University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-2017 Dead places : American horror, placelessness, and globalization. Katherine Ashley Wagner University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the American Popular Culture Commons Recommended Citation Wagner, Katherine Ashley, "Dead places : American horror, placelessness, and globalization." (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2704. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2704 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. DEAD PLACES: AMERICAN HORROR, PLACELESSNESS, AND GLOBALIZATION By Katherine Ashley Wagner B.A., La Sierra University, 2007 M.A., La Sierra University, 2009 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities Department of Comparative Humanities University of Louisville Louisville, KY May 2017 DEAD PLACES: AMERICAN HORROR, PLACELESSNESS, AND GLOBALIZATION By Katherine Ashley Wagner B.A., La Sierra University, 2007 M.A., La Sierra University, 2009 A Dissertation Approved on April 18, 2017 by the following Dissertation Committee: ___________________________________________ Dr. John Gibson ___________________________________________ Dr. Simona Bertacco ___________________________________________ Dr. Michael Williams ___________________________________________ Dr. Adam Lowenstein ii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to those who reminded me that I was never truly alone.