Current & Past Dissertations

Current Dissertations

Barbara Campbell, Under the Ivory Tower: Labor in the American Academic Novel

Ernest Cole, Post-Apartheid and Its Representation: The Interregnum as Motif in Selected South African Novels

Ken Cormier, Suicide in the Fiction of Herman Melville

Randall Cream, A Stoic Practice of Sentiment: Eighteenth-Century Moral Theory and the Subjectivation of Habit

Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta, Poet Descending a Staircase: Literary Modernism's Aesthetic Debt to Visual Art

Dawn Goode, Representations of Female Relationships on the Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Stage

James Luberda, Social Statics and Evolutionary Discourse, 1844-1859

Katie Peel, No Lady: Representations of Working Women in the Victorian Novel.

Rose Novak, Factory of Famine:Political Narratives and the Cultivation of Sympathy in the United Kingdom, 1800-1870

Karen Renner, Murder, Madness, and the Metropolis: New York City and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Defended Disserations (2001-present)

Jason Courtmanche, Sin and Salvation: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Typology of Evil (Tilton; December 1, 2006).

Laurie JC Cella, Radical Romance: The Intersection of Conversion Narrative and the Romance Plot within Proletarian Novels, 1862-1939 (Murphy; November 29, 2006)

James Donahue, Rewriting the American Myth: Post-1960s American Historical Frontier Romances (Tilton; November 28, 2006)

Anita Duneer, The Steamboat and the Petticoat: Revisions of the Maritime Romantic Ideal in America (Murphy; October 16, 2006)

Tonya McArthur, A Devotion of Resistance: The Revisiting of English Female Monasticism in Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century British Literature. (Marsden; August 24, 2006).

Amanda Cagle. "Pushing From Their Hearts a New Song": The (Re)Construction of the Feminine in American Indian Women's Poetry. (Tilton; June 28, 2006)

Walter Nott. Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, "The Encantadas," and Benito Cereno and the Discourse Community of Putnam's Monthly. (Meyer; May 10, 2006)

K. Doug Anderson.Don't Rub Your Eyes: A Memoir of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. (Higonnet; May 5, 2006)

Christopher Anderson. Nothing Lowly: The Anti-Picturesque in American Nature Poetry. (Gatta; May 4, 2006)

Aparna Gollapudi. The Reform Plot in Comedy: 1696-1747. (Marsden; May 1, 2006)

Cherie Ann Turpin. Narrative, Erotic Power and Black Womanhood in the Words of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand. (Phillips; Dec. 16, 2005)

Lori Beste. Margaret Fuller and National Culture: Political Idealism Through Self-Culture. (Meyer; Dec. 9, 2005)

Mara Reisman. "Mind You, They'll Say Anything": Fay Weldon and the Cultural History of Feminism. (Barreca, Nov. 18, 2005)

M. Wendy Hennequin. Battle-Brave Beyond Women-Kin: Women Warriors in Medieval English Literature. (Hasenfratz; Sept. 21, 2005)

Kristina Knobelsdorff. Re-readings of the Book of Job in American Life and Letters: Debate and Dissent within Bounds (Gatta; July 20, 2005)

Karen Cubie-Henck."Reader, I Married Him": The Spiritually-Responsible Heroine and the Nineteenth-Century Female-Authored Novel. (Higonnet; May 26, 2005)

Chandra Wells. Befriending the Other(ed) Woman: Fictions of Interracial Female Friendship. (Makowsky; May 26, 2005)

C. William Stanley. Uncivil Defenses: The Nuclear Fictions of Philip Wylie. (Barreca; May 2, 2005)

Kathrine Aydelott. Maine Stream: A Bibliographical Reception Study of Sarah Orne Jewett. (Bloom; Feb. 28, 2005)

Kurt Heidinger. Edward Abbey’s Geography of Freedom: A Writer’s Attempt to Inhabit Jefferson’s Promised Land. (Gatta; 2004)

Michael Menard. Building an Ethical Life: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Sense of Brotherhood’ and the Need for Social Engagement. (Gatta; 2004)

Robert Curry. Barry Lopez and the Crafting of an Ecological Ethic. (Gatta; 2004)

Margaret Mitchell. Reconfiguring Gender: George Gissing and Social Progress. (Barreca; 2004)

DeAnn Finkel. Telling Time: Time Chronology and Change in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Jean Toomer's Cane. (Phillips; 2004)

Joshua Master. The Image of the Book and the Act of Writing in the American West, 1803-1893. (Phillips; 2004)

David Rice. Mediating Colonization: Indians in the City and the Twentieth Century Native American Novel. (Hollenberg; 2004)

Allison Singley. "Spurious Delusions of Reward": Innocence and United States Identity in the Caribbean of William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Russell Banks. (Eby; 2004)

Joanne Cordon. Twin Strangleholds: The Blathering Irishman, The Simpering Miss and the Invisible Irishwoman. (Marsden; 2004)

Jennifer Spinner. On Women and the Essay. (Bloom; 2004)

Elizabeth Bidinger. Inventions and Reinventions In Working Class Autobiogaphy. (Bloom; 2004)

Genevieve Brassard. Becoming a War Heroine: Feminist Revision and Cultural Resistance in Women’s Literature of the First World War. (Higonnet; 2003)

Karen Cajka. The Forgotten Women Grammarians of Eighteenth-Century England. (Marsden; 2003)

Brian Cremins. “A World of Secret Affinites”: African American Novelist Oscar Micheaux and the Frontiers of American Popular Fiction, 1913-1947. (Eby; 2003)

Stephanie Roach. A Rhetoric of Crisis: A Historical/Rhetorical Analysis of the Emergence of the WPA and its Continued Identity Formation. (Bloom; 2003)

Moira Casey. The Lesbian in the House: Irish Lesbian Fiction. (Lynch; 2002)

Julie Nash. Underplots in the Drama: Servants and Paternalism in the Novels of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell. (Barreca; 2002)

O. Cheriff Diop. Violence in African Literature. (Coundouriotis; 2002)

Eugene Kannenberg. Form, Function, Fiction: Text and Image in the Comics Narratives of Winsor McCay, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware. (Roberts; 2002)

Vincent Whitman. Red Round Globe: The Critique of Berkeleian Finite Spirit in William Blake's Early Prophecies. (Fairbanks; 2002)

Darcy Zabel. Two Trains Running: Images of the Railroad in Twentieth Century African American Literature. (Makowsky; 2001)

Helena Spector. Younge Children Myne: An Etynological Look at Fourteenth-Century Attitudes towards Children. (Hasenfratz; 2001)

Kim Freeman. Breaking Up: Divorce and the American Novel from 1881 to 1976. (Makowsky; 2001)

Bill Dougherty. Summer Maidens and Bearded Queens: Feminine Archetypes in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. (Hollenberg; 2001)

Francine McGregor. Romancing the Family in the Middle English Breton Lays. (Benson; 2001)

Valerie Smith. Crossroads: Cultural Autobiography and Imperial Discourse. (Bloom; 2001)

Joseph Lennon. The Oriental and the Celt: The Narratives of Irish Orientalism (Jacobus; 2000)