Graduate – Current – Dissertation Research
The Alternatively Published: Latinx Artistic Labor and Dissident Literature in Circulation
Author: Valerie Barrios
Advisor: Rafael Pérez-Torres
‘A Papist Misrepresented’: Anti-popery According to John Gother, 1676-1718
Author: Suzannah Cady
Advisor: Prof. Kareem
Slanted Lines: Toward a Diagonal Trans Poetics
Author: Candle Christensen
Advisor: Prof. Snelson
An Unmet Promise: Aerial Perspective in Modernist Literature
Author: Elizabeth Crawford
Advisor: Prof. Hornby
Collateral Subjects: Character and Plot in the Novel
Author: Bethany Creed
Advisor: Prof. Sarah Kareem
Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Ballads from Canada, India, and the United States: Generic Traditions of Race, Nationalism, and Imperialism
Author: Vanessa Febo
Advisors: Prof. McHugh, Prof. Yarborough
Sex and the British Novel
Author: Miranda Hoegberg
Advisors: Prof. Kareem, Prof. Makdisi
Neuroglitch: Metaphors for Minds & Machines
Author: Zackary Kiebach
Advisors: Prof. Hornby, Prof. Snelson
Novel Education: Modes of Learning in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Author: Sophie Kronsberg
Advisor: Prof. Bristow
Man(g)a, Moʻolelo, and the Many Bodied Forms of Indigenous Comics
Author: Rae Kuruhara
Advisors: Prof. Lee, Prof. Silva
Reaping What We Sow: Figures of Black Death in Contemporary Black Speculative Fiction
Author: Salem Martinez
Advisor: Prof. Goyal
Feeling With/out: Minoritarian Performances of Loss, Loneliness, and Longing
Author: Nicole Prucha
Advisor: Prof. Yarborough
Distasteful Sights: On Disgust and Film Form
Author: Emma Ridder
Advisors: Prof. Hornby, Prof. McHugh
The Extractivist Episteme in American Narrative: Natural Resources, Bodies, and Environmental Injustice
Author: Matthew Swanson
Advisor: Prof. Heise
Blindfold, Bandage: Beauty Projects in 20th Century Visions of Asiatic Racial Form
Author: Brenda Wang
Advisor: Prof. Hornby
Warriors of the Wake: The Black Male Rapper as Mythological Subject and Archetype
Author: Alexander Williams
Advisor: Prof. Bradley
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and the Foundations of British Revolutionary Thought, 1563-Present
Author: Stanley Wu
Advisor: Prof. Shuger