{"id":212,"date":"2014-03-19T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2021-05-11T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T12:04:11","slug":"dissertations-directed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/dissertations-directed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertations Directed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PhD. dissertations directed<\/h2>\n<p>Peter Kline (Theology): <a href=\"https:\/\/etd.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\/available\/etd-03242016-145018\/\">&#8220;Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard&#8217;s Apophatic Theology&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 (2016)<\/p>\n<p>David Dark (Religious Studies): <a href=\"http:\/\/etd.library.vanderbilt.edu\/available\/etd-03282011-155105\/\">&#8220;Insert Soul Here:\u00a0 The Witness of Sacramental Poetics as Apocalyptic for the People&#8221;<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n<p>Yong Chen (Religious Studies): &#8220;On the Rhetoric of Defining Confucianism as a \u2018Religion\u2019: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Controversy on Confucian Religiosity and its Significance to the Understanding of Chinese Tradition and Modernity&#8221; (2005)<\/p>\n<p>Donald Holman (Comparative Literature):<a href=\"http:\/\/gradworks.umi.com\/31\/71\/3171554.html\"> &#8220;The Death of Dionysos: Formative Experience and Human Autonomy in <em>Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Heather Garrett (French): &#8220;Nothing to Say. Disclosures of Silence in 20th Century French Narrative&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Scott Hubbard (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Original Sins: Philosophical Appropriations of Agency and Meaning in the Greek Tragedians&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<h3>In Progress<\/h3>\n<p>Xiaolun Qi (Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n<h2>Ph.D. dissertation committees<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Abell (French): \u201cMedieval and Postmodern Virtual Realities: Embodiment, Disembodiment, and the Ends of Experience from Marie de France to Dante to Char Davis\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jason Smith (Divinity): EUCHARIST AS THE GIFT OF POLITICAL LANGUAGE (2018)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fetd.library.vanderbilt.edu%2Favailable%2Fetd-07142018-162150%2F&amp;amp;data=02%7C01%7Cwilliam.franke%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cb48b34240d784af982e508d5f2fdb647%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C636682093856824392&amp;amp;sdata=rTSDxEJIW87NTsLHPqBqKjBX4pdPehL0peIxeHrz4RQ%3D&amp;amp;reserved=0\">online version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lauren White (Divinity): &#8220;Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Word: Beyond the Protestant Interpretation Problem&#8221; (2017)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/etd.library.vanderbilt.edu\/available\/etd-03172018-212151\/\">online version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belkis Barrios (Spanish): &#8220;Literatura y cine hisp\u00e1nicos del siglo XXI: La di\u00e1spora y el desenga\u00f1o en el <em>Bildungsroman del nuevo milenio\u201d <\/em>[&#8220;Hispanic Literature and Film of the Twenty-First Century: Diaspora and Disillusion in the latest versions of the <em>Bildungsroman<\/em>&#8220;] (2017)<\/p>\n<p>Chance Woods (English): &#8220;The Elusive Corpus: Reading the Catholic Mystical Body in Seventeenth-Century England&#8221; (2017)<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Romero (German): &#8220;Heute hat ein Gedicht mich wieder erschaffen: Origins of Poetic Identity in Rose Ausl\u00e4nder&#8221; (2016)<\/p>\n<p>Menghun Goh (Religious Studies):\u00a0 &#8220;The Middle Voice of Love in 1 Corinthians:\u00a0 Reading Singularity and Plurality from Different Cultures&#8221; (2014)<\/p>\n<p>Guan Bei Bei (European Studies, University of Hong Kong): &#8220;The Dandy and The Historical Ragpicker: A Study of Contrary Responses to Modernity of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin&#8221;\u00a0 (2014)<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Campana (German): &#8220;Violent Black Oceans: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age, 1990-2005&#8221; (2014)<\/p>\n<p>David Dault (Divinity):\u00a0 &#8220;The Covert Magisterium:\u00a0 Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture&#8221; (2008)<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Schlee (German): \u00a0&#8220;Poetry as Compass: Chaos, Complexity and the Creative Voice&#8221; (2007)<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Bauer (Spanish): \u00a0&#8220;Madness and Laughter: Cervantes&#8217;s Comic Vision in Don Quixote&#8221; (2007)<\/p>\n<p>James Burt Fulmer (Religious Studies): &#8220;Identities Bought and Sold, Identity Received as Grace: A Theological Criticism of and Alternative to Consumerist Understanding of the Self&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Brian McGinnis (German): &#8220;Reading the Moral Code: Theories of Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Germany&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Braley (Religious Studies): &#8220;Bringing God to Mind: Christian Theology in Light of the Critical Study of Religion&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Justine Van Meter (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Writing the Dying and the Dead: Irishness, Jewishness and Gender&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Sousan (Divinity): &#8220;<em>The Woman in the Garden of Eden: A Rhetorical-Critical Study of Genesis <\/em>2:4b-3:24 (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Azucena Garcia-Marcos (Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid): &#8220;Una Approximacion psychoanalytica a la obra de Francisco de Goya&#8221; (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Shirin Edwin (French): &#8220;N\u00e9gocier pour survivre: La repr\u00e9sentation de l\u2019islam dans les productions romanesques francophones de l\u2019Afrique de l&#8221;Ouest (1950-2002)&#8221; (2005)<\/p>\n<p>Apel Ygrek (Philosophy): &#8220;Virile Expenditure: A Study of Bataille\u2019s Transgressive Erotics&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Costales (Spanish): &#8220;<em>No Hay Cosa Como Callar<\/em>: Una Edic\u00edon Critica&#8221; (2004)<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Barnard (French): &#8220;Marginality and Mixed Marriages in the Works of Albert Memmi&#8221; (2003)<\/p>\n<p>R. Philip O\u2019Hara (Divinity): &#8220;Economics of the <em>Basileia Tou Theou<\/em> in Mark&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9cile Guillard (French): &#8220;Baudelaire malgr\u00e9 tout: La pr\u00e9sence de Baudelaire dans l\u2019oeuvre de Ives Bonnefoy&#8221; (2002)<\/p>\n<p>Terresa Stricklen (Divinity): &#8220;Preaching and Theology in Light of Theological Education: The Early History of a Troubled Marriage or What Went Wrong How&#8221; (2001)<\/p>\n<p>Brett Davis (Philosophy): &#8220;On the Way to Gelassenheit: The Problem of the Will and the Possibility of Non-Willing in Heidegger\u2019s Thought&#8221; (2001)<\/p>\n<p>Ken Himmelman (Comparative Literature): &#8220;&#8216;Beyond the Compass of Time&#8217;: The Fragmented Universe and the Rise of Modern Science Fiction, 1600-1740&#8221; (1998)<\/p>\n<p>Darren Hutchinson (Philosophy): &#8220;A Song of Solipsism: Wittgenstein and the End of the World&#8221; (1996)<\/p>\n<p>Greg Carey (Religious Studies): &#8220;Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation of John&#8221; (1996)<\/p>\n<p>Gian Balsamo (Comparative Literature): &#8220;Legitimate Filiation and Gender Segragation: Law and Fiction in Texts by Derrida, Hegel, Joyce, Pirandello and Vico&#8221; (1994)<\/p>\n<h3>In progress<\/h3>\n<p>Jason Smith (Divinity): \u201cEucharist as the Gift of Political Language\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Susan Safford (Religious Studies): &#8220;Intersections of Time: Readings of Simultaneity in the Book of Judges&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Eder (German)<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Haskins (Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n<p>Maya Smith (Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n<h2>MA theses directed (or co-directed)<\/h2>\n<p>Chase Toensing (Divinity): &#8220;Historical Intersections of Imago Dei and Human Images of God, and the Exclusion of the Other&#8221; (2018)<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Bragg (Divinity): &#8220;Kierkegaard, Indirect Communication and Performativity&#8221; (2017)<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Kar Kei Wong (M.Phil.Thesis, The University of Hong Kong):\u00a0&#8220;The Challenge of Modernityand Italo Calvino&#8217;s Literary Responses: An Examination of the Relationship between Humanity and the World, and Literature a Reconciling Force&#8221; 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