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Sarah C. Alexander

Sarah C. Alexander Doctoral Candidate

Dissertation: “The Residuum: Victorian Street Life and Discourses of Excess”

Committee: Kate Flint (Director), Jonah Siegel, and Carolyn Williams

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2008-2009)

Danielle Bobker

Danielle Bobker PhD 2007
Assistant Professor of English, Concordia University

Dissertation: “The Shape of Intimacy: Private Space and the British Social Imagination, 1650-1770”

Committee: Jonathan Brody Kramnick (Co-Director), Michael McKeon (Co-Director), and Paula McDowell

Graduate School—New Brunswick
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (2008)

Christopher Crosbie

Christopher Crosbie PhD 2007
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Dissertation: “Philosophies of Retribution: Rethinking Early Modern Revenge Tragedy”

Committee: Emily C. Bartels (Director), Ann Baynes Coiro, and Ron Levao

Shakespeare Association of America
J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize (2007)