Name

Title of Dissertation

Supervisor

Arnett, James

Eliot’s Spinoza: Realism, Affect, and Ethics

P.Hitchcock

Basu, Balaka

Neverending Stories: Unauthorized Continuations, Fictional Realities, and the Long-Form Narrative from 1590 – 2011

C.Hintz

Belli, Jill

Pedagogies of Happiness: What/How Self-Help, Positive Psychology, and Positive Education Teach about Well-Being

C.Hintz

Burgers, Johannes

Conspiratorial Modernism: Modernism and Conspiracy Theory in Proust, Joyce, Faulkner and Musil

M.Dolan

Engebretson, Alexander

“The Dear Ordinary”: The Novels of Marilynne Robinson

G.Joseph

Gradon, Lesley

The Switch: Freedoms in Sexuality, Desire, Gender and Identity

L.Di Iorio

Heim, Heather

The Wild Child: Children are Freaks in Antebellum Novels

H.Hoeller

Hoff, James

Endless Assents: John Dewey, Aesthetic Experience and the Promise of American Poetry

J.Richardson

Holl, Jennifer

Stars Indeed: The Celebrity Culture of Shakespeare’s London.

M.DiGangi

Irby, John Archer

Mark Twain’s Autobiographies: Which Was the Truth?

F.Kaplan

Kapetanakos, Demetri

Keywords’ for post-ImperialBritain: (African-)American Routes to Black British Cultural Studies

R.Reid-Pharr

Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena

Hybrid Aesthetics and the Politics of the Archive: Muriel Rukeyser’s Spanish Civil War

A.Alcalay

Krause, Timothy

Twentieth-Century Catalogs: The Poetics of Listing, Enumeration, and Copiousness in Joyce, Schuyler, McCourt, Pynchon, and Perec

W.Koestenbaum

Machado, Robert

Metachromatics: Applied Color Across Media in the Age of Composite Pictures (1839-1935)

W.Koestenbaum

Maxwell, Grant

How Does It Feel?: Affectivity and Rationality in the Birth and Early Development of Rock and Roll

M.Dolan

Mock, Erin Lee

“It was easy”: Managing the American Male Psyche, 1944-59

M.Dolan

Moore, Emily

Embedded Forms and the Progressive Wonders of The Winter’s Tale

R.McCoy

Nedeljkov, Nikolina

Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix

P.Hitchcock

Oksman, Tahneer

“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

N.K.Miller

Pulda, Molly

Sympathetic Ink: Memoirs of Family Secrets

N.K.Miller

Raden, Audrey

As Long as She Cracks She Holds: Thoreau’s Anticipation of Dying

D.Reynolds

Robertson, Margaret

Skin Game: Race and the Confidence Man in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

D.Reynolds

Samalin, Zachary

The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust

J.Brenkman

Schiebe, Mark

The Specter of Art in the American Business Novel: 1885-1917

M.Dickstein

Schneiderman, Jason

Violation and Volition: Representations of the Molested Boy in the Postwar Gay American Novel

W.Koestenbaum

Schwartz, Jesse

Genetic Revolutionaries: American Socialism, the Russian Revolution, and the Production of the Radical Immigrant, 1873-1929

P.Hitchcock

Stanford, Nichole

“Good God but you smart!” A Case Study of the Linguistic Assimilation of the Cajuns of Southwest Louisiana

R.Mlynarczyk

Tayson, Richard

Ghostly Language and Liminal Experience: William Blake, Romantic Discourse on the Sublime, and American Punk Sound

A.Vardy

Traps, Yevgeniya

Stimulating Texts: The Politics and Aesthetics of Arousal in Victorian Culture and Literature

W.Koestenbaum

Weiser, Karen

Self-begot, Self-rais’d”: Elective Orphanhood in American Novels, 1790-1852

W.Kelly