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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:

Zuck, Rochelle Raineri

Title:

Imagined Citizens: Ethnic Nationalisms and Crises of Culture in the United States, 1816-1856

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American Indian
African American
ethnic
citizenship
nation
American literature
imperium in imperio

File:

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Committee Members:

Carla Mulford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Edwin Burkholder, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

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:

Stevens, Erica Diane

Title:

Social Lives: Nineteenth-Century New Orleans in Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

New Orleans
sociality
social life
regionalism
Reconstruction
African-American literature
nineteenth century
nineteenth-century literature
American literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean X. Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Castiglia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Christopher Castiglia, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul 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:

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:

Wilson, Sarah Ruth

Title:

American Identity, American Nostalgia: Using Images of Nature to Perform and Connect

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Human-nature relationship
identity
American literature
American art
wilderness
nineteenth century
twentieth century
twenty-first century
digital media
environmental humanities
nature idea
blogging
American nature writing
simulation
nostalgia
technological sublime
sublime
digital technologies

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Hannah Marie Spector, 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:

Schneider, John

Title:

Crisis Methods: Writer-Critics, Professionalism, and the Post-World War II American University

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

English
criticism
University Studies
American literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Lennon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Lennon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Nergis Erturk Lennon, Outside Member
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Committee Member