Dissertation Titles
2022
- Sydney Lane, Dreams of a Therapeutic Planet: (Dis)entangling Narratives of Post-Human Care in Anglo-American Speculative Literature
2021
- Dana “Chip” Badley III, The Practiced Eye: Painting and Queer Personhood in Nineteenth-Century America
- Giorgina Samira Paiella, Feeling Machines: Affect, Automation, and Machinic Assemblages of the Self
2020
- Dalia Bolotnikov Mazur, At Home in Pieces: Forms of Fragmentation in Caribbean and Jewish Diasporic Literatures
- Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Melancholic Satires: Forms of Embodied Critique in the Eighteenth Century
- Baron Wolfgang Haber, Queer Routes: The Eco-Aesthetics of Metamorphosis in Twentieth-Century Anglophone Fiction
- Tyler Shoemaker, Literalism: Reading Machines Reading
2019
- Elizabeth Floyd, Bourgeois Like Me: Architecture, Literature, and the Making of the Middle Class in Post-War London
2018
- Rebecca Christine Chenoweth, Memory on the Periphery of War: The Life Writing and Uncertainty of Peripheral Witnesses in British Literature of World Wars I and II
- Jonathan James Forbes, Feeling Bureaucratic: Political Poetry, Affective Rhetoric, and Parliamentary Process in Late Medieval England
- Colton Scott Saylor, Unsettling Racial Capitalism: Horror in African American and Native American Fiction
2017
- Elizabeth C. Allen, Generosity and Belonging in Post-colonial Ireland and South Africa
- Shay M. Hopkins, Making Local: The Politics of Place in Anglo-Norman Hagiography
- Rachel Louise Levinson-Emley, The Wound That Makes Whole: Bleeding and Intersubjectivity in Middle English Romance
- Nicholas F. Pici, Narrative (K)nots / Symbolic Seduction: Toward a Biopoetics of Second-Order Symbolism in the Storytelling Arts
- Elizabeth Shayne, iTouch: Understanding the Role of Emotions in the Design and Reading of Digital Books
2016
- Geoffrey Kyle Bucy, Railroad Poetics: Infrastructure, Stories, Worldmaking
- Leah Meagan Fry, Secrets of the Bush: Abortion in Caribbean Women’s Literary Imagination
2015
- Sheena Berwick, Writing Beauty: Ruskin’s Vision of Neural Imagination in the Works of Hawthorne and Eliot
- Andrew Kalaidjian, Places of Rest: Modernism and Environmental Recovery
- Paul Megna, Emotional Ethics in Middle English Literature
- Alison Rose Reed, Traumatic Utopias: Staging Power and Justice in Black and Latin@ Queer Performance
2014
- Can Aksoy, Extreme Businessmen: Representations of Contemporary Corporate Life
- Shannon Meyer, From Tower to Bower: Constructions of Gender, Class, and Architecture in Middle English Literature