Ph.D. Dissertations

Doctoral Program

Lauren Crockett-Girard, 淭hinking with Zombies: How Zombie Rhetoric Infected American Discourse� (2025)

颁补迟丑别谤颈苍别听贰苍谤颈驳丑迟, 淓mpty Shells: Gothic Fear in World War I Literature� (2025)

厂丑补谤辞苍听奥辞蹿蹿辞谤诲, 淩eading the Body: Constructing Saints in Early Medieval England� (2025)

颁丑补苍诲濒别谤听厂丑补飞, 淗idden in Plain Sight: Cultivating Mythic Place Narratives on the Texas High Plains� (2025)

Daniel Dougherty,聽淕rowing Up Globally: Form and Genre in the Anglophone Bildungsroman澛�(2024)

Matthew Gannon,聽淢odernity Against Itself: The Politics and Aesthetics of Modernist Form� (2024)

Laura Sterrett,聽"Motions of the Soul: A Poetics of Religious Desire in Early Modern Metrical Psalms" (2023)

Alicia Ye Sul Oh,聽淩einventing the Museum: Textured Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Women's Elegies� (2022)

Nell Wasserstrom,聽淏elated Modernism: The Late Style of Freud, Benjamin, and Woolf� (2022)

Alison Cotti-Lowell, 淩omantic British Citizenship and the Transatlantic World� (2021)

Deanna Malvesti Danforth, 淪hakespeare Paragones� (2021)

Alex Moskowitz, 淎merican Imperception: Literary Form, Sensory Perception, and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature� (2021)

Nancy L. Boisvert, "Shards of Glass: Shame and its Mitigation in Willa Cather's Work" (2020)

Colleen Taylor, "Violent Matter: Objects, Women, and Irish Character, 1720 - 1830" (2020)

Amelie Daigle, "Transnational Communities and the Novel in the Age of Globalization" (2019)

Richard Ford Burley, "The Remix as a Hermeneutic for the Interpretation of Early Insular Texts" (2018)

Trista Doyle,聽"Insidious Vulnerability: Women's Grief and Trauma in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction" (2018)

Andrew Kuhn,聽"Networking Institutions of Literary Modernism: Technologies of Writing in Yeats, Joyce, Gissing, and Woolf" (2018)

Scott Reznick,聽"'The Vision of Principles': Liberal Democracy and the Roots of Moral Experience in Antebellum American Literature" (2018)

Rachel Ernst, "Mattering: Agentic Objects in Victorian Literature" (2018)

Kristin Imre, "Monotonous Feeling: the formal everyday in three Modern and Contemporary novels" (2018)

Alyssa Bellows, "Thinking with Games in the British Novel, 1801-1901." (2017)

Lauren Wilwerding, "Singular Plots: Female Vocation and Radical Form in the Nineteenth-Century Novel" (2017)

Linda Martin,聽"Material Minds and Modern Fiction: The Psychology of Sexual Difference in West, Stein, and Woolf." (2017)

Yin Yuan, "Consuming the Orient: Scenes of Exotic Ingestion in Long Nineteenth-Century British Literature" (2017)

Kiara Kharpertian, "We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space 1885-1992" (2016)

Emma Atwood, "Spatial Dramaturgy and Domestic Control in Early Modern Drama� (2015)

Katie Daily-Bruckner, "I Was Never An American: Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century Immigration Narratives� (2015)

Alison H Pasinella, "Becoming (Post)Human: How H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, and D.H. Lawrence Tried to Alter the Course of Human Evolution" (2014)

Kelly Sullivan,聽"Epistolary Modernism" (2014)

Dathalinn O'Dea, "The Afterlives of the Irish Literary Revival" (2014)

Alice Waters,聽"Literary Constellations: Collaboration and the Production of Early Modern Books" (2014)

Katherine Kim, "Haunted Mind and Matter: The Human Will and Haunting in Nineteenth-Century British Literature" (2014)

Rebecca Troeger, "The Formation of Musical Communities in Twentieth Century Irish Literature" (2014)

Lorenzo Puente, "The Commodification of Everything�: Disneyfication and Filipino American Narratives of Globalization and Diaspora" (2014)

Matthew Heitzman, "Revolutionary Narratives, Imperial Rivalries: Britain and the French Empire in the Nineteenth Century" (2013)

Alex Shakespeare, "Robert Lowell: Lyric and Life" (2013)

Beth Tressler, "Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology" (2013)

Gene Gorman,聽"'Restricted Movement' and Coordinates of Freedom: Southern Chain Gangs in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film" (2012)

Nikhil Gupta,聽"Rough Crossings: Transatlantic Readings and Revisions in American and Irish Modernism" (2012)

Alisa Marko Iannucci, "Antebellum Writer-Travelers and American Cosmopolitanism" (2011)

Catherine Michna, "Hearing the Hurricane Coming: Storytelling, Second-Line Knowledges, and the Struggle for Democracy in New Orleans" (2011)

Wendy Cannella, "Fireplaces: The Unmaking of the American Male Domestic Poet (Frost, Stevens, Williams, and Stephen Dunn)" (2011)

Jason Kerr, "Loving Liberty: Milton, Scripture, and Society" (2011)

Katherine Kellett, "Disappearing Acts: Performing the Petrarchan Mistress in Early Modern England" (2010)

Colleen Lannon, "Gambling and/on the Exchange: The Victorian Novel and the Legitimization of the Stock Market" (2010)

Thomas Simons, "Being and the Imaginary: An Introduction to Aesthetic Phenomenology and English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to Romanticism" (2010)

Chad Stutz, "Christians, Critics, and Romantics: Aesthetic Discourse Among Anglo-American Evangelicals, 1830-1900" (2009)

Sara Hong,聽"Moving Imitation: Performing Piety in Early Modern English Literature" (2009)

Amy Witherbee,聽"New Conceptions of Time and the Making of a Political-Economic Public in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (2009)

Timothy Lindgren,"Place Blogging: Local Economies of Attention in the Network" (2009)

Patrick Moran,聽"A World of Objects: Materiality and Aesthetics in Joyce, Bowen and Beckett." (2009)

Nirmal Trivedi, "Witnessing Empire: U.S. Imperialism and the Emergence of the War Correspondent" (2009)

Nicholas Parker, "Literary Evasions of the English Nation in the Twentieth Century" (2009)

Jamin Rowan, "Urban Sympathy: Reconstructing an American Literary Tradition" (2008)

Jaime Goodrich, "Early Modern Englishwomen as Translators of Religious Literature
(1524-1641)" (2008)

Matthew Bolinder, "Solid Forests and Fluid Utterances: Reading the Maine Woods" (2008)

Trevor Dodman, 楲ingering Wounds, Broken Places: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction� (2007)

Heather Braun, 楩atal Forms: Disruption, Decay, and the Nineteenth-Century Femme Fatale� (2007)

Carla Spivack, 淒ismembering Eliza: The Backlash against Female Rule in Early Jacobean England� (2007)

Matthew VanWinkle, 湗To Reach Through Memory�: The Renovation of the past in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry� (2006)

Margarit Tadevosyan, 楽trangers in Stranger Tongues: Vladimir Nabokov and the Writing of Exile� (2006)

Richard Murphy, 楳inor Formations: The Irish Bildungsroman, Modernity and Canonical Aesthetics� (2006)

Kristen Corman, 楧ickens, Cognition, and Cross-modal Vision and Touch: Seeing and Feeling in Dickens's Hand-Eye, Railway Metaphors� (2005)

Lisabeth Buchelt, 業nterpreting the Monstrous Word: Reading through Context and Memory in the Compilations� Junius 11 and "Lebor Na hUidre潤 (2005)

Martha Hincks, 楽uccessful Dialogues: Systematic, Written, and Prompted Self-analysis in College Composition� (2005)

Jeffrey Ousborne, 槣Preserved in a Lineal Descent�: Genetic Pessimism in Swift, Pope, and Sterne� (2005)

Katherine Howard, 楾he Psychotic States of America: Power, Representation, and Subjectivity in the United States Today� (2005)

Sheldon George, 楾raumatic Attachments: A Lacanian Analysis of African-American Racial Identity� (2005)

Elizabeth Bradburn, 楳ilton and Theater� (2004)

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, 楾roubling Synonymies: Britishness and the Nineteenth-Century Novel� (2004)

Matthew Watson, 楤orderwork: Region and Nation in Bret Harte's West� (2003)

Maria Brandt, 楻eading Anxiety: The New Woman and Narrative Strategy in American Literature� (2003)

Susana Martins, 楽antos Unnatural Futures: Imagining the High-tech in Contemporary American Culture� (2003)

David Thiele, 榁ulgarians at the Gate: Status, Culture, and Adult Education in Mid-Victorian Literature� (2003)

Diana Cruz, 楢 Habit of Translation: Race and Aesthetics in the Poetry of Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley and Melvin B. Tolson� (2002)

Joselyn M. Almeida,聽"Literary Crossings: Britain and the Americas in the Nineteenth Century" (2001)

Catherine Eagan, 槣I did Imagine...We had Ceased to be Whitewashed Negroes:� The Racial Formation of Irish Identity in Nineteenth-century Ireland and America� (2000)

Michael Faletra, 楳atters of Britain: Narratives of Colonization in Twelfth-century England� (2000)

Jeffrey Westover, 楾he Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry� (2000)

Debra Malina, 楤reaking the Mold: The Construction of the Subject in Postmodern Narrative� (1999)

James M. Smith, 業reland's Architecture of Containment: Contemporary Narratives of the Nation State� (1999)

June E. Roberts, "Erna Brodber's Aesthetic: The Call for a Return to Afrocentric Folk Roots" (1999)

Suzanne Smith, 楽erious Daring: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton� (1998)

Linda Lee Revie, 楾he Wilds of Niagara: Constructions of the Falls in Fine Arts, Literary and Scientific Narratives, from Discovery through the Twentieth Century� (1998)

Patricia Rettew, 楾he Fatal Muse: Romantic Feminizations of Revolutionary Zeal� (1997)

Mary Elliott, 楾he Intelligence of a Nation: Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser in the Age of Andrew Carnegie� (1997)

Fahamisha Patricia Brown,聽"Black Poetry: A Vernacular Art" (1996)

Thomas Lloyd, 楥oleridge's Daemons: A Romantic Mythopoesis of Evil� (1995)

Andrew Wilson, 楻eal Tragedy: The "Francoeur" Novels of David Plante� (1995)

Jorg Drewitz, 楢 New German Translation of "Daniel Deronda" with German Notes, a German Afterword, and an English Preface� (1994)

Mary Smith, 楨choes of the Past, Intimations of the Future: Working through the Tradition of Industrial Fiction in the Novels of Margaret Drabble� (1994)

John Anderson, 楤eyond Calliope: Epics by Women Poets of the Romantic Period� (1993)

Lois Brown, 楨ssential Histories/determined Identities: Images of Race and Origin in the Works of Pauline Hopkins� (1993)

Sara Lundquist, 楲ocal Habitations: Poetic Dwelling in the Work of Robert Frost and James Merrill� (1993)

Mary Kietzman, 槣Means to Mourn Some Newer Way�: The role of the complaint in Early-Modern Narrative� (1993)

Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, 楶an and Nature: Thoreau's Imagination-based Epistemology� (1993)

Carl Racine, 楢n Everlasting Lie: The Storyteller's Journey to the Past in the Writings of Benedict Kiely� (1992)

Paula Loscocco, 楥avalier Literary Culture in Mid-Seventeenth-century England� (1992)

Matthew Parfitt, 楨arth and World: A Hermeneutic Approach to Poems by Robert Frost� (1992)

Regina Marie Hansen, 楪ender and Socialism in the Prose Romances of William Morris� (1992)

Ethan Eric Lewis, "Modernist Image: Imagist Technique in the Work of Pound, Eliot, and Williams" (1992)

Margaret Kelleher, 楾he Feminisation of Famine: Narrative Representations of Irish and Bengali Famines� (1992)

Robert Alpert, 楩ormal Consolations: Parody, Figure, and Modernity in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov� (1991)

Susan Kelley, 榁irginia Woolf's Visual Obsession: The Self Seen and Unseen� (1991)

Elizabeth Kenney, 楾he Inside Story: Interpolated Narrative in Fielding's Novels� (1990)

Alan Crowley, 楯ohn Ezekiel's Wheels: Reading the Performance of Assent in Newman and Coleridge� (1989)

Marshall Toman, 楴onsense and Sensibility: Negation in the Novels of Joseph Heller� (1988)

Mary Kathryn Huse,聽"We Belated Historians: The Narrators of George Eliot's Novels" (1988)

Gail Reitenbach, 楧eath and the Observer: American International Novels� (1988)

Lorraine Liscio, 楩emale Definitions of Self and Community� (1987)

Eileen Barrett, 楾he Female Artist as 'Outsider' in the Writing of Virginia Woolf� (1987)

Elizabeth Harvey Yon, 槣Loues Soft Bands": A Study of Spenser's "Amoretti潤 (1987)

Melinda Ponder, 楾he Role of Eighteenth-century Anglo-Scottish Theorists in Hawthorne's Aesthetic Education and Literary Creation of the Early Tales� (1987)

Gina Prenowitz, 楾rue, and Yet True: A Study of Sonnet Form� (1987)

William Lee, 楲inguistic Theories of Metaphor (Literacy, Rhetoric, Semantics, Pragmatics)� (1986)

Michael Leddy, 極rigins of Meaning: Utterer, Audience, Speech-Situation� (1985)

David Klooster, 楾he Art of the Present Moment: Studies in the American Short Story (Theory, Time, Marvelous)� (1985)

Marlene Gast, 榃ordsworth and Milton: Varieties of Connection (Influence, Allusion, Echo)�(1985)

Christopher Woodhouse, 楾he Melting Voice: A Study of Milton 淟橝llegro� and 淚l Penseroso� and Their Setting by Handel� (1984)

Nancy Lusignan, 楾hey Cannot Choose But Hear: Auditors in Modern Literary Tradition (Poetry, Authors, Readers, Dramatic Monologue, English, American)� (1984)

Ellen Castle, 榃ittgenstein and Practical Criticism: Readings in Dante Shakespeare, Austen, and Dickens (England, Italy)� (1984)

John Hampsey, 楤lake Bound Children: A Study of 淭iriel� and Other Works� (1982)

Emily Meyer, 楪rowing Amid Change: Elizabeth Gaskell Vision of Personal Development� (1982)

Richard Audet, 楽eeing Into the Life of Things: The Imagination as Theme of Wordsworth 淟yrical Ballads� of 1798 and Emily Bronte 淲uthering Heights潤 (1982)

William Ellis, 楾he Theory of American Romance: an Episode in American Intellectual History� (1981)

Daniel Gunn, 楢n Analytical Study of 淩ealism� as a Critical Concept� (1980)

Conor Johnston, 楢nthony Trollope: The Irish Dimension� (1980)

Ellen Munley, 楥aught in the Act: Naming in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon and Natalie Sarraute� (1980)

Priscilla Paton, 楽aying What Happened: Robert Lowell 淒ay by Day潤 (1979)

Ronald Wendeln, 業saac Watts 淗orae Lyricae� as Dissenting Conversion Literature� (1978)

Lynne Spigelmire, 楧aniel Deronda and The Portrait of a Lady: a Revised Estimate of F. R. Leavis� View� (1978)

Anice Heagney, 楽tructure and Characterization in Dickens Bleak House� (1978)

David Anderson, 楾homson Heavenly Musing: 淭he Seasons� as Theodicy� (1978)

Beverly Kienzle, 楾he Flowering of Satire in Medieval Picardy� (1978)

Carolyn Taylor, 槣Blend us with thy being�: Jean Toomer Mill House Poems� (1977)

Ilona Bell, 槣When Faith did change the scene�: Herbert Renascence and the Protestant Reformation� (1977)

Bonnie Stevens, 槣The White Doe of Rylstone� as an Allegory of Imagination� (1977)

Robert Cording, 楢 New Lyricism: David Wagoner and the Instructional Voice� (1976)

Jane Ritchie, 槣Mine own true love�: Shakespeare Sonnets 100-116� (1976)

Ruth Anderson, 楥laude Simon: a Study of His Esthetic Evolution from Gulliver Though Le Palace (1976)

Guy Rotella, 槣Meditation of the heart�: the Tragic Theme in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren� (1976)

Anne Stevenson, 楢lfred de Vigny: the Art of Correspondence� (1976)

Paul Kelly, 槣Hymns to the gods and praises of famous men�: the Revaluation of Poetry in Plato Philosophy� (1976)

Steven Abrams, 槣The Blood Oranges� as a Visionary Fiction� (1976)

Martha Echols, 楽ubversions of Pastoral: Andrew Marvell Uses of Pastoral Tradition� (1976)

William Bullard, 楨mbodied Semblances: a Comparative Study of William Blake 淭he Four Zoas� and D. H. Lawrence 淭he Rainbow潤 (1976)

Rosemarie Bodenheimer Weiner, 'The Terrible Algebra: Images of the Self in Henry James� (1975)

Flavia Mary Caliri, 楲eopardi and Coleridge: A Study in Poetic Theory� (1975)

Sally Kane Nelson, 楾he Inner Life of Albert Samain Nelson� (1975)

Morris Wee, 'Confronting the Ghost: Quentin Compson Struggle with his Heritage in Faulkner 淎bsalom, Absalom�' (1975)

Terence Heagney, "The Conversion of the Editor in Sartor Resartus" (1974)

Michael Jones, 楢ll The Past was Gone: Four Heroic Tales of Joseph Conrad� (1974)

James McCann, 楾he Birth of Philology (in Italy in the Fourteenth-century and Fifteenth-century)� (1974)

Mary Bluestein, '淭he Moment in the Arbour�: Wordworthian Qualities in 淔our Quartets�' (1974)

Leslie Wolbarst, 楪esture and Posture in the 淢erchant Tale�: A Study of Chaucer Narrative Technique� (1973)

Myrna Malec, 榃ordsworth 淧reface to Lyrical Ballads�: A New Departure for English Poetics� (1973)

Mary Susannah Robbins, 榊eats: the Perspective of Style� (1973)

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