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Dissertations in Progress

Name Dissertation title and adviser
A, B
Ahn, Sunyoung "Post-Human Politics and the Biological Turn: Science, Technology, and Humanism in the Novel," adviser - Brennan
Anderson, Emily "Closeted Wives, Murderous Maids, and Vampire Brides: The Uses of the Gothic in Narratives of Marriage," adviser - Cucullu
Baehler, Patricia "'Conveyed to Your Hand': The Delivery and Circulation of Letters in Eighteeneth-Century Fiction, 1684-1815," adviser - Goldberg
Baltzer-Lovato, Jennifer "The Construction and Subversion of Gender Roles in 19th Century British Music and Musical Literature," adviser - Elfenbein
Bonine, Lelaine "The Crystal Moment: Stillness, Movement, and a Revisionist History of Cinephilia," adviser - Scandura
Brownell, Eric "Historical Trauma and Visual Fascination: Painting in Postwar Literature and Film, 1927-1951," adviser - Cucullu
C
Carlson, Erik "The Old English Language of Fear," adviser - A. Scheil
Coleman, Taiyon "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: the Temporization of Space and Time in the 21st Century Literature of the African Diaspora as a Breaching of Memory, Experience and Identity," adviser - Ross
Craig, Lindsay "Malory Revisted: Friendship, Readers, and Reception in 'Morte Darthur,'" adviser - Krug
D
DeLong, Renee "Missed Bridges: The Invisible (and Hypervisible) Lesbian of Color in Queer Studies," adviser - Damon
E, F
Flack, Christopher "Cyningas in Geardagum: Legends of Anglo-Saxon Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century," adviser - A. Scheil
G, H
Gage, Molly Kelley "Fragmentary Files: Reading Democracy's Paper Trail," adviser - Rabinowitz
Hansen, Elissa "Signs of the Time: Temporality in Fourteenth-Century English Contemplative Writing," adviser - Krug
I, J
Jaksa, Steve "The Demise of the Second Body: Regicide and the Law of Property in the Stuart Age," Adviser - Messer-Davidow
K
Kanyusik, William "“The Wound at the Heart of Vision: Fraught Masculinities, Marked Bodies, and Disability as Metaphor,” Advisers - Craig & Damon
Kim, Eun Joo "Re-membering the Unintelligible in Works by Contemporary Korean American Women: An Exercise in Grammar, Translation, and Politics," adviser - Lee
Kim, Na-Rae "The Aesthetic of Authenticity: Mundance Corporeality in Korean American Literature," advisers - Brennan & Lee
Kim, Yoo-suk "Edmund Spenser's Medievalism: The English Romance Tradition and the Faerie Queene," adviser - Watkins
Koskela, Steven "Working Resistance: The Role of (Re-)Production in Nationalist and Post-Nationalist Caribbean Texts," adviser - Tinsley
L, M
Larkin, Christopher "Roots and Stones: Uses of Latrochemical and Alchemical Medicine in the English Literary Imagination, 1590-1633, " adviser - Haley
Mabie, Joshua 'Modern Pilgims: Writing Religiuos Travel in a Secular Age," adviser- Philippon

McHugh,

Caitlin

 "The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Tragedies 1600-1681," advisers - K. Scheil & Watkins
McNeff, Heather "Soul Mates: Religion and Inter-Marriage in British Literature, 1746-1829," adviser - Elfenbein
Mikos, Keith "To Tell the Truth: American Fiction(s), the Decisory Oath, and the Literal," adviser - Scandura
N, O
P, Q
Pawlowski, Lucia "High Theory, the Teaching of Writing, and the Crisis of the University," adviser - Sirc
Pistelli, John "How Novels Feel: Affect, Politics and the Aestheticist Legacy in Twentieth-Century Fiction," adviser - Cucullu
R
S
Schrag, Adam "Surface to Surface: War, Image, and the Senses in the Screenic Era," adviser - Rabinowitz
Schulman, Barbara "Blackface Minstrelsy, from Print to Performance: Instructional Guides for the Amateur, 1895-1928," adviser - Lee
Schumacher-Schmidt, Dana "'We Build Strong Forts Against Adversity': Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture," adviser - Watkins
Stansbury, DeAnna "Tragedy and the Tragic Persona in Modernist Fiction and the Visual Arts: 1860-1945," adviser - Treuer
T
Trochmann, Lisa "Fatal Femmes: Noir Anxiety and the Woman Criminal," adviser - Rabinowitz
U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Utter, Benjamin "Holy Anxiety: Saints, Knights, and the Uneasy Heroics of Exemplarity," adviser - Krug
van Bever Donker, Maurits "Texturing Difference: Indigeneity, the Cut of the Body, and the Text of Blank Consciousness," adviser - Ismail & Pepper
Woo, Jewon "Performing Bodies and Performative Texts: The Bodily Culture of the Antebellum United States and Fleshy Writing," advisers - Lee & M. Wright