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AUGUST 2012

Bechtold, Rebecca
COMPOSING THE BODY: NARRATIVE IN THE AGE OF IMPROVISATION, 1770-1867
Committee: Loughran (Chair); Murison, Chai, Wood

Claborn, John
ECOLOGY OF THE COLOR LINE: RACE AND NATURE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1895-1941
Committee: Maxwell, Rothberg (Chairs); Foote, Schaffner

Lee, Merton
ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY, AMERICAN POETRY, AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDENTITY: ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT, 1887-2005
Committee: Nelson (Chair); Chai , Cacho, Hart

Unger, Mary
MODERNISM AND THE AMERICAN SYSTEM: STANDARDIZATION, UGLINESS, LITERATURE, 1900-1930
Committee: Bauer (Chair); Parker, Hutner, Maxwell

Van Renen, Denys
FROM BORDERS TO TOPOGRAPHIES: IDENTITIES AND EXPANSION IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1620-1750
Committee: Markley (Chair); L. Newcomb, Pollock, Mohamed, Stevens

 

DECEMBER 2012

Holding, Cory
RHETORICAL GESTURES IN BRITISH ELOCUTIONISM
Committee: Hawhee (Chair); Camargo, Hawisher, Powers, Prior, Underwood

Snow, Spencer
READING THE MAP: GEOGRAPHIC SPACE, READING PUBLICS, AND THE SHAPING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN IDENTITY, 1803-1898
Committee: Loughran (Chair); Foote, Chai, Castro

MAY 2013

Behrens, Michael
WOMEN WRITERS, RELIGIOUS RHETORIC, AND THE ORIGINS OF SENSIBILITY IN ENGLAND, 1660-1754
Committee: Markley (Chair); Pollock, Mohamed, Gray

Burns, Michael Sterling
THE RHETORICS OF COMMUNITY SPACE: CRITICAL EVENTS IN CHAMPAIGN-
URBANA'S BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Committee: Prendergast (Chair); Mortensen, Ginsburg, Lang

Tuszynska, Agnieszka
STRANGERS FROM WITHIN, STRANGERS FROM WITHOUT: NEGOTIATIONS
AND USES OF SPACE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND IMMIGRANT LITERATURES
AND CULTURES, 1900s-1950s
Committee: Nelson (Chair); Parker, Foote, Barrett

Vorhies, Heather Blain
A PHYSIOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF STYLE: SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND WOMEN’S
WRITINGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Committee: Mortensen (Chair); O’Gorman, Markley, Underwood

Zink, Amanda
FICTIONS OF AMERICAN DOMESTICITY: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, WHITE
WOMEN, AND THE NATION, 1850-1950
Committee: Parker (Chair); Byrd, Foote, Rodriguez