Doctoral Degrees Awarded

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2010- Spring 2011

PATRICIA AKHIMIE
"Cultivating Difference in Early Modern Drama and the Literature of Travel"
ANDREA ANDERSSON
"Disconcerting Landscapes: Seriality, System and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Policy"

LEORA BERSOHN
"Melville's England"

REBECCA CALCAGNO
"Publishing the Stuarts: Occasional Literature and Politics from 1603 to 1625"

BINA GOGINENI
"God and the Novel in India"

PATRICIA LESPINASSE
"The Jazz Text: Wild Women, Improvisation and Power in Twentieth Century Jazz Literature"

RUTH LEXTON
"The Political Imagination of Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur' "

PAUL MCNEIL
"The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood"

ALYSSA MEYERS
"Telling Time: Temporality and Narrative in Late Medieval English Literature"

ADELA RAMOS
"The Emergence of Species: Animals, Humans, and Literary Form in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

SAILAJA SASTRY
"Bureaucratic Belonging: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Literary Creation of the South Asian American Subject"

NICOLE SEARY
"The Italianate Wordsworth"

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2009- Spring 2010

ONDREA ACKERMAN
"Getting Lost: Modes of Disorientation in Twentieth-Century Literature"

ARNE DE BOEVER
"Literary Sovereignties: The Contemporary Novel and the State of Exception"

KAREN EMMERICH
"Seeing Things: Visual and Material Poetics in Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry"

RISHI GOYAL
"The 'Last But One': Old Age and the Modernist Novel"

DERRICK HIGGINBOTHAM
"All the World's a Market: Economic Life on English Stages, c. 1400-c. 1625"

EMILY LORDI
"Re-attunements: Black Women Singers and Twentieth-Century African American Literature"

FELICITY PALMER
"Beyond Freedom and Constraint: Alternative Intimacies in the Novels of Yvonne Vera Calixthe Beyala and Amma Darko"

MATTHEW PIETRAFETTA
"The Bildungsroman: A Desire for Form and a Form for Desire"

ELLEN RENTZ
"Imagining the Parish: Parochial Space and Spiratual Community in Late Medieval England"

JOANNA SCUTTS
"Memorial Modernisms: Remembering the Dead in British Literature and Culture"

RICHARD SO
"U.S.-China Political and Literary Exchange, 1925-1955"

GREGORY VARGO
"Social Protest and the Novel: Chartism, the Radical Press, and Early Victorian Fiction"

JON WILLIAMS
"Languages of Kingship in Ricardian Britian"

ANNA WULICK
"Speculative Ethics: Victorian Finance and Experimental Moral Landscapes in the Mid-Century Novels of Olphant, Trollope, Thackeray and Dickens"

GARRETT ZIEGLER
"The Nation of Counties: Literature and Local Identity in Victorian England"

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2008- Spring 2009

FLORA ARMETTA
"A View Of The Thing: The Visual Art Of The Victorian Novel."

DEHN GILMORE
"Liberal Visions: The Art World, The Social World And The Victorian Novel."

LIANNE HABINEK
"Such Wondrous Science: Brain And Metaphor In Early Modern English Literature."

ADAM HOOKS
"Vendible Shakespeare."

JEANNIE IM
"Modernity In Translation: Figures Of Empire In The Novels Of Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, And Assia Djebar."

CHRISTINE LEJA
"The Fruit Of Pain: Rethinking Sympathy In The Victorian Novel."

CHRISTINE NADIR
"Sacrifice And Its Discontents: Ethical Paradox In Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Environmental Literature."

JESSE ROSENTHAL
"Moral Sensibilities: Ethical Feeling And Narrative Form In The Victorian Novel."

MATTHEW SANDLER
"A Poetics Of Self-Help In America."

STEFANIE SOBELLE
"The Architecture Novel: Postmodernism's Literary Construction Sites."

COURTNEY THORSSON
"Women's Work: Nationalism And Contemporary African American Women's Novels."

JENNIFER WHITE
"Trouble With Time: Contemporary American Literature And Environmental Crisis."

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2007-Spring 2008

KRISTEN AITKEN
"The Afterlife Of Fiction: Reprinting The Nineteenth-Century British Novel."

CRAIG BEAUMONT
"Future Selves: Disinterest And The Sympathetic Imagination, From Hazlitt To Wilde."

SARAH COLE
"The Third Sphere: Male Intimacy And Developmental Narrative In Nineteenth-Century Britain."

ALLISON DEUTERMANN
"Hearing And Listening In Early Modern Drama."

JASON FRYDMAN
"Reciting Trans-Atlantic Litera Ture: Orality, Creolization, And Intertextuality."

HANNAH GURMAN
"The Dissent Papers: The Voice Of Diplomats In The Cold War And Beyond."

RADHIKA JONES
"Required Rereading, Or How Contemporary Novels Respond To The Canon."

ANDRAS KISERY
"Politicians In Show: The Circulation Of Political Knowledge In Early-17th Century English Drama."

RAMONA MOSSE
"Between Tragedy And Utopia Revolution And The Political Stage After 1945."

KATHERINE OLSON
"Lady Killers: Women, Violence, And Representation In Medieval English Literature."

COILIN PARSONS
"Literary Maps: Cartography In Anglo-Irish Literature."

CASEY SHOOP
"Meta-California: Culture, Critical Theory, And The Ends Of History In The Golden State."

CATHERINE SIEMANN
"Uneasy Justice: Images Of The Legal System In The Victorian Novel."

JON SURGAL
"Fagin's Incorruptible Appren Tice, The Monster With Two Heads, The Unsinkable Chu-Zzlewit, And The Dispossessed Young Gentleman Of Blunderstone Rookery: The Dickens Orphans From Allegory To Autobiography."

ICHIRO TAKAYOSHI
"Empire On Paper: Interventionist And Isolationist Literature In The United States, 1939-1941."

ELDA TSOU
"Figures Of Identity: Rereading Asian American Literature."

PIGI VLAGOPOULOS
"Voices From Below: Locating The Underground In Post-World War II American Literature."

LAUREN WALSH
"Snapshots Of The Past: Novel Istic Memory In The Age Of Photography."

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2006- Spring 2007

SARAH ABRAMOWICZ
"The Impossible Contract: Law, Parentage, And The Victorian Novel."

BRANTLEY LLOYD BRYANT
"'Common Profit': Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse, circa 1340-1406." [Distinction]

JUDITH GOLDMAN
"Visible Hand: 'System,' Method, and Suasion in the Human Natural Science of Adam Smith."

MICHELE HARDESTY
"The Ambivalent American: Political Travel Writing During the Cold War."

SHAYNE LEGASSIE
"Differently Centered Worlds: The Traveler's Body In Late Medieval European Narrative (1350-1450)."

HELEN PILINOVSKY
"'Fantastic Emigres: Translation and Acculturation of the Fairy Tale in a Literary Diaspora."

DERMOT RYAN
"Writing, Imagination, And The Production Of Empire From Adam Smith To William Wordsworth."

KARL STEEL
"Defining The Human: Medieval Discourses And Practices Of Animal Subjugation."

DANIEL THOMAS SWIFT
"Shakespeare's Common Prayers"

WILLIAM P. WEAVER
"The Rudiments of Eloquence: Pedagogy and Literary Practice in the English Renaissance."

MATTHEW ZARNOWIECKI
"Lyric Forces: Organizing English Poetry 1557-1591."

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2005-Spring 2006
TIFFANY JO ALKAN "'The Fantastical Dreams of Abbie-Lubbers': Romance and Religion in Early Modern England." BENJAMIN CONISBEE BAER " -- your ghost-work…": Figures of the Peasant and the Autochthon in Literature and Politics, 1880s-1940s." NERGIS ERTÜRK LENNON "Modernity and the Crisis of Language." ALAN BRYAN FARMER "'Made like the times Newes': Playbooks, Newsbooks, and Religion in Caroline England." TIANHU HAO "Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden: Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England." JOSEPH KEITH "Cold War Cosmopolitanisms: Radical Transnationalisms in the Shadow of the U.S. Empire." DAVID SCOTT KURNICK "The Vocation of Failure: Frustrated Dramatists and the Novel." [Distinction] MATTHEW IAN LAUFER "Upstaging the Novel: Modern Fiction, Individualism, and the Turn to Drama." AMY E. MARTIN "Acts of Union: Representing Nation-States and National Identities in Victorian British and Irish Writing." [Distinction] TARA MCGANN "A Fever of Speculation: Narrating Finance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel." SUNYOUNG PARK " Writing the Real Marxism, Modernity and Literature in Colonial Korea, 1920-1941." NICOLE M. RIZZUTO "Literature and Testimony: Witnessing Traumatic History in the Works of Herman Melville, Rebecca West and Sarah Kofman." ALEXANDER SMITH "The Literary Consequences of the Peace: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the Treaty of Versailles." JORGE DANIEL VENECIANO "Just Pleasure: The Subject of Cultural Democracy in Walt Whitman and José Martí." [Distinction]

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Fall 2004-Spring 2005

NICHOLAS TAYLOR BOGGS
"The Critic and the Little Man: On African-American Literary Studies in the Post-Civil Rights Era." [Distinction]

DONNA ALFANO BUSSELL
"Straight Talk: Community, Conflict, and Critique in the Lives of Women Saints in Medieval England."

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

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."

SHIRIN KHANMOHAMADI
"Proximate Others and Distant Selves: Writing Culture in Late Medieval Europe."\

BRIAN LENNON
"Plurilingualism and Translation: Antinomies of Literature."

STEPHEN T. MASSIMILLA
"Myth, Anti-Myth, Post-Myth: On Western and Eastern Myth and Allusions to Antiquity in Irish, British, Expatriate American, Local American, and Postcolonial Modernist Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, Williams, Moore, Lorca, Walcott)."

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

ALLISON M. M. OUTLAND
"'Embroideries Out of Old Mythologies': Engendering a British Nation in the Early Modern English Theatre."

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

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."

CHARLES ANTHONY WALLS
"Acts of the Imagination: Racial Sentimentalism and the Modern American Novel."

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