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Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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2011
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Jarrett Anthony	"Higher Laws: The Making of Religion in Antebellum American Literature"	Nancy Bentley	House Assistant Dean of Flora Rose House, Cornell University
Julia Bloch	Lyric After Epic: Gender and the Postwar Long Poem	Bob Perelman	Assistant Professor/Graduate MAT Faculty, Bard College; Research Associate at University of Pennsylvania, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Megan Cook	The Poet and the Antiquaries: Renaissance Readers and Chaucerian Scholarship	David Wallace	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Bowdoin College
Jonathan Scott Enderle	Novel Properties: Communication, Copyright and the British Novel, 1710-1774	Michael Gamer	Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Greta LaFleur	"American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815"	Max Cavitch	Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
William Nessly	"Rewriting the Rising Sun: Narrative Authority and Japanese Empire in Asian American Literature,"	Amy Kaplan	Assistant Professor, West Chester University
Mearah Quinn-Brauner	"Recovering the Conflicts: Memoirs of the Late-Twentieth Century American Literary Academy"	James English	Visiting Lecturer, Rutgers University, Camden
Joshua Ratner	"American Paratexts: Experimentation and Anxiety in the Early United States"	Max Cavitch	William Penn Charter School (Philadelphia, PA)
Poulomi Saha	"Revolutionary Desires: Gender and National Attachment in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal"	Ania Loomba	Assistant Professor, Dickinson College
Jill Shashaty	As If: Utopian Desire and the Imagination of History in Nineteenth-Century America	Amy Kaplan	Assistant Professor, Community College of Philadelphia
Thomas Ward	"Inside Voices of the English Renaissance"	Margreta de Grazia	Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy
Brandon T Woods	Dangerous Accumulations: Representing Black Rage in the Protest Era, 1936-1945	Herman Beavers	Wilmington Friends School (Wilmington, DE), Director, QUEST Center

2010
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Todd Carmody	“Intentional Communities: The Public Life of Race in American Literature, 1925–1961”	Heather Love	ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, UC Berkley Fall 2011 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies, Free University of Berlin, 2010-2011
Urvashi Chakravarty	Serving Like a Free Man: Labor, Liberty, and Consent in Early Modern English Drama	Zachary Lesser Peter Stallybrass David Wallace	Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii
John Connor	Mid-Century Romance: Modernist Afterlives of the Historical Novel	James English	Assistant Professor of English, Colgate University
Stephanie Elsky	Time Out of Mind: The Poetics of Custom and Common Law in Early Modern England	Margreta de Grazia Zachary Lesser Ania Loomba Melissa Sanchez	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tufts University
Anna Foy	Poetry and the Common Weal: Conceiving Civic Utility in British Poetics of the Long Eighteenth Century	Suvir Kaul John Richetti	Post Doctoral, University of Pennsylvania
Jeehyun Lim	Between Foreigners and Citizens: Bilinguals in Asian American and Latino Literature, 1960–2000	Josephine Park	Assistant Professor of English, Denison University
Rachael Nichols	The Human Animal: Tangles in Science and Literature , 1870-1920	Amy Kaplan	Lecturer in English, Skidmore College; Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Ogden	The Science of Error: Mesmerism and American Fiction, 1784–1890	Nancy Bentley	Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Greg Steirer	‘Raise the Black Flag’: The Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1970s Britain	James English
Michelle Strizever	Visible Texture: Artists' Books, 1960–2010	Charles Bernstein

2009
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Gershun Avilez	The Wake of Blackness: Aesthetic Ambivalence and the Post-Black Arts Era	Thadious Davis	Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at Yale University
Ian Cornelius	Cultural Promotion: Middle English Alliterative Writing and the Ars Dictaminis	Rita Copeland	Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
Celeste DiNucci	The Physics of Presence, The Metaphysics of Materiality: Shakespeare and the Criticism of Presentation	Cary Mazer
Jeffrey Edwards	Privileged Sensibilities: Conjectural Histories of Race in the Early American Republic	Amy Kaplan	Upper School English teacher, Riverdale Country School, NY
Andrew Gaedtke	The Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Modernist Narrative	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
Jane Malcolm	Hard Women, Hard Modernism: Gendering Modernist Difficulty	Charles Bernstein	Assistant Professor, University of Montreal, Department of English
Linda Nurra	Signs Performing: Language and Politics in 1790s Britain	Stuart Curran	Associate Director: Office of Student Life, University of California-Santa Barbara
Rosemary O'Neill	Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature	David Wallace	Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
Cristina Pangilinan	Poetry and London Learning: Chaucer, Gower, USK, Langland and Hoccleve	Rita Copeland Emily Steiner	ACLS Faculty Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Jared Richman	Transatlantic Realms: The Idea of America in British Literary Imagination	Stuart Curran Michael Gamer	Assistant Professor of English, Colorado College
Hannah Wells	Fallen Subjects: American Pragmatism and the Color Line, 1880-1920	Nancy Bentley	Assistant Professor, Drew University

2008
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Joseph Drury	Machines, Mechanism and the Making of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century	John Richetti	Assistant Professor, Villanova University
John P. 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
Anna Ivy	From Princeton to Paradise: Women's Reading in Academic and Popular Culture	James English	English Senior Lecturer and Assistant to the Associate Head, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Carolyn Anne Jacobson	Contagious Transmissions and Charged Atmospheres: Disease Theories and Narrative in Early Victorian Novels	Michael Gamer	Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
Benjamin Kahan	Modern American Celibacies, 1886-1969	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Catherine Nicholson	Geographies of English Eloquence	Margreta de Grazia	Assistant Professor, Yale University

2007
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	Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Jennifer Higginbotham	Fair Maids and Golden Girls: Early Modern Girlhood and the Production of Femininity	Phyllis Rackin	Assistant Professor of English and 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	Teacher at Holy Names Academy, Seattle
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, Southern Methodist University
Emily Zinn	Rewriting the Kitchen: Gender and Food in Contemporary Fiction	Vicki Mahaffey	Lecturer, University of California-Santa Barbara

2006
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Nicole L. Brittingham Furlonge	On the Lower Frequences: Listening and African-American Expressive Culture	Herman Beavers	English Department Chair and 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 Masters: Chick Lit and Postfeminist Sexual Politics	Rita Barnard	Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
Carolyn A. Lesnick	The End of Decline: Anglo-Irish Literature of the Big House	Vicki Mahaffey	Adjunct Faculty Professor, Marquete University
John P. Lessard	Entertaining Cinema: Hollywood, Globalization, and the Geography of Cultural Value	Vicki Mahaffey	Asst. Professor, Univ. of the Pacific
Mark J. Miller	Voicing Abjection: Evangelic Discourse, Suffering and Speech in Early American Literature	Nancy Bentley Max Cavitch	Assistant 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 S. Murison	States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860	Joan Dayan	Assistant 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	Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University
Stephanie Anne Viereck Gibbs Kamath	Unveiling the 'I': Allegory and Authorship in the Franco-English Tradition, 1270-1450	Rita Copeland	Assistant Professor, Univ. of Mass.-Boston

2005
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Jeff Allred	American Modernism and Depression Documentary		Associate Professor, CUNY-Hunter College
Holly Barbaccia	Kalendes of Chaunge: Thinking Through Change in Middle English Poetry	David Wallace	Associated Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Georgetown College
Rachel Buurma	The Anonymous System: Anonymity and Corporate Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture	Elaine Freedgood	Assistant Professor of English, Swarthmore College
Louis Cabri	Social Address and the Modernist Word in Louis Zukofsky, Bruce Andrews, P. Inman	Bob Perelman	Assistant Professor, University of Windsor
Clare Costley	David's "Fruytfull Saynges": The Penitential Psalms in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern England	Peter Stallybrass	Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies, 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		Assistant Professor of English, University of New Mexico
Miriam Jacobson	'Strangely Entangled': Alternative Antiquities in Renaissance English Poetry	Margreta de Grazia	Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Damien Keane	Dictating Terms: Irish Writing, Criticism, and the Problem of Information, 1933-1953	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Assistant Professor, SUNY - Buffalo
Bernard Jaeseong Rhie	The Philosophy of the Face and 20th Century Literature and Art	Susan Stewart	Associate Professor, Williams College
Jessica A. Rosenfeld	The Ethics of Courtly Love: Narrative Transformations in the Later Middle Ages	Rita Copeland	Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Martha E. Schoolman	American Abolitionist Geographies: Literature and the Politics of Place, 1840-1861	Nancy Bentley	Assistant Professor, Miami University at Ohio
Elizabeth Williamson	Staging Sacred Things: The Circulation of Religious Objects in Seventeenth-Century Drama		Faculty, Evergreen State College

2004
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Bronwyn Beistle	Honeyed Secrets: Authority, Sexuality, and Flower Imagery in Women's Literature from Wollstonecraft to McGukian	Vicki Mahaffey	Independent Scholar
Shanyn Fiske	Haes 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 of English, Saint Joseph's University
Matthew Hart	Synthetic Vernacular Poetry and Transatlantic Modernism, 1922-2002	Bob Perelman	Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Frank Guy Hoffman	The Dream and the Book: Chaucer's Dream Poetry, Faculty Psychology, and the Poetics of Recombination	David Wallace	Assistant Professor at Community College of Philadelphia, Associate Department Head
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': Imagination and Cognition in Medieval Meditations on Christ	Rita Copeland	Assistant Professor, Stanford University
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 Playhouse	Phyllis Rackin	Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Cynthia Port	"Nothing by 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, 1700-1730	Toni Bowers	Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Tyler Smith	A Poetics of Indenture: 'Cases peculiar' in English Renaissance Literature	Margreta de Grazia	Visiting Professor, The Curtis Institute of Music

2003
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
N. Elizabeth Broadwell	Women in Exile in Medieval Hagiography and Romance	David Wallace	Library Specialists, Van Pelt Library, UPenn
Yoonmee Chang	Beyond the Culture Ghetto: Asian American Class Critique and the Ethnographic Bildungsroman	Houston Baker Eric Cheyfitz	Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University
Toby Heman	Indoctrinating the Text: Reformation Controversies and Renaissance Texts, 1559-1640	Margreta de Grazia	Assistant Professor-Adjunct Faculty, Marquette University
Paul Kintzele	On the Verge of the World: Internationalism in the Text of Modernism	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Assistant Professor, University of Houston
James Peterson	Concepts of the Underground in Black Culture	Herman Beavers	7-1-11 Director of the Africana Studies Program, Lehigh University Associate Professor, Bucknell, University
Mark Rifkin	Manifesting America: Imperialism and National Space, 1776-1861	Eric Cheyfitz	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Owen Williams	Trials of Conscience: Criminalizing Religious Dissidence in Elizabethan England	Rebecca Bushnell	Assistant Director, The Folger Shakespeare Library
Brett Wilson	Maudlin Whigs: Gender, Feeling, and Party on the British Stage, 1688-1746	Toni Bowers	Associate Professor, College of William and Mary

2002
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Michael Barsanti	Law Like Love: Marriage, Law, and the Modern Novel	Vicki Mahaffey	Senior Program Specialist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
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	Associate Professor of English, Penn. St.
Jeremy Braddock	The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Assistant Professor, Cornell
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 of English, Christopher Newport University
Mark Stein	The Ascetic Sublime	Stuart Curran	Lecturer B, Critical Writing Program, UPenn
Aselda Thompson	New Women, New Mothers: The Conflict of Feminism and Motherhood in Late-Victorian Fiction	David DeLaura	Legal Intern, Shell Oil Company
Sue Sun Yom	Sex And The American Soldier: Military Cinema and the War on Venereal Disease, 1918-1969	James English	Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology & Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

2001
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
James M. 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	Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies & Associate Head of English, 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	Assistance Professor of Culture, Humanities, and Writing at Michigan State University
James Kearney	Matters of the Book: The Incarnate Text in Renaissance England	Peter Stallybrass	Associate Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Jonna Mackin	Subject to Laughter: Comedy and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction	James English	Lecturer, Dartmouth College
Lana Schwebel deceased	Economy, Representation, and the Sale of Indulgences in Late-Medieval England	Rita Copeland David Wallace	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

2000
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Anjali Arondekar	A Perverse Empire: Victorian Sexuality and the Indian Colony	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	Christopher Looby Elisa New	Associate Professor, NYU
Rayna Margrit Kalas	Frames, Glass, and the Technology of Poetic Invention	Margreta de Grazia	Associate Professor, Cornell University
Janet Knepper	Misogyny, Subjectivity, and Crisis in English Romance and Allegory, 1350-1600	David Wallace	Assistant Professor, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Kerry Moore	Mourning Loss: The Place of the Object in Narrative Fantasy	Lynda Hart	Lec., University of Pennsylvania
Lana Emad Younes	Facing the Other: A Comparative Study of Modernism in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Cafeacute; 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 Academy

1999
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Leigh Holladay Edwards	Blood Relations: The Cultural Work of Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature	Betsy Erkkila	Associate Professor of English, Florida State University
Po Fang	The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning: Pater, Wilde, and Yeats	Vicki Mahaffey	Prof. of English National Taiwan Normal U.
David Alan Golumbia	Against Universality: Founding Cultural Studies	Myra Jehlen	Asst. Professor of English and Media Studies; University of Virginia
Kendall A. Johnson	America Seen: Henry James's Picturesque and the Science of Culture	Eric Cheyfitz	Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College
Roberta S. Klein	Agatha Christie: A Feminist Reassessment	Paul Korshin	Secondary School Teacher, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes' School
Crystal Jones Lucky	Without Holiness..: Free Black Women's Spiritual Narratives of the Nineteenth Century	Farah Griffin	Associate Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies Program, Villanova University
Michael Magee, Jr.	Emancipating Pragmatisms: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing	Elisa New	Asst. Prof., Maritime College, SUNY
Ashley Montague	Going to the Market: Credit Economics and Marriageable Women in 18th-Century Fiction	John Richetti	Owner of the Penn Book Center at 34th and Sansom
John Leonard Parker	God Among Thieves: Marx's Christological Theory of Value and the Literature of the English Reformation	Margreta de Grazia	Associate Professor, University of Virginia
John Leonard Peter	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 Rebecca Schutzman	Ruling Passions, Sovereignty, Femininity and Fiction	John Richetti	Secondary School Teacher, Baldwin School
Victor R. Tulli	Indecent Reading, Literature, Obscenity Law, and U.S. Culture, 1952-1966	Al Filreis	Private Industry
Antonio Viego, Jr.	Porous Latinidades: Working the Borders of Intelligibility		Associate Professor of English and Romance Studies, Duke University
Cheryl Deborah Williams	"Conceived in Transit, Delivered in Passage": Travel and Identity in 19th Century African American Women's Narratives	Houston Baker	Organizational Development Specialist, Comcast Cable
Elizabeth Anne Yukins	Bastard Claims: The Agency of illegitimacy in Twentieth-Century American Literature	Lynda Hart	Asst. Prof. Eng., John Jay College, CUNY

1998
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 Professor of English, University of Kansas
Cheryl Blanche Butler	The Art of the Black Essay: From Meditation to Transcendency	Peter Conn Betsy Erkkila	Adjunct Professor, Montclair State University & WFMZ Reporter
Julie Anne Crawford	"Lessons and Schdynes for Us": Monsters as Signs in Early Modern Popular Literature	Phyllis Rackin	Associate Professor of English, 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 G. Fisher	Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England	Phyllis Rackin Peter Stallybrass	Associate Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY
Melissa Homestead	Imperfect Title: 19th-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property	Peter Conn	Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jack Lynch	The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson	Paul Korshin	Professor of English, and Acting Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, 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

1997
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 Professor of English, 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 Professor 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 Fitted a Place: English Identity and Italian Different 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	Senior Lecturer of Middle English, University of Sydney & Co-Editor, "Yearbook of Langland Studies"

1996
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Alison Chapman	Reforming Time: Calendars and Almanacs in Early Modern England	Margreta de Grazia	Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama
Kathryn Anne Conrad	Stag/nation: Reproducing the Irish National Subject	Vicki Mahaffey	Assoc. Prof. Eng., University of Kansas
Laura S. 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	Professor of English, 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 P. Seager	"Why Bastard? Wherefore Base?" Representing Bastardy in Early Modern England		Asst. Prof. Eng., Vassar
Darryl Wadsworth	Popular Sentiments: Victorian Melodrama, Class and Sentimentality	Nina Auerbach	IT Consultant in Canada
Timothy F. 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	Cary Mazer Phyllis Rackin	Administrator at Folger Library

1995
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 of English, University of Louisville
Josh 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	Freelance writer and editor
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	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 Finnegan's 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 of English, College of the Bahamas

1994
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	Associate Professor English, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karen Chandler	Wages of Innocence, Wages of Sin: Melodramatic Fictions of Love, Class, and Race in Modern America, 1890-1940	Betsy Erkkila	Associate Professor of English, 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	Professor of English, Vice Provost for Advanced Studies and Dean of the Graduate School, 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 Aesthetics 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)

1993
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	Associate Professor of English, University of Toledo
Amy Robinson	To Pass In Drag: Strategies of Entrance Into the Visible	Lynda Hart	Assistant Professor of English, 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	Assistant Professor, 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	Assistant Professor of English, Temple University

1992
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Elizabeth Alexander	Collage: An Approach to Reading African-American Women's Literature	John Roberts	Professor of African-American Studies & English, Yale University
Jennifer D. Brody	Impossible Beings: Complicating Categories in Victorian Culture	Nina Auerbach	Professor of English, Duke University
Melissa Croghan	Alcohol and Art in 19th Century 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 17th Century Commonwealth	Rebecca Bushnell	Winthrop College
Ellen Garvey	Commercial Fiction: Advertising and Fiction in American Magazines, 1880s to 1910s	Peter Conn	Assistant Professor of English, New Jersey City University
Jay Grossman	Emerson, Whitman and the Politics of Representation	Betsy Erkkila	Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University
David Herman	Universal Grammar and Narrative Form: Structure, Meaning Context	Vicki Mahaffey Gerald Prince	Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University
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	Associate Professor of English, 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	Assistant Professor of English, University of Calgary
Valerie Sedlak	From the Religious Dimension to the Spiritual Vision in the Novels of Graham Greene	Alice Kelley	Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Liberal 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 and Women's Studies; Director of Irish Studies, University if 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

1991
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	Associate Professor of English, Butler University
Teresa Goddu	The Haunted Text: Form and History in the American Gothic	Betsy Erkkila	Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Susan Greenfield	Novel Daughters: The Family Romance from Francis Burney to Jane Austen	Stuart Curran	Professor of English, Fordham University
Andrea Henderson	Romantic Identities: Models of Subjectivity in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries	Marjorie Levinson	Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan
Jorg Homberger	A Further Garden: The Gentleman Ideal in Southern Fiction, 1894-1904	Robert Regan	Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
Katherine Kinney	Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War	Betsy Erkkila	Associate Professor, 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, Associate Professor of English
Joe McGowan	Old English Lexicographical Studies	James Rosier	Associate Professor of English, University of San Diego
Jean Peterson	This is not the Women's Age: Changing Representations of Gender in 17th Century English Drama	Phyllis Rackin	Bucknell University, Associate Professor English
Jill Rosser	The Modern Solution: Absence and the Unsaid in Henry James and Samuel Beckett	Vicki Mahaffey	Visiting Assistant Professor, University 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

1990
Alumnus	Title of Dissertation	Director(s)	Where they are now
Lindon Barrett deceased	In the Dark: Issues of Value, Evaluation and Authority in 20th Century Critical Discourse	Maureen Quilligan	Associate Professor of English, 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 Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Elizabeth Bryan	Layamon's Brut: Relationships Between the Two Versions	Ted Irving	Associate Professor, Brown University
Juliet Fleming	Ladies' Men, the Ladies' Text, and the English Renaissance	Maureen Quilligan	University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer of English
Cynthia Fuchs	Gazing: Gender, Performance, and Representation in Film	Betsy Erkkila Wendy Steiner	George Mason University, Associate Professor of English and Film
Jennifer Green-Lewis	Signs of the Things Taken: Reading, Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Photograph	David DeLaura	Associate Professor of English, George Mason University
Kim Hall	Acknowledging Thins of Darkness: Race, Gender, and Power in Early Modern England	Maureen Quilligan	Georgetown University, Associate Professor of English
Robyn Landis	The Family Business: Problems of Identity and Authority in Literature, Theory, and the Academy	Robert Lucid	Author, U.S. Government (Health and 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 20th Century American Autobiography	Peter Conn	Lecturer, University of Washington

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