Selected Dissertation Defenses
Stephanie Shirilan
Mimetic Sympathy in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
June 17, 2009
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, Thomas King, Carla Mazzio, SUNY Buffalo
Bridget Chalk
The Passport Effect: Negotiating Identity in Modernist Narrative
June 18, 2009
Committee: Paul Morrison, John Plotz, Jed Esty, University of Pennsylvania
Rachel Kapelle
Seeing the Past's Future: Prophecy in Romance
May 19, 2009
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, Ramie Targoff, 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, 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, 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, John Stauffer, Harvard University
Rebecca Olson
"Behind the Arras": Tapestry Ekphrasis in Spenser and Shakespeare
April 11, 2008
Committee: Mary Baine Campbell, William Flesch, Karen Robertson, Vassar College
Vanita Neelakanta
Under Heaven's Eye: Milton and Theatrum Mundi
July 18, 2007
Committee: Ramie Targoff, William Flesch, 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, Laura Korobin, Boston University
Emily Bernhard Jackson
The Evolution Byronic Knowledge
July 20, 2005
Laura Quinney, Sue Lanser, Yoon Lee, Wellesley College