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Dissertations from 2022
Writing the Aftermath: Uncanny Spaces of the Postcolonial, Sohini Banerjee, English
Science Fiction’s Enactment of the Encouragement, Process, and End Result of Revolutionary Transformation, Katharine Blanchard, English
LITERARY NEGATION AND MATERIALISM IN CHAUCER, Michelle Brooks, English
TRANSNATIONAL POLITICAL AND LITERARY ENCOUNTERS: THE IDEA OF AMERÍKA IN ICELANDIC FICTION, 1920–1990, Jodie Childers, English
When Choices Aren't Choices: Academic Literacy Normativities in the Age of Neoliberalism, Robin K. Garabedian, English
Redefining Gender Violence: Radical Feminist Visions in Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction and Women of Color Activism 1990-2010, Hazel Gedikli, English
Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, Subhalakshmi Gooptu, English
The Critical Workshop: Writing Revision and Critical Pedagogy in the Middle School Classroom, Andrea R. Griswold, English
Racial Poetics: Early Modern Race and the Form of Comedy, Yunah Kae, English
At the Limits of Empathy: Political Conflict and its Aftermath in Postcolonial Fiction, Saumya Lal, English
The Burdens and Blessings of Responsibility: Duty and Community in Nineteenth- Century America, Leslie Leonard, English
No There There: New Jersey in Multiethnic Writing and Popular Culture Since 1990, Shannon Mooney, English
Ownership and Writer Agency in Web 2.0, Thomas Pickering, English
Combating Narratives: Soldiering in Twentieth-Century African American and Latinx Literature, Stacy Reardon, English
“IT DON’T ‘MEAN’ A THING”: TIME AND THE READER IN JAZZ FICTIONAL NARRATIVE, Damien C. Weaver, English
SATURNINE ECOLOGIES: ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1542-1688, John Yargo, English
Dissertations from 2021
"On Neptunes Watry Realmes": Maritime Law and English Renaissance Literature, Hayley Cotter, English
Theater of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage of Jacobean London, Liz Fox, English
“The Badge of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions of Jewish Representation on the English Renaissance Stage, Becky S. Friedman, English
On Being Dispersed: The Poetics of Dehiscence from "We the People" to Abolition, Sean A. Gordon, English
Echoing + Resistant Imagining: Filipino Student Writing Under American Colonial Rule, Florianne Jimenez, English
When Your Words Are Someone Else's Money: Rhetorical Circulation, Affect, and Late Capitalism, Kelin E. Loe, English
Indigenous Impositions in Contemporary Culture: Knotting Ontologies, Beading Aesthetics, and Braiding Temporalities, Darren Lone Fight, English
NEGRITUDE FEMINISMS: FRANCOPHONE BLACK WOMEN WRITERS AND ACTIVISTS IN FRANCE, MARTINIQUE, AND SENEGAL FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1980S, Korka Sall, English
Negotiating Space: Spatial Violation on the Early Modern Stage, 1587-1638, Gregory W. Sargent, English
Stranger Compass of the Stage: Difference and Desire in Early Modern City Comedy, Catherine Tisdale, English
Dissertations from 2020
AFFECTIVE HISTORIES OF SOUTHERN TRAUMA: SHAME, HEALING, AND VULNERABILITY IN US SOUTHERN WOMEN’S WRITING, 1975–2006, Faune Albert, English
Materially Queer: Identity and Agency in Academic Writing, Joshua Barsczewski, English
ANGELS WHO STEPPED OUTSIDE THEIR HOUSES: “AMERICAN TRUE WOMANHOOD” AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY (TRANS)NATIONALISMS, Gayathri M. Hewagama, English
WRITING AGAINST HISTORY: FEMINIST BAROQUE NARRATIVES IN INTERWAR ATLANTIC MODERNISM, Annaliese Hoehling, English
Passing Literacies: Soviet Immigrant Elders and Intergenerational Language Practice, Jenny Krichevsky, English
Lisa Ben and Queer Rhetorical Reeducation in Post-war Los Angeles, Katelyn S. Litterer, English
Daring Depictions: An Analysis of Risks and Their Mediation in Representations of Black Suffering, Russell Nurick, English
From Page to Program: A Study of Stakeholders in Multimodal First-Year Composition Curriculum and Program Design, Rebecca Petitti, English
Forms of the Future: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Visioning Work of Aesthetics in U.S. Poetry, 1822-1863, Magdalena Zapędowska, English
Dissertations from 2019
Black Men Who Betray Their Race: 20TH Century Literary Representations of the Black Male Race Traitor, Gregory Coleman, English
“The Worlding Game”: Queer Ecological Perspectives in Modern Fiction, Sarah D'Stair, English
Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism and Labor Migration in Indian Ocean Fictions, 1990 – 2015, Neelofer Qadir, English
Divided Tongues: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Modern Anglophone Indian Fiction, Shakuntala Ray, English
Globalizing Nature on the Shakespearean Stage, William Steffen, English
Gilded Chains: Global Economies and Gendered Arts in US Fiction, 1865-1930, Heather Wayne, English
“ÆTHELTHRYTH”: SHAPING A RELIGIOUS WOMAN IN TENTH-CENTURY WINCHESTER, Victoria Kent Worth, English
Dissertations from 2018
Sex and Difference in the Jewish American Family: Incest Narratives in 1990s Literary and Pop Culture, Eli W. Bromberg, English
Rhetorical Investments: Writing, Technology, and the Emerging Logics of the Public Sphere, Dan Ehrenfeld, English
Kiskeyanas Valientes en Este Espacio: Dominican Women Writers and the Spaces of Contemporary American Literature, Isabel R. Espinal, English
“TO WEIGH THE WORLD ANEW”: POETICS, RHETORIC, AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE, FROM SIDNEY’S ARCADIA TO SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER, David Katz, English
CIVIC DOMESTICITY: RHETORIC, WOMEN, AND SPACE AT HULL HOUSE, 1889-1910, Liane Malinowski, English
Charting the Terrain of Latina/o/x Theater in Chicago, Priscilla M. Page, English
The Politics of Feeling and the Work of Belonging in US Immigrant Fiction 1990 - 2015, Lauren Silber, English
Turning Inside Out: Reading and Writing Godly Identity in Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Spiritual Experience, Meghan Conine Swavely, English
Dissertations from 2017
Tragicomic Transpositions: The Influence of Spanish Prose Romance on the Development of Early Modern English Tragicomedy, Josefina Hardman, English
“The Blackness of Blackness”: Meta-Black Identity in 20th/21st Century African American Culture, Casey Hayman, English
Waiting for Now: Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time, Amanda Ruth Waugh Lagji, English
Latina Identities, Critical Literacies, and Academic Achievement in Community College, Morgan Lynn, English
Demanding Spaces: 1970s U.S. Women's Novels as Sites of Struggle, Kate Marantz, English
Novel Buildings: Architectural and Narrative Form in Victorian Fiction, Ashley R. Nadeau, English
CATCH FEELINGS: CLASS AFFECT AND PERFORMATIVITY IN TEACHING ASSOCIATES' NARRATIVES, Anna Rita Napoleone, English
Dialogue and "Dialect": Character Speech in American Fiction, Carly Overfelt, English
Materializing Transfer: Writing Dispositions in a Culture of Standardized Testing, Lisha Daniels Storey, English
Theatres of War: Performing Queer Nationalism in Modernist Narratives, Elise Swinford, English
Dissertations from 2016
Multimodal Assessment in Action: What We Really Value in New Media Texts, Kathleen M. Baldwin, English
Addictive Reading: Nineteenth-Century Drug Literature's Possible Worlds, Adam Colman, English
"The Book Can't Teach You That": A Case Study of Place, Writing, and Tutors' Constructions of Writing Center Work, Christopher Joseph DiBiase, English
Protest Lyrics at Work: Labor Resistance Poetry of Depression-Era Autoworkers, Rebecca S. Griffin, English
From What Remains: The Politics of Aesthetic Mourning and the Poetics of Loss in Contemporary African American Culture, Kajsa K. Henry, English
Minor Subjects in America: Everyday Childhoods of the Long Nineteenth Century, Gina M. Ocasion, English
Enduring Affective Rhetorics: Transnational Feminist Action in Digital Spaces, Jessica Ouellette, English
The School Desk and the Writing Body, Marni M. Presnall, English
Sustainable Public Intellectualism: The Rhetorics of Student Scientist-Activists, Jesse Priest, English
Prosthetizing the Soul: Reading, Seeing, and Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Devotion, Katey E. Roden, English
Dissertations from 2015
“As Child in Time”: Childhood, Temporality, and 19th Century U.S. Literary Imaginings of Democracy, Marissa Carrere, English
A National Style: A Critical Historiography of the Irish Short Story, Andrew Fox, English
Homosexuality is a Poem: How Gay Poets Remodeled the Lyric, Community and the Ideology of Sex to Theorize a Gay Poetic, Christopher M. Hennessy, English
Affecting Manhood: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and the Fop Figure in Early Modern English Drama, Jessica Landis, English
Who Do You Think You Are?: Recovering the Self in the Working Class Escape Narrative, Christine M. Maksimowicz, English
Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, and the Biophysical World, Christian J. Pulver, English
Audible Voice in Context, Airlie S. Rose, English
The Role of Online Reading and Writing in the Literacy Practices of First-Year Writing Students, Casey Burton Soto, English
Dissertations from 2014
RESURRECTION: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BLACK CHURCH IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE, Rachel J. Daniel, English
Seeing Blindness: The Visual and the Great War in Literary Modernism, Rachael Dworsky, English
HERE, THERE, AND IN BETWEEN: TRAVEL AS METAPHOR IN MIXED RACE NARRATIVES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, Colin Enriquez, English
Interactive Audience and the Internet, John R. Gallagher, English
Down from the Mountain and into the Mill: Literacy Sponsorship and Southern Appalachian Women in the New South, Emma M. Howes, English
Transnational Gestures: Rethinking Trauma in U.S. War Fiction, Ruth A.H. Lahti, English
"A More Natural Mother": Concepts of Maternity and Queenship in Early Modern England, Anne-Marie Kathleen Strohman, English
Dissertations from 2013
Letters to a Dictionary: Competing Views of Language in the Reception of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Anne Pence Bello, English
Staging the Depression: The Federal Theatre Project's Dramas of Poverty, 1935-1939, Amy Brady, English
Our Story Has Not Been Told in any Moment: Radical Black Feminist Theatre From The Old Left to Black Power, Julie M Burrell, English
Writing for Social Action: Affect, Activism, and the Composition Classroom, Sarah Finn, English
Surviving Domestic Tensions: Existential Uncertainty in New World African Diasporic Women's Literature, Denia M Fraser, English
From Feathers to Fur: Theatrical Representations of Skin in the Medieval English Cycle Plays, Valerie Anne Gramling, English
The Reflexive Scaffold: Metatheatricality, Genre, and Cultural Performance in English Renaissance Drama, Nathaniel C. Leonard, English
The World Inscribed: Literary Form, Travel, and the Book in England, 1580-1660, Philip S Palmer, English
Shakespearean Signifiers, Marie H Roche, English
A Multidirectional Memory Approach to Representations of Colonization, Racism, and Genocide in Literature, Pamela Lagergren Williams, English
The Everyday Feast: Recreational Consumption and Social Status in Early Modern English Drama, Timothy W Zajac, English
Dissertations from 2012
The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank, English
The Poems of Lady Hester Pulter (1605?-1678): An Annotated Edition, Stefan Graham Christian, English
The poems of Lady Hester Pulter (1605?–1678): An annotated edition, Stefan Graham Christian
Technologies of Racial Formation: Asian-American Online Identities, Linh Dich, English