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

2008
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Joseph Drury	John Richetti	Machines, Mechanism and the Making of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century	Assistant Professor, Villanova University
Jennifer Glaser (COML)	Rita Barnard	Exceptional Differences: The Politics and Poetics of Post-War Jewish American Literature	Assistant Professor University of Cincinnatti
John P. Heon	Jean-Michel Rabaté Wendy Steiner	The Dionysia of Science: Humor, Rational Madness, and Comic Experimental Methods in the Works of Bruce Nauman and Thomas Pynchon	Education and Career Consultant
Anna Ivy	James English	From Princeton to Paradise: Women's Reading in Academic and Popular Culture	Senior Academic Advisor, Department of English, UIUC
Carolyn Anne Jacobson	Michael Gamer	Contagious Transmissions and Charged Atmospheres: Disease Theories and Narrative in Early Victorian Novels	Senior Lecturer, Grinnell College
Benjamin Kahan	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Modern American Celibacies, 1886-1969	Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Catherine Nicholson	Margreta de Grazia	Geographies of English Eloquence	Assistant Professor, Yale University
Rebecca A. Sheehan (COML)	Charles Bernstein	Totality and the Infinite: Paradoxes of the Visual, Figural and Linguistic

2007
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Alexine Fleck	Jean-Michel Rabaté	The Low and the Lost: Ethics, Expertise and Drug-Use Memoirs	Assistant Professor, Community College of Philadelphia
Robbie Glen	Peter Stallybrass	Lines of Affection: Dorothy Osborne and Women's Letterwriting in the Seventeenth Century
Laura Heffernan	James English	'Bad Form': Modernist Criticism and the Cultural Life of the Aesthetic, 1909-1929	University of North Florida
Jennifer Higginbotham	Phyllis Rackin	Fair Maids and Golden Girls: Early Modern Girlhood and the Production of Femininity	Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies, Ohio State University
Jonathan Hsy	David Wallace	Polygot Poetics: Merchants and Literary Production in London, 1300-1500	Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University
Lisa Martinez-Lajous	Phyllis Rackin	Playing for Profit: The Legitimacy of Gaming and the Early Modern Theater
Matthew Merlino	James English	The Contemporary Historical Novel and the Unsettling of America	Teacher at Holy Names Academy, Seattle
Dahlia Porter	Stuart Curran Michael Gamer	'Knowledge Broken': Empiricist Method and the Forms of Romanticism	Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Matthew Ruben	James English	Cultural, Political, and Spatial Transformation in the Late Twentieth Century United States	President, Northern Liberties Neighbors Association
Veronica Schanoes	Vicki Mahaffey	Re-Visionary Fantasies: Feminism, Fairy Tales, and Revision	Assistant Professor of English, CUNY - Queens College
Kurt Schreyer	Margreta de Grazia	Period Pieces: Remnants of Mystery Drama in Shakespeare	Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Josh Schuster	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Modernist Biotopias: Organicism and Vitalism in Early Twentieth-Century American Poetry	Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario
Nancy Srebro	James English	Adjusting the Focus: The Modern British Novel and the Rise of American Film	Lecturer, Southern Methodist University
Emily Zinn	Vicki Mahaffey	Rewriting the Kitchen: Gender and Food in Contemporary Fiction	Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California-Santa Barbara

2006
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Nicole L. Brittingham Furlonge	Herman Beavers Michael Gamer	On the Lower Frequences: Listening and African-American Expressive Culture	Teaching at Princeton Day School
Jeffrey Dillon Brown	James English	Occidental Drift: London, Modernism and the Politics of Form in Early West Indian Fiction	Associate Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis
Stephanie Harzewski	Rita Barnard	The New Novel of Manners: Chick Lit and Postfeminist Sexual Politics	Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
Carolyn A. Lesnick	Vicki Mahaffey	The End of Decline: Anglo-Irish Literature of the Big House	Adjunct Faculty Professor, Marquete University
John P. Lessard	Vicki Mahaffey	Entertaining Cinema: Hollywood, Globalization, and the Geography of Cultural Value	Asst. Professor, Univ. of the Pacific
Mark J. Miller	Nancy Bentley Max Cavitch	Voicing Abjection: Evangelic Discourse, Suffering and Speech in Early American Literature	Assistant Professor, City Univ. of NY-Hunter College
Cyrus Mulready	Margreta de Grazia	Romancing the Globe: Romance, English Expansion and the Early Modern Stage	Assistant Professor of English, SUNY-New Paltz
Justine S. Murison	Joan Dayan	States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860	Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Kathy Lou Schultz	Bob Perelman	'In the Modern Vein': Afro-Modernist Poetry and Literary History	Asst. Professor, University of Memphis
Stella Singer	David Wallace	Places of Pilgrimage in Premodern Texts	Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University
Stephanie Anne Viereck Gibbs Kamath	Rita Copeland	Unveiling the 'I': Allegory and Authorship in the Franco-English Tradition, 1270-1450	Assistant Professor, Univ. of Mass.-Boston

2005
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Jeff Allred	Rita Barnard	American Modernism and Depression Documentary	Associate Professor, CUNY-Hunter College
Holly Barbaccia	David Wallace	Kalendes of Chaunge: Thinking Through Change in Middle English Poetry	Professor and Chair of English, Georgetown College
Rachel Buurma	Elaine Freedgood	The Anonymous System: Anonymity and Corporate Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture	Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College
Louis Cabri	Bob Perelman	Social Address and the Modernist Word in Louis Zukofsky, Bruce Andrews, P. Inman	Associate Professor, University of Windsor
Clare Costley	Peter Stallybrass	David's 'Fruytfull Saynges': The Penitential Psalms in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern England	Associate Professor, Director of Honors Program in English, Storrs Campus, UConn
Jane Hwang Degenhardt	Jean Howard	Faith, Embodiment, and 'Turning Turk': Islamic Conversion on the Early Modern Stage and the Production of Religious and Racial Identity	Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marissa Greenberg	Margreta de Grazia	Tortured Mimesis: Representing Punishment in Early Modern London	Assistant Professor of English, University of New Mexico
Stephen G. B. Hock (COML)	Rita Barnard	Serial Postmodernism: Repetition and Innovation in Contemporary American Fiction
Miriam Jacobson	Margreta de Grazia	'Strangely Entangled': Alternative Antiquities in Renaissance English Poetry	Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Damien Keane	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Dictating Terms: Irish Writing, Criticism, and the Problem of Information, 1933-1953	Assistant Professor, SUNY - Buffalo
Monica Popescu (COML)	Rita Barnard	South Africa in Transition: Theorizing Post-colonial, Post-apartheid, and Post-Communist Cultural Formations
Bernard Jaeseong Rhie	Susan Stewart	The Philosophy of the Face and 20th Century Literature and Art	Associate Professor, Williams College
Jessica A. Rosenfeld	Rita Copeland	The Ethics of Courtly Love: Narrative Transformations in the Later Middle Ages	Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Martha E. Schoolman	Nancy Bentley	American Abolitionist Geographies: Literature and the Politics of Place, 1840-1861	Associate Professor of English, Florida International University
Elizabeth Williamson	Peter Stallybrass	Staging Sacred Things: The Circulation of Religious Objects in Seventeenth-Century Drama	Faculty, Evergreen State College

2004
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Bronwyn Beistle	Vicki Mahaffey	Honeyed Secrets: Authority, Sexuality, and Flower Imagery in Women's Literature from Wollstonecraft to McGukian	Campaign Manager at Karen Montgomery for State Senate
Shanyn Fiske	Jean-Michel Rabaté	Haes and Hellenism: Underworlds of the Victorian Mythopoetic Imagination	Assistant Professor, Rutgers-Camden
Amina Gautier	Michael Awkward	Encoding Vision, Envisioning Race	Associated Professor, University of Miami, Department of English
Matthew Hart	Bob Perelman	Synthetic Vernacular Poetry and Transatlantic Modernism, 1922-2002	Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Frank Guy Hoffman	David Wallace	The Dream and the Book: Chaucer's Dream Poetry, Faculty Psychology, and the Poetics of Recombination	Assistant Professor at Community College of Philadelphia, Associate Department Head
Rajani Iyer	David DeLaura	'My Soul Was Singing at a Work Apart': Female Victorian Poets Achieving Voice
Michelle Karnes	Rita Copeland	The 'School of Devotion': Imagination and Cognition in Medieval Meditations on Christ	Associate Professor, Stanford University
Scott Krawczyk	Stuart Curran	Romantic Collaboration: Familial Authorship from Barbauld to Shelley	Dean, Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at LIU Brooklyn
Erika T. Lin	Phyllis Rackin	Performance Matters: Culture and Theatrical Signification in the Early English Public Playhouse	Associate Professor of Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center
Cynthia Port	Vicki Mahaffey	'Nothing by Change': Women's Economies of Aging, 1919-1939	Associate Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University and Co-Editor of Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Juliet Shields	Toni Bowers	Engendering Great Britain: Literary Representations of Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1700-1730	Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Tyler Smith	Margreta de Grazia	A Poetics of Indenture: 'Cases peculiar' in English Renaissance Literature	Visiting Professor, The Curtis Institute of Music

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

2002
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Michael Barsanti	Vicki Mahaffey	Law Like Love: Marriage, Law, and the Modern Novel	Director of Foundation Relations at Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation
Maurice Black	Vicki Mahaffey	The Art of Code	Independent Scholar
Hester Blum	Elisa New	View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination	Associate Professor of English, Penn. St.
Jeremy Braddock	Jean-Michel Rabaté	The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934	Associate Professor, Cornell
Alice Brittan	Rita Barnard	Writing and Portage: The Post-Settlement Novel and Movement of Things	Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
Jean Feerick	Peter Stallybrass	Reproducing Race: Early Modern Bodies and the Construction of National Difference	Associate Professor John Carroll University
Patricia Hopkins	Farah Jasmine Griffin	Invisible Woman: Reading Rape and Sexual Exploitation in African-American Literature	Associate Professor of English, Christopher Newport University
Mark Stein	Stuart Curran	The Ascetic Sublime
Aselda Thompson	David DeLaura	New Women, New Mothers: The Conflict of Feminism and Motherhood in Late-Victorian Fiction	Legal Counsel, Global Safety & Environment at Shell Oil Company
Sue Sun Yom	James English	Sex And The American Soldier: Military Cinema and the War on Venereal Disease, 1918-1969	Associate Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology & Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

2001
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
James M. Andres	David Wallace	Negational Architectures in Old English Poetry	Lecturer-Written Rhetoric, Benedictine University
Robert Barrett	David Wallace	Writing from the Marches: Cheshire Poetry and Drama, 1195-1645	Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies & Associate Head of English, University of Illinois at Urbana
Ilana Blumberg	Nina Auerbach	The Poetics of Ethics of Things: Sympathetic Property Relations in Silas Marner, Romola, and the Moonstone	Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities \| Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 5290002 Israel
James Kearney	Peter Stallybrass	Matters of the Book: The Incarnate Text in Renaissance England	Associate Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Jonna Mackin	James English	Subject to Laughter: Comedy and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction	Lecturer, Dartmouth College
Lana Schwebel (deceased)	David Wallace Rita Copeland	Economy, Representation, and the Sale of Indulgences in Late-Medieval England
Erik Simpson	Stuart Curran	Revising Inspiration: Minstrels, Bards, and Improvisers in British and Irish Literature, 1757-1830	Professor, Grinnell College

2000
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Anjali Arondekar	David DeLaura Lynda Hart	A Perverse Empire: Victorian Sexuality and the Indian Colony	Associate Professor, Dept. of Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz
Jennifer Jordan Baker	Elisa New Christopher Looby	A Speculative Language: Finance and Literary Imagination in Early America	Associate Professor of English, NYU
Rayna Margrit Kalas	Margreta de Grazia	Frames, Glass, and the Technology of Poetic Invention	Associate Professor, Cornell University
Janet Knepper	David Wallace	Misogyny, Subjectivity, and Crisis in English Romance and Allegory, 1350-1600	Assistant Professor, Clarion
Kerry Moore	Lynda Hart Vicki Mahaffey	Mourning Loss: The Place of the Object in Narrative Fantasy	Psychoanalyst in private practice, New York City and Upper Hudson Valley
Lana Emad Younes	Bob Perelman	Facing the Other: A Comparative Study of Modernism in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Cafeacute; Riche Circle	Chair, English and Translation Academy of Arts, Cairo University
Donald Zimmerman	Stuart Curran	Antipastoralism: A Resistant Georgic Mode	Field Sales Account Manager at NetApp