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OCTOBER 2009

Fraiberg, Steven
ENGLISH, ISRAEL, AND GLOBALIZATION: A SOCIOHISTORIC STUDY ON LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL SHIFT
Committee: Prior (Chair); Hawisher, Koven, Cintron

Free, Melissa
"THAT INDEFINABLE SOMETHING BESIDES": SOUTHERN AFRICA, BRITISH IDENTITY, AND THE AUTHORIAL INFORMANT, 1883-1924
Committee: Valente (Chair); Burton, Garrett, Esty

Kolkovich, Elizabeth Zeman
WORK IN PROGRESS: GENDER AND POLITICS IN LATE ELIZABETHAN PROGRESS ENTERTAINMENTS
Committee: Neely (Chair); Gray, Lesser, L. Newcomb

McWhorter, Ellen                 
UNSAYABLE SOMETHINGS: MODERN AMERICAN POETRY, LANGUAGE, AND THE LOGIC OF EXPERIENCE
Committee: Nelson (Chair); Somerville, Walker, Hansen

 

DECEMBER 2009

Damsen, Silver
EROTIC LOVE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTO-CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN COMEDY
Committee: Neely (Chair); Shapiro, L. Newcomb, Lesser

Girard, Melissa
LINES OF FEELING: MODERNIST WOMEN'S POETRY AND THE LIMITS OF SENTIMENTALITY
Committee: Nelson (Chair); Foote, Somerville, Esty

Reading, Amity
SOUL AND BODY: READING THE ANGLO-SAXON SELF THROUGH THE VERCELLI BOOK
Committee: Wright (Chair); Camargo, Trilling, Hall

Tombro, Melissa
PERFORMANCE STUDIES AND THE REINVENTION OF "I" IN COMPOSITION: MOVING MYSELF BEYOND A TEXTUAL MODEL
Committee: Hawhee (Chair); Schaffner, Walker, Denzin

MAY 2010

Craft, Pete 
WARFARE, TRADE, AND "INDIANS" IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1652-1711
Committee: Markley (Chair); Neely, Pollock, Stevens

Dunick, Lisa
SELLING OUT: THE AMERICAN LITERARY MARKET PLACE AND THE MODERNIST NOVEL
Committee: Foote (Chair); Marsh, Parker, Rothberg

Lynch, Suzanne
FROM EXILE TO TRANSCENDENCE: RACIAL MIXTURE AND THE JOURNEY OF REVISION IN THE WORKS OF LYDIA MARIA CHILD, HANNAH CRAFTS, KATE CHOPIN, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, AND JEAN TOOMER 
Committee: Foote, Deck (Chairs); Nelson, Somerville

Moss, Andrew
THE CULTURAL CONSTITUTION OF THE POST-REPUBLIC: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICS AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY FORM
Committee: Loughran (Chair); Chai, Foote, Valente

Olson, Christa
CONSTITUTIVE VISIONS: INDIGENEITY, VISUAL CULTURE, AND THE RHETORICS OF ECUADORIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
Committee: Hawhee, Cintron (Chairs); Mortensen, Finnegan, Pallares

Walls, Nicole
WHERE LANGUAGE IS MADE: LANGUAGE PLANNING AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND LANGUAGE WORK 
Committee: Prendergast (Chair); Mortensen, Baron, McCarthy