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Ph.Ds 1995-96 Ph.Ds 1996-97 Ph.Ds 1997-98 Ph.Ds 1998-99
Ph.Ds 1999-2000 Ph.Ds 2000-2001 Ph.Ds 2001-2002
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Ph.D.s 2002-2003
Joshua Benjamin Fisher, Ph.D. 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia 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
Tedra S. Osell, Ph.D. 2002
Acting Instructor, University of Washington, 2002-03
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2002-03
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
Acting Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College
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
Dissertation: Victorian Professinals, Intersubjectivity, and the fin-de-siecle Gothic Text
Dissertation Committee: Lauren Goodlad and Kathleen Blake (co-chairs), Marshall Brown
Ph.D.s 2001-2002
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, 2002-03
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2002-03
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
Instructor, University of Washington-Tacoma
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2002-03
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
Instructor, Antioch University-Seattle
Dissertation: Spelling Violation: Writing Bodies From the Margins
Dissertation Committee: Malcolm Griffith (sup), Katherine Cummings, Jeanne Heuving
Deborah Miranda, Ph.D. 2001
Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
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
Ph.D.s 2000-2001
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
Acting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Dissertation: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics of American Brotherhood
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Susan Jeffords, Gregg Crane
Lydia Indira Fisher, Ph.D. 2000
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-02
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
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Colorado
Dissertation: Seen Through Glass Town: The Bronte Juvenilia, Collaboration, and Victorian Authorship
Dissertation Committee: Mark Patterson (sup), Susan Jeffords, Gregg Crane
Jason Marc Harris, Ph.D. 2001
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-02
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
Assistant Professor, Ocean University of Qingdao, China
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
Academic Adviser, University of Washington
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
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-02
Dissertation: The Human Sublime and the Problems of Relation in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Richard Dunn (sup), Kathleen Blake, Lauren Goodlad, David McCracken
Ph.D.s 1999-2000
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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 1999-2001
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
Acting 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 Instructor, University of Washington 2000-2002
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
Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke 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
Acting Instructor, University of Washington 2001-02
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 Instructor, University of Washington 2000-2002
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, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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
Assistant 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
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
Ph.D.s 1998-99
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
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
Fulbright Scholar, University of Dresden 1999-2000; Chiba University 2000-2001
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, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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 Minnesota-Morris
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
Ph.D.s 1997-98
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
Ph.D.s 1996-97
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, Montana State University
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
Assistant Professor, California State University-Bakersfield
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
MAT(ESL) 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
Ph.D.s 1995-96
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
