Department of English
Doctoral Dissertations
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
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