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