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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Name | Dissertation title and adviser |
|---|---|
| Adams, Tamla (Ebony) 2006 |
"Icon: Masculine Maths and the Visual Culture of SF Illustration." Adviser - Mowitt |
| Aerol (Noori), Margaret 2001 |
"Native American Literature in Tribal Context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag
Noongam." Adviser - Damon Senior Manager for Marketing for Borders Group, Inc. |
| Aggeler, Christian 2001 |
"Reinventing the Holy Man: The Medieval English G- Cycle and its Contrast." Adviser - Kendall |
| Ahokas, Marianne 2002 |
"'As distinct as nature framed them'": The Uses of "'Race'" and "'Native/Nation?'" in the Early Republic." Adviser - Griffin |
Almas, Lamiya 2009 |
"The Women of the Early Modern Turk and Moor Plays." Adviser - Watkins |
| Anderson, Daniel R. 2005 |
"Renaissance Men: The Harlem Intelligentsia, the African-American Press, and the Culture of Sport, 1918-1940." Adviser - Bales |
| Balizet, Ariane 2007 |
"Blood on the Early Modern Stage: Marriage, Murder, Mythmaking." Adviser - Watkins |
| Barrows, Adam 2006 |
"Standard Time, Modernism, and Empire." Adviser - Brennan Assistant Professor of English, Carleton University |
| Ben Zahra, Salwa 2002 |
"Representations of the Disabled in Arab/Islamic Culture and Literature from North Africa and the Middle East." Adviser - Brennan |
| Bleakney, Julia 2004 |
"Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, Memories, Museums." Adviser
- Messer-Davidow Associate Director, Hume Writing Center, and Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric Stanford University |
| Blum, Melissa 2001 |
"Sanctioning Education: Writing the Lives of College Student Parents after Welfare Reform." Adviser - R. Brown |
| Brault, Robert 2000 |
"Writing Wilderness: Conserving, Preserving, and Inhabiting the
Land in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Adviser - Ross Associate Professor of English, Winona State University |
| Brightwell, Geraldine 2004 |
"Directing Class: The Servant in Victorian crime Fiction."
Advisers - Hirsch & Ross Associate Professor of English, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| Brown, Cecily 2000 |
"People-as-Garbage, A Metaphor We Live by: Storytelling as Composting."
Adviser - Roth Spanish Instructor, University of Minnesota |
| Brown, Melanie 2006 |
"A 'University in Print': Mass Marketing Popular Education and Self-Culture in Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books, 1919-1939." Adviser - Ross |
Bruenger, Aaron 2009 |
"A Middle-of-the-Road Peace Movement: Ethos and the Practical Pacifists." Adviser - Ross Writing Faculty, Center for Learning Innovation University of Minnesota Rochester |
| Carter, Anne 2007 |
"Dreadful Plots: Conspiracy Narratives and Political Struggle in Early Nineteenth-century British Writing." Adviser - Elfenbein External Projects Coordinator, University of Minnesota Press |
| Casey, Megan 2007 |
"Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Cultural Politics of Nature in Belize." Adviser - Brown |
| Chakraborty, Madhurima 2010 |
"Liberative Ideology and Postcolonial Writing." Adviser - Brennan Assistant Professor, Columbia College, Chicago |
| Chao, Shouching 2000 |
"The Quest of a Modern Hermit: a Study of the Short Stories Of Theodore Francis Powys." Adviser - Reed |
| Chirambo, Reuben 2005 |
"Culture, Hegemony, and Dictatorship: Song, Dance, and Politics in Malawi, 1964-1994." Advisers - Sugnet & Brennan Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Cape Town |
| Cohen, Sara 2011 |
"Medical Screening: Medical Imag(in)ing, the Body, and the Self," Advisers - Rabinowitz & Craig |
| Corbin, Devin 2005 |
"The Work of Belonging: Aricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Resorationism in U.S. Environmental Literature." Adviser - Ross |
| Cox, Ryan 2011 |
"Premonition of a future line we will be writing: Politics, Language and Identity in Experimental English Canadian Poetry." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Curtright, Lauren 2010 |
"Modernism and the Politics of Gothic Adaptation." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Daigre, Eric 2001 |
"Literature, Literacy, and Education in the English Civil War Period, 1640-1660." Adviser - Watkins |
Davis, Abigail 2009 |
"From Hawthorne to History: The Mythologizing of John Endecott.." Adviser - Griffin |
| Devore, Kathleen Sheerin 2000 |
"Passing and Witness: Three South African Writers." Adviser
- Bridwell-Bowles Basic Writing Coordinator, Minneapolis Communty and Technical College |
| Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi 2002 |
"Configuring Migrancy: Fictional Selves, Fragmented Nations,
Ruptured Texts." Adviser - Mowitt Associate Professor, Linfield College, Portland, Oregon |
| Eckerle, Julie 2002 |
"'Heere this my story': The Woman's Voice and Embedded Narrative
in Early Modern Romance." Adviser - Watkins. Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris |
| Fellows, Mary Louise 2005 |
"Aethelgifu’s Will as Spiritual Practice." Adviser - Kendall |
| Fennell, Jenifer 2003 |
"Learning and Giving to Eat: Identity and the Politics of the Real." Adviser - R. Brown |
| Griffiths, Amy 2011 |
"''In a Shattered Language': A Feminist Poetics of Trauma." Adviser - Damon |
| Hardy, Steven 2003 |
"Expatriate Writing, Expatriate Readers; English Language Fiction
Published Along the China Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries. " Adviser - Hancher. Associate Professor of Humanities and Assistant Dean Of Academic Affairs, Ohio Valley College |
| Hazel, Risa 2000 |
"Creole Gothic: Hybrids and Terror in the Writing of Contemporary Fiction of the Americas." Adviser - Damon |
Healey, Stephen 2009 |
"The Rise of Creative Writing and the New Value of Creativity." Advisers - Damon and Augst |
| Helt, Brenda 2008 |
"The Work of Bisexuality in Modernist Women's Writing: Sexual Epistemology, Modernist Aesthetics, Feminist Politics." Adviser - Elfenbein |
| Hengen Fox, Nicholas 2011 |
"Texts as Tactics: How People Practice Politics with Books. " Adviser - Brennan Tenure Track Instructor, Portland Community College web page |
Howard, Kathleen 2009 |
"The Word Made Flesh: The Perception of Holiness in the Texts of Late Medieval and Early Modern Holy Women in England." Adviser - Krug |
| Hulander, Kelly 2011 |
"Suffering Sisters: Fellowship and the Body in British New Woman and Socialist Novels." Adviser - Ross |
| Hutter, Elizabeth 2010 |
"Suspended in Uncertainty: Drowning in Antebellum America." Advisers - Crain & Scandura |
| Jacobson, Jean 2008 |
"How Should Poetry Look? The Printer's Measure and Poet's Line." Adviser - Hancher |
| Jin, Yaliang 2007 |
"Asian American Citizenship through Interracial Relationships." Adviser - Lee |
| Jones, David 2000 |
"A 'New Breed' of Black Consciousness: Re-Reading Gender, Ideology,
and Generational Change in Neo-Black Literature and Criticism, 1960-1975."
Adviser - Damon and Wright. |
| Kamble, Jayashree 2008 |
"Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel." Adviser - Brennan. |
| Kamerbeek, Christopher 2010 |
"The Ghost and the Corpse: Figuring the Mind/Brain Complex at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Kelsey, Penelope 2002 |
"Native American Autoethnography: Tribal Knowledge in New Genres."
Adviser - Lee Associate Professor, Universitiy of Colorado at Boulder |
Ketner, Elizabeth 2009 |
"Memory, Monarchy, and Identity on the "Scepter'd Isle": Constructing Identity Through Historical Fiction in Renaissance England and France." Adviser - Watkins Assistant Professor, SUNY Plattsburgh |
Kim, Chang-hee 2009 |
"The fantasy of Asian America: Identity, Ideology, and Desire." Adviser - Lee Assistant Professor in the Division of General Studies, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea |
| Kim, Tommy 2005 |
"Remembering History Presently: African-American Historiography, Jim-Crow Nostalgia, and the New American Race." Adviser - Lee. |
| Kim, Younkyung 2007 | "'The Poet's Time': Examination of John Milton's Early Works and Edmund Waller's Poetry in the Caroline Context." Adviser - Watkins |
| Kinane, Karolyn 2005 |
"Sanctity Deferred: The Problem of Imitation in Early English Saints' Lives." Advisors - Kendall and Krug. Associate Professor, Plymouth State College |
| Knight, Jessica 2011 |
"Autobiography and the Making of Modernist Multiculturalism. " Advisor - Rabinowitz. |
| Kostihová, Marcela 2004 |
"Political Bardolatries: Shakespeare Appropriations in the Post- socialist Czech Republic." Adviser - Watkins |
| Labbie, Erin 2001 |
"Phoné Sex: Lacan's Medievalism and the Historicity of
Desire." Adviser - Mowitt. Associate Professor of English, Bowling Green State University |
| Lindey (Berrey), Sara 2008 |
"Generations in Print: Revision in American Literature 1850-1900." Adviser - Crain. |
| Lines, Candace 2000 |
"Making History: The Use of the Medieval Past in Catholic Resistance
to the English Reformation." Adviser - Watkins. |
| Mapes, Kathryn 2000 |
"Intimate Language: The Correspondence Between Byron's Letters,
Journals, and Don Juan." Advisers - Fruman & Luke. Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie |
| Marsh, Lauren 2003 |
"The Rise of Useful Knowledge in Britain." Adviser - Elfenbein. Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant, University of Minnesota |
| Marshall, Leni 2007 |
"All Over: The Identities of Old Age." Adviser - Ross Assistant Professor, Department of English and Philosophy University of Wisconsin - Stout website |
| McGurk, Megan 2007 |
"A Press of Their Own: Irish Women and Modernist Print Culture 1896-1920." Adviser - Cucullu |
| Menefee, Joan 2005 |
"Decoding Distraction: Attention in American Culture, 1871-1916. " Adviser - Augst |
| Meyer, Sabine 2002 |
"Authority Matters: Community, Collective Voice, and the Narration
of Deviance in Selected Multiple-Narrator Novels by African American
Women." Advisers - Reyes & Joeres General Education Program Coordinator, Rasmussen College |
Miller, Jennfer 2009 |
"From Water Margins to Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries and the Fantastic in Fantasy, Native American, and Asian American Literatures." Adviser - Treuer |
| Mordecai, Rachel 2007 |
"Narrative Wars with My Cousin: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature." Adviser - Sugnet |
| Morris, Andrew 2005 |
"Representing the Countryside in Fourteenth-Century England."
Adviser - Wallace Upper-School English Teacher and English Department Chair, The Columbus Academy |
| Mueller, Alexander 2007 |
"Translating Troy: Imperial Historiography in Middle English Alliterative Romance." Adviser - Krug |
| Murray, Gregory 2010 |
"A Performative Study of Playfulness in Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, and Elizabeth Bishop." Adviser - Damon Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Perimeter College |
Musha, Julia 2009 |
"The Other Europe: Locating Albania in Contemporary European Discourse." Adviser - Mowitt |
| Nordine, Manisha 2007 |
"Jammin' with Resistant Music and Popular Culture in Bob Marley's 'Jah-Public.'" Advisers - Damon and Desai |
| Ogden, Mitch 2008 |
"Refugee Utopias: (Re)Theorizing Refugeeism through Cultural Reproduction of the Hmong Diaspora." Adviser - Augst |
| Ostrander, Diana Gamder 2007 |
"An Anglo-Indian in Search of Wisdom: W. D. Arnold's India Pilgrimage." Adviser - Hirsch Professor and English Department Chair Anoka Technical College |
| Parvulescu, Anca 2006 |
"Laughter's Burst: Seriousness, Manners, Feminism." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Penka, Marc 2002 |
"'The Deep Taint of His Nature': Allegory and/or. Hawthorne's Gothic." Advisers - Mowitt & Rabinowitz |
| Peterson, Becky 2010 |
"Experimentation, Identification, Ornamentation: Avant-garde Women Artists and Modernism's Exceptional Objects." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Petrie, Mary 2000 |
"The Anorexic's Story." Adviser - Messer-Davidow |
| Pitugshatwong, Nuntiya (Ann) 2008 | "Crossing Boundaries: Domestic Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Narratives." Adviser - Elfenbein |
| Rankin, William 2000 |
"The Word Made Flesh: Wycliffite Hermeneutics, Pedagogy, and
Polemic." Adviser - Copeland Associate Professor of English, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas |
| Riordan, Kevin 2011 |
"The Time Machine and the Ghost: Attending to Life-and-Death in Literature, Cinema, and Theater." Adviser - Mowitt |
| Roberts, Jennifer Sherman 2007 |
"Getting an Earful: The Place and Process of Hearing in Early Modern England." Adviser - Watkins |
| Robinette, Nicholas 2010 |
"Free Realist Style: Epistemology, Form and the Novel, 1909-1954." Adviser - Brennan |
| Roggenkamp, Karen 2001 |
"Narrating the News : New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late
Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction." Adviser -
Griffin Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce |
| Scherr, Rebecca |
"Syn/Aesthetics: Touch, Sound, and Vision in the Workds of Gertrude
Stein, Djuna Barnes, and Muriel Rukevser." Adviser - Damon |
| Schmid, Christina 2007 | "Strategies of Dissociation: Negotiating Cultural Memory in Late 20th-Century German and Austrian Experimental Film and Video." Adviser - Damon |
| Schroeder, Sharin 2011 |
"Non-Consensus Realities: Fantasy and the Child in Victorian Religious Debates." Adviser - Goldberg Assistant Professor, National Taipei University of Technology |
| Shenk, Linda 2002 |
"The Queen¹s Learning: Poetry and the Crisis of Humanism in Elizabethan
England." Adviser - Watkins Assistant Professor, Iowa State University |
| Sievers, John 2011 |
"Silencing the Sirens: Patronage and the New World in Spenser, Daniel, and Shakespeare." Adviser - Watkins |
| Singleton, Jermaine 2005 |
"Cyrptic Conversations: Melancholy, Ritual and the (African American) Literary Imagination." Advisor - Brennan |
| Slater, David 2005 |
"The American Girl, Her Life and Times: An Ideal and Its Creators, 1890-1930." Advisor - Ross |
| Smith, Angela 2002 |
"'Hideous Progeny': Eugenics, Disability, and Classic Horror
Cinema." - Adviser - Mowitt |
| Stark, Robert 2007 |
"Ezra Pound: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship, with an Appendix on the Origin and Significance of Birds Symbolism." Adviser - Firchow |
| Steigman, Karen 2007 |
"Fictions of Security: (Re)Reading the Political Thriller in the Era of Globalization." Adviser - Mowit. |
| Sulit, Marie 2007 |
"Hunger for Home: Contemporary Women Writers of the Philippines Imagining Community in the Diaspora." Adviser - Lee |
| Surkan, Kim 2003 |
"Passing Rhetorics and the Performance of Gender Identity: (Auto) biographical, Visual, and Virtual Representations of Transgender Subjectivity and Embodiment." Adviser - McNaron |
| Swanson, Emily 2007 |
"Natural Arguments: Popular Discourse and Environmental Legislation-1945-2007." Adviser - Ross |
|
2009 |
"The Eastern Question, Western Europe, and the Balkans in Fin-de-Siecle Literature." Adviser - Elfenbein |
| Tisinger, Danielle 2004 |
"Western Imaginings: Native- and White-American Western Literature, 1887-1934." Adviser - Ross |
| Troeften, Dorthe 2005 |
"Trans/Acting Truths: Narrating Transgender in Theory and Practice." Adviser - Damon |
| Van der Leeuw, Tracy 2003 |
"Dancing Queen, Elizabeth and Anna of Denmark: Dance, Masques, and the Queen's Role." Adviser - Watkins |
| Wadsworth, Sarah 2000 |
"Reading the Marketplace: The Culture of the Book in Nineteenth-Century
America." Adviser - Ross Associate Professor, Marquette University |
| Wanyama, Mzenga 2002 Email |
"The African-American Literary Institution: An Episodic Analysis."
Adviser - Mowitt. |
| Weaver, Rebecca 2011 |
"The Urgency of Community: The Suturing of Poetic Ideology During the Early Years of the Loft and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics." Adviser - Damon |
Wee, Allison |
"Trials & Eros: The British Home Office v. Indecent Publications 1857-1932." Adviser - McNaron Assistant Professor, California Lutheran University |
| Wehner, David 2005 |
"'A Lot Up For Grabs': The Conversion Narrative in Modernity in Kate Chopin, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison." Adviser - Augst |
Weixel, Beth 2009 |
"The Forest and Social Change in Early Modern English Literature, 1590-1700." Adviser - Watkins Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University |
| Welch, Karen 2001 |
"Facing the Issues: Addressing Current Social and Political Controversies
in First-Year College Writing Courses." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles Assistant Professor of English Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Wharram, Charles |
"Labors of Translation, 1750-1850: Reconsidering the Romantic Movement in Relation to Translation Theory and Practice." Advisers - Ross and Schulte-Sasse Associate Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University |
| Zavialova, Maria 2008 |
"The Cryptology of Errata: A Project for a Theory of Translation as Lacunary Formation." Adviser - Rabinowitz |
| Zebuhr, Laura 2010 |
"The New Work of Friendship: Antebellum American Literature, Democracy, Impossibility." Adviser - Ismail |
| Zhang, Wenying 2000 |
"The Crescent Society and the Bloomsbury Croup: A Comparative Study." Adviser - Reed |
Email addresses, web sites, and positions are included by permission.
Jigna Desai (PhD 1999), associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota
