2015
Jacqueline Ardam
Reading from A to Z: The Alphabetic Sequence in Experimental Literature and Visual Art
Advisor: Prof. Michael North
Ronjaunee Chatterjee
“Women, and Nothing But Women”: Literature and Feminine Singularity
Advisor: Professor Joseph Bristow
Matthew Dubord
The Organization of Organizations: Bureaucratic Administration and Domestic Comfort in the Victorian Sequence Novel
Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Grossman
Christina Richieri Griffin
Omniscience Incarnate: Being In and Of the World in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Grossman
Amanda Hollander
The FabianChild: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1915
Advisor: Prof. Joseph Bristow
Kimberly Mack
The Fictional Black Blues Figure: Blues Music and the Art of Narrative Self-Invention
Advisor: Prof. Richard Yarborough
Francesca Marx
Transformation and Medieval Aristocracy: Werewolves, Lepers and the King’s Body
Advisors: Prof. Baswell, Prof. Chris Chism
Lisa Mendelman
Modern Sentimentalism: Feeling, Femininity, and Female Authorship in Interwar America
Advisor: Prof. Michael North
Christian Reed
Genre and Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Advisor: Prof. Christopher Looby
Shirley Tung
A Self-Reflexive Journey: Imagining Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Travel Narrative
Shirley Tung
Advisor: Prof. Felicity Nussbaum
Amanda Waldo
The Ethical Consumer: Narratives of Social and Environmental Change in Contempoarary American Literature
Advisor: Prof. Allison Carruth
Daniel Williford
The Aesthetic Book of Decadent Literature, 1870-1914
Advisor: Prof. Joseph Bristow
Amy Wong
Victorian Talk: Human Media and Literary Writing in the Age of Mass Print
Advisor: Prof. Joseph Bristow