School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Thesis Supervision by American Studies Staff

MA - Current

Fiona Blakely

Pain and Virtuality as Liminal Spaces
(American Studies)

Annie Finnie

Animality and anthropomorphism in human-animal narratives: The case of Janet Frame
(English)

Carrie Zhang

'Airing Dirty Laundry: Chinese and Chinese-American responses to Amy Tan
(American Studies)

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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
(Art History and Theory)

Lindsey Spitler

Visual Utterances: Discourse, Performance, and Photographic Representation
(Cultural Studies)

Hamish Win

The Lost Animal Saga
(Cultural Studies)

Kathryn Yeoman

Therapy as Resistance
(American Studies)

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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
(American Studies)

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)
(Political Studies)

M. Evans

Subcultures, Whiteness and Youth Identities: A Case Study of Ferals in Aotearoa-New Zealand
(American Studies)

D. Greenfield
(Fulbright Scholar)

Medical Management and Identity Politics of Intersex/DSDs
(American Studies)

C. Gregg

A Savage Tongue: Speaking, Reading, Writing Cathy Acker
(American Studies)

P. Harvey

'Politics, Platitudes and Polemics': Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, and Identity Politics in the Contemporary American University
(American Studies)

K. Healey

Objectification and Subjectivity Explored in the Personal Online Journals of SuicideGirls.com
(English)

J. Hester

Bricolage and Blackboxing: Exploring the Responses of Consumer and Heath Providers to Controversy about the Third Generation Contraceptive Pill
(Sociology)

R. Lean

Daughters Fight the Empire: Cinematic Allegory, Family Breakdown, and the Empire – Settler Colony Relationship
(American Studies, Film Studies)

T. Lewis

Knowledge Without Legislation? The Changing Role of the Intellectual in an Era of Pluralism
(American Studies)

C. Lilly

New Zealand Rugby Players in Japan : An Insight into their History and their Cultural and Professional Experiences
(Japanese)

L. Mayor

Negotiating Sexualities: Magazine Representations of Sexualities and the Talk of Teen and Young Adult Readers
(Cultural Studies)

G. McCabe

Soccer and Transformation in Contemporary Japan
(Asian Studies)

K. Montgomery

Visibility's Curse: The Politics of Cultural Memory and Display
(Cultural Studies)

B. Morris

Where is Your Rupture? The Modern and Postmodern Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction
American Studies)

M. Mullen

'Gonnections': The U.S. in Vietnam in the U.S.
(American Studies)

G. Murphy

Freedom in the Abstract: An Investigation of the Men's Movement in New Zealand and the United States
(American Studies)

G. Phelong

The Ethics of Transgression: Postmodern Critical Practice and Contemporary American Short Fiction
(American Studies)

A. Randal

Health or Appearance? Reasons for Exercise, Body Image and Self-esteem in Males
(Psychology)

R. Robinson

Peter Jackson: A New Zealand Film Auteur
(American Studies)

K. Saunders

Queering Later Life Sexuality
(Gender Studies)

R. Spencer

Ritual and Transcendence in Popular American Apocalyptic Film.
(American Studies, Film Studies)

P. Straver

Importing America: A Cross-cultural Analysis of the Impact of American Television Programmes in New Zealand
(American Studies)

G. Treacher

Sex Drugs and Women: Exploring the Construction of Technologies and Sexualities in the Development, Marketing and Use of Sexuopharmaceuticals for Women
(Gender Studies)

J. Trost

Rabbit Bound
(American Studies)

N. Wilde

New Zealand Women in the Design Industry: A Feminist Analysis
(Gender Studies)

K. Yeoman

Young and Restless: Negotiating Youthful Gender Identities in a 'Postfeminist' Era
(American Studies)

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PhD - Recent

L. Borrie

Wild Ones: 1950s Youth and Containment Culture
(American Studies)

J. Cobley

The Museum Profession in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case Study in Economic Restructuring and Investigating the Movement Towards Feminization
(Gender Studies)

V. Demirkan

Gay Spaces in Film
(Cultural Studies)

H. Gibson

The Invisible Whiteness of Being: An Exploration of Whiteness with Women in Aotearoa/ New Zealand & The Implications for Antiracist Education
(Education)

C. Gregg

American Aphorism: A Genealogy of Anti-Foundational American Literature
(American Studies)

S. Hardman

It's a Living! The Postwar Redevelopment of the American Working Class Novel
(American Studies)

J. Harrison

Negotiating Motherhood Identity: Representations, Resistances and Regulations
(Education)

R. Jeffrey

Radio 'Magic': Women, Culture and Community Access Broadcasting
(Gender Studies)

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
(American Studies)

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