Masters

PhD
  LCS

		What Makes the Program Distinctive?
		Faculty
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		Current Courses
		Dissertations and Job Placements
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Courses

Dissertations in Literary and Cultural Studies, 1992-2006

• Courtney Maloney (2006). Images of Steel: Labor, Memory and the Cultural Work of Corporate Photographers
• Dana Gliserman (2006). The English Malady: Egendering Insanity in the Eighteenth Century
• Victor Cohen (2005). Heroes for Sale: Radical Politics and Genre Formation in Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
• Michael Rectenwald (2004). The Publics of Science: Periodicals and the Making of British Science 1820-1860
• Elizabeth Heffelfinger (2004). Black Marketeers and Other Bad Actors: Narratives of Economic Citizenship in American Film, 1945-1955
• Doug Davis (2003). Strategic Functions: Crisis, Invention, and Discovery in the American Narratives of Nuclear Defense
• James Smith (2003). Novel Epistemologies: Cultures of Reform in the Age of Locke
• Richard W. Rees (2003). Transforming Ethnicity: A History of the Concept in the Context of American Whiteness and American Power
• Maria F. Magro (2002). Gender and Authorship From Milton to Behn
• Charles Cunningham (2001). Solidarity, Sympathy, Contempt: The Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression.
• John Eperjesi (2001). The Imperialist Imaginary: Culture, Capital, and the Formation of an American Pacific.
• Michelle Moe (2000). The Public Is the People: The Professional-Managerial Class in the Public Sphere of American Realism.
• Valerie Begley (2000). Constructing Housewives: Narratives of Domesticity in the United States, 1945-65.
• Geoffrey F. K. Sauer (2000). Negotiating the 'Reform' of Internet Culture.
• Karen Ann O'Kane (1999). Inventing Modernism: An Institutional History.
• Andrew Kurtz (1998). Avant Gardes: Postmarxism and the Hegemonic Contest.
• Jean Petras-Sieper (1998). The Scopic Economy of Biomedicine and the Social Relations of Health Care.
• Paul Gripp (1996). The Future Looking Backward: Progressivism and the American Novel, 1893-1917.
• Craig A. Dionne (1992). Reading New Historicism: A Genealogy of the Theoretical Pretexts of Renaissance New Historicism.

Placements in Teaching Jobs

Since its inception in 1986, the Ph.D. program in Literary and Cultural Studies (formerly called Literary and Cultural Theory) at Carnegie Mellon University has been preparing its graduates for positions at universities around the U.S. Our PhDs have found full-time or tenure-track positions on faculties of English, Writing, or Technical Communications at these institutions, among others:

• Bowling Green State University (English)
• Eastern Michigan University (English)
• Eastern Illinois University (English)
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Iowa State University
• Middle Tennessee State University (English)
• Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
• North Carolina Central University
• Skidmore College
• UCLA (Writing Programs)
• University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• University of Washington (Technical Communications)