Recent PhD Dissertations
Hernandez, Aleksandra (July 2017), "Patterns of Experience: Pragmatism, Perception, and Cultural Cognition in Modern American Literature"
Hershman, Emily (July 2017), "The Deadliest Century: Gender and Modernism in the Age of Total Warfare, 1895-1981"
Wharton, Jill (June 2017), "Dislocated Modernities: The Paradox of the Plantation in Twentieth-Century Irish and American Fiction"
Machulak, Erica (April 2017), "Knowing in Context: Distinguishing the Learned for the "Lewed" in Middle English Literature"
McCoul, Melissa (April 2017), "Come Play with Me: Theorizing Child's Play, Narrative World-Building and Imaginative Embodiment in Literature, 1749-1911."
Murphy, Daniel (April 2017), '"The Technics of Realism: Media and Social Reportage in Narrative Art After 1965."
Milberger, Kurt (April 2017), "The Beasts' Progress: Animals in the British Religious Imagination, 1640-1800."
Santin, Bryan (April 2017), "Imagining the American Right: Postwar Fiction, Race, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism, 1945-2005"
Duncan, Joel (August 2016), "The Song in the Machine: Organic Forms of American Poetry"
VanHoozer, Emma (July 2016), "Problems in Poetics: Robert Creeley in Poetry and in Practice"
Khokhlov, Semyon (July 2016), "Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy"
Murphy, Robinson (July 2016), "Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Literature"
Klein, Andrew (June 2016), " Along English Borders: Imagining Transnational English Identity in the Premodern World, 1200-1500"
Ransom, Emily (June 2016), "Redeeming Complaint in Tudor and Stuart Devotional Lyric"
Matos, Angel (April 2016), "Feeling Infinite: Affect, Genre, and Narrative in Young Adult Queer Literature"