Congratualations: 2013-2014 Dissertations

 

Alvarez, Monica. “The Duty of Woman by Woman: Exploring Female Friendships Jane Austen’s Novels.” Supervisor: D.Stone

Banerjee, Sreenjaya. “Reclaiming Space: Buildings in Modernist Literature and Film.” Supervisor: N.Israel

Borst, Anton. “A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind.” Supervisor: J.Richardson

Burgess, Matthew. “The Vastness of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits of the Artists as a Child Enclosed.” Supervisor: N. K. Miller

Dennihy, Melissa. “Battles with Words in Everyday Lives: Literature and Linguistic Resistance in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature.” Supervisor: I. Shor

Derbyshire, Nancy. “John Clare: Helpston’s Amanuensis.” Supervisor: A.Vardy

Gentry, Derrick. “Agreeable Despair: Modernism and Melancholy.” Supervisor:  M.A.Caws

Lee, Fiona. “Reading the Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary.” Supervisor: P. Hitchcock

Letzler, David. “The Cruft of Fiction: Or, How to Read the Boring Parts of Excessively Long Books.” Supervisor: G. Joseph

Na, Hai. “The Grammar of Choice: Charles Dickens’s Existential Idea of Religion.” Supervisor: D.Richter

Neiberg, Linda. “Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama.” Supervisor: M.DiGangi

Porter, Archie Lavelle. “The Over-Education of the Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education and the Politics of the Black Intellectual.” Supervisor: R.Reid-Pharr

Roeder, Tara. “Provisional Fictions: Discontinuous Selves and the Making of Meaning.” Supervisor: M.Alexander

Soffrant, Leah. “‘She said plain, burned things’: A Feminist Poetics of the Unsayable in Twentieth Century Literary & Visual Culture.” Supervisor  M.Alexander

Springs, Amanda. “The Advance of the Mobile Woman: Representations of British Women’s Physical Mobility, 1660-1820.” Supervisor:  C.Hintz

Stanback, Emily. “Disability.” Supervisor: A. Vardy

Stewart, Michael Seth. “‘For the Voices’: The Letters of John Wieners.” Supervisor:  A.Alcalay

Sussman, Mark. “Common Knowledge: The Epistemology of American Realism.” Supervisor:  J.Brenkman

Syers, Karinne Keithly. “Committing to the Waves: Emerson’s Moving Assignments.” Supervisor:  J.Richardson

Unger, Brian. “Space & Distance As I Require: The Journals and Prose Fragments of Philip Whalen 1950-1966.” Supervisor: A.Alcalay

Weida, Jaime. “‘I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing, Each to Each:’ Modernism, Science, Mythology, and Feminist Narratives.” Supervisor:  J.Marcus

Weiss, Jenny. “Clue, Code, Conjure: Epistemologies of American Detective Fiction, 1841–1914.” Supervisor: M.Dolan

Williams, Tracyann. “It Can’t Be Too Easy to Be One of a Kind’: The Mulatta as Cultural and Political Text.” Supervisor: J.Marcus

Zino, Dominique. “‘On a Certain Blindness…’: Outlining an Aesthetics of Remediation, 1825-1910.” Supervisor: J.Richardson