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Marcus Alaimo: “The Romantic-Utilitarian Debate” directed by David Bromwich, Leslie Brisman, Stefanie Markovits

Andie Berry: “This Has Not Happened: African American Performances At The Edge Of The Century” directed by Daphne A. Brooks, Tavia Nyong’o, Marc Robinson

Daniel de la Rocha: “Frustrated Journeys: Social Immobility and the Aesthetics of Disappointment in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” directed by Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Marta Figlerowicz, Stefanie Markovits

Seamus Dwyer: “Scripts and Literature in the Manuscripts of England and France, 1370-1425” directed by Jessica Brantley, Ardis Butterfield, Emily Thornbury

Emily Glider: “Geopolitical Players: Diplomacy, Trade, and English Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, Ayesha Ramachandran

Tobi Haslett: “All This Sociology and Economics Jazz: Blackness, Writing, and Totality after Civil Rights” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Michael Warner, Michael Denning

Adam C. Keller: “Character in Conflict: Soldiers and the Formation of Eighteenth-Century Literary Character” directed by David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, Anastasia Eccles

Elizabeth R. Mundell-Perkins: “Matter of the Mind: Narrative’s Knowledge and the Novel of Impressionability, 1897-present” directed by Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Marta Figlerowicz, Juno Richards

Colton Valentine: “Between Languages: Queer Multilingualism in the British Belle Époque” directed by Marta Figlerowicz, Stefanie Markovits, Katie Trumpener, Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Elizabeth Colette Wiet: “Maximalism: An Art of the Minor” directed by Marc Robinson, Joseph Roach

Helen Hyoun Jung Yang: “Healed by Water: American Hydropathy and the Search for Meaning in Nature” directed by Caleb Smith, John Durham Peters, Wai Chee Dimock

December 2023

Shu-han Luo: “Didactic Poetry as Formal Experiment in Early Medieval England” directed by Emily Thornbury, Ardis Butterfield, Lucas Bender

Cera Smith: “Blackened Biology: Physiology of the Self and Society in African American Literature and Sculpture” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Tavia Nyong’o, Aimee Meredith Cox

Michael Abraham: “The Avant-Garde of Feeling: Queer Love and Modernism” directed by Langdon Hammer, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Glaser

Peter Conroy: “Unreconciled: American Power and the End of History, 1945 to the Present” directed by Joe Cleary, Joseph North, Paul North

Trina Hyun: “Media Theologies, 1615-1668” directed by John Durham Peters, Catherine Nicholson, Marta Figlerowicz, John Rogers (University of Toronto)

Margaret McGowan: “A Natural History of the Novel: Species, Sense, Atmosphere” directed by Jonathan Kramnick, Katie Trumpener, Marta Figlerowicz

Benjamin Pokross: “Writing History in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes” directed by Caleb Smith, Greta LaFleur, Michael Warner

Sophia Richardson: “Reading the Surface in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Catherine Nicholson, Lawrence Manley, John Rogers(University of Toronto)

Melissa Shao Hsuan Tu: “Sonic Virtuality: First-Person Voices in Late Medieval English Lyric” directed by Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, John Durham Peters

Sarah Weston: “The Cypher and the Abyss: Outline Against Infinity” directed by Paul Fry, Tim Barringer, John Durham Peters

December 2022

Anna Hill: “Sublime Accumulations: Narrating the Global Climate, 1969-2001” directed by Joe Cleary, Marta Figlerowicz, Ursula Heise (UCLA)

Christopher McGowan: “Inherited Worlds: The British Modernist Novel and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre” directed by Joe Cleary, Michael Denning, Katie Trumpener

Samuel Huber: “Every Day About the World: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave” directed by  Jacqueline Goldsby, Margaret Homans, Jill Richards

Shayne McGregor: “An Intellectual History of Black Literary Discourse 1910-1956” directed by Joseph North, Robert Stepto

Brandon Menke: “Slow Tyrannies: Queer Lyricism, Visual Regionalism, and the Transfigured World” directed by Langdon Hammer, Wai Chee Dimock, Marta Figlerowicz

Arthur Wang: “Minor Theories of Everything: On Popular Science and Contemporary Fiction” directed by Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, Sunny Xiang

December 2021

Sarah Robbins: “Re(-)Markable Texts: Making Meaning of Revision in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature” directed by Caleb Smith, Jacqueline Goldsby, Anthony Reed

David de León: “Epic Black: Poetics in Protest in the Time of Black Lives Matter” directed by  Langdon Hammer, Daphne Brooks, Marta Figlerowicz

Clio Doyle: “Rough Beginnings: Imagining the Origins of Agriculture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain” directed by Lawrence Manley, David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson

Clay Greene: “The Preexistence of the Soul in the Early English Enlightenment: 1640-1740” directed by John Rogers, Jonathan Kramnick, Lawrence Manley

December 2020

Wing Chun Julia Chan: “Veritable Utopia: Revolutionary Russia and the Modernism of the British Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Jill Richards, Katerina Clark

James Eric Ensley: “Troubled Signs: Thomas Hoccleve’s Objects of Absence” directed by Jessica Brantley, Alastair Minnis, Ardis Butterfield

Paul Franz: “Because so it is made new”: D. H. Lawrence’s charismatic modernism directed by David Bromwich, Ben Glaser, and Langdon Hammer

Chelsie Malyszek: Just Words: Diction and Misdirection in Modern Poetry directed by Lanny Hammer, David Bromwich, and Ben Glaser

Justin Park: “The Children of Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, David Kastan

Peter Raccuglia: “Lives of Grass: Prairie Literature and US Settler Capitalism” directed by Michael Warner, Jonathan Kramnick, Michael Denning

Ashley James: “ ‘Moist, Fleshy, Pulsating Surfaces’: Seeing and Reading Black Life after Experientiality” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Elizabeth Alexander, and Anthony Reed

Brittany Levingston: “In the Day of Salvation: Christ and Salvation in Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Robert Stepto, and Anthony Reed

Lukas Moe: “Radical Afterlives: U.S. Poetry, 1935-1968” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Jacqueline Goldsby, and Michael Denning

Carlos Nugent: “Imagined Environments: Mediating Race and Nature in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Michael Warner

Anna Shechtman: “The Media Concept: A Genealogy” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, and Michael Warner

December 2019

Bofang Li: “Old Media/New Media: Intimate Networked Publics and the Commodity Text Since 1700” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, R. John Williams, and Francesco Casetti

Scarlet Luk: “Gender Unbound: The Novel Narrator Beyond the Binary” directed by Professors Margaret Homans, Jill Campbell, and Jill Richards

Phoenix Alexander: “Voices with Vision: Writing Black, Feminist Futures in Twentieth-Century African America” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Daphne Brooks, Anthony Reed, and Wai Chee Dimock

Andrew S. Brown: “Artificial Persons: Fictions of Representation in Early Modern Drama” directed by Professors David Kastan, John Rogers, and Joseph Roach

Margaret Deli: “Authorizing Taste: Connoisseurship and Transatlantic Modernity, 1880-1959” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell, Joseph Cleary, and R. John Williams

Ann Killian: “Expanding Lyric Networks: The Transformation of a Genre in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, and Alastair Minnis

Alexandra Reider: “The Multilingual English Manuscript Page, c. 950-1300” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

December 2018

Seo Hee Im: “After Totality: Late Modernism and the Globalization of the Novel” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, Katie Trumpener, and Marta Figlerowicz

Angus Ledingham: “Styles of Abstraction: Objectivity and Moral Thought in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” directed by Professors David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, and Stefanie Markovits

Jason Bell: “Archiving Displacement in America” directed by Professors Caleb Smith, Wai Chee Dimock, and Jacqueline Goldsby

Joshua Stanley: “If but Once We Have Been Strong: Collective Agency and Poetic Technique in England during the Period of Early Capitalism” directed by Professors Paul Fry, David Bromwich, and Anthony Reed

December 2017

Carla Baricz: “Early Modern Two-Part and Sequel Drama, 1490-1590” directed by Professors David Quint, Lawrence Manley, and David Kastan

Edward King: “The World-Historical Novel: Writing the Periphery” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, R. John Williams, and Michael Denning

Palmer Rampell: “The Genres of the Person in Post-World War II America” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, Michael Warner, and R. John Williams

Anya Adair: “Composing the Law: Literature and Legislation in Early Medieval England” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

Robert Bradley Holden: “Milton between the Reformation and Enlightenment: Religion in an Age of Revolution” directed by Professors David Quint, Bruce Gordon, and John Rogers

Andrew Kau: “Astraea’s Adversary: The Rivalry Between Law and Literature in Elizabethan England” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley, David Quint, and David Kastan

Natalie Prizel: “The Good Look: Victorian Visual Ethics and the Problem of Physical Difference” direcgted by Professors Janice Carlisle and Tim Barringer

Rebecca Rush: “The Fetters of Rhyme: Freedom and Limitation in Early Modern Verse” direcgted by Professors David Quint, David Kastan, and John Rogers

Prashant Sharma: “Conversions to the Baroque: Catholic Modernism from James Joyce to Graham Greene” directed by Professors Paul Fry, Joseph Cleary, and Marta Figlerowicz

Joseph Stadolnik: “Subtle Arts: Practical Science and Middle English Literature” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield and Alastair Minnis

Steven Kirk Warner: “Versions of Narcissus: The Aesthetics and Erotics of the Male Form in English Renaissance Poetry” directed by Professors John Rogers and Catherine Nicholson

December 2016

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: “The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the University since 1970” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Paul Fry, and Wai Chee Dimock

Alexis Chema: “Fancy’s Mirror: Romantic Poetry and the Art of Persuasion” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul Fry

Daniel Jump: “Metadiscursive Struggle and the Eighteenth-Century British Social Imaginary: From the End of Licensing to the Revolution Controversy” directed by Professors Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Paul Fry

Jordan Brower: “A Literary History of the Studio System, 1911-1950” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, JD Connor, and Joe Cleary

Ryan Carr: “Expressivism in America” directed by Michael Warner, Caleb Smith, and Paul Fry

Megan Eckerle: “Speculation and Time in Late Medieval Visionary Discourse” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Gabriele Hayden: “Routes and Roots of the New World Baroque: U.S. Modernist Poets Translate from Spanish” directed by Landon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock

Matthew Hunter: “The Pursuit of Style in Shakespeare’s Drama” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Brian Walsh

Leslie Jamison: “The Recovered: Addiction and Sincerity in 20th Century American Literature” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Caleb Smith

Jessica Matuozzi: “Double Agency: A Multimedia History of the War on Drugs” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Amy Hungerford, and Anthony Reed

Aaron Pratt: “The Status of Printed Playbooks in Early Modern England” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Keith Wrightson

Madeleine Saraceni: “The Idea of Writing for Women in Late Medieval Literature” directed by Jessica Brantley, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

J. Antonio Templanza: “Know to Know No More: The Composition of Knowledge in Milton’s Epic Poetry” directed by John Rogers and Paul Fry

Andrew Willson: “Idle Works: Unproductiveness, Literature Labor, and the Victorian Novel” directed by Janice Carlisle, Stefanie Markovits, and Ruth Yeazell

December 2015

Melina Moe: “Public Intimacies: Literary and Sexual Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century” directed by Katie Trumpener, Wendy Lee, Jonathan Kramnick, and Jill Campbell

Merve Emre: “Paraliterary Institutions” directed by Wai Chee Dimock and Amy Hungerford

Samuel Fallon: “Personal Effects: Personal and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and Lawrence Manley

Edgar Garcia: “Deep Land: Hemispheric Modernisms and Indigenous Media” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Langdon Hammer, and Anthony Reed

Jean Elyse Graham: “The Book Unbound: Print Logic between Old Books and New Media” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and R. John Williams

December 2014

Len Gutkin: “Dandiacal Forms” directed by Amy Hungerford, Sam See, and Katie Trumpener

Justin Sider: “Parting Words: Address and Exemplarity in Victorian Poetry” directed by Linda Peterson, Leslie Brisman, and Stefanie Markovits

William Weber: “Shakespearean Metamorphoses” directed by David Kastan

Thomas Koenigs: “Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861” directed by Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Caleb Smith

Andrew Kraebel: “English Traditions of Biblical Criticism and Translation in the Later Middle Ages” directed by Alastair Minnis, Jessica Brantley, and Ian Cornelius

Tessie Prakas: “The Office of the Poet: Ministry and Verse Practice in the Seventeenth Century” directed by John Rogers, David Kastan, and Catherine Nicholson

Nienke Christine Venderbosch: “‘Tha Com of More under Misthleothum Grendel Gongan’: The Scholarly and Popular Reception of Beowulf ’s Grendel from 1805 to the Present Day” directed by Roberta Frank and Paul Fry

Eric Weiskott: “The Durable Alliterative Tradition” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, Ian Cornelius

December 2013

Anthony Domestico: “Theologies of Crisis in British Literature of the Interwar Period” directed by Amy Hungerford and Pericles Lewis

Glyn Salton-Cox: “Cobbett and the Comintern:  Transnational Provincialism and Revolutionary Desire from the Popular Front to the New Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Katerina Clark, and Joe Cleary

Samuel Alexander: “Demographic Modernism: Character and Quantification in Twentieth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Barry McCrea

Andrew Karas: “Versions of Modern Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Ross Macdonald: “Popular Religious Belief and Literature in Early Modern England” directed by Professors David Kastan and John Rogers

December 2012

Michael Komorowski: “The Arts of Interest: Private Property and the English Literary Imagination in the Age of Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Fiona Robinson: “Raising the Dead: Writing Lives and Writing Wars in Britain, 1914-1941” directed by Professors Katie Trumpener, Margaret Homans, and Sam See

Nathalie Wolfram: “Novel Play: Gothic Performance and the Making of Eighteenth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Katie Trumpener

Michaela Bronstein: “Imperishable Consciousness: The Rescue of Meaning in the Modernist Novel” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell and Pericles Lewis

David Currell: “Epic Satire: Structures of Heroic Mockery in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Professor David Quint

Andrew Heisel: “Reading in Darkness: Sacred Text and Aesthetics in the Long Eighteenth Century” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Hilary Menges: “Authorship before Copyright: The Monumental Book, 1649-1743” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and John Rogers

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: “Poetry and the Making of the Anglophone Literary World, 1950-1975” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Langdon Hammer

December 2011

Patrick Gray: “The Passionate Stoic: Subjectivity in Shakespeare’s Rome” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Christopher Grobe: “Performing Confession: American Poetry, Performance, and New Media 1959” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford and Joseph Roach

Sebastian LeCourt: “Culture and Secularity: Religion in the Victorian Anthropological Imagination” directed by Professors Linda Peterson and Katie Trumpener

Laura Saetveit Miles: “Mary’s Book: The Annunciation in Middle England” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Stephen Tedeschi: “Urbanization in English Romantic Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Christopher R. Miller

Julia Fawcett: “Over-Expressing the Self: Celebrity, Shandeism, and Autobiographical Performance, 1696-1801” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Joseph Roach

Daniel Gustafson: “Stuart Restorations: History, Memory, Performance” directed by Professor Joseph Roach and Elliott Visconsi

Sarah Mahurin: “American Exodus: Migration and Oscillation in the Modern American Novel” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Robert Stepto

Erica Levy McAlpine: “Lyric Elsewhere: Strategies of Poetic Remove” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Sarah Novacich: “Ark and Archive: Narrative Enclosures in Medieval and Early Modern Texts” directed by Professors Roberta Frank and Alastair Minnis

Jesse Schotter: “The Hieroglyphic Imagination: Language and Visuality in Modern Fiction and Film” directed by Professors Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis

Matthew Vernon: “Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African-American Literary Tradition” directed by Professor Alastair Minnis

Chia-Je Weng: “Natural Religion and Its Discontents: Critiques and Revisions in Blake and Coleridge” directed by Professors Leslie Brisman and Paul Fry

Nicole Wright: “‘A contractile power’: Boundaries of Character and the Culpable Self in the British Novel, 1750-1830” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Katie Trumpener

December 2010

Molly Farrell: “Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in the New World” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

John Muse: “Short Attention Span Theaters: Modernist Shorts Since 1880” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Marc Robinson

Denis Ferhatović: “An Early English Poetics of the Artifact” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Colin Gillis: “Forming the Normal: Sexology and the Modern British Novel, 1890-1939” directed by Professors Laura Frost and Pericles Lewis

Katherine Harrison: “Tales Twice Told: Sound Technology and American Fiction after 1940” directed by Professor Amy Hungerford

Jean Otsuki: “British Modernism in the Country” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Margaret Homans

Erin Peterson: “On Intrusion and Interruption: An Exploration of an Early Modern Literary Mode” directed by Professor John Rogers

Patrick Redding: “A Distinctive Equality: The Democratic Imagination in Modern American Poetry” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Emily Setina: “Modernism’s Darkrooms: Photography and Literary Process” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis

Jordan Zweck: “Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

December 2009

Elizabeth Twitchell Antrim: “Relief Work: Aid to Africa in the American Novel Since 1960” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

Emily Coit: “The Trial of Abundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-American Novel, 1871-1907” directed by Professors Catherine Labio and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Andrew Goldstone: “Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

Matthew Mutter: “Poetry Against Religion, Poetry As Religion: Secularism and its Discontents in Literary Modernism” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Anna Chen: “Kinship Lessons: The Cultural Uses of Childhood in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Jessica Brantley and Lee Patterson

Anne DeWitt: “The Uses of Scientific Thinking and the Realist Novel” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Irina Dumitrescu: “The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Susannah Hollister: “Poetries of Geography in Postwar America” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Horowitz: “Rebellious Hearts and Loyal Passions: Imagining Civic Consciousness in Ovidian Writing on Women, 1680-1819” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Ben LaBreche: “The Rule of Friendship: Literary Culture and Early Modern Liberty” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

December 2008

Sarah Van der Laan: “What Virtue and Wisdom Can Do: Homer’s Odyssey in the Renaissance Imagination” directed by Professor David Quint

Annmarie Drury: “Literary Translators and Victorian Poetry” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Jeffrey Glover: “People of the Word: Puritans, Algonquians, and the Politics of Print in Early New England” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Dana Goldblatt: “From Contract to Social Contract: Fortescue’s Governance and Malory’s Morte ” directed by Professors David Quint and Alastair Minnis

Kamran Javadizadeh: “Bedlam and Parnassus: Madness and Poetry in Postwar America” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Ayesha Ramachandran: “Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe: Global Imaginations from Montaigne to Milton” directed by Professors Annabel Patterson and David Quint

Jennifer Sisk: “Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Ariel Watson: “The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Performer, and Spectator” directed by Professor Joseph Roach

Jesse Zuba: “The Shape of Life: First Books and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Career” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

December 2007

Rebecca Boggs: “The Gem-Like Flame: the Aesthetics of Intensity in Hopkins, Crane, and H.D.” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Maria Fackler: “A Portrait of the Artist Manqué : Form and Failure in the British Novel Since 1945” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Melissa Ganz: “Fictions of Contract: Women, Consent, and the English Novel, 1722-1814” directed by Professor Jill Campbell

Siobhan Phillips: “The Poetics of Everyday Time in Frost, Stevens, Bishop, and Merrill” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Morgan Swan: “The Literary Construction of a Capital City: Late-Medieval London and the Difficulty of Self-Definition” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Andrea Walkden: “Lives, Letters and History: Walton to Defoe” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Rebecca Berne: “Regionalism, Modernism and the American Short Story Cycle” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Vera Kutzinski

Leslie Eckel: “Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Jennifer Baker

December 2006

Gregory Byala: “Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Pericles Lewis

Eric Lindstrom: “Romantic Fiat” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul H. Fry

Megan Quigley: “Modernist Fiction and the Re-instatement of the Vague” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Randi Saloman: “Where Truth is Important: The Modern Novel and the Essayistic Mode” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Laura Frost

Michael Wenthe: “Arthurian Outsiders: Heterogeneity and the Cultural Politics of Medieval Arthurian Literature” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Christopher Bond: “Exemplary Heroism and Christian Redemption in the Epic Poetry of Spenser and Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Lara Cohen: “Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Nicholas Salvato: “Uncloseting Drama: Modernism’s Queer Theaters” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Michael Trask

Anthony Welch: “Songs of Dido: Epic Poetry and Opera in Seventeenth-Century England” directed by Professor David Quint

December 2005

Brooke Conti: “Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England” directed by Professor Annabel Patterson

Brett Foster: “The Metropolis of Popery: Writing of Rome in the English Renaissance” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Curtis Perrin: “Langland’s Comic Vision” directed by Professor Traugott Lawler

Department of English

Recent PhD Dissertations

Terekhov, Jessica (September 2022) -- "On Wit in Relation to Self-Division"

Selinger, Liora (September 2022) -- "Romanticism, Childhood, and the Poetics of Explanation"

Lockhart, Isabel (September 2022) -- "Storytelling and the Subsurface: Indigenous Fiction, Extraction, and the Energetic Present"

Ashe, Nathan (April 2022) – "Narrative Energy: Physics and the Scientific Real in Victorian Literature”

Bartley, Scott H. (April 2022) – “Watch it closely: The Poetry and Poetics of Aesthetic Focus in The New Criticism and Middle Generation”

Mctar, Ali (November 2021) – “Fallen Father: John Milton, Antinomianism, and the Case Against Adam”

Chow, Janet (September 2021) – “Securing the Crisis: Race and the Poetics of Risk”

Thorpe, Katherine (September 2021) – “Protean Figures: Personified Abstractions from Milton’s Allegory to Wordsworth’s Psychology of the Poet”

Minnen, Jennifer (September 2021) – “The Second Science: Feminist Natural Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”

Starkowski, Kristen (September 2021) – “Doorstep Moments: Close Encounters with Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel”

Rickard, Matthew (September 2021) – “Probability: A Literary History, 1479-1700”

Crandell, Catie (September 2021) – “Inkblot Mirrors: On the Metareferential Mode and 19th Century British Literature”

Clayton, J.Thomas (September 2021) – “The Reformation of Indifference: Adiaphora, Toleration, and English Literature in the Seventeenth Century”

Goldberg, Reuven L. (May 2021) – “I Changed My Sex! Pedagogy and the Trans Narrative”

Soong, Jennifer (May 2021) – “Poetic Forgetting”

Edmonds, Brittney M. (April 2021) – “Who’s Laughing Now? Black Affective Play and Formalist Innovation in Twenty-First Century black Literary Satire”

Azariah-Kribbs, Colin (April 2021) – “Mere Curiosity: Knowledge, Desire, and Peril in the British and Irish Gothic Novel, 1796-1820”

Pope, Stephanie (January 2021) – “Rethinking Renaissance Symbolism: Material Culture, Visual Signs, and Failure in Early Modern Literature, 1587-1644”

Kumar, Matthew (September 2020) – “The Poetics of Space and Sensation in Scotland and Kenya”

Bain, Kimberly (September 2020) – “On Black Breath”

Eisenberg, Mollie (September 2020) – “The Case of the Self-Conscious Detective Novel: Modernism, Metafiction, and the Terms of Literary Value”

Hori, Julia M. (September 2020) – “Restoring Empire: British Imperial Nostalgia, Colonial Space, and Violence since WWII”

Reade, Orlando (June 2020) – “Being a Lover of the World: Lyric Poetry and Political Disaffection after the English Civil War”

Mahoney, Cate (June 2020) – “Go on Your Nerve: Confidence in American Poetry, 1860-1960”

Ritger, Matthew (April 2020) – “Objects of Correction:  Literature and the Birth of Modern Punishment”

VanSant, Cameron (April 2020) – “Novel Subjects:  Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Transformation of British Subjecthood”

Lennington, David (November 2019) – “Anglo-Saxon and Arabic Identity in the Early Middle Ages”

Marraccini, Miranda (September 2019) – “Feminist Types: Reading the Victoria Press”

Harlow, Lucy (June 2019) – “The Discomposed Mind”

Williamson, Andrew (June 2019) – “Nothing to Say:  Silence in Modernist American Poetry”

Adair, Carl (April 2019) – “Faithful Readings: Religion, Hermeneutics, and the Habits of Criticism”

Rogers, Hope (April 2019) – “Good Girls: Female Agency and Convention in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel”

Green, Elspeth (January 2019) – “Popular Science and Modernist Poetry”

Braun, Daniel (January 2019) – Kinds of Wrong: The Liberalization of Modern Poetry 1910-1960”

Rosen, Rebecca (November 2018) – “Making the body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790”

Blank, Daniel (November 2018) – Shakespeare and the Spectacle of University Drama”

Case, Sarah (September 2018) – Increase of Issue: Poetry and Succession in Elizabethan England”

Kucik, Emanuela  (June 2018) – “Black Genocides and the Visibility Paradox in Post-Holocaust African American and African Literature”

Quinn, Megan  (June 2018) – “The Sensation of Language: Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley”

McCarthy, Jesse D.  (June 2018) – “The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945-1965

Johnson, Colette E.  (June 2018) – “The Foibles of Play: Three Case Studies on Play in the Interwar Years”

Gingrich, Brian P.  (June 2018) – “The Pace of Modern Fiction: A History of Narrative Movement in Modernity”

Marcus, Sara R.  (June 2018) – “Political Disappointment: A Partial History of a Feeling”

Parry, Rosalind A.  (April 2018) – “Remaking Nineteenth-Century Novels for the Twentieth Century”

Gibbons, Zoe  (January 2018) – “From Time to Time:  Narratives of Temporality in Early Modern England, 1610-1670”

Padilla, Javier  (September 2017) – “Modernist Poetry and the Poetics of Temporality:  Between Modernity and Coloniality”

Alvarado, Carolina (June 2017) – "Pouring Eastward: Editing American Regionalism, 1890-1940"

Gunaratne, Anjuli (May 2017) – "Tragic Resistance: Decolonization and Disappearance in Postcolonial Literature"

Glover, Eric (May 2017) – "By and About:  An Antiracist History of the Musicals and the Antimusicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston"

Tuckman, Melissa (April 2017) – "Unnatural Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Poetry"

Eggan, Taylor (April 2017) – "The Ecological Uncanny: Estranging Literary Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Narrative Fiction"

Calver, Harriet (March 2017) – "Modern Fiction and Its Phantoms"

Gaubinger, Rachel (December 2016) – "Between Siblings: Form and Family in the Modern Novel"

Swartz, Kelly (December 2016) – "Maxims and the Mind: Sententiousness from Seventeenth-Century Science to the Eighteenth-Century Novel"

Robles, Francisco (June 2016) – “Migrant Modalities: Radical Democracy and Intersectional Praxis in American Literatures, 1923-1976”

Johnson, Daniel (June 2016) – “Visible Plots, Invisible Realms”

Bennett, Joshua (June 2016) – “Being Property Once Myself: In Pursuit of the Animal in 20th Century African American Literature”

Scranton, Roy (January 2016) – “The Trauma Hero and the Lost War: World War II, American Literature, and the Politics of Trauma, 1945-1975

Jacob, Priyanka (November 2015) – “Things That Linger: Secrets, Containers and Hoards in the Victorian Novel”

Evans, William (November 2015) – “The Fiction of Law in Shakespeare and Spenser”

Vasiliauskas, Emily (November 2015) – “Dead Letters: The Afterlife Before Religion”

Walker, Daniel (June 2015) – “Sociable Uncertainties: Literature and the Ethics of Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

Reilly, Ariana (June 2015) – “Leave-Takings: Anti-Self-Consciousness and the Escapist Ends of the Victorian Marriage Plot”

Lerner, Ross (June 2015) – "Framing Fanaticism: Religion, Violence, and the Reformation Literature of Self-Annihilation”

Harrison, Matthew (June 2015) – "Tear Him for His Bad Verses: Poetic Value and Literary History in Early Modern England”

Krumholtz, Matthew (June 2015) – “Talking Points: American Dialogue in the Twentieth Century”

Dauber, Maayan (March 2015) – "The Pathos of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein (with a coda on J.M. Coetzee)”

Hostetter, Lyra (March 2015) – “Novel Errantry: An Annotated Edition of Horatio, of Holstein (1800)”

Sanford, Beatrice (January 2015) – “Love’s Perception: Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Attachment”

Chong, Kenneth (January 2015) – “Potential Theologies: Scholasticism and Middle English Literature”

Worsley, Amelia (September 2014) – “The Poetry of Loneliness from Romance to Romanticism”

Hurtado, Jules (June 2014) – “The Pornographer at the Crossroads: Sex, Realism and Experiment in the Contemporary English Novel”

Rutherford, James (June 2014) – "Irrational Actors: Literature and Logic in Early Modern England”

Wilde, Lisa (June 2014) – “English Numeracy and the Writing of New Worlds, 1543-1622”

Hyde, Emily (November 2013) – “A Way of Seeing: Modernism, Illustration, and Postcolonial Literature”

Ortiz, Ivan (September 2013) – “Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Modern Transport”

Aronowicz, Yaron (September 2013) – “Fascinated Moderns: The Attentions of Modern Fiction”

Wythoff, Grant (September 2013) – “Gadgetry: New Media and the Fictional Imagination”

Ramachandran, Anitha (September 2013) – "Recovering Global Women’s Travel Writings from the Modern Period: An Inquiry Into Genre and Narrative Agency”

Reuland, John (April 2013) – “The Self Unenclosed: A New Literary History of Pragmatism, 1890-1940”

Wasserman, Sarah (January 2013) – “Material Losses: Urban Ephemera in Contemporary American Literature and Culture”

Kastner, Tal (November 2012) – "The Boilerplate of Everything and the Ideal of Agreement in American Law and Literature"

Labella, John (October 2012) – "Lyric Hemisphere: Latin America in United States Poetry, 1927-1981"

Kindley, Evan (September 2012) – "Critics and Connoisseurs: Poet-Critics and the Administration of Modernism"

Smith, Ellen (September 2012) – "Writing Native: The Aboriginal in Australian Cultural Nationalism 1927-1945"

Werlin, Julianne (September 2012) – "The Impossible Probable: Modeling Utopia in Early Modern England"

Posmentier, Sonya (May 2012) – "Cultivation and Catastrophe:  Forms of Nature in Twentieth-Century Poetry of the Black Diaspora"

Alfano, Veronica (September 2011) – “The Lyric in Victorian Memory”

Foltz, Jonathan (September 2011) – “Modernism and the Narrative Cultures of Film”

Coghlan, J. Michelle (September 2011) – “Revolution’s Afterlife; The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933”

Christoff, Alicia (September 2011) – “Novel Feeling”

Shin, Jacqueline (August 2011) – “Picturing Repose: Between the Acts of British Modernism”

Ebrahim, Parween (August 2011) – “Outcasts and Inheritors: The Ishmael Ethos in American Culture, 1776-1917”

Reckson, Lindsay (August 2011) – “Realist Ecstasy: Enthusiasm in American Literature 1886 - 1938"

Londe, Gregory (June 2011) – “Enduring Modernism: Forms of Surviving Location in the 20th Century Long Poem”

Brown, Adrienne (June 2011) – “Reading Between the Skylines: The Skyscraper in American Modernism”

Russell, David (June 2011) – “A Literary History of Tact: Sociability, Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

Hostetter, Aaron (December 2010) – "The Politics of Eating and Cooking in Medieval English Romance"

Moshenska, Joseph (November 2010) – " 'Feeling Pleasures': The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England"

Walker, Casey (September 2010) – "The City Inside: Intimacy and Urbanity in Henry James, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf"

Rackin, Ethel (August 2010) – "Ornamentation and Essence in Modernist Poetry"

Noble, Mary (August 2010) – "Primitive Marriage: Anthropology and Nineteenth-Century Fiction"

Fox, Renee (August 2010) – "Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation, History and the Politics of Literary Innovation, 1868-1903"

Hopper, Briallen (June 2010) – “Feeling Right in American Reform Culture”

Lee, Wendy (June 2010) -- "Failures of Feeling in the British Novel from Richardson to Eliot"

Moyer, James (March 2010) – "The Passion of Abolitionism: How Slave Martyrdom Obscures Slave Labor”

Forbes, Erin (September 2009) – “Genius of Deep Crime:  Literature, Enslavement and the American Criminal”

Crawforth, Hannah (September 2009) – “The Politics and Poetics of Etymology in Early Modern Literature”

Elliott, Danielle (April 2009) – "Sea of Bones: The Middle Passage in Contemporary Poetry of the Black Atlantic”

Yu, Wesley (April 2009) – “Romance Logic: The Argument of Vernacular Verse in the Scholastic Middle Ages”

Cervantes, Gabriel (April 2009) – "Genres of Correction: Anglophone Literature and the Colonial Turn in Penal Law 1722-1804”

Rosinberg, Erwin (January 2009) – "A Further Conjunction: The Couple and Its Worlds in Modern British Fiction”

Walsh, Keri (January 2009) – "Antigone in Modernism: Classicism, Feminism, and Theatres of Protest”

Heald, Abigail (January 2009) – “Tears for Dido: A Renaissance Poetics of Feeling”

Bellin, Roger (January 2009) – "Argument: The American Transcendentalists and Disputatious Reason”

Ellis, Nadia (November 2008) – "Colonial Affections: Formulations of Intimacy Between England and the Caribbean, 1930-1963”

Baskin, Jason (November 2008) – “Embodying Experience: Romanticism and Social Life in the Twentieth Century”

Barrett, Jennifer-Kate (September 2008) – “ ‘So Written to Aftertimes’: Renaissance England’s Poetics of Futurity”

Moss, Daniel (September 2008) – “Renaissance Ovids: The Metamorphosis of Allusion in Late Elizabethan England”

Rainof, Rebecca (September 2008) – “Purgatory and Fictions of Maturity: From Newman to Woolf”

Darznik, Jasmin (November 2007) – “Writing Outside the Veil: Literature by Women of the Iranian Diaspora”

Bugg, John (September 2007) – “Gagging Acts: The Trials of British Romanticism”

Matson, John (September 2007) – “Marking Twain: Mechanized Composition and Medial Subjectivity in the Twain Era”

Neel, Alexandra (September 2007) – “The Writing of Ice: The Literature and Photography of Polar Regions”

Smith-Browne, Stephanie (September 2007) – “Gothic and the Pacific Voyage: Patriotism, Romance and Savagery in South Seas Travels and the Utopia of the Terra Australis”

Bystrom, Kerry (June 2007) – “Orphans and Origins: Family, Memory, and Nation in Argentina and South Africa”

Ards, Angela (June 2007) – “Affirmative Acts: Political Piety in African American Women’s Contemporary Autobiography”

Cragwall, Jasper (June 2007) – “Lake Methodism”

Ball, David (June 2007) – “False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism, 1850-1950”

Ramdass, Harold (June 2007) – “Miswriting Tragedy: Genealogy, History and Orthography in the Canterbury Tales, Fragment I”

Lilley, James (June 2007) – “Common Things: Transatlantic Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging, 1764-1840”

Noble, Mary (March 2007) – “Primitive Marriage: Anthropology and Nineteenth-Century Fiction”

Passannante, Gerard (January 2007) – “The Lucretian Renaissance: Ancient Poetry and Humanism in an Age of Science”

Tessone, Natasha (November 2006) – “The Fiction of Inheritance: Familial, Cultural, and National Legacies in the Irish and Scottish Novel”

Horrocks, Ingrid (September 2006) – “Reluctant Wanderers, Mobile Feelings: Moving Figures in Eighteenth-Century Literature”

Bender, Abby (June 2006) – “Out of Egypt and into bondage: Exodus in the Irish National Imagination”

Johnson, Hannah (June 2006) – “The Medieval Limit: Historiography, Ethics, Culture”

Horowitz, Evan (January 2006) – “The Writing of Modern Life”

White, Gillian (November 2005) – “ ‘We Do Not Say Ourselves Like That in Poems’: The Poetics of Contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop

Baudot, Laura (September 2005) – “Looking at Nothing: Literary Vacuity in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Hicks, Kevin (September 2005) – “Acts of Recovery: American Antebellum Fictions”

Stern, Kimberly (September 2005) – “The Victorian Sibyl: Women Reviewers and the Reinvention of Critical Tradition”

Nardi, Steven (May 2005) – “Automatic Aesthetics: Race, Technology, and Poetics in the Harlem Renaissance and American New Poetry”

Sayeau, Michael (May 2005) – “Everyday: Literature, Modernity, and Time”

Cooper, Lawrence (April 2005) – “Gothic Realities: The Emergence of Cultural Forms Through Representations of the Unreal”

Betjemann, Peter (November 2004) – “Talking Shop: Craft and Design in Hawthorne, James, and Wharton”

Forbes, Aileen (November 2004) – “Passion Play: Theaters of Romantic Emotion”

Keeley, Howard (November 2004) – “Beyond Big House and Cabin: Dwelling Politically in Modern Irish Literature”

Machlan, Elizabeth (November 2004) – “Panic Rooms: Architecture and Anxiety in New York Stories from 1900 to 9/11”

McDowell, Demetrius (November 2004) – “Hawthorne, James, and the Pressures of the Literary Marketplace”

Waldron, Jennifer (November 2004) – “Eloquence of the Body: Aesthetics, Theology, and English Renaissance Theater”

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

The Drama of Last Things: Reckoning in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama , Spencer M. Daniels

African Spirituality in Literature Written by Women of African Descent , Brigét V. Harley

Hidden Monstrosities: The Transformation of Medieval Characters and Conventions in Shakespeare's Romances , Lynette Kristine Kuliyeva

Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)envisioning the Black Body in Contemporary Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Urshela Wiggins McKinney

Lawful Injustice: Novel Readings of Racialized Temporality and Legal Instabilities , Danielle N. Mercier

“Manne, for thy loue wolde I not lette”: Eucharistic Portrayals of Caritas in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Drama 1350-1650 , Rachel Tanski

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities , Justiss Wilder Burry

What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC , Jessica L. Griffith

Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida , Karla Ariel Maddox

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings , Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi

An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise , Jessica A. Blackman

Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing , Stephanie A. Harper

Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres , Adam Phillips

PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace , Jade S. Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design , Sahar M. Alyahya

A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication , Carolyn M. Gubala

Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables , Kara Kristina Larson

Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature , Elizabeth Ricketts

Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 , Melissa "Maggie" Romigh

Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing , Kaelah Rose Scheff

Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature , Ashely B. Tisdale

Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres , Adrienne D. Vivian

Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi , Spencer Todd Bennington

9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes , Kristen M. Grafton

Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century , Dana Jolene Laitinen

Exploring Refugee Students’ Second Language (L2) Motivational Selves through Digital Visual Representations , Nhu Le

Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema , Shauna A. Maragh

Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media , Andrew R. Miller

Intercessory Power: A Literary Analysis of Ethics and Care in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child , Kelly Mills

The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies , Stephanie N. Phillips

Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels , Zita Rarastesa

"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH , Joshua M. Rea

“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction , Kimber L. Wiggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz , José Aparicio

Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions , Peter Cannon

New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement , Jessica L. Griffith

Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students , Brianna Jerman

The Karoo , The Veld , and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head , Elana D. Karshmer

"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature , Stephanie Lance

Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony , Yulia O. Nekrashevich

Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature , Elan J. Pavlinich

Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology , Michael Repici

No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments , Tanya P. Zarlengo

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida , Haili A. Alcorn

The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature , Timothy M. Curran

Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature , Alisa M. DeBorde

Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy , Taylor B. Johnson

Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization , Scott Neumeister

The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture , Tiffany Wilgar

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals , Cassie Patricia Childs

“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , J. Kevin Jordan

Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature , Sucheta Kanjilal

Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice , Natalie Kass

Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage , Curtis Le Van

Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys , Elizabeth A. Loyer

Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study , Johanna Phelps-Hillen

The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature , Tangela La'Chelle Serls

Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover , Nicole Elizabeth Stodard

(Age)ncy in Composition Studies , Alaina Tackitt

Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Rupturing the World of Elite Athletics: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Suspension of the 2011 IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism , Ella Browning

Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy , Lauren E. Cagle

Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric , Samantha Jo Cosgrove

Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy , Zachary Parke Dixon

The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman : From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic , Jarad Heath Fennell

Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments , Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis

Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , Marisa Carmen Iglesias

Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe , Jessica Trant Labossiere

Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida , Karen Patricia Langbehn

A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles , Jonathan Paul Ray

Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels , Mary Allison Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective , Christine Anne Auger

Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing , Anthony Joseph Casagrande

Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry , Paul T. Corrigan

#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication , Laura Anne Ewing

Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange , Sarah Beth Hopton

'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home , Rondrea Danielle Mathis

Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing , Megan M. Mcintyre

Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art , James Anthony Ricci

Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry , Katherine Jesse Royce

Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing , Jacqueline Marie Smith

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen , Shannon Tivnan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature , Elizabeth Stuart Angello

Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera , Ryan Alan Blank

Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema , Adam Breckenridge

Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson , Jessica Lauren Cook

Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare , Angela Eward-Mangione

Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure , Julie Marie Gerdes

Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity , Brenda M. Grau

Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression , Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes

Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program , George Douglas Mcarthur

Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley , Katherine Marie McGee

Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction , Jessica Mckee

The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature , Deborah Susan Mcleod

Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity , Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor

Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication , Eric Walsh

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts , Ronisha Witlee Browdy

Disciplinarity, Crisis, and Opportunity in Technical Communication , Jason Robert Carabelli

The Terror of Possibility: A Re-evaluation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic , Kurt Fawver

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English Dissertations and Theses

The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Muslim Cultural Resistance , Ibtisam M. Abujad

Speculative Escapism in Contemporary Fantasy: Labor, Utility, Affect , Liamog Seamus Drislane

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING: A CRITICAL EDITION OF A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF MRS. NANCY PRINCE (1856) , Susan E. Landwer

Disillusionment and Domesticity in Mid-20th-Century British Catholic Literature , Catherine Simmerer

A LIBERATED WEST?: FEMALE AUTHORS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF THE "REAL AND THE FANTASIZED" ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER , Amanda Diane Zastrow

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century , Matthew Burchanoski

Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Wendy Fall

Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost , Peter Spaulding

“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels” , Jannea R. Thomason

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Gonzo Eternal , John Francis Brick

Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing , Jackielee Derks

Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel , David Aiden Kenney II

Reluctant Sons: The Irish Matrilineal Tradition of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien , Jessie Wirkus Haynes

Britain's Extraterrestrial Empire: Colonial Ambition, Anxiety, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Literature , Mark Edward Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse , Hailey Whetten

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the Twentieth Century , Danielle Kristene Clapham

Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Problem Novels , Hunter Nicole Duncan

Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction , Kathryn Hendrickson

A Productive Failure: Existentialism in Fin de Siècle England , Maxwell Patchet

Inquiry and Provocation: The Use of Ambiguity in Sixteenth-Century English Political Satire , Jason James Zirbel

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity , Justice Hagan

The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility , Andrew Joseph Hoffmann

The Fantastic and the First World War , Brian Kenna

Insane in the Brain, Blood, and Lungs: Gender-Specific Manifestations of Hysteria, Chlorosis, & Consumption in 19th-Century Literature , Anna P. Scanlon

Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost , Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Ethos of Dissent: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Democratic Function of American Protest and Countercultural Literature , Jeffrey Lorino Jr

Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy , Sunil Samuel Macwan

The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique , Tyler Monson

The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity and Anglophone Women War Writers of the Great War , Sareene Proodian

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots , Adrianne A. Wojcik

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris , Bryan Gast

Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet , Bridget E. Kapler

Discarding Dreams and Legends: The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty , Katy L. Leedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932) , Matthew Henningsen

The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics in the American Renaissance , Michael William Keller

A Single Man of Good Fortune: Postmodern Identities and Consumerism in the New Novel of Manners , Bonnie McLean

Julian of Norwich: Voicing the Vernacular , Therese Elaine Novotny

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Homecomings: Victorian British Women Travel Writers And Revisions Of Domesticity , Emily Paige Blaser

From Pastorals to Paterson: Ecology in the Poetry and Poetics of William Carlos WIlliams , Daniel Edmund Burke

Argument in Poetry: (Re)Defining the Middle English Debate in Academic, Popular, and Physical Contexts , Kathleen R. Burt

Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England , Steven A. Hackbarth

The Creation of Heaven in the Middle Ages , William Storm

(re)making The Gentleman: Genteel Masculinities And The Country Estate In The Novels Of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, And Elizabeth Gaskell , Shaunna Kay Wilkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, and Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives of Teenage Girls in the 1940s , Carly Anger

Placed People: Rootedness in G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry , David Harden

Rhetorics Of Girlhood Trauma In Writing By Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, And Jamaica Kincaid , Stephanie Marie Stella

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Yuletide Ghosts and Necessary Pleasures in the Age of Capital , Brandon Chitwood

"Be-Holde the First Acte of this Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis and Cross-Pollination in Jacobean Drama and the Early Modern Prose Novella , Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, and Revisions that Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela , Jarrod Hurlbert

Violence and Masculinity in American Fiction, 1950-1975 , Magdalen McKinley

Gender Politics in the Novels of Eliza Haywood , Susan Muse

Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, and Postnational Identity in Four Novels by Irish Women, 1960-2000 , Sarah Nestor

Truth Telling: Testimony and Evidence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell , Rebecca Parker Fedewa

Spirit of the Psyche: Carl Jung's and Victor White's Influence on Flannery O'Connor's Fiction , Paul Wakeman

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Performing the Audience: Constructing Playgoing in Early Modern Drama , Eric Dunnum

Paule Marshall's Critique of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through the Trope of Travel , Michelle Miesen Felix

Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis and the Renaissance Epic , Denna Iammarino-Falhamer

Encompassing the Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, and Inscription in the Fiction of John McGahern , John Keegan Malloy

Regional Consciousness in American Literature, 1860-1930 , Kelsey Louise Squire

The Ethics of Ekphrasis: The Turn to Responsible Rhetoric in Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry , Joshua Scott Steffey

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

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On Trial: Restorative Justice in the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions , Colleen M. Fenno

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"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad , Marcia Eppich-Harris

Bearing the Mark of the Social: Notes Towards a Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman , Megan M. Muthupandiyan

The Gothic Novel and the Invention of the Middle-Class Reader: Northanger Abbey As Case Study , Tenille Nowak

Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man As Modern American Epic , Dana Edwards Prodoehl

Recovering the Radicals: Women Writers, Reform, and Nationalist Modes of Revolutionary Discourse , Mark J. Zunac

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"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Amy M. Amendt-Raduege

The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post-World War II American Fiction, 1946-1964 , Thomas P. Durkin

Denise Levertov: Through An Ecofeminist Lens , Katherine A. Hanson

The Wit of Wrestling: Devotional-Aesthetic Tradition in Christina Rossetti's Poetry , Maria M.E. Keaton

Genderless Bodies: Stigma and the Myth of Womanhood , Ellen M. Letizia

Envy and Jealousy in the Novels of the Brontës: A Synoptic Discernment , Margaret Ann McCann

Technologies of the Late Medieval Self: Ineffability, Distance, and Subjectivity in the Book of Margery Kempe , Crystal L. Mueller

"Finding-- a Map-- to That Place Called Home": The Journey from Silence to Recovery in Patrick McCabe's Carn and Breakfast on Pluto , Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier

Emily Dickinson's Ecocentric Pastoralism , Moon-ju Shin

The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature , Jacob Hadley Stratman

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Literary Art in Times of Crisis: The Proto-Totalitarian Anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain , Matthew J. Darling

(Re) Writing Genre: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison , Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

"Amsolookly Kersse": Clothing in Finnegan's Wake , Catherine Simpson Kalish

"Do Your Will": Shakespeare's Use of the Rhetoric of Seduction in Four Plays , Jason James Nado

Woman in Emblem: Locating Authority in the Work and Identity of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) , Susan L. Stafinbil

When the Bough Breaks: Poetry on Abortion , Wendy A. Weaver

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Poe and Early (Un)American Drama , Amy C. Branam

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This Place is Not a Place: The Constructed Scene in the Works of Sir Walter Scott , Colin J. Marlaire

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Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples

Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George . Revised on July 18, 2023.

It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation . One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer’s block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.

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University : University of Pennsylvania Faculty : History Author : Suchait Kahlon Award : 2021 Hilary Conroy Prize for Best Honors Thesis in World History Title : “Abolition, Africans, and Abstraction: the Influence of the “Noble Savage” on British and French Antislavery Thought, 1787-1807”

University : Columbia University Faculty : History Author : Julien Saint Reiman Award : 2018 Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize Title : “A Starving Man Helping Another Starving Man”: UNRRA, India, and the Genesis of Global Relief, 1943-1947

University: University College London Faculty: Geography Author: Anna Knowles-Smith Award:  2017 Royal Geographical Society Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Title:  Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation

University: University of Washington Faculty:  Computer Science & Engineering Author: Nick J. Martindell Award: 2014 Best Senior Thesis Award Title:  DCDN: Distributed content delivery for the modern web

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University:  University of Edinburgh Faculty:  Informatics Author:  Christopher Sipola Award:  2018 Social Responsibility & Sustainability Dissertation Prize Title:  Summarizing electricity usage with a neural network

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Education Author:  Matthew Brillinger Award:  2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Humanities Prize Title:  Educational Park Planning in Berkeley, California, 1965-1968

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty: Social Sciences Author:  Heather Martin Award:  2015 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  An Analysis of Sexual Assault Support Services for Women who have a Developmental Disability

University : University of Ottawa Faculty : Physics Author : Guillaume Thekkadath Award : 2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Sciences Prize Title : Joint measurements of complementary properties of quantum systems

University:  London School of Economics Faculty: International Development Author: Lajos Kossuth Award:  2016 Winner of the Prize for Best Overall Performance Title:  Shiny Happy People: A study of the effects income relative to a reference group exerts on life satisfaction

University : Stanford University Faculty : English Author : Nathan Wainstein Award : 2021 Alden Prize Title : “Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel”

University : University of Massachusetts at Amherst Faculty : Molecular and Cellular Biology Author : Nils Pilotte Award : 2021 Byron Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation Title : “Improved Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths”

University:  Utrecht University Faculty:  Linguistics Author:  Hans Rutger Bosker Award: 2014 AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize Title:  The processing and evaluation of fluency in native and non-native speech

University: California Institute of Technology Faculty: Physics Author: Michael P. Mendenhall Award: 2015 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Title: Measurement of the neutron beta decay asymmetry using ultracold neutrons

University:  Stanford University Faculty: Management Science and Engineering Author:  Shayan O. Gharan Award:  Doctoral Dissertation Award 2013 Title:   New Rounding Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms

University: University of Minnesota Faculty: Chemical Engineering Author: Eric A. Vandre Award:  2014 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics Title: Onset of Dynamics Wetting Failure: The Mechanics of High-speed Fluid Displacement

University: Erasmus University Rotterdam Faculty: Marketing Author: Ezgi Akpinar Award: McKinsey Marketing Dissertation Award 2014 Title: Consumer Information Sharing: Understanding Psychological Drivers of Social Transmission

University: University of Washington Faculty: Computer Science & Engineering Author: Keith N. Snavely Award:  2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award Title: Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Social Work Author:  Susannah Taylor Award: 2018 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  Effacing and Obscuring Autonomy: the Effects of Structural Violence on the Transition to Adulthood of Street Involved Youth

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Vast Planetary Abstraction: On the Impossible Modernist Epic , Caleb Shao-Ning Fridell

Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works , Michael A. Granger

Beyond Me: Class, Sexuality, and the Work of the Autobiographical Fragments of Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, and Eileen Myles , Erin E. Heiser

Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility and the Politics of Form in Modernist Women's Life Writing , Margot Kotler

Defying Normativity: Reclaiming a Narrative of Queer Resistance in Young Adult Literature , Christopher Morabito

Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic , Sandra Moyano Ariza

“As Blind Men Learn the Sun”: Towards a Poetics of Queer Mysticism in American Literature, 1860-1960 , Bradley M. Nelson

Time Ripens on the Counter: A Literary History of the Americas , Judah Rubin

Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature , Beth Sherman

Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021 , Olivia Wood

Dissertations from 2023 2023

International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century , Param S. Ajmera

Unsung Heroines in Black and White: Sixties Girl Groups as Sonic Rock Rebellion , Hilarie Ashton

There’s No Space in History: Affiliation, Eros and Colonial Entanglements in North American Nuclear Poetry, 1945-Present , Marguerite Daisy Atterbury

The Myth of Measure in American Poetry , Joshua M. Barber

Untenable Spaces and Inconceivable Futures in the 21st Century Anglophone Indian Novel , Shoumik Bhattacharya

Chromatic Dissensus: An Otherwise Archive of Natural Dyes, 1700–1856 , Luke Church

Emancipatory and Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations of Enslaved Labor in US and Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855 , Michael Druffel

“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens , Damele Elliott-Hubbard

Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915 , Julia G. Fuller

Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film , Ethan Goldberg

Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature , Woo Ree Heor

Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism , Rasheed M. Hinds

Who Are Our Teachers? The Impact of the Composition Teaching Practicum on Writing Studies , Maxine Krenzel

Posthuman Lessons for Writing and Well-Being: Reparative Practices , Anna A. Larsson

Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668 , Nathan D. Nikolic

Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives , Karen C. Pitt

Abolition Renaissance: Black Revolutionary Metonymy in 20th Century Theory, Poetry, Life Writing, and Music Beyond ‘the United States’ , John S. Rufo

Gaps of Speculation: Refusing Representation in Queer and Postcolonial Fiction , Sarah Schwartz

A Study of Geo-Regional Place-Consciousness in American Literature , Eugene Slepov

Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing , Sophia N. Sunseri

A Difference of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism , Ryan L. Tracy

The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological , Eric Dean Wilson

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t: The Poetics of Flicker , Sara Akant

Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness , Lynne Beckenstein

Drift Net: The Social and Political Agency of the Migratory Text , Chris Campanioni

Clowning with Identity: Embodied Selves and Others in Comedy's Gendered Character Performances , Allison Douglass

On the Bathysphere Logbooks , Brad Fox

The Silent Holocaust and Other Myths: The Jewish Body and Intermarriage in the Fiction of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth , Samuel Gold

"You Can't Be Shakespeare and You Can't Be Joyce": Lou Reed, Modernism, and Mass Production , Daniel C. Jacobson

Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama , Ja Young Jeon

Narrative Side-Stepping: Disability Beyond the Narratology of Normalcy , Christian Lewis

Expressivism and its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory and Practice from History to Here and Now , Sasha A. Maceira

Frontier Wordsworth: An Essay toward “The Idiot Boy” , David L. Sassian

Recognition as a Pedagogical Formation: Re-tracing Black Rhetors’ Care-Work in the Field of Writing Studies , Chy L. Sprauve

Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives , Queenie T. Sukhadia

Sound Minds: Women’s Novels, Vibrational Experience, and the Listening Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain , Elizabeth Weybright

The Visionary Mode in Anglophone Modernist Fiction , Wei Wu

“The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s , Anna Zeemont

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy , Lindsey Albracht

Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique , Miriam L. Atkin

Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000 , Dainy Bernstein

How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism , Jane Clare Bolin

Skin Worlds: Black and Indigenous Science Fiction Theorizing Since the 1970s , Lou Cornum

Pierce and Pine: Diane di Prima, Mary Norbert Korte, and the Meeting of Matter and Spirit , Iris Cushing

Unthinkable Conditions: Affect and Environment in Romanticism and Speculative Fiction , Amelia Z. Greene

Further Toward Minor Literatures , Aaron Hammes

(In)Hospitable Modernity: Hospitality and Its Discontents (1920–1953) , Daniel A. Hengel

Autobiographical Narratives of Sexual Violation: Trauma, Genre, and the Politics of Telling , Sarah M. Hildebrand

Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature , Christina Katopodis

Very Two, Very One: Reading as Friendship , Amelia Marini

The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry , Sean M. Nolan

Here Time Becomes Space: The Victorian Spatial Imaginary , Jonathan E. Rachmani

"Never Forget": Embodied Absence and Extended Relations of Care After 9/11 , Sophie L. Riemenschneider

Toward the Black Indian Ocean: Race and the Human Project in the Afro-Asian Imagination , Micheal A. Rumore

Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel , Michael Shelichach

Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction , Patrick Smyth

Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain , Aaron Botwick

Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return , Marissa Brostoff

“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich , William J. Camponovo

Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation , Jaime Shearn Coan

African American Existential Heroes: Narrative Struggles for Authenticity , Michael Cotto

Narcissus and Beauty: A Renaissance of Paterian Aesthetics , Amir Dagan

British Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Natural Education , Catherine S. Engh

Finding Love: A Relational Psychoanalytic Reading of Charlotte Bronte's "Villette," George Eliot's "Middlemarch," and Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" , Jerry B. Finkel

Eating the Heart of Weetigo World: Decolonial Imaginaries in the Stories of Louise Erdrich and Tomson Highway , Rebecca Lynne Fullan

Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism and The Early Writing of James Joyce , Erin Garrow

Descriptive Inhumanism: Description and Decolonial Aesthetics , Marcos Gonsalez

American Novels Amidst the Rise of New Media: Emergent Publics and Forms , Sarah Ruth Jacobs

Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy , Patrick C. James

The Picturesque and Its Decay: The Travel Writing and Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley , Gabrielle Kappes

Yours Sincerely, Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Letter Writing , Jojo S. Karlin

Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy , Sean M. Kennedy

Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature , Makeba Lavan

Feminist Theology and the Fantastic in Jewish Poetics and Children's Literature (1960s–Present) , Meira S. Levinson

The Making of a Queer Caribbean: Grassroots, Dancehall, and Literary Advocacy (1975–2015) , Dadland Maye

The Remnants of Harmonious Bildungs: The Classical Bildungsroman as an Ontological Dimension of the Novel of Counter-Development in England from Jane Austen to Ford Madox Ford (1813–1924) , Anne E. McFadden

Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976 , Melina A. Moore

Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain , Kathryn N. Moss

Crafting Girlhoods , Elissa E. Myers

A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements , Trace Peterson

Awful Nearness: Rape and the English Novel, 1740–1900 , Erin A. Spampinato

Shakespeare's Problem Comedies as Self-Critique , John-Paul Spiro

'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk , Wendy Tronrud

Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar , Suzanne M. Uzzilia

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Dissertation

All students are responsible for original research and study on a topic that has been approved by their dissertation committee and reviewed by the Graduate Studies Committee. A completed Dissertation should be between 200-400 pages in length, exclusive of works cited/bibliography. The dissertation should be defended in the student's fourth year.

For details on the integrated dissertation format, consult the  department guidelines .

The dissertation proceeds in two stages:

• The student submits a dissertation proposal, and defends it as part of the comprehensive exam process.
• The student writes, defends, and submits the dissertation.

Details of these stages are below.

Dissertation Proposal

Students must arrange for a supervisor and a dissertation committee, from members of the faculty, and under their guidance prepare a proposal. The final draft of the proposal must be submitted (in digital form) with the signed  proposal form (PDF)   to the Support Services Coordinator by by the date announced in that year's exam schedule.

Students must arrange for a supervisor and a dissertation committee, from members of the faculty, and under their guidance prepare a proposal. A draft of the proposal must be submitted to the committee by the date indicated in that year’s comprehensive exam schedule , normally during the Fall term (term 4 in the program). The final draft of the proposal must be submitted to the Support Services Coordinator two weeks after the written exam (normally in May), at which point a proposal defence will be scheduled.

A dissertation proposal should contain an overview of the entire project of approximately 1000 words, a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of approximately another 1500 words, and a bibliography (of no fixed word count) of both primary and secondary texts. It should include first-page headings with your name, your supervisor’s name, your committee members’ names, and a title. Sections should be clearly signaled with subheads and blank space. Pages should be numbered.

The total word count should not exceed  3000 words , exclusive of bibliography.

The purpose of the document is to illustrate to the candidate's supervisory committee, and to the Graduate Studies Committee, preparedness to begin writing the dissertation. The supervisory committee and the Graduate Studies Committee will provide the candidate with feedback about the project’s feasibility and the coherence of its research goals. Students should submit a complete draft to their supervisory committee by the date announced in that year's exam schedule, and set a date for the review meeting, allowing time for revision (if necessary). 

A dissertation proposal should outline the project's major research goals and the corpus of texts or objects to be considered. The proposal should thoroughly contextualize the project within its scholarly domain(s). It is not, however, primarily a literature review. 

After Submission

When the proposal is complete, the student submits it to the graduate office for review by the Graduate Studies Committee, by the date indicated in the comprehensive exam schedule. The second half of the comprehensive oral exam is dedicated to the dissertation proposal. This consists of a discussion, and questions, about the proposal and the student’s plans for the dissertation. At the defence, the proposal is assigned one of three outcomes:

• Conditional pass (with conditions and resubmission deadline indicated)

Once the proposal has been successfully defended, approved proposals and the signed  proposal form (PDF) are submitted to the graduate office and the student begins drafting the dissertation.

Failure to submit a proposal results in the loss of satisfactory standing and may result in the termination of internal funding. If the student fails the proposal portion of the comprehensive exam process, the committee will determine the next steps, in consultation with the Graduate Officer. Usually, this means that the “proposal defence” portion of the oral exam will needs to be attempted a second time. Exam components can be attempted at most twice.

Sample Dissertation Proposals

Dissertation Proposal Example 1 (PDF)

Dissertation Proposal Example 2 (PDF)

The dissertation should be defended in the student's fourth year. When the student has completed a defensible draft, (s)he submits the abstract (in digital form) to the English Graduate Officer with the notification that (s)he is ready to defend, and sends an electronic copy of the dissertation and abstract to the English Graduate Office. Simultaneously, the supervisor submits a list of five candidates each for the External and Internal-External members of the committee. Once these committee members are secured and approved by the Associate Dean of Arts, Graduate Studies, a defense is scheduled.

Defence Guidelines

• The supervisory committee must approve a final version of the dissertation.

The supervisor must contact the Graduate Officer in order to set up the defence committee.  The supervisor must provide the Graduate Officer with the following:

a list of 5 candidates for the role of internal/external examiner (including department, email address, a line or two on suitability, and a statement concerning any professional or personal connection)

a list of 5 candidates for the role of external examiner (including institutional affiliation, email address, a line or two on suitability, and a statement concerning any professional or personal connection)

the dissertation abstract

The candidate must provide an electronic copy of the dissertation to the Graduate Studies Coordinator.  

Once the Associate Dean approves the committee, a date and time will be set for the defence, no earlier than five weeks after the dissertation goes on public display.

Please note that the five-week display period means 25 business days—not including University holidays, black-out periods, or weekends; the blackout periods generally consist of the Christmas break, the last week of August, and university reading breaks. 

Things to note during the black-out periods: 

•  Dissertation defences are not scheduled during this time.
• The mandatory five-week display period will not be affected by the black-out periods.
• All administration and paperwork will continue to be processed during this time.
• For more details, consult the  Faculty of Arts doctoral dissertation procedures .

Publishing Instructions

Once completed and approved, the dissertation must be submitted to UWSpace for publishing.

Submission Information

• Review the  instructions for submitting your dissertation  to UWSpace.
• Dissertations submitted to UWSpace will be reviewed within 3 to 5 business days of the GSO receiving your 'Thesis Acceptance' form from your Faculty/department.

Submission Process

• Submit 1 copy of your dissertation (.pdf format only) and any supplementary files to UWSpace for review by the GSO.
• You will be contacted by email after a review has taken place to advise you of any revisions that must be made prior to final approval.
• If revisions are required, your dissertation must be resubmitted to UWSpace.
• You will be contacted by email once your dissertation submission is approved.
• Retain a copy of the GSO/UWSpace approval email to submit to  wPrint  if paper copies of your dissertation are required. An alternate printing service is  pageforpage.com .
• The department does not require hard copies of your dissertation. 

Other Resources

Graduate Studies offers many electronic dissertation resources , including a word template, which are helpful for both students and supervisors.

Students are encouraged to consult the GSO's  Thesis Regulations  and  Formatting Requirements .

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Use the following sources to find doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Copies of dissertations and theses from other universities can be requested via Interlibrary Loan: borrowing . For more resources for finding theses and dissertations, see the Research Guide Dissertations .

• Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Full text (PDF) of most US dissertations from 1997 on, many earlier works and some from outside the US plus some master's theses. Also lists all dissertations and theses from 1861 on from US universities and some works from Europe and Asia from 1637 on. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
• Virgo Virgo provides discovery of all theses and dissertations originating at the University of Virginia as well as many others. Newer theses and dissertations are accessible online. From the advanced search screen, you can limit your search to Thesis/Dissertation under the Format heading.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations Contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations.
• American Doctoral Dissertations This freely accessible database includes nearly 100,000 dissertations from 1933 through 1955, which represents the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by U.S. universities during that period.

Recent UVA English Dissertations & M.A. Theses

Dissertations and theses offer the latest research from graduate students, identifying trends in the field. As research tools, they are invaluable for their extensive bibliographies. The following are examples of recent dissertations and MA theses written by UVA English graduate students that can be found through Virgo and are available online through the LibraETD repository:

• "Corporate Voice": Poetic Personation and Political Theology in Early Modern England, Dissertation, 2022, Evan Cheney
• "What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come": Transnational Modernism, Self-Transcendence, and the Rise of Ultranationalism (1884-1945), Dissertation, 2024, Kathryn Webb-Destefano
• After Haiti: Race, Empire, and Global Decadent Literary Resistance, 1804-1948, Dissertation, 2024, Cherrie Kwok
• All Y'All: Queering Southernness in Recent US Fiction, Dissertation, 2022, Heidi Siegrist
• The Architecture of Solitude: Constructions of Isolation in Victorian Literature, Dissertation, 2024, Monica David
• Attitude Problems: Late Capitalist Desire and the Psychopolitics of Queer American Fiction, Dissertation, 2024, John Modica
• Beyond Subversion: Raising Doubt Through Ancient Scripture in Contemporary Novels, Dissertation, 2022, Nathan Frank
• Black Boyhood and the Queer Practices of Impossibility in African American Literary and Cultural Productions, Dissertation, 2022, Dionte Harris
• Cholera's Clock: Race, Illness, and Time in the Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination, Dissertation, 2023, Bridget Reilly
• Cognitive-Affective Formalism: T.S. Eliot and the Embodiment of Early Modern Verse, Dissertation, 2024, Justin Stec
• Crossing Lines: Topoi of Kynde in Medieval Romance, Dissertation, 2024, Courtney Watts
• The Economics of the Novel in Britain, 1750-1836, Dissertation, 2023, Michael VanHoose
• Forms of Time and Times of Race: Narrative in the Jim Crow Era, Dissertation, 2023, Josephine Adams
• Ghostly Encounters: Transnational Gothic and the Twenty-First Century Global Novel, Dissertation, 2022, Dipsikha Thakur
• Intimate Editing: Toward a Relational Philological Poetics, Dissertation, 2022, Anne Marie Thompson
• Its Radiant Arms: The Novelized Lyric in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Dissertation, 2023, Lydia Brown
• Lyric Crossings: Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetry, Dissertation, 2023, Rebecca Foote
• Neoliberal Melancholia and the Narration of Chineseness in the Twenty-First Century, Dissertation, 2024, Tracey Wang
• Outlaws, Collectors, Songsters, and Bards: Modern Lyric and the Voices of Ballad History, Dissertation, 2024, Samuel Walker
• Playing for Profit: Staging Self-interest in Early Modern England, Dissertation, 2024, Lucie Alden
• A Poetics that is Not One: Origins, Forms, and Communities of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century TransPoetics, Dissertation, 2023, Austyn James
• Postcritical Relations, Dissertation, 2023, Jessica Swoboda
• Provincial Matters: Poetry and the Work of Space in the Global Twentieth Century, Dissertation, 2023, Wei Liu
• Radical Media, Radical Culture: Technology and Social Change in 20th and 21st Century America, Dissertation, 2022, Grace Alvino
• Refracting the Past in Post-Reformation Romance, Dissertation, 2022, Valerie Voight
• Refugee Poetics: Southeast Asian American Poets, Literary Institutions, and Structures of Postmemory, Dissertation, 2023, Joseph Wei
• Renovated Spirits: Character and the Modern Dramatic Monologue, Dissertation, 2024, Matthew Martello
• The Sacrament and the Stage: Eucharistic Representations in English Theater, Dissertation, 2022, Daniel Zimmerman
• Threshold Domesticity in the English Gothic Novel, Dissertation, 2024, Natalie Thompson
• Who Robbed the Woods: American Deforestation and Indigenous Literary Resistance, 1825-1930, Dissertation, 2023, Lloyd Sy
• "Bridge the Gap" With Community: Approaches for Community Building for First-Year Writing Across Two- and Four-Year Colleges, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Olivia Barrett
• "Handmade by You": The Poetics and Politics of Long-Distance Correspondence in Agha Shahid Ali, M.A. Thesis, 2023,Yichu Wang
• "Love Beyond Anything I Will Ever Make of It": Lyric Poetry as an Approach to Writing About Climate Crisis, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Krysten Kuhn
• "Worthiest to Be Obeyed": Right Learning and Pedagogy in Paradise Lost, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Alexander Slansky
• Accessibility for Whom? Teaching Graphic Novels to Represent the Embodied Experiences of Neurodiverse AFAB Intersectional Identities, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Kaylin Preslar
• Acting with Disruptive Compassion at Empathetic Intersections in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Rebecca Barry
• Behind the Boar-Helm: Examining Men and Performed Masculinity in Pre-Conquest England, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Anna Weese-Grubb
• Breaking Chains, Building Narratives: U.S. Prison Education and Critical Narrative Pedagogy, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Jacob Francis
• The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Surveillance and Haunted Houses in Contemporary Literature, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Pamela Avery Erskine
• Can the Subaltern Speak Through Postcolonial Historical Fiction?: A Study of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Gauri Jhangiani
• The Contemporary (African) American Sonnet, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Lucy Catlett
• Cosmopolitan Futures, Modernist Afterlives: Critical Aesthetics in Teju Cole's Open City and Kazuo Ishiguro's the Unconsoled, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Eugenie Jiwon Shin
• Demonic Women and Machiavellian Men in Shakespeares's Early History Plays, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Yiding Yu
• Distant Aesthetics: Amazon's Impacts on the Aesthetic of the Novel, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Thomas Williams
• The Early Social History of Kenneth Grahame's the Wind in the Willows, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Kathryn Higinbotham
• The Empathy Habit: Vernon Lee's Psychological Aesthetics, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Quenby Hersh
• Fatal Affections: Charlotte Temple, the Coquette, and the Mourning Reader, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Mackenzie Daly
• Filtered Through Fiction: The Evolution of Perspective in Hemingway's in Our Time, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Grant Nuttall
• Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Theorist With a Reparative Mindset, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Tanner Eckstein
• Moral Implications of Madness: Female Sexuality and Violence in Sir Walter Scott's the Bride of Lammermoor and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Hana Liebman
• Otherwise Than Schooling: Three Critiques of Secularism, State Power, and US Public Education, 1960-2000, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Chandler Jennings
• Playing to Learn: Integrating Story-Based Games Into Secondary English Curriculum, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Caroline Ford
• A Queer Claim to the World: Stanley Cavell, Tangerine, and Acknowledgment, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Henry Tschurr
• Queering the Process: A Pedagogical Case Analysis of Queer Interruptions in the First-Year Writing Classroom, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Kayla Reese Arbini
• Slow Reading, Slow Eating: A Postcritical Approach to First-Year Writing Pedagogy, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Rianna Turner
• Sympathy and Revulsion in Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound", M.A. Thesis, 2023, Sara Di Muzio
• Teaching Ambiguity in Shakespeare, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Jared Willden
• Teaching Loving: On Embracing Affect in the First-Year Writing Classroom, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Allison Gish
• Teaching the Controversy:Using Challenged and Banned Books in the High School English Curriculum, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Caroline Greenblatt
• Trauma-Informed Teaching in Low Income Schools, M.A. Thesis, 2024, "Rynx" Claire Gordon Schulz
• A Turn Toward Empathy: A Pedagogy for Developing Emotional Literacy with Multicultural Coming-of-Age Novels, M.A. Thesis, 2023, Amanda Boivin
• Yeats, Violence, and Aesthetic Distance, M.A. Thesis, 2024, Eric Miller
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Theses and Dissertations--English

Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Bouyon: Stories , Savannah Bowen

TORE ALL TO PIECES: POEMS AND SHORT STORIES FROM QUEER APPALACHIA , WILLIE CARVER Jr.

SPACES OF CITIZENSHIP: NEGOTIATING BELONGING THROUGH COLD WAR LITERATURE AND CULTURE , Daria Goncharova

Let My Work Speak: A Collection , Julian Long

Eleven Stories of Varying Lengths , Nicholas Ruma

THE AESTHETICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IN PAOLO BACIGALUPI’S THE WINDUP GIRL AND THE WATER KNIFE , David Schwartz

Defining Dizzy , Akhira Umar

Trust and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Fictional Genres and Metacognitive Disruptions , Jessica Marie Van Gilder

THE DARK SIDES OF GIVING: REPRESENTATIONS OF PHILANTHROPY AND GIFTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE, C.1750-1820 , Jillian Winter

When I Think About Myself , Jazmin Witherspoon

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

"No, Not There": The Literary Precarity and Profundity of Queer Spatiality , Samuel James Aftel

Anthology of a Mess , Yusuf Akman

Kill on the Left Foot , Daniel Collins

Representations of Military Women in Contemporary War Stories , Deborah Daley

My Rearranged Life , Sajida DiAugustine

The Cactus Kid , Dorothy Ann Freeman

MYTH, MOCKERY, & MISERY: AN EVOLUTION OF DISILLUSION IN MODERN-WAR EXPRESSION , Richard W. Halkyard

Emerging Hues: Essays from the Teneral Stage , Lucy Jayes

vapr , Henry Knollenberg

From Jane Austen to Meghan Markle: The Persistence of British Imperialism in White Popular Feminism , Kathryn M. Kohls

Conceive and Control: Cultural-Legal Narratives of American Privacy and Reproductive Politics , Emily Naser-Hall

FOLDING WATERS , Chinelo Kasimma Okani

THE REFLEXITVE FRITZ LANG: META-CINEMATIC AND GENRE CRITIQUES IN HIS AMERICAN FILMS , Justin J. Roberts

STICK WITH ME: ESSAYS , Clay Shields

Echoed Malice: Identity and the Doubled Voice in Gothic Horror , Brandon West

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Digital Safe Spaces: Nonbinary Community Building on Tiktok , Alexandra Daggett

A Poetics of Entanglement: the Enmeshed Creation of Interrogative Space , Phil Spotswood

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Reframing Writing Teachers as Writers: Using Online Messages as Teaching Tools during Crisis and Beyond , Emily Capan

Decolonizing Assessment: Witnessing, Disrupting, and Reimagining Assessment in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication , Lisa Schuler Dooley

A Case for the Negotiation of Agency by Disenfranchised Subjects in Contemporary Nigerian Literature , Chinelo Eneh

Drenched and Drying: Regional Affects and Small-Scale Souths: a Creative Dissertation , Emily Fontenot

Otherhood: Tracing Childhood in Korean American Literature for Youth , Nina Hanee Jang

Monsters Can Do More: Teaching with Monster Studies , Colleen Karn

Ecofeminism Reimagined: Discourse & Embodiment in Young Adult Literature , Laurel Krapivkin

Language Ideologies and Practices in Ghana's English Language Education: a Critical Analysis of Golden English and National Literacy Acceleration Program Formative Report , Gideon Kwashie Kwawukumey

Fever City: Memory, Truama, and Storytelling via Hybrid Writing Methods: a Creative Dissertation , Samantha Moe

Illustrating Postcolonial Margins: Locating Experimental, Collaborative, Indian Graphic Narratives in the Twenty-First Century , Sayanti Mondal

Translingual Pedagogy in the First-Year Composition Classroom: an Examination of Divergent Student Uptake , Ashton Taylor Myerscough

An Authoethnographic Study of My Biliteracy Writing Practices as an Akan Speaker of English: Implications for L 2 Writing , Gabriel Opare

Community-Based Risk Communication during the Covid-19 Pandemic: a Biwoc Framework , Raven Latice Preston

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Exploring Second Language Writing Pedagogy in the Saudi Univeristy Context: a Descriptive Case Study of Writing Instruction and Feedback Strategies , Talal Waleed Daweli

Inheritance and Appropriation: Confronting Privilege in Magical Young Adult Fiction , Natalie Jipson

We Might Be Salvaged , Hannah Kroonblawd

Towards a Relational Understanding of Food, Identity, and Diversity in Children’s Literature , Katy Lewis

The Resistance of the Hondureña: Bridging Literary Graveyards through a Postcolonial-Ecofeminist Approach , Anna Linnea Ortiz

The Challenges of Navigating Feminism in Nigeria: a Case for Third Space Feminism , Pearl Osibu

Hearts of Gold: Adapting the Lives of 19th Century Alaskan Sex Workers into a Biopic , Kelly Pierce

Lydia’s Urn: Exploring Trauma, Non-binary Identity, and Plural Subjectivity via Metamodern Gaming, a Creative Dissertation , Eric Jason Pitman

The Perennial Quest: Working towards Equitable Assessment with Student-Centric Learning Contracts , Matthew W. Schering

The Urgency for a Transnational Feminist Methodology: an Inclusive Analytical Framework for Neocolonialism and Globalization , Sanam Shahmiri

Disability Representation: Sites of Grassroots Activism on Grief and Insidious Trauma , Shawna Marie Sheperd

Toward an Asian American Antiracist Pedagogy for First Year Writing , Dorothy Margaret Stone

“Give Me the Rules, I’ll Understand Grammar Better ”: Exploring the Effectiveness of Usage-Based Grammar Approach through Explicit Instruction of Adverbials , Pouya Vakili

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

English Medium Instruction ( Emi ) at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences ( Ksau-Hs ): Students’ Needs and Instructors’ Attitudes , ABDULELAH MOHAMMED ALKHATEEB

Teaching English Language Varieties: Promoting Linguistic and Educational Change through a Critical Multicultural Pedagogical Approach in the “Introduction to Linguistics ” Course , Lyudmila N. Belomoina

The Pedagogy of Terror: Women's Education in the Gothic Novel , Faith Borland

Defining Compulsory Academic Genres: a Feminist Rhetorical Interrogation of Required Institutional Practices , Courtney Cox

Literate Activity Research and Narrative Analysis as Frameworks for Educational Change: an Examination of Writing Instruction in Two Alternative Education Programs , Leslie Rae Hancock

The Globalgothic Vampire: Application of and Benefits for the English Studies Model , David Lawrence Hansen

Peering at the Mirror of Reflection: Agency and Design Thinking in the Development of Writerly Identities , Elizabeth Louise Jones

An Autoethnographic Study of My Student and Teacher Experiences in First-Year Composition ( Fyc ) in Ghana: ( Re ) Developing More Inclusive Pedagogies in Fyc in the U.s. , Eric Nuamah Korankye

The Politics of Di/visibility: Narrative Positioning and Disability Representation in Children’s Literature , Agathe Lancrenon

Queering Genre and Joy: Reclaiming and Navigating Queerness through Hybridity , Rebecca Meier

Keats and Shelley: a Pursuit towards Progressivism , Serenah Minasian

Treasure, Women, and Agency: Exploring Objectification in a World of Living Objects , Alexa Parker

“It Was Nice To Know I Was N’t the Only One Struggling: ” Establishing Empathy and Communal Awareness Using Life Writing at the Middle Level , Kristin Danielle Reynolds

Material Witnesses: Deconstructing Networks of Credibility and Objectivity in Medical Narratives from Mary Toft to the Contraceptive Pill , Krista Elizabeth Roberts

Arreidis ( Roots ): Fala Language and It S Quest for Identity , Claudia Sánchez Sánchez

The Pen Is the Sword: Fighting by Writing for Our Future , Clinton Alexander Soper

Interrogating Digital Rhetorical Privacy on Direct-to-Consumer Genetics Websites , Charles Fletcher Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Autoethnography of Laughter: Transforming Identity by Teaching Composition and Linguistics through Humor , Olya Cochran

The Uses, Understandings, and Values of Student Strucutral Assisting Metatexts in College First Year Composition Courses , Joseph Ryan Dundovich

( Dis ) Ability Discourse and the Mediation of Disabled Identity in Young Adult Literature and Television , Daniel Freeman

Collaboration in the Technical Communication Classroom: Negotiating Team Contracts in a Pwi , Alyssa Herman

Minor Subjects: Power and Inequity in Children's and Adolescent Literature , Wesley Jacques

The Magic of Teaching and Assessing Writ [ Rid ] Ing , Kristina Koehler

By Your Powers Combined: Heroic Solutions to Climate Catastrophes in the Fifth Season, Avengers: Infinity War, and Horizon: Zero Daw N , Kematat Matthew Medrala

Theorizing Desire in the Young Adult Romance Genre , Shelby Ragan

From Cultural to Colonial: Differential Writing Practices and a Negotiation of Genre’s Value-Laden Nature in First-Year-Composition Classes , Md Mijanur Rahman

Sleuths as Social Activists: Negotiations of Power & Morality in Ya Sleuthing Stories , Heather Leigh Sanford

Bull and Vine , Hunter Houk Sheaffer

The Reading Eye, Ruminating Body, and Regulated Gaze: ( Re ) Constructing Gender in the Old English Lives of Saints , Thelma Trujillo

( Re ) Mapping Bisexuality through Space and Place in Young Adult Literature , Jennifer Tullos

Voice, Choice, and ( Material ) Agency: the Sexualized Feminine Body in Young Adult Literature , Tharini Viswanath

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Women in Fantasy: Healing Worlds from Trauma via Ethics of Care , Ann J. Borow

Resist and Rebel: Life Narrative Subjects That Use Gender Performance To Subvert Patriarchal Ideals , Elizabeth Calero

The Québecois Connection: the French-Canadian Diaspora in Jack Kerouac’s on the Road , Justin Charron

When Affect Meets the Relational: a Dialogical, Life Writing Approach to English Studies , D. Shane Combs

An Intersectional Feminist Rhetorical Reframing of Rhetorics of Efficiency within Public Policy: Embodied Knowledge and Usability , Oriana A. Gilson

Epic Stories: Sequence Fiction, Young Readers, and the Aesthetics of World Building , Jordana Estelle Hall

When Inexpressible Becomes Expressible: the Duality of Narrative in Graphic Memoirs of Growing up and Trauma , Nina Hanee Jang

Toward a Theory of Procedural Rhetorical Systems: Demonstrations of Player Agency in Uptake of Rules in Video Games , Sydney A. Klem

Inoculations against Dominant Masculinity: Form as Representation for Women , Charley Koenig

Identity in Life Writing: Fact, Fiction, and Memory , Bridget Langdon

Gatekeeping Remix: Fandom Spaces and Identity Politics , Brittany Larsen

Conceiving a “Veneration for Clowns ”: Popular Amusement and Social Subversion in the Novels of Charles Dickens , Abigail Palmisano

Manifest Destiny Continued: the Reification and Colonization of Time , Blake Reno

Beyond the Words: Paratextual and Bibliographic Traces of the Other Reader in British Literature, 1760-1897 , Jeffrey Duane Rients

Complicating Advocacy with Intersectional Technofeminism: a Social Justice Methodology for Digital Rhetorics, Public Rhetorics, and Technical Communication , Sarah J. Warren-Riley

The Use of Discursive Features as a Representation of Voice and Identity in L2 Writing: a Case Study of Multilingual Graduate Students , Demet Yigitbilek

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Readers Constructed by Shakespeare Anthologies and Pedagogical Scholarship , Andrea Berns

“Destined To Make an Era ”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Transcendentalist Collaborations , Andrew Del Mastro

Writing Counternarratives: Authorizing the Black Woman’s Autobiographical Voice by Reading Ntozake Shange’s for Colored Girls as Life Narrative , Chereka C. Dickerson

Seeing Reading in First-Year Composition , Matthew Felumlee

Translating Le Fresne: Modeling Digital Scholarly Editions , Gabrielle Litwiller

“the Testing Served Its Purpose ”: High-Stakes Testing as a Method of Categorization and Control in Young Adult Dystopian Novels , Rebecca Lorenzo

( Re ) Making Insurrection: Genre, Historicity, and the Narrative Legacy of Nat Turner , Chamere Ranyail Poole

Chatting with Middle Schoolers: an Investigation of Student Uptakes of a Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Curriculum in 8 Th-Grade English Language Arts Classes , Deborah Riggert-Kieffer

Teaching Writing through Transformation: Linguistically Diverse Writing Teachers’ Enactments of Linguistic Diversity , Cristina Sanchez-Martin

The Tropes We Tutor by: Names and Labels as Tropes in Writing Center Work , Scott R. Sands

Here’s Looking at You, Kids: Dystopian Roadmaps to the Present in the Secondary Classroom , Michael Arthur Soares

Trauma and the Credibility Economy: an Analysis of Epistemic Violence and Its Traumatic Functions , Gina Stinnett

Old: a Personal Essayist’s Reflections of an Aging Adult , Marcia Irene Taylor

#Digitalactivism: Examining #yesallwomen and Teaching Social Media Activism in Technical Communication , Karishma Verma

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Toward an Interventionary Rhetoric for Technical Communication Studies , Julie Collins Bates

Post-Internet Writing: Social Media and Contemporary Fiction , Andrew Boomhower

Body Composition: Reading, Writing, and Resisting Weight Loss Autobiography as Biopolitical Pedagogy , Katherine Ann Browne

“It’s Not Rape -y Enough ”: How the Master Sexual Assault Narrative Restricts the Stories Writers Can Tell , Elizabeth Cachey

Canvases of Representation: Addressing the Cultural Politics of Black Male Superhero Identity in Graphic Narratives , Danielle L. Cochran

Writing Mental Illness and Interrogating Autobiographical Positionality , Ryan J. Edel

Entangled Bodies in the Medieval World: Anglo-Saxon Life Writing in Prefaces, Hagiography, and Letters , Megan Alise Gregory

Believing Mary Karr , Stephanie Rae Guedet

( Re ) Claiming History and Visibility through Rhetorical Sovereignty: the Power of Diné Rhetorics in the Works of Laura Tohe , Jessica Marie Safran Hoover

“They Ate Macaroni-and-Cheese or Tv Dinners; My Mother Made Curry Instead ”: a Narrative Inquiry of South Asian American Writers’ Identity Negotiation , Su Yin Khor

She Wanted It? : Examining Young Adult Literature and Its Portrayals of Rape Culture , Katy Lewis

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Jungle Zoo City People , Justin C. Ahlquist

Software Company Workplace Bias in Technical Communication , Amanda Altamirano

Niña de Cristal | Girl of Glass , Camila Cal Mello

The Uglier Animals , Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

Immigant Twists: The Hunt for Heritage, Healing and the Twist of DNA in Poetic and Hybrid Forms , Colleen Dieckmann

Analyzing the Use of Plain Language in Brief Summaries on ClinicalTrials.gov , Megan J. Eddington

Mother Tongue , Kianna Greene

A Succession of Loves, of Writing, and of Memory: Reverberations of Deleuze and Guattari Across In Search of Lost Time , Dylan Hoven

Empire's Ugly Feelings: Irritation, Anxiety, and Resignation in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford , Angela JM Leeds

Women of Needles and Holes , Michelle Munoz

Changing Lines , Spencer L. Reynolds

Lotería: Hybrid Narrative of a Transracial Adoptee , Dani F. Sarta

The Drought , Nicholas Stovel

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Exploring English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Saudi Arabian Teachers' Perceptions vis-a-vis the English Education Context in Primary and Secondary Schools , Mona Abdullah A. Al Mogeerah

Gatsby Revived Through Memes , Sabrina Alvarez

Foreign Constellations , Steven Archer

An Investigation on the Procedural Rhetoric of Curated Difficulty , Ismael Benjelloun

Boys to Men , Brandon Bradley

Taste of Grief & Other Stories , Madison Brown

Save the Drowning Child: Stories , Kayla Cayasso

The Daughters of Sycorax , Wendy Dye

Indigenous Writing and Poetry in Magazines Published by Women in the Early 20th Century , Grace Gunther

The Genealogy of Desolate Landscapes , Alexander Gurtis

Site, Sight, Swipe, Prada Marfa: A Case Study in Public Art, Cultural Tourism, and Image-Based Social Media Engagement , Ha'ani Joy Hogan

Roanoke and the Witch , Tamara Komoff

"Immigrant Literature": The Transnational Aesthetic of Early Japanese American Periodical ShūKaku [Harvest] , Joshua Kuiper

The Assemblage of the Rings: Reading Lord of the Rings Through the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari , Kieran Leeds

Tin Hammock , Ian Lindsay

Late Starts Leading to Native-Like Pronunciation In Second Language Acquisition , Antonio Losavio

Cultural Movement(s) and Counternarratives: The Rhetorics of Native Womxn Runners , Kim Martinez

Disoriented Desire: The Haunted Good Life in the Gothic House , Morgan Muhart

Monstrous Mothers and Utopian Possibilities: Motherhood and Power in Speculative Novels of the Late-Nineteenth and Mid-Twentieth Centuries , Sarah Pruitt

In Defense of the Wife , Veronica Silva

Decolonized Femininity and Post-Colonial Trauma Autobiographies: Reading Adriana Páramo, Julia Alvarez, and Azar Nafisi Through 'Scriptotherapy' , Nicole Suárez

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) Forced by the Covid-19 Pandemic: EFL Teachers' Practices and Perspectives Two Years Later , Eman Barri

Compulsory Conformity in Modern Japanese Culture: An Exploration of Asexuality in the works of Murata Sayaka, Kawakami Mieko, and Kamatani Yuki , Nicholas Colecio

Uncovering Ophelia: The Reclamation of Women's Madness Through Feminist Disability Studies , Amy Crawford

Aliens from Outer Space Don't Know How to Smile , Ollie Damm

Goodbye Letter to the Living , Lauren Denney

Circulating Suburbia: Locating a Transnational Suburban Imagination in Post-War Periodicals, 1945-1970 , Tyler Dick

Reading and Writing for High School Students' Writing Identity Construction , Marie Gentile

Corpora , Samantha Harden

Studies of Pain in a Multitude of Forms , Charles Klenk

Online Engagement in Graduate Technical Communication Education , Tabatha Kless

National Identity and Civil War Memory in the American South: How History, Ideology, and Media Inform the Culture Wars of the Late Twentieth Century , John Lancaster

The Dust and Other Stories , Evan Lindeman

The Hollow Bones , Ashley Neumeister

Try Again , Peyton Newell

Visual Frameworks and Analysis: Investigating the Link Between Primary Texts and Graphic Novel Adaptations Utilizing Semiotic & Visualization Framing Techniques , Kyle Parker

The Emotions, Emotional Labor, and Identities of Korean Teachers of English , Emily Puckett

Bodies of Clay , Noor Ur Rahman

Inclusive Writing, Kairos, and Technical Communication: Defining our Modern Age. , Ramara Reisch

The Obsidian Trials , Carissa Richetti

Common Law , Megan Riddell

Micro-Credentialing of English Learner Teaching Skills (MELTS) Preparation: Teacher Candidates' Use of Read-Alouds to Support Reading Comprehension for English Learners , Shayla Roberts

Discourse Analysis of Young Adult (YA) Literature: Analyzing Depictions of Anxiety in YA Fiction , Sydney Smith

Exploring the Connection between Feedback Options and Processing Patterns of L2 Writers: A Focus on Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback , Christina Torres

In the Light of What They Suffer , Grayson Treat

From the Femme Fatale to the Femme Fatalist: Re-Envisioning Gendered Iconography in Classic Hollywood Cinema , Noah Volz

Blue Heat Burning , Mary Wolff

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Dual Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding Effective Second Language Instruction: A Qualitative Study , Deddy Amrand

Exploring Vocabulary in an Original Corpus of Digital Science Resources for Middle School Learners , Rebeca Arndt

Beautiful, Terrible Things , Nicole Balsamo

Ruinous Wings , Madison Brake

Moneyboys , Joshua Deshaies

Sunseekers , Rebecca Fox

In the Call Center at the Navel of the World , David Gibson

The Technical World of Warcraft , Derek Hampton

"Do you Hear What I Say?" A Phenomenological Exploration of International Students' Oral Communication Experiences with PechaKucha Oral Presentations in a US English for Academic Purposes Program. , Van Thi Hong Le

Stance and Engagement in Scientific Research Articles , Caoyuan Ma

A Mixed-Methods, Grounded Theory Study of Online Meaning-Making During the Pandemic , Kaitlyn Montcrieff

Inheritance , Kenneth Noguera

Hermeneutics of Hate: How Martin Luther's Rhetorical Manipulation of the Greek Bible Led to His Anti-Judaic Treatise On The Jews and Their Lies , Michael Parrish

The Intersection Between Multi-voiced Narratives and First-person Narratives of War Fiction: Epistemology and the Meaning of War , Prashant Patel

Chrysalis , Marelize Roets

Water Damage , Rebecca Rowell

Authoring Health Literacy in the Everyday , Sarah Rumsey

Corrective Feedback in L2 Pronunciation: The Learner Lens , Elif Saribas

Toward an Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial , Alaa Taha

Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections of Disability, Gender, and Mental Health in Modernist Fiction , Sara Thames

I'll See You in the Morning: Stories , William Walker

Examining the Values in Our Valued Practices: Universal Design Principles as a Catalyst for Tutor Reflection , Eric Wisz

Analyzing the Self-reported Experiences of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Pre-service Teachers with Listening Comprehension Skills , Akira Yamamoto

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Relationship between Student Self-Efficacy and Close Reading in a Ninth Grade ELA Classroom , Karishma Assudani

Tethered , Audi Barnes

How Young Adult Literature Better Informs Canonical Literature in the 9th Grade English Language Arts Classroom , Amber Bernozzi

Rites of Renewal: Stories , Adam Byko

Using the Enneagram as a Lens for Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in the Ninth Grade English Language Arts Classroom , Catherine Caudle

Reading Between the Lines: Language Ideologies and Tutor Education Readings , Michele Cintron Toney

Naming More of What We Know: Critical Memoirs & the Ecological Metaphor as a Threshold Concept in Writing , Loren Cooper

Pre-service Teacher Perceptions of Pronunciation Teaching: A Qualitative Investigation , Madelyn Diller

Run Like A Girl , Alicia Ezekiel-Pipkin

Be Your Own Charlatan! , Melanie Farmer

Episodes of Bar Eugenia , Lauren Gagnon

Narrowing English Leaner (EL) Achievement Gaps: A Multilevel Analysis of an EL-infused Teacher Preparation Model , Nirmal Ghimire

Life Narratives as Technologies of Self: Explorations of Agency in A Son of the Forest and The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Tiffanie Kelley

Charcoal Boys and Dreams of Igniting , Malcolm Kelly

An Investigation of Factors Predicting Academic Writing Difficulties Among First-Year Doctoral Students , Iman Ibrahim Khudhair

Song of the Subcontinent , Dylan Kiely

The Morpheum Principle , Kyle Kubik

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Interest rates remain the same for the fourth quarter of 2024

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IR-2024-220, Aug. 21, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning Oct. 1, 2024.

For individuals, the rate for overpayments and underpayments will be 8% per year, compounded daily.

Here’s a complete list of the new rates:

• 8% for overpayments (payments made in excess of the amount owed), 7% for corporations.
• 5.5% for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000.
• 8% for underpayments (taxes owed but not fully paid).
• 10% for large corporate underpayments.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, the rate of interest is determined on a quarterly basis. For taxpayers other than corporations, the overpayment and underpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus three percentage points.

Generally, in the case of a corporation, the underpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus three percentage points and the overpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus two percentage points. The rate for large corporate underpayments is the federal short-term rate plus five percentage points. The rate on the portion of a corporate overpayment of tax exceeding $10,000 for a taxable period is the federal short-term rate plus one-half (0.5) of a percentage point.

The interest rates announced today are computed from the federal short-term rate determined during July 2024.

See Revenue Ruling 2024-18 PDF for details, which announces the rates of interest, and will appear in Internal Revenue Bulletin 2024-37, dated Sept. 9, 2024.

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Who was Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur among the dead after a superyacht sank?

The body of Mike Lynch, the 59-year-old British tech investor, has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian superyacht, Italian interior ministry office Massimo Mariani told Reuters on Thursday.

Early Monday morning, a luxury yacht he was on was hit by a tornado and sunk off the coast of Sicily, Italy.

Lynch garnered much of his wealth from cofounding Autonomy, a tech company purchased by Hewlett-Packard, or HP, for $11 billion in 2011. An attorney for Lynch recently revealed that the entrepreneur’s total worth is around $450 million.

The Autonomy sale was one of the biggest British tech deals at the time but quickly went sour, with HP writing down Autonomy’s value by  $8.8 billion  within a year. The Autonomy acquisition was meant to fuel HP’s software business. Instead, the blockbuster sale has been bogged down by legal problems that recently culminated with a fraud trial.

Prosecutors accused Lynch and former Autonomy finance executive Stephen Chamberlain of scheming to  inflate Autonomy’s revenue before selling to HP. In June, Lynch  was acquitted on 15 charges — one count of conspiracy and 14 counts of wire fraud — in a San Francisco court.

The verdict came as a surprise to Lynch. “When you hear that answer, you jump universes. If this had gone the wrong way, it would have been the end of life as I have known it in any sense,” he told the Times, a UK newspaper .

Autonomy, founded in 1996, became Britain’s biggest software company and a member of the blue-chip FTSE 100 index. Lynch was lauded at the time by academics and scientists and was asked to advise the British government on technology and innovation.

The vessel Lynch was on, the Bayesian, is linked to his wife, Angela Bacares, who was among those rescued. Ownership records held by maritime information service Equasis show that the 56-meter yacht is owned by the Isle of Man-registered Revtom Limited, a company owned by his wife.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing, Mariani said, and divers are still  searching  the area where the vessel sank.

Earlier Thursday, a fifth body was brought to shore from the wreck of the boat, which sank earlier in the week. A CNN team on the ground saw Italian authorities move the body from a rescue boat to ambulances at the Sicilian port of Porticello.

–Reuters and CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau contributed to this report.

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