Dissertations from 2015
Black Migrant Literature, New African Diasporas, and the Phenomenology of Movement, Christopher Ian Foster
Modernist Medievalisms and Medieval Modernisms: Auꝺr the Deep-Minded and Derdriu in Norse, Old Irish, Modernist Irish and Post-1945 Scottish Literature, Cori L. Gabbard
New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown, Erin Nicholson Gale
A Man to Preserve or Reform the Nation: Masculinity as Political Rhetoric in English Novels during the Revolution Controversy, Janne Burger Gillespie
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, and the Scholar's Art, Stefania Heim
On the Threshold: Breadwinning, Capitalism and the Absent/Present Father in the Works of Three Late 20th-Century U.S. Novelists, Nancy J. Hoch
Gender and Trauma from World War I to the War in Iraq: Narrative in the Aftermath of Loss, Jenny Young Kijowski
The Ties that Bind: Gender, Race, and Empire in Caribbean Indenture Narratives, Alison Joan Klein
Proust's Medusa: Ovid, Evolution, and Modernist Metamorphosis, Gregory John Mercurio
The Making of Knowledge-Makers in Composition: A Distant Reading of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
Theater Matters: Female Theatricality in Hawthorne, Alcott, Brontë, and James, Keiko Miyajima
Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix, Nikolina Nedeljkov
Loosening the Critical Corset: New Approaches to the Short Fiction of Kate Chopin and Ruth Stuart, Kathryn Erin O'Donoghue
Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama, Sarah Outterson-Murphy
Knowing Children/Children Knowing: Nineteenth-Century British Child Law and Literature, Donna Paparella
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer in American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Reframing Romantic Nature: Towards a Social Ecocriticism, Matthew Rowney
The Literary Legacy of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Errant Memory in African American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Tristan Alexander Striker
Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality, Leila Walker
Dramatic Form and Embodiment: Robert Browning and the Epistemology of Romantic Drama, Laura Helen Wallace
Dissertations from 2014
Reclaiming Space: Buildings in Modernist Literature and Film, Sreenjaya Ria Banerjee
Straight Record and The Paper Trail: From Depression Reporters to Foreign Correspondents, Magdalena Bogacka-Rode
A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind, Anton Borst
The Vastness of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits of the Artist as a Child Enclosed, Matthew John Burgess
The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism, Ethan Campbell
Battles with Words: Literate and Linguistic Resistance in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature and Everyday Life, Melissa A. Dennihy
Archives Of Transnational Modernism: Lost Networks Of Art And Activism, Anne Donlon
Depressives and the Scenes of Queer Writing, Allen Durgin
Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars, Jean Ashley Foster
Agreeable Despair: Modernism and Melancholy, Derrick James Gentry
Standard Deviations: Genre, Gender, and the Cartographical Imagination in Popular British Literature, 1830-1880, Taylor R. Kennamer
Occupy Wall Street's Challenge to an American Public Transcript, Christopher Neville Leary
Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary, Fiona Hsiao Yen Lee
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach to the Mega-Novel, David J. Letzler
Works in Progress: Child Characters in Victorian and Postcolonial Fiction, 1814 - 2006, Kiran Mascarenhas
The Grammar of Choice: Charles Dickens's Existential Idea of Religion, Hai Na
Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama, Linda K. Neiberg
The Over-Education of the Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education and the Black Intellectual, Archie Lavelle Porter
"Fits of Vulgar Joy": Play Anxiety in the Romantic Poets, Alison Powell
Provisional Fictions: Discontinuous Selves and the Making of Meaning, Tara Roeder
Precarious Wife: Narratives of Marital Instability in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Emily G. Sherwood
"She said plain, burned things": A Feminist Poetics of the Unsayable in Twentieth Century Literary & Visual Culture, Leah Souffrant
The Advance of the Mobile Woman: Representations of British Women's Physical Mobility, 1660-1820, Amanda Booth Springs
"For the Voices": The Letters of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart
Common Knowledge: The Epistemology of American Realism, Mark Sussman
Committing to the Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments, Karinne Keithley Syers
Space & Distance As I Require: The Journals and Prose Fragments of Philip Whalen 1950-1966, Brian Unger
Clue, Code, Conjure: The Epistemology of American Detective Fiction, 1841-1914, Jennifer Weiss
Mind, Media, and Techniques of Remediation in America, 1850-1910, Dominique Zino
Dissertations from 2013
The Wild Child: Children are Freaks in Antebellum Novels, Heathe Bernadette Heim
Dissertations from 2012
Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina and "Liturgical Reading" in Some Medieval Texts, Marie Schilling Grogan
Twentieth-Century Catalogs: The Poetics of Listing, Enumeration, and Copiousness in Joyce, Schuyler, McCourt, Pynchon, and Perec, Timothy Krause
Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe and Sacrifice in the "History of My Life" by Henry Darger, Carl Watson
Dissertations from 2010
Forget Burial: Illness, Narrative, and the Reclamation of Disease, Marty Melissa Fink
Dissertations from 2009
Divided Men: The Masculinity/Marriage Dilemma in the Novels of George Eliot, Danny Sexton
Dissertations from 2007
Engaging the Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods, Kevin L. Ferguson
The Paradoxes of Intimacy in Early Modern Drama, Brenda Marina Henry-Offor
The Social Construction of Authorship: An Investigation of Subjectivity and Rhetorical Authority in the College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers
Dissertations from 2006
An Opera in Aid of the Reading of History, B. McEvoy Campbell
Urban Fervor: Los Angeles Literature and Alternative Religion, Christine M. Daley
"Feathered Glory": A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century, Denell Marie Downum
Henry James’s "The Ambassadors": Anatomy of Silence, Marie Leone Meyer
Visible Effects: Narrative Spectacle and Affective Response in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Tanya Radford
Dissertations from 2005
Unshap'd Monsters: Political Farce on the London Stage, 1717-1737, Melissa Ann Bloom
“Neither in Nor Out of Blackwood's": The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose Address, Jonathan Hartmann
Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing, Tim McCormack
Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination, Anne P. Rice
Dissertations from 2003
Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction, Janine Marie Utell
Dissertations from 2000
The American Colonization of the Philippines and the Self-examination, Self-presentation and Re-presentation of American Identity, Jennifer Marie McMahon
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire, Richard E. Zeikowitz
Dissertations from 1998
Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, Peter F. deCataldo
The Calamus Root: American Gay Poetry Since World War II, Walter Ralph Holland
Dissertations from 1996
(En)gendering Romanticism: A Study of Charlotte Bronte's Novels, Ariella Bechhofer Brown
I Couldn't Kill It Any Other Way: Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Deirdre Mary Day-MacLeod
Dissertations from 1995
Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, and the Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue
Dissertations from 1994
The Spectacle of Suffering: Repetition and Closure in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel, Rebecca E. Martin
Dissertations from 1991
The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, Burt Joseph Kimmelman
Dissertations from 1990
The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, Mary Aileen Mallery
Dissertations from 1989
Mrs. Trollope's American Novels, Linda Abess Ellis
Escaping the Alphabet: The Reading of Silence in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Patricia Laurence
Dissertations from 1978
Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers: A Study in the Rhetoric of Authorship, Sue Lonoff
Dissertations from 1971
Chaucer and the Gods, Barbara Apstein
Chaucer and the Gods, Barbara Apstein