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English Ph.D. Graduates

2005-2006

Mark Bruce, “Sovereign Amnesias: Literature, Nationalism and the Shadow of Scotland in Late Medieval Britain” (Claire Sponsler, director)

Anthony Enns, “Transmigration Networks: Literature, Media, Spiritualism” (Rob Latham and David Wittenberg, directors)

Michael Germana, “Standards of Value: U.S. Monetary Policy and the Negotiation of Racial Difference in American Literature, 1834-1952.” (Kathleen Diffley, director)

Carol Lauhon, “Capitola!; or, Our American Dream: The Hidden Hand in American Culture, 1859-1929” (Ed Folsom, director)

Kimberli Stafford Lawson, “Healing Art: Tribal Consciousness, Narrative, and Trauma in Contemporary American Indian Poetry” (Florence Boos, director)

Margaret Loose, “Literary Form and Social Reform: The Politics of Chartist Literature” (Florence Boos, director)

Mary Moran, “Telling Relationships: Feminist Narrative Ethics in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel” (Florence Boos, director)

Lori Muntz, “Representing Indians: the Melodrama of Native Citizenship in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1920s” (Kathleen Diffley, director)

Scott Nowka, “Character Matters: Enlightenment, Materialism and the Novel” (Eric Gidal, director)

Amy Spellacy, “Neighbors North and South: Literary Culture, Political Rhetoric and Inter-American Relations in the Era of the Good Neighbor Policy, 1928-1948” (Barbara Eckstein and Claire Fox, directors)

Summer 2005

Eddie Mallot, “Transtextualities: Memory, Nationalism and Narrative in South Asian Literatures” (Mary Lou Emery and Priya Kumar, directors)

Spring 2005

Elizabeth Corsun, “Comic Pragmatism: Dickens and Early Victorian Stage Farce” (Garrett Stewart, director)

Marty Gould, “Rose Britannia: Theatricality and Empire in the Victorian Period” (Teresa Mangum, director)

Mary Hayes, “Still Small Voice: Silence in Medieval Devotion and Literature” (Jon Wilcox and Claire Sponsler, directors)

Fall 2004

Deirdre McMahon, “Strange Family Stories”: Race and Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” (Florence Boos, director)

Ervin Nieves, “Beyond Darwinism: Chicana/o Literature and Modern Scientific Literary Analysis: A Biographical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Reappraisal of the Literary Works of Josefina (Josephine) Niggli and Oscar Zeta Acosta” (Tom Lutz, director)

Summer 2004

Bidisha Banerjee, “Ruptured Identities and Resistant Narratives: Mapping a Discourse of the Body in Indian Diasporic Women’s Fiction and Film” (Mary Lou Emery, director)

Megan Early, “Provocative Contours: Tracing the Female Performer’s Body in Victorian Literature and the Aesthetics of Performance” (Teresa Mangum, director)

Jean Fernandez, “In Service of Narration: Servants, the Rhetorics of Class and Narrational Politics in Nineteenth Century Fiction and Autobiography” (Garrett Stewart, director)

Thomas McLean, “The Other East: Poland, Russia and British Romanticism” (Judith Pascoe, director)

Isiah Lavender, “Otherhood(s): Mapping Race and Ethnicity in Science Fiction Literature” (Brooks Landon, director)

Spring 2004

Shirley López, “Remembering the Brave Women: Chicana Literature on the Texas-Mexico Border,1900-1950” (Claire Fox, director)

Jennifer Ryan, “Writing a Third Language: A Geneology of Feminist Jazz Poetics” (Dee Morris, director)

Fall 2003

Susan Hwang, “Defining Asian American Fiction: Contested Values for Prose Publications of the 1970s-1990s” ” (Tom Lutz, director)

Elise Myers,  “Relativity Physiques: Bodies as Events in Anglo-American Modernist Literature” (Tom Lutz, director)

Eun-Jung Yook, “In the Theatre of Sympathy: Sympathy and Self-Construction in Wordsworth, DeQuincey, and Keats” (Teresa Mangum and Judith Pascoe, director)

Summer 2003

David Banash, “Writing Through the Real: Twentieth-Century Literary Collage” (Ruedi Kuenzli, director)

Robin Barrow, “Narratives of Outrage: Sexual Violence and the Victorian Novel” (Florence Boos, director)

Spring 2003

Thomas Gannon “The Avian as Native and Natured Other: Reimagining the Bird from British Romanticism to Contemporary Native American Literature” (Ed Folsom, director)

Mary Beth Pope, “Waiting for Ed McMahon” (Brooks Landon, director)

Fall 2002

 Jodi Byrd "Colonialisms Cacophony: Settlers, Arrivants and the Limits of Postcolonial Theory" (Mary Lou Emery, director)

Amy Lilly "This Way to the Exhibition": Woolf, Joyce, Rhys, and the 1930s Fascist Culture of Exhibitions" ( Mary Lou Emery, director)

Joann Quinones-Perdomo "A Splendid Little Postcolonial War: Colonial Theory and Popular Images of the Spanish American War" (Bluford Adams, director))

James Tweedie "Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Neobaroque Cinema, Visual Culture, Theory" ( Garrett Stewart, director)

Jessica Walsh "The Writing Cure: Women, Poetry and Madness, 1880-1940" ( Florence Boos, director)

Martin Buinicki "Negotiating Copyright Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America" (Ed Folsom, director) Note: Degree conferred in May 2003.

Summer 2002

Sharon Kennedy-Nolle "Reconstructions of Post War Literary Regionalism: Alternative Literary Visions of New Souths and New Citizens, 1865-1886" (Kathleen Diffley, director)

Spring 2002

Douglas Anderson "Alienation and Abundance: American Farm Fiction, 1900-1930" (Tom Lutz, director)

Jerry Harp "Sense Metaphors of Cognition in Early Modern English Texts" (Alvin Snider, director)

Sean Meehan "Mirrors with a Memory: Nineteenth-Century American Autobiography and the Photographic Imagination" (Ed Folsom, director)

Fall 2001

Eleanor Hersey "Ravishing Television: Adapting Women's Fiction for the Small Screen" (Tom Lutz, director)

Michael Clarke "These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930" (Ed Folsom, director)

Summer 2001

Ayana Abdallah "Reading Octavia Butler's Africentric Transgressive Creativity" (Brooks Landon, director)

Cinda Coggins "Traversing a Landscape in Flux: A Disjunctive Approach to Identity Constructs in Academia and Beyond" ( Dee Morris, director)

Laura Dubek "White Female Fictions: Black Novelists and Cultural Narratives of Whiteness, 1942-1956" (Corey Creekmur, director)

Beth Fisher "Fictions of Female Desire: Extravagant Women and Social Disorder in Gilded Age America" (Kathleen Diffley, director)

Jason Mezey "Working Through Indian History: Historiographic Intervention in Fiction of the Subcontinent, 1935-1985" (Garrett Stewart, director)

Donald "Kim" Smith "Mapping More Than the World: Shaping the Cartographic Imagination in Late Medieval and Early Modern England" (Huston Diehl, director)

Lera Baker Smith "The Relationship of Power, Word, and Light in the Old English Poems of Oxford, Bodleian MS Junius II" (Jon Wilcox, director)

Spring 2001

Greg Beatty "Structures of Violence: Representations of Serial Murder in Postmodern America" (Rob Latham, director)

Kristin Brandser "In Contempt: Feminist Jurisprudence in 19^th Century Law and Literature" (Garrett Stewart, director)

Elizabeth Clark "Ghost-Writing Into Eternity: Representations of the Woman Author as Spirit/Conjuror" (Susan Lohafer, director)

Elizabeth Henry "Essays in Place: Ecocritical Pathways" (Tom Simmons, director)

Heidi Johnson "Detection in Their Power: Women Sleuths, Women Writers, and the Victorian Novel" (Florence Boos, director)

Genevieve Kovalesky "A 'New Biography' of Her Own: Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth Century" (Florence Boos, director)

Michele Morano "Grammar Lessons" (Carol de Saint Victor, director)

Anne Stapleton "Negotiating Nationalism: Scottish Dance in Post-Culloden Literature" (Florence Boos, director)

Lara Trubowitz "Writing the Wandering Subject: Metaphors of the Jew in Twentieth Century Literature and the Political Imagination" (Dee Morris, director)

Fall 2000

Lyn Elliot "Rethinking Escape, Entrapment and Belonging in the American Road Narrative" (Tom Lutz, director)

Kim Fortuny "Elizabeth Bishop: Terms of Travel" (David Hamilton, director)

Joshua Kotzin "The Museum Mood: American Literature and Modern Styles of Retrospection" (Tom Lutz, director)

Holly Welker "The Rib Cage" (Patricia Foster & Kevin Kopelson, Co-Directors)

Summer 2000

Beth Crachiolo "'I Am God's Handmaid': Virginity, Violence, and the Viewer in Medieval and Reformation Martyr's Lives" (Claire Sponsler & Jon Wilcox Co-Directors)

Lezlie Hall "Land: The Significance of Topography and The Natural World in the Works of Olive Schreiner, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham and Nadine Gordimer" (Florence Boos, director)

Carol Tyx "Adjusting the Tension" (David Hamilton, director)

Spring 2000

Maura Brady "Spatial Effects: Galileo's Telescope in Paradise Lost" (Alvin Snider, director)

Elizabeth Dietz "Partiality: Sight, Memory and Eros in Early Modern England" (Huston Diehl, director)

Zofia Lesinska "Stein, Flanner, Boyle, West: Women Writers and Political Development in Europe, 1930-1944" (Ruedi Keunzli, Director)

Jon Miller "Prohibition and Parties: Temperance in American Literature and Culture, 1784-1855" (Tom Lutz, director)

Eric Neel "Reading the Impossible: Postwar Idealism and the Interrogation of American Integrity" (Linda Bolton, director)

Richard Quinn "Playing Together: Improvisation in Postwar American Literature and Culture" (Dee Morris, director)

Julie Schmid "Performance, Poetics and Place" (Dee Morris, director)