The Graduate Program of Literatures in English is proud to announce that the following students had their Ph.D. degrees conferred during 2015-2020 academic years:
| Student | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Director |
| 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 |
| October 2016 | ||
| Fesi, Joshua | Enlightenment Phenomenology: The Focalization of Perceptual Experience in Eighteenth Century Urban Narrative | Colin Jager |
| Gulya, Jason | Enlightenment Allegory: Adapting the Allegorical Form in British Literature, 1660-1750 | Michael McKeon |
| Peterson, Nathan | Picaresque Necessity: Episodic Narrative and Causality in the Long Eighteenth Century | Lynn Festa |
| Pietras, Brian | Evander's Mother: Gender, Antiquity, and Authorship in Early Modern England | Jacqueline Miller |
| Sherrill, Matthew | Forms of Life: Evolution and Poetic Form in the British Long Nineteenth Century | Carolyn Williams |
| Solinger, Fred | Sounding Modernism: An Aural History of the Novel, 1899-1963 | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| Winick, Meryl | Studied Enchantment: Scholarship and Literature in Britain, 1862-1931 | Carolyn Williams |
| Zubernis, Emily | Minimalism, Modernism, and the Aesthetic of Scale | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| May 2016 | ||
| Hunt, Stephanie | The Forms of Nature: Poetry and the Limits of Politics in Early Modern England | Henry Turner |
| October 2015 | ||
| Chappell, Patrick | The Recirculation Plot: Objects, Plotting, and the Second-Order Economies of Victorian Fiction | John Kucich |
| Kelly, Erin | "Fortune's ever-changing face" in Early Modern Literature & Thought | Henry Turner |
| Klaver, Rebecca | Include Everything: Contemporary American Poetry and the Feminist Everyday | Evie Shockley |
| Kotch, Amanda | The Embarrassment of Literary Biography: Form and Affect from Dickens to Woolf | Kate Flint & Jonah Siegel |
| Levine, Naomi | Rhyme and History in Victorian Poetics | Carolyn Williams |
| Shin, Nami | Formed by Contact: Multi-Local Migration and Contemporary Narrative | Rebecca Walkowitz |
| Thomas, J.D. | To Train Up a Child: American Protestantism and the Literatures of Religious Educuation, 1745-1920 | Greg Jackson |
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