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| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| John Heon | The Dionysia of Science: Humor, Rational Madness, and Comic Experimental Methods in the Works of Bruce Nauman and Thomas Pynchon | Jean-Michel Rabaté, Wendy Steiner | Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Critical Writing Program |
| Benjamin Kahan | Modern American Celibacies, 1886-1969 | Jean-Michel Rabaté | |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Alexine Fleck | The Low and the Lost: Ethics, Expertise and Drug-Use Memoirs | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Assistant Professor, Bucks County Community College |
| Robbie Glen | Lines of Affection: Dorothy Osborne and Women's Letterwriting in the Seventeenth Century | Peter Stallybrass | |
| Laura Heffernan | 'Bad Form': Modernist Criticism and the Cultural Life of the Aesthetic, 1909-1929 | James English | Post-Doctoral Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania |
| Jennifer Higginbotham | Fair Maids and Golden Girls: Early Modern Girlhood and the Production of Femininity | Phyllis Rackin | Assistant Professor of English & Women's Studies, Ohio State University |
| Jonathan Hsy | Polygot Poetics: Merchants and Literary Production in London, 1300-1500 | David Wallace | Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University |
| Lisa Martinez-Lajous | Playing for Profit: The Legitimacy of Gaming and the Early Modern Theater | Phyllis Rackin | |
| Matthew Merlino | The Contemporary Historical Novel and the Unsettling of America | James English | Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania |
| Dahlia Porter | 'Knowledge Broken': Empiricist Method and the Forms of Romanticism | Stuart Curran, Michael Gamer | Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University |
| Matthew Ruben | Cultural, Political, and Spatial Transformation in the Late Twentieth Century United States | James English | President, Northern Liberties Neighbors Association |
| Veronica Schanoes | Re-Visionary Fantasies: Feminism, Fairy Tales, and Revision | Vicki Mahaffey | Assistant Professor of English, CUNY-Queens College |
| Kurt Schreyer | Period Pieces: Remnants of Mystery Drama in Shakespeare | Margreta de Grazia | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| Josh Schuster | Modernist Biotopias: Organicism and Vitalism in Early Twentieth-Century American Poetry | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario |
| Nancy Srebro | Adjusting the Focus: The Modern British Novel and the Rise of American Film | James English | Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania |
| Emily Zinn | Rewriting the Kitchen: Gender and Food in Contemporary Fiction | Vicki Mahaffey | Lecturer, University of California-Santa Barbara |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Nicole Brittingham Furlonge | On the Lower Frequences: Listening and African-American Expressive Culture | Herman Beavers | English Department Chair & Director of Diversity, St. Andrew's School |
| Jeffrey Dillon Brown | Occidental Drift: London, Modernism and the Politics of Form in Early West Indian Fiction | James English | Assistant Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Stephanie Harzewski | The New Novel of Manners: Chick Lit and Postfeminist Sexual Politics | Rita Barnard | Post Doc Fellowship, Critical Writing, Univ. of Penn. |
| Carolyn Lesnick | The End of Decline: Anglo-Irish Literature of the Big House | Vicki Mahaffey | Adjunct Faculty Professor, Marquete University |
| John Lessard | Entertaining Cinema: Hollywood, Globalization, and the Geography of Cultural Value | Vicki Mahaffey, James English | Asst. Professor, Univ. of the Pacific |
| Mark Miller | Voicing Abjection: Evangelic Discourse, Suffering and Speech in Early American Literature | Nancy Bentley, Max Cavitch | Asst. Professor, City Univ. of NY-Hunter College |
| Cyrus Mulready | Romancing the Globe: Romance, English Expansion and the Early Modern Stage | Margreta de Grazia | Assistant Professor of English, SUNY-New Paltz |
| Justine Murison | States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860 | Joan Dayan | Asst. Professor, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign |
| Kathy Lou Schultz | "In the Modern Vein”: Afro-Modernist Poetry and Literary History | Bob Perelman | Asst. Professor, University of Memphis |
| Stella Singer | Places of Pilgrimage in Premodern Texts | David Wallace | Asst. Professor, Cleveland St. Univ. |
| Stephanie Anne Viereck Gibbs Kamath | Unveiling the 'I': Allegory and Authorship in the Franco-English Tradition, 1270-1450 | Rita Copeland | Asst. Professor, Univ. of Mass.-Boston |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Jeff Allred | American Modernism and Depression Documentary | Rita Barnard | Assistant Professor, CUNY-Hunter College |
| Holly Barbaccia | Kalendes of Chaunge: Thinking Through Change in Middle English Poetry | David Wallace | Assistant Professor, Georgetown College |
| Rachel Buurma | The Anonymous System: Anonymity and Corporate Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture | Elaine Freedgood | Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto |
| Louis Cabri | Social Address and the Modernist Word in Louis Zukofsky, Bruce Andrews, P. Inman | Bob Perelman | Lecturer-Creative Writing, University of Windsor |
| Clare Costley | David's "Fruytfull Saynges": The Penitential Psalms in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern England | Peter Stallybrass | Assistant Professor, UConn |
| Jane Degenhardt | Faith, Embodiment, and "Turning Turk": Islamic Conversion on the Early Modern Stage and the Production of Religious and Racial Identity | Jean Howard | Assistant Professor, UMass |
| Marissa Greenberg | Tortured Mimesis: Representing Punishment in Early Modern London | Margreta de Grazia | Assistant Professor of English, University of New Mexico |
| Miriam Jacobson | 'Strangely Entangled': Alternative Antiquities in Renaissance English Poetry | Margreta de Grazia | Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University |
| Damien Keane | Dictating Terms: Irish Writing, Criticism, and the Problem of Information, 1933-1953 | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Assistant Professor, SUNY-Buffalo |
| Bernard Rhie | The Philosophy of the Face and 20th Century Literature and Art | Susan Stewart | Assistant Professor, Williams College |
| Jessica Rosenfeld | The Ethics of Courtly Love: Narrative Transformations in the Later Middle Ages | Rita Copeland | Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Martha Schoolman | American Abolitionist Geographies: Literature and the Politics of Place, 1840-1861 | Nancy Bentley | Assistant Professor, Miami University |
| Elizabeth Williamson | Staging Sacred Things: The Circulation of Religious Objects in Seventeenth-Century Drama | Peter Stallybrass | Faculty, Evergreen State College |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Bronwyn Beistle | Honeyed Secrets: Authority, Sexuality, and Flower Imagery in Women's Literature from Wollsonecraft to McGukian | Vicki Mahaffey | Independent Scholar |
| Shanyn Fiske | Hades and Hellenism: Underworlds of the Victorian Mythopoetic Imagination | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Assistant Professor, Rutgers-Camden |
| Amina Gautier | Encoding Vision, Envisioning Race | Michael Awkward | Assistant Professor, Saint Joseph's University |
| Matthew Hart | Synthetic Vernacular Poetry and Transatlantic Modernism, 1922-2002 | Bob Perelman | Assistant Professor, U. of Illinois-U.C. |
| Frank Hoffman | The Dream and the Book: Chaucer's Dream Poetry, Faculty Psychology, and the poetics of Recombination | David Wallace | Adjunct English Faculty Member at Community College of Philadelphia |
| Rajani Iyer | "My Soul Was Singing at a Work Apart": Female Victorian Poets Achieving Voice | David DeLaura | Lecturer, UPenn |
| Michelle Karnes | The 'School of Devotion': Imaginiation and Cognition in Medieval Meditations on Christ | Rita Copeland | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Scott Krawzcyk | Romantic Collaboration: Familial Authorship from Barbauld to Shelley | Stuart Curran | Assistant Professor, USMA-West Point |
| Erika Lin | Performance Matters: Culture and Theatrical Signification in the Early English Public Playhouses | Phyllis Rackin | Assistant Professor, University of Louisville |
| Cynthia Port | "Nothing but Change": Women's Economies of Aging, 1919-1939 | Vicki Mahaffey | Assistant Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University |
| Juliet Shields | Engendering Great Britain: Literary Representations of Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1700-1830 | Toni Bowers | Assistant Professor, Ohio State University |
| Tyler Smith | A Poetics of Indenture: 'Cases Peculiar' in English renaissance Literature | Margreta de Grazia | Visiting Professor, The Curtis Institute of Music |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| N. Elizabeth Broadwell | Women in Exile in Medieval Hagiography and Romance | David Wallace | Staff, Van Pelt Library, UPenn |
| Yoonmee Chang | Beyond the Culture Ghetto: Asian American Class Critique and the Ethnographic Bildungsroman | Eric Cheyfitz, Houston Baker | Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University |
| Toby Heman | Indoctrinating the Text: Reformation Controversies and Renaissance Texts, 1559-1640 | Margreta de Grazia | Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Marquette Univ. |
| Paul Kintzele | On the Verge of the World: Internationalism in the Text of Modernism | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Post-Doctoral Lecturer, UPenn |
| James Peterson | Concepts of the Underground in Black Culture | Herman Beavers | Assistant Professor of English, Penn St. Abington |
| Mark Rifkin | Manifesting America: Imperialism and National Space, 1776-1861 | Eric Cheyfitz | Assistant Professor at Skidmore College |
| Edwin Williams | Trials of Conscience: Criminalizing Religious Dissidence in Elizabethan England | Rebecca Bushnell | Program Administrator, The Folger Shakespeare Library |
| Brett Wilson | Maudlin Whigs: Gender, Feeling, and Party on the British Stage, 1688-1746 | Toni Bowers | Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Michael Barsanti | Law Like Love: Marriage, law, and the Modern Novel | Vicki Mahaffey | Associate Director, Rosenbach Museaum and Library |
| Maurice Black | The Art of Code | Vicki Mahaffey | Independent Scholar |
| Hester Blum | View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination | Elisa New | Asst. Professor of English, Penn. St. |
| Jeremy Braddock | The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934 | Jean-Michel Rabaté | Assistant Professor, Princeton University |
| Alice Brittan | Writing and Portage: The Post-Settlement Novel and Movement of Things | Rita Barnard | Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University |
| Jean Feerick | Reproducing Race: Early Modern Bodies and the Construction of National Difference | Peter Stallybrass | Assistant Professor, Brown University |
| Patricia Hopkins | Invisible Woman: Reading Rape and Sexual Exploitation in African-American Literature | Farah Griffin | Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University |
| Mark Stein | The Ascetic Sublime | Stuart Curran | Lecturer, Critical Writing, UPenn |
| Aselda Thompson | New Women, New Mothers: The Conflict of Feminism and Motherhood in Late-Victorian Fiction | David DeLaura | Adjunct Lecturer, University of Houston-Downtown |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| James Andres | Negational Architectures in Old English Poetry | David Wallace | Lecturer-Written Rhetoric, Benedictine University |
| Robert Barrett | Writing from the Marches: Cheshire Poetry and Drama, 1195-1645 | David Wallace | Asst. Prof., University of Illinois at Urbana |
| Ilana Blumberg | The Poetics of Ethics of Things: Sympathetic Property Relations in Silas Marner, Romola, and the Moonstone | Nina Auerbach | Assistant Professor of Culture, Humanities & Writing at Michigan State University |
| James Kearney | Matters of the Book: The Incarnate Text in Renaissance England | Peter Stallybrass | Asst. Prof. of English, Yale University |
| Jonna Mackin | Subject to Laughter: Comedy and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction | James English | Visiting Asst. Prof. & Lecturer, Dartmouth College |
| Lana Schwebel (deceased) | Economy, Representation, and the Sale of Indulgences in Late-Medieval England | David Wallace, Rita Copeland | Asst. Prof. of English, Sterne College, Yeshiva University |
| Erik Simpson | Revising Inspiration: Minstrels, Bards, and Improvisers in British and Irish Literature, 1757-1830 | Stuart Curran | English Department Chair, Grinnell College |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Anjali Arondekar | A Perverse Empire: Victorian Sexuality and the Indian Colony | Lynda Hart, David DeLaura | Associate Professor, Dept. of Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz |
| Jennifer Jordan Baker | A Speculative Language: Finance and Literary Imagination in Early America | Elisa New, Christopher Looby | Asst. Professor, NYU |
| Rayna Kalas | Frames, Glass, and the Technology of Poetic Invention | Margreta de Grazia | Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
| Janet Knepper | Misogyny, Subjectivity, and Crisis in English Romance and Allegory, 1350-1600 | David Wallace | Asst. Prof., Clarion University of Pennsylvania |
| Kerry Moore | Mourning Loss: The Place of the Object in Narrative Fantasy | Lynda Hart | Lec., University of Pennsylvania |
| Lana Younes | Facing the Other: A Comparative Study of Modernism in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Café Riche Circle | Bob Perelman | Chair, English and Translation Academy of Arts, Cairo University |
| Donald Zimmerman | Antipastoralism: A Resistant Georgic Mode | Stuart Curran | Assistant Professor, U.S. Air Force Acad. |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Leigh Edwards | Blood Relations: The Cultural Work of Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature | Betsy Erkkila | Asst. Prof. of English, Florida St. |
| Po Fang | The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning: Pater, Wilde, and Yeats | Vicki Mahaffey | Prof. of English National Taiwan Normal U. |
| David Golumbia | Against Universality: Founding Cultural Studies | Myra Jehlen | Asst. Professor of English & Media Studies, University of Virginia |
| Kendall Johnson | America Seen: Henry James's Picturesque and the Science of Culture | Eric Cheyfitz | Associate Prof. of English, Swarthmore College |
| Roberta Klein | Agatha Christie: A Feminist Reassessment | Paul Korshin | Secondary School Teacher, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes' School |
| Crystal Lucky | Without Holiness..: Free Black Women's Spiritual Narratives of the Nineteenth Century | Farah Griffin | Associate Prof.of English, Villanova University |
| Michael Magee, Jr. | Emancipating Pragmatisms: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing | Elisa New | Asst. Prof., Maritime College, SUNY |
| Ashley Montague | Going to Market: Credit Economics and Marriageable Women in 18th-Century Fiction | John Richetti | Owner of the Penn Book Center at 34th and Sansom |
| John Parker | God Among Thieves: Marx's Christological Theory of Value and the Literature of the English Reformation | Margreta de Grazia | Asst. Prof. Eng., Harvard University |
| Carol Schilling | Imagining Science: Narrative, Discovery, and the Double Helix | Peter Conn, Elaine Scarry | Actg. Dir. Eng. Writing Prog., University of Pennsylvania |
| Julie Schutzman | Ruling Passions: Sovereignty, Femininity and Fiction | John Richetti | Secondary School Teacher, Baldwin School |
| Victor Tulli | Indecent Reading, Literature, Obscenity Law, and U.S. Culture, 1952-1966 | Al Filreis | Asst. Dean, Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Antonio Viego, Jr. | Porous Latinidades: Working the Borders of Intelligibility | Lynda Hart | Associate Prof. of English, Duke University |
| Cheryl Williams | "Conceived in Transit, Delivered in Passage": Travel and Identity in 19th Century African American Women's Narratives | Houston Baker | Organizational Development Specialist, Private Industry |
| Elizabeth Yukins | Bastard Claims: The Agency of Illegitimacy in Twentieth-Century American Literature | Lynda Hart | Asst. Prof. Eng., John Jay College, CUNY |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Giselle Anatol | Mother Countries, Motherlands, and Mother Love: Representations of Motherhood in 20th-Century Caribbean Women's Literature | James English | Associate Prof. of English, University of Kansas |
| Cheryl Butler | The Art of the Black Essay: From Meditation to Transcendency | Betsy Erkkila, Peter Conn | Assistant Prof. of English, Montclair State University |
| Julie Crawford | "Lessons and Schdynges for Us All": Monsters as Signs in Early Modern Popular Literature | Phyllis Rackin | Asst. Prof. Eng. Comp. Lit., Columbia University |
| Jeannine DeLombard | "Eye-witness to the Cruelty": Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony | Houston Baker, Wendy Steiner | Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto |
| William Fisher | Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England | Phyllis Rackin, Peter Stallybrass | Asst. Prof. Eng., Lehman College, CUNY |
| Melissa Homestead | Imperfect Title: 19th-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property | Peter Conn | Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| John Lynch | The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson | Paul Korshin | Associate Prof. of English, Rutgers University- Newark |
| Amanda Mason | Intimacy, Politics, and Virginia Woolf: A Queered-Feminist Analysis | Vicki Mahaffey | Executive Director, Rutland Health Foundation |
| Theresa Suriano | Source and Discourse: Readings into Hamlet/ Readings out of Hamlet | Rebecca Bushnell | Rare Books Library, UPenn |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Stephen Best | The Subject of Property: Race, Prosthesis, and Possession in American Culture, 1865-1927 | Houston Baker | Associate Prof. of Eng., University of California-Berkley |
| Sam Choi | Machines of Metaphor: Myths and Materials of Computer Culture | James English, Al Filreis | Private Industry |
| Rhonda Frederick | The Colon People: Reading Caribbeanness through the Panama Canal | James English | Associate Prof. of English, Boston College |
| Eugene McGarry | Incarnation and Intertextuality in Faulkner's Major Novels | Vicki Mahaffey | Editorial Assistant, Harvard Theological Review, Harvard Univ. |
| Joseph Murphy | Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907 | Elisa New | Asst. Prof., Fu Jen Catholic University of Taiwan |
| Peter Parolin | "Not so Fitte a Place": English Identity and Italian Difference in Early Modern England | Rebecca Bushnell | Assoc. Prof. Eng., University of Wyoming |
| Geoffrey Sharpless | The Erotics of Culture: Masculinity and the Victorian Public School | James English | Prep. School, Indianapolis |
| Jill Wacker | Becoming Suitable: Self-Fashioning and the Rag Trade in American Literature, 1865-1925 | David Boyd, David Wallace | Medical writer, Breastcancer.com |
| Lawrence Warner | Cain, Nimrod, and the Erotics of Wandering in Late-Medieval Narrative | David Boyd, David Wallace | Lecturer of Middle English, University of Sydney & Co-Editor, Yearbook of Langland Studies |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Allison Chapman | Reforming Time: Calendars and Almanacs in Early Modern England | Margreta de Grazia | Asst. Prof. Eng., University of Alabama |
| Kathryn Conrad | Stag/nation: Reproducing the Irish National Subject | Vicki Mahaffey | Assoc. Prof. Eng., University of Kansas |
| Laura Croley | Wanderers and Settlers: Vagrancy, Begging, and the English Middle Class, 1790-1867 | Nina Auerbach | Lawyer, Dykema Gossett PPLC |
| Jerry Denno | Inspiration and the Poetic Imagination in Anglo-Saxon Poetry | Ted Irving | Asst. Prof., Chadron College |
| Jonathan Grossman | The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts | Nina Auerbach | Assoc. Prof., UCLA |
| Allen Grove | Coming Out of the Castle: Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction | Stuart Curran | Assoc. Prof. Eng., Alfred University |
| Ann Hostetler | Telling the Story of the Past: History, Identity and Community in Fiction by Walter Scott, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko | Peter Conn | Assoc. Prof. Eng., Goshen College |
| Nathaniel Paradise | Poetry and the Early Novel: Negotiations in British Literary Culture | Stuart Curran | Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf's College |
| James Seager | "Why Bastard? Wherefore Base?": Representing Bastardy in Early Modern England | Phyllis Rackin | Asst. Prof. Eng., Vassar |
| Darryl Wadsworth | Popular Sentiments: Victorian Melodrama, Class and Sentimentality | Nina Auerbach | IT Consultant in Canada |
| Timothy Waples | "A Harrowing State to Maintain": Individualism and Identity in the Cold War Careers of Ralph Ellison, Mary McCarthy, and Frank O'Hara | Al Filreis | Lecturer, Davidson College |
| Sarah Werner | Act Like a Feminist: Women and Performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company | Phyllis Rackin, Cary Mazer | Administrator at Folger Library |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| David Anderson | The Evolving Art of Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, and Sterling Brown: Technique as Process in Early Twentieth-Century American Poetry | Paul Fussell | Associate Professor, University of Louisville |
| Joshua Bellin | The Demon of the Continent: American Literature, Indian Conversion, and the Dynamics of Cultural Exchange | Eric Cheyfitz, Betsy Erkkila | Associate Professor, La Roche College |
| Lisa-Maria Burgess-Noudehou | Maps of Difference: Literature in the English and Spanish American Colonies | Myra Jehlen | Teacher, Winston Churchill High School |
| Ann Cubilie | The Limits of Culture: Testimonial Literature and the Constraints of Human Rights Discourse | Lynda Hart | Assoc. Prof., Georgetown |
| Frederick De Naples | Deadly Secrets, Dangerous Homes: Living with Sensation in the Victorian Period | Nina Auerbach | Asst. Professor & Chairperson, Bronx Community College-CUNY |
| Lisa Freeman | Theatrical Imaginings: Genre, Character, and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage | Stuart Curran, Phyllis Rackin | Assoc. Prof. Eng., University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Ann Lonnquist | James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Two-Tongue Common Readers: Egypt and the Rites of Allusion in Finnegans Wake and Between the Acts | Vicki Mahaffey | Prof. Chestnut Hill College |
| Suzane Neureiter | Mapping Early Modern Witchcraft: A Study of Pamphlet, Treatise, and Drama | Rebecca Bushnell | Visiting Prof. Eng., Beijing Number 2 Foreign Langs. Inst. |
| Peter Rock | From Boys to Men: Male Identities, Sexuality, and Fin De Siecle Criticism | Peter Stallybrass | Independent Scholar |
| Rachana Sachdev | "That Naked Sex": Race and the Immigration of Englishwomen to the American Colonies in 17th Century English Drama | Phyllis Rackin | Assoc. Prof., Susquehanna University |
| Ian Strachan | Paradise and Plantation: The Economy of Caribbean Discourse | Dan Bivona | Professor, College of the Bahamas |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Rebecca Bach | Producing the "New World:" The Colonial Stages of Ben Jonson and Captain John Smith | Peter Stallybrass | Asst. Prof. Eng., University of Alabama |
| Karen Chandler | Wages of Innocence, Wages of Sin: Melodramatic Fictions of Love, Class, and Race in Modern America, 1890-1940 | Betsy Erkkila | Associate Professor, University of Louisville |
| Raima Evan | Subversive Acts: Gender, Representation and Race in Contemporary Feminist Theater | Lynda Hart | Part-time Asst. Prof. of Eng., Swarthmore College |
| Rosemarie Fabien | The Atlantic Monthly's American Idea: The Evolution of Editorial Policy | Robert Lucid | Senior Writer, Hillier Group |
| Susan Iwanisziw | The Place of Women in Early Modern English Closet Drama | Maureen Quilligan | Visiting Asst. Prof. Eng., St. Lawrence U |
| George Justice | The Production of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain | John Richetti | Associate Prof. of English & Asst. Dean, University of Missouri |
| Rick Kerin | The Korean War and American Memory | Peter Conn | Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy (West Point) |
| Nicole King | C.L.R. James and the Formulations of Caribbean Cultural Identity | Betsy Erkkila | Asst. Prof. Eng, University of Maryland |
| Jacqueline Labbe | Representing Landscape, Representing Gender: The Configurations of Romantic Visuality | Stuart Curran | Professor of English, University of Warwick |
| Ruth Lindeborg | Rushdie and the Politics of Postcolonial Representation | Houston Baker | Independent Scholar |
| Laura Renick | The Asthetics of Time and the Ideology of Eternity in Old English Christian Poetry | Clare Lees | Assistant Professor, Devry Institute |
| Deborah Schizer | Eroticizing the Middle Ages: Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism | Nina Auerbach | Secondary School Teacher, Akiba Hebrew Academy |
| Eric Wertheimer | Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876 | Betsy Erkkila | Associate Professor, Arizona State University (Phoenix) |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Zell Kravinsky | Paradox Glossed: Milton's Allegory of Masculine Transcendence | Maureen Quilligan | Real Estate Agent, Zell Kravinsky Properties |
| David Lawrence | Figuring the Flesh: The Intimate Horrors of Authority | Vicki Mahaffey | Dir. of Eng. Prog. & ADE, Mod. Lang. Assn. |
| Barbara Riebling | The Drama of Counsel: Advice and Favor on the Tudor Stage | Robert Turner | Assoc. Prof. Eng, University of Toledo |
| Amy Robinson | To Pass// In Drag: Strategies of Entrance Into the Visible | Lynda Hart | Asst. Prof. Eng., Georgetown University |
| Sandra Sherman | The Poetics of Trade: Finance and Fictionality in the Early 18th Century | John Richetti | Law Practice |
| Craig Smith | Utopia and Necessity: The Crisis of Nationalism in African Literature | Houston Baker | Corporate Sector Phila., PA |
| Max Thomas | The Practice of Poetry in Early Modern English | Margreta de Grazia | Asst. Prof., University of Iowa |
| Jack Truten | Sir Walter Scott: Folklore and Fiction | Stuart Curran | Ethics and Humanities Consultant, Lehigh Valley Hospital |
| Roland Williams | Sweet Music: A Sounding of American Narratives | Robert Regan | Asst. Prof. Eng., Temple University |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Elizabeth Alexander | Collage: An Approach to Reading African-American Women's Literature | John Roberts | Post Doc Fellow, Yale University |
| Jennifer Brody | Impossible Beings: Complicating Categories in Victorian Culture | Nina Auerbach | Assoc. Prof. Eng., Northwestern University |
| Mellisa Croghan | Alcohol and Art in 19C American Fiction: Studies of Poe and Stowe | Peter Conn | Independent Scholar |
| Gary Dyer | British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832 | Stuart Curran | Associate Prof. of English, Cleveland State University |
| Christopher Fassler | Coriolanus, Community, Theatre and 17thC Commonwealth | Rebecca Bushnell | Winthrop College |
| Ellen Garvey | Commercial Fiction: Advertising and Fiction in American Magazines, 1880s to 1910s | Peter Conn | Asst. Prof. Eng., New Jersey City University |
| Jay Grossman | Emerson, Whitman and the Politics of Representation | Betsy Erkkila | Asst. Prof. Eng., Northwestern University |
| David Herman | Universal Grammar and Narrative Form: Structure, Meaning Context | Vicki Mahaffey, Gerald Prince | Assoc. Prof. Eng., North Carolina SU |
| Lisa Myers | Embodied Voices: Public and Private Self-Presentation in Modern Poetry | Vicki Mahaffey | Lecturer, UPenn |
| Judith Pascoe | Staging Romanticism: The Self-Representation of the 1790's | Stuart Curran | Assoc Prof. Eng., University of Iowa |
| Donna Rondolone | The Clash of Oral-Heroic and Literate-Ricardian Ideals in the Alliterative "Morte Arthure" | Ted Irving | Auxiliary Instructor, Devry Institute |
| Vivienne Rundle | Framing the Reader: Responsibility and Design in Victorian and Early Modern Narrative | David DeLaura | Asst. Prof. Eng., University of Calgary |
| Valerie Sedlak | From the Religious Dimension to the Spirtual Vision in the Novels of Graham Greene | Alice Kelley | Assoc. Prof. Eng. & Asst. Dean Lib. Arts, College of Notre Dame of Maryland; |
| Joe Valente | James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Crossing Sexual and Colonial Differences | Vicki Mahaffey | Professor of English & Women's Studies; Director of Irish Studies, Univ. of Illinois |
| Thomas Wyly | Cardinal Wolsey in Tudor and Stuart Literature: Relationships Between Renaissance Views of the Meaning of History and the Character of Literary Texts | Craig Thompson | V.P. of Human Resources, Bentley College |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Joanne Despres | Translation Techniques in the Romances of William Caxton | Siegfried Wenzel | Associate Editor, Merriam Webster, Inc. |
| Hilene Flanzbaum | Balancing Act: Robert Lowell's Impossible Career | David DeLaura | Assoc. Prof. Eng., Butler U |
| Teresa Goddu | The Haunted Text: Form and History in the American Gothic | Betsy Erkkila | Assoc. Prof. Eng., Vanderbilt U |
| Susan Greenfield | Novel Daughters: The Family Romance from Francis Burney to Jane Austen | Stuart Curran | Prof. Eng., Fordham University |
| Andrea Henderson | Romantic Identities: Models of Subjectivity in the Late 18th and Early 19th Cs | Marjorie Levinson | Assoc. Prof. English, University of Michigan |
| Jorg W. Homberger | A Further Garden: The Gentleman Ideal in Southern Fiction, 1894 - 1904 | Robert Regan | Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College |
| Katherine Kinney | Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War | Betsy Erkkila | Assoc. Prof., UC-Riverside |
| Andy Levy | Free Fiction: Individual and Institutional Visions of the American Short Story, 1842-1982 | Myra Jehlen | Assistant Professor, Butler University |
| Elisabeth Magnus | Escaping the Dominion of Grace: Holy Power and the Mystic Subversion in 17th Century Texts | Rebecca Bushnell | Copy Editor, University of California Press |
| Jeff Masten | Textual Reproduction: Collaboration, Gender, and Authorship in Renaissance Drama | Margreta de Grazia, Peter Stallybrass | Northwestern University, Assoc. Professor of English |
| Joe McGowan | Old English Lexicographical Studies | James Rosier | University of San Diego, Assoc. Prof. Eng. |
| Jean Peterson | This is not the Women's Age:" Changing Representations of Gender in 17th Century English Drama | Phyllis Rackin | Bucknell University, Assoc. Prof. Eng. |
| Jill Rosser | The Modern Solution: Absence and the Unsaid in Henry James and Samuel Beckett | Vicki Mahaffey | Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Houston |
| Changhong Wang | "Have No Twisty Thoughts": Ezra Pound's Translation of the Shih Ching | Wendy Flory | Accountant, Private Law Firm |
| Susan Yager | Visual Perception in Chaucer | Siegfried Wenzel | Assistant Professor, Iowa State University |
| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation | Director(s) | Where they are now |
| Lindon Barrett | In the Dark: Issues of Value, Evaluation and Authority in 20th Century Critical Discourse | Maureen Quilligan | Assoc. Prof. of Engish, University of California-Irvine |
| Allyson Booth | Post Cards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space Between Modernism and the First World War | Vicki Mahaffey, Elaine Scarry | Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy (West Point) |
| Elizabeth Bryan | Layamon's Brut: Relationships Between the Two Versions | Ted Irving | Assistant Professor, Brown University |
| Juliet Fleming | Ladies' Men, the Ladies' Text, and the English Renaissance | Maureen Quilligan | University of Cambridge, Asst. Lect. Eng. |
| Cynthia Fuchs | Gazing: Gender, Performance, and Representation in Film | Betsy Erkkila, Wendy Steiner | George Mason University, Assoc. Prof. English and Film |
| Jennifer Green-Lewis | Signs of the Things Taken: Reading, Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Photograph | David DeLaura, Elaine Scarry | Assoc. Prof. Eng., George Washington University |
| Kim Hall | Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Race, Gender, and Power in Early Modern England | Maureen Quilligan | Georgetown University, Assoc. Prof. Eng. |
| Robyn Landis | The Family Business: Problems of Identity and Authority in Literature, Theory, and the Academy | Robert Lucid | Author, U.S. Goverment (Health & Finance Advisory) |
| Janet Spencer | The Politics of Mixed- Genre Drama: the Comic Treatment of Punishment Spectacles in Shakespeare | Maureen Quilligan | Assistant Professor, Wingate University |
| Theresa Spitler | The Dilemma of Superiority: The Genius Character in American Fiction | Robert Regan | St. John's University, Assoc. Prof. of English and Writing |
| Wendy Vardaman | Constructing Houses: The Representation of Home in 20 Century American Autobiography | Peter Conn | Lecturer, University of Washington |
