| Alumnus |
Title of Dissertation |
| 2012 |
Christine Baumgarthuber
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Writing the Poverty Line: Dickens, Gissing, Orwell and the Social Scientists |
| Daniel Block
|
The Feel of Not to Feel it: British Romanticism, Melancholy Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion |
Christopher Holmes
|
Translation, the Hoax, and the Postcolonial Novel in a Global Age |
| Deborah Katz
|
Bodies Unbound: Race, Gender, and Embodied Identity Politics in Recent Ethnic American Fiction |
Wendy Lee
|
Miscegenated Genres: Interracial Form and the Politics of National Futurity in 1990s Asian American and African American Fiction
|
Laurel Rayburn
|
Un-hackneyed Solitudes: Recycled Fragments as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath |
Hannah Sikorski
|
A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewrites Literary History |
| 2011 |
| David Babcock |
Biopower, Professional Subjectivity, and Anglophone Postcolonial Literary Studies: Ishiguro, Coetzee, Ondaatje |
| Dominique Groeneveld |
The Spoils of Shame: Queer Affect in the Works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf |
| Jonna Iacono |
Unimagined Communities: Literary Forms and Nationalism in 19th-Century America |
| Corey McEleney |
The Pleasure in Error: Early Modern Romance and Poetic Futility |
| Bethany Shepherd |
Automatically Popular: Exoticism and Mass Media in Nineteenth-Century Fiction |
| Rebecca Summerhays |
Victorian Fiction and the Origins of Modern Feeling |
| Jason Zysk |
Reforming Corporeality: Eucharistic Semiotics in Early Modern English Drama |
| 2010 |
| David Ackley |
Britain and the Discourse of the Folk, 1798-1901 |
| John Melson |
Aesthetics in Place: Commercial Rhetoric and Local Identity in the British Atlantic, 1720-1820 |
| Gina Rucavado |
Class Difference and the Struggle for Cultural Authority: Rereadings of Sedgwick, Emerson, Whitman and Hemingway |
| Emily Steinlight |
The Society of the Surplus: Literary Form and the Politics of Population in Nineteenth-Century British Culture |
| Brian Sweeney |
Professional Sentiments: Professionalism, Affect And American Literature, 1830-1910 |
| Mary Denise Witzig |
The Letter of the Law: Rethinking the Woman Writer in the Works of Edith Wharton |
| 2009 |
| Dawn Blizard |
Authentic Modernism: Ekphrasis and Objecthood in British and American Literature of the Early Twentieth Century |
| Manu Chander |
The Promise of Art and the Problem of Difference: Aesthetic Universalism in Romantic-Era Britain |
| Avak Hasratian |
The Death of Difference in American Modernism: Faulkner, Barnes, West |
| Stephen Koelz |
Speculating Experience: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill |
| Jeannette Lee |
Gendered Nations: Black Subjectivity in Late Twentieth-Century African American and Black Caribbean Narratives |
| Sian Silyn Roberts |
Gothic Enlightenment: American Fiction and the Limits of Sympathy, 1789-1850 |
| Jacqueline Wernimont |
Writing Possibility: Early Modern Mathematics and Poetry |
| 2008 |
| Lea Allen |
Cosmopolite Subjectivities and the Mediterranean in Early Modern England |
| David Ben-Merre |
Time Travels: Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry |
| Lisa Brocklebank |
A Passion for Reading: Alternative Models of Sympathy in the Victorian Novel |
| Heather Fielding |
Fictions of the Machine: Capitalism, Technology, and the Modernist Novel |
| John Funchion |
Divisible Pasts: Nostalgia and Narrative in American Literature and Culture, 1848-1900 |
| Weihsin Gui |
Residual Nationalism and Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures |
| Kerin Holt |
Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Republic, 1776-1865 |
