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Dissertations from 2002
Haunted by Waters: Race and Place in the American West, Robert Terry Hayashi
Students' Views on Writing and Technology: Gender, Race, and Class, Susan Elizabeth Kirtley
Listening to the silences in our classrooms: A study of “quiet” students, Mary Margaret Reda
Coming of age in American cinema: Modern youth films as genre, Matthew P Schmidt
Alterity and the lyric: Heidegger, Levinas, and Emily Dickinson, Hyesook Son
The letter that gives life: Magic, writing, and the teaching of writing, Julia Ellen Wagner
Dissertations from 2001
Between profits and primitivism: Rehabilitating white middle-class manhood in America, 1880–1917, Athena Beth Devlin
The politics of generosity: Circulating gifts and cultural capital in the Victorian novel, Michael Patrick Grogan
Pragmatism and the unconscious: Language and subject in psychoanalytic theory, pragmatist philosophy, and American narrative, Christopher Hanlon
The scene of the crime: Imagining nature at the millennium, Camilla S Humphreys
Transatlantic convergence of Englishness and Americanness: Cultural memory, nationhood, and imperialism in twentieth century modernist fiction, Ymitri Jayasundera
“Gulliver's Travels”: A journey through the unconscious, Nasir Jamal Khattak
The geography of silence: Women in landscape in Thomas Hardy's fiction, Charles David Lowe
Writing colonial history in post-colonial India, Deepika Marya
Recovering ground: Poetic strategies for placing oneself, Robin Amelia Morris
The development of the modern fantasy novel, Holly E Ordway
“I'm not the boy for you”: Images of African American male homosexuality, Angelo DeWayne Robinson
The evolution of gender -neutral language: Can fathers mother?, Donald Nathan Stone Unger
‘So-easily-vanquished skirmishers’: A study of individuals within systems in the work of Randall Jarrell, Sherri Lynn Vanden Akker
Ruined bodies and ruined narratives: The fallen woman and the history of the novel, Amy L Wolf
Writing her way: A study of Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko, Louise Allen Zak
Dissertations from 2000
Tracking modernity: Writing the rails of empire, Marian Ida Aguiar
Re-mapping female space: The politics of exhibition in nineteenth-century women writers, Chih-Ping Chen
From madwomen to Vietnam veterans: Trauma, testimony, and recovery in post-colonial women's writing, Maureen Denise Fielding
Speaking our truths: Literacy, sexuality and social change, Zan Meyer Goncalves
Making the modern critic: Print-capitalism and national identity in seventeenth-century England, Barclay Everett Green
Conjured bodies, trickster voices: Transforming narrative, history, and identity in the literature of slavery, Suzanne Therese Lane
Individualism, community, and democracy: Melville's critique of liberalism in the later novels, Juro Otsuka
Having something to say: Invention in writing and the teaching of writing, Karen J Phillips
The intentional turn: Suicide in twentieth-century United States American literature by women, Kathleen O Ryan
Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Michael Ondaatje: Writing at the intersection of the postmodern and the postcolonial, Renee Therese Schatteman
The later evolution of Trollope's female characters, Karen Kurt Teal
Bubonic plague in English Renaissance utopian literature, Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
Theorizing Asian America, Lingyan Yang
Dissertations from 1999
Containing the Amazon: Archetypal relocations of Joan of Arc, Meredith Albion Clermont-Ferrand
Breaking English: Postcolonial polyglossia in Nigerian representations of Pidgin and in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Gillian Gane
Art and argument: The rise of Walt Whitman's rhetorical poetics, 1838--1855, Andrew Charles Higgins
Dreaming the unspeakable: Hemingway and O'Brien's soldier narratives and the traumatic landscape, Lisa Simone Kingstone
Defining the British national character: Narrations in British culture of the last two centuries, Barbara S Kono
Elizabeth Bishop and Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Verse/universe in four acts, Maria Lucia Milleo Martins
Persephone in Taos: A refutation of misogyny in D. H. Lawrence's new world fiction, Carole A Schuyler
Shakespearean loss: Mourning interminable, Lynne M Simpson
Resisting privacy: Problems with self -representation in journals and diaries, Andrea Stover
Raising the mongrel standard: Epic hybridization in Joyce, Rushdie, and Walcott, Pennie Jane Ticen
Shakespeare's remedies of fortune: The fate of idealism in the late plays, Philip W White
Dissertations from 1998
Postnational feminism in Third World women's literature, Hena Zafar Ahmad
The body of knowledge: The object of learning. Epistemophilia and the desire for self, Catharine Gabriel Carey
"Divide the living child in two": Adoption and the rhetoric of legitimacy in twentieth-century American literature, Jill R Deans
"Unhampered child of liberty": Modernity, representation and American Jewish women, 1890-1930, Deborah Fairman
Inhabiting the flesh: Trauma and the body in twentieth-century women's autobiography, Janis Jean Greve
eX-centricities: A geo/graphics of self-re/presentation in the autobiographics of Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Kim Chernin, Connie D Griffin
Women writing race: Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Rhys, Alice Knox
An Collins (fl. 1653): Mistress of religious verse, Mary Eleanor Norcliffe
Composing the family: A reading of "Bleak House", "Wives and Daughters", and "Daniel Deronda", Kay A Satre
Dissertations from 1997
"Private colonies of the imagination": Power and possibility in Thomas Pynchon's "V.", "The Crying of Lot 49", and "Gravity's Rainbow", Alan William Brownlie
Roads to take when you think of your country: American epic poems by women, Jenny Goodman
Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction, Kimberly Anne Hicks
Beyond gender: Constructing women's middle-class subjectivity in the fiction of Wharton, Austin, Yezierska, and Hurston, Phoebe Susan Jackson
Bastardizing the bard: Appropriations of Shakespeare's plays in postcolonial India, Parmita Kapadia
Why would you read this? Education in a visual culture, Gordon Frazier MacLachlan
The unrecalled past: Nostalgia and depression in the middle novels of Willa Cather, Dix McComas
Defiant Odalisques: Exoticism, Resistance and the Female Body in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Piya Pal-Lapinski
Suffering and sacrifice in the major poetic works of David Jones, Margaret E Smith
Academic women and writer's block: Mapping the terrain, Martha Trudeau Tucker
The fallen woman in the Victorian novel: Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot, Margaret C Wiley
Dissertations from 1996
A bilateral study of the roles of writing in a baccalaureate nursing program, Elizabeth Ann Caldwell
College writing and the resources of theatre, Timothy John Doherty
Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt, Susan Jane Doyle
Islands and transformation: An archetypal pattern in Western literature, Edward John Federenko
Four approaches to Marvell's "Upon Appleton House": Poetic patterns, estate lands, retirement of a hero, and education of a young woman, Asheley Randolph Griffith
Sigrid Undset and Willa Cather: Literary correspondences, Sherrill Martin Rood Harbison
Writing selves: Constructing American-Jewish feminine literary identity, Joan M Moelis
Sentimental sensibility in the emerging artist: Yeats, Joyce and Proust, Laura Jane Ress
"Now my lot in the heaven is this". A study of William Blake's own acknowledged sources: Shakespeare, Milton, Isaiah, Ezra, Boehme, and Paracelsus, William Garfield Wall
A "contour portrait of my regenerated constitution": Reading nineteenth-century African American women's spiritual autobiography, Martha Louise Wharton
Dissertations from 1995
Magical thinking in Shakespeare's tragedies, Marina Christi Favila
Caryl Churchill: The Thatcher years, Janet Elizabeth Gardner
The lure of the land: Ethnicity and gender in imagining America, Iping Joy Liang
To dream the American dream: American success narratives at the turn of the century, Elena Harriet Sharnoff
Standing on holy ground: The sacred landscapes of Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, and Frederick Buechner, Elizabeth Z. Bachrach Tan
Dissertations from 1994
Philomela's tapestry: Empowering voice through text, texture, and silence, Judith Segzdowicz Chelte
Representing the Biblical Judith in Literature and Art: An Intertextual Cultural Critique, Peggy L. Curry, English
The hero's quest for identity in fantasy literature: A Jungian analysis, Lisa Stapleton Melanson
Dissertations from 1993
The individual and self-destruction in Renaissance drama: The examples of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Tourneur, and Ford, Pompa Banerjee
Ethnic women's literature and politics: The cultural construction of gender in early twentieth-century America, Carol Jeanne Batker
Children of Legba: African-American musicians of the jazz age in literature and popular culture, Thomas Fletcher Marvin
"It strikes home": Documentary constructions of the American family in the Great Depression, Roxanna Pisiak
"A vice for voices": Emily Dickinson's dialogic voice from the borders, Erika Christina Scheurer
The posthumous editing of Ernest Hemingway's fiction, Susan M Seitz
Dissertations from 1992
Mothers of pearl: An historical and psychoanalytic analysis of single mothers in literature, Maureen Buchanan Jones
Necessary illusions: Biography and the problem of narrative truth, William W. Kimbrel
Existentialism and writing: A multi-critical approach to John Fowles, Najat Sebti
Dissertations from 1991
Sarah Orne Jewett and spiritualism, Nancy Rita Kelly
American literature and the rise of management: From the mill girls, Emerson, Thoreau and Melville to Rebecca Harding Davis, Bellamy, Twain and Frederick Taylor, Michael William Munley
Dissertations from 1990
The development of computer-aided composition software and its implications for composition, Paul Joseph LeBlanc
Victorian fantasy literature and the politics of canon-making, Karen Ann Michalson
Marion Harland: The making of a household word, Karen Manners Smith