On May 18, 2018, a shooter entered Santa Fe High School, killing eight students and two teachers. Using ethnographic methods, this research examines the role of faith, rituals, language, and symbols in the trauma-affected community during the response, recovery, and resiliency e…
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This dissertation argues that at the 1972 Munich Olympics politics intervened into the Games on an unprecedented scale. This development was indeed ironic since Munich organizers had consciously attempted to stage Games—“Happy Games,” as they were touted-in which politics would …
This thesis sets out to display the dynamic role fragmented rituals have in the plot of tragedy. It contends that the tragedians deployed fifth-century ancient Greek religious practices from their cultural milieu as independent objects in their plots. Whether concise or fragment…
As a whole, this work serves to illuminate the tragic as a fundamental human phenomenon and an objective fact that is distinct not only from comedy and irony but from other forms of calamity and modes of failure. I consider three distinct sources of philosophical knowledge on tr…
Tragic Investigations argues that understanding American political conflict through the conventions of tragedy offers us a better understanding the stakes of these conflicts and our civic character. Drawing on the work of classical scholars who have situated the conflicts of Att…
No Greek tragedian has been more fiercely condemned for inconsistencies, paradoxes, and instabilities in his drama than Euripides. In fact, Euripidean tragedy, via his construction of Asian female characters, represented and complicated notions of racial, ethnic, gender and clas…
In this dissertation, I develop a theory of inclusive democratic communication, partly by studying contemporary activist performances such as Poverty Simulation, a role-playing game in which social service and government workers switch places with the poor people who are their c…
My dissertation project, The Twilight of the Absolute: Russian Symbolism and the Romantic Project, scrutinizes and interrogates the premises of so called “influence studies” by examining one tangled instance of cultural interaction—the relation between early German Romanticism (…
The subject of my research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a f…
This project attempts to provide a model/interpretive grid with what I deem to be an important puzzle attached to traditional Christianity vis-à-vis death and its relationship to the human person. It is my contention that a broadly Thomistic anthropology addresses two seemingly …
The biographical tradition asserts that Euripides had been a painter before he was a tragedian and that his artworks were on view in Megara. While this story is likely fanciful, it does testify to the long-standing recognition of Euripides’ interest in the visual arts. In this d…
This document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. It is detailed account of author's artistic process in directing Minnesota State University, Mankato’s production of Atreus in the Spring of 2021. The thesis chronicles the d…