Doctoral Dissertations
2025
Suspended Form and Cold War South Asia
Arnav Adhikari
Psychoanalytics: Towards A Black Object Study
Devon Epiphany Clifton
Harrowed Brine: Lyric Vapors and Spectral Forms
MJ Cunniff
Black ‘Ungendered’ Maternity, a Poetics: Creative Enactments toward Black Relation
Tara Melody Holman
Unbodied Fluids
Scott Jackshaw
Transpacific Vibrancy: Listening across Asian American and Chicanx Texts
Olivia Anne Lafferty
Critique of Extractive Reason: Time and the Elemental Coloniality of Capitalism
Marah Nagelhout
“What, Then, Is the Question?” Contemporary American Poetics of Address
Katherine E.A. Preston
Home, Nation, and the Boundaries of Belonging in the Twentieth-Century English Novel
Urszula Rutkowska
2024
Untimely Forms: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Literary World-System
Daniel Byrne
The Comedy of Defeat
Fabrizio Ciccone
After Disillusionment: The “Minor” Idioms of Diasporic Life
Kiran Lam-Saili
Left Behind: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Obsolescence
Nicholas Pisanelli
The Ornamental Unconscious: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the Functions of Form
Michelle Rada
Affecting Labors: The Novel and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Production
Rithika Ramamurthy
2023
The Slash Between: In/authenticating Burmese American Literature
Ashley Aye Aye Dun
Readerly Identification in the Realist Novel from Austen to Hardy
Christina Gilligan
The Anatomy of Suspense: Rethinking the Victorian Bildungsroman
Soomin Kim
Questionable Histories and the Aesthetics of Historiography from Shakespeare to Milton
Ali Madani
'The Bright Future of All Humanity': Liberal Criticism and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century
Stephen Marsh
Leftovers: A Critical Disability Ethic of Surviving, Healing, and Gathering
Hilary Rasch
Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the 19th c. American Novel
Dorin Smith
2022
Caribbean Women's Literature and Afro-Asian Intimacies, 1948-2001
Lubabah Chowdhury
Ordinary Subjects: Being British, the Border and the Bildungsroman
Eleanor Rowe-Stefanik
Essentially Shimmering: Contemporary Poetics at the Edges of Materialism
Emily Simon
2021
Unspectacular Violence: Narrating Trans/Queer Death in Contemporary American Culture
Christopher J. Lee
Estranging Citizenship: U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, Forms of Memory and Address
Jennie Snow
2020
Early Modern Rhetorics of Color
John Casey
Stereo Types: Sounding Race in Twentieth-Century America
Nicole Fung
The World Before Us: Blackness, Narration, and the Photography
Cole Morgan
Tuneless Numbers: New Media, Poetry and the Oulipo
Ian Sampson
Forms of Rearrangement: Habit, Injury, and Mourning in African American and Caribbean Literature
Anna Thomas
Ugly Americanism: American Literature, Culture, and Aesthetic Judgment
Dashiell Wasserman
2019
Translational Futures: Asian/American Environmental Fiction and the Transpacific Turn
Claire Gullander-Drolet
Bad Style: Feminism and the Ethics of Heading in 20th and 21st Century Global Anglophone Literature
Jerrine Tan
Race After Identity: Forms of Racial Configuration in Contemporary North American Literature
Jennifer Wang
Cosmopolitanism and the Horizon of Romance: The Poetics of the Nation in Spenser, Ralegh, and Milton
Minta Zlomke
2018
The Biomatters of American Modernity
David Hollingshead
Pluralism and Pathology in Afro- and Native American Fiction
Sara Pfaff
A machine which winds its own springs: Fictions of Self-invention in the Eighteenth Century
Swetha Regunathan
2017
Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture
Andrea Actis
Out of Time: Sentimentalism and Temporality in Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Matthew Beach
Between Law and Justice: Legal Authority, Liberal Democracy, and Postwar Fiction
Katie Fitzpatrick
Reading Character in George Eliot and William Thackeray
Peter Kim
Unformed Feelings: Reading Affects in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Joel Simundich
Pained Measures: Forms of Suffering in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
Jessica Tabak
Paper Boats: The American Sea Travel Narrative and Archives of Knowledge, 1815-1850
Stephanie Tilden
Autobiography's Queer Forms: Modernist Self-Writing from Auden to H.D.
Rebecca van Laer