Recent Completed Dissertations

Title Author Advisor(s) Completed
"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: American Poetry and Film, 1895-1930" Michael Devine Prof. North 2011
"Graveyard Plots: Menippean Afterlives and Satiric Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Britain" Elizabeth Goodhue Prof. Deutsch 2011
"Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America" Adam Gordon Prof. Colacurcio
Prof. Looby
2011
“Divided Allegiances: Eleanor Ross Taylor and Post-War American Poetry” Eric Gudas Prof. North
Prof. Yenser
2011
"Shame and Empathy in Chicana/o Literature" Georgina Guzman Prof. Gaspar De Alba
Prof. Perez-Torres
2011
"Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror: Coloridge and the Art of Translation” Julian Knox Prof. Burwick 2011
“The Serial Art of Henry James or, How Periodicals Shaped the Art Novel” Adam Lowenstein Prof. Bristow
Prof. McGurl
2011
"Cultural Mediations in Contemporary Asian American and Latina/o Migrant Fiction” Christina Nagao Prof. Cheung 2011
“The Biocultural Imaginary: Contemporary Narratives of Human Variation and Genetics in the Sciences and the Arts” Olivia Banner Prof. Hayles 2010
“Bachelor Performers: Self-Reliance, Marriage, and Utopia in the Antebellum Era” Kevin Cooney Prof. Packer 2010
“The Great American Songbooks: Modernism, Musical Texts, and the Value of Popular Culture” T. Austin Graham Prof. Sundquist 2010
“Poets, Portraits, and the New York School” Jesse Johnson Prof. North 2010
“Remembering the Internment in Post-World War II Japanese American Fiction” Emily Morishima Prof. Ling 2010
“Strange Bedfellows: A Post-Feminist Study of Eros from Ovid to Edna St. Vincent Millay” Cristina Nehring
Prof. Post
Prof. Yenser
2010
“Visible Creation: Reading the Cosmos in Milton's Paradise Lost” Valerie Shepard Prof. Post 2010
"Sacred Travelers: Diasporic Narratives of Pacific Literature" Erin Suzuki Prof. Behdad 2010
“Disability of Color: Figuring the Black Body in American Law, Literature, and Culture” Dennis Tyler Prof. Yarborough 2010
"Politics, Patronage, and Orthodoxy in Late Medieval England" Alison Walker Prof. Baswell 2010
“Discursive Possession: Ethiopian Discourse in Medieval European and Eighteenth-Century English Literature” Wendy Belcher Prof. Nussbaum 2009
"Women, Devotion and the Exotic in Thirteenth-Century British Book Culture" Dorothy Kim Prof. Baswell 2009
“Acts of Genre: Literary Form and Bodily Injury in Contemporary Chicana and Asian American Women's Literature” Linda Greenberg Prof. Lee
Prof. Perez-Torres
2009
“Everyday Matters: Aesthetic Perception in Transcendentalist Writing” Alison Hills Prof. Looby 2009
“Print Panethnicities: From Coalitions to Networks in Asian American Cultural Production” Joyce Lee Prof. Cheung 2009
"Sisters in Crime: Black Femininity, Law, and Literature in American Culture" Courtney Marshall Prof. Little 2009
“Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction” Katie Marshall Prof. Seltzer 2009
"Monastic Literary Culture and Communities in England, 1066-1250" Thomas O'Donnell Prof. Baswell 2009
"Seeing Tongue, Tasting Eye: Words as Food in American Verse" John Reder Prof. Packer
Prof. Lincoln
2009
"Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction at a Proximate Distance in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1800-1850" Joseph Rezek Prof. Looby 2009
“Queer Natures: Feeling Degenerate in Literary Modernism” Sam See Prof. North 2009
“Corruption and Infected Sin: The Elizabethan Rhetorica of Decay” Bianca Ryan-Lopez Prof. Allen 2009
“A Dubious Hero for the Time: Roman Histories of Alexander the Great in Plantagenet England” C. Russell Stone Prof. Baswell 2009
“The Materials - Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication” Nathan Brown Prof. Hayles 2008
“Arnoldian Renouncements: Ethical Exemplarity and Modern Thought” James Caufield Prof. Bristow 2008
"Pochos, Vatos, and Other Types of Assimilation: Masculinities in Chicano Literature, 1940-2004" John Cutler Prof. Perez-Torres 2008
"Hellenism and English Women's Wirting, 1800-1840: Poetics of the Ephemeral" Noah Comet Prof. Mellor
Prof. Bristow
2008
“Revolutionary Republic of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s” Anthony Galluzzo Prof. Looby 2008
“Useful Fiction: Why Universities Need Middlebrow Literature” Melanie Ho Prof. McGurl 2008
“The British Romantic Reconstruction of Spain” John-David Lopez Prof. Burwick 2008
“Narratives of Romantic Masculinity Within the Long Eighteenth Century” James Masland Prof. Makdisi 2008
“Troubled Migrations: An Analysis of Caribbean-American Women's (Im)migration Literature” Keidra Morris Prof. Sharpe
Prof. Smith
2008
"The Postimperial Imagination: The emergence of a Transnational Literary Space, from Samuel Beckett to Hanif Kureishi" John Naito Prof. Behdad 2008
“The Exotics of Representation in Twentieth-Century Korean American Literature” Grace Park Prof. Cheung 2008
"The Curatorial Imagination in England, 1600-1752" Sean Silver Prof. Deutsch 2008
“The Games Fairies Play: Otherworld Intruder in Medieval Literary Narratives” Lisa Spangenberg Prof. Nagy 2008
"Indigenous Modernity and the Making of Americans, 1890-1935" Kathleen Washburn Prof. Lincoln 2008
"Brilliant Gloom: The Contradictions of British Gothic Drama, 1768-1823" Heather Wozniak Prof. Mellor 2008
"Musical Letters: Eighteenth-Century Writins on Music and the Fictions of Burney, Radcliffe, and Scott" Noelle Chao Prof. Gallagher
Prof. Lewis
2007
“Transpacific Femininities: Unmapping the Narratives of Philippine-U.S. Contact” Denise Cruz Prof. Cheung
Prof. Yarborough
2007
“Continent's End: Literacy Regionalism in the Modern West” Geneva Gano Prof. North 2007
"Irish Realixm: Women, The Novel, and Nationall Politics, 1870-1922" Alison Harvey Prof. Bristow 2007
“Imperial Animals: Romanticism and the Politicized Animal” Darren Howard Prof. Mellor 2007
"The ‘Kynde Bloode of Engeland’: Remaking Englishness in the Middle English Prose Brut" Margaret Lamont Prof. Baswell 2007
"Savage Violence: Technology, Civility, and Sovereignty in British Fiction, 1682-1745" Chris Loar Prof. Nussbaum 2007
“Object Vanishings in Early Modern Narrative” David Long Prof. Gallagher 2007
“Postcolonial Blues: Gender and the Mobile Literacies of the Black Atlantic” Samantha Pinto Prof. Sharpe 2007
“Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media” Jessica Pressman Prof. Hayles 2007
“Embodied Citizenship: Disability in the National Imagination” Emily Russell Prof. Deutsch
Prof. Lee
2007
"Wandering, Form, and the Sentimental Novel" Melissa Sodeman Prof. Nussbaum 2007
"Asian Fighters in U.S. Minority Literature: Iconology, Intimacy and Other Imagined Communities" Grace Yeh Prof. Lee 2007