Ph.D. Dissertations
Laura Sterrett, "Motions of the Soul: A Poetics of Religious Desire in Early Modern Metrical Psalms" (2023)
Alicia Ye Sul Oh, âReinventing the Museum: Textured Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Women's Elegiesâ (2022)
Nell Wasserstrom, âBelated Modernism: The Late Style of Freud, Benjamin, and Woolfâ (2022)
Alison Cotti-Lowell, âRomantic British Citizenship and the Transatlantic Worldâ (2021)
Deanna Malvesti Danforth, âShakespeareâs Paragonesâ (2021)
Alex Moskowitz, âAmerican Imperception: Literary Form, Sensory Perception, and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Literatureâ (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, "Insidious Vulnerability: Women's Grief and Trauma in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction" (2018)
Andrew Kuhn, "Networking Institutions of Literary Modernism: Technologies of Writing in Yeats, Joyce, Gissing, and Woolf" (2018)
Scott Reznick, "'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, "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 Dramaâ (2015)
Katie Daily-Bruckner, "I Was Never An American: Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century Immigration Narrativesâ (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, "Epistolary Modernism" (2014)
Dathalinn O'Dea, "The Afterlives of the Irish Literary Revival" (2014)
Alice Waters, "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 Everythingâ: 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, "'Restricted Movement' and Coordinates of Freedom: Southern Chain Gangs in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film" (2012)
Nikhil Gupta, "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, "Moving Imitation: Performing Piety in Early Modern English Literature" (2009)
Amy Witherbee, "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, "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, âLingering Wounds, Broken Places: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fictionâ (2007)
Heather Braun, âFatal Forms: Disruption, Decay, and the Nineteenth-Century Femme Fataleâ (2007)
Carla Spivack, âDismembering Eliza: The Backlash against Female Rule in Early Jacobean Englandâ (2007)
Matthew VanWinkle, ââTo Reach Through Memoryâ: The Renovation of the past in Nineteenth-Century British Poetryâ (2006)
Margarit Tadevosyan, âStrangers in Stranger Tongues: Vladimir Nabokov and the Writing of Exileâ (2006)
Richard Murphy, âMinor Formations: The Irish Bildungsroman, Modernity and Canonical Aestheticsâ (2006)
Kristen Corman, âDickens, Cognition, and Cross-modal Vision and Touch: Seeing and Feeling in Dickens's Hand-Eye, Railway Metaphorsâ (2005)
Lisabeth Buchelt, âInterpreting the Monstrous Word: Reading through Context and Memory in the Compilationsâ Junius 11 and "Lebor Na hUidreââ (2005)
Martha Hincks, âSuccessful Dialogues: Systematic, Written, and Prompted Self-analysis in College Compositionâ (2005)
Jeffrey Ousborne, ââPreserved in a Lineal Descentâ: Genetic Pessimism in Swift, Pope, and Sterneâ (2005)
Katherine Howard, âThe Psychotic States of America: Power, Representation, and Subjectivity in the United States Todayâ (2005)
Sheldon George, âTraumatic Attachments: A Lacanian Analysis of African-American Racial Identityâ (2005)
Elizabeth Bradburn, âMilton and Theaterâ (2004)
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, âTroubling Synonymies: Britishness and the Nineteenth-Century Novelâ (2004)
Matthew Watson, âBorderwork: Region and Nation in Bret Harte's Westâ (2003)
Maria Brandt, âReading Anxiety: The New Woman and Narrative Strategy in American Literatureâ (2003)
Susana Martins, âSantos Unnatural Futures: Imagining the High-tech in Contemporary American Cultureâ (2003)
David Thiele, âVulgarians at the Gate: Status, Culture, and Adult Education in Mid-Victorian Literatureâ (2003)
Diana Cruz, âA Habit of Translation: Race and Aesthetics in the Poetry of Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley and Melvin B. Tolsonâ (2002)
Joselyn M. Almeida, "Literary Crossings: Britain and the Americas in the Nineteenth Century" (2001)
Catherine Eagan, ââI did Imagine...We had Ceased to be Whitewashed Negroes:â The Racial Formation of Irish Identity in Nineteenth-century Ireland and Americaâ (2000)
Michael Faletra, âMatters of Britain: Narratives of Colonization in Twelfth-century Englandâ (2000)
Jeffrey Westover, âThe Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetryâ (2000)
Debra Malina, âBreaking the Mold: The Construction of the Subject in Postmodern Narrativeâ (1999)
James M. Smith, âIreland's Architecture of Containment: Contemporary Narratives of the Nation Stateâ (1999)
June E. Roberts, "Erna Brodber's Aesthetic: The Call for a Return to Afrocentric Folk Roots" (1999)
Suzanne Smith, âSerious Daring: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sextonâ (1998)
Linda Lee Revie, âThe Wilds of Niagara: Constructions of the Falls in Fine Arts, Literary and Scientific Narratives, from Discovery through the Twentieth Centuryâ (1998)
Patricia Rettew, âThe Fatal Muse: Romantic Feminizations of Revolutionary Zealâ (1997)
Mary Elliott, âThe Intelligence of a Nation: Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser in the Age of Andrew Carnegieâ (1997)
Fahamisha Patricia Brown, "Black Poetry: A Vernacular Art" (1996)
Thomas Lloyd, âColeridge's Daemons: A Romantic Mythopoesis of Evilâ (1995)
Andrew Wilson, âReal Tragedy: The "Francoeur" Novels of David Planteâ (1995)
Jorg Drewitz, âA New German Translation of "Daniel Deronda" with German Notes, a German Afterword, and an English Prefaceâ (1994)
Mary Smith, âEchoes of the Past, Intimations of the Future: Working through the Tradition of Industrial Fiction in the Novels of Margaret Drabbleâ (1994)
John Anderson, âBeyond Calliope: Epics by Women Poets of the Romantic Periodâ (1993)
Lois Brown, âEssential Histories/determined Identities: Images of Race and Origin in the Works of Pauline Hopkinsâ (1993)
Sara Lundquist, âLocal Habitations: Poetic Dwelling in the Work of Robert Frost and James Merrillâ (1993)
Mary Kietzman, ââMeans to Mourn Some Newer Wayâ: The role of the complaint in Early-Modern Narrativeâ (1993)
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, âPan and Nature: Thoreau's Imagination-based Epistemologyâ (1993)
Carl Racine, âAn Everlasting Lie: The Storyteller's Journey to the Past in the Writings of Benedict Kielyâ (1992)
Paula Loscocco, âCavalier Literary Culture in Mid-Seventeenth-century Englandâ (1992)
Matthew Parfitt, âEarth and World: A Hermeneutic Approach to Poems by Robert Frostâ (1992)
Regina Marie Hansen, âGender and Socialism in the Prose Romances of William Morrisâ (1992)
Ethan Eric Lewis, "Modernist Image: Imagist Technique in the Work of Pound, Eliot, and Williams" (1992)
Margaret Kelleher, âThe Feminisation of Famine: Narrative Representations of Irish and Bengali Faminesâ (1992)
Robert Alpert, âFormal Consolations: Parody, Figure, and Modernity in the Work of Vladimir Nabokovâ (1991)
Susan Kelley, âVirginia Woolf's Visual Obsession: The Self Seen and Unseenâ (1991)
Elizabeth Kenney, âThe Inside Story: Interpolated Narrative in Fielding's Novelsâ (1990)
Alan Crowley, âJohn Ezekiel's Wheels: Reading the Performance of Assent in Newman and Coleridgeâ (1989)
Marshall Toman, âNonsense and Sensibility: Negation in the Novels of Joseph Hellerâ (1988)
Mary Kathryn Huse, "We Belated Historians: The Narrators of George Eliot's Novels" (1988)
Gail Reitenbach, âDeath and the Observer: American International Novelsâ (1988)
Lorraine Liscio, âFemale Definitions of Self and Communityâ (1987)
Eileen Barrett, âThe Female Artist as 'Outsider' in the Writing of Virginia Woolfâ (1987)
Elizabeth Harvey Yon, ââLoues Soft Bands": A Study of Spenser's "Amorettiââ (1987)
Melinda Ponder, âThe Role of Eighteenth-century Anglo-Scottish Theorists in Hawthorne's Aesthetic Education and Literary Creation of the Early Talesâ (1987)
Gina Prenowitz, âTrue, and Yet True: A Study of Sonnet Formâ (1987)
William Lee, âLinguistic Theories of Metaphor (Literacy, Rhetoric, Semantics, Pragmatics)â (1986)
Michael Leddy, âOrigins of Meaning: Utterer, Audience, Speech-Situationâ (1985)
David Klooster, âThe Art of the Present Moment: Studies in the American Short Story (Theory, Time, Marvelous)â (1985)
Marlene Gast, âWordsworth and Milton: Varieties of Connection (Influence, Allusion, Echo)â(1985)
Christopher Woodhouse, âThe Melting Voice: A Study of Miltonâs âLâAllegroâ and âIl Penserosoâ and Their Setting by Handelâ (1984)
Nancy Lusignan, âThey Cannot Choose But Hear: Auditors in Modern Literary Tradition (Poetry, Authors, Readers, Dramatic Monologue, English, American)â (1984)
Ellen Castle, âWittgenstein and Practical Criticism: Readings in Dante Shakespeare, Austen, and Dickens (England, Italy)â (1984)
John Hampsey, âBlakeâs Bound Children: A Study of âTirielâ and Other Worksâ (1982)
Emily Meyer, âGrowing Amid Change: Elizabeth Gaskellâs Vision of Personal Developmentâ (1982)
Richard Audet, âSeeing Into the Life of Things: The Imagination as Theme of Wordsworthâs âLyrical Balladsâ of 1798 and Emily Bronteâs âWuthering Heightsââ (1982)
William Ellis, âThe Theory of American Romance: an Episode in American Intellectual Historyâ (1981)
Daniel Gunn, âAn Analytical Study of âRealismâ as a Critical Conceptâ (1980)
Conor Johnston, âAnthony Trollope: The Irish Dimensionâ (1980)
Ellen Munley, âCaught in the Act: Naming in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon and Natalie Sarrauteâ (1980)
Priscilla Paton, âSaying What Happened: Robert Lowellâs âDay by Dayââ (1979)
Ronald Wendeln, âIsaac Wattsâs âHorae Lyricaeâ as Dissenting Conversion Literatureâ (1978)
Lynne Spigelmire, âDaniel Deronda and The Portrait of a Lady: a Revised Estimate of F. R. Leavisâ Viewâ (1978)
Anice Heagney, âStructure and Characterization in Dickensâs Bleak Houseâ (1978)
David Anderson, âThomsonâs Heavenly Musing: âThe Seasonsâ as Theodicyâ (1978)
Beverly Kienzle, âThe Flowering of Satire in Medieval Picardyâ (1978)
Carolyn Taylor, ââBlend us with thy beingâ: Jean Toomerâs Mill House Poemsâ (1977)
Ilona Bell, ââWhen Faith did change the sceneâ: Herbertâs Renascence and the Protestant Reformationâ (1977)
Bonnie Stevens, ââThe White Doe of Rylstoneâ as an Allegory of Imaginationâ (1977)
Robert Cording, âA New Lyricism: David Wagoner and the Instructional Voiceâ (1976)
Jane Ritchie, ââMine own true loveâ: Shakespeareâs Sonnets 100-116â (1976)
Ruth Anderson, âClaude Simon: a Study of His Esthetic Evolution from Gulliver Though Le Palace (1976)
Guy Rotella, ââMeditation of the heartâ: the Tragic Theme in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warrenâ (1976)
Anne Stevenson, âAlfred de Vigny: the Art of Correspondenceâ (1976)
Paul Kelly, ââHymns to the gods and praises of famous menâ: the Revaluation of Poetry in Platoâs Philosophyâ (1976)
Steven Abrams, ââThe Blood Orangesâ as a Visionary Fictionâ (1976)
Martha Echols, âSubversions of Pastoral: Andrew Marvellâs Uses of Pastoral Traditionâ (1976)
William Bullard, âEmbodied Semblances: a Comparative Study of William Blakeâs âThe Four Zoasâ and D. H. Lawrenceâs âThe Rainbowââ (1976)
Rosemarie Bodenheimer Weiner, 'The Terrible Algebra: Images of the Self in Henry Jamesâ (1975)
Flavia Mary Caliri, âLeopardi and Coleridge: A Study in Poetic Theoryâ (1975)
Sally Kane Nelson, âThe Inner Life of Albert Samain Nelsonâ (1975)
Morris Wee, 'Confronting the Ghost: Quentin Compsonâs Struggle with his Heritage in Faulknerâs âAbsalom, Absalomâ' (1975)
Terence Heagney, "The Conversion of the Editor in Sartor Resartus" (1974)
Michael Jones, âAll The Past was Gone: Four Heroic Tales of Joseph Conradâ (1974)
James McCann, âThe Birth of Philology (in Italy in the Fourteenth-century and Fifteenth-century)â (1974)
Mary Bluestein, 'âThe Moment in the Arbourâ: Wordworthian Qualities in âFour Quartetsâ' (1974)
Leslie Wolbarst, âGesture and Posture in the âMerchantâs Taleâ: A Study of Chaucerâs Narrative Techniqueâ (1973)
Myrna Malec, âWordsworthâs âPreface to Lyrical Balladsâ: A New Departure for English Poeticsâ (1973)
Mary Susannah Robbins, âYeats: the Perspective of Styleâ (1973)