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Author:

Mannon, Ethan Bruce

Title:

Reading the Earth Workers: The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-century American Literature and Writing

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Georgic
Pastoral
Agriculture
Farming

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Committee Members:

Robert Edwin Burkholder, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ian Stuart Marshall, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Sally Mcmurry, Committee Member
James Eisenstein, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Special Member

Author:

Davis, Geffrey M

Title:

Idiomatics: Between the Languages of Poetry and the Languages of Criticism

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Poetry
Literary Criticism
Idiom
American
Modern
Contemporary

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Nealon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Special Member

Author:

Weeber, Susan Cooke

Title:

Poetics of Interruption: Media and Form in Twentieth-Century Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature; African American literature; critical race theory; aesthetics; media

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Michael Bell, Committee Member
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Committee Member
Nergis Erturk Lennon, Outside Member
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member

Author:

Price, Matthew Burroughs

Title:

Of Minor Spaces: Spatial Narratologies of the Modern British Novel

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Victorian
Modernist
Novel
Space
Narratology
Setting

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Committee Members:

Eric Robert Hayot, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member

Author:

Quesenberry, Krista Dawn

Title:

Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
modernism
modernist
lifewriting
autobiography
feminism
feminist
gender
sexuality
interdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
feminist science studies
feminist ethics
disability studies

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Committee Members:

Dr. Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Caserio, Committee Member
Dr. Sandra Spanier, Committee Member
Dr. Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Scott, Stephanie Marie

Title:

Beyond National Trauma: Experiential Memory and Epistemic Practices in the Literature of Ireland and Irish-America's Minoritized Populations

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

contemporary literature
epistemology
ethics
Ireland
postcolonial literature

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Committee Members:

Mark Stewart Morrisson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Edmond Marsh, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member
Paige Reynolds, Special Member

Author:

Morgart, James Ashley

Title:

HAUNTED REGIONS: EXHUMING MARGINALIZED NARRATIVES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN GOTHIC FICTION

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Gothic
Regionalism
American Literature
Postwar
The Uncanny
Abjection
Gothic Literature
William Styron
Chester Himes
Shirley Jackson
Ray Bradbury
Ross Macdonald
Gothic Science Fiction
Detective Fiction
Southern Gothic

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Committee Members:

Sanford Schwartz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanford Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Berube, Committee Member
Mark Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

McGunigal, Lisa

Title:

The Novel Stages of Misdirected Realism: Cultural Entertainment and Generic Hybridity in the American Realist Novel

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

nineteenth-century literature; American literature; popular culture and literature; African American literature; authorship; cultural studies

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Committee Members:

Sean X. Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean X. Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Castiglia, Committee Member
Hester Blum, Committee Member
Eric Hayot, Outside Member
Tina Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Zaleski, Michelle

Title:

SALIR CONSIGO: JESUIT RHETORICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA, 1542-1623

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Jesuit
rhetorical education
india
translingualism

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Committee Members:

Xiaoye You, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaoye You, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Michelle Nancy

Title:

Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American literature
posthumanism
feminist science studies
American literature

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Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Outside Member

Author:

Brooks, Earl Holmes

Title:

On Rhetoric and Black Music

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
black music
jazz
ragtime
public sphere
discourse
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams

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Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John "Jack" Selzer, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Paul C Taylor, Outside Member

Author:

Baldys, Emily Marie

Title:

Narrative Rehabilitation: Disability and Ideology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

disability
ideology
Victorian literature
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Emily Bronte

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Committee Members:

Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Robert E. Lougy, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member
Robert E. Lougy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert E. Lougy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lee, Derek Paul

Title:

Parascience and Revolution: The Paranormal Mind in Twentieth-Century Literature and Science

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

occult
paranormal
science studies
speculative fiction
ethnic fiction
pseudoscience
modernism

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Committee Members:

Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Morrisson, Committee Member
Tina Chen, Committee Member
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Tabares, Leland

Title:

Asian America in the Age of Professionalization

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American Studies
professionalization
institutionality
racialization

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Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Ebony Coletu, Committee Member
Eric Robert Hayot, Outside Member

Author:

Gadaleto, Michael Joseph

Title:

The Island Nation and Its Discontents: Transnationalism in English Renaissance Literature from Shakespeare to Milton

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

English Renaissance Literature
Transnationalism
Island Studies
Nationalism
Shakespeare
Milton
European History

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Committee Members:

David Loewenstein, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Loewenstein, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cheney, Committee Member
Garrett Sullivan, Committee Member
Daniel Beaver, Outside Member

Author:

Windon, Nathaniel Arthur

Title:

Gilded Old Age: Superannuation and the Making of Old Age in Nineteenth-Century America

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
African American literature
old age
political economy
superannuation

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Committee Members:

Christopher Dean Castiglia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Dean Castiglia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hester Blum, Committee Member
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Outside Member

Author:

Peterson, Brice Anders

Title:

Regeneration in Early Modern English Literature: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Early moden English literature
religion
Protestant soteriology
regeneration
spiritual rebirth
romance
tragicomedy
politics

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Committee Members:

Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick G Cheney, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Outside Member
Carla J. Mulford, Committee Member

Author:

Larson, Maxwell James

Title:

Computation and Critique: Two Cultures of Literary Method, 1945-1990

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Digital Culture

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Committee Members:

Brian Lennon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Lennon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Bell, Committee Member
Claire Colebrook, Committee Member
Nergis Ertürk, Outside Member

Author:

Pettus, Mudiwa Mpho

Title:

African-American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Booker T. Washington
African-American rhetorical education
African-American rhetorical theory
post-Reconstruction
interracial communication
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pauline Hopkins
Sutton Griggs
democratic deliberation
rhetoric
rhetorical education
compromise
nineteenth-century rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Hart, Michael

Title:

Glass Canon: The Cambridge School of English and the Academic Formalization of Literary Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Cambridge
critical university studies
history of literary criticism

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lawrence Caserio, Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smilges, Johnathan

Title:

Queer Silence: Rhetorics of Resistance

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
disability studies
queer theory
trans* studies

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Hilary Jade Malatino, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Poole, Megan Renee

Title:

Technical Beauty: Rhetorics and Aesthetics of Science

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetorics of science
sensation
posthuman semiotics
Margaret Cavendish
Susanne K. Langer

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Outside Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Allen, Patrick Sean

Title:

A Practice of Print: Race, Doctoring, and Medicine in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem Black Print Culture

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Race
Medicine
African American Literature
Print Culture
Critical Medical Humanities
Doctors

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Committee Members:

Shirley Moody, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shirley Moody, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Member
Sean X Goudie, Committee Member
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erby, Brandon Marcell

Title:

The Rhetorical Campaigns of Mamie Till-Mobley

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Mamie Till-Mobley
Emmett Till
Motherhood
Rhetoric
Lynching
Activism
Racism
Pedagogy
Feminism
Social Justice
Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter Movement

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Crystal Renee Sanders, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Joblin, Jessica

Title:

Reorienting the Avant-Garde: Novel Objects, Queer Sociabilities

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

avant-garde
modernism
queer
sociability
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Marcel Duchamp
Duncan Grant
Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West
Bryher

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Committee Members:

Christopher Gervais Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Gervais Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Lisa Ruth Sternlieb, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kennedy, Curry

Title:

Grace and Skill: Religion and Rhetorical Education in Early Modern England

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Religion
Early Modern England
Rhetorical Education
Literacy Education
History of Religion
Reformation
Humanism
Renaissance

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Claire Mary Louise Bourne, Committee Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Outside Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Emily

Title:

Performing Histories: Archival Embodiment as Rhetorical Historiography

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

historiography
public memory
performance
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Outside Member
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Faircloth, Adam

Title:

Shakespeare's Tumid Embroidery: Lucan and the Figuration of Sovereign Power in the Two Tetralogies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Shakespeare
Lucan
Sovereignty
Henriad
Pharsalia

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Committee Members:

Claire Mary Colebrook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Committee Member
Patrick G Cheney, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Voeller, Nathaniel Trent

Title:

Depression Apps, Design, and the Rhetorics of Mental Disability

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Digital Rhetoric
Disability Rhetoric
Mental Disability Rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair