Current Dissertation Research

Title Author Advisor(s)
Things of Darkness: The Cursed Objects of British Horror Fiction, 1890-1933 Anthony Camara Prof. Bristow
How to Become an Author: The Art and Business of Literary Advice Handbooks from 1884-1940 John Caughey Prof. Grossman
Prof. McGurl
"Women, and Nothing But Women": Literature and Feminine Singularity Ronjaunee Chatterjee Prof. Bristow
Tragic Laughter, Comic Tears: Genre and Affect, 1660-1760 Vivian Davis Prof. Nussbaum
The game is not up: Reading the Asian American fiction Tara Fickle Prof. Lee
Prof. McGurl
Occult Americans: Discourse at the Margins of Nineteenth Century Literature Lana Finley Prof. Looby
Erotic Negativity and Victorian Aestheticism, 1864-1896 Dustin Friedman Prof. Bristow
The AIDS Poets 1988-1994: From the Deictic Fantasy to Lyric Queerness Aaron Gorelik Prof. Little
Envisioning Backgrounds: Female Orphans of the Bildungsroman Laura Haupt Prof. North
Spectral Evidence of an Invisible World: Remapping the Puritan Supernatural Alice Henton Michael Colacurcio
Necessary Evils: Tragic Form in an Age of Enlightenment Alex Eric Hernandez Prof. Nussbaum
The Surprising Times of the Modernist Novel Katherine Isokawa Prof. North
The Human Body in Civil War Literature Allison Johnson Prof. Colacurcio
Legal Culture and the Making of English Literature, 1350-1450 Andrea Jones Prof. Kipling
The Whole New American Poetry: Alternative Technologies and the Raw Susan Lewak Prof. North
Disability and Medieval Aristocracy: Werewolves, Lepers and the King's Body Francesca Marx Prof. Baswell
Prof. Chism
The Rise of Writer's Block: Myths and Realities of American Literary Production Kevin Moore Prof. Sundquist
Alien Love: Passing, Race, and the Ethics of the Neighbor in Post-War African American Novels (1945-1956) Hannah Nahm Prof. Yarborough
Literature and the Public House: Regulating Sociability, 1740-1840 Ian Newman Prof. Makdisi
Time: Temporal Syncretism in Nineteenth-Century Life Writings by Black Women Erica Ohugha Prof. Yarborough
Solid Air: Atmospheric Communication and the Effacement of Character in the Victorian Novel Justine Pizzo Prof. Bristow
Prof. Grossman
Breaking It New: Poetry, Prosthesis, and the Art of the Modern Body Valerie Popp Prof. North
Literary Gestations: Giving Birth to Writing, 1720-1830 Elizabeth Raisanen Prof. Mellor
Fashioning the Fashionable Novel: Social Exclusivity and the Form of English Fiction, 1824-1848 Josephine Richstad Prof. Grossman
Perpetual Refugee and the Unmaking of the Global World Maureen Shay Prof. Sharpe
Programmerhood: Composing Code and Writing Literature David Shepard Prof. Hayles
Reginald Pecock and Vernacular Pedagogy in Pre-Reformation England Jennifer Smith Prof. Kelly
Marvelous Generations: Genealogical Narratives and Romance in Late Medieval England, Portugal, and Castile Sara Torres Prof. Baswell
Prof. Gallagher
Romanticism, Radicalism, and Inoculation Fuson Wang Prof. Makdisi
Prof. Mellor
The Rise of Empire and of Arts": Aesthetic Culture and the Novel in Early America, 1789-1812 Katherine Webster Prof. Colacurcio
Bookish Sexualities: Fine Press Printing and the museum Archive, 1871-1914 Daniel Williford Prof. Bristow
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(Extra) Ordinary People: Ginsberg and the Raw Poets