Dissertations from 2017
The Rhetoric of Hospitality: Conditions of Death in America, Margaret Anne Callahan
Disease, Bread, Efficiency: Rhetorics of Victorian Education Reform, Vicki Jean Davis
Descendants of Abraham: A Comparative Approach to Jewish and Islamic Rhetorics, Brandon Katzir
Chaucer's Divided "I": Narrative Voice and Performance Dynamics in Late Fourteenth-Century English Literature, Isaac McDuffie
Oh God Get Out Get Out, William Moran
The West as Fiction in First-Generation Arab Immigrant Literature, Rimun Murad
Primary Source, Ronald Edmund Peltier
1938, Michael Paul Rands
cannibal farm, Alec Vanthournout
"In the School, Not of the School": Co-Performing Critical Literacies with English Amped, Anna Catherine West
The Infundibula: A Novel, Andrew Tobin Zolot
Theses from 2016
The Children's Book, Mary Katherine Brake
The Delinquents: Stories, Robert Howell
"Columbus of the moral seas": Byronic Sexuality and the Figuration of Place, Emily Epstein Kobayashi
Red Wolf, Muriel Leung
The Hunter's Moon, Hayley Lynch
Unsettling Feminist Traditions: Domesticities and Agency in U.S. Black Women's Life Writing, 1850-1926, Martha Pitts
Fuckstutter, Anthony Francis Ramstetter
I Could Be Yours, Amy Michelle Rossi
Imaginary Conversation in Which You Are a Flock of Birds, Laura Theobald
Idling Women: The Domestic Bildungsroman and the American City, 1830-1900, Jordan L. Von Cannon
The Darkest Nation: American Melancholia in Modernist Narratives of the First World War, Michael Von Cannon
A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman, Logan Wiedenfeld
“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330, Joseph Richard Wingenbach
Dissertations from 2015
A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910, Helana E. Brigman
Ozark, Danielle Lea Buchanan
Postsouthern Melancholia: Revising the Region in the Twenty-First Century, Matthew Dischinger
Consumer Mutations: Mediated Subjectivities of the Incipient Digital Age, Aaron Duplantier
Paradoxical Agency: The Ethics of Women's Rhetoric in Shakespeare's Rome, Catherine Riley Godbold
The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920, Madoka Kishi
Giving Godhead, Dylan Krieger
Life on the Kind of Red Planet, James Nelson
The Cactus League: Stories, Emily Joyce Nemens
Only a Resounding Gong, Hannah Timmins Reed
The House in the Pines, Ana Cecilia Reyes
Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime, Katherine E.C. Willis
"Fogo", Anna Elizabeth Wilson
"Superbly Sterile:" Queer Reproduction in Victorian Literature and Culture, Mary Timothy Wilson
Dissertations from 2014
Southern Sapphisms: Sexuality and Sociality in Literary Productions, 1974-1997, Jaime Cantrell
Queer Emplotment: Lesbian Caretaking in North American Canonical Fiction from 1980 – 2011., Penelope Gay Dane
Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature, Laura Jane Faulk
The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900, Michael James Griffin II
Domusphere: and other poems, Min K. Kang
Twa: A Masque, Jacqueline Kari
Intersections of Race and Class in 1830s Othello Burlesques, Laura Michelle Keigan
Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, Stephanie Jean Osburn Krassenstein
Cellular Memory, Victoria Lea Mansberger
“Gathering Thinglessness”: Samuel Beckett’s Essayistic Approach To Nothing, Dena Marks
Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers, Monica C. Miller
Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture, Peter James Pappas
The Journeyers, Alyson Pomerantz
Liberalism and the Dilemma of Cultures, Ali Rezaie
Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability, David Riche
Painful Conversions: Reading and Writing Education Reform in Louisiana, Thomas George Sowders
The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film, Amanda Ashleigh Wicks
Leechdom, Lee Tyler Williams
Theses from 2013
Private Dick!, Adam Atkinson
des-milagros, Jesus Arturo Avila
Collected Accidents: Stories, Jennifer Lentz Brosseau
Reduced By Half, Julia Carey Arendell
In spite of yourself : the asignifying force of humor and laughter, Kevin Michael Casper
"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres, Doris Ann Frye
My Brother, No Computer, Sean Green
The laws of verse : the poetry of Alice Meynell and its literary contexts, 1875-1923, Jared Hromadka
From Wandering Wombs to Female Troubles: Endometriosis Self-Help Literature and Memoir From the Intersections of Queer and Disability Studies, Cara Eleanor Jones
Minding the gap : a rhetorical history of the achievement gap, Laura Elizabeth Jones
What the Leopard Was Seeking, Rebecca Kaiser
Blame : marriage, folklore, and the Victorian novel, Corrie Kiesel
Erotic Transgressions: Pornographic Uses of the Victorian, Laura Helen Marks
you, prey, Sarah Maxwell
Translating Arthur : the Historia regum Brittanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Roman de Brut of Wace, George Gregory Molchan
Friends of Bill F. : alcohol, recovery, and social progress in southern fiction, Conor Adam Picken
Entitled, Kimberly Eve Vodicka
Theses from 2012
Rose City, Aimee Elizabeth Davis
The Moveable Wounds, Maia Elgin
Signals, Britton Hollister Estep
Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America, Charles Mitchell Frye III
The Handle or the Blade, Alison Marie Grifa
Wedding belles and enslaved brides: Louisiana plantation weddings in fact, fiction and folklore, Cherry Lynne Levin
Queer utopian geographies and Cold War poetry, Brigitte Natalie McCray
Adaptation as Anarchist: A Complexity Method for Ideology-Critique of American Crime Narratives, Kristopher Mecholsky
Places That Are Far Away, Benjamin Pelhan
Leaving Oz, Rachel Ann Van Sickle
Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea, Afton Wilky
Dissertations from 2011
"The colossal vitality of his illusion": the myth of the American dream in the modern American novel, James E. Ayers
Transatlantic Baggage: Expatriate Paris, Modernism, and the Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Blair Bonds
Lord Sugar, William M. Burke
Motion of Souls, James A. Claffey
Radical realms: a materialist theory of fantasy literature, Rich Paul Cooper
Steerage, Melissa Coyle
Beating the Red Stick, Tracey Anne Duncan
Situation comedies and the single woman on television, Ashli LeeAnn Dykes
Constructing Hindu Religioscapes: Guruism and Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction, Sukanya Gupta
Hot Gossip: A Novel, John David Harding
Framing empire: Victorian literature, Hollywood international, and postcolonial film adaptation, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Contingent constellations: Frederick Douglass and the fact freedom, Tomohiro Hori
Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846, James Weldon Long
An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune, Kristi Richard Melancon
The Abramson Portraits, David Louis Neal Newman
La Louve, My Nguyen