Past/Current Dissertations
Current Dissertations
Michele Braun, "Cyborgs and Clones: Redefining Metaphors for 'Human' through Emerging Technologies"
Tiffany Conroy, "Political Shakespeare in Russia and the Soviet Union: Grigory Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear"
Ben Leubner, "Forms of Life and Lyric: Contemporary American Poetry and Wittgenstein"
Jennifer Martin, "Rearing a Nation: Anna Letitia Barbauld as Artistic and Pedagogic Mother of the Romantic Citizen"
2007-2008
Nichole DeWall, "A Plague o' Both Your Houses': Shakespeare and the Early Modern Plague Writing Tradition"
Cory Grewell, "Satiric Servants: The Revival of the Clever Roman Slave in Ben Jonson's Comedies"
2005-2006
Susan Carlisle,“Night Walker: Henry David Thoreau and the Culture of Darkness”, W. Franklin
Amy Kaufman, “ ‘Ye Are Nat Wyse to Kepe the Swerde fro Me’: Feminist Re-vision of Malory’s Morte Darthur”, K. Kelly
Alexander Neill Moffett,“The Insistence of Memory: Mnemonic Transformations in Thomas Hardy, Henry Adams, Willa Cather, and Virginia Woolf”, G. Rotella
Donna Decker Reck, "Vexatiously Ever After: Marriage and the New Woman Novel", L. Green
Charlotte Alethea Simmonds-Hammons, “’I, Too, Sing, America’: A History of Rhetoric and Writing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Arkansas”, K. Kelly
2004-2005
Bonnie Asselin, "Community and Environment: The Village Sketches of Susan Fenimore Cooper, Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Austin", W. Franklin
2003-2004
Lisa Perdigao, "Encrypting the Body: Entombment, Exhumation, and Figuration in Twentieth-Century American Literature", G. Rotella
Lorianne Schaub, "'Lying between the Earth and Heavens': Spirituality of Place in 19th and 20th Century American Nature Writing", W. Franklin
2002-2003
Mary Annas, "Continuity, Incongruity, and Class in Contemporary Canadian Literature: From Settler Colony Anxieties to Articulations of Home", K. Kelly
Mark Bates, "Cultures of Connivance: Class (and Other) Voices in Post-War British Poetry and Fiction", G. Rotella
Pavel Cenkl, "This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911", W. Franklin
Dan Collier, "A Boke Written Al with Rede Ynke: Authoritative Discourses, Women's Devotional Writings, and the Body of Christ", K. Kelly
2000-2001
Karen Aherne Garneau, “Machines, Memory and the Modern I”, M. Loeffelholz
Kathryn Mudgett, "Our Craft is a Lie: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story: Writing the Seaman’s Tale in Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature", W. Franklin
Carmen Rivera , "In the Company of Women: The Narrative Voices of Contemporary U.S. Latina Writers", B. TuSmith
1999-2000
Janet Elizabeth McIntire "H. Rider Haggard and the Victorian Occult", F. Blessington
Douglas Andrew Reichart Powell, "Hick Town: The Cultural Politics of American Regionalism", W. Franklin
1998-1999
Karen L. Paley, "Expressive Pedagogy: The Politics and Practice of Teaching the Personal Narrative", K. Kelly
1996-1997
Lolly Ockerstrom, "The other Narratives: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939", M. Loeffelholz
Anthony Craig Triglio, "A Poetics of Prophecy: Continuities of Visionary History in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg", G. Rotella
1995-1996
Susan Alice Alves, "A Thousand Times I’d Rather be a Factory Girl: The Politics of Reading American and British Female Factory Workers Poetry, 1840-1914", Sussman
Aleta Feinsod Cane "Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Forerunner: Text and Context", E. Harbert
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