Graduate Program
Recent Dissertations
- “Literary Translators and Victorian Poetry” by Annmarie Drury; Director: Professor Linda Peterson
- “People of the Word: Puritans, Algonquians, and the Politics of Print in Early New England” by Jeffrey Glover; Directors: Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock
- “From Contract to Social Contract: Fortescue’s Governance and Malory’s Morte” by Dana Goldblatt; Directors: Professors David Quint and Alastair Minnis
- “Bedlam and Parnassus: Madness and Poetry in Postwar America” by Kamran Javadizadeh; Directors: Professor Langdon Hammer
- “Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe: Global Imaginations from Montaigne to Milton” by Ayesha Ramachandran; Directors: Professors Annabel Patterson and David Quint
- “Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England” by Jennifer Sisk; Directors: Professor Lee Patterson
- “The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Performer, and Spectator” by Ariel Watson; Directors: Professor Joseph Roach
- “'The Shape of Life': First Books and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Career” by Jesse Zuba; Directors: Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford
- “The Gem-Like Flame: t he Aesthetics of Intensity in Hopkins, Crane, and H.D.” by Rebecca Boggs; Director: Professor Langdon Hammer
- “A Portrait of the Artist Manqué: Form and Failure in the British Novel Since 1945” by Maria Fackler; Directors: Professors Pericles Lewis and Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- “Fictions of Contract: Women, Consent, and the English Novel, 1722-1814” by Melissa Ganz; Director: Professor Jill Campbell
- "The Poetics of Everyday Time in Frost, Stevens, Bishop, and Merrill" by Siobhan Phillips; Directors: Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer
- “The Literary Construction of a Capital City: Late-Medieval London and the Difficulty of Self-Definition” by Morgan Swan; Director: Professor Lee Patterson
- “Lives, Letters and History: Walton to Defoe” by Andrea Walkden; Directors: Professors David Quint and John Rogers
- "Regionalism, Modernism and the American Short Story Cycle " by Rebecca Berne; Directors: Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Vera Kutzinski
- "Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World" by Leslie Eckel; Directors: Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Jennifer Baker
May 2008
December 2007
May 2007
December 2006
- "Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning " by Gregory Byala; Directors: Professors Paul Fry and Pericles Lewis
- "Romantic Fiat" by Eric Lindstrom; Directors: Professors David Bromwich and Paul H. Fry
- "Modernist Fiction and the Re-instatement of the Vague" by Megan Quigley; Directors: Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis
- " 'Where Truth is Important': The Modern Novel and the Essayistic Mode" by Randi Saloman; Directors: Professors David Bromwich and Laura Frost
- "Arthurian Outsiders: Heterogeneity and the Cultural Politics of Medieval Arthurian Literature" by Michael Wenthe; Director: Professor Lee Patterson
- “Exemplary Heroism and Christian Redemption in the Epic Poetry of Spenser and Milton” by Christopher Bond; Directors: Professors David Quint and John Rogers
- “Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature” by Lara Cohen; Directors: Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock
- “Uncloseting Drama: Modernism’s Queer Theaters” by Nicholas Salvato; Directors: Professors Joseph Roach and Michael Trask
- “Songs of Dido: Epic Poetry and Opera in Seventeenth-Century England” by Anthony Welch; Director: Professor David Quint
May 2006
December 2005
- “Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England” by Brooke Conti; Director: Professor Annabel Patterson
- “The Metropolis of Popery: Writing of Rome in the English Renaissance” by Brett Foster; Directors: Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint
- “Langland’s Comic Vision” by Curtis Perrin; Director: Professor Traugott Lawler
