English and Comparative Literature: Dissertations
2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990
2007 DISSERTATIONS
Weaver, William P. (2007) The rudiments of eloquence : pedagogy and literary practice in the English Renaissance
2006 DISSERTATIONS
Alkan, Tiffany (2006) "The fantastical dreams of Abbie-Lubbers" : romance and religion in early modern England
Hao, Tianhu (2006) Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden : commonplace reading and writing in early modern England
Martin, Amy (2006) Acts of union : representing nation-states and national identities in Victorian British and Irish writing
Park, Sunyoung (2006) Writing the real : Marxism, modernity, and literature in colonial Korea, 1920-1941
Smith, Alexander (2006) The literary consequences of the Peace : T. S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, and the teaty of Versailles
2005 DISSERTATIONS
Boggs, Nicholas (2005) The critic and the little man : on AfricanAmerican literary studies in the post-Civil Rights era
Bussell, Donna (2005) Straight talk : community, conflict, and critique in the lives of women saints in Medieval England
Farmer, Alan (2005) "Made like the times Newes" : playbooks, newsbooks, and religion in Caroline England
Gatrall, Jefferson (2005) Cult of image : literary portraits of Jesus in European and American prose, 1831-1895
Gracombe, Sarah (2005) Cultural Englishness and the "homeopathic dose" : Jewishness in the Victorian novel
Hollibaugh, Lisa (2005) Southern crossroads : science, religion and gender in Southern women's literature between the World Wars
Massimilla, Stephen (2005) Myth, antimyth, post-myth : on Western and Eastern myth and allusion to antiquity in Irish, British, expatriate American, local American, and postcolonial modernist poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Williams, Moore, Lorca, Walcott)
Outland, Allison (2005) "Embroideries out of old Mythologies" : engendering a British nation in the early modern English theatre
Stephens, Paul (2005) Beyond the creative/critical divide : the metapoetics of innovative American writing
West, Paul (2005) " A worde or two beside the play" : metatheatricality and the development of early modern theater culture
2004 DISSERTATIONS
Agnani, Sunil (2004) Enlightenment universalism and colonial knowledge : Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke, 1770-1800
Carswell, Lilian (2004) Telling the truth about animals : epistemology, ethics, and animal minds in Melville, Darvin, Saunders, and London
Colburn, Nadia (2004) The surface of what's there : the paradox of authority in the work of W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and James Merrill
Denny-Brown, Andrea (2004) Beyond the fig leaf : sexuality, consumption, and the clothed medieval self
Garden, Rebecca (2004) Radical illness : women, affliction, and authority in the eighteenth-century novel
Goren, Joshua (2004) Religion between the testaments : biblical reconciliation in antebellum-American literature and thought
Mehta, Linn (2004) Poetry and decolonization : Tagore, Yeats, Senghor, Césaire, and Neruda, 1914-1950
Montás, Roosevelt (2004) Rethinking America : abolitionism and the antebellum transformation of the discourse of nationality identity
Neeman, Ziv (2004) "Building profit-power into this electronic brain" : the early computer, programming, and literature in cold war culture
Olsen, Corey (2004) Earthen vessels : pedagogy, authorship, and the endings of Piers Plowman and Troilus and Criseyde/
Park, So Young (2004) Cultivating inwardness : religious conversion and the Victorian novel from Newman to Gissing
Rector, Geoffrey (2004) By virtue of the past : pedagogy, rhetoric and ethics in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman literature
Reddy, Chandan (2004) The migrating present : alienage, race and the politics of black internationalism, 1898-1953
Woo, Ilyon (2004) Rational Renegades : antebellum anti-Shaker apostates, and the literary imagination
Zucker, Adam (2004) Comedies of place : space, status, and the social work of comic form in Early Modern England
2003 DISSERTATIONS
Blurton, Heather (2003) Cannibal narratives : conquest, nationalty and identity in High Medieval England
Boyd, Janet (2003) Gertrud Stein, postcolonialist : the English language, American literature, and geocultural authenticity
Brent, Jessica (2003) Held captive to a picture : visual experience in nineteenth-century texts and early film
Casteel, Sarah Phillips (2003) New World pastoral : landscape and emplacement in contemporary writing of the Americas
Goldstein, Douglas (2003) A fac̦ade of equality : consumerism and national identiy in Yezierska, Larsen and Wouk
Herzog, Eve (2003) The pleasure of the flirt : firtation and narrative in the nineteenth-century British novel
Hill, Thomas (2003) "Preserve Me, Oh Lord, as the Pupil of Thine Eye" : perception and cognition in Chreʹtien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Melamed, Jodi (2003) Killing sympathies : U.S. literature and the limits of racial liberalism, 1940-1960
Perera, Sonali (2003) "__All That is Present and Moving..." : thinking working-class writing at the limits
Rosenblatt, Jonathan (2003) Behold the beholder the construction of character in James Joyce's Ulysses
Rosenthal, Jennifer (2003) Retaking the modernist measure : William Carlos Williams' and Langston Hughes' poetics of social transformation
Sherwin, Miranda (2003) False confessions and true lies : 'confessional' poetry and the twentieth-century literary imagination
2002 DISSERTATIONS
Battistini, Robert (2002) At the limits of Enlightenment : imaginative prose in the early Republic ?
Brown, Stephanie (2002) Constructing and contesting authenticity in the postwar African-American novel
Dreisinger, Batsheva (2002) Near Black : White-to-Black passing in ninetheenth- and twentieth-century American culture
Fleischer, Georgette (2002) Genre departures : Women writers and the crisis of representing National Socialism and World War II
Gianquitto, Tina (2002) Noble designs of nature and nation : God, science , and sentiment in women's representations of the American landscape
Harrison-Kahan, Lori (2002) Strategies of self-making : narrating racial passing, performing white femininity
Holway, Tatiana (2002) A "Capital Idea" : Dickens, speculation, and Victorian economies of representation
Keeley, James (2002) "The Coping Stone on Psycho-Analysis" : Freud, psychoanalysis, and the society for psychical research
Kotz, Elizabeth (2002) Words on paper not necessarily meant to be read as art : postwar media poetics from Cage to Warhol
Rice, Nicole (2002) Spiritual ambition and the mixed life : Middle English devotional rules and the shaping of lay piety
Robinson, Benedict Scott (2002) The Romance of the East : Islam and English literature after the Reformation
Weinstock, Elizabeth (2002) Mournful devotion : discourses of loss and the medieval devotional subject
Whitney, Lisa Anne (2002) "Grace in which a man may swimme" : the rhetoric of motion in the sermons of John Cotton
Wilson, Sarah (2002) Formative Allegiances : American nationality and the modernism of James, Cather, and Stein
Wolff, Tamsen (2002) Mendel's Theatre : performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama
2001 DISSERTATIONS
De Ferrari, Guillermina (2001) Partial objects : body, text, and subjectivity in Caribbean autoethnographic texts
Engel, Laura (2001) Fashioning celebrity : the memoirs and portraits of eighteenth-century British actresses
Hennessy, Marlene (2001) Morbid devotions : Reading in the Passion of Christ in a late Medieval miscellany, London, British Library, Additional ms 37049
Kosnik, Kristin (2001) The Alien in Our Nation : complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative
Lesser, Zachary (2001) The politics of publication : the never-writers and ever-readers of early Stuart drama
Lomas, Laura (2001) American alterities : reading between borders in José Martí's "North American Sciences"
Miller, Joshua (2001) Lingual politics : the syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919-1948
Ratekin, Thomas (2001) Finishing the story : the impact of terminal illness on autobiographical writing
Rosenthal, Lecia (2001) Literature after the end : apocalyptic futurity in Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Doris Lessing
See, Maria (2001) "Our New Possessions" : race, empire, and postcoloniality in American literature and culture
2000 DISSERTATIONS
Bascara, Victor (2000) Money, race and empire : Asian American literature and the emergence of United States imperialism
Cahill, Patricia (2000) "Tales of Iron Wars" : martial bodies and manly economies in Elizabethan culture
Deer, Patrick (2000) "Savage Warnings and Notations" : wartime visions, cultural blackouts and the crisis of British literature, 1939-1949
Dopico, Ana María (2000) "A Bitter Devotion to Home" : Southern questions and family romances in the literature of the Americans
Edsall, Mary Agnes (2000) Reading like a monk : lectio divina, religious literature, and lay devotion
Epstein, Andrew (2000) Against fixity : individualism and friendship in twentieth-century American poetry
Hornick, Karen (2000) The formation of character : English literature, pedagogy, and state education, 1840-60
Ramakrishnan, Vidya (2000) Representations of the religious subject in the "Post"-Enlightenment "World"
Turner, Henry (2000) Plotting early modernity : practical knowledge and the architectonics of English dramatic form
Tursi, Renée (2000) The force of habit at the turn of the century : William James, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and W.E.B. du Bois
1999 DISSERTATIONS
Buckley, Matthew (1999) The illusion of politics : the French Revolution and the emergence of modern drama
Cain, James (1999) Polytexts : political poetics and the culture of state formation in Angevin England
Collins, Michael (1999) Risk, altruism and universal historiography in the works and days of Ralph Bunche, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright and Robert Hayden
Gill, Jonathan (1999) The law of the Modernist letter : anti-semitism and the technology of respresentation in the poetry of Ezra Pound
Green, Juana (1999) Desired properties : materializing and managing social relations in early modern city comedy
Heller, Samantha (1999) Poets and projectors ; profit, production, and economic paradigms in early mondern England
Howard, Carol (1999) From the harem to the plantation : freedom, virtue, and slavery in restoration and eighteen-century British women's literature
Macfarlane, Fenella (1999) The adventurous stage : construction of overseas endeavor in early modern english drama
Matteson, John (1999) Blasphemy, prudence, slavery : ethics in law and literature in the age of Emerson
Petroski, Karen (1999) Making sense of nationality : the politics of irrationality in British and American prose, 1776-1850
Rosner, Victoria (1999) Housing Modernism : architecture, gender, and the culture of space in modern British literatur
1998 DISSERTATIONS
Abrams, Sabrina Fuchs (1998) The world of Mary McCarthy : gender, politics, and the postwar intellectual
Brickhouse, Anna (1998) Literary genealogy and the politics of revision in the American Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance
Brooks, Douglas (1998) From playhouse to printing house : drama of authorship in early modern England
Castro, Nancy Elizabeth (1998) Breeding problems : the anti-procreative problematic and American trans-national narratives
Cochran, Angus (1998) Reworking the land : pastorialism and the Nation in twentieth-century English and Irish literature
Cummins, June (1998) ʾFantastic fulfillmentʾ : the problematics of female coming-of-age narratives in the modern British novel
Ellis, Cassandra (1998) Viewing literature : race, gender, and moviegoing in the American imagination
Goldsmith-Bergman, Meredith Lynn (1998) "Convincing personations" : theatricality and difference in the turn-of-the century American novel
Gopinath, Gayatri (1998) Queer diasporas : gender, sexuality and migration in contemporary South Asian literature and cultural production
Hoad, Neville Wallace (1998) Wild(e) men and savages : the homosexual and the primitive in Darwin, Wilde and Freud
Hubbard, Melanie Anne (1998) Sacrament of the word : Emily Dickinson's material practice in the world of print
Ismail, Qadri (1998) Constituting nation, contesting nationalism : genger, subalternity and community in South Asia
Lander, Jesse (1998) Print, polemic, and popular forms : religion and community in early modern England
Mufti, Aamir (1998) Enlightenment in the colony : the Jewish question and dilemmas in postcolonial modernity
Narayan, Gaura (1998) Split subjectivity ; reconciling gender identity with poetic identity in British romanticism
Payne, David C. (1998) A field of disenchantment : poetics of Incarnation and Atonement in the Victorian novel, 1836-1861
So, Christine (1998) Ethnic margins, global centers : the politics of nationalism and transnationalism in Asian American literature
1997 DISSERTATIONS
Bender, Margaret Jan (1997) Cinvat bridge Maximus IV, V, VI and Charles Olson's special view on history
Bergland, Renée L. (1997) Possession and dispossession : native American ghosts and haunted national imagination
Betensky, Carolyn Jane (1997) From social fantasy to social conscience : bourgeois compassion in the French and English novel
Botshon, Lisa (1997) Cautious pluralism : ethnic women writers and early 20th-century U.S. popular culture
Cleary, Joseph Noel (1997) Bordering nations : partition and the politics of form in Irish, Israeli and Palestinian narrative
Dawson, Ashley James (1997) "Dread Inna Inglan" : nationalism, anti-racism and diaspora culture in Thatcherite Britain
Dean, Janet E. (1997) Mediating women : gender and the frontier in the American imagination,1804-1853.
Dent, Gina (1997) Flowers and colored bottles : the anthropology of culture in twentieth-century African-American writing
Gold, Moshe (1997) Waking hermeneutics : dialogues between James Joyce and Hans-Georg Gadamer with interlocutory interruptions from Plato, Rabbi Soleveitchik, Irigaray, and others
Goodman, Audrey (1997) Inventing the American Southwest : region, romance, and the anthropology of culture
Matin, A. Michael (1997) Securing Britain : figures of invasion in Late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction
Sweet, David LeHardy (1997) Poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in the French and American avant-gardes : five exempalry cases
Thompson, Carlyle (1997) The "White" to pass : miscegenation, mimicry, and masquerade in Chesnutt, Johnson, Larsen, and Faulkner
Zarlengo, Kristina (1997) Inside the nuclear theater : fiction, propaganda and imagination in the American atomic age
1996 DISSERTATIONS
Aronson, Amy Beth (1996) Understanding equals : audience and articulation in the early American women's magazine
Cusk, Sarah (1996) Scattered readers, scattered rhymes : authorship, publication and Renaissance lyric sequence
Kelen, Sarah Ann (1996) "Clerkes, Poetes, and Historiogrphs" : Chaucer, Langland, and the literature of history
Malmud, Anne Deborah (1996) Widows, spinsters, and modern mannish maidens : femes soles in nineteenth-century English law and literatures
Parras, John (1996) Modern poetic prose : lyricism, narrative, and the social implications of generic form
1995 DISSERTATIONS
Buttram, Christie A. (1995) T.S. Eliot and the human body : the coporeal concerns of his life, prose, and poetry
Isikoff, Erin Lisa (1995) The culture of gentility and the politics of the open elite : an aesthetic ideology of manners and taste in eighteenth-century English painting and literature
Morrissey, Lee (1995) From the temple to the castle : an architectural history of eighteenth-century British literature
Yousef, Nancy (1995) Sympathy and skepticism : the imagination of other minds from the Enlightenment to Romanticism
1994 DISSERTATIONS
Disney, Abagail Edna (1994) Shadows of doubt : the American historical war novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane and Thomas Pynchon
Maddox, Celia Newton (1994) "A thriving course" : professionalism in the London theatricial industry and the case of Thomas Heywood
Rinehart, Lucy Elizabeth (1994) "A most conspicuous theatre" : the rise of American theater and drama, 1787-1829
1993 DISSERTATIONS
Jones, Danell Elizabeth (1993) 'From the threshold of the private house' : women, war, and culture in Virginia Woolf's novels of the twenties
Moos, David Alfred (1993) The loss of landscape in American abstraction : the self in Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman
1992 DISSERTATIONS
DeCicco, Lynne Marie (1992) Uneasy alliances : women and lawyers in the mid-nineteenth-century English novel
Epley, Steven (1992) Three women writers and public discourse, 1788-1798 : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and Susanna Rowson
Luten, Karen Ann (1992) Different countries : a study of unrequited love in the novels of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy
Wicke, Jennifer Ann (1992) The literature of advertisement : fiction and the new order of the word in Dickens, James and Joyce
1991 DISSERTATIONS
Stern, Julia (1991) Parsing the first-person plural : transformations of gender and voice in the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe
1990 DISSERTATIONS