Ph.D. Dissertations

In Progress

Alfonso-Forero, Ann Marie Theorizing the Postcolonial Female Immigrant: Diaspora and Ethnic Identities in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Cristina Garcia, Edwidge Danticat, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

Cahill, Lara Theater of the Arts: Textualities and Caribbean Narratives of Place

Caputo, Terra Love and Excess? Women’s Scandalous Fiction, and the Feminine Ideal of Moderation, 1680-1730.

Harriman, Lucas Rereading Unfixed Identity in Literary Modernism

Huang, Yi Borderland without Borders: Chinese Diasporic Women Writers in the Americas

Johnson, Allison “Virtues Friends”: Gender, Class, and Friendship in Early Modern English Women’s Writing

Johnson, Nadia Modernizing Nationalism: Masculinity and the Performance of Anglophone Caribbean Identities

Morrison, Debbie-Ann Ecowomanist Endeavors: Sociopolitical Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Literature

Ramlagan, Michelle Ecofeminist Nations

Rionda, Antonio “A People Knows its God”: Locating Henry James and William James within George Santayana’s Religious Topography

Schlein, Erik Practical Ethics and the Politics of Social Justice after Post-structuralism: Reading American Literature for Ethical Insight

Slivka, Jennifer Strangers at Home: Threshold Identities in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing

Stone, Joshua American Ethni/Cities: Subjection and Possibility in the Twentieth Century

Thibodeau, Amanda Gender, Utopia, and Temporality in Women's Science Fiction

White, Cyndi Celebrity and the Town: The Intertheatrical Drama of Susan Centlivre

 

2009

DeVault, Christopher Amorous Joyce: Examining the Ethical and Political Implications of Joycean Love

He, Chu Postcolonial Performances in Brian Friel’s Plays

Jacobi, Kara Articulating Trauma: Creating Survival: Trauma and Narration in 20Th-Century Ethnic American Women’s Writing

 

2008

Gillota, David Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film

Harrison, Sheri-Marie Nationalism and Self-Representation: Negotiating Sovereignty in Jamaican Cultural Landscapes

Pilhuj, Katherine A Mirror for the World: Gender, Geography, and Identity in Early Modern English Drama

Tucker, Amanda At Home in the World: Globalism in Modern Irish Writing

 

2007

Baggett, Paul Modernization and Corporate Bodies from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

Fantina, Richard Charles Reade's Sensational Realism

Lolis, Thomas The Cartography of Interiority: Magic, Mapmaking, and the Search for Eden in the Renaissance

Sutton, Timothy The Roots That Clutch: English Catholicism, Nationalism, and Modernism

 

2006

Arva, Eugene The Traumatic Imagination: Shock Chronotopes and Hyperreality in Magical Realist Writing

Damian, Jessica The Lucid Silver and the Glowing Ore: British Women Writers Mine South America, 1770-1860

Elhefnawy, Nader The Promise and the Peril: Science Fiction's Depiction of Technology

Frusciante, Denise In-Search of Psyche: the Multiplicity of Mythic Selves in Wallace Stevens

Gravano, Alan The Transfiguration of the Discarded: Consumption and Waste in Wallace Stevens, A.R. Ammons, Don Delillo, and Martin Scorsese

2005

Giovannucci, Perri The Modernizing Mission: Literature and Development in North Africa

Sowell, Steven Elizabethan Formal Verse Satire and the Ideology of Dramatic Form, 1599-1608

2004

Brooks-Jones, Marjorie Bahamian Womanspeak: the Caribbean Connection

Earle, David Recovering Modernism: Pulp Modernism and the Prejudice of Form

Erritouni, Ali Nation-States, Intellectuals, and Utopias in Postcolonial Fiction

Springer, Claudia Hearts Knit Together: Models of Friendship in the Novels of Charles Williams

Hyppolite, Joanne Everybody's Folk: Representations of Southern Black Culture in Nineteenth Century Ethnography and Literature

Layne, Prudence Towards an Erotics of Hybridity: Bodies at the Crossroads of a Nation

Shaw, Andrea The Fat Black Woman's Unruly Political Body

Shivel, Gail Opportunity Found in Contingency: the Innovations of Joseph Addison's Literary Journalism, 1709-1716

2003

Britton, James Reforming America and Its Men: Radical Social Reform and the Ethics of Antebellum Manhood

Elders Dewaard, Jeanne The Crime of Womanhood: Ambivalent Intersections of Sentiment and Law in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Montes, Rafael Making Places/Haciendo Lugares: Generational Traumas in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature

Turner-Piscitelli, June Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press: Too Much Room to Write?

O'Hara, John History, Monuments, and Canonicity After the Vietnam War

Pitts, Melanie Lyric Warriors, Lyric Women: Gendering Petrarchism in Early Modern England

Dismont Robinson, Kim Probing the Wound: Re-Membering the Traumatic Landscape of Caribbean Literary Histories

2002

Morris, Kathryn Skirting History: Decolonizing Strategies in Caribbean Women's Literature

Page, Kezia "Kingston 21": Diaspora, Migrancy and Caribbean Literature

2001

Clark, Cheryl The Woman Writer As Language-Maker: Authority, Textuality, and the Creative Process in the Works of Hildegard of Bingen

Gercken-Hawkins, Rebecca Authentic Reservations: the Rhetorical War for Native American Identity

Ink, Lynn Decolonizing the Tropics: Gender and American Imperialism in the Pacific and Caribbean

McGarrity, Maria Washed by the Gulfstream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature

McPeake, Margaret Embodying Ireland: Representing Woman As Nation and Community in Irish Literature

Monti, Stephen "I Circle Questions of Blood": the Politics and Poetics of Representing Aids by Writers of African Descent

Nester, Deborah "Gwine by": Colonial Women's Travel Literature and the West Indian Marketplace

2000

Haggerty, Andrew Evil Literature, Irish Literature: Censorship and the Invention of the Irish Writer

Hobby, Blake Reading, Listening, and Understanding: Word Music in Narratives of Joyce and Mann

Rohman, Todd Fetishizing Pynchon: a Cultural Study of Commodity, Colony, and Female Representation

1999

Chaudhry-Fryer, Mamta Modernism's Wilderness of Mirrors

McKenna, Bernard "Fire in the North, Sun in the South": Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Northern Irish Drama, 1968-1994

Mesa-Pelly, Judith Fictive Domains: Nostalgic Constructions of Body and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

Messinger, D. Scott Narrative and the Body in John Barth, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon

1998

Santos, Marlisa Sublime Petrification: the Medusa As Motif in the Male Romantic Poets

Schneider, Elizabeth Not Exactly Tales for Boys: Gender and Difference in the Writings of Joseph Conrad

Shipe, Andrew Refiguring the Modern Self Through Hamlet and Ulysses

1997

Ghitis, Belinda James Joyce and the Other: Paradigms of the Jew As Scapegoat

Healy, Robert Homoerotic Desire and Narrative Dilation in Elizabethan England

Sinowitz, Michael Waking Into History: Forms of the Postmodern Historical Novel

St. John, Andrea Biology As Ideology: the Masking Discourse of Evolution in Hardy, Wells, and Conrad

Van Mierlo, Wim Joyce's Sources: Intertextuality and Pretextuality in Finnegan's Wake