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