Congratulations to the new PhDs! May 2017

  • Baumann, Jason The Monster They’ve Engendered in Me: Gothic Strategies in African American and Latina/o Prison Literature, 1945-2000
  • Benjamin, Meredith Genres of Feminist Lives: Autobiography, Archives, & Community, 1970-1983
  • Biggie, Roya Ecologies of the Passions in Early Modern English Tragedies
  • Chancellor, Jennifer Portrait of the Artist, as an Ad Man: Advertising, Masculinity, and the American Postmodern Novel
  • Chessman, Nolan Toward a Theory of This/And Rhetoric in First-Year Composition
  • Decker, Elizabeth “Vital glowing things:” the art of women’s writing, 1910-1935
  • Epelbaum, Diana Evolving the Genre of Empire: Gender and Place in Women’s Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688- 1808
  • Gerrity, Sean A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
  • Gafney, Julie Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden
  • Green, Ian Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention, Market, and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist
  • Griffiths, Timothy Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
  • Hoffman, Meechal Knowing Others, or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, and Acknowledging in NineteenthCentury British Fiction
  • Holchak, Paul Intelligent bodies and embodied minds: reading religious performance in Middle English writing from Syon Abbey, Nicholas Love, William Langland, and John Gower
  • Hussey, Miciah Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf
  • Kravetz, Rachel The Art of Cognition: Ideals through Aesthetics in British Prose, From Locke to Frazer
  • Lucchesi, Andrew Accessing Academe, Cripping the Curriculum: Tracing Institutional Locations of Disability in the City University of New York, 1946 – Today
  • Molloy, Sean Dilemma at CUNY: SEEK and Supportive Teaching v. Basic Writing and the Rise Of High Stakes Testing from 1965 to 1978
  • Moriah, Kristin Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920
  • Remedios, Sarah “What’s the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?”: Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Essays
  • Rodriguez, Lara The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure
  • Saed, Zohra Langston Hughes: Photos, Notebooks and Poems in Turkestan (1932-1933)
  • Solan, Yair Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture
  • Strouse, Allen Literary Theories of Circumcision
  • Wermer-Colan, Henry Al The Devil’s Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (1848-Today)