AUGUST 2016
McNamara, Thomas
DREAMS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: CHINESE UNDERGRADUATES AND INVESTMENT IN THE US WRITING CLASSROOM
Committee: Prendergast (Chair); Ritter, Koshy, Kwon
Sahn, Sarah
FANTASIES OF CITIZENSHIP: ADOLESCENCE AND TEMPORALITY IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Committee: Rodriguez (Chair); McDowell, Stockton, Foote
Tavares, Elizabeth
ACTS OF IMAGINATION: CURATING THE EARLY ELIZABETHAN REPORTORIES, 1582-1594
Committee: Perry, L. Newcomb (Chairs); Stevens, Barrett
DECEMBER 2016
Dettmar, Esther
REVISING IDENTIFICATION: FAIRY TALES THAT TRANSFORM TRADITION FROM WITHIN
Committee: Mahaffey (Chair); Rodriguez, Hansen, Johnson
Moore, John
MODERNISM’S LAUGHING BODIES: A TAXONOMY OF THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LAUGHTER
Committee: Mahaffey (Chair); Hansen, Gaedtke, Goodlad
Pincus, Alaina
JEWISH TOLERATION, ASSIMILATION, AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION, 1655-1755
Committee: Markley (Chair); L. Newcomb, Pollock, Rabin
MAY 2017
Ballard, Shawn
UTOPIAN CONNECTIVITY TO PARANOID COLLAPSE: COMPLEX NETWORKS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL ECOLOGIES IN 20TH-CENTURY FICTION
Committee: Mahaffey, Underwood (Chairs); Courtemanche, Gaedtke
Bascom, Benjamin
FEELING SINGULAR: MASCULINITY AND DESIRE IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1786–1822
Committee: Loughran (Chair); Foote, Murison, Somerville
Cash, Amanda
A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE: THE ROLE OF WRITING STUDIES IN ONLINE LEARNING AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Committee: Hawisher (Chair); Mortensen, Prior, Oakley
McLeer, Heather
MATTERS OF VERISIMILITUDE: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL REALISMS IN IRELAND, 1880-1940
Committee: Mahaffey (Chair); Hansen, Gaedtke, Saville
Mercado, Jessica
DANGEROUS MEN: THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY IN ROMANTIC WOMEN’S FICTION
Committee: Wood (Chair); Markley, Nazar, Underwood
Rosell, Carla
DO FEET HAVE MOUTHS? SLANDER, METAPHOR, AND THE BODY POLITIC IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Committee: L. Newcomb (Chair); Perry, Gray, Stevens
Simon, Kaia
REWRITNG HMONG WOMANHOOD: LITERACY THAT MEDIATES BORDERS
Committee: Prendergast (Chair); Koshy, Pritchard, Duffy