Graduate Student Dissertation Titles
2006
Nathan Anderson , Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"I Don't Think I'm Right in There"
Jeffrey Hanson, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Saving Appearances"
Hayley Haugen, Ph.D., Literature
"Writing the 'Self-Determined' Life: Representing the Self in Disability Narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs"
Jennifer Pauley-Gose, Ph.D., Literature
"Imperial Scaffolding: The Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Mutiny Novel, and the Performance of British Power"
Eleanor (Elly) Williams, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"The Divine and Miss Johanna"
2005
David Bruzina, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Working Title "
Kelly Kinney, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"A Political Administration: Political Pedagogy, Institutional Location, and Teaching Assistant Preparation"
Lisa Stein, Ph.D., Literature
"The Travel Narrative as Spin: My Trip Abroad and 'A Comedian Sees the World'"
John Pruitt, Ph.D., Literature
"British Drama Museums: History, Heritage, and Nation in Collections of Dramatic Literature 1647-1814 "
2004
Elaine Arvan-Andrews, Ph.D., Literature
"The Physiognomy of Fashion: Faces, Dress, and the Self in the Juvenilia and Novels of Charlotte Bronte"
Patrick Madden, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Uruguary"
Desirae Matherly Martin, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Aggregaria"
2003
Scott Gallagher, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"Do As I Say, Not As I Do"
Tony Viola, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"It Used to Mean Something to Be Italian"
Candace Stewart, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"(Re) Imagining the Person (al): A History of Composition's
Scholarly Representations of the Self, 1980-2002"
Christina Fisanick, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"The Embodied Pedagogue: Teaching and Writing with the Body"
2002
Shannon Lakanen, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Residues"
Tom Conroy, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"All of Us Lovers"
Christy Veladota, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Dual"
James Wells, Ph.D., Literature
"Shakespeare's Play of Paradox: Body and Character in Drama"
2001
Neil Browne, Ph.D., Literature
"Nature Writing as Experience: Pragmatist Literary Ecology and
Twentieth Century American Nature Writing"
Eric Schwerer, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"It Isn't Like This: Accessible World, Attended Ontologies, & Selected Poems"
Michael Danko, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Educations"
Sachi Nakachi, Ph.D., Literature
"Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton
(Onoto Watanna)"
2000
Corey Andrews, Ph.D., Literature
"Paradox and Improvement: Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Club Poetry"
Tom Noyes, Ph.D., Creative Writing:Fiction
"In-Between Places: Stories"
1999
John Gallaher, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Of Mid & Air"
Tracie Church Guzzio, Ph.D., Literature
"'All Stories Are True': John Edgar Wideman's Responses to History"
Mimi Hart, Ph.D., Literature
"Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen"
Abdul-Qader A. Khattab, Ph.D., Literature
"Encountering the Non-Western Other in Laurence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet"
Patrick Smith, Ph.D., Literature
"'In My Own Memory, Time Has Never Stopped': Essays on Jim Harrison's Fiction"
Elizabeth Wallace, Ph.D., Literature
"Effecting the Fall of an Icon: Shakespeare's Use of Argument in Constructing the Leader/Orator"