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
Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers
A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements, Trace Peterson
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