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Dissertations in Progress

Name Dissertation title and adviser
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Chakraborty, Madhurima "Resistance Ideology: Postcolonial Literature and the 'Idea at the Back of It,'" adviser - Brennan
Cohen, Sara "Sick Spectatorship: Illness, Cinema, and the 21st Century Spectator," adviser - Rabinowitz
Coleman, Michael "Resurrecting Utopia: Imagining the 'Corporate Community' in the 20th acentury," adviser - Messer-Davidow
Craig, Lindsay "Malory Revisted: Friendship, Readers, and Reception in 'Morte Darthur,'" adviser - Krug
Curtright, Lauren "Capturing Monsters: A Diagram of the Modernist-Gothic Mode," adviser - Rabinowitz
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Gage, Molly Kelley "Fragmentary Files: Reading Democracy's Paper Trail," adviser - Rabinowitz
Griffiths, Amy "'In a Shattered Language': A Poetics of Trauma in 20th Century American Women's Poetry," adviser - Damon
Hannah, Kate "Crises of Masculinity and the Management of Threatening Speech Acts in Nineteenth-Century British Literature," adviser - Elfenbein
Hengen, Nicholas "Texts as Tactics: Using Literaure in the United States Today," adviser - Brennan
Hulander, Kelly "'My Life... Will be Employed in Working for the People': Visions of Community and Social Justice in British Women's Socialist and New Woman Novels, 1880-1910," adviser - Ross
Hutter, Elizabeth "Drowning: Cultural Currents of Submersion and Buoyancy in the Nineteenth Century." Adviser - Augst
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Kamerbeek, Christopher "Nervy Modernism: Mind and Brain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ," adviser - Rabinowitz
Klein, JoAnna "Imaginary Friendships: Literary Circles, Clubs, and Friendship in Early Modern England," adviser - Clayton
Knight, Jessica "Autobiographical Passing: Life Stories, Popular Reading, and Literary Education ," adviser - Rabinowitz
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Miller, Jennifer "From Water Margins to Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries Within and Between Fantasy, Asian American, and Native American Literatures," adviser - Treuer
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Peterson, Becky "Clothes Reading: Modernist Women Theorizing Material, Theorizing Otherness," adviser - Rabinowitz
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Riordan, Kevin "Dying Words and the Mechanics of Haunted Reading," adviser - Mowitt
Robinette, Nick "Problems of Displaced Realism," adviser - Brennan
Roth-Reinhardt, Anne "Material Remnants: Clothing as Text in Historical American Fiction (1789-1860)," adviser - Griffin
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Schrag, Adam "Surface to Surface: War, Image, and the Senses in the Screenic Era," adviser - Rabinowitz
Schroeder, Sharin "'If my story is not true, something better is': Fantastic Fiction, the Child, and Victorian Religious Debates," adviser - Goldberg
Sievers, John "Silencing the Siren: The Temptation of Song in Early Modern English Poetry," adviser - Watkins
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Weaver, Becky "The Urgency of Community: Early Poetic Communities at the Loft and The Poetics School at Naropa," adviser - Damon
Zebuhr, Laura "Becoming America: Rethinking the Politics of Friendship and the Formation of Democracy," adviser - Ismail
Graduate students at symposium

Graduate students at symposium