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Ph.D.s 2001-2002 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 Ph.D.s 2000-2001 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 1999-2000 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 1998-1999 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 1997-98 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 1996-97 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 Acting Assistant Professor, University of Toledo 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 1995-96 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 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 1994-95 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 argaret 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