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

1998
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Giselle Anatol	James English	Mother Countries, Motherlands, and Mother Love: Representations of Motherhood in 20th-Century Caribbean Women's Literature	Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas
Cheryl Blanche Butler	Peter Conn Betsy J. Erkkilä	The Art of the Black Essay: From Meditation to Transcendency	Adjunct Professor, Montclair State University & WFMZ Reporter
Julie Anne Crawford	Phyllis Rackin	"Lessons and Schdynes for Us": Monsters as Signs in Early Modern Popular Literature	Associate Professor of English, Comp. Lit., Columbia University
Jeannine DeLombard	Wendy Steiner Houston A. Baker, Jr.	"Eye-witness to the Cruelty": Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony	Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
William G. Fisher	Phyllis Rackin Peter Stallybrass	Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England	Associate Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY
Melissa Homestead	Peter Conn	Imperfect Title: 19th-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property	Susan J. Rosowski Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jack Lynch	Paul Korshin	The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson	Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
Amanda Mason	Vicki Mahaffey	Intimacy, Politics, and Virginia Woolf: A Queered-Feminist Analysis	Executive Director, Rutland Health Foundation
Theresa Suriano	Rebecca Bushnell	Source and Discourse: Readings into Hamlet/Readings out of Hamlet	Rare Books Library, UPenn

1997
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Stephen Best	Houston A. Baker, Jr.	The Subject of Property: Race, Prosthesis, and Possession in American Culture, 1865-1927	Associate Professor of English, University of California-Berkley
Sam Choi	James English Al Filreis	Machines of Metaphor: Myths and Materials of Computer Culture	Private Industry
Rhonda Frederick	James English	The Colon People: Reading Caribbeanness through the Panama Canal	Associate Professor of English and Director, African & African Diaspora Studies, Boston College
Eugene McGarry	Vicki Mahaffey	Incarnation and Intertextuality in Faulkner's Major Novels	Editorial Assistant, Harvard Theological Review, Harvard Univ.
Joseph Murphy	Elisa New	Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907	Associate Professor, Fu Jen Catholic University of Taiwan
Peter Parolin	Rebecca Bushnell	Not so Fitted a Place: English Identity and Italian Different in Early Modern England	Assoc. Prof. Eng. University of Wyoming
Geoffrey Sharpless	James English	The Erotics of Culture: Masculinity and the Victorian Public School	Prep. School, Indianapolis
Jill Wacker	Peter Conn	Becoming Suitable: Self-Fashioning and the Rag Trade in American Literature, 1865-1925	Vice President, Steege/Thomson Communications
Lawrence Warner	David Wallace David Boyd	Cain, Nimrod, and the Erotics of Wandering in Late-Medieval Narrative	Professor of Medieval English Literature Co-Director, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Department of English King's College London

1996
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Alison Chapman	Margreta de Grazia	Reforming Time: Calendars and Almanacs in Early Modern England	Professor of English, University of Alabama
Kathryn Anne Conrad	Vicki Mahaffey	Stag/nation: Reproducing the Irish National Subject	Assoc. Prof. Eng., University of Kansas
Laura S. Croley	Nina Auerbach	Wanderers and Settlers: Vagrancy, Begging, and the English Middle Class, 1790-1867	Lawyer, Dykema Gossett PPLC
Jerry Denno	Edward B. (Ted) Irving	Inspiration and the Poetic Imagination in Anglo-Saxon Poetry	Asst. Prof., Chadron College
Jonathan Grossman	Nina Auerbach	The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts	Assoc. Prof., UCLA
Allen Grove	Stuart Curran	Coming Out of the Castle: Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction	Professor of English, Alfred University
Ann Hostetler	Peter Conn	Telling the Story of the Past: History, Identity and Community in Fiction by Walter Scott, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko	Assoc. Prof. Eng., Goshen College
Natan Paradise	Stuart Curran	Poetry and the Early Novel: Negotiations in British Literary Culture	Associate Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies- University of Minnesota
James P. Seager	Phyllis Rackin	'Why Bastard? Wherefore Base?' Representing Bastardy in Early Modern England	Director at IHS Emerging Energy Research
Darryl Wadsworth	Nina Auerbach	Popular Sentiments: Victorian Melodrama, Class and Sentimentality	IT Consultant in Canada
Timothy F. Waples	Al Filreis	'A Harrowing State to Maintain': Individualism and Identity in the Cold War Careers of Ralph Ellison, Mary McCarthy, and Frank O'Hara	Lecturer, Davidson College
Sarah Werner	Phyllis Rackin Cary Mazer	Act Like a Feminist: Women and Performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company	Director at the Folger Shakespeare Library

1995
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
David Anderson	Paul Fussell	The Evolving Art of Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, and Sterling Brown: Technique as Process in Early Twentieth-Century American Poetry	Associate Professor of English, University of Louisville
Josh Bellin	Eric Cheyfitz Betsy J. Erkkilä	The Demon of the Continent: American Literature, Indian Conversion and the Dynamics of Cultural Exchange	Associate Professor, La Roche College
Lisa-Maria Burgess-Noudehou	Myra Jehlen	Maps of Difference: Literature in the English and Spanish American Colonies	Freelance writer and editor
Ann Cubilie	Lynda Hart	The Limits of Culture: Testimonial Literature and the Constraints of Human Rights Discourse	Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Extended Learning, Central Washington University.
Frederick De Naples	Nina Auerbach	Deadly Secrets, Dangerous Homes: Living with Sensation in the Victorian Period	Professor & Chairperson, Bronx Community College-CUNY
Lisa A. Freeman	Stuart Curran Phyllis Rackin	Theatrical Imaginings: Genre, Character, and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage	Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Lonnquist	Vicki Mahaffey	James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Two-Tongue Common Readers: Egypt and the Rites of Allusion in Finnegan's Wake and Between the Acts	Prof. Chestnut Hill College
Suzane Neureiter	Rebecca Bushnell	Mapping Early Modern Witchcraft: A Study of Pamphlet, Treatise, and Drama	Visiting Prof. Eng., Beijing Number 2 Foreign Langs. Inst.
Paul J. Rock	Peter Stallybrass	From Boys to Men: Male Identities, Sexuality, and Fin De Siecle Criticism	Independent Scholar
Rachana Sachdev	Phyllis Rackin	'That Naked Sex': Race and the Immigration of Englishwomen to the American Colonies in 17th Century English Drama	Assoc. Prof., Susquehanna University
Ian Strachan	Dan Bivona	Paradise and Plantation: The Economy of Caribbean Discourse	Professor of English, College of the Bahamas

1994
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Rebecca Bach	Peter Stallybrass	Producing the "New World"; The Colonial Stages of Ben Jonson and Captain John Smith	Professor English, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karen Chandler	Betsy J. Erkkilä	Wages of Innocence, Wages of Sin: Melodramatic Fictions of Love, Class, and Race in Modern America, 1890-1940	Associate Professor of English, University of Louisville
Raima Evan	Lynda Hart	Subversive Acts: Gender, Representation and Race in Contemporary Feminist Theater	Part-time Asst. Prof. of Eng., Swarthmore College
Rosemarie Fabien	Robert Lucid	The Atlantic Monthly's American Idea: The Evolution of Editorial Policy	Senior Writer, Hillier Group
Susan Iwanisziw	Maureen Quilligan	The Place of Women in Early Modern English Closet Drama	Visiting Asst. Prof. Eng., St. Lawrence U
George Justice	John Richetti	The Production of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain	Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice President for Humanities and Arts in the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development at Arizona State University
Rick Kerin	Peter Conn	The Korean War and American Memory	Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy (West Point)
Nicole King	Betsy J. Erkkilä	C.L.R. James and the Formulations of Caribbean Cultural Identity	Lecturer in American Literature, Goldsmith, University of London
Jacqueline Labbe	Stuart Curran	Representing Landscape, Representing Gender: The Configurations of Romantic Visuality	Deputy-Vice-Chancellor, University of Gloucestershire and Professor of English
Ruth Lindeborg	Houston A. Baker, Jr.	Rushdie and the Politics of Postcolonial Representation	Independent Scholar
Laura Renick	Clare A. Lees	The Aesthetics of Time and the Ideology of Eternity in Old English Christian Poetry	Assistant Professor, Devry Institute
Deborah Schizer	Nina Auerbach	Eroticizing the Middle Ages: Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism	Secondary School Teacher, Akiba Hebrew Academy
Eric Wertheimer	Betsy J. Erkkilä	Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876	Graduate Dean, Professor of English and American Studies, Arizona State University (Phoenix)

1993
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Zell Kravinsky	Maureen Quilligan	Paradox Glossed: Milton's Allegory of Masculine Transcendence	Real Estate Agent, Zell Kravinsky Properties
David Lawrence	Vicki Mahaffey	Figuring the Flesh: The Intimate Horrors of Authority	Dir. of Eng. Prog. ADE, Mod. Lang. Assn.
Barbara Riebling	Robert Yongue Turner	The Drama of Counsel: Advice and Favor on the Tudor Stage	Associate Professor of English, University of Toledo
Amy Robinson	Lynda Hart	To Pass In Drag: Strategies of Entrance Into the Visible	Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University
Sandra Sherman	John Richetti	The Poetics of Trade: Finance and Fictionality in the Early 18th Century	Law Practice
Craig Smith	Houston A. Baker, Jr.	Utopia and Necessity: The Crisis of Nationalism in African Literature	Corporate Sector Phila., PA
Max Thomas	Margreta de Grazia	The Practice of Poetry in Early Modern English	Attorney and Founder, Max W. Thomas, LLC
Jack Truten	Stuart Curran	Sir Walter Scott: Folklore and Fiction	Ethics and Humanities Consultant, Lehigh Valley Hospital
Roland Williams	Robert Regan	Sweet Music: A Sounding of American Narratives	Assistant Professor of English, Temple University

1992
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Elizabeth Alexander	John W. Roberts	Collage: An Approach to Reading African-American Women's Literature	Professor of African-American Studies & English, Columbia University
Jennifer D. Brody	Nina Auerbach	Impossible Beings: Complicating Categories in Victorian Culture	Professor, Theater and Performing Studies, Stanford University
Melissa Croghan	Peter Conn	Alcohol and Art in 19th Century American Fiction: Studies of Poe and Stowe	Independent Scholar
Gary R. Dyer	Stuart Curran	British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832	Associate Prof. of English, Cleveland State University
Christopher Fassler	Rebecca Bushnell	Coriolanus, Community, Theatre and 17th Century Commonwealth	Winthrop College
Ellen Gruber Garvey	Peter Conn	Commercial Fiction: Advertising and Fiction in American Magazines, 1880s to 1910s	Assistant Professor of English, New Jersey City University
Jay Grossman	Betsy J. Erkkilä	Emerson, Whitman and the Politics of Representation	Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University
David Herman	Vicki Mahaffey Gerald Prince	Universal Grammar and Narrative Form: Structure, Meaning Context	Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University
Lisa Myers	Vicki Mahaffey	Embodied Voices: Public and Private Self-Presentation in Modern Poetry	Lecturer, UPenn
Judith Pascoe	Stuart Curran	Staging Romanticism: The Self-Representation of the 1790's	George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University
Donna Rondolone	Edward B. (Ted) Irving	The Clash of Oral-Heroic and Literate-Ricardian Ideals in the Alliterative 'Morte Arthure'	Associate Teaching Professor of English
Vivienne Rundle	David DeLaura	Framing the Reader: Responsibility and Design in Victorian and Early Modern Narrative	Assistant Professor of English, University of Calgary
Valerie Sedlak	Alice van Buren Kelley	From the Religious Dimension to the Spiritual Vision in the Novels of Graham Greene	Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Joseph Valente	Vicki Mahaffey	James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Crossing Sexual and Colonial Differences	UB Distinguished Professor of English and Disability Studies at SUNY-Buffalo and Treasurer of the International Yeats Society
Thomas Wyly	Craig R. Thompson	Cardinal Wolsey in Tudor and Stuart Literature: Relationships Between Renaissance Views of the Meaning of History and the Character of Literary Texts	V.P. of Human Resources, Bentley College

1991
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Joanne Despres	Siegfried Wenzel	Translation Techniques in the Romances of William Caxton	Associate Editor, Merriam Webster, Inc.
Hilene Flanzbaum	David DeLaura	Balancing Act: Robert Lowell's Impossible Career	Associate Professor of English, Butler University
Teresa A. Goddu	Betsy J. Erkkilä	The Haunted Text: Form and History in the American Gothic	Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Susan Greenfield	Stuart Curran	Novel Daughters: The Family Romance from Francis Burney to Jane Austen	Professor of English, Fordham University
Andrea Henderson	Marjorie Levinson	Romantic Identities: Models of Subjectivity in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries	Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan
Jorg Homberger	Robert Regan	A Further Garden: The Gentleman Ideal in Southern Fiction, 1894-1904	Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
Katherine Kinney	Betsy J. Erkkilä	Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War	Associate Professor, UC-Riverside
Andrew Levy	Myra Jehlen Peter Conn	Free Fiction: individual and Institutional Visions of the American Short Story, 1842-1982	Assistant Professor, Butler University
Elisabeth Magnus	Rebecca Bushnell	Escaping the Dominion of Grace: Holy Power and the Mystic Subversion in 17th Century Texts	Copy Editor, University of California Press
Jeff Masten	Margreta de Grazia Peter Stallybrass	Textual Reproduction: Collaboration, Gender, and Authorship in Renaissance Drama	Northwestern University, Associate Professor of English
Joe McGowan	James Rosier	Old English Lexicographical Studies	Associate Professor of English, University of San Diego
Jean Peterson	Phyllis Rackin	This is not the Women's Age: Changing Representations of Gender in 17th Century English Drama	Bucknell University, Associate Professor English
Jill Rosser	Vicki Mahaffey	The Modern Solution: Absence and the Unsaid in Henry James and Samuel Beckett	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Changhong Wang	Wendy Stallard Flory	'Have No Twisty Thoughts': Ezra Pound's Translation of the Shih Ching	Accountant, Private Law Firm
Susan Yager	Siegfried Wenzel	Visual Perception in Chaucer	Morrill Professor of English, Iowa State University

1990
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Lindon Barrett	Maureen Quilligan	In the Dark: Issues of Value, Evaluation and Authority in 20th Century Critical Discourse	Professor of English, University of California-Irvine
Allyson Booth	Vicki Mahaffey Elaine Scarry	Post Cards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space Between Modernism and the First World War	Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Elizabeth Bryan	Edward B. (Ted) Irving	Layamon's Brut: Relationships Between the Two Versions	Associate Professor, Brown University
Juliet Fleming	Maureen Quilligan	Ladies' Men, the Ladies' Text, and the English Renaissance	University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer of English
Cynthia Fuchs	Betsy J. Erkkilä Wendy Steiner	Gazing: Gender, Performance, and Representation in Film	Director of Film & Media Studies and Associate Professor of English, Film & Video Studies, African and African American Studies, Sport & American Culture, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University
Jennifer Green-Lewis	David DeLaura Elaine Scarry	Signs of the Things Taken: Reading, Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Photograph	Associate Professor of English, George Washington University
Kim Hall	Maureen Quilligan	Acknowledging Thins of Darkness: Race, Gender, and Power in Early Modern England	Georgetown University, Associate Professor of English
Robyn Landis	Robert Lucid	The Family Business: Problems of Identity and Authority in Literature, Theory, and the Academy	Author, U.S. Government (Health and Finance Advisory)
Gail McDonald	Robert Lucid	Learning to be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University
Janet Spencer	Maureen Quilligan	The Politics of Mixed- Genre Drama: The Comic Treatment of Punishment Spectacles in Shakespeare	Assistant Professor, Wingate University
Theresa Spitler	Robert Regan	The Dilemma of Superiority: The Genius Character in American Fiction	St. John's University, Assoc. Prof. of English and Writing
Wendy Vardaman	Peter Conn	Constructing Houses: The Representation of Home in 20th Century American Autobiography	Lecturer, University of Washington