Please use the links below to access departmentally approved PhD dissertation abstracts.
2011
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Michael Hamburger | The Poetics of Charity and Relief: The Problem of Poverty And Aid to the Poor in the Development of the Early Romantic Lyric |
| Leslie Simon | Novel Patterns: Dickens, Narrative Realism, and Nineteenth-Century Mathematics |
2008
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Elisa Oh | Defining Absence: Reading Female Silence in English Literature 1580–1640 |
| Jennifer Airey | “I Would Have Kill’d Myself With A Knife”: Sexual Violence, Courtroom Broadside, and the Restoration Stage |
2007
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Alexander Bove | Dickens’ Dream-Representations: Image and Character beyond Mimesis |
| Keith Johnson | The Ethics of Form and the Form of Ethics: Experiments in Literature and Philosophy |
| Joseph Navitsky | “Words With Words Revenged”: Religious Conflict and the Rearticulation of Late Elizabethan Satire |
| Shawn Normandin | The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales |
| Emily Rohrbach | Historiography of the Subject in Austen, Keats, and Byron |
| Sara Sullivan | Coming Home to History: The Domestic Interior and the Nation in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature |
2005
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Soharn Randy Boyagoda | Imagining Nation and Imaginary Americans: Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner |
| Amy Weintraub Kratka | Cynthia Ozick’s Sacral Aesthetic |
2004
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Laurel Correlle | Elizabeth Bishop and Christian Literary Tradition |
| Sharifah Osman | Bandit Queens and Eastern Sisters: Byronic Heroines and British Nationalism, 1770–1840 |
| Reena Sastri | James Merrill: Knowing Innocence |
| Daniel Silverstone | Urban Topographies: Controlling the Movement of People in Fictions of Dublin, London, and Los Angeles |
2003
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Ho | Consumption and Identity in Asian Coming-of-Age Novels |
2002
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Kirk Melnikoff | Professional Drama in the Twilight of the Elizabethan Clown: Playing and Professional Playwrighting in the Late 1580s and the Early 1590s |
2000
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Jeanne Follansbee Quinn | Democratic Aesthetics: The Discourse of Social Justice in American Literature, Criticism, and Philosophy of the 1930’s |
1999
| Candidate’s Name | Dissertation Abstract |
|---|---|
| Edward Gieskes | Writing the Professions: Letters, Law and Administration in Early Modern England |
| Maydee G. Lande | “Accursed Tongue” and “Frightful Hearing”: The Incest Narrative and Strategies of Discourse |
| John R. Smith | Prominent Backgrounds: Visions of Class and Desire in Dickens’s Illustrated Novels |