Dissertations from 2025
Back to the Margins: The Re-Marginalization of Feedback Research in Composition and Rhetoric, Robert A. Greco
The Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics, Kendra M. Sullivan
Dissertations from 2024
Bad Becomings: Autobiographical Writing, Queer/Trans Theory, Melancholia, Jacob Elias Aplaca
'Since No Expressions Do': Queer Tools For Studying Literature, Filipa G. Calado
The Sound of Complicity: Fascism, Colonialism, and Music in Novels, Michele Chinitz
Bodies that Traverse: Colonial Fantasies of Oriental Incorporations in Late Medieval England, Soojung Choe
Careful Compositions and Careless Constructions, Timothy Dalton
A Mute Pleasure: Novelistic Poetics in the Nineteenth-Century, Ryan Everitt
Vast Planetary Abstraction: On the Impossible Modernist Epic, Caleb Shao-Ning Fridell
Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space, Zoe R. Goldstein
Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works, Michael A. Granger
Beyond Me: Class, Sexuality, and the Work of the Autobiographical Fragments of Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, and Eileen Myles, Erin E. Heiser
Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility and the Politics of Form in Modernist Women's Life Writing, Margot Kotler
Defying Normativity: Reclaiming a Narrative of Queer Resistance in Young Adult Literature, Christopher Morabito
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza
“As Blind Men Learn the Sun”: Towards a Poetics of Queer Mysticism in American Literature, 1860-1960, Bradley M. Nelson
Reviving Hysteria: The Nineteenth Century at the End of the Twentieth, Christina Quintana
Time Ripens on the Counter: A Literary History of the Americas, Judah Rubin
Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature, Beth Sherman
Maternal Subjectivities in the 18th and 19th Century British Novel, Anastasia Vahaviolos Valassis
Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021, Olivia Wood
Dissertations from 2023
International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Param S. Ajmera
Unsung Heroines in Black and White: Sixties Girl Groups as Sonic Rock Rebellion, Hilarie Ashton
There’s No Space in History: Affiliation, Eros and Colonial Entanglements in North American Nuclear Poetry, 1945-Present, Marguerite Daisy Atterbury
The Myth of Measure in American Poetry, Joshua M. Barber
Untenable Spaces and Inconceivable Futures in the 21st Century Anglophone Indian Novel, Shoumik Bhattacharya
Chromatic Dissensus: An Otherwise Archive of Natural Dyes, 1700–1856, Luke Church
Emancipatory and Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations of Enslaved Labor in US and Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens, Damele Elliott-Hubbard
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film, Ethan Goldberg
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Who Are Our Teachers? The Impact of the Composition Teaching Practicum on Writing Studies, Maxine Krenzel
Posthuman Lessons for Writing and Well-Being: Reparative Practices, Anna A. Larsson
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668, Nathan D. Nikolic
Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives, Karen C. Pitt
Gaps of Speculation: Refusing Representation in Queer and Postcolonial Fiction, Sarah Schwartz
A Study of Geo-Regional Place-Consciousness in American Literature, Eugene Slepov
Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing, Sophia N. Sunseri
A Difference of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism, Ryan L. Tracy
The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological, Eric Dean Wilson
Dissertations from 2022
Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t: The Poetics of Flicker, Sara Akant
Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness, Lynne Beckenstein
Drift Net: The Social and Political Agency of the Migratory Text, Chris Campanioni
Clowning with Identity: Embodied Selves and Others in Comedy's Gendered Character Performances, Allison Douglass
On the Bathysphere Logbooks, Brad Fox
The Silent Holocaust and Other Myths: The Jewish Body and Intermarriage in the Fiction of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Samuel Gold
"You Can't Be Shakespeare and You Can't Be Joyce": Lou Reed, Modernism, and Mass Production, Daniel C. Jacobson
Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama, Ja Young Jeon
Narrative Side-Stepping: Disability Beyond the Narratology of Normalcy, Christian Lewis
Expressivism and its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory and Practice from History to Here and Now, Sasha A. Maceira
Frontier Wordsworth: An Essay toward “The Idiot Boy”, David L. Sassian
Recognition as a Pedagogical Formation: Re-tracing Black Rhetors’ Care-Work in the Field of Writing Studies, Chy L. Sprauve
Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives, Queenie T. Sukhadia
Sound Minds: Women’s Novels, Vibrational Experience, and the Listening Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Elizabeth Weybright
The Visionary Mode in Anglophone Modernist Fiction, Wei Wu
“The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s, Anna Zeemont
Dissertations from 2021
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique, Miriam L. Atkin
Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000, Dainy Bernstein
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
Skin Worlds: Black and Indigenous Science Fiction Theorizing Since the 1970s, Lou Cornum
Pierce and Pine: Diane di Prima, Mary Norbert Korte, and the Meeting of Matter and Spirit, Iris Cushing
Unthinkable Conditions: Affect and Environment in Romanticism and Speculative Fiction, Amelia Z. Greene
Further Toward Minor Literatures, Aaron Hammes
(In)Hospitable Modernity: Hospitality and Its Discontents (1920–1953), Daniel A. Hengel
Autobiographical Narratives of Sexual Violation: Trauma, Genre, and the Politics of Telling, Sarah M. Hildebrand
Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature, Christina Katopodis
Very Two, Very One: Reading as Friendship, Amelia Marini
The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry, Sean M. Nolan
Here Time Becomes Space: The Victorian Spatial Imaginary, Jonathan E. Rachmani
"Never Forget": Embodied Absence and Extended Relations of Care After 9/11, Sophie L. Riemenschneider
Toward the Black Indian Ocean: Race and the Human Project in the Afro-Asian Imagination, Micheal A. Rumore
Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel, Michael Shelichach
Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction, Patrick Smyth
Dissertations from 2020
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich, William J. Camponovo
Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation, Jaime Shearn Coan
African American Existential Heroes: Narrative Struggles for Authenticity, Michael Cotto
Narcissus and Beauty: A Renaissance of Paterian Aesthetics, Amir Dagan
British Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Natural Education, Catherine S. Engh
Eating the Heart of Weetigo World: Decolonial Imaginaries in the Stories of Louise Erdrich and Tomson Highway, Rebecca Lynne Fullan
Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism and The Early Writing of James Joyce, Erin Garrow
Descriptive Inhumanism: Description and Decolonial Aesthetics, Marcos Gonsalez
American Novels Amidst the Rise of New Media: Emergent Publics and Forms, Sarah Ruth Jacobs
Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy, Patrick C. James
The Picturesque and Its Decay: The Travel Writing and Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley, Gabrielle Kappes
Yours Sincerely, Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Letter Writing, Jojo S. Karlin
Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy, Sean M. Kennedy
Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature, Makeba Lavan
Feminist Theology and the Fantastic in Jewish Poetics and Children's Literature (1960s–Present), Meira S. Levinson
The Making of a Queer Caribbean: Grassroots, Dancehall, and Literary Advocacy (1975–2015), Dadland Maye
Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976, Melina A. Moore
Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain, Kathryn N. Moss
