Dissertations from 2020
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
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
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
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
Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers
Awful Nearness: Rape and the English Novel, 1740–1900, Erin A. Spampinato
Shakespeare's Problem Comedies as Self-Critique, John-Paul Spiro
'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk, Wendy Tronrud
Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar, Suzanne M. Uzzilia
Outlandish People: Gypsies, Race, and Fantasies of National Identity in Early Modern England, Sydnee Wagner
Dissertations from 2019
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays, Alicia Page Andrzejewski
Through the Mouth: An Essay on Appetite and Ecocide, Iemanja Brown
Humoring Violations: Uncanny Humor in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Christine Choi
Translingual Rhetoric, Lucas Corcoran
Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four, LeiLani Dowell
Household Scenes: Politicizing Intimate Spaces in the Poetics of LeRoi Jones, Hettie Jones, David Antin, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley, Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz
The Shape of Knowledge: The Postwar American Poet's Library, with Diane di Prima and Charles Olson, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Reverse the Curse: Colonialist Legacies of the Magic Poem, Karen E. Lepri
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