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Author:

Davis, Melvette Melvin

Title:

Daughters Reading and Responding to African American Young Adult Literature: The Umoja Book Club

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
literacy
adolescent girls
reader-response
book clubs
young adult literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Committee Member
Jeanine M Staples, Committee Member

Author:

New, Michael John

Title:

Instrumental Voices: Experimental Poetry and the Jazz Tradition

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
African American literature
American poetry
contemporary poetry
jazz poetry
hip hop
multimedia poetry

File:

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member
Iyunolu Folayan Osagie, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Special 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:

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