Dissertations from 2025
“WHERE WAR IS GOD AND GOD IS WAR:” WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS GREAT WAR POETRY AND HOMEFRONT LINES, Faith Ellington
Feelings That Drive, Kayla M. Jackson
Personal Life, Halley McArn
Ocean Bluffs: A Novel, Sunni R. Rosen
Bending the Canon: Evolving Forms of Graphic Adaptation, Natalie R. Sheppard
I'll Be There Soon, Rose Torres
The Fourth Longest Bridge, Alejandra Vansant
Dissertations from 2024
Xenoromanticism: On an Ethics After Individuality, Nicholas James Alexandre
A Paradise in Shambles: Anglophone Kashmiri Fiction and the Environment, Zachary Bordas
That Was Then and This is, Too: Writing on Carville, Louisiana, Matalin Carville
The Oracle of the Pig's Head, Taylor L. Denton
A Reckoning, Nuha Fariha
Personal Injury, Erin Little
The Happiest Place on Earth, Parker M. Logan
La Llorona, Emilie Rodriguez
"I Will Not": Conscientious Objection and Recessive Action in American Poetry Against World War II, Tyler Sheldon
Disclosure: A Novella and Other Stories, Andrew Shultz
Chivalric Appetites: Creaturely Knights and the Culture of Ravaging, Megan Wahlberg
Theses from 2023
The Inherent Danger of Repetition, Chang Joon An
CROSS-RACIAL TRANSFERENCE: RACE, AFFECT, AND THE FLESH IN THE AMERICAN MODERNIST NOVEL, Rei Asaba
Eco-Orientalism: Settler-Colonial Fields of Knowledge in the Contemporary Climate Imagination, Victoria C. Bush
Lab Rat, Cory Calabria
Sexuality and the Digital Platform Economy, Alexandra Perry Chiasson
Contagious Animality: Species, Disease, and Metaphor in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Jeremy Cornelius
The Worst Dog Ever, Jodi Scott Elliott
Sisterhood Is What You Make It: Modes of Community in Southern Women's Fiction Since the 1970s, Elizabeth Ashley Gardner
Elemental Women of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Revealing Victorian Anxieties Through Ecology and Gender, Rachel Howatt
Subaltern Corpses: Gender and Death in Bollywood, Ankita Rathour
Apocalypse Then and Now: Narrative Influence and Thematic Subversion of Victorian Literature in Modern American War Narratives, Douglas James Scully
Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature, Rebecca Stobaugh
Sundown Syzygy, Jake Zawlacki
Theses from 2022
A Walmart with No Televisions, Samuel A. Bickford
Grotesque Masculinities in the Works of Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, and Padgett Powell, Matt Brandon Blasi
Ghost Kingdom, Jonathan Clark
Women of Power: Mapping the Spiritual Journeys of Caribbean Women Across Regional Fiction as Portrayed in The Book of Night Women, Texaco, and Erzulie's Skirt, Natalie Sandy D'Auvergne-LaMotte
Migration and Displacement in Twenty-First Century Magical Realist Fiction, Laura Duncan Fontenot
Reassessing Race: Exploring the Construction of Identity and Social Hierarchies on the Early Modern Stage, Rae'Mia Antionette Escott
Blisswood, Molly Foltyn
Literacy's Levels: An Analysis of Neoliberal Literacy Sponsorship in the U.S., Misty Dawn Fuller
Re-thinking Human-Machine Collaboration: In/Equalities and (Post) Human Labor in the Blade Runner Franchise, Zita Edith Hüsing
A Tendency to Forget and Other Minor Failures: Essays, Sophie Parke Kennedy
BUG TIME: an infestation in three parts, Jami Alyce Kleinpeter
"A Sort of Pain, Which Is New": Unresolved Grief in British Romantic Literature, Eta Farmacelia Nurulhady
I Didn't Know I Could, Shakirah Peterson
Girlhood as a Spatial Politic in Black Diasporic Literature by Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs, Edwidge Danticat, Natalie Baszile, Jesmyn Ward, and Kacen Callender, Stephanie S. Rambo
'My Name Is Peaches': Black Women's Affect in the Blues Biomyth, Taylor C. Scott
Weekly Specials: Interactive Stories, Erika O. Shoup
Dissertations from 2021
The War on ‘The Terrorist Other’: Islamophobia and Pakistani Muslim Men in Post-9/11 and 7/7 Fiction, Nawaf Mohammed K Almutairi
Dark Blue was the Water, simone j. banks
Cage, Lauren E. Burgess
Rabbit in the Moon, Katherine Hur
Untitled Alice and Other Dead Girls: Short Stories, Christie Marie Lauder
Defensible Space/In the Terrible Season, Ian Ursaki Lockaby
See You in the Funny Pages: Forms and Aesthetics of Newspaper Comic Strips in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, Jack Mallard
Death in the Air: An EcoGothic Reading of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jiwon Min
Hindsight, Haley Elizabeth Moore
Diagnosis, Olivia Muenz
Generic Forms of White Feminism: A Study on the Circulation of White Feminism in Digital Cultures, Lauren Elizabeth Rackley
The Confederate Stories of America: The Short-Story Cycle and the Representation of the American South, Ikuko Takeda
Eloquence in Talke and Vertue in Deedes: Education and Discontent in Early Modern England, Mary Alison Webb
Dissertations from 2020
Pacific Crosswinds: Antebellum American Fiction and the Transpacific World, Caleb Scofield Doan
Mixed Messages: Reading Contemporary U.S. Literature of Biracial Girlhood, Candice Nicole Hale
sh, Brandi Hanna
[...], Andrew Harold Hofmann
Emerson's Idealist Poetics: Emerson, Rödl, and the Life of Nature, Robert Darren Hutchinson
Opening Through Bone, Elizabeth Kolenda
Narrating Nigeriopolitanism: The Multiplicity of Nigerian Identity at Home and Abroad, Olanike Lawore
The Language of Rats: Unwelcome Animals and Interspecies Connection in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Kieran Leigh Lyons
Trudging Through the Muck, cree n. pettaway
Writing Time: Modern Physics, Modernist Lyric, and the Poetics of Temporality, Carly Rubin
Ani & Jackie, Supreet Kaur Sidhu
Documenting Desire: Addressing the Educational Needs of Undocumented English Learners, Alejandra Sofia Torres
The Rainy Country, Alex Thomas Turissini
Ghost Writing: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Occult Novels and the Rhetoric of Spectral Phenomenology, Eliza Dickinson Urban
Heirlooms: A Poetic Exploration of Inherited Mental Illness, Language, and Domestic Violence, Stephan Antoine Viau
Theses from 2019
American Waste, Jason Allen Christian
Inside Voice: Charlotte Smith, (In)Sensibility, and Emotional Cadences in Lyric Silence, Christie Marie Cognevich
Carceral Dreams: Punishment in Contemporary Utopian Fiction, Amandine Faucheux
naus, Justin Greene
The Lowly Ones, Cassie Meredith Benson Grillon
Fragments and Flânerie: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Art of Wandering, Charla Allyn Hughes
The Heart of the Nation: Gender and Identity in Victorian Judaism, Lindsay Katzir
Finding Rough America, Eric Kennedy
Extreme Measures: Music and the Making of the New Woman, Ryan James McGuckin
Provincial Ecology: Rural Environments and the Isolated Imaginary of American Literature, Joshua Ray Myers
We're the Ones We've Been Waiting For: a conjuring, Monterica Sade Neil
Intertwined Markings: Metafiction in the Digital Age, Taylor Danielle Orgeron
Novel Media: Global Contemporary Fiction in the Digital Age, Mary Catherine Pappalardo
Refuse: Excess and Resistance in Gilded Age Print and Literature, Leah Michelle Powell
wake decay, Ian D. Schoultz
The Wooden Boy, Rhiannon Lee Thorne
Capturing Contingency: Experimental Documentary in the Wake of Direct Cinema, Dustin Reed Zemel
Dissertations from 2018
"Swallowing a World": Globalization and the Maximalist Novel, Benjamin S. Bergholtz
The Ghost You Deserve, Alicia Sarah Dennis
Will to Remember: Counter-Archives in the Work of Alvarez, Danticat, and Díaz, Megan Elizabeth Feifer
Jane Austen's Hidden Bodies: Adaptation as Critical Commentary, Elizabeth Gilliland
Reasonable Exceptions: Supreme Court Rhetoric and the Right to Privacy, Lindsay Susan Head
The Body in Pain / The Body in Ecstasy, Shannon Kenny
A Poetics of Temperance: Gender, Genre, and Meaning-Making in Early Modern England, Cristina Maria Rosell
The Flat Woman, Vanessa Saunders