PhD dissertations - 2014-2015 Academic Year

AUGUST 2014

Clement, Jill 
DEATH, WRITING, AND REMEMBRANCE IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Chair: Charles Wright; Renee Trilling, Martin Camargo, Jana Schulman

Fitzgerald, Jill
REBEL ANGELS: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE FALL OF THE ANGELS TRADITION IN OLD ENGLISH
Chair: Charles Wright; Renee Trilling, Martin Camargo, Daniel Anlezark

Olinger, Andrea 
STYLING ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: A SOCIOCULTURAL ACCOUNT OF WRITING STYLES ACROSS DISCIPLINES
Chair: Paul Prior; Peter Mortensen, Gail Hawisher, Michele Koven

Sheets, Frank 
TALKING BACK: AUDIENCE COLLABORATION AND INTERVENTION IN MODERNIST AND POSTWAR DRAMA
Chair: Vicki Mahaffey; Anna Stenport, Valleri Hohman, James Hansen

Walkiewicz, Kathryn 
WIDE OPEN SPACES: PLACE, EMPIRE, AND U.S. -INDIGENOUS RELATIONS, 1816-1907
Chair: Loughran; Byrd; Hoxie; Parker; Warrior

DECEMBER 2014

McQuiston, Erin
TOXIC GARDENS: NARRATIVES OF TOXICITY IN 20THCENTURY AMERICAN AND BRITISH FICTION
Chair: Robert Markley, Spencer Schaffner, Melissa Littlefield, Stacy Alaimo

MAY 2015

Condis, Megan
THE POLITICS OF GAMERS: IDENTITY AND MASCULINITY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
Chair: Foote; Co-chair: Nakamura; Capino, Schaffner

Garcia-Crespo, Naida
STATELESS NATION BUILDING: EARLY PUERTO RICAN CINEMA AND IDENTITY FORMATION (1897-1940)
Chair: Curry, A. Basu, M. Basu, Goldman

Johnson, Dalton
ANCESTRAL VOICES: PHILOLOGICAL NATIONALISM IN THE BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIOD
Chair: Underwood; Wood; Markley; Pollock

McGrath, Patrick
RENOUNCING SEX AND THE SELF: ASCETICISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAN
Chair: Mohamed; Perry, Gray, L. Newcomb, Markley

Wear, Jeremy
GHOSTS OF THE PACIFIC: IMAGINED MASCULINITIES IN BRITISH VOYAGE LITERATURE, 1697-1817
Chair: Robert Markley; Anthony Pollock; Gillen Wood; Dana Rabin

Wong, Daniel
POSTSECULAR VICTORIANS: LITERATURE, CUTLRUE, AND BELIEF
Chair: Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Julia F. Saville, Hina Nazar, Bruce Rosenstock