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
Rapunzel Has Insomnia: Stories, Mary Buchanan Sellers
Risk, Responsibility, and Ethics in Professional and Technical Communication, Charley Grant Silvio
Sanctum Drag Featuring St. Joseph as a Structural Vulnerability, Phillip Gregory Spotswood
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall": Reflections on Colorism, Healing, and Resistance in Literature and Social Media, Sarah Lorena Webb
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Representation of Intellectual Disability in the Realist Narrative, Elizabeth Wells
Dissertations from 2017
The Fooding of Narrative in Contemporary Women's Transnational Fiction, Stacey Marie Amo
Water of Mercy, Kathleen Patricia Boland