NADIA HERMAN COLBURN
"The Surface of What's There: The Paradox of Authority in the Work of W.H. Auden, John Ashbery and James Merrill."

CHRISTINE JEAN CYNN
"'The Chinese Problem': Chinese Immigrants in the Early Exclusion Era United States."

REBECCA ELIZABETH GARDEN
"Radical Illness: Women, Affliction, and Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Novel."

SARAH FELICIA GRACOMBE
"Cultural Englishness and the 'Homeopathic Dose': Jewishness in the Victorian Novel."

SARAH HANNAH
"Only through Time: Structure and Temporality in Three Modern Sequence Poems." [Distinction]

LISA KATHLEEN HOLLIBAUGH
"Southern Crossroads: Science, Religion and Gender in Southern Women's Literature between the World Wars."

LISA K. NELSON
"Racing the Rebel: Romancing Rebellion."

SO YOUNG PARK
"Cultivating Inwardness: Religious Conversion and the Victorian Novel from Newman to Gissing."

DOUGLAS SCOTT PFEIFFER
" 'A Life Beyond Life': The Rise of English Literary Biography."

MATTHEW E. REBHORN
"Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier, 1829-1893."

GEOFFREY RECTOR
"By Virtue of the Past: Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Ethics in Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Literature."

CHANDAN REDDY
"The Migrating Present: Alienage, Race and the Politics of Black Internationalism, 1898-1953."

NAOMI C. REED
"High-Stakes Citizenship: Gambling in the American Novel, 1890-1929." [Distinction]

PAUL STEPHENS
"Beyond the Creative/Critical Divide: The Metapoetics of Innovative American Writing."

JASON W. STEVENS.
"Warding Off Innocence: Original Sin and American Culture in the Cold War." [Distinction]

NANCY F. SWEET
"Chaste Rebellion: The Disobedient Daughter in Antebellum Literature."

VICKI ANN TROMANHAUSER
"Virginia Woolf's Sacrificial Plots."

TOY-FUNG TUNG
"Chrétien de Troyes and Historia: In Fiction's Mirror."

PAUL IRVIN WEST
"'A worde or two beside the play': Metatheatricality and the Development of Early Modern Theater Culture."

ADAM ZUCKER
"Comedies of Place: Space, Status, and the Social Work of Comic Form in Early Modern England."