| Name | Dissertation Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Felt, Lindsey | "Plugging In": Disability and the Body Electric in Contemporary American Literature | 2016 |
| Mong, Derek | The Marriage of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: An Inquiry into Spousal Poetics | 2016 |
| Frost, Allen | Where It's At: The Making of Setting in American Fiction from Mississippi to Mars | 2015 |
| Kimbrell, Garth | Theater and Prestige: The Development of the Playhouse in Shakespeare's Time | 2015 |
| Le-Khac, Long | Transnarrative: Giving Form to Diversity, Community, and Migration in Asian American and Latina/o Literature | 2015 |
| Lewis, Rhiannon | Writing in Time: Labor and Work in English Poetry, 1557-1674 | 2015 |
| Meyers, Talya | Epic and Encounter: Form and Culture in Early Modern Narrative Poetry | 2015 |
| Trump, Whitney | Always Another Edition: The Racial Politics of Rewriting in Nineteenth-Century American Literature | 2015 |
| Wiebracht, Ben | Cousins and Lovers: The History of the English Love Plot, 1600-1895 | 2015 |
| Willan, Claude | The Seizure of Literary History in the Eighteenth Century | 2015 |
| Yamboliev, Irena | Ornamental Formalism: The Victorian Anti-Novel | 2015 |
| Archer, Jodie | Reading the Bestseller: An Analysis of 20,000 Novels | 2014 |
| Bricker, Andrew | Producing & Litigating Satire, 1670-1792 | 2014 |
| Carrillo, Guadalupe | Forms of Sentiment in the 21st Century U.S. Latina/o Novel | 2014 |
| Janiszewska, Hanna | Romantic Lives of the Mind | 2014 |
| Osadetz, Stephen | The Art of Principle: The Rhetorical Preoccupations of Eighteenth-Century Didactic Literature | 2014 |
| Perkins, Sarah | Dixie Bound: A Cultural Biography of an American Legend, 1860-1930 | 2014 |
| Rung, Allison | Conventions of the Railway in the British Novels, 1900-1950 | 2014 |
| Saval, Nikil | The Problem of the White Collar Worker in Culture | 2014 |
| VanArendonk, Kathryn | The Episode: Serial Storytelling in Television and the Nineteenth-Century Novel | 2014 |
| Vega, Mark | Worldly Desires: Fictions of Transnational Engagement in Frank Norris, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Edith Wharton | 2014 |
| Doherty, Hannah | The Myth of Minerva: Publishing, Popular Fiction, and the Rise of the Novel | 2013 |
| Hamilton, Geordie | The Rhetoric of Realism: American Literature and Democratic Form | 2013 |
| Hess, Jillian | Commonplace-Book Stylistics: Romantic and Victorian Technologies of Reading and Writing | 2013 |
| Kopley, Emily | The Potentate and the Cannibal: Poetry and the Novel in Virginia Woolf | 2013 |
| Richardson, Rebecca | Narrative Ambition: Victorian Self-Help and Competition | 2013 |
| Roman, Elda Maria | Symbolic Wages and Identity Taxes: Upward Mobility and Middle Class Narratives in Chicana/o and Black Cultural Production | 2013 |
| Whearty, Bridget | For All is Good That Hath Good End: Narrative Structures and the Art of Dying in Late Medieval English Literature | 2013 |
| Zurowski, Ryan | To the Gentle Reader: Prefaces and Books in Early Modern England | 2013 |
| Allison, Sarah | Moral Style in Victorian Fiction | 2012 |
| Benveniste, Michael | The American Ideology: Plot and Culture Since 1945 | 2012 |
| Bilsky, Brianne | The Page Redux: American Literature in the Information Age | 2012 |
| Dippold, Steffi | Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Colonial America | 2012 |
| Eichenlaub, Justin | The Suburban Imagination: Aesthetics, Desire, and Space in Nineteenth-Century Britain | 2012 |
| Gemma, Marissa | Exceedingly Correct: Stylistic Polemics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature | 2012 |
| Ligda, Kenny | Serious Comedy: British Modernist Humor and Political Crisis | 2012 |
| Maynor, Kenneth | Pagan Nation: Constitutional Characters and the Fiction of American Faith | 2012 |
| Vander Zee, Anton | 'The Final Lilt of Songs': Late Whitman and the Long American Century | 2012 |
| Wood, James | Anecdote and Enlightenment, 1710-1790 | 2012 |
| Finn, Edward | The Social Lives of Books: Literary Networks in Contemporary American Fiction | 2011 |
| Harford Vargas, Jennifer | Dictating Forms: Authoritarian Power in the Latina/o American Novel | 2011 |
| Kaplan, Ruth | Fashioning the Reader: Forms of Engagement in British Poetry of the Long Sixteenth Century | 2011 |
| Shapiro, Joseph | Beyond Early American Exceptionalism: Class and The Rise of the U.S. Novel, 1789-1846 | 2011 |
| Weare, Jessica | Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War | 2011 |
| Bowen, Claire | Between Pole and Tropic: Writing Suspension, 1945-1955 | 2010 |
| Houser, Heather | "The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital": Contemporary Fictions of Eco-Sickness | 2010 |
| Phillips, Natalie | Narrating Distraction: Problems of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1750-1820 | 2010 |
| Reid, Michael | The Rational Double | 2010 |
| Vyroubalova, Ema | "These Confusions of Lewd Tongues": Linguistic Diversity in Early Modern England, 1509-1625 | 2010 |
| Hubbs, Jolene | Revolting Whiteness: Race, Class, and the American Grotesque | 2009 |
| Konstantinou, Lee | Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: Postironic Literature and the Politics of Character | 2009 |
| Lay, Jenna | "They Wil Not Be Penned Up in Any Cloister": Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Book Culture | 2009 |
| Tang, Amy | Rethinking Repetition: Race and the Contemporary Politics of Form | 2009 |
| Wang, Maria | Victorian Totalities: Sociological Method and Narrative Form in British Fiction | 2009 |
| Wilkinson, Emily | Miscellany: Form and Mode in Eighteenth Century British Literature | 2009 |
| Carruth, Allison | Global Appetites: Literary Form and Food Politics from World War I to the World Trade Organization | 2008 |
| Cohen, Noam | Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel | 2008 |
| Floyd, Jennifer | The Writing on the Wall: John Lydgate’s Architectural Verse | 2008 |
| Garrett, Matthew | Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic: The Politics of Writing in Parts | 2008 |
| Rhee, Michelle | Slant in Asian American Poetry and Fiction | 2008 |
| Stanica, Miruna | Movable Goods and the Novel Before Realism | 2008 |
| Wittman, Kara | States of Wonder in the Nineteenth Century British Novel | 2008 |
| Burges, Joel | The Uses of Obsolescence: Historical Change and the Politics of the Outmoded in American Postmodernity | 2007 |
| Holbo, Christine | The Home-Making of Americans: The Invention of Everyday Life in American Literary Realism and Social Science, 1866-1911 | 2007 |
| Kleinneiur, Joann | Elective Affinities: Chemistry and Poetics in Britain 1772-1822 | 2007 |
| Martinez, Felicia | Asking Who We Are: Interpreting Personhood in the Experimental Novels of Conrad, Faulkner and Naipaul | 2007 |
| Pentland, Elizabeth | Monsieur le Cannibal: Literary Perspectives on the English Engagement with France, 1579-1625 | 2007 |
| Phillips, Christopher | The Uses of the Epic Impulse in American Culture, 1770-1876 | 2007 |
| Schuyler, Susan | Crowd Control: Reading Victorian Popular Drama | 2007 |
| Starks, Rebecca | Keeping Memory Fresh: A Stoic Exercise in Reading Four Modern Novels | 2007 |
| Walling, Amanda | Vicious Praise: Flattery in English Politics and Poetry | 2007 |
| Fender, Janelle | Remembering and Forgetting in Late Medieval and Early Reformation English Literature: A Study of Remnants | 2006 |
| Jiron King, Shimberlee | Reading Religiously: Towards an Understanding of Articulations of Religion in Chicana/o Representations of Difference | 2006 |
| Kerr, Douglas | Modernist Missions, Cultural Transmissions:The Philosophy of Anarchic Form, Buddhism, and American Poetry, 1930-1975 | 2006 |
| Leavitt, Melissa | Communities Under Construction: Labor, Land Reform, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature | 2006 |
| Maxwell, Kim | Reading Adam Reading: A Study of Literary Meaning Through Paradise Lost | 2006 |
| Meadowsong, Zena | Creating a Monster: Myth, Machines, and the Naturalist Invention of Modernism | 2006 |
| Pasanek, Bradley | Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind, A Dictionary | 2006 |
| Gross, Karen | The Lives of the Dead: Biography and Medieval Humanism | 2005 |
| McBride, Christine | Disavowing Possession: Story, Style, and the Social in Jamesian Narrative | 2005 |
| Moyer, Gabrielle | Sustained Collision: Modernist Fictions as Forms of Attention | 2005 |
| Preiss, Richard | Finite Jest: Performance, Authorship and the Assimilations of the Stage Clown in Early Modern English Theater, 1588-1673 | 2005 |
| Roylance, Patricia | International Nationalism: World History as Usable Past in Nineteenth-Century US Culture | 2005 |
| Straley, Jessica | How the Child Lost Its Tail: Evolutionary Theory, Victorian Pedagogy and the Development of Children's Literature, 1860-1920 | 2005 |
| Benford, Crisi | Monster or Machine: The Multiplot Novel in Victorian Literature and Culture | 2004 |
| Black, Shameem | Cosmopoetics: Global Imagination in Contemporary Writing | 2004 |
| Casdin, Adam | Before Imagination: Literary Reverie's Opening to the Present | 2004 |
| Chung, Debbie | Expanding Arcadias: Pastoral Myth-Making in Twentieth-Century British Fiction | 2004 |
| Coleman, Dawn | The Novel and the Preachers: Religious Oratory and the Cultural Value of Nineteenth-Century Fiction | 2004 |
| Colon, David | Embodying the Ideogram: Orientalism and the Visual Aesthetic in Modernist Poetry | 2004 |
| Edwards, Hilary | More Than an Order of Words: the Pursuit of a Moral Style in Victorian Prose and Writings of the First World War | 2004 |
| Fishman, Jenn | The Active Republic of Literature: Theatre and Literary Cultures in 18th Century Britain | 2004 |
| Goldstein, David | Recipes for Authorship: Indigestion and the Making of Originality in Early Modern England | 2004 |
| Hackenberg, Sara | Reading the Seen: Mystery and Visual Fetishism in Nineteenth-Century Popular Narrative | 2004 |
| Marino, James | Books Made Men: Early Modern Drama and the Fictions of Intellectual Property | 2004 |
| Pender, Patricia | Authorial Alibis: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Limits of Literature | 2004 |
| Schwartzburg, Molly | Reading in Four Dimensions: The Poetics of the Contemporary Experimental Book | 2004 |
| Shvarts, Elena | Putting Russia on the Globe: The Matter of Muscovy in Early Modern English Travel Writing and Literature | 2004 |
| Tigner, Amy | England's Paradise: Horticultural Landscapes in the Renaissance | 2004 |
| Yu, Timothy | Artifice and Authenticity: Language Poetry, Asian American Poetry, and the Politics of Contemporary American Culture | 2004 |
| Chodat, Robert | The Patterns of Persons: Ideas of Agency in Twentieth Century American Fiction | 2003 |
| Gallego, Carlos | The (Post) Modern Spectacle: A Study in Ideological Fantasy and 20th Century American Culture | 2003 |
| Mohr, Melissa | Strong Language: Oaths, Obscenities, and Performative Literature in Early Modern England | 2003 |
| Molesworth, Jesse | The Spell of Chance: Probability, Magic and the Paradox of the Enlightenment Novel | 2003 |
| Rojas, Martha | Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of U.S. Foreign Affairs inthe Early Republic | 2003 |
| Scott, Giles | The Physiology of Song: Sound, Meaning, and Politics in Objectivist Poetics | 2003 |
| Valenza, Robin | Rules of Science, Terms of Art: Literature and the Disciplines in Britain, 1730-1840 | 2003 |
| Wigfall, Jackie | Kemetic Character(s) in African, Caribbean and American Novels | 2003 |
| Anderson, Gretchen | Careering through the Village: Edna St.Vincent Millay, Laura Riding and the Greenwich Village Poetry Market | 2002 |
| Goble, Mark | Beautiful Circuits: The Mediated Life in America, 1900-1940 | 2002 |
| Keogh, Annette | Found in Translation: Foreign travel and Linguistic Difference in the Eighteenth Century | 2002 |
| McGrane, Laura | Hollowed Voices: Representations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture | 2002 |
| Morgan, Monique | Lyric and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century Long Poem | 2002 |
| Sale, Carolyn | Contested Acts: Legal Performances and Literary Authority in Early Modern England | 2002 |
| Benedict, Kimberley | Authorial Alliances: Collaboration Between Religious Women Writers and Scribes in the Middle Ages | 2001 |
| Buchanan, Brad | Oedipus Disfigured: Myth, Humanism and Hybridity in Modernist, Anglo-American and Post-Colonial Literature | 2001 |
| Cantrell, David | Home Rule: Redemptions of Literature and Culture in the United States, 1863-1917 | 2001 |
| Jenkins, Lisa | Offending Lives: Subjectivity and Australian Convict Autobiographies, 1788-1899 | 2001 |
| Levin, Joanna | American Bohemias: A Literary and Cultural Geography, 1858-1912 | 2001 |
| Norwood, Lisa West | Grounds for the New Nation: Constucting Sense of Place in American Writings, 1780-1860 | 2001 |
| Sassoubre, Ticien | Reimagining Property: Ownership and Identity in American Fiction, 1880-1940 | 2001 |
| Smyth, Laura | Preaching with their Hands: The Role of the Carthusians in the Transmission of Women's Texts in Late Medieval England | 2001 |
