Current Dissertations
Emily Artiano, ”Translingual Bodies and the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Atlantic” (working title), E. Dillon
Greg Cass, “Transatlantic Poetry in the Long 18th Century: Milton, Empire, and the Poetics of New World Liberty” (working title), E. Dillon
Tabitha Clark, “Documentary Modernism and the Storyteller” (working title), C. Kaplan
Sarah Connell, “‘No Room in History’: Genre and Identity in British and Irish National Histories, 1541-1691″ (working title), M. Leslie
Lana Cook, “Altered States: Psychedelics and the Fantastic Aesthetic of the Sixties” (working title), C. Kaplan
Mary Crawley, “Shifting Boundaries of the American ‘Self’ in Early American Fiction” (working title), E. Dillon
Genie Giaimo, “Unable to Remember But Unwilling to Forget: Cognition, Perception and Memory in the Contemporary American Memoir” (working title), L. Lefkovitz
Brent Griffin, “‘Art for Humanity’s Sake’: 1930s Midwestern Radical Regionalism, Little Magazines, and the Politics of Regional Folk Culture” (working title), C. Kaplan
Sarah Hastings, “‘Words are Women’: Marriage, Language and the Production of ‘Woman’ in Eighteenth-Century British Women’s Fiction” (working title), N. Aljoe and S. Peterfreund
Elizabeth Hopwood, “Eating the Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Gastronomic Borders in 19th Century American and Caribbean Literature” (working title), N. Aljoe and E. Dillon
Steven Kapica, “Negotiating Obscenity: Rhetoric and Popular Culture’s Mediation of the Obscene” (working title), C. Gallagher
Tabitha Kenlon, “” (working title), E. Dillon
Shun Kiang, “‘Only Connect”: Other Friendships, Intimacies, and Citizenships in the Novel, 1895-1924″ (working title), L. Green
Anne Kingsley, “A Poem among the Diagrams: Women’s Poetry and the Poetics of Archival Recovery” (working title), M. Loeffelholz
James McGrath, “Borrowed Country: Tradition and Innovation in Twenty-First Century American Poetry” (working title), C. Kaplan
Jessica Nelson, “‘Good Education, Good Position, and Good Blood:’ The Creole Woman and Women’s Literature of the West Indies, 1801-1934″ (working title), L. Green
Duyen Nguyen, “Orphans, Immigrants, and Empire: Making and Unmaking Narratives of Identity in the Victorian Novel” (working title), L. Green
Victoria Papa, ”The Invention of Survival: Time and the Transformation of Trauma in American Modernist Literature” (working title), C. Kaplan
Alicia Peaker, “‘The Different Way We Tried to Respond’: Women, Literature, and the Environment 1900-1950″ (working title), L. Green
Jenna Sciuto, “‘Postcolonial Palimpsests: Fragmented Subjectivities, Sexual Violence, and Colonial Inheritance in Tierno Monénembo, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, and William Faulkner” (working title), N. Aljoe, E. Dillon
Megan Tarquinio Roche, “The Pleasure of Intertext: Towards a Cognitive Poetics of Adaptation” (working title), K. Kelly
Kathryn Templeton, “Documentary Modernism and Depression America” (working title), C. Kaplan
2012-2013
Jennifer Sopchockchai Bankard, “Testing Reality’s Limits: ‘Mad’ Scientists, Realism, and the Supernatural in Late Victorian Popular Fiction”, L. Green
Aparna Mujumdar, “Colonial Education, Mimicry and Forms of Counter Knowledge: Representations of Schooling in the Novels of Naipaul, Barnes, Brodber and Ghosh”, P. Mullen
Stephanie L. Pappas, “Research Shows: Recasting Research Instruction in Writing-about-Writing Approaches to First-Year Composition”, E. Britt
James Richie, “Third Way Poets: Navigating the Ontological/Epistemological, Subjective, and Linguistic Uncertainty of Modern and Postmodern Poetry”, G. Rotella
Danielle Skeehan, ”Creole Domesticity: Women, Commerce, and Kinship in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Writing”, E. Dillon
Arturo Zilleruelo, “‘Severer Interventions’: William Wordsworth and the Play of the Line”, S. Peterfreund
2011-2012
Mary Balestraci, ”Victorian Voices: Gender Ideology and Shakespeare’s Female Characters“, L. Green
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, “Ambivalent Recognition: Mapping Intimacies in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf“, L. Green
Tanya Zhelezcheva, “The Poetics of the Incomplete in the Works of Thomas Traherne (1638-1674)“, F. Blessington
2010-2011
Hanna Musiol, ”‘Objects of Emancipation’: The political dreams of modernism“, C. Kaplan
2009-2010
Michele Braun, “Cyborgs and Clones: Production and Reproduction of Posthuman Figures in Contemporary British Literature“, K. Kelly
Tiffany Conroy, “‘Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say’: Political Dissent in Grigory Kozintsev’s Shakespeare“, H. Robinson
Laurel Kornhiser, “Junctions: The Railroad, Consumerism, and Deep Time in Nineteenth Century Literature“, G. Rotella
Jennifer K. Martin, “Rearing a Nation: Anna Letitia Barbauld as Artistic and Pedagogic Mother of the Romantic Citizen“, S. Peterfreund
Kurt Moellering, “William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Construction of the Green Atlantic World“, M. Loeffelholz
2008-2009
Ben Leubner, “The Limits of My Language: Wittgenstein and Contemporary American Poetry”, G. Rotella
2007-2008
Nichole DeWall, “‘A Plague o’ Both Your Houses’: Shakespeare and the Early Modern Plague Writing Tradition“, K. Howlett
Cory Grewell, “Subversive merit: The revision of the classical clever slave as witty servant and social satirist in the comedies of Ben Jonson“, K. Howlett
2005-2006
Susan Carlisle,”Night Walker: Henry David Thoreau and the Culture of Darkness”, W. Franklin
Amy Kaufman, ” ‘Ye Are Nat Wyse to Kepe the Swerde fro Me’: Feminist Re-vision of Malory’s Morte Darthur“, K. Kelly
Alexander Neill Moffett,”The Insistence of Memory: Mnemonic Transformations in Thomas Hardy, Henry Adams, Willa Cather, and Virginia Woolf”, G. Rotella
Charlotte Alethea Simmonds-Hammons, “‘I, Too, Sing, America’: A History of Rhetoric and Writing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Arkansas”, K. Kelly
2004-2005
Bonnie Asselin, “Community and Environment: The Village Sketches of Susan Fenimore Cooper, Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Austin”, W. Franklin
Donna Decker Reck, “Vexatiously Ever After: Marriage and the New Woman Novel”, L. Green
2003-2004
Lisa Perdigao, “Encrypting the Body: Entombment, Exhumation, and Figuration in Twentieth-Century American Literature”, G. Rotella
Lorianne Schaub, “‘Lying between the Earth and Heavens’: Spirituality of Place in 19th and 20th Century American Nature Writing”, W. Franklin
2002-2003
Mary Annas, “Continuity, Incongruity, and Class in Contemporary Canadian Literature: From Settler Colony Anxieties to Articulations of Home”, K. Kelly
Mark Bates, “Cultures of Connivance: Class (and Other) Voices in Post-War British Poetry and Fiction”, G. Rotella
Pavel Cenkl, “This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784-1911″, W. Franklin
Dan Collier, “A Boke Written Al with Rede Ynke: Authoritative Discourses, Women’s Devotional Writings, and the Body of Christ”, K. Kelly
2000-2001
Karen Aherne Garneau, “Machines, Memory and the Modern I”, M. Loeffelholz
Kathryn Mudgett, “Our Craft is a Lie: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story: Writing the Seaman’s Tale in Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature”, W. Franklin
Carmen Rivera , “In the Company of Women: The Narrative Voices of Contemporary U.S. Latina Writers”, B. TuSmith
1999-2000
Janet Elizabeth McIntire “H. Rider Haggard and the Victorian Occult”, F. Blessington
Douglas Andrew Reichart Powell, “Hick Town: The Cultural Politics of American Regionalism”, W. Franklin
1998-1999
Karen L. Paley, “Expressive Pedagogy: The Politics and Practice of Teaching the Personal Narrative”, K. Kelly
1996-1997
Lolly Ockerstrom, “The other Narratives: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939″, M. Loeffelholz
Anthony Craig Triglio, “A Poetics of Prophecy: Continuities of Visionary History in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg”, G. Rotella
1995-1996
Susan Alice Alves, “A Thousand Times I’d Rather be a Factory Girl: The Politics of Reading American and British Female Factory Workers Poetry, 1840-1914″, Sussman
Aleta Feinsod Cane “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Forerunner: Text and Context”, E. Harbert