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Author:

Clukey, Amy

Title:

Plantation Modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. Fiction 1890-1950

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

plantation fiction
modernism

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Clarke, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member
Sean X Goudie, Committee Member

Author:

White, Christopher T.

Title:

Animals, Technology, and the Zoopoetics of American Modernism

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

american literature
modernism
animal
ecocriticism
American studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Clarke, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Gotea, Claudia

Title:

COCTEAU BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: THE POTOMAK, THE EUGENES OF WAR, AND THE END OF THE POTOMAK

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

the two world wars
eugenism
parody
modernism
Cocteau

File:

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Committee Members:

Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Norris Joiner Lacy, Committee Member
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member

Author:

Kuhn, Elizabeth

Title:

Anti-Humanist Modernism: Thinking Beyond the Human in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

interrelationality
anti-humanism
modernism

File:

Download Elizabeth_Kuhn_Official_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member

Author:

Gregori Selles, Eduardo

Title:

The Modernist Generation of 1898: Failures of Modernity in the Historical Imagination of Unamuno, Valle-Inclan, and Baroja

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Valle-Inclan
Unamuno
Failure
Carlism
generation of 1898
modernism
turn-of-the-century
Baroja

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew J Marr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew J Marr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicolas L Fernandez Medina, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Committee Member
Gonzalo Rubio, Committee Member

Author:

Radeva, Milena T

Title:

Philanthropy, the Welfare State, and Early Twentieth-Century Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

modernism
philanthropy
the welfare state
gender studies
the progressive movement
gift theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Vincent Lankewish, Committee Member

Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

REIMAGINING THE FREE MARKET: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS FROM THE PROGRESSIVE ERA THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
economics
free market
Progressive Era
Great Depression
modernism
naturalism
utopian literature
liberalism

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Schulze, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Schulze, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Clarke, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Christopher Gervais Reed, Committee Member
Adam Rome, Committee Member

Author:

Ross, Shawna Marie

Title:

Spaces of Play: Inventing the Modern Leisure Space in British Fiction and Culture, 1860-1960

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Henry James
transnational modernism
hospitality
hotel
ocean liner
cruise ship
sociology of leisure
leisure studies
modernist literature
modernism
E M Forster
Katherine Mansfield
Queen Mary
Cunard

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member

Author:

Kale, Verna

Title:

Women Writing War: The Evolution of the Girl Reporter 1845-1945

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
captivity narrative
affect
sentimental
Martha Gellhorn
Nellie Bly
Fanny Fern
Margaret Fuller
stunt reporting
journalism
women war correspondents
New Woman
feminism
public sphere
modernism
His Girl Friday
Brenda Starr

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin G Schulze And Sandra Spanier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Schulze, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra Spanier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
James L W West Iii, Committee Member
William Leonard Joyce, Committee Member

Author:

Volpicelli, Robert Angelo

Title:

On the Circuit: Transatlantic Modernism and the U.s. Lecture Tour, 1880-1945

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

modernism
lecture tour
Oscar Wilde
W.B. Yeats
Gertrude Stein
W.H. Auden

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member
Robin G Schulze, Committee Member

Author:

San Martin Vasquez, Angela Paz

Title:

Inter-american Modern and Modernist Poetry: The Poetics of Reimagining the Americas

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Poesis
freedom
democracy
modernity
modernism
the Americas
ethics
aesthetics
epistemology

File:

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Committee Members:

Djelal Kadir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee 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:

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

File:

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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:

Gatzemeyer, Jace Patrick

Title:

FROM THE HINTERLANDS: MODERNISM AND REGIONALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1918-1941

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

modernism
regionalism
american literature
american modernism
literary regionalism
new regionalism

File:

Download DissFINALforSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean X Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean X Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Robert L. Caserio, Committee Member
Daniel L Letwin, Outside Member

Author:

Davis, Grant

Title:

Le Corbusier and the Ocean Liner: Metaphor and Machine Aesthetic

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

ocean liner
Le Corbusier
semiotics
funnel
smoke stack
mechanical ornament
ornament
heterotopia
modernism
transportation
ship
steamship
housing

File:

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Committee Members:

Denise Rae Costanzo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ute Poerschke, Committee Member
James Gill Cooper, Committee Member
Mehrdad Hadighi, 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:

Weidman, Sean

Title:

Hospitalities: Modernist Culture and the Politics of Welcoming

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

hospitality
modernism
yeats
wharton
dorothy day
ford madox ford
tagore
empire
colonialism
decolonial
anticolonial
imperialism
WWI
refugees
sociability
cosmopolitanism
nationalism
immigration
Great Depression
homeness
catholic worker
haunting
hosting

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Committee Members:

Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin Bell, Major Field Member
John Marsh, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair