American Studies Graduates

2024 Graduate Profiles

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Lauren Batza

Guilt Trope: Constructing the Epistolary Angel of the American Northeast from 1850 to 1899

C.G. Branch

Silver Screen Sex Work: The Spectacular Mythology of “Prostitution” in 1960s American Cinema

Misty Carlisle

Elvis Presley's Political Activism through Performance

Diana Choi

Limits of the Body: Pathology as Metric and Discipline in the American Horror Genre
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Junyoung Kim

American Orientalism and Speculative Fiction: Examining the Matrix and After Yang
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Cat Stoehr

Dancer as Worker: Histories of Labor in Modern American Ballet

Scott Underwood

From Jim Crow to Hee Haw: The Changing Presentation of the Banjo in the American Imagination