Recent Dissertation Titles
L'Italia Meticcia Being and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean
Samantha Syana Smythe, 2017
Filipino Poethics: Reading the Philippines beyond the Object/Subject Divide
Fritzie Mae A. de Mata 2017
Memoryscapes: Women Chart the Post-Trauma City in 20th and 21st Century Latin America
Katharine G. Trostel, 2017
"This Poem Which Is Not Your Language" Jewishness, Translation, and the Historical Philosophy of Adrienne Rich, 1968-1991
Hannah Edber, 2017
The Protestant Reformation and the English Amatory Sonnet Sequence: Seeking Salvation in Love Poetry
Lauren Shufran, 2017
Anxious assumptions: Anxiety, experience, and literary representation in modernity
Brian Clack, 2017
The Beginning: Tel Quel in the 1960s
Matthew Landry 2016
Romance: The emulation of empire
Martha E. Bonilla, 2016
Echo-critical Poetic Narcissisms: Being Transformed in Petrarca, Ronsard, and Shakespeare
Melissa A. Yinger, 2016
Urban space and national Memory: The narratives of Berlin, Prague, and Gdańsk
Erica Gale Smeltzer, 2016
The time of space and the space of time in "Benito Cereno" and "The Magic Mountain": Towards a comparative utonian reading
Zachary Montgomery, 2016
Violent inscriptions: Border crossings in early nineteenth-century American literary history
Lisa Schilz, 2016
Armies of the dispossessed: Labor, landscape, and representation in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
Nicholas A. Norman, 2016
Making America / Makhn Amerike / Haciendo la América Jewish immigrants write the Americas (1880-1990)
Joanna Meadvin, 2016
Deciding the letter: Reading, ethics, and language politics in Ancient Greek and contemporary US Latina/o literatures
Kendra A. Dority, 2016
The speculative agency of nonhuman: Animal, object, and posthuman worldings
Sophia Booth Magnone, 2016
"Huerto nuestro que nos hizo extraño": Poetics of (un)translatability in Chilean literature across the Americas
Mark Jones, 2016
Melville's Montaigne: Essayism, Anamnesis and Allegories of Reading
Alexander B. Cargol, 2016
After the 'post-sixties': A cultural history of Utopia in the United Statesii
Madeline Lane, 2016
The bitten word: Feminine jouissance, language, and the female vampire
Shelby Wilson, 2015
“Avant-Garde” to “Experimental”: Reading Poetry After the 1960s
Keegan Finberg, 2015
Figures of Voice in Early Modern Europe
Ariane Helou, 2015
Figuring Futures: Early Asian American Mixed-Race Literature
Melissa Poulsen, 2015
The Texte-Fleuve and Infinity: The Play of Finitude and Endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the Open World Video Game
Sophie Rollins, 2015
Wetland Americas: Mapping a Literary History of New Orleans
Matthew Suazo, 2015
The (Dis)Unity of the Western Modern Project
Shawna Vesco, 2015
Las aguas de los mares occidentales: The Latin Pacific imaginary
Kendra Poppy, 2015
The texte fleuve and infinity: The play of finitude and endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the open world video game
Sophie Bargues Rollins, 2015
"The Halfbreed": A translation of Balduin Moellhausen's "Der Halbrindianer"
Gabriela A. Gavande, 2015
"To be equally diverted and informed by every line": the ambivalent act of story-fashioning in a "Tale of a Tub"
Elizabeth Bejarano, 2015
A book to hold the event: "Acting out" and "working through" loss in Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal
Julianne Dolores Ruetz, 2015
Science fiction futures and the ocean as history: Literature, diaspora, and Pacific War
Timothy Jitsuo Yamamura, 2014
"Bound--a Trouble--": Emily Dickinson and the Archive
Jessica Jeanne Beard, 2014
"Making to Taste: Culinary Experimentalism in Asian Pacific American Culture”
Stephanie Hedy Chan, 2014
En Medio de Un Gran circo: La Ciudad de México a través de las crónicas musicales de Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del 5° Patio
Soledad Lujan, 2014
The Old West and New Pacific Frontiers: Surfers and "The Search" in American Oceanic Imaginary
Henry Trey Highton III, 2014
Disaster in Nineteenth-Century England and France: A Literary and Cultural History
Brian Emmett Malone, 2014
Minding "Our Cicero": Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Rhetoric and the Classical Tradition
Heidi Elizabeth Morse, 2014
Proprioception and the Poetics of Architectonic Perspectives
Eireene Nealand, 2014
Continuity and Change: Experimental Women's Writing and the Epic Tradition
Andrea Marie Quaid, 2014
Blood Wings: Feeling War in the Twenty-First Century
Brenda Samantha Sanfilippo, 2014
Beyond Completion: Towards a Genealogy of Unfinishable Novels
James Ramsey Wallen, 2014
The Pacific Wake: Literature, Culture, and History at Sea in the Era of Japanese-American Sea Power
Timothy Jitsuo Yamamura, 2014
Beyond the perceptual model: Toward a proprioceptive poetics
Eireene Nealand, 2014
Doubling the problemn of the color line: Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois
Alexander James Davis, 2014
Psychoanalysis & rhetoric: Metaphors in the work of Meanie Klein & J.-B. Pontalis
Michael D. Holohan, 2014
Arctic Ecologies: The Politics and Poetics of Northern Literary Environments
Allison Katherine Athens, 2013
The Youth of the Nation: The Space-Time of Adolescence in the Turn of the Century United States
Albert Pinckney Connelly, 2013
Secret Histories/Impossible Objects: Towards a Hemispheric Poetics of Twentieth-Century Long Poems
Juliana I. Leslie, 2013
Fabulating soverignty with descartes, alice, derrida and some damn animals
Samantha Skinazi, 2013
The Testimonial World: Affect and Ethics in Latin American Literature and Film (1969-1991)
Cora Starker Gorman Malone, 2013
Poetics of Affect in Contemporary Feminist Poetry
Laurel Peacock, 2013
Translating the Mexican Revolution: Comparative American Studies and the U.S./Mexican Borderlands
Benjamin Alexander Spanbock, 2013
The Other Red Desert: Communism, Cinema, and Repetition in the Long '70s
Evan Calder Williams, 2013
Transfrontera translations: Language, culture, and history in the U.S./Mexican borderlands
Benjamin A. Spanbock, 2013
Freedom and formL Marxist hermeneutics and the Spinozist turn
Jeffery R. Marino, 2013
Once upon a Sibyl's tongue: Conjuring fairly tale [hi]stories for power and pleasure
Christina Luce, 2013
"Call me a Californio": Translating Hemispheric Legacies in Helen Hunt Jackson, Don Antonio Coronel, and Joé Martí
Chelsea Leah Pearson, 2013
Hearts of Darkness: Race and Urban Epistemology in American Noir
Bonnie Rhee Andryeyev, 2012
Beat subterranean: Tactics of Assemblage and Worldmaking in Beat Generation Writing
James Michael Fazzino, 2012
Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Thomas Francis Genova, 2012
"The Mechanisms. Light and Miraculous:" The Convivial Bicycle in Literature and Film
J. Josh Guevara, 2012
Cosmopolis Now Urban Narratives in the Age of Global Migration
Jin Suh Jirn, 2012
"Calling the Magician": The Metamorphic Indo-Caribbean
Aliyah Ryhaan Khan, 2012
The Hardboiled and the Haunted: Race, Masculinity, and the Asian American Detective
Calvin Lee McMillin, 2012
The Comparative Geographies of Servitude: Servitude, Slavery, and Ideology in the 17th-and 18th-Century Anglo-American Atlantic
Laura Elizabeth Martin, 2012
Conjuring Freedom: Reconstructions and Revisions of Neo-Slave Narratives
Christine Lupo Montgomery, 2012
Fleshly Embodiments: Early Modern Monsters, Victorian Freaks, and Twentieth-Century Affective Spectatorship
Sara S. Orning, 2012
Dickens and Darwin
Nirshan Rex-Boniface Perera, 2012
Merging Skins: A Phenomenological and Social Account of Touch in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
Prema Purigali Prabhaker, 2012
The Shores of US Empire: Islands and Geographies of Historical Struggle in the Literary Imagination
Emily Ann Scheese, 2012
Articulating Agency: Women in Shakespeare's History Plays
Emily Anna Sloan-Pace, 2012
Naturalizing Modernism: Literary Naturalist Obscenities in the Times of Modernism
Erik M. Bachman, 2011
Recycling Cuban Nationalism: 1898-1989
Virginia Rebecca Benitez, 2011
Some Versions of Menippea
Harold Christian Blood, 2011
Circling the Square: Publicness and the Transformations of the Modernist Performative Artifact
Kelly Anne Brown, 2011
Military Reading and Modern American Narrative
Stephen Douglass Carter, 2011
Indigenous Articulations of Identity and Island Place in Contemporary Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Literatures
Dina El Dessouky, 2011
Literature and Oppositional Culture in Late Capitalism
Johanna Lynn Isaacson, 2011
The Experience of Class, Struggle and Warfare in Filipino American Novels
Sherwin F. Mendoza, 2011
Sexuality and the Space of the Room: Figurations of the Room in Modernist French and British Novels
Christina Lee Stevenson, 2011
Post-Western: Postmodern Fictions of the U.S. West
Jacob J. Thomas, 2011
“If words be made of breath”: Inspiration, book-making, and the Renaissance lyric
Michael Gregory Ursell, 2011
The Value of Storytelling: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and the Business of Novel-writing in the Nineteenth Century
Jon Michael Varese, 2011
