transgression: Criticism and Cultural Marginality
- Chair: Paul Bove (English)
- Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Marcia Landy (English), Dana Pollan, Danae Clarke
1989
Linda Mizejewski, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
- Dissertation: Sally Bowles: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Politics of Looking
- Chair: Lucy Fischer (English)
- Readers: Marcia Landy (English), Dana Polan, Sabine Hake (German)