Thesis Supervision by American Studies Staff
MA - Current
Fiona Blakely |
Pain and Virtuality as Liminal Spaces |
Annie Finnie |
Animality and anthropomorphism in human-animal narratives: The case of Janet Frame |
| Carrie Zhang | 'Airing Dirty Laundry: Chinese and Chinese-American responses
to Amy Tan |
PhD - Current
| Kim Parrent | "Can the Hologram Resist?" Holographic Resistance, Rebellion and Agency in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager |
Barbara Garrie |
Tracing the Banal Aesthetic in Contemporary Photographic Art Practice |
Lindsey Spitler |
Visual Utterances: Discourse, Performance, and Photographic Representation |
Hamish Win |
The Lost Animal Saga |
Kathryn Yeoman |
Therapy as Resistance |
MA - Recent
| Kim Parrent | "Travelling through the Iris: Re-producing Whiteness in Stargate SG-1". |
S. Benbow |
Carving up the Subterranean text: A study of Raymond Carver's short fiction |
A. Bianchini |
'Freaks', 'Wackos' and 'Terrorists'? The Militia Movement, Legitimacy, and Right Wing Extremism in the United States (A Case Study Analysis of the Militia of Montana and the Michigan Militia Corps) |
M. Evans |
Subcultures, Whiteness and Youth Identities: A Case Study
of Ferals in Aotearoa-New Zealand |
D. Greenfield |
Medical Management and Identity Politics of Intersex/DSDs |
C. Gregg |
A Savage Tongue: Speaking, Reading, Writing Cathy Acker |
P. Harvey |
'Politics, Platitudes and Polemics': Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, and Identity Politics in the Contemporary American University |
K. Healey |
Objectification and Subjectivity Explored in the Personal Online Journals of SuicideGirls.com |
J. Hester |
Bricolage and Blackboxing: Exploring the Responses of Consumer and Heath Providers to Controversy about the Third Generation Contraceptive Pill |
R. Lean |
Daughters Fight the Empire: Cinematic Allegory, Family Breakdown, and the Empire – Settler Colony Relationship |
T. Lewis |
Knowledge Without Legislation? The Changing Role of the Intellectual in an Era of Pluralism |
C. Lilly |
New Zealand Rugby Players in Japan : An Insight into their History and their Cultural and Professional Experiences |
L. Mayor |
Negotiating Sexualities: Magazine Representations of Sexualities and the Talk of Teen and Young Adult Readers |
G. McCabe |
Soccer and Transformation in Contemporary Japan |
K. Montgomery |
Visibility's Curse: The Politics of Cultural Memory and
Display |
B. Morris |
Where is Your Rupture? The Modern and Postmodern Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction |
M. Mullen |
'Gonnections': The U.S. in Vietnam in the U.S. |
G. Murphy |
Freedom in the Abstract: An Investigation of the Men's Movement in New Zealand and the United States |
G. Phelong |
The Ethics of Transgression: Postmodern Critical Practice and Contemporary American Short Fiction |
A. Randal |
Health or Appearance? Reasons for Exercise, Body Image and Self-esteem in Males |
R. Robinson |
Peter Jackson: A New Zealand Film Auteur |
K. Saunders |
Queering Later Life Sexuality |
R. Spencer |
Ritual and Transcendence in Popular American Apocalyptic Film. |
P. Straver |
Importing America: A Cross-cultural Analysis of the Impact of American Television Programmes in New Zealand |
G. Treacher |
Sex Drugs and Women: Exploring the Construction of Technologies and Sexualities in the Development, Marketing and Use of Sexuopharmaceuticals for Women |
J. Trost |
Rabbit Bound |
N. Wilde |
New Zealand Women in the Design Industry: A Feminist Analysis |
K. Yeoman |
Young and Restless: Negotiating Youthful Gender Identities in a 'Postfeminist' Era |
PhD - Recent
L. Borrie |
Wild Ones: 1950s Youth and Containment Culture |
J. Cobley |
The Museum Profession in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case Study in Economic Restructuring and Investigating the Movement Towards Feminization |
V. Demirkan |
Gay Spaces in Film |
H. Gibson |
The Invisible Whiteness of Being: An Exploration of Whiteness with Women in Aotearoa/ New Zealand & The Implications for Antiracist Education |
C. Gregg |
American Aphorism: A Genealogy of Anti-Foundational American Literature |
S. Hardman |
It's a Living! The Postwar Redevelopment of the American
Working Class Novel |
J. Harrison |
Negotiating Motherhood Identity: Representations, Resistances and Regulations |
R. Jeffrey |
Radio 'Magic': Women, Culture and Community Access Broadcasting |
B. Kaiser |
Fragments of Communication: The Concept of Debate and Three Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Debating Societies (1878-1902), an American Context and Habermas's Communicative Action |
B. Nielsen |
Werewolves, Mothers and Femme Fatales: Women and Girls in New Scary Movies |
