Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
2002
Hester Blum
"View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination"
2000
Jennifer Jordan Baker
"A Speculative Language: Finance and Literary Imagination in Early America"
1999
Michael Magee, Jr.
"Emancipating Pragmatisms: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing"
1997
Joseph Murphy
"Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907"