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Department of English

PhD Recipients, 1990s

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Name
Dissertation title and adviser
Alarcon, Daniel Cooper
1992
dfcooper@u.arizona.edu
"The Aztec Palimpsest: Discursive Appropriations of Mexican Culture." Adviser - Hampl.
Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona
Aling, Helen
1996
"Dickens' Unitarian Theology." Adviser - M. Durham
Allison, Marjorie
1994
MC-Allison@wiu.edu
"Cultural Metaphors on Trial: Gender & Identity Re-examined in British and Anglo-Indian Literature." Adviser - Armstrong.
Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Western Illinois University
Altimont, Alan
1990
"The Autobiographical Art of John Berryman." Adviser - G. Wright
Apgar (Begert), Sonia
1996
sbegert@oc.ctc.edu
"Writing (for) Our Life: (Auto)biography as Contestatory Practice." Adviser - Garner.
Professor of English and Writing Center Coordinator, Olympic College, Washington
Aronson, Anne
1991
"Literacy and Identity: the Writing Histories of Undergraduate Reentry Women." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles
Ashcroft, Mary Ellen
1991
"Exorcising the Angel by Craft: Writing as Incantation/Incarnation in the work of Dorothy L. Sayers." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles
Athey, Stephanie
1993
"Contested Bodies: the Writing of Whiteness and Gender in American Literature." Adviser - Roth
Baepler, Paul
1996
"White Slavery in Africa: The Barbary Captivity Narrative in American Literature." Adviser - Griffin
Balasopoulos, Antonios
1998
balaso@ucy.ac.cy
"Groundless Dominions: Utopias and Empire from the Fiction of America to American Fiction." Adviser - Roth.
Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus
website
Barz, Jonathan
1999
jbarz@dbq.edu
"Educational theory and practice and the early American novel, 1789-1841." Adviser - Griffin.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
Basu, Biman
1990
"Hybridity and the Dialogic in Black Women's Fiction." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles
Berg, James J.
1996
jberg@collegeofthedesert.edu

"E. M. Forster: a Comparative Analysis of Fiction and Film." Adviser - Firchow.
Dean, Social Sciences and Arts, College of the Desert jamesberg.efoliomn2.com

Betcher, Gloria
1994
gbetcher@iastate.edu
"Culture and Society in Fourteenth-century Cornwall: Textual Evidence in the Cornish Ordinalia." Adviser - Kendall.
Assistant Director of Graduate Education, Department of English, Iowa State University
website
Bibby, Michael
1993
mwbibb@ark.ship.edu

"Hearts and Minds: the Body in American Resistance Poetry of the Vietnam Era." Adviser - Bales.
Associate Professor of English, Shippensburg University
www.ship.edu/~mwbibb/

Birkholz, Daniel
1999
birkholz@
mail.utexas.edu
"The King's Two Maps: Cartography and Culture in Thirteenth-Century England." Advisers - Wallace & Copeland.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin
Bock, Mary
1993
"Education with the People: 'Race,' Pedagogy and Literacy." Adviser - R. Brown
Borden [Hyman], Susan
1994
"Green Fields: the Spirit of Place in Novels and Memoirs of the Victorian Countryside." Adviser - M. Durham
Bourara, Hassan
1996
"Paul Bowles: an ‘invisible spectator’?." Adviser - Bales
Brehe, Steven
1990
"Lawman's Brut and Alliterative Tradition: An Investigation of Metrics and Literary History." Adviser - Kendall
Brenk, Mary Alice
1997
"Pursuing Authentic Performance: Animals, Actors and Audience in the Works of Ernest Hemingway." Adviser - Weinsheimer
Brownlee James
1994
jbrownlee@malone.edu
"Limits, Risks, and Possibilities: Discourse & Religion in a Section of Twentieth Century American Novels." Adviser - Ross.
Assistant Professor of English, Malone College, Ohio
Carr, Richard
1994
ffrsc@aurora.alaska.edu
"Who are we?: the Australian Quest for Literary Identity." Adviser - Griffin.
Professor and Chair of English Department, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Chen, Chao-Fang (Christina)
1999
chencf@mail.ncku.edu.tw
"Aging and Old Age in George Eliot's Novels." Adviser - Hirsch.
Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Chen, Wendi
1999
chenwe@mctc.mnscu.edu
"The reception of George Bernard Shaw in China, 1918-1996." Adviser - Firchow.
English Instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Chiu, Hanping
1991
"Nonfiction Novel, Historical Novel and the Crisis of the Novel." Adviser - Solotaroff
Christopherson, Johan
1998
"The Post-Christian Turn: A Study of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Sermons." Adviser - Griffin
Church, Clara
1995
"Very Tragical Mirth: the Function of Comedy in Renaissance Revenge Tragedy." Adviser - Garner
Cohen, Ann
1992
"Bloom's Journey: the Hades Episode of James Joyce's Ulysses Viewed Through Mythic Lens." Adviser - G. Wright
Countryman, James
1999
countryj@mrs.umn.edu
"Imaginative Consequences in Piers Plowman." Adviser - Copeland.
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Cowgill, Robert J.
1994
"Dodger." Adviser - Solotaroff
Creel, Thomas Gill
1999
creelgi@mctc.mnscu.edu
"How Cozening a Word is This Community, Community College Teachers and Democratic Pedagogy: an Ethnographic Inquiry." Adviser - R. Brown.
English Instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Crowe, David
1993
encrowe@augustana.edu
"The Dialogical Imagination of Ernest Hemingway: Dialogism in In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms." Adviser - Solotaroff.
Associate Professor of English, Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.
Cullen, Elaine
1999
"Women Coming to Voice Through Writing." Advisers - Bridwell-Bowles & Garner
Desai, Jigna
1999
desai003@tc.umn.edu
"Rooted Homelands, Routed hostlands : (En)gendered Mobility in the South Asian Diaspora." Adviser - Mowitt.
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota
Dews, Carlos L.
1994 cdews@johncabot.edu

"Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers." Adviser - R. Brown.
Associate Professor and Chair, John Cabot University, Rome

Dickel, Michael
1999
dickel@macalester.edu
"Teshuvah: Writing Alternative Masculinities." Adviser - R. Brown.
Director of the Learning Center, Macalester College
www.macalester.edu/~dickel
Ding, Ersu
1992
ersuding@ln.edu.hk
"Meaning and Power." Adviser - R. Brown.
Associate Professor of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
www.ln.edu.hk/eng/staff/Ding.htm
Donehower, Kimberly
1997
kim.donehower@nodak.edu
"Beliefs About Literacy in a Southern Appalachian Community." Adviser - Anson.
Associate Professor of English, University of North Dakota
Edwards, Barry
1995
barrysedwards@gmail.com
"A Permanent World: Spirituality in Ezra Pound's Poetry and Poetics." Adviser - Firchow.
Attorney in the Twin Cities
Eldred, Patricia Mulrooney
1996
pmeldred@skate.edu
"Shaping the MagiStory in the Middle English Cycle Plays: Compositional Techniques & the Idea of Kingship." Adviser - Kendall.
Assistant Professor, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul
Eldridge, Michael
1995
me2@axe.humboldt.edu
"Professing and Forgetting: Indian Education and the Routes of English in America." Adviser - R. Brown.
Associate Professor, Department of English, Humboldt State University, Arcata CA
www.humboldt.edu/~me2
Falk (Karstadt), Angela
1999
angela.falk@engelska.uu.se
"Swedish-American English : a Longitudinal Study of Linguistic Variation and Identity." Adviser - Escure.
Senior Lecturer (tenured) in English Linguistics, Director of undergraduate studies for teacher education in English, Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden
Feder-Lewis, Sonia
1996
"History at Home: Reassessing the Role of Women in the Victorian Historical Novel." Adviser - Hirsch
Fellegy, Anna
1998
"Here/there, these/those, this/that : Locative Discourse Markers in New Ulm English." Adviser - Escure
Forsberg L. Lee
1996
"Studies in Discourse Literacy." Adviser - R. Brown
Gallagher, Sean
1994
sgallagh@richland.edu
"American Criminal Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century: ‘Launched into Eternity.’" Adviser - Ross.
Professor of English and Spanish, Richland Community College, Ill.
Gillen, Shawn
1994
gillens@beloit.edu
"Ambivalent Realism: Women Writers and Readers in Selected Fiction by Henry James." Adviser - Ross.
Associate Professor of English, Beloit College
Gordon, Christine Mack
1997
gordo003@tc.umn.edu
"Dreaming in Shakespeare : Pedagogy, Performance, Dramaturgy, Fiction." Advisers - MD Browne & Leyasmeyer
Grinnell, Richard
1992
"English Demonology and Renaissance Drama: the Politics of Fear." Adviser - Garner
Guenther, Katherine
1992
"Motherdeath: a Meditation on the Sources and Consequences of the Language of Science and Medicine." Adviser - R. Brown
Gustafson, Loren
1994
lgustafs@bucknell.edu
"Across the Boundaries: Reading and Resistance in Contemporary American Autobiography." Adviser - Garner
Halberstam, Judith
1991
jhalberstam@ucsd.edu
"Parasites and Perverts: Anti-Semitism and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century Gothic Fiction." Adviser - Roth.
Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Hansen, Craig
1992
Craig.Hansen@
metrostate.edu
 
"Flow, Form, Context, & Technology: a Model for Understanding Communication in a Business Community." Adviser - Ross.
Professor, Director, Technical Communication BA and MS Programs, Metropolitan State University
Harred, Jane
1994
"Never a Copy: The Conflicting Claims of Narrative Discourse & Its Referent in the Literary Journalism of ... ." Adviser - Griffin
Heacock, Maureen
1995
maureen_heacock@
wilmington.edu
"Sounding a Challenge: African American Women's Poetry and the Black Arts Movement." Adviser - McNaron.
Registrar, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
Henry, Richard
1994
henryrm@potsdam.edu
"Pretending and Meaning." Adviser - Hancher.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English, Department of English and Communication, State University of New York--Potsdam
links
Herbst, Diane
1995
"The Use of Conventional Literary Techniques in Postmodern Fiction: A New Kind of Mimesis." Adviser - Reed
Hodne, Barbara
1995
"Using the Words that were Theirs: Dialect, Accented Speech & Language Other than English in Asian American and American Indian Literature." Adviser - Griffin
Horner, Shari
1992
slhorn@ark.ship.edu
"Women's Literacy and Female Textuality in Old English Poetry." Adviser - Kendall.
Assistant Professor, Shippensburg University
www.ship.edu/~slhorn
Hudson, David
1994
dhudson@gw.hamline.edu
"Out of the Impact: Soldier Narrative and the Formation of the Great War Prose Canon." Adviser - Furia.
Assistant Professor of English, Hamline University
Hunter, Eileen
1999
"Family, Class, and Postwar American Fiction: Three Readings and a Novel." Adviser - Hampl
Jacobs, Deborah
1992
"Health, Gender Theory, & the Limits of Liberatory Discourse in Turn-of-the-Century Britain." Adviser - R. Brown
Johnson, Elizabeth
1998
johns268@umn.edu
"'As If It Were a Life's Work': Theorizing Maternal Practice in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry." Adviser - Garner
Johnson, J. Paul
1997
pjohnson@winona.edu
"Literacy in Progress: The Social Construction of Webbed Hypertexts in First Year Composition." Adviser - R. Brown.
Professor of English, Winona State University
Johnstone, Rosemarie
1995
"The Alcoholism of the Text." Adviser - Damon
Joseph, Betty
1996
beejay@rice.edu
"Discrepant Subjects of Empire: Producing Women in the Colonial Text." Adviser - Rabinowitz.
Assistant Professor of English, Rice University, Houston
Keen, Jill Averil
1995 keenx001@umn.edu
"Documenting Salvation: Charters & Pardons in "Thou wommon boute uere," the charters of Christ & Piers." Adviser - Kendall
Kibler, Robert
1998
kibler@misu.nodak.edu
"The Road to Jade Dragon Mountain : Ezra Pound's Aesthetic Movement from West to East and his Creation of a Paradiso Terrestre." Adviser - Furia.
Associate Professor of English and Humanities, Minot State University, Minot ND
Kim, Myungjin
1999
kimx0049@chollian.net
"Dialogism in Charles Dickens' First-Person Narratives: a Bakhtinian Study." Adviser - Hirsch.
Assistant Professor, Yonsei University at Wonju, Korea
Knatterud, Mary
1997
knatt001@tc.umn.edu
"First Do No Harm: Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School
Kollin, Susan
1995
kollin@
english.montana.edu
"Frontier Nostalgia and the Invention of Alaska." Adviser - Damon.
Associate Professor, English, Montana State University
Konkle, Maureen
1997
"Writing the Indian Nation: U.S. Colonialism, Native Intellectuals, and the Struggle Over Indian Identity." Adviser - Griffin
Kramm, Mary (Maggi)
1993
"Shakespeare's Romance of the Rose: All's Well That Ends Well and Domestic Drama." Adviser - Clayton
Kuhne, Michael
1998
mkuhne@mctc.mnscu.edu
"A Community Pedagogy of Critical Hope: Paulo Freire, Liberation Pedagogy, and Liberation Theology." Adviser - R. Brown.
English Instructor; Department Coordinator; Urban Teacher Education Program Faculty Member, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Kuribayashi, Tomoko
1994
Tomoko.Kuribayshi@uwsp.edu
"Turning the World Inside Out: Architecture & the Female Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction." Adviser - Garner.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Landman, James
1996
"Langland, Chaucer, Fortescue: Force of Law and Popular Voice, 1877-1471." Adviser - Wallace
Lansky, Ellen
1996
"Something for the Lady: Women Alcoholics and Their Partners in American Modern Fiction." Adviser - Roth
Larson, Marion
1992
m-larson@bethel.edu
"Writers in Transition: Undergraduate Interns Face New Demands." Adviser - Ross.
Director of Writing; Professor of Writing, Bethel College
Leach, Mary Jane
(Leach-Rudawski)
1999
Jane.Leach@minneapolis.edu
"The Mongrel Girl of Noman's Land: Sexuality, Feminism and Motherhood in the Poetry and Prose of Mina Loy." Adviser - Bales.
English and Urban Teacher Program Instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Legler, Gretchen
1994
gretchen.legler@maine.edu
"Toward a Postmodern Pastoral Contemporary Women Writers' Revisions of the Natural World." Adviser - Sprengnether.
Associate Professor of Humanities, University of Maine, Farmington
Lewis, Chuck
1995
lewisc@beloit.edu
"A Coincidence of Wants: The Novel and Neoclassical Economics." Adviser - Bales.
Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Program, Beloit College
Lin, Yu-chen
1992
"The Poetics of Alterity in James Joyce's Ulysses." Adviser - Anderson
Lindholm, Jeannette
1992
jeannette.lindholm
@salemstate.edu
"Bearing Witness to the Word: Language, Faith, & Learning in an Evangelical College Community." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Professor of English, Salem State College, Salem, Mass.
Lindsay, Yvonne
1999
"Pater and Yeats : an Aesthetic Legacy." Adviser - Hancher
Littlefield-Enright, Holly
1999
HLittlefield@csom.umn.edu
"Reconsidering Literacy in the University: a Look at Multicultural Composition Textbooks." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Teaching Specialist, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Lynch, Kimberly
1999
kim.lynch@anokaramsey.edu
"Positioning Basic Writers : One Size Doesn't Fit All." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Instructor of English, Anoka Ramsey Community College--Cambridge Campus
Maertens, James
1993
alferian@avaloncollege.org
"Promethean Desires : the Technician-Hero and Myths of Masculinity in Nineteenth-century Literature." Adviser - McNaron.
Chancellor of the Avalon Center for Druidic Studies
www.bardwood.com
www.avaloncollege.org
Malek, Joyce
1993
jjoyce.malek@
anokaramsey.edu
"Improvising the Text: a Study of Artistic Collaboration in the Women's Theater, At the Foot of the Mountain." Adviser - R. Brown.
Professor of English and Faculty Development Chair, Anoka Ramsey Community College
Mao, LuMing
1991
"Pragmatic Universals and Their Implications." Adviser - Hancher
Martin, David
1996 david.martin@rbcdain.com
"’The Whole Present Tendency is Centrifugal’: the "Local Color" Movement and the Language of Empire." Adviser - Roth.
Instructional Designer, Dain Rauscher Inc
Marvin, William
1998
WMarvin@vines.colostate.edu
"Ritus Venandi: Discourses of the Medieval English Hunt." Adviser - Wallace.
Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University

Mason, Carol
1996

Email

"Fundamental Opposition: Feminism, Narrative, and the Abortion Debate." Adviser - Rabinowitz.
Associate Professor of English, Oklahoma State University

http://english.okstate.edu/faculty/fac_pages/mason.htm

Maylath, Bruce
1994
maylathb@m1.uwstout.edu
"Words Make a Difference: Effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Lexical Variation on Post-Secondary-Level Writing Assessment in English." Adviser - Anson.
Director, Program in Technical Communication, Department of English and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Stout
website
McDonald, Louise
1999
"Powerful English for the Active and Productive Man: How College English Became Difficult Enough to Build Character at Harvard College, 1890-1900." Adviser - Anson
Meisenheimer, Donald
1999
dkmeisenheimer@
ucdavis.edu
"Uncovering the Unwestern : the Politics of Rootedness in Twentieth Century Western American Writing." Adviser - Griffin.
Lecturer in English, University of California, Davis
website
Merlin-Molstad, Karl
1991
"Images of Masculinity: a Study of Male Identity in Nineteenth-century British Novels." Adviser - Hirsch
Miller, Hildy
1990
milleh@pdx.edu
"Design for Writing: Image and Metaphor in the Cognitive Processes of Composing." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing, Portland State University
Moe, Lawrence
1990
Lawrence.Moe
@metrostate.edu
"The Christian Passages of Beowulf." Adviser - Kendall.
Associate Professor and Chair, Literature and Language Department, Metropolitan State University
Moses Joseph
1993
joe.moses@
classroompublishing.com
"Rhetoric and Relationships: Collaborative Writing at a Social Service Agency." Adviser - R. Brown.
English Faculty, Normandale Community College; Publisher, Classroom Publishing, Inc.; Executive Editor, Essential Copy
www.classroompublishing.com
www.essentialcopy.com
Moylan, Michele
1994
"Performing the American Nineteenth-century Novel: Readers and the Cultural Construction of Meaning." Adviser - Griffin
Nichols, Capper
1999
nicho008@tc.emn.edu
"Looking at Wild Animals: a Study of Love and Possession." Adviser - Roth.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota
Norem, Lois
1991
"The Spurious Links of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Texts and Contexts." Adviser - Kendall
O'Brien, John
1995
John.OBrien@NHCC.edu

"Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections." Adviser - Bales.

President, North Hennepin Community College

Olmsted, Jane
1996
Jane.Olmsted@wku.edu
"Crossing Cultural Lines: Fictions of Blood, Spirit, Place." Adviser - Hoy.
Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of English, Western Kentucky University
www.wku.edu/~jane.olmsted
Olson, Mark
1999
"Regional synecdoche : New England Literary Characters in the National Landscape, 1880-1910." Adviser - Bales
O'Shea, Thomas
1994
Symmetry and Self: James Joyce and Boustrophedonic Writing." Adviser - Anderson
Page, Colleen
1999
"Arts of Letter-writing, Literature, and Social Practice in Medieval England." Adviser - Copeland
Pierson, Kenn
1994
kpierson@rh.cc.ca.us
"Dramatizing Whitman." Adviser - Griffin.
Associate Professor of English, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, Calif. www.kjpierson.com
Pimley, Venetia
1997
maven@flash.net
"Putting Domesticity to Work : Hybrid Feminisms in Women's Career Fiction, 1855-1909." Adviser - Bales.
Instructor, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
Pink, David
1999
"North Dakota is Everywhere: An Examination of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend; Migrating Constellations; Poems." Adviser - MD Browne
Poletes, Roberta
1995
"Virginia Woolf and Gilles Delenze/Felix Guattari: Literature and Practices of Everyday Life." Adviser - Bales
Pratt, Priscilla
1991
"'Then sunrise kissed my chrysalis': Figurations of the Erotic in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." Adviser - McNaron
Price, Patricia
1997
"The Literary Geography of Middle English Alliterative Long-Line Poetry." Adviser - Kendall
Prineas, Julienne
1991
"The Indigenous Writer: a Study of Nonfluent Writers Among Academically Capable Upper Division Students." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles
Provost, Kara
1995
kp85@hampshire.edu
"Serious Play: the Trickster in the Work of Selected Contemporary African-Am & Native-Am Writers." Adviser - R. Brown
Reichard, William
1997
wreichar@uc.umn.edu
"Mercurial and Rhapsodic: Manifestations of the Gay Male Body in the poetry of Doty and Kostenbaum." Adviser - MD Browne.
Academic Adviser, Program for Individualized Learning, College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota
Reini-Grandell, Lynette
1992
Lynette.Reini-
Grandell@roch.edu
"The Modern Sound: American Poetry and the Rise of the Recording Industry, 1920-1940." Advisers - Furia and J. Wright.
English faculty, Rochester Community and Technical College
Reschke, Mark
1995
"More Sharp Than Filed Steel: Homophilia and Homophobia in English Renaissance Literature." Adviser - Garner
Retan, Katherine
1991
"Opening the floodgates :  the construction and transgression of gender and class boundaries in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell." Adviser - Hirsch
Reynolds, Thomas
1999
reyno004@tc.umn.edu
"Ideological Affinities of Compositional and Popular Literacy, 1880-1920." Adviser - Anson.
Associate Professor, Writing Studies, University of Minnesota
website
Rossen-Knill, Deborah
1995
knil@mail.rochester.edu
"Towards a Pragmatics of Dialogue in Fiction." Adviser - R. Brown.
Dean of Freshmen and Writing Program Director; Senior Lecturer (English Dept), Research Associate (Dept. of Linguistics), University of Rochester, NY
Rothmaler Krista
1993
"Lifting the Veil: a Feminist Re-Vision of Anais Nin." Adviser - Reed
Rothstein, David, OSB
1996

drothstein@csbsju.edu
"Chivalry and Nostalgia: British Literature and National Identity, 1820-1845." Advisers - Hirsch and Elfenbein.
Assistant Professor, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn.
Rozaitis, William
1997
rozai001@tc.umn.edu
"Desire Reduced to a Petal's Span: William Carlos Williams, Charles Demuth, and Floral Representation... ." Adviser - Furia.
Multimedia Designer and Instructional Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota
www.tc.umn.edu/ ~rozai001/
Rutz, Carol
1999
crutz@carleton.edu
"What Does My Teacher Want Me to Do? a Response-Based Investigation of the Teacher-Student Relationship in the Writing Classroom." Adviser - Anson.
Director, Writing Program, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn
www.acad.carleton.edu/campus/wp/
Sandness, Grace
1999
"Re-weavings." Adviser - Sprengnether
Schultz, Lydia
1990
lydia.a.schultz@att.net
"Perceptions from the Periphery: Fictional Form and Twentieth-Century American Women Novelists." Adviser - Reed
Shillock, Larry
1995
Lshillock@wilson.edu

"Novel Fascinations: Literature, Science and Visuality, 1865-1900." Adviser - Messer-Davidow.
Associate Professor of English, Head of the Humanities Division, and the Drusilla Stevens Mazur Research Professor, Wilson College, Chambersburg, Penna.

Simpkins (Fletcher), Linda
1997
linda@theoldtimes.com

"The Clergyman's Daughter." Adviser - Griffin.
Editor of The Old Times, an antiques publication serving Minnesota and surrounding states.

Sohn, Dongho
1994
"Dilemma of Representation in Modern Theater: the case of Chekhov, O'Neill, Ionesco, and Beckett." Adviser - Hurrell
Sommers, Janet
1995
jbs@nwc.edu
"Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Gilded Age: The Writings of the Early 1870s." Adviser - Ross.
Associate Professor, Northwestern College, St. Paul
Steinberg, Justin
1999
hjstein@uchicago.edu
"The Magnates, the Popolo, and the Lyric: Anthologies of Poetry in Italy from the Memoriali Bolognesi to Dante." Adviser - Wallace.
Associate Professor of Italian, The University of Chicago
Stenson, Linnea
1994
Linnea.Stenson@minneapolis.edu
"From Carnal Acts to Cultural Communities: Lesbian Identity in Twentieth Century North American Novels." Adviser - McNaron.
Dean, Academic Affairs, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Sutphen, Joyce
1996
jjsutphen@gac.edu

"Shakespeare and the Art of Memory." Adviser - Clayton.
Associate Professor of English, Gustavus Adolphus College

Swanson Diana
1991
dswanson@niu.edu

"Fathers and Female Authority: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf." Adviser - McNaron.
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Taylor Cynthia
1993
cynthia.taylor
@colostate-pueblo.edu

"Out of Bounds: Women Writers and the Western Landscape." Adviser - Roth.
Associate Professor of English, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Tharp, Julie
1992
JTharp@uwc.edu

"Embracing Contradiction: A Cross-cultural Study of the Mother in Writing by Women of Color." Adviser - Sprengnether.
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Marshfield

Thompson, Joan
1994
thompsoj@augsburg.edu

"The Control of Water and the Land: Dams and Irrigation in Novels by by Mary Hallock Foote, Mary Hunter Austin, Frank Waters, and D'Arcy McNickle." Adviser - Furia.
English faculty, Normandale Community College

Tilton, Rafael
1994
"Metonymy, Title, Sequence: the Drift of Wallace Stevens' Resemblances." Adviser - Ross
Todd, Emily
1999
etodd@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu

"The Transatlantic Context: Walter Scott and Nineteenth-Century American Literary History." Adviser - Griffin.
Associate Professor, Westfield State College, Mass.

Trooien, Roberta
1990
rtrooien@nh.cc.mn.us

"The Rhetoric of Hymn Texts: a Feminist Perspective." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles.
Instructor, North Hennepin Community College

Wallace, Kathleen
1994
wallace.150@osu.edu

"Nourished by Space, Time, and Kin: Narrative Mapping and American Women's Nonfiction." Adviser - R. Brown.
Assistant Dean, The Graduate School, Ohio State University

Warren, Martin
1995
mlwarren@stthomas.edu

"Asceticism as a Technology of the Early Modern Self: Margery Kempe, William Thorpe and John Rogers." Adviser - Wallace.
Associate Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Weierman, Karen Woods
1999
kweierman@worcester.edu

"One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-70." Adviser - Griffin.
Assistant Professor of English, Worcester State College

Wenstrom John
1991
"Modernist Irony: Frost, Eliot." Adviser - Hancher
West William G.
1996
"Marlovian Rhetoric: Neoclassic Aspiration as Discursive Determinism." Adviser - Haley
White, Donna
1991
donna.white@mail.atu.edu

"The Mabinogi in Children's Literature: Welsh Legends in English-Language Children's Books." Adviser - Mitchell.
Assistant Professor, Arkansas Tech University

Winduo, Steven
1998
windstev@upng.ac.pg
"Knocking on Ancestors' Door: Discourse Formation in Healing Ritual Utterances and Narratives of Nagum Boikens in Papua New Guinea." Adviser - Escure.
Director, Melanesian and Pacific Studies (MAPS), University of Papua New Guinea and Lecturer in Literature and English, University of Papua New Guinea
Winter, Kari
1990
kwinter@zoo.uvm.edu
"Subjects of Slavery, Agents of History: Women and Power in Female Gothic Novels & Slave Narratives, 1790-1865." Adviser - Hancher.
Associate Professor, University of Buffalo
Wood, Ruth
1991
ruthann.p.wood@uwrf.edu

"A Challenge to Highbrow Hegemony: a Study of Highbrow, Middlebrow, and Lowbrow American Novels of the Nineteen Fifties." Adviser - Bales.
Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of Freshman English, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Woolley, Lisa
1993
lwoolley@wilson.edu

"The Chicago Renaissance: Privileged Speech and Social Change, 1900-1930." Adviser - Garner.
Associate Professor of English, Wilson College

 

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Jigna Desai (PhD 1999), associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota