2020
Philip Derbesy (PhD)
Reading Cinematic Allusions in the Post-1945 American Novel
(Marling [dir.], Flint, Spadoni, Goldmark [Music])
Daniel Luttrull (PhD)
Solidarity through Vacancy: Didactic Strategies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(Clune [dir.], Stonum, Vrettos)
2019
Michael Chiappini (PhD)
Beyond Memorialization: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature
(Fountain [dir], Clune, Emmons
Thom Dawkins (PhD)
Rejoice in Tribulations: The Afflictive Poetics of Early Modern Religious Poetry
(Flint [dir], Vinter, Olbricht)
Melissa Pompili (PhD)
Uncomfortable Subjects: Bioaffective Attachments, Aesthetic Remainders, and the Making of a Physician
(Emmons [dir], Fountain, Vinter)
Megan Weber (PhD)
Patriarchal Tyrants and Female Bodies: Ekphrasis in Drama and the Novel in England, 1609-1798
(Flint [dir], Vinter, Fountain)
2018
Evan Chaloupka (PhD)
Cognitive Disability and Narrative
(Marling [dir.]; Emmons; Vrettos)
Megan Griffin (PhD)
Fictions of Sovereignty: Temporal Displacements of the Monarch in Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn
(Vinter [dir.]; Flint; Olbricht)
Michelle Lyons-McFarland (PhD)
Literary Objects in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
(Flint [dir.]; Siebenschuh; Vrettos)
Marcus Mitchell (PhD)
Forms Unconfined: Muscular Women, Physical Culture, and Victorian Literature
(Vrettos [dir.]; Flint; Koenigsberger)
2017
Ray Horton (PhD)
American Literature’s Secular Faith
(Clune [dir.], Gridley, Marling)
Jessica Slentz (PhD)
Yes, You May Touch the Art: New Media Interfaces and Rhetorical Experience in the Digitally Interactive Museum
(Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Koenigsberger)
2016
Kate Dunning Allen (PhD)
Mobial Corporeality in W. S. Merwin’s Ecopoetic Corpus
(Stonum [dir.], Clune, Gridley)
Andrew Banghart (PhD)
Escaping the Real: Popularizing Science and Literary Realism in the Victorian Marketplace
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Oakley, Vrettos)
Cara Byrne (PhD)
Illustrating the Smallest Black Bodies: The Creation of Childhood in African-American Children’s Literature, 1836-2015
(Umrigar [dir.], Fountain, Grimm)
Eric Earnhardt (PhD)
The “Sentient Plume”: The Theory of the Pathetic Fallacy in Anglo-American Poetry, 1856-1945
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Clune, Gridley)
Catherine Forsa (PhD)
Science as Aesthetic Device in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(Clune [dir], Marling, Vrettos)
Kristin Kondrlik (PhD)
(Re)Writing Professional Ethos: Women Physicians and the Construction of Medical Authority in Victorian and Edwardian Print
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Emmons, Fountain, Vrettos)
Michael G. Parker (PhD)
Queer Orientation in Twentieth-Century American Literature
(Fountain [dir.], Clune, Grimm)
Jonathan Scott Weedon (PhD)
Attending Like an Engineer: Rhetoric, Design, and Professionalization
(Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Oakley)
2015
Monica Orlando (PhD)
Relational Representation: Constructing Narratives and Identities in Auto/Biography about Autism
(Emmons [dir.], Clune, Siebenschuh)
2014
Mary Assad (PhD)
Gender, Illness, and Narrative: A Rhetorical Study of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Campaign
(Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Grimm)
Jason Ray Carney (PhD)
The Shadow Modernism of Weird Tales: Experimental Pulp Fiction in the Age of Modernist Reflection
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Clune, Grimm)
Nicole Marie Emmelhainz-Carney (PhD)
Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces
(Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Gridley)
Jennie Giaconia Young (PhD)
(The) Student Body/ies: Cultural Paranoia and Embodiment in the American High School
(Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Sheeler)
2013
Robert Welling Addington (PhD)
Discipline and Publish: Creative Writing Programs, Literary Markets and the Short Story Renaissance
(Stonum [dir.], Clune, Flint)
Michael Moss (PhD)
Rhetoric and Time: Cognition, Culture, and Interaction
(Oakley [dir.], Fountain, Sheeler)
2012
Daniel Paul Anderson Jr. (PhD)
The Ivory Shtetl: The University and the Postwar Jewish Imagination
(Oster [dir.], Clune, Spadoni)
Natalija Grgorinic (PhD)
Recounting the Author
(Stonum [dir.], Flint, Umrigar)
2011
Tasia Hane-Devore (PhD)
Constructed Bodies, Edited Deaths: The Negotiation of Sociomedical Discourse in Autothanatographers’ Writing of Terminal Illness
(Emmons [dir.], Koenigsberger, Umrigar)
Irene Moody (PhD)
Lexicons in Lace: The Language of Dress in the New Woman Novel
(Siebenschuh [dir.], Fountain, Koenigsberger)
Christine Mueri (PhD)
“Defined not by time, but by mood”: First-Person Narratives of Bipolar Disorder
(Emmons [dir.], Koenigsberger, Oakley)
Danielle Nielsen (PhD)
Reading the Empire from Afar: From Colonial Spectacles to Colonial Literacies
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Emmons, Vrettos)
Anne Ryan (PhD)
Victorian Fiction and the Psychology of Self-Control, 1855-1885
(Vrettos [dir.], Flint, Siebenschuh)
2010
Iris Jamahl Dunkle (PhD)
Shaking the Burning Birch Tree: Amy Lowell’s Sapphic Modernism
(Oster [dir.], Grimm, Stonum)
Asdghig Karajayerlian (PhD)
Large Worlds/Small Places: Critical Cosmopolitanism and Stereoscopic Vision in the Global Postcolonial Novel
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Marling, Umrigar)
Jamie Lynn McDaniel (PhD)
Trespassing Women: Representations of Property and Identity in British Women’s Writing 1925-2005
(Koenigsberger [dir.], Grimm, Stonum)
Brandy L. Schillace (PhD)
“The Alphabet of Sense”: Rediscovering the Rhetoric of Women’s Intellectual Liberty
(Flint [dir.], Siebenschuh, Vrettos)
Chalet K. Seidel (PhD)
Representations of Journalistic Professionalism:1865-1900
(Emmons [dir.], Stonum, Umrigar)
Jason Todd Stuart (PhD)
The Disciplinary Rhetoric of the Twenty-First Century: The Emergence of Computers and Composition
(Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Oakley)
Ronald Jerome Tulley (PhD)
An Exhibitionist’s Paradise: Digital Transformations of the Autobiographical Impulse
(Siebenschuh [dir.], Emmons, Fountain)
2009
Jafeen S. Ilmudeen (MA)
Portraits
Kenneth W. McGraw (PhD)
Dangerous Discourse: Language and Sex between Men in Eighteenth-Century London
(Flint [dir.], Emmons, Meakin)
Naomi Igarashi Takagi (PhD)
Flow Theory: Conscious Experience in Expository Argumentative Writing
(Oakley [dir.], Emmons, Oster)
2008
Kathryn Elizabeth Anderson (MA)
“These were the things that bounded me”: a New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works”
Jason B. Barone (MA)
The Search for the Jungian Stranger in the Novels of Haruki Murakami
Katherine Hansen Clark (PhD)
What is a Cozy?
Heather J. Kichner (PhD)
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the Nineteenth Century through the Great War
Christopher Mays (MA)
The Failure to Meet “the Challenge of Our Time”: the Demise of Bill Clinton’s Plan for Universal Health Care
Jenifer Lynn Wolkowski (PhD)
Ideas of Community in Three Depression-era Southern Novels: Faulkner’s The Hamlet, Dargan’s Call Home the Heart, and Still’s River of Earth
2007
Daniel Anderson (MA)
Plato’s Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, the University of Chicago, and Philip Roth’s Neo-Aristotelian Poetics
Barbara Burgess-Van Aken (PhD)
Barbara Torelli’s Partenia: A Bilingual Critical Edition
Erin Monroe (MA)
Terminal: A Collection of Poetry
Gabriel Rieger (PhD)
Penetrating Wit: Sexual Language and Satiric Tragedy
Elizabeth Sirkin (PhD)
Popular Images and Cosmopolitan Mediation: Mass Media and Western Pop Culture in the Anglophone South Asian Novel
2006
Brian Ballentine (PhD)
Toward a Rhetoric of Engineering: Explorations in the Practices of Engineers and the Implications for the Teaching of Technical Communication
Darcy Brandel (PhD)
If I Had a Hammer: Rereading Female Experimental Writing in the Context of Progressive Social Change
Narcisz Fejes (PhD)
Absorbing East-Central Europe: Representations of the Region in Modern British Literature
Veeneenea Erika Smith (PhD)
Dinna Forget Spurgeon: A Literary Biography
2005
Maria Assif (Ph.D.)
Mother-daughter Relationships in Asian and Jewish American Literatures: Story(ing) Identities
Kristine Kelly (PhD)
A Place For Everyone: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Emigration and Settlement
2004
Leigh Fabens (PhD)
Dreams amd Death in the Novels by James Welch, Tim O’Brien, and Ron Arias: A Cognitive Approach
Katherine Kickel (PhD)
Novel Notions: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Mapping of the Imagination
Traci Arnett Pipkins (PhD)
“Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read”: The Revolution in Reading Scripture in Seventeenth-century England
2003
Bradley Ricca (PD)
American Zodiac: Astronomical Signs in Dickinson, Melville, and Poe
Carrie Shanafelt (MA)
Fielding on Fielding: Rhetoric of Authenticity in the Prose Fiction of Henry Fielding
Brenda Smith (PhD)
The Construction of Bi-Cultural Subjectivity in African-American Autobiography
2002
Maria Assif (MA)
Kristeva’s Reading of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury in Search of Caddy’s Voice
Christina Hebebrand (PhD)
“We Are the People”-Native American and Chicano/a Literatures as Intersecting Indigenous Literatures of the American Southwest
Lydia Kosc (MA)
The Birth of Fiction: Interfaith Relationships in the Novels of Philip Roth
Amy Magnus (PhD)
Leaving Tracks: The Legacy of Chippewa History in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
Paula Makris (PhD)
Colonial Education and Cultural Inheritance: Caribbean Literature and the Classics
Christopher Stewart (PhD)
In Paths Untrodden: Queer Spiritual Autobiography
Jennifer Swartz (PhD)
“The Very Being or Legal Existence of the Woman is Suspended”: Law, Literature, and the Middle-Class Victorian Woman
2001
Naomi Igarashi (MA)
User-Friendly Web Design: An Application of Principles to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Web Site
Amy Kesegich (PhD)
Pilgrim in Progress: The Works of Annie Dillard as Spiritual Autobiography
Dian Killian (PhD)
The Nation’s Other: Ideology, Repression, and Resistance in Irish Emigrant Discourse
Kathy Miller (MA)
The Push Toward Meaning and Bi-cultural Understanding: The Writer/Reader Relationship in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior
Kristen Olson (PhD)
The “Soul’s Imaginary Sight”: Visuality and Mimesis in Early Modern Poetics
Brian Reed (PhD)
Wrestling Sensibility: Male Anxiety, Sentimentality, and British Eighteenth-Century Narrative.
2000
Saad Asswailim (PhD)
Myth, Ideology and Silence in Three Novels by Vance Bourjaily
Kristin Bryant (PhD)
Constructed Identities and the Interior Self: A Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography
Anna Cole (PhD)
Jonathan Swift Telling His Own Story: Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels as Autobiography
Maryanne Cole (PhD)
Voices of Travail: Autobiographical Journey Narratives by English Sectarian Women, 1641-1700.
Francesca Giusti (MA)
Ludovico Domenichi’s La Stampa: Printing, Editing, Plagiarism and Authorship in an Italian Renaissance Dialogue
Yonjae Jung (PhD)
“The Most Inseparable of Companions”: Lacan(-izing) Freud (-ianized) Poe
Moonsoon Kang (PhD)
Satire as “a Sword in the Hands of a Mad Man” and “that Art of Necessary Defence”: A Study of Madness and Satire in Swift and Johnson
Carla Kungl (PhD)
Women Writers and Detectives: Creating Authority in British Women’s Detective Fiction 1890-1940
Jerome McKeever (PhD)
The McCarey Touch: The Life and Films of Leo McCarey
Michelle Smith (MA)
Liris A Novella
James Wynn (MA)
A Cognitive Approach to Prepositional Usage in English as a Second Language Acquisition
1999
Maimu Alber (MA)
Traveling at the Speed of Darkness
.Jeffrey Morgan (PhD)
Developing a Feminine Pastoral: Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs
Richard Van Noy (PhD)
Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
1998
Jeffry Schantz (PhD)
Shaping Captivity: Transformations of the Indian Captivity Narrative from the 17th through the 19th Century