English Literature

 * William Brugger:  "The Mormon Maritime Migration in Meter"  (May 2007)
        Committee: Robert Ready, Merrill Skaggs, Terry Todd

 * Patricia Palermo:  “The Message of the City” The Life in the Works: Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925-1962" (May 2007)
       Committee:  Merrill Skaggs, Charli Valdez, Robert Ready
 
 * Jennifer Marie Schmidt  "Looking for Poster-Girls: Un/Settling Visual Pleasure in Late-Apartheid Narratives of White
        Daughterhood" (May 2007. Distinction)
        Committee: Wendy Kolmar, Neil Levi, Peggy Samuels

Modern History and Literature

* Michael Benjamin: "Print Culture, Agency, and Africanity: The Origins and Meaning of Murray’s “Historical and Biographical
         Encyclopedia Throughout the World” (May 2007. Distinction)
         Committee:  Lillie Edwards, Gerry Smith-Wright, Randall Burkett

 * Catherine Brid Nicholson: "Emma Goldman: Woven of Many Skeins" (May 2007)
         Committee: Wendy Kolmar, Jeremy Varon, Terry Todd
 

A Sample of Recent Dissertation Titles in English Literature (1996-2005)

• Diya Mohammed Daoud Abdo: "Double Agent: Fatima Mernissi's Interventions in the Narratives of the Self, the Nation, and the Other" (May, 2005)
  
• Akio Kimura: "Faulkner and OE: The Self-Critical Imagination" (May, 2004)
• Alisha Knight: "The Meta-Mythical Success Archetype in the Works of Pauline E. Hopkins"  (May, 2004)
• Karla Simcikova: "To Live Fully, Here and Now: The Healing Vision in the Works of Alice Walker" (May, 2004)
  
• Mary Catherine Chinery: "Carnival Tradition in Willa Cather's Fiction" (May, 2003)
• Wendy Karen Perriman: "'A Wounded Deer-Leaps Highest': The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson" (May, 2003)
• Philip Edward Chase: "William Morris and Germanic Language and Legend: A Communal Ideal" (October 2002)
• Ana R. Guisado: "Keats and Silence" (October, 2001)
• Liana Frances Piehler:  "Creating a Woman's Space:  Spatial Composition and Female Development in Victorian Art and Three Victorian Novels."  (May, 2001)
• Mary Frances Meeks:  "'Visions of a New Heaven and a New Earth:' Inheritance, Marriage, and Revelation in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte." (May, 2001)
• Irene Chiotis-Leskowich: "Endangered Angel:  Ideals of Women's Behavior in the 19th-Century Greek Domestic Periodical Philokalos Penelope." (May, 2000)
• Edith C. Weinthal:  "Words as Power:  The Articulate and the Mute in the Works of Anzia Yezierska." (May, 2000)
• Jonathan A. Gates:  "A Poet Lives for the Few:  A Critical Analysis of Tennessee Williams' Verse." (October, 1999)
• Chrysanthy Maria Grieco: "Performance and Production at Shakespeare's New Globe Theatre." (October, 1999)
• Angela B. Conrad:  "The Wayward Nun of Amherst:  Emily Dickinson in the Medieval Woman's Visionary Tradition." (May, 1999)
• Ellen Lee Gerstle:  "Constructing Truth and Reality:  An Examination of Philip Roth's 'Written and Unwritten Worlds'." (May, 1999)
• Kathryn Louise Bush Kimball: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Night Dreaming Imagination." (May, 1999)
• Sylvia Merrill Skaggs McTague: "Victorian Man-Making:  Shifting Trends in Victorian Masculinities in Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Middlemarch."(May, 1999)
• Holly Messitt: "Women Writing AIDS." (May, 1999)
• Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza: "'Body Beautiful:'  Exposing the Postcolonial Mystique in Filipino Novels." (May, 1999)
• Paul Raphael Cappucci: "The Lasting Impact of The 'Dusty Flight':  The 1913 Patterson Silk Strike and William Carlos Willliams' Development as an American Poet." (October, 1998)
• Denise M. Castaldo: "Negotiating the Power of A Woman's Passion:  Constance Fenimore Woolston's Dialogues with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James." (October, 1998)
• Cynthia E. Eggert: "'I Prefer The Stately Dance of Reason': Anita Brookner's Explorations of Literature, Art, and Life." (October, 1998)
• Jill Leigh Purcell Piggott: "Against the Law:  Nadine Gordimer's Fiction." (October, 1998)
• Lamar Adam Mekler: "Solitude, Alienation, and Exile:  Mary Shelley in Context." (October, 1998)
• Suzanne Poor: "Jonathan Swift and Women:  A New Look Based on his Use of Myths and Goddesses. " (October, 1998)
• Robert L. Baker: "The Breath of Being:  Heideggerian Thinking and the Poetry and Poetics of Gustaf Sobin." (May, 1998)
• Andrew James Shelffo: "Satiric Ambition:  The Self-Conscious Author in The Short Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle." (May, 1998)
• Heather Virginia Armstrong: "George Eliot and the Other:  Romola,Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda." (October, 1997)
• Susannah Mary Chewning: "A Marriage of the Unknowable:  Language, Gender, and Mysticism in be Wohunge of Ure Laurd" (May, 1996)
• Kevin Brady: "Northern Exposures:  Politics, Pressure, and Tradition in the Poetry of Montague, Heaney, and Muldoon." (October, 1996)
• Karen Leigh Shaw: "The Conflicted Search for Artistic Authenticity in the Novels of Anne Bronte." (October, 1996)