CURRICULUM VITAE
Phillip J. Sipiora Professor of English and Film Studies Founding Editor, The Mailer Review
University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. Tampa, FL 33620-5550 (813) 494-8877 (mobile) (813) 974-2421 (office) [email protected] [email protected] http://english.usf.edu/faculty/psipiora/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 1985 (American Literature, Rhetoric)
BOOKS
In Print
Mind of An Outlaw: Selected Essays. Ed. Phillip Sipiora. New York: Random House, 2013.
Reading and Writing About Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Kairos and Rhetoric: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Eds. Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin. Albany: SUNY UP, 2002.
Ethical Issues in College Writing. Eds. Frederic G. Gale, Phillip Sipiora, and James L. Kinneavy. Series in Rhetoric and Composition. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999.
Forthcoming
The Films of Ida Lupino. University of Edinburgh Press. [Publication year: 2015.]
EDITED JOURNAL
The Mailer Review (Eight volumes: 2007 to Present; 4,000 cumulative pages).
ARTICLES / CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (Selected)
In Print
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“Editor’s Preface.” Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer. Ed. Phillip Sipiora. NY: Random House, 2013: xvii-xxiv.
“Norman Mailer, Discursive Artist.” The Mailer Review 7.1 (2013): 190-202.
“The Complications of Norman Mailer: A Conversation with J. Michael Lennon.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2013): 23-65.
“Ethos and Ethics: Reconsidering Gun Crazy.” The Films of Joseph H. Lewis. Ed. Gary D. Rhodes. Detroit: Wayne State UP: 2012: 451-80.
Preface to The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion: Creating New Reporting Styles by Jason D. Mosser. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2012: 1-v1.
“Phenomenological Masking: Complications of Identity in Double Indemnity.” Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays On the Films. Karen McNally, ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2011: 102-116.
“The Naked and the Dead.” Resource Guide to American Literature. Post War Literature, 1945-1970. Ed. John Cusatis. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 2010: 144-149.
“Perspectives on Cinema: A Conversation with Tom Luddy.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 565-69.
“All Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Edgar Ulmer’s Detour.” Chapter 8. Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row. Ed. Gary D. Rhodes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2008): 145-163.
“The Phenomenological Quest of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut.” Chapter 15 in Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. Ed. Gary Rhodes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2008): 343-358.
“Ventriloquist Extraordinaire: Norman Mailer’s Interrogative Voices.” VSESVIT 3 (2008). [VSESVIT, founded in 1925, is a Ukrainian monthly literary journal that publishes exclusive translations of world classics and contemporary works of literature.]
“Living in a Darker World: Hemingway’s Figural, Phenomenal Florida Fiction.” Florida English 5 (2007) 42-62.
“The Ancient Concept of Kairos.” Kairos and Rhetoric: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Eds. Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin. Albany: SUNY UP, 2002. 1-22.
Sipiora/3 “Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament.” Kairos and Rhetoric: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Eds. Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin. Albany: SUNY UP, 2002. 114-27.
Rostagni, Augusto. “A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and Sophistry.” Trans. Phillip Sipiora. Kairos and Rhetoric: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Eds. Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin. Albany: SUNY UP, 2002. 23-45 (This essay originally appeared as "Un Nuovo capitolo nella storia della retorica e della sofistica." Studi italiani de filologica classica, n.s. 2 (1922) 148-201.
“At Millenium’s End: A Hemingway/Fitzgerald Retrospective.” With Lawrence Broer. Thalia 20 (2001): 3-23.
“The Legacy of James L. Kinneavy.” The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse. Eds. Lynn Worsham, Sidney I. Dobrin, and Gary A. Olson. Albany: SUNY UP, 2000: 381-384.
"James L. Kinneavy." Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Eds. Michele Baliff and Michael G. Moran. New York: Greenwood Press, 2000. 208-218.
“James L. Kinneavy and the Ethical Imperative.” Journal of Advanced Composition 19 (1999): 541-545.
"Ethics and Ideology in the English Classroom." Chapter 8 in Ethical Issues in College Writing. Eds. Frederic G. Gale, Phillip Sipiora, and James L. Kinneavy. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. 39-61.
"Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis." Chapter 4 in Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999. 61-76.
"The Epistemology of Metaphor: A Response to 'The Myth of Alzheimer's: Forming a Language of Post-Modern Gerontology'.” Journal of Aging and Identity (1998) 49-55.
"A Rhetoric of Ethics and Cultural Understanding: The Quest of Isocrates." Discourse Studies in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Ed. Rosalind J. Gabin. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 1995. 11-24.
"James Louis Kinneavy: Vir Bonus Agendi Peritus." Discourse Studies in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Ed. Rosalind J. Gabin. With Valerie Balester and Rosalind Gabin. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 1995. vii-xix.
"Ethical Argumentation in Darwin's Origin of Species." Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory. Eds. James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin. Dallas: SMUP, 1994. 265-292.
Sipiora/4 "Kairos in the Discourse of Isocrates." Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic, Graphic, Electronic. Eds. Victor J. Vitanza and Michelle Ballif. Arlington, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, 1991. 119-135.
"Vampires of the Heart: Gender Trouble in The Great Gatsby." Chapter 15 in The Aching Hearth: Family Violence in Life and Literature. Eds. Sara M. Deats and Lagretta T. Lenker. New York: Plenum, 1991. 199-220.
"Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak." With Janet Atwill. Journal of Advanced Composition 10 (1990): 293-304.
"Ethical Narration in 'My Old Man’." Chapter 3 in Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: Current Perspectives. Ed. Susan F. Beegel. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 43-60. Rpt. in Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: Current Perspectives. Ed. Susan Beegel. Tuscaloosa; U of Alabama P, 1992: 43-60.
"Rearticulating the Rhetorical Tradition: The Influence of A Theory of Discourse." Journal of Advanced Composition 8 (1988): 123-136.
"Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants.'" The Explicator 42 (1984) 50.
Book Reviews
“Norman Mailer, Metaphysician at Work.” Review of On God: An Uncommon Conversation (Norman Mailer, New York: Random House, 2007.) The Mailer Review 2 (2008): 502-06. (Review Essay)
“The Old Man and the Seed.” Review of Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir (John Hemingway, New York: Lyons Press 2007.) St. Petersburg Times 21 July 8 2007: L10.
“Mailer Recounts Hitler’s Youth with Usual Metaphor Mastery.” Review of The Castle in the Forest (Norman Mailer, New York: Random House, 2007.) The Tampa Tribune, January 28, 2007: 7. (Review Essay)
“Moments of Metaphor in Mailer’s Castle.” Review of The Castle in the Forest (Norman Mailer, New York: Random House, 2007.) The Mailer Review 1 (2007): 229-233. (Review Essay)
“Letters Reveal Conflicts that Plagued the Hemingways.” Review of At the Hemingway’s (Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, Moscow: ID: U of Idaho P, 1999.) Tampa Tribune. October 10, 1999: 4.
"Remembering Spain." The Hemingway Review 14 (1995) 128-32. (Review Essay)
Italian / Italian-American Publications
“Cinema Italiano internazionale.” L’Unione Italiana. March 2009. Sipiora/5 “Sicilia: il calderone della democrazia.” L’Unione Italiana. January 2009.
“Due nazioni unite assieme da storia e cultura.” L’Unione Italiana. November 2008.
“Fuori e dentro dal tempo:Ventiquattro ore in cima alla Sicilia.” L’Unione Italiana. September 2008.
“Ancora una volta fra le braccia della bella Firenze.” L’Unione Italiana. July 2008.
“Jersey Boys: An Italian-American Experience.” L’Unione Italiana. May 2008.
“L’Età dell’oro del cinema italiano.” L’Unione Italiana. March 2008.
“Cinema Italiano: Neorealismo.” L’Unione Italiana. January 2008.
“Arrivederci Firenze; Pensiamo a Sicilia.” L’Unione Italiana. November 2007.
“Andiamo a Roma.” L’Unione Italiana. September 2007.
“Arriviamo a Firenze.” L’Unione Italiana. July 2007.
CONFERENCE PAPERS / INVITED LECTURES (Selected)
“Future Perfect: The Evolving Legacy of Norman Mailer.” Twelfth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, October 10, 2014. (Forthcoming)
“Norman Mailer and the Art of the Essay.” Eleventh International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL, October 25, 2013.
“Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Mailer and Qualities of Legacy.” Tenth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 11, 2012.
“The Mailer Legacy: Reflections of a Scholarly Journal Editor.” Ninth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Austin, TX, November 10, 2011.
“Walking the Mean Streets: Martin Scorsese’s Calculus of Cultural Codes.” 44th Annual AIHA Conference, Tampa, October 21, 2011.
“Caricature, Intrigue, and Uncertainty in the Cinema of the Coen Brothers.” Lecture at the Clearwater Public Library, March 17, 2011.
“Mailer and Hemingway and the Point of Departure.” Eighth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, November 5, 2010.
Sipiora/6 “Grammar and Time in A Farewell to Arms.” American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction: 1890 to the Present, Savannah, GA, October 9, 2010.
Hemingway's Literary Architecture: A Cartographic View of the Sentence. Fourteenth International Hemingway Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland. June 29, 2010.
Ethos and the Ethical Turn: Rhetorical Force in The Armies of the Night. Seventh International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Washington DC. October 20, 2009.
American Modernist Sensibility: The Great Gatsby and the Double Gesture.” Tenth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference, Baltimore, October 3, 2009.
“Whore as Regenerative Victim: Pasolini’s Mamma Roma and the Necessity of Abuse.” American Comparative Literature Conference. Sponsored by Harvard University, March 28, 2009.
“An Uneasy Marriage: Grammar and Rhetoric in Literary Interpretation.” Linguistics and Literature: Marriage of Like Minds or Shotgun Wedding? MLA Conference, San Francisco, December 30, 2008.
"Fact, Fiction, and Figural Defacement: A Philosophical Approach to Teaching Hemingway's Posthumous Narratives. Teaching Hemingway's Posthumous Works. MLA Conference, San Francisco, December 28, 2008.
“E.L. Doctorow’s The March and the Complications of Historical Fiction.” USF Humanities Institute, October 23, 2008
“On God: A Metaphysical Inquiry.” Norman Mailer Society, Sixth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA. October 17, 2008.
"Figural Authority in The Old Man and the Sea." Hemingway's Style. Modern Language Association, Chicago. December 27, 2007.
“Narrative Voice in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises.” The University of Rome, La Sapienza College. May 21, 2007.
“Metaphoric Movements and Moments in The Castle in the Forest.” Fifth International Norman Mailer Society Conference Provincetown, MA. October 12, 2007.
“The Velvet Fist: Norman Mailer and the Art of Political Rhetoric.” Fourth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA October 13, 2006.
“Death in the Afternoon: A Search for Value.” Twelfth International Hemingway Conference. Ronda, Spain. June 27, 2006.
Sipiora/7 "The Epistemology of Identity in Hitchcock's Search for Meaning.” 27th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Texas Popular and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10, 2006.
“Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway: The Hand and the Fist.” Third International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA. November 5, 2005.
“The Ethics of the Encounter.” Lost Ethics in the English Classroom. CCCC Meeting, San Francisco, March 18, 2005.
“Figures of Displacement: East Egg and West Egg.” Eigth International Fitzgerald Conference, New York, April 15, 2005.
“The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in Washington Irving’s Prose Fiction.” The University of Rome, La Sapienza College, May 27, 2005.
“Figures of Voice in An American Dream.” Second International Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, November 4, 2005.
“The Ethical Interface in The Great Gatsby.” Vevey, Switzerland. Seventh International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, 2004.
"Paradise Sought: Figures of Language in Hemingway's Florida Fiction." College English Association Annual Conference, April 14, 2003.
"Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis." Eighth Bienniel International Hemingway Conference, Stresa, Italy, July 7, 2002. (Paper presented by Mel Saraceno.)
“Ethics and the Electronic Interface.” Ethics in the English Classroom. CCCC Meeting, Chicago, April 13, 2002.
“Orson Welles and the Evolution of Epistemological Uncertainty.” Retrieving the 1940s: An International Conference. The University of Leeds, England. April 6, 2002
“At Millenium’s End: A Hemingway/Fitzgerald Perspective.” F. Scott Fitzgerald International Conference. Nice, France, June 30, 2000.
“Isocrates’ Rhetorical Paideia and the Teaching of Ethics.” Educating for Public Virtue: Reinventing the Classical Rhetorical Tradition for the Contemporary Classroom. CCCC Meeting, Minneapolis, April 13, 2000.
“The Literary Relationship Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” International Fitzgerald Conference, Nice, France, June 28, 2000.
Sipiora/8 “Pathos and Ethos: Rhetorical Interrelationships in the New Testament.” Conference of the Rhetorical Analysis of Literature. The International Society of Biblical Literature. Helsinki, Finland, July 20, 1999.
"Electronic Ethics: Morality in the Cyberworld." A Practical Ethics for Today’s College Classroom. CCCC Meeting, Chicago, March 27, 1999.
"The Art of Autobiography: Hemingway's Factual Fictions in A Moveable Feast." Seventh International Hemingway Conference. Les Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer, France, May 27, 1998.
“Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament.” Florence Conference of the Rhetorical Analysis of Literature. Florence, Italy, July 27-30, 1998.
"A Profession in Crisis: The Absence of Ethics in the English Classroom." Ethics. CCCC Meeting, Chicago, April 3, 1998.
"The Turn of the Trope: Fragmented Voice(s) in The Sun Also Rises." Hemingway's Fiction and the Art of Rhetoric. MLA Discussion Group sponsored by The Hemingway Society, Toronto, December 29, 1997.
"Intersecting Contingencies of Ethics: The Timeless Meets the Timely." Rethinking Ethics for the Postmodern Writing Classroom: Principles and Practices. CCCC Meeting, Phoenix, March 14, 1997.
"The Concept of Forestructure: a Philosophic Approach to the Teaching of Literature." Global Conversations on Language and Literacy: From Theory to Practice in the Teaching of Literature in the US and the UK. Second International Conference. National Council of Teachers of English. The University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, August 13, 1996.
"'Indian Camp': New Teaching Perspectives." Sixth International Hemingway Conference. Sun Valley, Idaho, July 22, 1996.
"Context and Forestructure in Cyberspace." The Information Explosion: Pitfalls and Possibilities. The Florida College English Association Annual Conference. Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, February 16, 1996.
"Argument by Tropos in Darwin's Origin of Species. Three Case Studies in the Rhetoric of Science: Darwin, Bronowski, Gödel. American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology. SCA National Conference. San Antonio, Texas, November 19, 1995.
"Rhetoric and Poetics: Reciprocal Interconnections." International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Tenth Biennial Conference. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 21, 1995.
Sipiora/9 "Cyberspace and Cultural Relations: A New Mother Tongue." Technology and Values: Determining the Cultural Landscape Through Cyberspace. CCCC Meeting, Washington, March 24, 1995.
"Computers and the Teaching of English," Florida College English Association. St. Petersburg, Florida. February 3, 1995.
"Hemingway and the Aging Superman." Aging and Identity Conference, USF, Tampa, Florida, October 21, 1994.
"Subjectivity and the Rhetorical Turn: Figural Masking in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises." Hemingway/Fitzgerald International Conference, Paris, France, July 6, 1994.
"Ideological Allegory: Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls." Ideologies in Journalism, Literature, and the Arts. 4th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria, August 23, 1994.
"Kairos As Mediating Force in Cultural Conflict." On and Off the Communication Triangle. CCCC Meeting, Nashville, March 18, 1994.
"The Revival of the Concept of Kairos: Contributions of Augusto Rostagni and Doro Levi." International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Ninth Biennial Conference. The University of Turin, July 21, 1993.
"Figural Language and Polysemy: The Influence of Aquinas on Modern Literary Theory." Seventh Annual Conference on Medievalism, Tampa, FL, October 22, 1992.
"Argument by Ethos and Tropos in Darwin's Origin of Species." Rhetoric Society of America's Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 22, 1992.
"Modes of Interrogation: Teaching Writing Through Questioning." The Communication Triangle. CCCC Meeting, Cincinnati, March 19, 1992.
"Exploring the Concept of Migrancy." Children of the Field: A Symposium on Migrant Worker Children. Sponsored by the American Studies Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, January 22, 1992
"Isocrates' Rhetoric and the Issue of Ethics." International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Eighth Biennial Conference. Johns Hopkins University, September 27, 1991.
"Native American Rhetoric in Native American Literature: Tropology in an Onondaga Iroquois Creation Myth." Ethnicity, Identity and the Problem of Academic Discourse. CCCC Meeting, Boston, March 22, 1991.
Sipiora/10 "The Autobiography as De-Facement: Figuring Franklin's Fiction." Biography and Autobiography: 1660-1830. 5th Annual De Bartolo Conference of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Tampa, February 15, 1991.
"Rhetoric and Ideology: Narrative Imbrication in For Whom the Bell Tolls." For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ideological Perspectives. MLA Discussion Group sponsored by The Hemingway Society, Chicago, December 28, 1990.
"Ethos and the Grammarian: Historical Perspectives. The Ethical Responsibilities of English Departments. Special Session, RMMLA, Salt Lake City, October 12, 1990.
"Value Theory in Death in the Afternoon." Fourth International Hemingway Conference. Boston, July 9, 1990.
"Kairos in the Discourse of Isocrates." Classical Rhetoric. Annual Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Arlington, TX, May 27, 1990.
"Codes or Purposes: Deontological and Teleological Ethics." Ethics Across the Disciplines: Writing, Reading, and Values in the Classroom. CCCC Meeting, Chicago, March 22, 1990.
"Rhetoric, Ethics, and Understanding: The Legacy of Isocrates." Intellectual History and Historiography. Annual Conference of the Southern Humanities Council, Clearwater, FL, February 16, 1990.
"The Theory of Kairos in Aristotle's Rhetoric." Significant Theories and Theorists: A Colloquium on Rhetoric's History. The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, American Chapter, San Francisco, November 17, 1989.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Larger Context." Hemingway in Idaho Conference. Boise State University, June 10, 1989.
"Ideology in Advanced Writing." Writing on Ethical and Social Issues in Advanced Composition. CCCC Meeting, Seattle, March 16, 1989.
"Social Issues in Writing Courses." Ethical and Political Topics in Advanced Writing. MLA Division on Teaching as a Profession, San Francisco, December 28, 1987.
"James L. Kinneavy's Contribution to Rhetoric and Composition: History, Theory, Praxis." The Single Most Significant Contribution to Contemporary Theory in Rhetoric and Composition: Three Viewpoints. MLA Discussion Group on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition, San Francisco, December 29, 1987.
“The Rhetoric of Homily in Medieval Drama." Medieval Literature Session, SAMLA, Atlanta, November 5, 1987.
Sipiora/11 "Kairos and Chronos: A Fundamental Rhetorical Distinction." The University of Arizona, February 2, 1987.
"The Concept of Kairos and Its Application to Contemporary Composition." The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 20, 1987.
"Rhetorical Strategies and Structures in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." Tulane University, March 3, 1984.
TEACHING and RESEARCH AWARDS
USF Jerome Krivanek Award for Teaching Excellence (Awarded in 2009)
Robert F. Lucid Award for Excellence in Mailer Studies (The Norman Mailer Society, October 17, 2008.)
Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF (Awarded in December 1996 with a $5,000 increase in base salary.)
AT&T Grant ($125,000 awarded in 1994 to develop a multi-media classroom dedicated to the English Department, which is CPR 202. This room is used for film studies and professional and technical writing instruction.)
Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF (Awarded in May, 1994 with a $5,000 increase in base salary.)
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences, USF (Awarded in May, 1991 with a $5,000 stipend.)
University of South Florida Research Council Award for 1991. (Awarded in March, 1991 with a $6,000 stipend.)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor, The University of South Florida, 1999 to present
Associate Professor (tenured), The University of South Florida, 1991 to 1999
Assistant Professor, The University of South Florida, 1985 to 1991
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association Sipiora/12 CCCC
National Council of Teachers of English
Hemingway Society
Fitzgerald Society
Norman Mailer Society
ADDENDUM
Dissertations Currently in Progress (2014-2015)
1. Robin Rogers, “Victims and Vixens: Women in Chopin, Hemingway, and Nabokov” (2014 expected completion.)
2. James Ricci, “A Tale as Fast as Light: Negotiating Interpretive Values between Cinematic Narrative and a New Media Audience” (2015 expected completion).
3. Shannon Tivnan Zinck, “Constructed Memory: Gendered Identity and Domestic Space in the Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen and Edith Wharton” (2015 expected completion).
4. Christine Auger, “Disillusionment and Dissolution in Fitzgerald’s Fictitious Relationships” (2015 expected completion).
5. Jackie Smith, “Domesticity as Resistance in Women’s Narratives of Confinement” (2015 expected completion).
6. Akeyla Silver, “The Visual Arts in Twentieth-Century- Fiction” (2015 expected completion).
Dissertations Directed to Completion (1992-2014)
1. Adam Breckenridge, “A Rhetorical Consideration of Rogue Cinema.” (2014)
2. Kurt Fawver, “The Terror of Possibility: A Reevalutation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic.” (2013)
3. Alan Green, “The Post- 9/11 Aesthetic: Repositioning the Zombie Film in the Horror Genre.” (2013)
4. JoNette LaGamba, "Women’s Identities in Film Determined by Gender Relations." (2012) Sipiora/13
5. Amy Clanton, Religion as Aesthetic Creation: Ritual and Belief in William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley.” (2011)
6. Joy Taylor Mitchell, “Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in Playboy's Literature.” (2011)
7. K. Vivian Taylor, "Germanness, Gender, and Genre: The Multiple Marginalization of Lotte Reiniger and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).” (2011)
8. Keith Cavedo, "Alien Encounters and the Alien/Human Dichotomy in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris." (2010)
9. Kathleen Robinson. “Testimony of Trauma” Ernest Hemingway’s Narrative Progression in Across the River and Into the Trees.” (2010)
10. Constance Holmes, “Trials and Verdicts: Narratives of Reflections in The Good Soldier and Lolita.” (2010)
11. Elisabetta LoFaro, “Mario Untersteiner’s ‘Le Origini Sociali della Sofistica’: A Translation with Commentary.” (2009)
12. Bob Batchelor, “Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike’s New America.” (2009)
13. Gwen Anderson, “Interrogating Virginia Woolf and the Suffrage Movement.” Co-directed with Pat Rogers. (2009)
14. Ashley Minix Donnelly, "Blank Power: The Social and Political Criticism of Blank Fiction and Cinema." (2008)
15. Aurora Mackay, “Faust in Lolita: Composing Sins, Souls, and Rhetorical Redemption.” (2007)
16. Rachel Naor, "The Deconstructive Play of Suzan-Lori Parks." (2007)
17. Jenifer D’Elia, “Standing Up With the King: A Critical Look at Stephen King.” (2007)
18. Michael L. Shuman, “Otto Rank and the Modernist Identity.” (2007)
19. Gueorgui Manolov, “Elements of Narrative Discourse in Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.” (2007)
20. Christopher Tidwell, "Mingling Incantations": Hart Crane's Neosymbolist Poetics.” (2006)
Sipiora/14 21. Thomas Smith, “Multiple Voices and the Single Individual: Kierkegaard’s Concept of Irony as a Tool for Reading The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Mrs. Dalloway, and Ulysses.” (2006)
22. David Steiling, “Icon, Representation, and Virtuality in Reading the Graphic Narrative.” (2006)
23. Diane Strauser Alvarez, “Linguistic Tools and a Holistic Context for Literary Criticism.” (2005)
24. Codrina Cozma, “The Power of the Spoken Word: Literature in the American Mass Media of the 1990s.” (2005)
25. Raymond Michael Vince, “War Heroism, and Narrative: Hemingway, Tolkien, and Le Carre—Storytellers to the Modern World.” (2005)
26. Julia Rawa, “The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory.” (2004)
27. Sally Bartlett, “The Female Phantasmagoria: fantasy and Third Force Psychology in Four Feminist Fictions.” (2004)
28. Marc Seals, "Raymond Chandler and the Errant Knight-Errant: Philip Marlowe As Postmodern Prophet." (2004)
29. William Rand, “Toward an Evolved Study of Chester Himes.” (2004)
30. Elena Stone Shiflet, “By Definition: Ciceronian Residue in the Death of the American Real.” (2004).
31. Deborah Bowen Silverman, “Toward an E-Criture Feminine: Woolf, Duplessis, Cixous, and the Emerging Discursive Tradition in Women’s Online Diaries.” (2004)
32. Kimberly Wasserman, “The New Puerto-Rican-American Literature in Spanish: Volume 1: Beyond Politics and Displeasure in the Fiction of René Marqués.”(2004)
33. Kathleen Nicklaus, “Lolita Times Three: ‘The Secret of Durable Pigments’: Problems, Processes, and Im(possibilities).” (2004)
34. John Hughes, “Minimalism and Morality: The Achievement of Frederick Barthelme.” (2003)
35. Raj Chandarlapaty, “Countercultural Writers of the post-World War II Period: The Response to Cultural Imperialism.” (2003)
36. Gerald Lucas, “The Coding of Posthuminism: Mut(il)ation, Trauma, and Infection in Contemporary Speculative Fiction.” (2002) Sipiora/15
37. James Brecher, “Connections: Modernism to the Beats and Beatles and on to a Future American Literature.” (2002)
38. Anne Janice Sumner, “Breaking, Disrupting, and Destabilizing: Reading Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.” (2001)
39. Edward James Sanders, “Classical Rhetoric and Biblical Hermeneutics: Galatians as Epistle.” (2000)
40. Jeffrey Karon, “The Ethics of Writing.” (2000)
41. Ellen Lee Noto, “Modernist Irony and the Problematized narrator in Faulkner’s Snopes Trilogy.” (1999)
42. Martha F. Barnett, “The Grotesque Southern Women of Twentieth Century Fiction: The Women of Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy.” (1998)
43. Michael Pinsky, “Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction.” (1998)
44. Heidi Kelchner, “Jack London and American Literary naturalism: Modes of Contrariety.” (1997)
45. Maura Gage, “Identity, Masculinity, and Femininity in the Poetry of Gary Snyder.” (1997)
46. David Erben, “Textual Space and Ritual Transformation in Contemporary Native American Fiction.” (1997)
47. Ann Bunting, “Writing to Fluency: Stylistic Variations Across Disciplines.” (1994)
48. Barbara Malinowska Jolley, “Dynamics of Being, Space, and Time in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and John Ashbery.” (1994)
49. Dennis J. Ryan, “Modernist Composing Techniques and the Linguistic Sign: A Study of the Early Works of Ernest Hemingway (1921-1924).” (1993)
50. Richard La Manna, “The Art of Postmodern detection: Fictions and Epistemological experience in the Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Umberto Eco.” (1992)