The Graduate Program of Literatures in English is proud to announce that the following students had their Ph.D. degrees conferred during 2017-2022 academic years:
| Student | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Director |
| May 2024 | ||
| Eagan Dean | Malleable Instruments: Gender and Its Uses in Nineteenth Century U.S. Literature | Dana Luciano |
| Raymond Leonard | The Literature of Black and Indigenous Encounter in Early America | Meredith McGill |
| Michael Opal | Shaped Like Itself: The Rhetoric of Reality in Renaissance England | Henry Turner |
| Abigail Reardon | Varieties of Contingent Experience: Practicing Pragmatism in the Twenty-First Century Academy | Brad Evans |
| Sara Sanchez-Zweig | Magical Acts: Stage Magic, Desire, and the Experience of Subjectivity | Elin Diamond |
| January 2024 | ||
| Kylie Dennis | Novel Care: Public Health and Professional Caregiving in the Nineteenth-Century British Domestic Novel | David Kurnick |
| October 2023 | ||
| Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo | Maroon Entanglements: Women's and Femmes' Erotic Strategies in Caribbean Narrative | Michelle Stephens & Carter Mathes |
| Courtney Krolczyk | Illustrating History: The Forms and Affordances of Victorian Illustration | Carolyn Williams |
| Kelly Roberts | Generic Queer: Literary History After Visibility, 1980-2020 | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| May 2023 | ||
| Brian Reinken | Future States: Imperial Violence and Nonlinear Time in Late Victorian Fiction | John Kucich |
| Kristin Rose | Women on the Wastes: Reimagining "Empty" Environments in the Victorian Female Bildungsroman | David Kurnick |
| January 2023 | ||
| Timothy Morris | Science, Secularism, and Literary Form in Antebellum America | Meredith McGill |
| October 2022 | ||
| Kathryn Blakely | Unhappy Pursuits: Gender, Duty, and Independence in Eighteenth-Century Britain | Lynn Festa |
| Kirsten Martin | Within the Reach of Art: Techniques of Ineffability in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics | Lynn Festa & Abigail Zitin |
| Miranda McLeod | Ethnic Trouble: Ethnicization and American Literature in the Twenty-First Century | Michelle Stephens |
| May 2022 | ||
| Nicholas Allred | Character Under the Influence in Eighteenth-Century Britain | Lynn Festa |
| Amadi Ozier | Senses of Humor: Joking Etiquette in African American Literature at the Turn of the Century | Douglas Jones |
| Jacob Romanow | The Novel of Exteriority: Form, Privacy, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Britain | David Kurnick |
| Jeremy Specland | Psalm Reading and the Lyric Sequence in Renaissance England | Thomas Fulton |
| January 2022 | ||
| Christina Jen | Reading as Acting: The Novel’s Casting Call and Readerly Performance in the British Nineteenth Century | Carolyn Williams |
| October 2021 | ||
| Danielle Allor | Trees of Thought: Arboreal Matter and Metaphor in Late Medieval England | Larry Scanlon |
| Emily Banta | The Pursuit of Fun: Comic Play in Antebellum Democratic Culture | Meredith McGill |
| Scott Harris | English Variety: Popular Theater and the Post-Consensus Novel | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| Ariel Martino | Governing Aesthetics: Form and Politics in Black Hemispheric Literature | Carter Mathes |
| May 2021 | ||
| Suzanne Boswell | Being Swamped: Decomposed Developments in Tropical Fictions | Michelle Stephens & Andrew Goldstone |
| Nani Durnan | Radical Disaffection: Political Pessimism in Fin-de-Siècle British Fiction | John Kucich |
| Alexander Leslie | Reading Regions: American Literature and Cultural Geography, 1865-1925 | Brad Evans |
| Nicole Sheriko | Imitating Difference: Renaissance Entertainment Culture and the Ethics of Popular Form | Henry Turner |
| Maria Vrcek | Literary Disorder: The Poetic Revolution, 1600-1666 | Henry Turner |
| October 2020 | ||
| Carlson, Andrew | Forms of Imperfection in the English Renaissance | Jacqueline Miller |
| Castroman, Margarita | Collecting Race: The Archival Impulse in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and Culture | Michelle Stephens |
| Deonarine, Phedra | The Enduring Local: Representations of Land and Home in the Anglo-Caribbean | Michelle Stephens |
| Gildea, Tara | "Art gave Lifeless Life": Living Art and the Nature of Fiction in Early Modern England | Ann Baynes Coiro & Henry Turner |
| Harris, Lech | The Forms of Style: Victorian Storytelling and the Rise of the Stylist | David Kurnick |
| Hughes, Sean | The Moral Psychology of Historicism from Thomas Carlyle to Oscar Wilde | Jonah Siegel |
| Kimball, Lauren | Poetry and the Time of Labor in the Antebellum US | Meredith McGIll |
| Li, Moyang | Mathematical Dreamworlds: Speculative Fictions of Mathematics from the Enlightenment to the Global Anglophone Novel | Mukti Lakhi Mangharam |
| Lipperini, Rebecca | Maiden, Mother, Chrome: Feminist Fictions of the Female Inhuman in American Magazines, 1880-1936 | Brad Evans |
| Parrish, Melissa | Emergency Poetics: Postwar American Poetry and the Shape of Public Crisis | Harriet Davidson & William Galperin |
| Sater, Max | From Novel to Criticism: Narrative Knowing in the Nineteenth Century | David Kurnick |
| Sivarm, Sushil | Possible Institutions: Literature Festivals and Talk-Culture in India | Mukti Lakhi Mangharam & Stephane Robolin |
| May 2020 | ||
| Pirri, Caro | Settlement Aesthetics: Theatricality, Form, Failure | Emily Bartels |
| Welty, William | "Following a Strange Course": Reading, Race, and the Anachronistic Histories of Postwar American Fiction | David Kurnick & Michelle Stephens |
| October 2019 | ||
| Challener, Scott | From the Outside: Latin American Anthologies and the Making of U.S. Literature | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| Coltrain, Alyssa | The Hagiographic Impulse: Saintly Borrowings in Late Medieval Texts | Larry Scanlon |
| Hamilton, Regina | Speculative Aesthetics: Time, Space, and the Black Subject in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature | Michelle Stephens |
| Masiello, Regina | Rooms of Invention: The Prison Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Early of Surrey | Ann Baynes Coiro |
| Monescalchi, Michael | A Disinterested Republic: Reform and New Divinity Theology in Early America | Christopher Iannini |
| Pradhan, Pritika | "Not Simple Truth But Complex Beauty": Details in Victorian Literature and Aesthetics | Jonah Siegel |
| Tanner, William | The Melancholy Malcontent in Early Modern Theater & Culture | Henry Turner |
| Valenzuela, Alexa | Between London and Lima: Latin America and the Anglophone World in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Fiction | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| May 2019 | ||
| Diaby, Bakary | Sensing Meaning: Aesthetics and Vulnerability in the Romantic Age | Colin Jager |
| Everett, Gabrielle | Blushing Bitterly: An Affective and Literary History of Racial Uplift After Reconstruction | Douglas Jones |
| January 2019 | ||
| Bobe, Melissa | Spectacular Transients: Traumatic Childhood and the Fantastic | Michelle Stephens |
| Cowell, Isaac | The Peevish Wish: Conjectural Literature from Walpole to the Shelleys | Colin Jager |
| October 2018 | ||
| Barton, Lucas | Imagined Literacies: Race and Reading in Antebellum American Literature | Meredith McGill |
| Camarda, Julie | The Matter of Discussion: Conversational Poetics in the British Romantic Period | William Galperin |
| Phillips, Matthew John | Worldly Figures: Character and Belonging in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction | John Kucich |
| Williams, Alicia | Democratic Address and the History of Reading in Nineteenth Century British Literature | David Kurnick |
| May 2018 | ||
| Cooper, Amy | "Speaking Pictures": Words, Images, and the Visual Aesthetics of Early Modern Literature | Henry Turner |
| McAuley, Kyle | Outer Spaces: Provincialism and the Novel in the British Imperial Century | David Kurnick |
| Wade, Erik | Significant Others: Gender, Race, and the English Identity in Early Medieval English Eroticism | Stacy Klein |
| October 2017 | ||
| Graham, April | 'Penolopees Trouthe': Female Faithfulness in Late Medieval English Literature | Larry Scanlon |
| Madden, Caolan | Performing Poetesses: Collectivity and Theatricality in Victorian Poetry | Carolyn Williams |
| Mazzaferro, Alexander | 'No Newe Enterprize': Empirical Political Science and the Problem of Innovation in the Colonial English Americas | Christopher Iannini |
| Persson, Torleif | Imagining the Now: The Making of the Contemporary in the American Novel since 1945 | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| Solomon, Alex | The Rhetoric of Probability from New Science to Common Sense | Michael McKeon |
