Ph.D. Dissertations

Doctoral Program

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

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

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

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

Daniel Dougherty,聽鈥淕rowing Up Globally: Form and Genre in the Anglophone Bildungsroman鈥澛�(2024)

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

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

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

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

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

Deanna Malvesti Danforth, 鈥淪hakespeare鈥檚 Paragones鈥� (2021)

Alex Moskowitz, 鈥淎merican Imperception: Literary Form, Sensory Perception, and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature鈥� (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鈥� (2015)

Katie Daily-Bruckner, "I Was Never An American: Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century Immigration Narratives鈥� (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鈥�: 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, 鈥楲ingering Wounds, Broken Places: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction鈥� (2007)

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

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

Matthew VanWinkle, 鈥溾€楾o Reach Through Memory鈥�: The Renovation of the past in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry鈥� (2006)

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

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Ousborne, 鈥樷€淧reserved in a Lineal Descent鈥�: Genetic Pessimism in Swift, Pope, and Sterne鈥� (2005)

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

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

Elizabeth Bradburn, 鈥楳ilton and Theater鈥� (2004)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Kietzman, 鈥樷€淢eans to Mourn Some Newer Way鈥�: The role of the complaint in Early-Modern Narrative鈥� (1993)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Harvey Yon, 鈥樷€淟oues Soft Bands": A Study of Spenser's "Amoretti鈥濃€� (1987)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Woodhouse, 鈥楾he Melting Voice: A Study of Milton鈥檚鈥淟鈥橝llegro鈥� and 鈥淚l Penseroso鈥� and Their Setting by Handel鈥� (1984)

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

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

John Hampsey, 鈥楤lake鈥檚 Bound Children: A Study of 鈥淭iriel鈥� and Other Works鈥� (1982)

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

Richard Audet, 鈥楽eeing Into the Life of Things: The Imagination as Theme of Wordsworth鈥檚鈥淟yrical Ballads鈥� of 1798 and Emily Bronte鈥檚鈥淲uthering Heights鈥濃€� (1982)

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

Daniel Gunn, 鈥楢n Analytical Study of 鈥淩ealism鈥� as a Critical Concept鈥� (1980)

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

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

Priscilla Paton, 鈥楽aying What Happened: Robert Lowell鈥檚鈥淒ay by Day鈥濃€� (1979)

Ronald Wendeln, 鈥業saac Watts鈥檚鈥淗orae Lyricae鈥� as Dissenting Conversion Literature鈥� (1978)

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

Anice Heagney, 鈥楽tructure and Characterization in Dickens鈥檚 Bleak House鈥� (1978)

David Anderson, 鈥楾homson鈥檚 Heavenly Musing: 鈥淭he Seasons鈥� as Theodicy鈥� (1978)

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

Carolyn Taylor, 鈥樷€淏lend us with thy being鈥�: Jean Toomer鈥檚 Mill House Poems鈥� (1977)

Ilona Bell, 鈥樷€淲hen Faith did change the scene鈥�: Herbert鈥檚 Renascence and the Protestant Reformation鈥� (1977)

Bonnie Stevens, 鈥樷€淭he White Doe of Rylstone鈥� as an Allegory of Imagination鈥� (1977)

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

Jane Ritchie, 鈥樷€淢ine own true love鈥�: Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets 100-116鈥� (1976)

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

Guy Rotella, 鈥樷€淢editation of the heart鈥�: the Tragic Theme in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren鈥� (1976)

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

Paul Kelly, 鈥樷€淗ymns to the gods and praises of famous men鈥�: the Revaluation of Poetry in Plato鈥檚 Philosophy鈥� (1976)

Steven Abrams, 鈥樷€淭he Blood Oranges鈥� as a Visionary Fiction鈥� (1976)

Martha Echols, 鈥楽ubversions of Pastoral: Andrew Marvell鈥檚 Uses of Pastoral Tradition鈥� (1976)

William Bullard, 鈥楨mbodied Semblances: a Comparative Study of William Blake鈥檚鈥淭he Four Zoas鈥� and D. H. Lawrence鈥檚鈥淭he Rainbow鈥濃€� (1976)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Bluestein, '鈥淭he Moment in the Arbour鈥�: Wordworthian Qualities in 鈥淔our Quartets鈥�' (1974)

Leslie Wolbarst, 鈥楪esture and Posture in the 鈥淢erchant鈥檚 Tale鈥�: A Study of Chaucer鈥檚 Narrative Technique鈥� (1973)

Myrna Malec, 鈥榃ordsworth鈥檚鈥淧reface to Lyrical Ballads鈥�: A New Departure for English Poetics鈥� (1973)

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

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