What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

The doctoral dissertation may address any subject in literary or film/media theory. It is an opportunity for sustained inquiry into topics of literary-theoretical, literary-historical, or ...

Dissertation projects vary greatly and may draw upon a wide variety of epistemic traditions, scholarly orientations, and theoretical foundations. These include but are not limited to philosophical and ...