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2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
Tasha Buttler, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Learning the Language of Nostalgia in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Allen (dir), Katherine Cummings, Mark Patterson
Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Foster (dir), Katherine Cummings, Eva Cherniavsky
Traynor Frank Hansen III, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Revealing Character and Concealing Identity in the Romantic Familiar Essay
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (dir), Marshall Brown, Charles LaPorte
JoAnn L. Kelly, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Embodying Agency: The Liberal Will, the Psychophysiological Individual, and Intersubjective Connections in the Victorian Novel
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (dir), Marshall Brown, Charles LaPorte, Kathleen Woodward
Nadine A. Maestas, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Calling Out the State: Postmodern American Anthropoetics
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Jeanne Heuving, Paul Remley
Michael D. Willett, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Vanishing Point: The Drive to Failure in Romantic Representation
Dissertation Committee: Nicholas Halmi and Raimonda Modiano (co-directors), Charles LaPorte
Tae Youn Ahn, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Second Language Learning in Language-Change Interactions: A Sociocultural and Discourse Analytic Study
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein (dir), James Tollefson, M. Suhanthie Motha
Donald Leonard Anderson, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Power and Indeterminacy: The Noisy Networks of Foucault, Cage, Burroughs, and Delaney
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Eva Cherniavsky, Carol Siegel
Sarah Cohen, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: School of Unlikeness: American Poetry and the Creative Writing Workshop
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Jeanne Heuving, Jessica Burstein
Maria DeBlassie, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Positive Representations of the Intellectual Woman in the Courtship Novel, 1790-1850
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (dir), Charles LaPorte, Juan Guerra
Heather N. Hill, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Telling What They Know: Performing What They Say: Genre Awareness and the Transferability of Writing
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Candice Rai, Sandra Silberstein
David Thomas Holmberg, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Prying, Peeping, Peering: The Voyeuristic Gaze in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literary Naturalism
Dissertation Committee: Robert Abrams (dir), Leroy Searle, Habiba Ibrahim
Jeffrey C. Johnson, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Anatomies of the Soul and the Self; From Galen to Romanticism
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (dir), Leroy Searle, Gary Handwerk
Jane J. Lee, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Reading Matters: Liberal Discourse and the Democratization of Reading in Victorian Literary Culture
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (dir), Charles LaPorte, Richard Dunn, Kathleen Blake
Sydney F. Lewis, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Looking forward to the Past: Black Women’s Sexual Agency in ‘Neo’ Cultural Productions
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Chandan Reddy, Habiba Ibrahim
Jennifer McCollum, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Animation and Reanimation in the Victorian Gothic
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown (dir), Carolyn Allen, Kathleen Blake
Megan Ann Miller, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Modernism’s History of the Earth
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Jessica Burstein, Herbert Blau
Lindsay Rose Russell, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Women in the English Language Dictionary
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi and Colette Moore (co-dir), Candice Rai
Christian D.D. Stuart, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Succeeding Through Uncertainty: Three L2 Students in a First-Year Composition Class
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra and Yasuko Kanno (co-dir), Sandra Silberstein
Yi-fan Zhang, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Asian American Forms: From Realism to Modernism
Dissertation Committee: Stephen Sumida (dir), Shawn Wong, LeiLani Nishime
Jun Xu, Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Where Knowledge Thrives: Productive Metaphors in Science
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (dir), Gail Stygall, Herbert Blau, Leah Ceccarelli
Jennifer Bryant, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Still Points, Turning Worlds: Memorial Dynamics and the Materiality of Memory
Dissertation Committee: Herbert Blau (dir), Robert Abrams, Kathleen Woodward
Andrew Fitzgerald, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Millenial Fiction and the Emergence of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Carolyn Allen, Mark Patterson
Douglass Madison Furrh, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: "In the Midst of Prosperity": Free-Labor Republicanism, Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Virtue of Suffering in Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (dir), Robert Shulman, Robert Abrams
Justin Gage, Ph.D. 2011
United States Military Academy
Dissertation: The Tame Bear: Modern Military Discipline in Defoe and Smollett
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Lockwood (dir), Marshall Brown, Juliet Shields
Allison V. Gross, Ph.D. 2011
Portland Community College
Dissertation: Responding to Students: Uptake and First-Year Composition
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein (dir), Anis Bawarshi, Gail Stygall
Hee Seung Kang, Ph.D. 2011
Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation: Challenges and Successes of a Piloted First-Year Composition and English for Academic Purposes Link
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein(dir), Anis Bawarshi, M. Suhanthie Motha
Anoop A. Mirpuri, Ph.D. 2010
Drew University
Dissertation: Slated for Destruction: Race, Black Radicalism, and the Meaning of Captivity in the Postwar Exceptional State
Dissertation Committee: Alys Weinbaum and Nikhil Singh(co-directors), Eva Cherniavsky
Tanvi Patel, Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Emerging Crimewallahs: Modern Developments in South Asian Crime Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings(dir), Laura Chrisman, Sudhir Mahadevan
Ram Prasansak, Ph.D. 2011
Ubon Rajathanee University
Dissertation: Giving Ghana at the Edge of the Salt Water
Dissertation Committee: Laura Chrisman(dir), Chandan Reddy, Francisco Benitez, Lynn Thomas
Sarah Read, Ph.D. 2011
DePaul University
Dissertation: Network Rhetoric: An Ethnography of the Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning
Dissertation Committee: Candice Rai and Mark Zachry(co-directors), Gail Stygall, Anis Bawarshi
Angela R. Rounsaville, Ph.D. 2010
University of Central Florida
Dissertation: Figuring Transnational Literacies: Rhetorical Negotiations in a Global Paradigm
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi and Juan Guerra(co-directors), Gail Stygall, Candice Rai
Jentery France Sayers, Ph.D. 2011
University of Victoria
Dissertation: How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Culture
Dissertation Committee: Herbert Blau (dir), R. Thomas Foster, Kathleen Woodward
Sarah N. Terry, Ph.D. 2011
Oglethorpe University
Dissertation: Modernist Literary and Musical Collaboration
Dissertation Committee: Jessica Burstein (dir), Thomas Lockwood, Brian Reed
Timothy Welsh, Ph.D. 2011
Loyola University-New Orleans
Dissertation: Immersive Fictions: Modern Narrative, New Media, Mixed Reality
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Leroy Searle, Phillip Thurtle
Christina Dawn Wygant, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: "The Twice Told Tale": Colonial Love Plots, Slavery, and Racial Ideology in Editorial Versions of John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano and David Allen (co-directors), Thomas Lockwood, Kathleen Blake
Hidy A. Basta, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Ideological Uptakes: Discourses on Raising Bilingual Children
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein(dir), James Tollefson, Anis Bawarshi, Alicia Wassink
Yu-jung Chang, Ph.D. 2009
National Chiao-tung University
Dissertation: Nonnative-English-Speaking Doctoral Students' Enculturation across Disciplines: Investment in Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities
Dissertation Committee: Yasuko Kanno and Anis Bawarshi(co-directors), James Tollefson
Jonathan M. Crimmins, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Love, Liberty, and the Politics of Genre in the Romantic Novel
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown(dir), Charles LaPorte, Henry Staten, Juliet Shields
Rahul Krishna Gairola, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Queering Home: Neoliberal Biopolitics and Diasporic Reappropriations in the Cultural Texts of Michelle Cliff, Hanif Kureishi, Jessica Hagedorn, and Jackie Kay
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings(dir), Chandan Reddy, Bruce Burgett
Rachel Tillie Goldberg, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Counterpublics and Media Policing: Atheism and the Challenge to Public-Sphere Boundaries
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi(dir), Gail Stygall, Sandra Silberstein
Amanda P. Golden, Ph.D. 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
Dissertation: Annotating Modernism: The Reading and Teaching Strategies of Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed(dir), Sydney Kaplan, John Coldewey
Emily Margaret James, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Before Babel: Modernism, the Nonsense Tradition, and Technologies of Word Production
Dissertation Committee: Jessica Burstein(dir), Kathleen Blake, Thomas Lockwood
Paul A. Jaussen, Ph.D. 2010
Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation: Abiding Song: Evolutions of the Life Poem
Dissertation Committee: Herbert Blau(dir), Leroy Searle, Henry Staten, Jeanne Heuving
Jason A. Jones, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Constructing the Iranian Nuclear Threat: Rhetoric, Governmentality, and the Press
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi(dir), Sandra Silberstein, Candice Rai
Fang Li, Ph.D. 2009
Inha University
Dissertation: Dialogic Trilogy: Gaskell, Bronte and the Genesis of Social Realism in Non-domestic Fiction by Women
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake(dir), Joseph Butwin, Marshall Brown
Roderick Bruce Overaa, Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Eastern Religion and the Dilemmas of the Modern
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle(dir), Sydney Kaplan, Robert Abrams
Darlene Rompogren, Ph.D. 2010
Tacoma Community College
Dissertation: Language Diversity in College Composition Courses: Multilingual Students in English Comosition at Tacoma Community College
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall(dir), Sandra Silberstein, George Dillon
Travis J. Sands, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Queer Values of Neoliberalism: Sexuality, Race, and U.S. Cultural Politics
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings(dir), Eva Cherniavsky, Gillian Harkins
Matthew James Vechinski, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Literary by Design: The Functional Aesthetics of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed(dir), Raimonda Modiano, Herbert Blau
Todd A. Borlik, Ph.D. 2008
Bloomsbury University
Dissertation: Green Pastures: Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey(dir), William Streitberger, Gary Handwerk
Keith M. Feldman, Ph.D. 2008
University of California-Berkeley
Dissertation: Racing the Question: Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture
Dissertation Committee: Alys Weinbaum and Nikhil Singh (co-directors), Laura Chrisman
Ronald Fuentes, Ph.D. 2009
University of Mississippi
Dissertation: ELLs' Experiences of University Culture
Dissertation Committee: Yasuko Kanno and Sandra Silberstein (co-directors), Suhanthie Motha, James Tollefson
Dokubo Melford Goodhead, Ph.D. 2008
Spelman College
Dissertation: Nation, Writer, and Text: Toward a Critical Realist Reading of African and African Diaspora Literatures
Dissertation Committee: Laura Chrisman(dir), Herbert Blau, Johnnella Butler
Michelle LaFrance, Ph.D. 2009
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Dissertation: The Trouble with Intros to English Studies: A Case Study of Negotiating Disciplinary Writing in a Linked Gateway Course for Undergraduate English Majors
Dissertation Committee: John Webster and Gail Stygall (co-directors), George Dillon
Matthew Levay, Ph.D. 2009
Writing Program, Harvard University
Dissertation: Modernism's Crimes: Violence, Degeneracy, and Detection
Dissertation Committee: Jessica Burstein (dir), Brian Reed, Herbert Blau
Raymond A. Oenbring, Ph.D. 2009
University of the Bahamas
Dissertation: Scientific Rhetoric and Disciplinary Identity: A Critical Rhetorical History of Generative Grammar
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (dir), Gail Stygall, Colette Moore, Leah Ceccarelli
Shawna Shapiro, Ph.D. 2009
Middlebury College
Dissertation: From Isolated Remediation to Collaborative Mediation: Confronting Institutional Isolation in University ESL Programs
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (dir), Sandra Silberstein, Anis Bawarshi
Heather Lyn Stansbury, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Romantic Incest: Gender, Desire, and Defiance
Dissertation Committee: Nicholas Halmi(dir), Raimonda Modiano, Herbert Blau
Lisa Thornhill, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Racial Literacy as Antidote to Color-Blind Racism: Counter-Hegemonic Responses and Critical Community Engagement
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (dir), Gail Stygall, Anis Bawarshi
Honni van Rijswijk, Ph.D. 2009
University of Technology, Sidney, Australia
Dissertation: The Poetics of Personal Injury: Law, Literature, and the Value of Suffering
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Lockwood (dir), Carolyn Allen, Brian Reed
Ryan Edward Burt, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Reading for Time: Race and the Politics of the American Canon in an Age of Empire
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson (dir), Brian Reed, Chandan Reddy
Karol Lynn Cooper, Ph.D. 2008
State University of New York-Oswego
Dissertation: Transactional Anxiety and the Rhetoric of the Soul in Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe
Dissertation Committee: Herbert Blau (dir), Thomas Lockwood, Odai Johnson
Steven Joseph Corbett, Ph.D. 2008
Southern Connecticut State University
Dissertation: Rhetorics of Close Collaboration: Four Case Studies of Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring and One-to-One Conferencing
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Juan Guerra, George Dillon
Daniel J. Griesbach, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: The Joads All Over Again: Farmworker History and Artistic Form in Lange, Steinbeck, Barrio, and Viramontes
Dissertation Committee: Robert Shulman (dir), Mark Patterson, Monika Kaup
Melanie K. Kill, Ph.D. 2008
Texas Christian University
Dissertation: Challenging Communication: A Genre Theory of Innovative Uptake
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Juan Guerra, Gail Stygall
Kimberly Kay Lamm, Ph.D. 2007
Pratt Institute
Dissertation: Composing and Contesting the Space of Visibility: Literary and Visual Portraiture in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Culture
Dissertation Committee: Alys Weinbaum and Priscilla Wald (co-chairs), Robert Abrams, Brian Reed
Lesley Alexandra Larkin, Ph.D. 2007
Northern Michigan University
Dissertation: "And in This Task We Create the Self": Reading Race and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Alys Weinbaum (dir), Katherine Cummings, Gillian Harkins
Meredith J. Lee, Ph.D. 2007
Kapi'olani Community College
Dissertation: Writing as Cultural Action: Student Writing at a Bicultural School
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Gail Stygall, Juan Guerra
Sharleen Mondal, Ph.D. 2008
Ashland University
Dissertation: Pernicious Acts: Constructions of Colonized Women's Sexuality in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British and South Asian Literature
Dissertation Committee: Chandan Reddy and Charles Laporte (co-dir), Jordanna Bailkin, Priti Ramamurthy
Amy R. Reddinger, Ph.D. 2007
University of Wisconsin-Marinette
Dissertation: Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson and Anis Bawarshi (co-directors), Katherine Cummings
Vincent Joseph Schleitwiler, Ph.D. 2008
Williams College
Dissertation: The Strange Fruit of Empire: Reading the Literatures of Black and Asian Migrations
Dissertation Committee: Eva Cherniavsky and Chandan Reddy (co-dir), Johnnella Butler, Joycelyn Moody, Vincente Rafael
Lisa Diane Simon, Ph.D. 2008
University of Montana
Dissertation: H.D.'s Anthropoetics
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Charles Laporte, Sydney Kaplan
Angela L. Sucich, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Monstrum Partibus: Composing Hybrids in the Middle Ages
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey (dir), Paul Remley, Miceal Vaughan
Riki Ellen Thompson, Ph.D. 2007
University of Washington-Tacoma
Dissertation: Virtual Recovery: Governing Mental Health and Self-Improvement Online
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein (dir), Gail Stygall, Crispin Thurlow
Steven M. Tobias, Ph.D. 2007
Mellon Fellow, University of California-Los Angeles
Dissertation: Engaging the Maghreb: Productions of the Secular/Sacred within the Context of the U.S.-Barbary Conflicts
Dissertation Committee: Bruce Burgett (dir), Eva Cherniavsky, Mark Patterson, Nikhil Singh
Ji-Young Um, Ph.D. 2008
Williams College
Dissertation: War Without End: 20th Century U.S. Wars in Asia and Empire Structured in Dominance
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson (dir), Chandan Reddy, Enrique Bonus
Ted S. Wayland, Ph.D. 2008
Olympic College
Dissertation: High Risk Modernism
Dissertation Committee: Jessica Burstein (dir), Brian Reed, Gary Handwerk
Caroline H. Yang, Ph.D. 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Reconstruction's Labor: Narratives of Reconstruction and Racialized Labor in U.S. Culture and History, 1890-1935
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson and Moon-ho Jung (co-dir), Chandan Reddy, Stephen Sumida
Candace M. Barlow, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Personal Narratives of Rural Places in Twentieth-century American (U.S.) Literature and Culture
Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Allen (dir), Mark Patterson, Kathleen Woodward
Krisda Chaemsaithong, Ph.D. 2007
University of Houston
Dissertation: Linguistic and Stylistic Constructions of Witchcraft and Witches: A Case of Witchcraft Pamphlets in Early Modern England
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (dir), George Dillon, Colette Moore, Paul Remley
Teagan E. Decker, Ph.D. 2007
University of North Carolina-Pembroke
Dissertation: From Social Justice to Diversity: Tracing the Discourses of Affirmative Action
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (dir), Sandra Silberstein, Juan Guerra
Wei Zhi Gao, Ph.D. 2006
University of Washington-Bothell
Dissertation: Creative Criticism: The Example of James Joyce
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (Director), Robert Abrams, Thomas Lockwood, Shawn Wong
Jill E. Gatlin, Ph.D. 2007
New England Conservatory
Dissertation: Nature, Environmental Hazard, and the Everyday Landscape of Resistance: A Genealogy of U.S. Literary Environmental Justice, 1861-1995
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Kathleen Blake, Mark Patterson
Stacy E. Grooters, Ph.D. 2007
Director of Center for Teaching and Learning & Associate Professor, Stonehill College, Easton MA
Dissertation: Decolonizing the Pedagogy of Empire: Queering the Eduction of Desire in the Colonial School Story
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake and Johnnella Butler (co-directors), Juan Guerra
Kellie D. Holzer, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Tying the Knot: A Conjoined Genealogy of Marital Fictions in Colonial India and Victorian England
Dissertation Committee: Richard Dunn (dir), Kathleen Blake, Chandan Reddy, Michael Shapiro
David William Huntsperger, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: A New Way of Working: Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Jessica Burstein, Jeanne Heuving
Karen J. Kuo, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Dissertation: Lost Imaginaries: Images of Asia in America, 1924-1942
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson and Priscilla Wald (Co-Directors), Shawn Wong, Susan Jeffords
Rebecca Suzanne Rauve, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Immanent Fiction: Self-Present Consciousness in the Novels of Dorothy Richardson
Dissertation Committee: Henry Staten (dir), Sydney Kaplan, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Mitzi Schrag, Ph.D. 2006
Instructor, Clark College
Dissertation: Rei(g)ning Mediums: Spiritualism and Social Controls in 19th-Century American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Bruce Burgett (Co-Directors), Carolyn Allen
Brian Daniel Zindel, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Seeking a Techno-fix: Postmodern War, U.S. Culture, and Invisible Killing Zones
Dissertation Committee: Brian Reed (dir), Monika Kaup, Kathleen Woodward
Jim Cheung Chin, Ph.D. 2005
South Seattle Community College
Dissertation: Realism and the Hierarchy of Racial Inclusion: Representations of African Americans and Chinese Americans in Post-Civil War Literature and Culture
Dissertation Committee: Caroline Simpson (dir), Johnnella Butler, Moon-ho Jung
David S. Cho, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Alternative Visions of the Korean American Subject: Narrative, National, and Historical "Disidentifications" in the 20th Century Korean American Novel
Dissertation Committee: Shawn Wong (dir), Stephen Sumida, Mona Lisa Saloy
Peter Frederick Clements, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, International University of Japan
Dissertation: Teachers' Feedback in Context: A Longitudinal Study of L2 Writing Classrooms
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (Director), Anis Bawarshi, Sandra Silberstein
Gabrielle N.O. Dean, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Seeing Things and Marking Time: Visual Presence and the Self in Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (dir), Brian Reed, Jessica Burstein
Jason Matthew Ens, Ph.D. 2006
Concordia University
Dissertation: Making Engagement: Higher Education Reform Discourse and Organizational Change
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (dir), Juan Guerra, Gary Handwerk
George S. Erving, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Dissertation: Coleridge, Priestley, and the Culture of Unitarian Descent
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (dir), Gary Handwerk, Marshall Brown, Nicholas Halmi
Alison Tracy Hale, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Dissertation: Education and National Identity in Early American Sensational Fiction, 1790-1830
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Bruce Burgett (co-chairs), Gail Stygall
Steven Kirkham Johnson, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Re-enacting the Civil War: Genre and American Memory
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (dir), Crolyn Allen, Anis Bawarshi
Jennifer K. Ladino, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, Creighton University
Dissertation: Back to Nature: American Nostalgia from the Closed Frontier to the End of Nature
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Caroline Simpson, Carolyn Allen
Mark D. Larabee, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy
Dissertation: Front Lines of Modernism: Literary Topographies of the First World War
Dissertation Committee: Jessica Burstein (dir), Gail Stygall, Juan Guerra
Tanya Sue Lenz, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Chaucer's Oneiric Medicine: Dreams, Disease, Healing, and Literary Endeavor
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey (dir), Paul Remley, Miceal Vaughan
Juan Li, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas
Dissertation: Discursive Construction of Nationalist Ideologies in Times of Crisis: A Comparative Approach to the News Media in the United States and China
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (dir), Juan Guerra, George Dillon
James Patrick Linder, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Speculating on Space: Spatio-Social Consolidation and Community
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Henry Staten (co-chairs), Benjamin Schmidt
Catherine Hazel McDonald, Ph.D. 2006
Western Washington University
Dissertation: The Question of Transferability: What Students Take Away from Writing Instruction
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Gail Stygall, Juan Guerra
Maureen Phillips, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, Liberty University
Dissertation: Birthing a Third Gender: The Discourse of Women in the American Military
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (Director), Juan Guerra, Sandra Silberstein
Alicia Maria Rivera, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, Western Washington University
Dissertation: "Potent Fusions": Diasporic Identities in Twentieth Century Science Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Brian Reed, Steven Shaviro
Stephen Hildreth Schillinger, Ph.D. 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, Lawrence Technological University
Dissertation: Common Representations: Jack Straw on the Early Modern Stage and Literary History as Cultural History
Dissertation Committee: Barbara Fuchs and Henry Staten (co-chairs), Benjamin Schmidt
Joseph Matthew Tate, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Shakespeare, Prose, and Verse: Unreadable Forms
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown (dir), John Coldewey, John Webster
Teresa M. Thonney, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, Columbia Basin College
Dissertation: Teaching Students About Writing in the Disciplines and Beyond
Dissertation Committee: Anis Bawarshi (dir), Gail Stygall, Juan Guerra/p>
Amy Vidali, Ph.D. 2006
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Denver
Dissertation: "Disabling" Discourses: Disability Identity in Institutional Texts
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (dir), Anis Bawarshi, Juan Guerra
Molly Elizabeth Wallace, Ph.D. 2006
The Queen's University
Dissertation: After the End of Nature: The Bizarre Ecologies of Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (dir), Alys Weinbaum, Caroline Simpson, Thomas Foster
Leigh Ann Berte, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Locomotive Subjectivity: The Railroad, Literature, and the Geography of Identity in America, 1830-1930
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Caroline Simpson (Co-Directors), Gail Dubrow, Bruce Burgett
Lana Lee Dalley, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, California State University-Fullerton
Dissertation: Writing the Economic Woman: Gender, Political Economy and Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (Director), Joseph Butwin, Jordanna Bailkin
Elizabeth Laurie Falsberg, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Ancrene Wisse in its Ethical and Sociolinguistic Setting
Dissertation Committee: Paul Remley (Director), Anne Curzan, Scott Noegel
Marguerite C. Finnigan, Ph.D. 2005
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2005-06
Dissertation: On Value: Victorian PoliticalEconomy and the Victorian Novel
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (Director), Gary Handwerk, Richard Dunn, Marshall Brown
Nina Rochelle Goss, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Reading is Still Life: Why Planet Auschwitz is Where I Learned the Awful and Irresistible Yes
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (Director), Joseph Butwin, Maya Sonenberg
Bryn Heather Gribben, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, Northwest Missouri State University
Dissertation: Bodies That Shatter: Ekphrasis, Beauty, and the Victorian Body as Art
Dissertation Committee: Herbert Blau (Director), Richard Dunn, Robert Abrams
Ann Junko Hiramine, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Resisting the Normativizing of Identity through Invisible Discursive Means: The Performance of Literacy in Asian America
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (Director), Shawn Wong, Caroline Simpson, Juan Guerra
Kathryn Julia Hogan, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Student Subjectivity and the Study of Literature: the Possibility of Free Space
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (Director), Anis Bawarshi, Anne Doyle
Stephanie LeAnne Johnson, Ph.D. 2005
Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow, Valparaiso University
Dissertation: Interrogating Time: The Ethics of Epiphany in Wordsworth, Tennyson, Barrett Browning, and Woolf
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (Director), Sydney Kaplan, Richard Dunn
Alissa Genet Karl, Ph.D. 2005
State University of New York-Brockport
Dissertation: Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915-1939
Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Allen (Director), Mark Patterson, Sydney Kaplan
Steven Daniel Mentor, Ph.D. 2005
Instructor, Evergreen Valley College
Dissertation: A Dissertation for Cyborgs: Mapping the Rhetorics of a Technoscientific Monster, 1948-1985
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (Director), Gail Stygall, Kathleen Woodward
Colby David Nelson, Ph.D. 2005
Acting Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College
Dissertation: Literary Inventions in Modern American Criminal Narratives
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Caroline Simpson (Co-Directors), Bruce Burgett
Brandy Parris, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Emotional Labor, Women's Work, and Sentimental Capital in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (Director), Carolyn Allen, Caroline Simpson, Kathleen Woodward
Spencer Wood Schaffner, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Texturation in Everyday Life: American Field Guides to Birds and Their Use
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (Director), Anis Bawarshi, Gail Stygall
Amy Dunham Strand, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Governing Voices: Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (Director), Anne Curzan, Gail Stygall
Todd F. Tietchen, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University
Dissertation: Soldiers, Pacifists, and Secret Agents: Militarization and the Cold War Public Arena
Dissertation Committee: Robert Shulman (Director), Nikhil Singh, Chandan Reddy
Justine Isabel Barda, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Heteronormativity and Marriage in Law and Popular Culture
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (Director), Katherine Cummings, Steven Shaviro
Veronica Marie Browning, Ph.D. 2004
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2004-06
Dissertation: Speaking Time: Intersections of Literature and Chronosophy
Dissertation Committee: Miceal Vaughan (Director), Mark Patterson, Steven Shaviro
Heather Clark Easterling, Ph.D. 2004
Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
Dissertation: "Parsing the City": Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language
Dissertation Committee: Sara van den Berg (Director), John Webster, Anne Curzan
Colbey Lani Emmerson, Ph.D. 2003
Assistant Professor, York College
Dissertation: Careless of Correctness: Modernism and the Mistake from Henry James to the Harlem Renaissance
Dissertation Committee: Ross Posnock and Jessica Burstein (Co-Directors), Robert Abrams, Marshall Brown
Gary Richard Ettari, Ph.D. 2003
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville
Dissertation: "That Within Which Passeth Show": The Dialectics of Early Modern Subjectivity
Dissertation Committee: John Webster (Director), Sara van den Berg, John Coldewey, Gary Handwerk
Hillary Jean Fogerty, Ph.D. 2004
Assistant Professor, Merylhurst University
Dissertation: Sexed Bodies and Gendered Acts: Motherhood in Film Adaptations of Shakespeare
Dissertation Committee: Jennifer Bean (Director), John Webster, John Coldewey
Cara Ann Lane, Ph.D. 2003
Research Scientist Program for Educational Transformation Through Technology, University of Washington
Dissertation: Moments in the Life of Literature
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (Director), Richard Dunn, Jennifer Bean, Raimonda Modiano
Nicole Merola, Ph.D. 2003
Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
Dissertation: Mountains, Discourses, Lines, and Deserts: Close Reading Ethical Land Practices in Twentieth-Century America
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (Director), Susan Jeffords, Alys Weinbaum, Kathleen Woodward
Tamiko Fiona Nimura, Ph.D. 2004
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Dissertation: In a Coalition Mood: African American Literature, Asian American Literature, and the Politics of Comparison
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (Director), Stephen Sumida, Chandan Reddy, Caroline Simpson
Elena Brit Olsen, Ph.D. 2004
Acting Instructor, University of Washington, 2004-06
Dissertation: "Alone I Climb the Craggy Steep": Literary Ambition and Metaphysical Identity in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Lockwood (Director), Jeanne Heuving, Marshall Brown
Brooke Alyson Stafford, Ph.D. 2004
Assistant Professor, Creighton University
Dissertation: Outside England: Movement and Early Modern Englishness
Dissertation Committee: Barbara Fuchs and Mark Patterson (Co-Directors), John Webster, Benjamin Schmidt
James Cody Walker, Ph.D. 2004
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2004-06
Dissertation: Oh Ho Alas Alas: Poetry and Difficult Laughter
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (Director), Richard Kenney, Heather McHugh
Christine Ann Wooley, Ph.D. 2004
Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College
Dissertation: Sentimental Ethics: The African-American Sentimental Tradition at the Turn of the Century
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (Director), Caroline Simpson, Robert Abrams, Kathleen Woodward
Corinne M. Adler, Ph.D. 2003
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Society, Culture & Justice Studies, Antioch University
Dissertation: Screening the Dream: Hollywood in the Era of "Family Values"
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (Director), Katherine Cummings, Mark Patterson
Kimberly Kay Emmons, Ph.D. 2003
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation: More Than Blue: Discourses of/on Woman and Depression
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (Director), George Dillon, Anis Bawarshi, Anne Curzan, Patricia Betrus
Joshua Benjamin Fisher, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, Wingate University
Dissertation: Misreading and the Parameters of Exemplarity in Early Modern England
Dissertation Committee: Sara van den Berg and Barbara Fuchs (co-directors), Paul Remley, Fred Levy
Christy E. Flores, Ph.D. 2002
Instructor, Fullerton College
Dissertation: The Politics of Racial and Cultural Hybridity in 20th Century American Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Juan Guerra, Lauro Flores
Catherine Elizabeth Landwehr, Ph.D. 2003
Instructor, Portland Community College
Dissertation: Self-Interest, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Construction in Early and Mid-Victorian Literature
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (Director), Richard Dunn, Raimonda Modiano
Christine Elizabeth Mower, Ph.D. 2003
Lecturer, Seattle University
Dissertation: Wasting Women, Corporeal Cirizens: Race and the Making of the Notorious Female Citizen, 1870-1914
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Caroline Simpson (Co-Directors), Joycelyn Moody, Bruce Burgett
Tedra S. Osell, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
Dissertation: The Ghost Writer: English Essay Periodicals and the Materialization of the Public in the Eighteenth Century
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown (sup), Thomas Lockwood, Barbara Fuchs, Srinivas Aravamudan
Anne Elizabeth Raine, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Dissertation: A Thing Wide Open: Nature, Modernity, and American Women Writers
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Jessica Burstein (co-directors), Mark Patterson, Ross Posnock
Margaret Roland, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, Marylhurst University
Dissertation: Material Malory: The Roman War account in the Caxton and Winchester Documents and a Parallel-Text Edition
Dissertation Committee: Paul Remley (sup), Miceal Vaughan, Anne Curzan, Raimonda Modiano
Lauren Anne Stasiak, Ph.D. 2002
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2003-2005
Dissertation: Victorian Professinals, Intersubjectivity, and the fin-de-siecle Gothic Text
Dissertation Committee: Lauren Goodlad and Kathleen Blake (co-chairs), Marshall Brown
Helane Denise Adams, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, Miami University-Middletown
Dissertation: "Powers From the Deep": Ethnic Cultural Memory and Wholeness Theory in Fiction by African American and Chicana Women
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Juan Guerra, John Walter, Lauro Flores
Steven Wade Browning, Ph.D. 2002
Acting Instructor, University of Washington, 2002-05
Dissertation: Webwriting 281: Coding, Compromise and Considerations in Teaching Writing for the World Wide Web
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Gail Stygall, Anis Bawarshi
Michael Filas, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, Westfield State College
Dissertation: Cyborg Subjectivity
Dissertation Committee: Malcolm Griffith (sup), Mark Patterson, Katherine Cummings, Jennifer Bean
Charles Fischer, Ph.D. 2002
Instructor, Everett Community College
Dissertation: Producing the Politics of the Parodic: The (Porno) Graphing of the Bourgeois Body
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (sup), Eric LaGuardia, William Dunlop, Malcolm Griffith
Conseula Alena Francis, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, The College of Charleston
Dissertation: (Re)Making a Difference: Theorizing Experience and Racial Individuality in Twentieth Century African American Literature and Literary Theory
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Caroline Simpson, Mark Patterson
Jeffrey Nevin Hipolito, Ph.D. 2001
Instructor, Everett Community College
Dissertation: Extremes Meet: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Prose of S.T. Coleridge
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (sup), Hazard Adams, Leroy Searle, Nicholas Halmi
Aniko Imre, Ph.D. 2001
Critical Studies/Cinema Studies, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Allegories of Transition: Feminism and Postcolonial East European Cinemas
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords and Ranjana Khanna (sup), Gordana Crnkovic, Claudia Gorbman
Gail Kluepfel, Ph.D. 2002
Microsoft
Dissertation: Reading Textual Differences: Grammars, Epistemologies, and their Subjects in Composition
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Gail Stygall, Anis Bawarshi
Jodi M.E. Lundgren, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, University College of the Cariboo
Dissertation: Narrative Aesthetics, Multicultural Politics, and (Trans)National Subjects: Contemporary Fictions of Canada
Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Allen (sup), Jeanne Heuving, Gary Handwerk, Katherine Cummings
Alison Marie Mandaville, Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, Luther College
Dissertation: Spelling Violation: Writing Bodies From the Margins
Dissertation Committee: Malcolm Griffith (sup), Katherine Cummings, Jeanne Heuving
Deborah Miranda, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee
Dissertation: "In My Subversive Country": Searching for American Indian Women's Love Poetry and Erotics
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (sup), Carolyn Allen, Anis Bawarshi, Janet McAdams
Maria Mohr Amonette, Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Beyond the ESL Grammar Classroom: A Descriptive Study of Transfer of Grammatical Instruction
Dissertation Committee: Heidi Riggenbach (sup), Sandra Silberstein, Juan Guerra
Rachael Anne Barnett, Ph.D. 2001
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-03
Dissertation: The Representation of Internal Colonialism in Contemporary American Ethnic Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Caroline Simpson, Juan Guerra
Bradley Paul Benz, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College
Dissertation: "ESL Trouble Spots": Composition Handbooks, Ideology and the Politics of ESL Writing and English as a Global Language
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Gail Stygall, Heidi Riggenbach, Juan Guerra
Matthew Reid Davis, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Dissertation: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics of American Brotherhood
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Susan Jeffords, Gregg Crane
Lydia Indira Fisher, Ph.D. 2000
University of Pennsylvania Writing Program
Dissertation: Domesticating the Nation: American Narratives of Home Culture
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Carolyn Allen, Gregg Crane, Ranjana Khanna
Katherine Pruett Frank, Ph.D. 2001
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University East
Dissertation: Seen Through Glass Town: The Bronte Juvenilia, Collaboration, and Victorian Authorship
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Kathleen Blake, Raimonda Modiano, Joseph Butwin
Jason Marc Harris, Ph.D. 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Dissertation: Folklore, Fantasy and Fiction: the Function of Supernatural Folklore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Prose Narratives of the Literary Fantastic
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown (sup), Joseph Butwin, William Dunlop, Thomas DuBois
David Michael Hennessee, Ph.D. 2001
Lecturer, California Polytechnic University
Dissertation: Male Masochistic Fantasy in Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, and Swinburne
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (sup), Gary handwerk, Lauren Goodlad, Katherine Cummings
Jing Liu, Ph.D. 2001
Associate Professor, Ocean University of China, Qingdao
Dissertation: Mini-lectures of Chinese Native Speakers of English: A Comparative Discourse Analysis
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein (sup), Heidi Riggenbach, Anne Curzan, James Tollefson
Jeremy Peter Lowe, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: Desiring Truth: The Process of Judgment in Fourteenth-Century Art and Literature
Dissertation Committee: Miceal Vaughan (sup), John Coldewey, Robin Stacey, Richard Emmerson, Ranjana Khanna
Davis Oldham, Ph.D. 2000
Instructor, Bellevue Community College
Dissertation: The Idea of Trust in the Age of Trusts
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald (sup), Susan Jeffords, Gregg Crane
Arlene May Plevin, Ph.D. 2000
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-02
Dissertation: Writing, Self, and Community: The Ethical Rhetoric of Place
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (sup), Juan Guerra, David C. Morris, Anis Bawarshi
Tabitha Sparks, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Dissertation: Family Practices: Medicine, Gender, and Literature in Victorian Literature
Dissertation Committee: Lauren Goodlad (sup), Kathleen Blake, Gary Handwerk
Ann Marie Tandy, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Dissertation: The Human Sublime and the Problems of Relation in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Richard Dunn (sup), Kathleen Blake, Lauren Goodlad, David McCracken
Douglas James Barrett, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: The Prophetic Fount: The Ideal of Abundance and Milton's Recovery of Paradise
Dissertation Committee: Henry Staten (sup), Charles Altieri, Leroy Searle
Dennis Chester, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, California State University, Hayward
Dissertation: Performance, Spectatorship, and the Evolution of Nationalism in Harlem Renaissance Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Carolyn Simpson, Susan Jeffords, John Walter
Gregory Choy, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Dissertation: Sites of Function in Asian-American Literature: Tropics of Place, Agents of Space
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Carolyn Simpson, Shawn Wong, Sam Solberg
Merrill Cole, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University
Dissertation: The Erotics of Masculine Demise: Homosexual Sacrifice in Modernist Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Jeanne Heuving, Cynthia Steele, Ranjana Khanna
Mary Jane Elliott, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, Seattle University
Dissertation: (Re)Visionary Representations: Transmigratory Subjectivity in Contemporary Latina Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Juan Guerra, Susan Jeffords
Kathleen Harrington, Ph.D. 1999
Speechwriter, U.S. Air Force
Dissertation: Leadership by Design: The Gendered Construction of Military (Air Force) Officers
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Priscilla Wald, Susan Jeffords
Bret Lane Keeling, Ph.D. 2000
Acting Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
Dissertation: Of Another World: the Intersubjective Gift
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Jeanne Heuving, Sara van den Berg
Laurel Allison King, Ph.D. 2000
Microsoft
Dissertation: God's in His Lab and All's Right With the World: Depictions of Science in 19th Century American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Keith Benson, Robert Abrams, William Rorabaugh
Elizabeth Mowry Klimasmith, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
Dissertation: At Home in the City: Networked Space and Urban Modernity in American Literature, 1850-1925
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald and Mark Patterson (co-chairs), Susan Glenn, Ross Posnock
Laura Eileen Kuske, Ph.D. 2000
Assistant Professor, Alma College
Dissertation: Border Stories: Rethinking the Function of Captivity in Early National Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Gregg Crane
Peter Kvidera, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, John Carroll University
Dissertation: Narrating Americanization: Space and Form in U.S. Immigrant Writing
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald (sup), Caroline Simpson, Gregg Crane, Ross Posnock
Shannon McRae, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, State University of New York-Fredonia
Dissertation: 'A Dream of Purely Burning': Myth, Gender and Modernism
Dissertation Committee: Katherine Cummings (sup), Tim Dean, Jeanne Heuving, Robin Stacey
Julie Prebel, Ph.D. 2000
Acting Assistant Professor, Occidental University
Dissertation: Domestic Mobility in the American Post-Frontier, 1890-1900
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (sup), Priscilla Wald, Mark Patterson, Susan Glenn
Thaine Stearns, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
Dissertation: A Visible Chaos: Conflicted Exchanges in Anglo-American Modernism
Dissertation Committee: Malcolm Griffith (sup), Sydney Kaplan, Jessica Burstein
James William Thomas, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity: A Theory of Male Self-Alienation
Dissertation Committee: Robert Shulman (sup), John Griffith, Willis Konick
Sean Williams, Ph.D. 1999
Associate Professor, Clemson University
Dissertation: Theorizing a Perspective on World Wide Web Argumentation
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Gail Stygall, David Farkas, Sandra Silberstein
Jeanne Ellen Yeasting, Ph.D. 1999
Lecturer, Western Washington University
Dissertation: Double Trouble: Romantic Idealism in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, and Angela Carter
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Kathleen Blake, Marshall Brown
Rebecca Aanerud, Ph.D. 1998
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 1999-2001
Dissertation: Maintaining Comfort, Sustaining Power: Narratives of White Liberalism
Dissertation Committee : Susan Jeffords (sup), Priscilla Wald, Johnnella Butler, Nikhil Singh
Joseph Cebert Baillargeon, Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: The Page of Eliot: A Bibliographical Study of The Waste Land
Dissertation Committee: William Streitberger (sup), Mark Patterson, Hazard Adams, Leroy Searle
Dagni Bredesen, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
Dissertation: Categorical Exceptions: Widows, Sexuality and Fictions of (Dis)Coverture in Victorian Domestic and Imperial Narratives
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (sup), Lauren Goodlad, Gary Handwerk, Gregg Crane
William Ridgeway Carpenter, Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: Lyrical Thematics in Faulkner's Light in August
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Gregg Crane, William Dunlop
Michael Dace Caufield, Ph.D. 1999
Musician/Organic Horticulturalist, America/Ireland
Dissertation: Let There Be Life: Notes Toward a Philosophy of Art in the Works of D.H. Lawrence and Wallace Stevens
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Charles Altieri, Evan Watkins
John Eckman, Ph.D. 1998
TVisions
Dissertation: Confronting Modernity: Urbanization and American Fiction, 1880-1930
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (sup), Priscilla Wald, Gail Stygall
Ellen Morris Evans, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, Alaska Pacific University
Dissertation: Back to Nature: Location, Identity, and 'Naturalization'
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald (sup), Mark Patterson, Caroline Simpson
Susan Hrach Georgecink, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor and Director, Writing Center, Columbus State University
Dissertation: Practices of Writing: Early Modern Metaphors of Literacy and the Function of Composition, Past and Present
Dissertation Committee: Sara van den Berg (sup), Juan Guerra, Malcolm Griffith
Allan Jay Goren, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American
Dissertation: Fathers and Sons in the Prime of Youth: Milton's Major and Minor Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Sara van den Berg (sup), Marshall Brown, Alan Fisher, Eric LaGuardia
Carl David Grove, Ph.D. 1999
Microsoft
Dissertation: The Official English Debate in the United States Congress: A Critical Analysis
Dissertation Committee: James Tollefson (sup), Heidi Riggenbach, Sandra Silberstein, Gail Stygall
Mark M. Lester, Ph.D. 1999
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 1999-2001
Dissertation: Reading of Leibniz: Metaphysics in the Writings of S.I. Witkiewicz, Ezra Pround and Wyndham Lewis
Dissertation Committee: Steven Shaviro (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Gary Handwerk
Julia Leyda, Ph.D. 1998
Sophia University
Dissertation: Room to Move in the American 30s, 40s, and 50s
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (sup), Matthew Sparke, Priscilla Wald, Steven Shaviro
Tilar Jenon Mazzeo, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, Colby College
Dissertation: Producing the Romantic 'Literary': Travel Writing, Plagiarism, and the Shelley/Byron Circle
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, John Coldewey, Eugene Vance
Gretchen Anne Murphy, Ph.D. 1999
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austen
Dissertation: Locating the Nation: Literature, Narrative and the Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1904
Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald, Susan Jeffords, Mark Patterson, Caroline Simpson
Thomas Lane Nissley, Ph.D. 1999
Microsoft
Dissertation: Intimate and Authentic Economies: The Market Identity of the Self-Made Man
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Joycelyn Moody, Ross Posnock
Russell R.W. Prather, Ph.D. 1998
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Morocco 2001-02
Dissertation: The Apocalyptic Argument
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Leroy Searle, Raimonda Modiano, Steven Shaviro
Wendy Ann Somerson, Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: Sexual Spaces: Narratives of U.S. Sexualities in the Era of Transnationalism
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (sup), Caroline Simpson, Priscilla Wald, Katherine Cummings, Matthew Sparke
Laurie Ann Stephan, Ph.D. 1999
Writing Center, Bellevue Community College
Dissertation: Political Correctness vs Freedom of Speech: Social Uses of Language Ideology
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra and Gail Stygall (co-chairs), Heidi Riggenbach, James Tollefson
Michael Ray Weingrad, Ph.D. 1999
Montague Burton Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Leeds
Dissertation: Benjamin or Bataille: Transgression, Redemption, and the Origins of Postmodern Thought
Dissertation Committee: Raimonda Modiano (sup), Leroy Searle, Ross Posnock, Naomi Sokoloff
Stephen R. Andrews, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
Dissertation: Salvaging Virginia: Transitivity, Race, and the Problem of Consent
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Priscilla Wald, Ross Posnock
Clinton Parham Edwin Atchley, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, Henderson State University
Dissertation: The 'Wose' of Jacob's Well: Text and Context
Dissertation Committee: Miceal Vaughan (dir), Paul Remley, Robert Stevick, David Fowler
Daniel Alexandre Burgoyne, Ph.D. 1998
Lecturer, University of British Columbia
Dissertation: The Colloquy of Edgar Allen Poe and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Robert Abrams
Roland Caissie, Ph.D. 1998
Lecturer, DeKalb University
Dissertation: English Verb Phrase Grammar Prototypes for Speakers of Other Languages: A Cognitive Approach to Facilitate Second Language English Composition
Dissertation Committee: Heidi Riggenbach (sup), Robert Stevick, George Dillon
E. Christine Chaney, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, Seattle Pacific University
Dissertation: 'The Aesthetic of Lived Life' from Wollstonecraft to Mill
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (sup), Marshall Brown, Kathleen Blake, Susan Gallagher
William Joseph Freind, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Dissertation: Fragments and Paradise: The General Economy of Ezra Pound
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Gregg Crane
Phil Gaines, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, Montana State University-Bozeman
Dissertation: Cross Purposes: A Critical Analysis of the Representational Force of Questions in Adversarial Legal Examination
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Gail Stygall, Sandra Silberstein
William Scott Howard, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, University of Denver
Dissertation: Fantastic Surmise: Seventeenth-Century English Elegies, Elegiac Modes, and the Historical Imagination from Donne to Philips
Dissertation Committee: Sara van den Berg (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Alan Fisher
Corinna Laughlin, Ph.D. 1998
Acting Instructor, University of Washington, 1998-2001
Dissertation: The Ossianic Novel
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (dir), David McCracken, Mark Patterson
Ann Stuart Pancake, Ph.D. 1998
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University-Erie, Behrend College
Dissertation: Past (Im)Perfect and the Present Progressive: Time in America's Class Consciousness
Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Allen (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Mark Patterson, Susan Jeffords
Jacqueline LeGall Sloan, Ph.D. 1998
Instructor, Pierce College
Dissertation: Oppositional Structure and Design
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (sup), Gary Handwerk, Richard Dunn, Gerald Brenner
Leah Mogford Spence, Ph.D. 1997
Writing Specialist, Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington
Dissertation: Magic Words: A Reconceptualization of Magic Realism
Dissertation Committee: Malcolm Griffith (sup), Gary Handwerk, Anthony Geist, Tom Colonnese
Linda Sue Young, Ph.D. 1997
Lecturer, Oregon Institute of Technology
Dissertation: House of Mirrors: Reflection and Composition
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (sup), Sandra Silberstein, Anne Doyle
Vivyan Campbell Adair, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
Dissertation: From 'Good Ma' to 'Welfare Queen': A 'Genealogy' of the Poor Woman in 20th Century American Literature, Photography and Culture
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (sup), Gail Stygall, Joycelyn Moody, George Dillon
Cristina Leon Alfar, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Hunter College
Dissertation: 'Evil' Women: Patrilineal Fantasies in Early Modern Tragedy
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey (sup), Robert Markley, Paul Remley, Susan Jeffords
Kirk MacHugh Branch, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
Dissertation: Telling Stories: Language and Lives in Adult Literacy Narrative
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (sup), Juan Guerra, Thomas Lockwood, George Dillon
Sandra Chait, Ph.D. 1997
Lecturer/Academic Counselor, Program on Africa, University of Washington
Dissertation: 'Writing the Body Spiritual': Sexual/Textual/Spiritual Links in the Writings of Antonia White, Emily Coleman, and Djuna Barnes
Dissertation Committee: Sydney Kaplan (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Sara van den Berg, Tim Dean
Alan P. Church, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Brownsville
Dissertation: Scribal Rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England
Dissertation Committee: Robert Stevick (sup), John Coldewey, Alan Fisher, Paul Remley
Sandra Lee Dahlberg, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Dissertation: Captives, Conquerors, and Storytellers: Literary Legacies of the American Southwest
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (sup), Johnnella Butler, Robert Shulman, John Griffith
James Albert DeLater, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College
Dissertation: The 1683 De optimo genere interpretandi (On the best kind of translating) of Pierre Daniel Huet: Introduction, English Translation, Notes and Commentary
Dissertation Committee: Alan Fisher (sup), Ernst Behler, Stephen Hinds, Nikolai Popov
George Alan Drake, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
Dissertation: Historical Space in the Eighteenth Century Novel
Dissertation Committee: Marshall Brown (sup), Gary Handwerk, Kathleen Blake, Thomas Lockwood
Ann Elizabeth Ellsworth, Ph.D. 1997
Acting Instructor, Department of English, University of Washington, 1997-98
Dissertation: Resisting Richardson: Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, and the Didactic Novel
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Lockwood (sup), David McCracken, Sydney Kaplan
Christine Cecelia Gilmore, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Toledo
Dissertation: 'Our Poet the Monarch': Sir Philip sydney and Renaissance Subjectivity
Dissertation Committee: William Streitberger (sup), John Coldewey, Raimonda Modiano, Sara van den Berg
Doreen Dashel Hamilton, Ph.D. 1997
Teacher, Federal Way High School
Dissertation: Voice in English Studies
Dissertation Committee: George Dillon (sup), Sara van den Berg, Anne Doyle
Raymond Harris, Ph.D. 1997
Microsoft
Dissertation: Mechanics of the Soul: Technology and the Rhetoric of the Interrupted Self in Twentieth-Century Narratives
Dissertation Committee: Tim Dean (sup), Robert Markley, Katherine Cummings, Steven Shaviro
Jennifer Louise Holberg, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Calvin College
Dissertation: Searching for Mary Garth: The Figure of the Writing Woman in Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, E.M. Delafield, Barbara Pym, and Anita Brookner
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (sup), Richard Dunn, Sydney Kaplan, Gail Stygall
Michelle E. Kendrick, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Washington State University-Vancouver
Dissertation: The Technological Subject: Gender, Writing and Hypermedia
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords and Robert Markley (co-chairs), Sandra Silberstein, Evan Watkins
Charles William MacQuarrie, Ph.D. 1997
Associate Professor, Antelope Valley Community College
Dissertation: The Waves of Manannan: A Study of the Literary Representations of Manannan mac Lir from Immram Brain (c. 700) to Finnegans Wake (1939)
Dissertation Committee: Miceal Vaughan (sup), Paul Remley, Hazard Adams, Robin Stacey
Nicholas Brown O'Connell, Ph.D. 1996
Lecturer, Seattle University
Dissertation: On Sacred Ground: The Landscape Literature of the Pacific Northwest
Dissertation Committee: Gerald Brenner (sup), George Dillon, Roger Sale, Charles Johnson
Deirdre Joyce Raynor, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Tacoma
Dissertation: Concurrent Dialogue in Novels and Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Colleen McElroy, Juan Guerra, Carolyn Allen
Julie Schrader-Villegas, Ph.D. 1997
Associate Director, University of Washington Honors Program
Associate Faculty, Cascadia Community College
Dissertation: The Racial Shadow in 20th Century American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Johnnella Butler (sup), Juan Guerra, Shawn Wong, Gail Stygall
Jennifer Lea Schulz, Ph.D. 1997
Microsoft
Dissertation: Cultural Infrastructure: The Production and Circulation of the Harlem Renaissance
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Priscilla Wald, Johnnella Butler, Ross Posnock
John Hugh Sheehy, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Marlboro College
Dissertation: 'The Two of Them Were God': Men, Women, and Dialogue in Faulkner
Dissertation Committee: Gerald Brenner (sup), Roger Sale, Malcolm Griffith, Leroy Searle
Terri Lee Storseth, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, Puhang University of Science and Technology
Dissertation: On the Road With Monkey: The Transmission of Zen Buddhism in Two Contemporary American Novels
Dissertation Committee: Robert Shulman (sup), Roger Sale, Juan Guerra, Alan Fisher
Kari Lynn Tupper, Ph.D. 1997
Lecturer in Women Studies, University of Washington
Dissertation: Desire, Transgression and Confession: Women and Crime in American Law and Literature
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Gail Stygall, Gregg Crane, Priscilla Wald
Alan Douglas Vardy, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Hunter College
Dissertation: Romantic Ethics
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Leroy Searle, Raimonda Modiano, Steven Shaviro
Heather Hill Vasquez, Ph.D. 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
Dissertation: The Possibilities of Performance: Mediatory Styles in Middle English Religious Drama
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey (sup), Paul Remley, David Fowler, William Streitberger
Ann Kristin Wennerstrom, Ph.D. 1997
MATESOL Adviser, Department of English, and Lecturer, English as a Second Language Programs, University of Washington
Dissertation: Discourse Intonation and Second Language Acquisition: Three Genre-Based Studies
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Silberstein (sup), Heidi Riggenbach, Ellen Kaisse, Michael Toolan
David Monroe Baulch, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Dissertation: 'Forms Sublime': William Blake's Aesthetics of the Sublime in The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Steven Shaviro
Robin Blyn, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Dissertation: The After-Life of Memory
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Evan Watkins, Ross Posnock
Jeane C. Breinig, Ph.D. 1995
Assistant Professor, University of Alaska-Anchorage
Dissertation: Re-Contextualizing Haida Narrative
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (sup), Kathryn Shanley, Gerald Brenner, Johnnella Butler
June Johnson Bube, Ph.D. 1995
Lecturer, Seattle University
Dissertation: 'No True Woman': Conflicted Female Subjectivities in Women's Popular 19th-Century Western Adventure Tales
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Vivian Pollak, Robert Shulman, Ross Posnock
Janis McLarren Caldwell, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Dissertation: Thick Narrative: Objectivity and Ethics in Victorian Science and Literature
Dissertation Committee: Gary Handwerk (sup), Kathleen Blake, Gregg Crane, Robert Markley, Sara van den Berg
Kandice Chuh, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-College Park
Dissertation: Toward a More Perfect Union: Transnationalizing Asian American and Postcolonial Studies
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (sup), Carolyn Allen, Shawn Wong, Evan Watkins
James Adams Dunn
Dissertation: Studies in the Hermeneutics of Violence in Second Generation British Romanticism
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Gary Handwerk, Raimonda Modiano, Steven Shaviro
David Thomas Francis, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea
Dissertation: Minds of Winter: Dickinson, Stevens, Celan
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Richard Kenney, Steven Shaviro
Paul Guajardo, Ph.D. 1995
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Houston
Dissertation: Identity Extremes: The Autobiographical Impulse of Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (sup), Joseph Butwin, Gerald Brenner, Lauro Flores
Terri A. Hasseler, Ph.D. 1995
Assistant Professor, Bryant College
Dissertation: 'Myself in India:' the Memsahib Figure in Colonial India
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Blake (sup), Katherine Cummings, Joseph Butwin, Susan Jeffords
Gary R. Henry, Ph.D. 1995
Instructor, Shoreline Community College
Dissertation: Reforming Stories, Reforming Lives: Historical Condition-of-England Novels Between the Reform Bills of 1832-1867
Dissertation Committee: Joseph Butwin (sup), Gary Handwerk, Kathleen Blake, Lauren Goodlad
Margaret H. Hostetler, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Dissertation: Dwelling on Women: Reading the Spatial Discourses of Medieval Texts
Dissertation Committee: Sally Mussetter (sup), Miceal Vaughan, Paul Remley, Robin Stacey
Mark C. Long, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Keene State College
Dissertation: The Measure of Inquiry: Whitman, Peirce, Williams and the Claims of Reading in Literary Theory and Criticism
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle(sup), Ross Posnock, Gerald Brenner, Tim Dean
Barbara Jane McGuire, Ph.D. 1996
Microsoft
Dissertation: 'Desolate But Free': The Transitional Figure of the Female Orphan in American Women's Fiction of the 1850s and 1860s
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Malcolm Griffith, Ross Posnock, Vivian Pollak
James Ignatius McNelis III, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Wilmington College
Dissertation: The Uncollated Manuscripts of The Master of Game: Towards a New Edition
Dissertation Committee: Paul Remley (sup), Sally Mussetter, Miceal Vaughan, Robert Stevick
Amy Joette Michaels, Ph.D. 1996
Microsoft
Dissertation: Rhetoric and the Rise of a National Literature in Late-Medieval England
Dissertation Committee: Miceal Vaughan (sup), Sally Mussetter, John Coldewey, David Fowler
Mary Kelly Persyn, Ph.D. 1995
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia-Wise College
Dissertation: 'Eternal Death' and Imaginative Life: Sacrifice vs. Self-annihilation in the Works of William Blake
Dissertation Committee: Hazard Adams (sup), Raimonda Modiano, Paul Remley, Eugene Vance
Bethany Ann Reid, Ph.D. 1995
Instructor, Everett Community College
Dissertation: Choosing Illegitimacy: American Writers and the Trope of the Female Bastard
Dissertation Committee: Vivian Pollak (sup), Ross Posnock, Mark Patterson, Sara van den Berg
Carlos Rezende Seligo, Ph.D. 1996
Lecturer, Stanford University
Dissertation: The Origin of Science Fiction in the Monsters of Botany: Carolus Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Shelley
Dissertation Committee: Leroy Searle (sup), Katherine Cummings, Raimonda Modiano, Steven Shaviro
Karen Shimakawa, Ph.D. 1995
Assistant Professor, University of California-Davis
Dissertation: Racialized National Abjection and the Asian American Body on Stage
Dissertation Committee: Susan Jeffords (sup), Carolyn Allen, Shawn Wong, David Roman
Wendy Ann Swyt, Ph.D. 1995
Instructor, Highline Community College
Dissertation: Discursive Pedagogies: A Post-Process Analysis of the College Writing Course
Dissertation Committee: Gail Stygall (sup), Juan Guerra, Evan Watkins, George Dillon
Marcia Mary Taylor, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University
Dissertation: Literacy Choices: Toward Defining a Literate Culture in the Middle School Classroom
Dissertation Committee: Juan Guerra (sup), Anne Doyle, Gail Stygall, John Webster
Heidi Marie Thompson, Ph.D. 1996
Instructor, Clark College
Dissertation: Urobos: Visions of the Androgyne
Dissertation Committee: Steven Shaviro (sup), Evan Watkins, Katherine Cummings, Carolyn Allen
Jacqueline A. Vanhoutte, Ph.D. 1996
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
Dissertation: Making England True to Herself: Community and Gender in Early English Drama
Dissertation Committee: John Coldewey (sup), William Streitberger, Otto Reinert, Sara van den Berg
