Selected Dissertation Defenses
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Njelle Hamilton
Sound Writing: Music and Memory in the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
May 16, 2012
Committee: Faith Smith, Ulka Anjaria, and Donette Francis (English Department, Binghamton University)
Kyle Wiggins
Lethal Measures: The Politics of Revenge in 20th- and 21st-Century Fiction
May 23, 2012
Committee: Caren Irr, John Burt, and Laura Tanner (English Department, Boston College)
Mikel Parent
Long Poems of the Short Century: Ideology and Form in the 20th-century Epic
February 2, 2012
Committee: Caren Irr, Paul Morrison, and Aaron Fogel (English Department, Boston University)
John Turner
Modern Time: Repetition in James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
November 2, 2011
Committee: Paul Morrison, Laura Quinney, and Marjorie Howes (English Department, Boston College)
Bendta Schroeder
Natural Kinds: Botany, Aesthetics, and the Taxonomy of Families in British Literature, 1760-1807
July 6, 2011
Committee: Sue Lanser, John Plotz, and Lynn Festa (English Department, Rutgers University)
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Lauren Ellis Holm
Staging the Novel: The Victorian Novel and the Rise of Adaptation
April 26, 2011 @ 3:00pm
Committee: John Plotz, Thomas A. King, and David Kurnick (English Department, Rutgers University)
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Amy Easton-Flake
An Alternative Women's Movement: Antisuffrage Fiction, 1839-1920
April 8, 2011 @ 10:00am
Committee: Caren Irr, John Burt, and Betsy Klimasmith (English Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Jessie Stickgold-Sarah
The Textual Body: Genetics and Dystopia in American Fiction
April 8, 2011 @ 1:00pm
Committee: Caren Irr, Ulka Anjaria, and Amy Boesky (English Department, Boston College)
Roselyn Farren
"Let Wonder Seem Familiar": Objects of Affection as Other Minds in Shakespeare
December 10, 2010 @ 10:00am
Committee: William Flesch, Thomas King, and Caroline Bicks (English Department, Boston College)
Andrew Albin
Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England
December 6, 2010 @ 10:30am
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, Thomas King, and Stephen Nichols (English Department, Johns Hopkins University)
Ivana Cikes
Portrait of the American Author: Photography and Identity in 19th Century and Early 20th Century American Literature
November 8, 2010 @ 2pm
Committee: Michael T. Gilmore, John Plotz, and Nancy Scott (Fine Arts Department, Brandeis University)
Brian Chalk
'Raptures of Futurity': Monumentality and the Pursuit of Posterity of Early Modern Drama
July 2, 2010
Committee: Ramie Targoff, William Flesch, and Yu Jin Ko (English Department, Wellesley College)Ryan Wepler
Laughing Matters: Humor in the Post-1945 American Novel
June 16, 2010
Committee: Caren Irr, John Burt, and Joseph Boskin (History Department, Boston University)
Sean Witters
Literary Authenticity: The Author and the Logic of the Brand in the Modern American Novel
April 12, 2010
Committee: Michael T. Gilmore, Caren Irr, and Stephen Whitfield (American Studies Department, Brandeis)
Melanie Doherty
Networked Subjects: Technologies of Interiority in James, Ellison and Pynchon
March 26, 2010
Committee: Michael T. Gilmore, Caren Irr, and Thomas Doherty (American Studies Department, Brandeis)
Stephanie Shirilan
Mimetic Sympathy in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
June 17, 2009
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, Thomas King, and Carla Mazzio (SUNY Buffalo)
Bridget Chalk
The Passport Effect: Negotiating Identity in Modernist Narrative
June 18, 2009
Committee: Paul Morrison, John Plotz, and Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
Rachel Kapelle
Seeing the Past's Future: Prophecy in Romance
May 19, 2009
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, Ramie Targoff, and Kathryn Lynch (Wellesley College)
Sari Edelstein
The Novel and the News: Women's Writing and the Politics of U.S. Print Cultures, 1792-1892
March 24, 2009
Committee: Michael T. Gilmore, Susan Lanser, and Christopher Wilson (Boston College)
Danielle Coriale
The Naturalist Imagination: Novel Forms of British Natural History, 1848-1900
August 20, 2008
Committee: John Plotz, Susan Lanser, and Harriet Ritvo (MIT)
Holly Jackson
American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900
June 25, 2008
Committee: Michael T. Gilmore, Faith Smith, and John Stauffer (Harvard University)
Rebecca Olson
"Behind the Arras": Tapestry Ekphrasis in Spenser and Shakespeare
April 11, 2008
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, William Flesch, and Karen Robertson (Vassar College)
Vanita Neelakanta
Under Heaven's Eye: Milton and Theatrum Mundi
July 18, 2007
Committee: Ramie Targoff, William Flesch, and Dayton Haskin (Boston College)
Aaron Ritzenberg
The Sentimental Touch: Hands in American Novels During the Rise of Managerial Capitalism
August 30, 2006
Committee: Caren Irr, Michael T. Gilmore, and Laura Korobin (Boston University)
Emily Bernhard Jackson
The Evolution of Byronic Knowledge
July 20, 2005
Laura Quinney, Sue Lanser, and Yoon Lee (Wellesley College)