Graduate – Current – Dissertation Research
Virtual Bodies: On Minoritarian Performance and Digital Subculture
Author: Andrea Acosta
Advisors: Prof. Mcmillan, Prof. Snelson
Realism’s Literal Illustration: How Textualized Images Explain Fictionality in the 19th-Century British Novel
Author: Ellen Truxaw Bistline
Advisor: Professor Grossman
‘The Eternal Now’: Suicide Notes in Fact, Fiction, and Species
Author: Kristen Cardon
Advisor: Professor DeLoughrey
The Boundaries of Memory: Aberrant Remembering in Nineteenth-Century Literature from Déjà Vu to Ancestral Recall
Author: Jessica Cook
Advisor: Professor Grossman
An Unmet Promise: Aerial Perspective in Modernist Literature
Author: Elizabeth Crawford
Advisor: Professor Hornby
Scenes of Love: Atlantic Romance and the Black Venus Figure
Author: Lauren Dembowitz
Advisor: Professor Goyal
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
Queer Magic: Sin and the Supernatural, 1150-1650
Author: Kersti Francis
Advisors: Prof. Chism, Prof. Gallagher
Affective Transcendentalism: Secularity and Spirit in Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau
Author: Mark Gallagher
Advisor: Prof. Colacurcio
Mobile Figures and Laboring Travel in American Literature
Author: Thomas Garcia
Advisor: Prof. Pérez-Torres
The Anatomy of Risk: Economies of the Body in the Pre-Modern Period
Author: Rafael Jaime
Advisors: Prof. Fisher, Prof. Fuchs
Performing Displacement: Precarious Encounters, Hospitality Events, and the Theater of Migration
Author: Robin Kello
Advisor: Prof. Fuchs
Reading the Machine: Digital Reading Practices and the Contemporary Novel
Author: Chelsea Kern
Advisor: Professor Carruth
Reaching Readers: An Analysis of Identification in the Writings of Christine de Pizan and Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Lauren Rebecca King
Advisor: Prof. Chism
Repairing Absences: The Logic of Unspoken Reference in the Victorian Empire
Author: Yangjung Lee
Advisor: Prof. Grossman
Arrested Solidarities: Resistance and Racial Contact Zones in the U.S. 19th Century
Author: Efren Lopez
Advisors: Prof. Lopez
Naïveté and the British Novel (1770 – 1830)
Author: Lillian Lu
Advisor: Prof. Deutsch
U.S. Movement Literatures and Circulation Struggles, 1965-1973
Author: Robert Mendoza
Advisor: Richard Yarborough
Race and Abstraction in Contemporary American Media
Author: Dandi Meng
Advisors: Prof. McMillan, Prof. Nersessian
In the Garden: Narrative, Cultivation, and the Environment in British Literature, 1785-1900
Author: Michelle Radnia
Advisors: Prof. Bristow, Prof. Heise
Time Out of Joint: Counterfactuals, Alternate Histories, and Traumatic Narrative
Author: Taly Ravid
Advisors: Prof. Deutsch, Prof. North
Reading in Books: Theories of Reading in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Author: Samantha Sommers
Advisor: Prof. Looby
The Novel and the Transient: Queer Turns in Surrealism
Author: Emma Spies
Advisor: Prof. Hornby
Human Rights and Postcolonial Critique: Narrating Economic and Social Rights in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel
Author: Arielle Stambler
Advisor: Profs. Goyal and Rothberg
Unimaginable Subjects: Centroamericanos in the Latino Nineteenth Century
Author: Gabriela Valenzuela
Advisor: Prof. López
More or Less Alive: Labor and Race in Comics’ Vital Aesthetics
Author: Tony Wei Ling
Advisor: Prof. R. Lee