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The Graduate Program of Literatures in English is proud to announce that the following students had their Ph.D. degrees conferred during the 2005-2006, 2004-2005 and 2003-2004 academic years:
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Dissertation Director |
| May 2007 |
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| Bobker, Danielle |
The Shape of Intimacy: Private Space and the British Social Imagination, 1650-1770 |
Jonathan Kramnick and Michael McKeon |
| Cillerai, Chiara |
Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Early American Writings |
Myra Jehlen |
| Crosbie, Christopher |
Philosophies of Retribution: Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster and the Revenge Tragedy Genre |
Emily C. Bartels |
| Lacey, Lauren |
Fantastic Times: Contemporary Women Rewriting the Past and Writing the Future |
Marianne DeKoven |
| Rice, Maria J. |
Migrations of Memory: Postmemory in Twentieth Century Ethnic American Women's Literature |
Cheryl A. Wall |
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| October 2006 |
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| Bartel, Kimberly |
Accounting for Taste: The Enlightenment Tradition and the Cultural Turn in American Literature, 1865-1928 |
Brad Evans |
| Girten, Kristin |
Trivial Wonders: Fascination with the Negligible in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century |
Michael McKeon |
| Gosselink, Karin |
The Terms of Refuge: Collectivity in Contemporary Global Anglophone Fiction |
John McClure |
| Iglesias, Luis |
The Emergence of a Global Nation: James Finimore Cooper's Invention of the American Sea Novel |
Myra Jehlen |
| Josephs, Kelly |
Defining Madnesses: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature |
Brent Edwards |
| Ricketts, Raymond |
Dance as Social Practice in Eighteenth-Century British Discourse and Culture |
Michael McKeon |
| Scraba, Jeffrey |
The Politics of Nostalgia and the Signification of Space: Walter Scott and Washington Irving |
Michael Warner |
| Tauber, Daveena |
Jews Natural, Jews Virgual: Milton and the Problem of Typological Hermeneutics |
Jacqueline Miller |
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| May 2006 |
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| Allen, Deborah |
To Measure and Describe 'The Whole Globe of the Earth': Eighteenth-Century Geographical Writing and Imperial Enterprise in Western North America |
Myra Jehlen |
| Chute, Hillary |
Contemporary Graphic Narratives: History, Aesthetics, Ethics |
Marianne DeKoven
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| Diggs, Soyica |
From Repetition to Reproduction: African American Drama in the African American Literary Tradition |
Cheryl Wall |
| Moodie Vasquez, Shalene |
Laughing Across Borders: Black Diasporic Literature and the Negotiation of Master Strategies |
Cheryl Wall |
| Urban, Kenneth |
The Doing of No: The Theatricality of Nilhilism in Comtemporary British Culture |
Elin Diamond |
| January 2006 |
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| Shaw-Thornburg, Angela |
Reading and Writing African American Travel Narrative |
Cheryl A. Wall |
| Preston, Carrie |
Women's Solo Performance in Dramatic Monologue, Modern Dance, Autobiography |
Elin Diamond |
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| October 2005 |
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| Koslow, Julian |
Laureate Poetry and Humanist Literary Pedagogy in the English Renaissance |
Ann Baynes Coiro |
| Lubey, Kathleen |
Excitable Imaginations: Sexual Arousal and Aesthetic Response in Britain, 1660-1760 |
Michael McKeon |
| Lopez, Antonio |
Redemption Island: The Transamerican Literature of Cuba in the Twentieth Century |
John McClure |
| Mulholland, James |
The Sound of Print: Voice in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry |
Michael McKeon |
| Ponce, Martin |
"The Labor of Un-Oneing": The Transnational Poetics of Anglophone Fillipino Literature |
Brent Edwards |
| Smith, Nicole |
The Rhetoric of Dress in Medieval Literature |
Susan Crane |
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| May 2005 |
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| Barrios, Barclay |
The Subtle Knife: Writing Programs and Technology |
Richard Miller |
| Majumdar, Saikat |
Subaltern Modernisms: The Poetics and Politics of Banality in Transnational Fictions |
Derek Attridge |
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| October 2004 |
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| Bain, Alexander |
Global Speculation: Internationalist Modernism Between the Wars |
Bruce Robbins |
| Bass, Jonathan |
The Fabrication Text in Modernism: Concepts and Fictions of
Artistic Procedure in Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Jorge Luis Borges |
Derek Attridge |
| Elliott, Jane |
Revolution, Repetition, Relocation: Space, Time and Change in Popular Women’s Fiction after Second-Wave Feminism |
Marianne DeKoven |
| Ho, Elizabeth |
"Past Recovery:" The Memory of the Victorian in the Postimperial Present |
Ed Cohen |
| Kaiser, Matthew |
Ludicrous Victorians: The Politics of Play in British Literature and Culture, 1820-1900 |
Ed Cohen |
| Roesch, Lynn |
Essaying the Way: The Transformative Power of Critique in the Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, and Margaret Fuller |
Louise Barnett |
| Tirado-Gilligan, Heather |
The Form of Fulfillment: Race, Genre and Imperialism in American Periodical Culture, 1880-1910 |
Meredith McGill |
| Williams, Tara |
“Womanhood” in the Chaucerian Tradition and Beyond: Implications of Power, Religion and Class for the Female Subject |
Larry Scanlon |
| Worley, Jennifer |
Beyond the Turkey Baster: Lesbian Texts and the Reproduction of Lesbian Identities |
Ed Cohen |
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| May 2004 |
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| Fausty, Joshua |
Essaying Ethics: Reading, Writing and Pedagogy |
Derek Attridge |
| Hollander, Rachel |
Ethics of Representation in Novels by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad |
George Levine |
| Kalter, Barrett |
Poetic License in Eighteenth-Century Culture |
Michael McKeon |
| Lynes, Katherine |
Expectations of Authenticity: Ethnographic Poetics of the Harlem Renaissance |
Marc Manganaro |
| Norman, Brian |
Stoking the Fire: Protest, Theory, the Personal |
Marianne DeKoven |
| Osborn, Susan |
A Thin Iron Gate Twanged: Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction |
Barry Qualls |
| Romero, Channette |
Spirituality, Community, and Resistance: Contemporary Fiction by Ethnic American Woman |
Marianne DeKoven |
| Rudy, Jason |
Forms of Passion: Victorian Poetry at the Boundaries of Sensibility |
Carolyn Williams |
| Taylor, Theodore |
The Written World: Textual Signifiers in the Novels of Virginia Woolf |
Carol Smith |
| Walsh, Brian |
“History Couched in a Play”: Performing Pastness on the Early-Modern Stage |
Emily Bartels |
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| January 2004 |
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| Lupton, Christina |
Representing Uncertainty: Franklin, Sterne, Goethe and the Literary Aesthetic |
Myra Jehlen |
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| October 2003 |
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| Campbell, Scott |
William Godwin’s “Theatre of Calamity”: The Place of Genre in the Philosophy of Sincerity |
William Galperin |
| Dell’Amico, Carol |
Colony, Metropole, Metafiction: The Novels of Jean Rhys |
Marjorie Howes |
| Krivak, Andrew |
Dear Bo - - An Emerging American Modernism in the Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902 to 1912 |
Harriet Davidson |
| Rubenstein, Michael |
Irish Literatures in Debt |
Marjorie Howes |
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