PhD Dissertations

2020

Fictions of Immigrant Placemaking: Countering Gentrification in Contemporary American Literature and Fieldwork Narratives, Marta Gierczyk. Director: Tim Watson
A new true-born Storie': Women's Homosocial Resistance to Narratives of Monstrous Birth, 1520-1660, Lesley Kamphaus. Director: Pamela Hammons
Slow Resilience: Speculative Fiction in the Capitalocene, Anne Schmalstig. Director: Tim Watson
Palimpsests of Empire: Humanitarian Recognition and the Ethics of Bearing Witness in World Literature, Bryant Scott. Director: Joel Nickels
The Canon, the Cult and the Cliché: Modes of Literary Attachment and the Digitization of Modernism, Oliver Steven Wallis. Director: Patrick McCarthy

2019

Wives Writing Privacy, 1640-1670, Lauren Mamolite. Director: Pamela Hammons

2018

Resource Conflict Literature: Reading Indigenous Struggles, Alok Amatya. Director: Brenna Munro
Inharmonic Resonance: Music and Temporality in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Sarah Cash. Director: Kathryn Freeman
Imminent Communities: Transpacific Literary Form and Racialization, 1847-1920, Spencer Tricker. Director: John Funchion

2017

TMI: The Data-Driven Literature of the American Renaissance, Brad Christopher Rittenhouse. Director: John Paul Russo
Prophecy, Dreams, and Fantasy: Writing Englishwomen's Practical Knowledge, 1640-1680, Rebecca C.W. Hu. Director: Pamela Hammons
Self-Deception and Race in the American Literary Imagination, Jonquil Bailey. Director: David Ikard
A Hard Life’s Work: Cultural Memory and the Working Class Novel of the British Isles, 1900-1920, J. Andrew Gothard. Director: Patrick McCarthy
Cartographies of Social Death: Abjection and the American Dispossessed, Allison Harris. Director: Donette Francis
Over the Edge of the World: Irish Convict Writing and Contemporary Australian Literature," Barbara M. Hoffmann. Director: Patrick McCarthy

2016

Women's Participation in the Political Public Sphere: Redefining the Form of Narrative Satire, 1790-1880, Alisa Be. Director: Frank Palmeri
"Two Beings Unite and Enrich the World": Creation, Control, and the Body in Contemporary Golem Fiction, Adam J. Berzak. Director: Joeseph Alkana
Misreading Mammy: Towards a Sexual Revolution of Contemporary/Third Wave Black Feminisms, Nicole Carr. Director: David Ikard
Celtic Incursions in the Literature of the Irish Revival, Joseph A. Mendes. Director: Patrick McCarthy
Fashion Sense: Surfaces, Aesthetics, and Urban Space in U.S. Literature and Culture, 1843-1928, Monica Urban. Director: John Funchion
Spaces of Radical Possibility: Resisting Criminality and Carceral Punishment in Contemporary American Prison Literature, Carolina Villalba. Director: Ranen Omer-Sherman
Masters of Return: Traveling Between Homelands in Contemporary Jewish American and Cuban American Fiction, Izabela Zieba. Director: Ranen Omer-Sherman
Out of Time: Queer Temporalities in the Works of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Langston Hughes, Lauren R. Zwicky. Director: Joel Nickels

2015

Legal Fictions: The Trope of Criminality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian D. Breed. Director: Tim Watson
Inspiration at the Eleventh Hour: The Nationalist Revisions of James Joyce, Seán O’Casey, and William Butler Yeats, Barry C. Devine. Director: Patrick McCarthy
"Writing on the Soil": Literature's Influence on African Land Rights, Peter Ng’ang’a Muchiri. Director: Brenna Munro

2014

Shape-Shifting Creole Identities: Representations of Creole Figures in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Transatlantic Literature, Claudia Amadori. Director: Tim Watson
Literature of Return: Back to Africa, Belonging, and Modernity, David Michael Borman. Director: Brenna Munro
American Joyce: Representations of the United States in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, Briana N. Casali. Director: Patrick McCarthy
Violence and History in South Asian Partition Literature, Devi Gautam. Director: Frank Palmeri
The Unencumbered Body: Imagining Liberty and Sovereignty in Pre- and Post- Revolutionary Literatures of the Americas, Elizabeth E. Kelly. Director: Tim Watson
Alternative Ireland: Modernism and Urban Space in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature, Kurt Voss-Hoynes. Director: Patrick McCarthy

2013

Fragmented Memories: The Archival Turn in Contemporary Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture, Marta Fernandez Campa
Love in a Time of Trauma: Imagining Queer Female Sexualities in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Stephanie M. Selvick

2012

Carmen M. Chiappetta, The Baroque Imagination of Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney: Folding the Periphery into a Center
Morrison, Debbie-Ann Ecowomanist Endeavors: Race, Gender, and Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Literature
Rionda, Antonio Religion and Disillusion in William James, George Santayana, and Henry James
Urbistondo, Josune Caribbean Bodyscapes: The Politics of Sacred Citizenship and the Transpersonal Body

2011

Alfonso-Forero, Ann Marie Translating Postcolonial Pasts: Immigration and Identity in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
Huang, Yi Borderland without Borders: Chinese Diasporic Women Writers in the Americas
Ramlagan, Michelle (Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women’s Contestations of Spatial Discourse
Slivka, Jennifer Strangers at Home: Threshold Identities in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing
Thibodeau, Amanda Gender, Utopia, and Temporality in Women's Science Fiction

2010

Cahill Booth, Lara Theater of the Arts: Caribbean Intertexuality and the Muse of Place
Harriman, Lucas Betrayals, Secrets, and Lies: Unfaithful Reading in Modernist Undecidability
Johnson, Allison "Virtue's Friends": The Politics of Friendship in Early Modern English Women's Writing
Kellett, Brandi Haunting Witnesses: Diasporic Consciousness in African American and Caribbean Writing
Stone, Joshua American Ethni/Cities: Critical Geography, Subject Formation, and the Urban Representations of Abraham Cahan, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin

2009

Caputo, Terra Love and Excess? Women’s Scandalous Fiction, and the Feminine Ideal of Moderation, 1680-1730.
DeVault, Christopher Amorous Joyce: Examining the Ethical and Political Implications of Joycean Love
He, Chu Postcolonial Performances in Brian Friel’s Plays
Jacobi, Kara Articulating Trauma: Creating Survival: Trauma and Narration in 20Th-Century Ethnic American Women’s Writing
Johnson, Nadia Modernizing Nationalism: Masculinity and the Performance of Anglophone Caribbean Identities

2008

Gillota, David Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film
Harrison, Sheri-Marie Nationalism and Self-Representation: Negotiating Sovereignty in Jamaican Cultural Landscapes
Pilhuj, Katherine A Mirror for the World: Gender, Geography, and Identity in Early Modern English Drama
Tucker, Amanda At Home in the World: Globalism in Modern Irish Writing

2007

Baggett, Paul Modernization and Corporate Bodies from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Fantina, Richard Charles Reade's Sensational Realism
Lolis, Thomas The Cartography of Interiority: Magic, Mapmaking, and the Search for Eden in the Renaissance
Sutton, Timothy The Roots That Clutch: English Catholicism, Nationalism, and Modernism

2006

Arva, Eugene The Traumatic Imagination: Shock Chronotopes and Hyperreality in Magical Realist Writing
Damian, Jessica The Lucid Silver and the Glowing Ore: British Women Writers Mine South America, 1770-1860
Elhefnawy, Nader The Promise and the Peril: Science Fiction's Depiction of Technology
Frusciante, Denise In-Search of Psyche: the Multiplicity of Mythic Selves in Wallace Stevens
Gravano, Alan The Transfiguration of the Discarded: Consumption and Waste in Wallace Stevens, A.R. Ammons, Don Delillo, and Martin Scorsese

2005

Giovannucci, Perri The Modernizing Mission: Literature and Development in North Africa
Sowell, Steven Elizabethan Formal Verse Satire and the Ideology of Dramatic Form, 1599-1608

2004

Brooks-Jones, Marjorie Bahamian Womanspeak: the Caribbean Connection
Earle, David Recovering Modernism: Pulp Modernism and the Prejudice of Form
Erritouni, Ali Nation-States, Intellectuals, and Utopias in Postcolonial Fiction
Springer, Claudia Hearts Knit Together: Models of Friendship in the Novels of Charles Williams
Hyppolite, Joanne Everybody's Folk: Representations of Southern Black Culture in Nineteenth Century Ethnography and Literature
Layne, Prudence Towards an Erotics of Hybridity: Bodies at the Crossroads of a Nation
Shaw, Andrea The Fat Black Woman's Unruly Political Body
Shivel, Gail Opportunity Found in Contingency: the Innovations of Joseph Addison's Literary Journalism, 1709-1716

2003

Britton, James Reforming America and Its Men: Radical Social Reform and the Ethics of Antebellum Manhood
Elders Dewaard, Jeanne The Crime of Womanhood: Ambivalent Intersections of Sentiment and Law in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Montes, Rafael Making Places/Haciendo Lugares: Generational Traumas in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature
Turner-Piscitelli, June Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press: Too Much Room to Write?
O'Hara, John History, Monuments, and Canonicity After the Vietnam War
Pitts, Melanie Lyric Warriors, Lyric Women: Gendering Petrarchism in Early Modern England
Dismont Robinson, Kim Probing the Wound: Re-Membering the Traumatic Landscape of Caribbean Literary Histories

2002

Morris, Kathryn Skirting History: Decolonizing Strategies in Caribbean Women's Literature
Page, Kezia "Kingston 21": Diaspora, Migrancy and Caribbean Literature

2001

Clark, Cheryl The Woman Writer As Language-Maker: Authority, Textuality, and the Creative Process in the Works of Hildegard of Bingen
Gercken-Hawkins, Rebecca Authentic Reservations: the Rhetorical War for Native American Identity
Ink, Lynn Decolonizing the Tropics: Gender and American Imperialism in the Pacific and Caribbean
McGarrity, Maria Washed by the Gulfstream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature
McPeake, Margaret Embodying Ireland: Representing Woman As Nation and Community in Irish Literature
Monti, Stephen "I Circle Questions of Blood": the Politics and Poetics of Representing Aids by Writers of African Descent
Nester, Deborah "Gwine by": Colonial Women's Travel Literature and the West Indian Marketplace

2000

Haggerty, Andrew Evil Literature, Irish Literature: Censorship and the Invention of the Irish Writer
Hobby, Blake Reading, Listening, and Understanding: Word Music in Narratives of Joyce and Mann
Rohman, Todd Fetishizing Pynchon: a Cultural Study of Commodity, Colony, and Female Representation

1999

Chaudhry-Fryer, Mamta Modernism's Wilderness of Mirrors
McKenna, Bernard Fire in the North, Sun in the South": Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Northern Irish Drama, 1968-1994
Mesa-Pelly, Judith Fictive Domains: Nostalgic Constructions of Body and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century
Messinger, D. Scott Narrative and the Body in John Barth, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon

1998

Santos, Marlisa Sublime Petrification: the Medusa As Motif in the Male Romantic Poets
Schneider, Elizabeth Not Exactly Tales for Boys: Gender and Difference in the Writings of Joseph Conrad
Shipe, Andrew Refiguring the Modern Self Through Hamlet and Ulysses

1997

Ghitis, Belinda James Joyce and the Other: Paradigms of the Jew As Scapegoat
Healy, Robert Homoerotic Desire and Narrative Dilation in Elizabethan England
Sinowitz, Michael Waking Into History: Forms of the Postmodern Historical Novel
St. John, Andrea Biology As Ideology: the Masking Discourse of Evolution in Hardy, Wells, and Conrad
Van Mierlo, Wim Joyce's Sources: Intertextuality and Pretextuality in Finnegans Wake

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