PhD dissertations - 2008-2009 Academic Year

OCTOBER 2008

Allen Lesley
"INVENTING THE SACRED NATION: SAINT EDMUND OF EAST ANGLIA AND ENGLISH IDENTITY IN MEDIEVAL TEXT AND IMAGE"
Chair: Robert Barrett; and Charlie Wright, Martin Camargo, Anne D. Hedeman

Buell, Marcia
"THE INTERPLAY OF VOICE, IDENTITY, AND RESPONSE AMONG FIVE EAL UNIVERSITY WRITERS" 
Chair: Robert Barrett; and Charlie Wright, Martin Camargo, Anne D. Hedeman

Ching, Kory
"OUT OF THE SHADOWS: RETHINKING RESPONSE THROUGH THE INSTRUCTOR-LED PEER CONFERENCE" 
Chair: Paul Prior; and Gail Hawisher, Peter Mortensen, Sarah McCarthey

Gossett, Katherine
"FROM MANUSCRIPT TO MULTIMEDIA: ILLUMINATING MEMORY AND RE[IMAGE]NING COMPOSITION" 
Chair: Martin Camargo; and Gail Hawisher, Joyce Walker, Anne Hedeman, Joseph Squier

Hultquist, Aleksondra
"EQUAL ARDOUR: FEMALE DESIRE, AMATORY FICTION, AND THE RECASTING OF THE NOVEL, 1680-1760" 
Chair: Robert Markley; and Anthony Pollock, Lori Newcomb, Dana Rabin, Tita Chico

Macharia, Keguro 
"QUEER NATIVES" 
Chair: Siobhan Somerville; and Jed Esty, Bill Maxwell, Matti Bunzl

Misri, Deepti 
"READING VIOLENCE: GENDER, VIOLENCE AND REPRESENTATION IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN (1947-PRESENT)" 
Chairs: Ania Loomba, Jed Esty; and Simona Sawhney, Antoinette Burton

Starr, Rebecca
"ELFRIC'S GENDERED THEOLOGY IN THE CATHOLIC HOMILIES, THE FIRST SERIES" 
Chair: Charles D. Wright; Renee Trilling, Robert Barrett, Lisa M. C. Weston

VanIttersum, Derek
"REASSEMBLING WRITING TECHNOLOGIES: HISTORICAL AND SITUATED STUDIES OF RHETORICAL ACTIVITY" 
Chair: Gail Hawisher; and Paul Prior, Peter Mortense, Chip Bruce

 

DECEMBER 2008

Carluccio, Dana
COGNITIVE FICTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF IDENTITY IN LATE-NINETEENTH CENTURY FICTION AND SCIENCE
Chair: Siobhan Somerville; and Stephanie Foote, Nancy Castro, Robert Parker

 

Lamanna, Carrie
DISCIPLINING IDENTITIES: FEMINISM, NEW MEDIA, AND 21ST CENTURY RESEARCH PRACTICES
Chair: Hawisher; and Paul Prior, Nan Elizabeth Googin, Ramona Curry

MAY 2009

Borst, Allan
TOWARD NATIONAL IDENTITY: ADDICTION, SUBJECTIVITY, AND AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURE
Chair: Cary Nelson; and Stephanie Foote, William Maxwell, Mark Thompson

Forst, Jean
RADICAL RETREATS:  SENTIMENTALISM, SEPARATE SPHERES, AND THE DOMESTIC TURN IN AMERICAN WOMEN'S FICTION, 1850-1940
Chair: Robert Dale Parker; and Stephanie Foote, Cary Nelson, Bruce Michelson

Stevens, Clint
PAINFUL PASSAGES: DEATH, RITUAL, AND LITERATURE IN POST-REFORMATION ENGLAND
Chair: Leon Chai; and Gillen Wood, Robert Markley, William Underwood