Dissertations from 2019
Sylvia Plath and "the bigger things": War, History, and Modernism at Midcentury, Reagan Lothes
Love and Revolution: Queer Freedom, Tragedy, Belonging, and Decolonization, 1944 to 1970, Velina Manolova
Anxieties of Incorporation: U.S. Territorialization and the Western Imaginary from the Louisiana Purchase to Moby-Dick, Diana Meckley
Vanishing Leaves: A Study of Walt Whitman Through Location-Based Mobile Technologies, Jesse A. Merandy
Affordances in the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Pedagogies of Writing, Reading, and Making, T. Meyerhoff
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
The Woman We Don’t Want to Be: The Anti-Heroine in American Women’s Modernisms, Madison Priest
To See Again: Vision And Revelation in American Poetics, Emily C. Raabe
CUNY Will Be Free!: Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Compositions, Literatures, and Studies at the City College of New York and in New York City, 1960–1980, Conor Tomás Reed
The Ethics of Perception in Transatlantic Romantic Poetry, Charles W. Rowe
TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries, Michael N. Scharf
Words Are Found Responsible: Poetry's Jurisdiction and the Transformation of Equal Rights, Talia Shalev
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Being Together: Imaginaries of Coexistence and Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Writings, Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Dissertations from 2018
Symbols Purely Mechanical: Language, Modernity, and the Rise of the Algorithm, 1605–1862, Jeffrey M. Binder
Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971, Debarati Biswas
Famed Communities: Trojan Origins, Nationalism, and the Question of Europe in Early Modern England, Joseph Bowling
The Geometry of Pragmatism, Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
The French Revolution in Early American Literature, 1789–1815: Translations, Interpretations, Refractions, Courtney Chatellier
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography, Melissa Coss Aquino
Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature, Anahi A. Douglas
Resonant Texts: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, Paul Fess
Difficult Subjects Scatting and Scattered: A Poetics of Dissolution in Black Expressive Culture, Tonya M. Foster
Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare, Bradley Fox
Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story, Angela Francis
Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, Erin R. Glass
The Social Life of Black Thought in the Long Eighteenth Century, Kristina Huang
Between Settlers and Sovereignty: Literary Solidarity and Anti-Colonial Discourse in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1887–1959, Trevor J. Lee
“Community in Solitude”: The Solitary Self, Social Critique, and Utopian Longing, Colin S. Macdonald
"Betwixt the World Destroyed and World Restored": Subjectivity and Paradisal Recovery in John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma
Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism, Kaitlin Mondello
Darwin's Failures: Childless Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Rose P. O'Malley
The Way We Dream Now: History, Theory, and LGBTQ Memoir in America, Megan Paslawski
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Dream Visions and Dramatic Designs, Michael Plunkett
Vectorial Realities: Foucault and the Politics of the Literary Address, Jiyoung Ryu
Langston Hughes in Turkestan: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks 1932–1933, Zahera Z. Saed
Insurgent Knowledge: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Open Admissions, Danica B. Savonick
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719–1809, Heather Zuber
Dissertations from 2017
Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments, Erin M. Andersen
Bodies of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender in the Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
“The Monster They've Engendered in Me”: Gothic Strategies in African American and Latina/o Prison Literature, 1945-2000, Jason Baumann
Ecologies of the Passions in Early Modern English Tragedies, Roya Biggie
Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology, Sharmaine Browne
As if by Magic: Unleashing Critical and Expressive Voices Through a Rhetoric of "This/And" in First-Year Composition, Nolan Chessman
Impressive Failures: Mavericks of Film Authorship and the Impossibility of Success in Hollywood, Tom S. Davies
Involute Analysis: Virtual Discourse, Memory Systems and Archive in the Involutes of Thomas De Quincey, Kimberley A. Garcia
A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature, Sean Gerrity
Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist, Ian F.P. Green
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905, Timothy M. Griffiths
Butch Between the Wars: A Pre-History of Butch Style in Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Film, Karen Allison Hammer
Shame, Darwin, and Other Victorian Writers, Aaron Khai Han Ho
Knowing Others, Or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, and Acknowledging in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Meechal Hoffman
Our Vile Age: Women and Class in the Interwar Novels of Nancy Mitford, Kelley Kawano
The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics, Rachel Kravetz
Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South, Jenny LeRoy
Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920, Kristin L. Moriah
Writing for Strangers: Structural Transformations of the Public Letter, 1640-1790, Shang-yu Sheng
Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture, Yair Solan
Nomadic Dispossessions: Representations of Land, Labor, and Mobility, 1780–1815, Maria Ah Hyun Stracke
Literary Theories of Circumcision, A. W. Strouse
The Devil's Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (From Baudelaire to Burroughs), Henry A. Wermer-Colan
Dissertations from 2016
A Dark Record: Criminal Discourse and the African American Literary Project, 1721-1864, Brian Baaki
Rogues in the Postcolony: The New Picaresque and the Making of Modern India, Stacey Balkan
Brought Up For Each Other: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson, Susan Barile
Cosmopolitan Corporealities: Extraordinary Bodies and the Politics of Remembering Mid-Twentieth Century Egyptian Pluralism, Balthazar Beckett
Genres of Feminist Lives: Autobiography, Archives, and Community, 1970-1983, Meredith A. Benjamin
"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays, Sara Remedios Bloom
"Follow the Bodies": (Re)Materializing Difference in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Briana Grace Brickley
Wandering in Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
Mad Men of Letters: Advertising, Masculinity, and the American Postmodern Novel, Jennifer Chancellor
Imaginary Subjects: Fiction-Writing Instruction in America, 1826 - 1897, Paul Collins
Ceasing to Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers and Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun
Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot, Colleen Cusick
“Vital Glowing Things”: The Art of Women’s Writing, 1910-1935, Elizabeth C. Decker
Transparent Interiors: Detective and Mystery Fiction in the Age of Photography, Melissa D. Dunn
Dislocating Camps: On State Power, Queer Aesthetics & Asian/Americanist Critique, Christopher Alan Eng
Evolving the Genre of Empire: Gender and Place in Women's Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688-1808, Diana Epelbaum
Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy, Simon Gaston Fortin
Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden, Julie L. Gafney
Archiving the '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture, Margaret A. Galvan
Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York, Nicholas Gamso
Both Into and Out of the Cage: New Media, Transgression, and the Remaking of American Literary Connection, 1975-1999, Casey Henry
Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Miciah Hussey
The Fictions of Whiteness: Transatlantic Race Science, Gender, Nationalism, and the Construction of Race in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1823-1867), Philip E. Kadish
Imagining a "Poethical" Classroom, Erica Kaufman
The New Reflexivity: Puzzle Films, Found Footage, and Cinematic Narration in the Digital Age, Jordan Lavender-Smith
Excavating ePortfolios: What Student-Driven Data Reveals about Multimodal Composition and Instruction, Amanda M. Licastro
Accessing Academe, Disabling the Curriculum: Institutional Locations of Dis/ability in Public Higher Education, Andrew J. Lucchesi
City Poems And Urban Crisis, 1945 - Present, Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson
A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY, Sean Molloy
Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War U.S. Television, 1957–1964, Melissa Phruksachart
The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure, Lara Rossana Rodriguez
Animate Impossibilities: On Asian Americanist Critique, Racialization, and the Humanities, Frances H. Tran
Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention, Simone White
Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods
Dissertations from 2015
The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel, Pamela Burger
The Heterotopia of Flight: Resisting the Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Scott Dicus
Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center, Andrea Rosso Efthymiou