Awards
Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
2003
Yoonmee Chang
"Beyond the Culture Ghetto: Asian American Class Critique and the Ethnographic Bildungsroman"
1999
Cheryl Deborah Williams
"'Conceived in Transit, Delivered in Passage': Travel and Identity in 19th Century African American Women's Narratives"
1998
Jeannine DeLombard
""Eye-witness to the Cruelty": Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony"
1997
Stephen Best
"The Subject of Property: Race, Prosthesis, and Possession in American Culture, 1865-1927"
1994
Ruth Lindeborg
"Rushdie and the Politics of Postcolonial Representation"
1993
Craig Smith
"Utopia and Necessity: The Crisis of Nationalism in African Literature"
1986
Michael Awkward
"An Intertextual Reading of Black Women's Novels"
1984
Joyce Jonas
"Anancy in the Great House: A Study of Boundaries in the novels of Wilson Harris and George Lamming"