Dissertation Defenses
See also: • Recent Alumni Accomplishments • Distinguished Alumni • Graduate Student Accomplishments
| Ph.D candidate | title | date/time | committee |
| Danielle Coriale | The Naturalist Imagination: Novel Forms of British Natural History, 1848-1900 | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 1pm | John Plotz Susan Lanser Harriet Ritvo, MIT |
| Holly Jackson | American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900 | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 2pm | Michael Gilmore Faith Smith John Stauffer, Harvard University |
| Rebecca Olson | "Behind the Arras": Tapestry Ekphrasis in Spenser and Shakespeare | Friday, April 11, 2008 at 10am | Mary Baine Campbell William Flesch Karen Robertson, Vassar College |
| Daniela Kukrechtova | "And fair fables fall": De-Symbolized Lyrical Cityscapes of Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams and Gwendolyn Brooks | Friday, April 4, 2008 at 3pm | Caren Irr John Burt Betsy Klimasmith, UMass Boston |
| Lisa Giles | The Poetics of the Garden: Dickinson to Gluck | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 2pm | John Burt Laura Quinney Bonnie Costello, Boston University |
| Vanita Neelakanta | Under Heaven's Eye: Milton and Theatrum Mundi | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 10am | Ramie Targoff William Flesch Dayton Haskin, Boston College |
| Michael Schwartz | Apocalypse and Body in Herman Melville's Typee | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 3pm | John Burt Michael T.Gilmore Wyn Kelley, MIT |
| Aaron Ritzenberg | The Sentimental Touch: Hands in American Novels During the Rise of Managerial Capitalism | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 3:30pm | Caren Irr, Michael T. Gilmore, Laura Korobkin, Boston University |
| Rekha Rosha | In the Counting-house of Literature: Accounting, Capitalism, and American Identity, 1782-2000 | Monday, April 10, 2006 at 1:30pm | Michael Gilmore, Patricia Chu, Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University |
| Daniel Worden |
Like a Man: The Production of Masculinity in Modern American Fiction
|
Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 2:30 pm | Caren Irr, Michael T. Gilmore, Sean McCann, Wesleyan University |
| Jacqueline Horne | Sympathetic Adventures: Robinsonnades, Settler Narratives, Historical Romances, and Fictionalized Histories for Children, 1802-1854 | Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 3:00 pm | Susan Staves, John Plotz, Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College |
| Emily Bernhard Jackson | The Evolution of Byronic Knowledge | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 10:00 am | Laura Quinney, Sue Lanser, Yoon Lee,Wellesley College |
| Laura Yim | A Poetics of Fluidity in Spenser, Bacon, and Herbert, 1580-1630. | Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Mary Baine Campbell, William Flesch, Christopher Martin, Boston University |
this page updated March 5, 2007